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feng shui
Living in Balance
with Feng Shui (Part I) Earthbound in this incarnation, it is our birthright to be wonderfully alive, celebrating all earthly delights. Living in balance with Feng Shui is about personal evolution as you create your life as the Masters intended. The magic human that we are all capable of balanced between body, mind, and spiritual attributes. It is about your purposeful intention to create a better and better life which is easily done with Feng Shui. It is fun too! All you have to do is put conscious thought into the “stuff” you place in your environment, and mirror Mother Nature. She is the best decorator, consciously coordinating perfect texture, color, and dimensional balance in our most valuable living environment. Consciousness, necessary for our personal development, is the awareness of purposeful existence and combined with conscious intention can be used to manifest joy, grace, and abundance. Mother Nature is the most perfect teacher of Chinese Earth Design: Feng Shui. Earth Design, as old as man’s need for shelter, is derived from the word geomancy: geo (earth) and mancy (to measure). Depending on where cultural/spiritual traditions developed on planet earth, the ancient geomancers, elders, medicine men, shamans, or however the wise ones were described, cultivated practices, perhaps in ritual ceremony, in which their people could live in harmonious balance with the earth. These practices evolved by observing the cycles of nature and applying symbolic representations of them on their bodies (physical body and architecture), minds (creativity, ingenuity, and intuition), and spirits (connection to the earth and the cosmos). This is the triad of Feng Shui manifestation. In the body, using physical symbolic attributes, I always recommend beginning with the Feng Shui on the interior of your home. When your home is in harmonious balance, your home truly is where your heart is as it supports your loving energy that radiates into all aspects of your life. Starting at home, all you really need to do is determine what you would like to accomplish, position only the furnishings and accessories that you find beautiful, functional, and/or symbolic in locations significant to your intention. No that doesn’t sound so hard-and besides, wouldn’t you like greater health, wealth, and happiness, along with a more beautiful (and less cluttered) home? All the answers about using Feng Shui inside, are located outside. Upon observation, paying attention the same way the ancients did, you will notice perfect harmony in nature. One of the components of Feng Shui you will easily recognize is how Mother needs all of the elements to stay in balance. (Something is definitely askew with the devastating floods, fires, hurricanes, and tornados. Perhaps we need give some Feng Shui back to the earth by being more nurturing to Her and to each other.) For one of the many examples of how the elements are balanced, consider a forest. Trees (the Wood element), need Water, minerals (the Metal element), and a solid foundation (the Earth element) to grow. Sometimes trees grow so tall with their huge canopies that they block out nurturing sunlight and precipitation where smaller plants, and in turn animals, cannot live. Thank Mother Goddess for lightning (the Fire element) to burn away the denseness and to open up the seeds creating new beginnings. Feng Shui uses symbolic representations of the creative and regenerative cycles of the elements to make modifications in your home. Based upon the metaphorical analogies of the elements, when used decoratively in your home, you can make changes in your life. Sounds complicated? Nah! If representations may be obvious to you, just think how intuitive you already are at Feng Shui! Here they are: Wood: growth, beginnings, freshness, nurturing Water: flowing, clear, clarity, sensitivity, emotions Metal: riches, abundance Earth: stability, grounding, security Fire: action, activity, motivation If you want to add some energy for new creativity, decoratively add some of the Wood element. If you are bored, add some Fire, want some sensitivity, add some Water, and so on. You are only limited to your decorative imagination. Here’s some ideas to get started with the five element theory. Big Stuff: Wood: Furniture, Floors Water: Water features, big picture windows, Crystal
Chandeliers, Metal: Furniture, light fixtures Earth: Stone/Ceramic floors Fire: Fire place, carpeting Color/Material: red/animal and products from chemical
or heat processing/pointy, angular Got twenty bucks? Adding something new in your home brings in new energy. Do you want new: Motivation (Fire), Joy in experiencing all of life’s riches (Metal), Opportunity (Wood), Stability (Earth), or Clarity (Water)? With cash in hand, go to your favorite modestly-priced home-accessory store (Pier One, Bombay, Pottery Barn-type), with the purposeful intention to purchase an item to bring ------- (energy) into your life. Select an accessory that you love and within budge. When you come home, place it in an area of importance relative to what you want to accomplish and where you see it everyday as you move toward your goals. Here’s some ideas: If your desire relates to business: put your new energy accessory of your desk, Love Relationship: on your night stand, Family Communication: by the stove where you prepare loving food for them. Only got five bucks? Buy a candle in the appropriate
color, easy and cheapo! Wood: Picture frame, sculpture, plants Water: crystal/glass/Lucite: vases, paper weights, or trinkets, mirrors Metal: picture frames, pretty desk accessories, sculpture Earth: Stone planters, decorative rocks, ceramic vases/sculpture Fire: pointed and/or red accessories, geometric designs.
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