Feng Shui

Sometimes we hear of lives going through dramatic upswings and downturns, with the people affected tracing the origin of this to simply a shift of residence.Try as we may to shut out such seemingly illogical and indeed impossible analyses’, they dog us through life and even countries and cultures. Feng Shui, which means ‘wind and water’ provides an understanding of such complex, mystical phenomena by demonstrating methods of optimising universal energy flows through homes and individual spaces.

Feng Shui has been described by experts as an exciting composite of mystical beliefs, astrology, folklore and common sense. It guides the designing of homes and room layouts in ways that enhance the quality of their owners’ lives in surprising and dramatic ways.

According to Lillian Too, a business graduate from Harvard and a leading authority on Feng Shui, goodFeng Shui positioning creates harmonious relationships between husband and wife, helping beget good and loving children who bring honor to the family, foster good health, attract abundance and prosperity and build good reputations. In business, it creates opportunities for growth, raises the business profile, attracts customers and raises turnover and profits. Bad Feng Shui, by contrast, brings illness, disaster, accidents and financial loss. It causes opportunities to slip away, careers to fade, wealth to be squandered, and reputations to collapse.

Closer home, Chandran, a leading Feng Shui expert, explains the home and personal spaces to be an extension of an individual’s outer body. “Just as our face and bodies reflect who we are inside, so does our homes, rooms or offices,” he says. “Just as when we change, our tastes and preferences change, impacting our appearance, dressing and interiors, when we make an external physical change outside, it impacts us on the inside”.

In a deeper sense, Feng Shui rests on the ‘Aham Brahmasmi’ philosophy or ‘I am That’. Simply put, it means each individual is the center of his universe and controls it. Feng Shui helps deal with that universe and tweak it to suit its creators’ objectives.

“Life before Feng Shui was like swimming against the tide. Since I made the prescribed changes, life is in harmony. I experience greater understanding and communication with family and friends and am much happier as a result” says Vikrant Pawa, a Delhi-based DJ who also runs an entertainment company.

Solid and linear cause and effect experiences of Feng Shui positioning convince Vikrant that Feng Shui is a science and not in the realm of an obfuscating and non-substantive occult study. Another beneficiary, a young working mother, agrees. “I was on the verge of a divorce. I used Feng Shuiguidance to shift the direction of the bed in a manner harmonious with my astrological chart. My relationship with my husband took a new high and we also had a second child,” she says.

As a first small step, which promises big results, identify ‘clutter’ or objects, appliances, decorations, clothes, paper, etc, that are not useful. Anything that has not been used for two years or more is a redundant part of your life. Collect these and give them away. Since objects feed off your energy, you will feel more vibrant once these non-essential items are gone. As nature guides people and things to those who most need them, giving also begets good karma and frees space for new things to come into your life. Things that you most need, here and now.