As in Chinese medicine, Feng Shui utilizes chi, it is Feng Shui Energy. Chi is the term for the universal energy, the energy that permeates everything around us. It applies to the energy inside your body, as well to the energy inside and outside of buildings. Chi, or Feng Shui energy, is manifested in yin yang characteristics and in a variety of forms according to the Feng Shui five elements theory.
In Feng Shui, Chi also manifests itself in different colors, shapes, intensity, etc. The main goal in Feng Shui is to attract, direct and nourish the Chi flow inside your home in a way that supports a good flow of Chi inside your body. The quality of Chi you always want to have around you is vibrant, a live and fresh.
The quality of Chi you want to avoid in your home, office, or anywhere else, is the Sha and Si Chi (sharp & attacking or low and depressing energies.) Most common Feng Shui Chi blockages in a home are Chi blockages at the main door, such as when the main door opens into a wall, as well as cluttered garages and home closets. A common Feng Shui Chi leakage (loss of energy) occurs when there is a direct door alignment in a home, especially of the main door and back door. Direct alignment of a big window with a door also creates leakages.
Identifying the flow of Chi in your home is easy if you visualize Chi, or Feng Shui energy, flowing into your home as water. Would the water flow smoothly and nourish all areas of your home or will it get blocked and stagnant in many areas?
Creating a home with a smooth Chi flow is important because the flow of energy in your home sooner or later will reflect itself in the flow of Chi in your body. When your body energy (Chi) is blocked, you cannot sustain a good quality of life.
Our life is inevitably affected by many different factors. Feng Shui is definitely one of them. The impact of its existence cannot be diminished, it works. Even if you don’t believe you still receive the beauty of it’s aesthetics. Feng Shui can influence various aspects of an individual’s life, including career, marriage, family, relationships, health, reputation and social status, education, finance, and many others. Correct Feng Shui Design not only helps eliminate and avoid obstacles, difficulties, misfortunes or illnesses, but also enable us to procure and promote harmony, good health, success and prosperity in life.
© Originally published September 21, 2016
