Internal and External Feng Shui: Direction and Location!
Feng Shui: an Introduction
Internal and External Feng Shui: Direction and Location!
Understand Feng Shui at even a basic level and begin to organise your environment accordingly and you will soon start finding certain results. Feng Shui is extensively used in both homes and offices all over the world, particularly in China and South East Asia (and increasingly in the West) because of this.
Feng Shui offers a variety of 'cures' and remedies to heighten your life. The Feng Shui use of aquariums, water features and crystals can attract prosperity into your life. Suitable use of colors, materials and objects according to Feng Shui principles, can heighten the power flow in your home or office, encouraging salutary performance and improved fortune generally.
This is achieved by re-arranging and re-ordering the contents, ornamentation and placement of objects within living spaces appropriately, according to Feng Shui Principles, in harmony with the 5 Elements. As these include (in varying blends) all matter in the universe, this would imply living in harmony and 'in tune' with the natural flow of universal energies.
These energies change in a long-known, predictable, endlessly repeating pattern (the 10-year Cycle of the 5 Elements is the key to this). Consequently, great wisdom has accumulated over millennia (especially in China) about the practicalities of harmonising with these, known as the theory of Feng Shui. These Principles, too, are becoming increasingly customary in the West.
Interior
You can apply these theory to your selection of home location, garden-layout and most famously to your house, flat or room's interior. This is where the 5 Elements come in. The interior of dwellings contains furniture and objects directly related to these. Similarly, their colours and of the interior's ornamentation in normal (including paint-work, carpets, curtains, and wall-paper) can be related to the 5 Elements and organised to facilitate a beneficial and salutary Qi-flow throughout.
The 5 Elements and Their Locations, Directions and Associations
Water is related with the North-West Sector of Rooms and Dwellings and the Black Warrior
Objects and motifs for fabricate and placement include: glass, stained glass, crystal, aquaria, seascapes (especially pastels and watercolours) roads, lakes, and waterfalls. Shapes: serpentine and wavy. Water also symbolises wealth. Colours: blue and black.
Wood is related with the East and South-East Sectors of Rooms and Dwellings and the Green Dragon
Objects and motifs for fabricate and placement include: Chinese (not Western) dragons, flowers, plants, trees, wood furniture, wood-crafts, wicker chairs, rattan mats, cloth, paper, and paintings depicting nature. Shapes: cylindrical and rectangular. Colours: green and brown.
Fire is related With the South Sector of Rooms and Dwellings and the Red Bird
Objects and motifs for fabricate and placement include: candles, lamps, incense, heating appliances, fireplaces, stoves, sun-bursts and Sun images generally, animals, birds, children, wool, leather goods, feathers; pictures of fire, people and animals. Shapes: triangular and sharp-edged shapes. Colour: red.
Earth is related With the North-East, South West and Centre of Rooms and Dwellings
Whilst the other four Elements have animal associations (linked to covering Feng Shui, which follows) Earth has none as it represents the vacant living-space occupied by the Feng Shui practitioner.
Objects and motifs for fabricate and placement include: ceramics, bricks, crystal, porcelain, glazed tiles, stones, sculptures, globes, and pictures of mountains, cliffs, and deserts. Shape: square. Colours: yellow, beige terracotta and ochre.
Metal is related With the North-West and West of Dwellings and the White Tiger
Objects and motifs for fabricate and placement include: metal objects, mirrors, quartz crystals and diamonds, bells, coins/money, swords, jewelry made of precious metals, pictures of metal objects. Shapes: oval and round. Colours: white, silver, gold, bronze and grey.
Overall
1. Mirrors, classed as Yin Metal, intensify the effect, certain or negative of whatever they reflect (better flowers in the orchad than the loo).
2. Good feng shui fabricate avoids dark spots in interiors as these impede the flow of Qi.
3. Couches and chairs should allows those seated to see the door and note peoples entries and exits.
4. Beds should not be at right-angles to or face the bed-room door. Ideally there should be a wall at one side for protection.
The above details furnish normal guidance according to the Compass and Form Schools of Feng Shui. As the name suggests, a straightforward compass is a considerable tool to aid you in your endeavours and allow you to recognize the eight sectors. Single, room-at-a-time, approaches and more ambitious whole-floor or house ones are equally viable, as long as you are consistent.
Exterior Feng Shui
Feng Shui theory are and all the time have been an important, even integral, highlight in the design, construction and location of buildings in China. This has not been the case in the West, however.
Nevertheless, should you be in process of changing your location, you could think these features when evaluating or comparing potential sites.
1. The South and Fire.
Ideally the main living/working area and entry should face South. This is the location of the 'Red Bird', the Sun at its mid-day height and the direction of maximum light and warmth.
Large picture-windows and an unobstructed Southern aspect can help yield a welcoming 'Ming Tang' or 'Bright Hall' effect.
2.North and Water
The spicy composite stamp comprising a snake coiled around a tortoise called the 'Black Warrior' represents Feng Shui ideals in this direction. Cold Northerly winds emanate from here and steep hills behind you, providing security (the tortoise) can make a real difference especially in Winter. Such features still furnish the fresh-water streams (the snake) filling our contemporary reservoirs. Here is the ideal location for ponds, pools and covering water-features generally.
North-facing windows and doors should be much smaller to sacrifice the effects of such inclement weather.
3.West and Metal
Lower, more moderately rising hills here help security buildings from the 'White Tiger' the grand Westerlies sweeping in (in the case of the U.K) from the Atlantic Ocean and (in China) from the Himalayas.
This can be an ideal location for out-buildings and garages.
4.East and Wood
Some more hills, slightly higher than those in the West, covered with growing things, represents an ideal Green Dragon location.
Keen gardeners take note!
Poison-Arrows
There are no straight-lines in nature, human-beings alone yield these. Natural Qi-flow can be held-back, trapped or caused to rush through locations designed without understanding of its existence and filled with angular shapes. Such irregular Qi-flow can bring indiscernible and mysterious ill-health and misfortune to individuals unaware of its potential to do so.
Triangular, and arrow-head shaped protrusions, in particular, pointed at buildings can work on inhabitants adversely via the turbulence in Qi-flow they yield directly opposite. Such locations should be studiously avoided. Counter-measures (like planting a high-hedge or erecting a fence) are considerable otherwise.
Overall
1. Avoid spots facing 'T' junctions or locations on the covering of sharp bends to forestall unwanted incursions of traffic.
2. Street-lights covering bedroom windows can lead to sleepless nights.
3. Deciduous trees gift a skeletal, spectral appearance covering windows for half the year--Conifers and ever-greens are to be preferred.
4. Water is Year Element in both 2012-13 and 2014-15 for Feng Shui purposes.
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