Feng Shui Basics

What is Feng Shui?

Feng Shui pronounced fung schway The practice of Feng Shui combines ancient Chinese wisdom with traditions of the Chinese culture and provides us with guidelines to be used in different areas of our lives to improve our connection with the Life Force Energy. Feng Shui is not a religious practice - but a mystical art. By creating a harmonious atmosphere we can improve such areas as family harmony, prosperity, marital bliss, good health, etc. In Feng Shui, these are called the Eight Life Aspirations. They really all go hand in hand with each other and one should not be excluded for the other. The 8 directions used in the Feng Shui Ba Gua are the following: NORTH, NORTHEAST, EAST, SOUTHEAST, SOUTH, SOUTHWEST, WEST, and NORTHWEST. Each direction has an Element, Color, and Life Area associated with it. Below is the summary of the eight-Feng Shui Guas.

It is important that you create harmony in your total household and encourage positive Chi energy to flow. By focusing on just one area of your life you want to enhance, you can be disturbing the balance and harmony of Chi. Learning the guidelines to Feng Shui can be very complicated. But here are some tips that you can use to help you along. Two of the most important tools that you will need to start are a compass and your Pa Kua Bagua. I recommend that anyone interested in achieving a balance in their homes by utilizing Feng Shui techniques have these tools on hand. The easiest way to get your life moving by using Feng Shui is to bring the energy of specific colors in order to achieve the results you want. Color is very powerful, as it is light, and many spaces are starved for light. So bring it on!

One of the basic principles of Feng Shui is the principle of five elements, which are Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water. The elements interact between themselves in certain ways, generally defined as the Productive and Destructive cycles. Each element is represented by a specific color, and color is the easiest way to use the five elements principle to bring more harmony into your space. Here is the color correspondence of each of the five-Feng Shui elements: WOOD: Green, Brown FIRE: Red, Strong Yellow, Orange, Purple EARTH: Light Yellow, Sandy Earthy, Light Brown METAL: White, Gray WATER: Blue, Black

Knowing how to use color to strengthen and balance your environment may be a complex subject, but there are always basics to it.

For example, the energy of the South area is connected to your Fame and Recognition. A better translation, actually, is the Light or Fire within, and it is connected to the image you project to other people, your identity in the eyes of others, as well as how good or strong you are at spreading and maintaining your own Light, Identity, Values. The element of South is Fire, and the colors related to it are Red, Purple, Yellow and Orange. Obviously, you would not want to put down your own fire, which means you should not bring Blue or Black colors to the South area of your space Water puts down the Fire. · Color Green is excellent and very healing in improving health and balancing family life when used in the East. · Color Blue is very good in the North area to support and help you with your career plans or in the East for Health and Family and in the Southeast area for Prosperity and Abundance. · Have some Yellow in the South for happy gatherings and good times. · Pure White in the West to support you in your creative endeavors.

Before bringing color into your environment, be sure to study the light patterns throughout the day in your space, as well as see how it works with the other inhabitants of your space, such as furniture pieces, decoration objects, art, etc. You would like all of them to have a good time, rather than arguing and fighting over your attention.

The 8 directions used in the Feng Shui Ba Gua are the following: NORHT, NORTHEAST, EAST, SOUTHEAST, SOUTH, SOUTHWEST, WEST, and NORTHWEST. Each direction has an Element, Color, and Life Area associated with it. Below is the summary of the eight Feng Shui Guas.

· NORTH - compass reading from 337.5 to 22.5 Element: Water Colors: Blue and Black Life Area: Career, Path in Life. · NORTHEAST - compass reading from 22.5 to 67.5 Element: Earth Colors: Beige, Light Yellow, and Sandy Earthy Life Area: Spiritual Growth, Self-Cultivation. · EAST - compass reading from 67.5 to 112.5 Element: Wood Colors: Brown and Green Life Area: Health, Family. · SOUTHEAST - compass reading from 112.5 to 157.5 Element: Wood Colors: Brown and Green Life Area: Prosperity, Abundance. · SOUTH - compass reading from 157.5 to 202.5 Element: Fire Colors: Red, Orange, Purple, and Bright Yellow Life Area: Fame, Reputation. · SOUTHWEST - compass reading from 202.5 to 247.5 Element: Earth Colors: Beige, Light Yellow, and Sandy Earthy Life Area: Love, Marriage. · WEST - compass reading from 247.5 to 292.5 Element: Metal Colors: White and Gray Life Area: Creativity, Children. · NORTHWEST - compass reading from 292.2 to 337.5 Element: Metal Colors: White and Gray Life Area: Helpful People, Blessings. Simply stated, Ba Gua is the energy map of any given space that gives you guidance on creating the most harmonious energy flow in your space


	What is Feng Shui? Feng Shui pronounced fung schway The practice of Feng Shui combines ancient Chinese wisdom with traditions of the Chinese culture and provides us with guidelines to be used in different areas of our lives to improve our connection with the Life Force Energy. Feng Shui is not a religious practice - but a mystical art. By creating a harmonious atmosphere we can improve such areas as family harmony, prosperity, marital bliss, good health, etc. In Feng Shui, these are called the Eight Life Aspirations. They really all go hand in hand with each other and one should not be excluded for the other. The 8 directions used in the Feng Shui Ba Gua are the following: NORTH, NORTHEAST, EAST, SOUTHEAST, SOUTH, SOUTHWEST, WEST, and NORTHWEST. Each direction has an Element, Color, and Life Area associated with it. Below is the summary of the eight-Feng Shui Guas. It is important that you create harmony in your total household and encourage positive Chi energy to flow. By focusing on just one area of your life you want to enhance, you can be disturbing the balance and harmony of Chi. Learning the guidelines to Feng Shui can be very complicated. But here are some tips that you can use to help you along. Two of the most important tools that you will need to start are a compass and your Pa Kua Bagua. I recommend that anyone interested in achieving a balance in their homes by utilizing Feng Shui techniques have these tools on hand. The easiest way to get your life moving by using Feng Shui is to bring the energy of specific colors in order to achieve the results you want. Color is very powerful, as it is light, and many spaces are starved for light. So bring it on! One of the basic principles of Feng Shui is the principle of five elements, which are Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water. The elements interact between themselves in certain ways, generally defined as the Productive and Destructive cycles. Each element is represented by a specific color, and color is the easiest way to use the five elements principle to bring more harmony into your space. Here is the color correspondence of each of the five-Feng Shui elements: WOOD: Green, Brown FIRE: Red, Strong Yellow, Orange, Purple EARTH: Light Yellow, Sandy Earthy, Light Brown METAL: White, Gray WATER: Blue, Black Knowing how to use color to strengthen and balance your environment may be a complex subject, but there are always basics to it. For example, the energy of the South area is connected to your Fame and Recognition. A better translation, actually, is the Light or Fire within, and it is connected to the image you project to other people, your identity in the eyes of others, as well as how good or strong you are at spreading and maintaining your own Light, Identity, Values. The element of South is Fire, and the colors related to it are Red, Purple, Yellow and Orange. Obviously, you would not want to put down your own fire, which means you should not bring Blue or Black colors to the South area of your space Water puts down the Fire. · Color Green is excellent and very healing in improving health and balancing family life when used in the East. · Color Blue is very good in the North area to support and help you with your career plans or in the East for Health and Family and in the Southeast area for Prosperity and Abundance. · Have some Yellow in the South for happy gatherings and good times. · Pure White in the West to support you in your creative endeavors. Before bringing color into your environment, be sure to study the light patterns throughout the day in your space, as well as see how it works with the other inhabitants of your space, such as furniture pieces, decoration objects, art, etc. You would like all of them to have a good time, rather than arguing and fighting over your attention. The 8 directions used in the Feng Shui Ba Gua are the following: NORHT, NORTHEAST, EAST, SOUTHEAST, SOUTH, SOUTHWEST, WEST, and NORTHWEST. Each direction has an Element, Color, and Life Area associated with it. Below is the summary of the eight Feng Shui Guas. · NORTH - compass reading from 337.5 to 22.5 Element: Water Colors: Blue and Black Life Area: Career, Path in Life. · NORTHEAST - compass reading from 22.5 to 67.5 Element: Earth Colors: Beige, Light Yellow, and Sandy Earthy Life Area: Spiritual Growth, Self-Cultivation. · EAST - compass reading from 67.5 to 112.5 Element: Wood Colors: Brown and Green Life Area: Health, Family. · SOUTHEAST - compass reading from 112.5 to 157.5 Element: Wood Colors: Brown and Green Life Area: Prosperity, Abundance. · SOUTH - compass reading from 157.5 to 202.5 Element: Fire Colors: Red, Orange, Purple, and Bright Yellow Life Area: Fame, Reputation. · SOUTHWEST - compass reading from 202.5 to 247.5 Element: Earth Colors: Beige, Light Yellow, and Sandy Earthy Life Area: Love, Marriage. · WEST - compass reading from 247.5 to 292.5 Element: Metal Colors: White and Gray Life Area: Creativity, Children. · NORTHWEST - compass reading from 292.2 to 337.5 Element: Metal Colors: White and Gray Life Area: Helpful People, Blessings. Simply stated, Ba Gua is the energy map of any given space that gives you guidance on creating the most harmonious energy flow in your space