Fengshui literally means wind and water in Chinese. Contrary to many misconceptions, Fengshui is neither a religion nor a superstition. Instead, known collectively as Chinese Metaphysics. Physiognomy refers to the observation of appearances through formulas and calculations in order to assess the potential outcome of a person in relation to his living environment. Fengshui is a metaphysical science in which one learns to recognize and harness Qi(cosmic energies) naturally present in the living environment to help specific aspect of our everyday lives. Fengshui is a method of assessing and improving the quality of one’s life through observations and analysis of his/her living environment. It represents a third of the cosmic factor that influences one’s life, the other two being the Destiny and the Human Factor. To usher in the new year, many of us might be moving house or office so here is a beginner guide to some of the factors you might wish to consider.
Main door:
The main door is the point which separates internal and external energy of a house. Its function to receive external energy is as important as that of a mouth receiving food. The fact that internal and external energy is not able to pass through our solid wall but only through our main door makes the main door even more important. The exterior of the main door affects the external energy while the interior of the main door affects the internal energy. Thus, everyone entering/leaving the house is affected by the Feng Shui of the main door.
Other doors should not be in line with the main door. Which form a door to door conflict in the house.
The main door should not be facing in line with the windows. This will cause the energy to flow out of the house, thus it would be difficult to accumulate wealth.
Living room:
A house overall luck denotes the depth of a couple’s affections, children’s studies, examination luck, health condition are decided by the Fengshui of the Living Hall.
Sofa must be placed at an auspicious position. This will help to promote harmony and safety. Placing a soft at an inauspicious position will cause disharmony.
There must be a solid wall behind the sofa, which implies no worries. If the back of the sofa is a stretch of window, door or corridor, this signifies no support. It is difficult to accumulate wealth and not easy to excel.
Placing a fish tank behind the soft is definitely a fengshui taboo.
Kitchen:
The fengshui of the kitchen is as important as the main door and the bedroom. A correct kitchen’s layout helps eliminate negative factors, creates a desirable kitchen fengshui attaining long lasting good health and fortune.
The stove should not face the kitchen entrance or main door as this represents loss of wealth and unstable luck. On the other hand, it also symbolize poor health for female owner.
The stove should not be facing the fridge as this represent difficulty in accumulating wealth, poor health and arguments.
Stove facing toilet door represent poor health for female and unstable finance, prone to traffic accidents.
The flooring of the kitchen should not be higher than the living room. From the kitchen to the living hall, the steps must be higher as it symbolize moving forward.
Master bedroom:
It is best to have a regular shaped bedroom. Irregular shaped bedroom creates illusion while room with many corners creates pressure. This these may cause illnesses and accidents.
Do not hang dangling lights in the master bedroom. This symbolises unable relationship for the couples.
The bed should not be facing the door. The person sleeping in the room might be pront to accidents and poor health.
The headboard of the bed should not point towards the window as this will affects one’s sleep and thus affect one’s health.
The toilet door facing the door symbolize loss of wealth.
Study position:
Academic results of your child not up to mark or worse even when your child studies day and night? What could the reason be? Geomancy can affect ones’ memory and powers of analysis and understanding. The poor “Feng Shui” will affect your children grades. You can help your child’s studies to improve by changing your child’s study position for the better. Please refer to the chart on the next page to find out the study position for your child.
Office:
It is extremely inauspicious for the toilet to be located directly beside the entrance of the office. This is because the toilet prevents positive energy from entering. This will be a bane to both your wealth and career luck.
Having your work desk face the toilet will also attract the negative energy from it. Causing your career to fail eventually.
It is not advisable to place your working desk under any beams of hanging light as this will obstruct you from getting a promotion and decrease your wealth luck.
There should not be any passage way behind the seat of your work desk as people moving consistently will affect your emotions and work productivity.
There should be support behind your work desk. Support refer to a wall. Having the support will let you work better and allow you to obtain help from benefactors easily. It will also be a great help in career advancement.
There should not be too many doors in a small office because doors signify arguments. Having too many doors tend to result in differences between the boss and the supervisor’s opinions causing difficulty in coming to a decision efficiently.
If the work desk were to face a pillar, it will cause obstacles in your career. You will also be prone to headaches.
It will be good to have some plants in the office. Preferably plants with broad leaves. However, it is not advisable to have crawler type plants as it may tend to cause arguments.
It your work desk faces or is directly beside the toilet, you can place some bigger size plants with broad leaves. This will help to absorb the negative energy from the toilet and also block away from negative magnetic fields.