How Does Feng Shui Work?

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How Does Feng Shui Work?

How does Feng Shui work, you ask? Strictly from a design perspective, it is a way of organizing your environment to give it a peaceful, inviting atmosphere. But Feng Shui is much more than this. It is a very ancient but very successful method of adjusting the dynamic energy flow of your home or business to improve your health, finances, relationships, family life, and reputation.

This dynamic energy flow is called Chi. We know from quantum physics that there is an energy field underlying all things. The practice of traditional Chinese medicine is based upon the premise that the Chi of the body must be strong and in balance in order for the person to enjoy good health. Indeed, many experiments in quantum physics have showed us that these energy fields do exist and can be measured. What is most important is the discovery that through the power of our intention, we can manipulate and change these energy fields to improve the circumstances of our lives. Not only does the Chi in our bodies work best when it is tuned to a particular frequency, but the Chi in our homes and businesses also affect us. The normal, healthy flow of Chi is often interrupted by how the rooms in our homes are arranged, where the furniture is placed, the colors we use to decorate, where we place decorative items, and the unnatural electromagnetic fields which we create using electrical appliances and devices. But another very important thing which affects our Chi is our intent. In other words, how our Chi behaves is also affected by what we think and believe.

In Feng Shui, we may change certain physical attributes of our environment to get better Chi flow, but we must also couple that with a change in our thoughts and beliefs. Feng Shui is a combination of changing the physical attributes of the environment and changing the non-tangible aspects as well. For instance, if you want to increase your wealth, you might put a water fountain in the wealth corner of your home, but at the same time you should visualize what the water represents, a continual stream of money coming into your home. However, you might hold personal beliefs that interfere with this. You might have been taught in your youth that it is selfish to want wealth or that it is evil, or that you don’t deserve it. These beliefs will interfere with your Chi. If you don’t believe you should have it, all the water fountains in the world aren’t going to bring it to you. So when we place a Feng Shui cure in your home, we ask you to visualize what it represents, and this changes the Chi in your home and how it functions.

Remember, experiments in quantum physics have taught us that what we think and believe about something effects the way that thing behaves. For instance, if a light wave is traveling along, and you look at it, that moment that you are looking at it freezes it in time and causes it to change from a wave to a particle. It changes the nature of reality. It changes the light from a possibility to a reality. As the wave is moving, a light particle could possibly be located at any number of points along the wave, but the only way we can observe it is by stopping it’s progress at a particular point. If we don’t stop the progress, the wave can be in several places at one time.

So, we can control the progress of our Chi, and stop it where we want it to create the effects we desire. If you walk in your front door and can see all the way through and out a sliding glass door in back, you are losing all your Chi out the back door and must stop that. So, we use both physical and non-tangible ways of doing that. Physically, you can place a decorative folding screen or a large plant there to physically change the flow of Chi. Or you may hang a crystal sphere from the ceiling which disperses the Chi in other directions that you need it to go. But when you hang the crystal, you visualize your intent - the non-tangible part of the cure. You visualize the Chi hitting the crystal and going down the hallway to the bedrooms, or that it splits and some goes down the hall and some to the kitchen. Wherever you want it, we ask you to visualize your intent as you place the cure.

Simply put, Feng Shui is a combination of design and intent, physical and non-physical, tangible and non-tangible.

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