Feng Shui
Finding Inspiration in Every Turn
1- What is feng shui? Chinese art of living
Feng=Wind and Shui=Water
The way of wind and water
Go with the flow!
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Uses forces of nature to control over our environment
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We understand different patterns of events happen in life
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We are connected to everything in the universe and a part of a system
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Creating harmony with ourself and our living space
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Arranging our living environment to achive harmony and balance that will bring happiness, prosperity and peace
Feng Shui is an ancient philosophy, focuses on creating harmony between people, buildings and nature
Harmonizing with living space would improve our lifestyle
Better we aligned, orientated with nature, the more we balance our energy
Location
Orientation
Position
Direction
2-What is the goal of Feng Shui?
Enhance the positive energy/chi
Prevent from the negative energy/chi
Shift and control the flow of chi in our living spaces
Make life force supportive and nourishing as possible
3-Why do we use Feng Shui?
If we want to improve our life, we should improve our home
Clear your mind and think about what you want from life
What it is you want
Think about your goals
What feelings and emotions you wish to achieve
Then what tools you can use to achieve your goals
If we want to increase good energy in our living space, we start with feng shui
Harmonious environment can be felt on all levels;
Mental
Emotional
Spiritual
Physical
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Health
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Wealth
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Relationships
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Education
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Career
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Travel
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Recognition
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Love and romance
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Happy family life
4-How do we use Feng Shui?
What you want your home to do for you
Walk around your home and look carefully
What you would like to improve
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Clutter
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Plants
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Furnishing
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Lighting
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Arrangement of furniture
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Artwork
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Colors
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Material
5-Feng Shui Philosophy
Life is journey from one place to another.
We start out in a particular circumstance
Choices and decisions we make
Determine our mode of transportation
Art of placement and trinty of life destiny
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Fate = Heaven luck, Moment of your birth=We can not change
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Men made luck = We can change
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Earth luck, Feng Shui = We can change
6-Chi= Life force, energy
Life energy of a person can be adjusted with environmental changes which would improve his overall lifestyle
Chi will be stagnant, dull, spiritless and can be blocked in a space that is filled with clutter
7-Yin and Yang= Opposite but comlementary forces
Dualism
We can improve the flow of positive chi and keep the negative chi away
Balance ying and yang energies in our living space
Positive chi would improve our health, relationships, prosperity
Mixing of two opposite energies makes life possible
When yin and yang are balanced, chi flows smoothly. It creates good state of emotional and physcial health.
Opposite forces complement, interconnect and interdependent in natural World
Yin and Yang may rise to each other as they interrelate to one another
Neither side is fully Yin or fully Yang
8-5 Elements
Everything in the universe comes from five elements
Wood-Fire-Earth-Metal and Water
5 Elements Theory is a Chinese philosophy used to describe interactions and relations between things
5 Elements are fundemental substances of everything in the universe which interactions ocur
Generative and dustructive cycles of the elements
Each element has its own characteristics with different aspects of nature;
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Directions
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Seasons
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Colors
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Sapes
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Emotions
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Numbers
The Compass School:
Eight areas of a living space
1 North: Career, business success, black and blue color, water and metal elements, winter
8 NE: Wisdom, knowledge, self-development, success in school, erath and fire element, winter becoming spring
3 East: Family life, health, nutrition, harmony, green, wood and water, spring
4 Southeast: Wealth, prosperity, abundance, green, spring becoming summer, wood and water
9 South: Fame, fortune, longivity, festivity, joy, red, summer, fire and wood, bird
2 Southwest: Marriage, mother, relationships, love, romance, spouse, yellow, earth and fire, summer becoming autumn
7 West: Children, creativity, future prosperity, metal and earth, autumn, White
6 Northwest: Suportive and helpful people, international trade and travel, father, grey, metal and earth, autumn becoming winter
9-Home is a very special place where we live and grow emotionally
Home is a place where we feel safe and emotionally attached
Home is a shrine to us
Home is self definition of us
Where we live means so much to us
Home is like a garden where we plant seeds of our feelings
Emotional connection
Sense of belonging
Time dimension of Feng Shui
Time changes, we change, our feelings change
Time changes, our fate changes
A person’s life can never be a smooth sailing as his/her fate changes with time.
10-Imagine a building as a human being
Mouth of the building=Door
Eyes of the building=Windows
Circulatory system=Plumbing system
Nervous system=Electric system
Roof=Head
Foundation=Legs
Balcony=Makes home and person free = Place of feeling free
11-New Living Trends
Sharing
Connectivity
Healing architecture, nature and environment friendly
Work and life blending
Materials, recycling
Urban transformation
12-More we spend at home, the more we deal wit materials
Enhane or protect the life force, chi, use according to what they represent
Colors
Shapes
Sounds
Scents
Materials
Numbers
11-Due to luck down phase, we have second thought, rethink about life and reconsider our feelings
We have discovered a new;
Sensitivity
Emotion
Love
Light
Noise