Sometimes we need to know the meanings life. Why the earth is the way it is, why certain elements are the way they are, and what they do for us. The Chinese believe that everything on earth is made up of five basic elements: wood, fire, earth, metal and water, these are considered the Feng Shui elements. If this interests you so far, here is what the Feng Shui elements represent and why they are important for your life.

Five on Earth

All five Feng Shui elements circulate chi (energy) differently. Wood represents creativity. It can be strong and standing or malleable. Wood also depicts community and socializing. If you have a lot of wood in your astrological sign, then you can express yourself using innovation. Wood symbolizes birth and early childhood.
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Know the Ways of Chi: Feng Shui Elements

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In the ancient times, man lived in unison with nature, sometimes out of fear and sometimes out of awe. Man understood the symbiotic relationship each living thing has with each other, and respected this fact, but as modernization increased, that ancient knowledge was buried deeper and deeper, until what remained out in the open was a handful of superstitions that heralded the ways of the past.

Feng Shui Makes a Comeback

Feng Shui is an ancient science that originated in China that explored the connection between your life’s energy and your environment. There are many books which claim to explain everything you need to know about Feng Shui; however, these authors forget that this ancient science is extremely vast, so expansive that it would take three to five lifetimes to understand it totally. There is no way that one can squeeze the entire system into a few hundred pages for the easy comprehension and practical application of the layperson.
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The Importance of a Feng Shui Consultant in Today’s World

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The Feng Shui compass is traditionally called a lo pan. This means roughly, a bowl with which you are allowed to access the universal mysteries. A simple lo pan has three rings each will provide a different type of information through the electromagnetic needle. The information which is most important and which can be obtained when using your Feng Shui compass is the direction your building faces, and the way in which the energy or chi moves in the different environments within the spaces in your building.

Types of Feng Shui Compass’

There are different types of the Feng Shui compass or lo pan. The lo pan can have as few as three rings or as many as 24. The amount of rings you choose should be low for the beginner, no more than three rings. Only those who have a detailed knowledge of Feng Shui should purchase lo pans with a higher ring number. There are few masters of Feng Shui who can understand the readings on a lo pan which has higher than 10 rings.
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How to Use the Feng Shui Compass if You Are a Beginner

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Today, there is no corner that does not promote Feng Shui principles in one way or another. This belief has touched the people all over the world and today you will see that many architects are undergoing crash courses in this line, so as to understand and deliver what their clients are looking for. Today, houses, offices, hotels and building are designed under the supervision of a Feng Shui consultant who can advice right at start what is auspicious for the building.
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Feng Shui Colors Can Make Dreams Come True

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Many people are aware of the fact that there is a Feng Shui color chart, which can be very useful at times, particularly when you are in a jam in finding a remedy for a major flaw in the building, such as a declining number of customers. However, you should understand in the first place that the Feng Shui color chart is actually a tool which can help you regularize the energy of any room be in any home or office.

Myths Surrounding the Feng Shui Color Chart

People believe that the Feng Shui color chart is the answer to their problems. All they need, they think, is to know what the color means and how it helps or harms. One of the most common mistakes in this field is that most people think that if they choose a signature color, then their bedroom, their study room, even the entire house, has to be in the color that they had chosen.
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What Do You Understand About the Feng Shui Color Chart

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Having a lucky coin is something that many people use in lieu of a rabbit’s foot or other symbol of good fortune. Granted, most of these symbols of luck are fairly trite and lacking a clear, motivating philosophy. Their origins date back to earth-based religions and the origins behind the symbols are lost unto all except the most ardent scholars of world religions.

West Absorbs East

In the western world, there is at least some minor, cursory understanding of eastern mysticism and philosophy. Granted, what people ‘know’ about eastern mysticism is usually an extremely abbreviated knowledge base. This is probably due in part to the western world’s reliance on having everything ‘yesterday.’
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Feng Shui Coin

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So many books are available for self-education, on any topic you can imagine. Some are about romance, relationships and dieting, and are laden with subjective advice on how to organize every aspect of your life. If you are looking to increase health, wealth and love in your life, consider Feng Shui books as a good resource to help you achieve optimum well-being. If you like what you learn, you can find out more by taking online classes or signing up for a Feng Shui workshop at a local community college. Here’s some background on Feng Shui, and how Feng Shui books can possibly help you with your life:

What Does ‘Feng Shui’ Mean?
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Keeping Up Your Energy

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The Feng Shui bagua is basically a detailed map of the relationship between the different areas of your life and your home. You can apply the concept of the bagua to a room, or even your desk, if you want to.

The Different Guas

There are nine different guas in the Feng Shui bagua: wealth, family, self-understanding, fame, health and balance, career, relationships, children and creativity, and helpful friends and travel. While traditionally a bagua is in the shape of an octagon, for our purposes and to make it easier, most practitioners stretch out the corners to form a square so you have nine equal parts.

The top three squares contain in this order the wealth, fame and relationships baguas, the middle three contain family, health & balance, and children and creativity. Finally the last three squares have self-understanding, career, and helpful friends and travel. Each of these squares represents a different aspect or area of your life. Whatever is happening in an energetic sense in that area of your home will affect the corresponding part of your life.
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How to Use the Feng Shui Bagua to Improve Your Life

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Feng Shui (pronounced “fung shway”) is an ancient Chinese system of rules and beliefs. Literally, Feng Shui means “Wind Water.” It was developed to assist in designing villages and cities in compliance with natural and astrological laws so that man-made structures would be organic in their evolution. For thousands of years, the capital cities of China were designed nearly along the north-south axis in the Feng Shui approach to balance the cities with nature, the sun and the stars.

It was because of Feng Shui that the Chinese invented the compass, which turned into a benefit to the West that had nothing to do with home decorating.

Macro to Micro
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The Surprising History of Feng Shui

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Using Feng Shui design to improve your garden alongside using it to improve your living space is not something that many people would think of. Normally, when you think of the ancient Chinese art of placement of objects, or the concept of improving the flow of chi you think in terms of enclosed spaces such as your home or office. However, using Feng Shui design to improve your home and office spaces and not your outdoor spaces such as your garden can lead to an imbalance in the chi around your home.

Where to Begin

When you think of clutter, you think of the books on the stairs, or your child’s clothes on the bedroom floor, but a garden can have clutter as well in the form of unwanted weeds or bushes which are overgrown or need trimming, in addition to trash like old newspapers and candy wrappers. So, this is where you should begin when thinking of Feng Shui design and your garden. The first step is to pick up any trash that might be lying around, then pull up the weeds, which may be choking your plants.
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How to Use Feng Shui Design to Improve Your Garden

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