Feng Shui

Make a Feng Shui Journal

Our activity for today (Day One):

This will help you to assess your life and guide you to where you may want to focus your feng shui energy as we proceed this month:

Get out your journal or notebook and ask yourself:

  • Are you satisfied with your career?
  • Do you just barely make rent every month?
  • Are you stuck in a dating rut or a boring relationship?

In your journal, write down anything that’s bothering you or coming between you and true happiness.

You can even carry a pen and paper with you throughout the day, and any time anything at all bothers you, or you hear a complaint running through your head, write it down! It might be something as simple as “I have a headache” or “My boss never listens to me.” Even if you are being repetitive, write down the complaint each time.

You can ask yourself the following questions to uncover some of the areas in which you are dissatisfied:

Career and Life Path: Are you fulfilled in your current career? If not, what is less than optimal? People? Money? Type of work? Location? Stress? Boss?

Skills and Knowledge: Are you content with your current level of education? Seem to repetitively make bad decisions and wish you were wiser? Want to change careers but don’t have the skills to master your dream?

Family: Do you have a good relationship with your family? Is it hard making enough money just to pay for the basics? Have they ever based an after-school special on your family?

Prosperity: Do you live paycheck to paycheck? Do you have a yearning for a material item but the only thing stopping you is lack of money? Do you make a good income, but it goes out as fast as it comes in?

Fame and Reputation: Does it appear that people are talking poorly about you in public, hurting your career, family, or feelings? Do you want the courage to do something you can’t seem to make yourself do? Does fear stop you from fulfilling dreams and being happy?

Relationships and Love: Are you content and fulfilled with current relationships (family, spouse, business associates, children, friends?) Do you feel depleted from your relationships with certain people? Do you wish to be in a committed relationship but can’t seem to find the right person? Do you need an exorcist to fight off the partners you attract?

Creativity and Children: Are you having trouble having children? Having trouble with your children? Wish you were more creative? Are you burned out or bored in your work, hobby, or life? Do you feel limited, as if there is no opportunity?

Helpful People and Travel: Do you always do everything yourself? Do you have a hard time finding the right person to help with things such as baby-sitting, home improvements, spiritual guidance, health issues, business ventures? Do you get taken frequently or played the fool? Do you yearn for new places to visit and explore but never seem to get there?

Health and Other: Do you have any complaints about your current state of health? Do you always seem to come down with whatever virus is going around? Can’t find your funny bone? Is “Clutter” or “Pack Rat” your middle name? Do you have any other complaints that did not seem to fit in any of the above categories?

Now, take a quick inventory of what IS working. You don’t need to use a feng shui cure for something that isn’t broken!

Now you have a list of specific areas to work on during this month and beyond, and you have a starting point to refer back to as things get better and better in your life!

From: Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life
by Karen Rauch Carter

 

What is a Bagua?

Everything that happens in life can be boiled down into one of 9 life situations or categories, and each category is represented in your living quarters by a particular area. Each area is called a gua, and the sum of these areas put in a particular order is called the bagua. Ba means eight, and the bagua has eight sides. The eight sides, plus the middle area, make up the nine zones that relate to different life situations.

Here is a picture of the bagua we will be using:

It is a little less intimidating when viewed as a grid:

Often baguas are drawn as an octagon with various symbols like this one:

And this one:

And this one:

And this one

Each of these is correct.
We are going to keep it simple and use the two examples at the top of this page.

What is Feng Shui?


I found this definition of Feng Shui from Wikipedia:

Feng Shui is a Chinese belief system involving a mix of geographical, religious, philosophical, mathematical, aesthetic, and astrological ideas. It literally means “wind (feng) and water (shui)”, and is not simply a decorating style, but a discipline with guidelines compatible with many different decorating styles.

Feng Shui (pronounced “fung shway”) is the ancient Chinese practice of placement and arrangement of space to achieve harmony with the environment. The literal translation is “wind and water”.

The source of the term is purported to come from the Burial Book written by Guo Pu in the Jin Dynasty. Qi (or Chi) rides the wind and stops when it meets the boundary of water. The ancients could manipulate Qi so that it did not dissipate, and directed it so that it was retained. For this reason this art is called Feng Shui.

For a place to have “good Feng Shui” is for it to be in harmony with nature, and to have “bad Feng Shui” is to be incongruous with nature. Although people aren’t usually described as having good or bad Feng Shui themselves, believers in feng shui say that certain people by force of personality or visual appearance are able to add or subtract from the Feng Shui of their surroundings.

There is quite a bit more information, and if you are interested here is the link: Feng Shui. I found another definition at About.com:

“Feng Shui teaches us how to create harmony and balance around us,” says Stanley Bartlett, who uses the centuries-old art to design homes and businesses. “Everything is related to everything. If we pay attention to our environment, then we will find ways of creating different realities in our lives. When we move the bed, we also change our relationship with things around us in ways there aren’t words for.”

Feng Shui is the ancient art of placement. Your personal belongings in the home are positioned in a specific arrangement to enhance chi to bring harmony and balance to your life. Chi is an invisible energy that swirls around us at all times. Feng Shui translated literally means wind and water because the chi travels on the air and water currents.

The main purpose of utilizing the Feng Shui principles is to bring harmony and balance into your home.

Feng Shui for Prosperity


On Wednesday, Jan 3, we will be getting started with “Feng Shui and Clearing Our Clutter for Prosperity!”

The books we will be using are:

We are taking baby steps with our decluttering and feng shui, so no one feels overwhelmed. If you have more experience with feng shui and want to go gung-ho this month, feel free to do more than the activities we will have listed each day. But for the rest of us, we are baby-stepping our way through this fun learning experience into a calmer, more harmonious living environment.

What is Feng Shui?

Feng Shui is a term borrowed from the Chinese that refers to a system of thoughtful placement of the furnishings in our living environment to positively affect our chi (energy). When an area of your home (or car, or desk at work) is out of balance, you can employ a “cure” to bring balance to that area. A cure is specifically placing an item in a particular area to help you in life.

We hope that you will join us. This project is Melissa’s baby. She has put a lot of time and effort into breaking it into manageable portions. So, thank you Melissa! I think it’s going to be a great learning experience as well as an interesting experiment.

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