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Dec 15 2009
Feng Shui 101
Misconceptions about Feng Shui
In Chinese destiny studies, there
is a famous Chinese saying: 一命﹐二運﹐三鳳水,
i.e. First Destiny, Second Luck and
Third Feng Shui. It means that what
you have in life are determined firstly
by destiny, secondly by luck and thirdly
by feng shui. In other words, your
destiny is most important in affecting
your life follow by your luck and
lastly by the feng shui of your environment.
Many people have the idea that feng
shui can help to improve life by changing
luck. This is a misconception that
many people have. In fact, feng shui
cannot change luck, it can only help
to enhance the favorable luck or lessens
the impact of unfavorable luck in
the luck cycle. If a person is in
an unfavourable luck period, the effect
of feng shui is minimal or small.
Therefore it is a good idea to do
a destiny analysis first before engaging
feng shui.
What is Feng Shui?
Feng Shui is an ancient art of studying
the flow of Qi. The aim is to 'harness'
the good Qi in our living environment
to enhance our luck. Feng Shui has
been around for centuries and it is
practiced on various scales by feng
shui masters.
Many of us stay in an apartment. The
feng shui of an apartment consists
of many aspects. These aspects can
be broadly grouped into 3 parts.
The first part is the feng shui of
the building's external environment.
It involves assessing the physical
surrounding of the building, sometime
for as far as a few kilometers in
radius, looking at the terrain, buildings
and structures, etc. with the aim
to see whether the Qi flowing to the
building is good or bad. This part
of the work is that most difficult
and is also the most important of
the 3 parts. This is because if the
feng shui of the surrounding is no
good, the Qi flowing to the building
and into the apartment will not be
good.
The second part is the feng shui of
the building. It involves assessing
the building on several aspects with
the aim to see if the building is
able to 'receive' the good Qi coming
from the environment and transports
the good Qi to its apartments. This
part of the feng shui involves looking
at a building's design, shape, main
entrance, corridors to apartments,
etc.
The third part is the feng shui of
the apartment. This part of the feng
shui is the easiest of the three parts
and is also the part which most feng
shui masters render their feng shui
service and ask cusstomers to buy
feng shui objects. This part of the
work involves assessing the apartment
on several aspects. It involves checking
the apartment on the location of its
main door, kitchen, bedrooms using
a feng shui tool called the Flying
Star Chart. The work also involves
looking out for negative feng shui
features (Sha Qi) directing at the
main door, windows and balcony. The
work also involves looking out for
negative feng shui features inside
the apartment, particularly in the
kitchen and bedrooms.
The work of a feng shui practitioner
should covers all the 3 parts. When
looking for an apartment with good
feng shui, the emphasis should be
in getting an area with good feng
shui first, follow by a building with
good feng shui and lastly a unit with
good feng shui.
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