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Articles
Experiencing Feng Shui
© Taylor
Vance
Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese
discovery whose keen observations
are by turns challenging, pragmatic and mysterious. Like
acupuncture, it is all about the flow of Chi, the energy that connects
all things, and it is an intricate study of connection points, or
portals, that allow us to tap into Chi to bring about change.
In Feng Shui the goal is to arrange buildings, rooms, furniture and
decorations to achieve safety, comfort, and a good flow of
energy. Mysteriously, achieving this "good flow" brings about
beneficial change in the events in our lives. No one really knows
why adjusting one's environment in accordance with Feng Shui principles
improves lives and fortunes so dramatically. Whatever the
explanation, what matters is that we don't have to believe it to
experiment with Feng Shui and get great results.
In the school of Feng Shui whose lineage goes to the Black Hat
tradition, the map of Chi-access points, or portals, is positioned over
the home or office in a pattern that gains its orientation from the
front door. This pattern, containing nine portal areas, is called
the bagua. Each portal, or gua, relates to a specific life issue;
such things as wealth, health, career, creativity and, most important
in this month of romance, relationships.
Did you know that a Feng Shui practitioner can often read their
clients' life challenges by the kinds of things that appear in these
portals? Even though we may not be conscious of it, the shapes of
the homes we live in and the stuff we keep tell a story according to
how it lays out and where it "lives" in the bagua. For example,
things like broken clocks or dying plants can tell of unfulfilled love
lives if they appear in the area of the map that relates to
relationships.
A few years ago, a client who is a very attractive body builder told me
that her love life had been dead for years. When we got to her
guest bedroom I advised her that the whole of her relationship gua was
contained there, and I asked her to keep this in mind and then tell me
what she saw in the artwork she had placed there. One by one she
looked at the framed prints, and then she began to laugh. Each
print but one contained a person very much alone, looking sad, tired,
or angry. The last print got the biggest laugh of all: it
was of a New Orleans jazz funeral! She said, "No wonder! My
love life is absolutely dead."
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