Feng Shui

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Feng Shui
Compiled by Brian Lowry Last reviewed 2/4/09

• Pronounced FUNG SHWAY!
• Wind and water

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What is Feng Shui?

• Chi flows around homes, gardens, rooms
• If it flows freely it creates health
• Clearing clutter and placement of objects,
  crystals, chimes, mirrors aids the chi flow

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Feng Shui is not just for Tree Huggers! HBSC
Bank Headquarters has been Feng Shuid Grindlays
Dao Heng Bank Hong Kong (Lillian Too) Credit
Lyonnais famous for Hang Seng Index
predictions All Tiger economies use it, Hong Kong
Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia UK Estate Agents
Hamptoms Wimpy Homes give out a Feng Shui guide
Richard Branson 7.9 Billion
Donald Trump
Anita Ruddock
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Wind and Water are intermedaries between heaven
and earth The chi energy is carried on the wind
and water The Feng Shui expert maps these flows
and deflects or enhances ( A cure such as a
mirror can help to accumulate chi)
Feng Shui is thinking symbolically Subconscious
made to work for you Positive absorption of chi
on site Clear headed, wealth, health,
happiness Accumulation of luck
Straight lines, fast streams deplete disperse
chi evaporation of luck Stagnation breakdown
death decay disperses chi
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Ideal conditions, slow coiling, sinuous flow of
water/wind This accumulates healthy chi A
protected haven needs protection to
accumulate Yet still needs to tap into flow. tap
into dragons vein
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How to make an 8 sided Bagua

• Draw a cross in middle of A4 paper
• Draw an X in middle of cross
• You now have 8 equal lines
• Measure 10cm from centre along each line
• Join up all the 10cm dots
• You now have an octogon (8 sides)
• Cut this out and fill in each triangle

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Feng shui houses In magic square
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Bagua 8 kinds of energy

• Each of the 8 triangles in your bagua has a
  particular kind of energy which can help you to
  lead a happy balanced life
• It can be superimposed as a map on your home,
  your bedroom or even your desk
• You can enhance these energies by clearing
  clutter and placing specific feng shui symbols in
  the right area.

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1 Water Career Life Path

• This is the area of the front door
• Changing jobs, finding a career
• Getting on the right path for you
• Being with the flow of life
• Taking opportunities at right time
• Knowing what you came here to do
• Water colour is black/ dark blue

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Water features and water images to trickle good
energy into your life Helping you to find out
what your purpose is What you want to do To be
clear on where youre going
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Stuck front door stuck in job Door never used
overlooked Dirty dusty, rubbish no chance to
shine at work
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Mirrors, paintings of streams, water, river ocean
etc. Shells, aquarium or water feature Many
companies have fish tanks at front reception
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2 Earth - Relationships Love

• Looking for a partner, marriage?
• Put the sizzle back into a relationship?
• Want life to be less of a struggle between you
  and another person?
• Want to be friends with someone?
• Business or teacher/student relationships
• Earth is about receptivity, being grounded
• Being able to give and receive love

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Images of faithful pairings

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3 Thunder Family, Elders, Authority

• When you want to improve family relations
• You want to be treated as family, security
• Your ancestry, lineage, foundation, roots
• Only with stability can you give expression
• Self confidence courage to venture out
• Thunder is wood energy, green
• Forgiveness preceeds respect
• Appreciation for grandparents, teachers

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Thunder precedes rain As Elders precede us
Elders and ancestors
Family photographs
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4 Gentle Wind, Prosper Abundance

• Need money for a specific purpose
• Good Luck, sense of blessing, health
• Fortunate happenings, auspicious wind
• Be at peace be rich with what you have
• Change perception of prosperity
• The chi of abundance flows toward you
• Feel you deserve it, like attracts like
• Anchor your intention with a symbol

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Money Toad Money tree Carp symbols

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5 Tai Chi, Central Position

• The centre of your bagua is fed from all the
  invigorating chi that surrounds it
• Ancient Chinese homes had a space or courtyard in
  middle of house
• The centre is full of Health and Happiness
• Traditionally kept swept and clean
• A living space with good chi, focus point
• Reconciliation of disharmony

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6 Heaven, Helpful people, Travel

• The only way to get things done is to do it
  yourself, everything is a struggle?
• Philanthropy, gifts of kindness, volunteer
• Spirit guides, angels, networking, contacts
• With synchronicity the right people turn up at
  the right time, energy works with you
• Karma, what you give out comes back
• Travel can be made easy, enjoyable, lucky

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Symbol of angel Acts as a physical anchor
Affirmation I now have the perfect lift Can
act as a cure
Put prayer of thanks in small silver box For
specific help you currently need
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7 Lake Energy - Creativity Children

• When you want children, nurturing
• When you want to feel young at heart
• About not being limited in your thinking
• Anything is possible, the way a child thinks
• Get back to fresh, fun, joy, magical ways
• Be creative, poems, art, music, projects
• Party, festival, flags, singing, expressing

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Creativity from the depths of our being The
bottom of a lake
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8 Mountain Spirit, Meditation

• Taking time to be still, find our soul
• For wisdom, better grades, clear decisions
• Higher thought, self cultivation
• Helps you be aware, know what to do
• Solitude, sacred space, spiritual focus
• Withdraw from external, gain strength
• Empty bowls make biggest sound

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9 Fire, Fame Reputation

• Fame gua gives power leadership
• Improving your reputation, acknowledged
• Finding courage to stand up and do it
• Want to be known, have credit, respect
• Charisma, expression
• Illumination, enlightenment, divine nature

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Connections between guas

• Mountain, contemplation, reflection
• Thunder, birth new idea
• Lake, creating product
• Wind, selling it, making money
• Earth, partnership
• Fire, marketing
• Heaven, people to help out with business
• Water, new career, new path

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Clearing clutter

• A grotty home affects your aura
• Festering fridge, yuck around stove
• Honour your life, clean it with love
• Unwanted presents, kept out of obligation gives
  power away, makes energy drop
• Clutter in cellar clutter in subconscious
• Clutter in attic limit to higher aspirations
• Take responsibility for it clear it

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• Front entrance approach to world
• Doors open freely, passage way arteries
• Under beds influences sleep
• On top of wardrobes muddy headache
• Keeping it just in case?
• Clothes not worn in a year can go
• Piles of old shoes drag energy down
• Bags pockets kept sleek clean
• Car, office, computer

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• Photos, books, set in your ways
• Collections, Why? Limiting yourself
• Make space for new things to come in
• Everything you keep has an effect on you
• It has a call on your attention, get free!
• Ask what does this do for me?
• Fixing things is investment in yourself
• Flakey friends, psychic drainers
• Unbung your home to unbung your mind
• Dust, cobwebs, psychic gunge, stuck chi

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Chi rides the wind and water These houses are
bounded by slow flow and gentle breezes The
curved patterns keep chi on site
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Here the houses are too exposed Junction of 2
water courses is a dragon point If too hemmed
in, poor circulation Water stagnates, sluggish,
ground stinks Sha chi noxious vapour, feng sha
bad wind
Chinese Dragons Live in water clouds Benign,
good luck
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Arc de triomph - Long straight lines secret
arrows, like a long raging river with cars like
gusts of wind
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Straight lines pierce good chi Pointed edges from
Eiffel Tower Any pointed edges are bad Use cures
of walls, trees, hedges Use mirrors
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Buckingham Palace used to have a roundabout in
front This was able to divert the cutting chi
racing up the Mall This was removed to pedestrian
paving No protection resulted in bad luck fro
Royal Family
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Secret Arrows, take care what your front door
looks on
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The Ark, Hammersmith Prime Office
Space Beautifully designed building Why is it
still empty?
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This aerial view shows M4 And railway pulling chi
away The Ark cannot hold on to chi
Many buildings on M40 West Way Remain
empty People intuitively can tell That a building
doesnt feel right
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Drawing of ideal cradling protection Cosmic
breath subtle energy flowing through
earth Benign chi sheng chi well being Animals
often follow these lines and make paths Its
easier to go with the flow
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Plan of city of Canton Ideal cradling hills,
slow water at front and man made canals
improving chi around city
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Protective mountain black turtle to North, Red
Phoenix small mound to South The Green Dragon low
hills on East and White Tiger raised hills to West
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Phoenix
White Tiger
Turtle
Green Dragon
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Home guarded by 4 legendary creatures
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Feng Shui masters compass
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A feng shuid grave
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Water area of Bagua placed over entrance to house