What is Feng Shui?

 

The basic principles of Feng Shui, "Wind, and Water" another way of saying, "Yin Yang", start within the formulating foundation of the human body.  Feng Shui is the method in which the individual learns to balance the ebbs and flows within the energies of their physical being.  The tidal forces of nature, the Tao or the way, are balanced in the center of the individual and slowly expand from the center to the outward environment.  

What Feng Shui is, is how your relationship with the self evolves and balances.  We start within, and work to the expanded.  When we harmonize the self we become more aware of the environment outside.  As each phase of this awareness grows the personal environment also expands and the tendrils of awareness reach further and further outward to the unseen expanding environment over the horizon.   

This awareness has the latent after effect of you the observer and facilitator naturally changing your personal environment to match your internal environment.  If done correctly this is a natural shift, not one that that has to be a focus of the practice.  You start to arrange your space naturally, it becomes a part of you.  You are then beginning to flow with the Tao. 

Feng Shui is based from the center of the Bagua, or 8 directions.  You have the first 4 cardinal directions, and the secondary directions that your awareness flows into though the practices of movement, breathing, and meditation.  After the 8 directions are located, the 5 elements grow from within the practitioner.  The natural elements of Wood, Fire, Water, Air, and Metal, not in that specific order, is related to each of the others in a specific recipe commanded by the laws of nature.  

From the center of Bagua the 5 elements grow and bind realities and space together into a whole or Holistic being that is part of itself and everything else in one moment.  Everything is Now. 

Feng Shui is Not a psychotic need to be a clean freak.  It IS, you connected with your true nature, the everything, and the self.  

Peace and Balance,

John