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    Feng Shui: How to Achieve the Most Harmonious Arrangement of Your Home and Office
    Feng Shui: How to Achieve the Most Harmonious Arrangement of Your Home and Office
    Feng Shui: How to Achieve the Most Harmonious Arrangement of Your Home and Office
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    Feng Shui: How to Achieve the Most Harmonious Arrangement of Your Home and Office

    By Angel Thompson

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    Feng shui (pronounced fung shway) is an ancient Chinese practice based on the idea that the auspicious placement and arrangement of buildings, walkways, doors, furniture, plants, and other objects can ensure a good life. Good feng shui allows cosmic energy or chi to flow freely, creating a harmonious environment and improving the health, love life, peace, even prosperity of those who live or work there. By carefully locating and orienting your residence and organizing its interior design to maximize good energy, you can promote success and happiness.

    In Feng Shui, Angel Thompson, a noted expert, explains how you can make small (or large) changes in your home or office environment to increase the flow of positive energy. Thompson's clear, practical approach provides dozens of helpful tips for making any size and type of space better.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateMar 25, 2014
    ISBN9781466866997
    Feng Shui: How to Achieve the Most Harmonious Arrangement of Your Home and Office
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    Angel Thompson

    Angel Thompson has helped hundreds of clients-from corporations and politicians to entertainers, homeowners, and apartment dwellers-improve their lives through the use of feng shui. Her philosophy is that any space, from the smallest apartment to the most palatial home, can be made better through this ancient Chinese art. She lives in Venice, California.

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      Feng Shui - Angel Thompson

      Part 1

      FENG SHUI BASICS

      CHAPTER 1

      Understanding the Elements and Directions

      USING COLORS, SHAPES, AND DIRECTIONS TO IMITATE NATURE

      Where do you go when you want to relax and enjoy yourself? Is it the beach, the mountains, the desert? Some people like the open skies or camping in the woods. Others like the lights of the city or the thrill of amusement parks. Maybe you like to stay home and relax as you’re washing dishes, watering your plants, or just taking a walk. Wherever you go to regroup, one thing is certain: Being in this space makes you feel good. It’s where you can unwind, relax, and let go of everyday worries and concerns. For now, let’s call this special place your private paradise.

      What if I told you that you could create the good feelings of this magical space wherever you are? Would you be willing to learn a way of seeing if it would help you do this? If you answered yes, then you are ready for the first step of feng shui—the five elements. The elements hold the answer to why some spaces are good and others are not. As you understand how they work, you can use them to create your private paradise.

      The five elements—Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water—represent everything in the visible and invisible universe, including the directions of the compass. In nature, we see the five elements in their natural forms. Trees and flowers represent Wood, the sun represents Fire, and so on. Landscapes are classified by their predominant element. If you live next to a lake, yours is a Water environment. In the desert, you live in a Fire environment. Buildings and interior rooms are also classified by their predominant element.

      In the realm of humanmade objects and spaces, the elements are represented by colors, shapes, and directions. For example, all of the following are classified as Wood element: a building constructed of wood; a tall or rectangular building; a building whose entry faces east; a place where plants are grown or sold; a green-painted building. This means that we can re-create nature indoors, using colors, shapes, and everyday materials.

      Let’s say your private paradise is the beach. What makes a beach special? Untamed nature and open space, sunlight, palm trees swaying in the breeze, the salty sea, crashing waves, fluffy white clouds, crimson sunsets, gray seagulls, bright striped umbrellas. All of these things contribute to beach. You may not be able to bring the ocean to your door, but by using colors, shapes, and directions that represent the natural elements of the beach, you can easily re-create its atmosphere.

      At the beach, the Wood element provides palm trees, straw mats, and wooden poles supporting cotton umbrellas. Inside, the the color green, organic fabrics, wood furniture, and miniature palm trees can re-create the Wood element. At the beach, the Fire element is seen through the sun, light, heat, crimson sunsets and red sails dotting the landscape, plus all the critters that live in the sea. Inside, lights and heat take the place of the sun, seashells can be used as ornamentation, and pictures of sunsets or red accessories brighten the home and office. At the beach, the sand represents the element Earth. You can use the colors of sand or miniature sand gardens on your desk. To re-create the sparkling sea, use shiny stones and reflective surfaces that twinkle and glitter. You certainly wouldn’t want the ocean in the living room, but how about a wave machine, pictures of the crashing surf, or environmental sounds of the sea as background music? By understanding all the correspondences that accompany the elements, it is easy to re-create any atmosphere you desire.

      THE FIVE ELEMENTS

      There is a rhythm in the universe. Those who live close to nature follow this rhythm consciously. Farmers plant in the spring, grow in the summer, harvest in the fall, and let the land lie dormant all winter. Sailors and fishermen are acutely aware of the movement of the moon, sun, and stars and of how they affect the tides and movement of fish. City dwellers, who live far removed from nature in buildings of steel and glass, are also affected by this rhythm but not on a conscious level. As a result, it is easy for urbanites to be out of step with nature. When this happens, inner rhythms are disrupted, and life can turn discordant and unpleasant.

      The Chinese analyzed the rhythm of the universe by observing the movement of the sun and discovered that nature and life also followed this rhythm. Life begins in the morning when the sun rises in the east. During the day, the sun grows in power until it sinks in the west and finally disappears. Clearly, the passage from light to darkness and back to light consists of four stages: a beginning, a middle, a decline, and an end. In nature, the Chinese saw this rhythm expressed through the five elements.

      Wood: The Element of Spring

      Life is awakened from the deep sleep of winter when the sun announces the arrival of spring. The element WOOD sends out tender green shoots to reach for the light. This energy is similar to the energy at dawn, when the sun rises in the east, announcing the arrival of a new day. It is from these events that the Wood element came to be represented by early morning; spring; everything that grows; the color green; tall, rectangular, treelike shapes; the direction east; and the principle of growth or beginnings.

      A Wood landscape is characterized by forests and jungles, many tall trees, and plants or foliage, cultivated or growing organically. A profusion of poles, pillars, posts, or columns also is indicative of a Wood site. Houses constructed primarily of wood (or a picket fence or a forest, for example) belong to the Wood element.

      If there is too much Wood in the environment, trim it, cut it down, or remove it. A saw, hatchet, or axe (all Metal items) in the hands of an able-bodied gardener can remove excess plant growth. If you don’t want to remove it, the addition of Fire reduces Wood and makes it manageable. Symbolically, you can add Fire with burning incense, lighted candles, decorative swords or knives, electric lights, red flowers, or the color red. If nothing else, you can turn on the lights and turn up the heat.

      When there is not enough Wood in the environment, there’s nothing to believe in. You might become fearful and anxious, not only of change but also of commitment. With no strong opinions, you might get along with others for a while but end up with an inability to speak out or stand up for yourself. If there is not enough Wood, it is a simple matter to add flowers, plants, bonsai trees, aquatic plants in a bowl of water, a green filing cabinet, or pictures of plants. If living plants are not available, use fruits and vegetables, or dried or artificial plants.

      This house looks like it emerged from its Wood environment and is in perfect harmony with it.

      This humble wooden fence (top) evokes the sames feeling as the columns from a Greek temple (bottom). Both are Wood-element shapes.

      Wood corresponds to the following:

      Seen from Hong Kong Harbor, these tall buildings are reminiscent of trees in a forest. The Wood-shaped buildings are in harmony with the overall Water landscape (above left). The pagoda of the Temple of the Six Banyan Trees (ca. 537) in Canton, China (above right), is a Wood-shaped building (tall) with balancing details of Water (the curved balconies) and Fire (the spire on the top).

      Fire: The Element of Summer

      The element FIRE is represented by the sun at its zenith—the middle of the day when the sun is high and hot and bright. This is similar to the energy expressed during the summer, a season of promise and full growth. The sun travels through the southern part of the sky so south came to be known as the direction of Fire. Flames give Fire its red color and triangular, pointed

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