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By Liz Harrington
Feng Shui is the ancient Chinese art of altering and adjusting your physical surroundings so that they respond in harmony with the Earth’s energies, thus balancing and energizing all aspects of your life. The Chinese believe that like humans, Mother Earth has currents of energies, called chi, flowing across her surface.
In the microcosm, our bodies, blockages in the paths of energy can be corrected through treatments such as acupuncture. In the Macrocosm, the land on which we live, impediments in flow of chi can also be corrected, through the practice of a geomantic discipline such as Feng Shui.
At, this point, I would guess that just about everyone at New Leaf has a rough idea of what Feng Shui is, but the practice is a bit more complicated than moving your couch to a different corner of the room and suddenly becoming a millionaire. At the heart of Feng Shui lies the balance of the five elements; fire, earth, water, wood and metal, and the use of the bagua, a type of map created from the trigrams of the I Ching.
The five elements of Feng Shui can either be combined so that they are great forces of creation or they can be mixed so that their destructive power is unleashed. Depending on the material it is made out of and the form from which it is built, a house can become associated with one element or the other, for example, a building made out of glass would predominately be full of water energy or a home that has a curved roof or is located in a heavily urban area can be said to have quite a lot of metal energy. An imbalance in energy can be solved in several different ways.
For example, if you have an imbalance of water energy in your home, you could use the Feng Shui principal that "water feeds wood" and incorporate wooden furniture that would add the needed elemental energy to your home.
Some elemental combinations should not be tried, however. Most Feng Shui practitioners warn against such structures as a glass building with steep, sharply pointed roofs, which, without certain prevention’s taken, would bring about a disharmonic interplay between the fire and water elements.
This Feng Shui: The Art Of Flowing Earth Energy would go great with:
a) The "7 piece ceramic tea set"
or
b) the "Ben Wa Balls - Stainless Steel (Large)".
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