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Feng Shui

Feng Shui is the study and belief that the elements (earth, air, fire, water) and directions (N, S, W, E) dictate the successes and failures in our lives. I’m paraphrasing, of course. It’s actually much more complex.

Feng Shui is a extremely popular and common in Chinese culture, and I first learned about it in 1999 when I met my ex, who was born and raised in China.

He swore by it, and I have to admit, it really did seem to be effective in his life. He used it for his health, career, relationships, finances - pretty much every aspect of his life.

I got into it also, and started studying books, learning about it. The key is to take your home and divide it into sections, using a compass. You then fill those sections with certain elements (such as wood or metal) and that helps increase the positive aspects of your life in that area.

The problem is… well… it never worked for me. I am extremely open minded to new concepts, so I know I wasn’t being skeptical. I fully understood and was educated in Feng Shui.

Fast forward to 2007. I found some of my old Feng Shui tools and books, and decided to give our home a small Feng Shui make-over since I was going to be running a home business. If a few gold Buddha’s will make my business more successful, I’m all about it.

While my business is in its baby mode (only 4 months old if you want to get technical), I can’t say that I saw any significant boost when I activated my career and wealth corners. I have had some really good clients and really good projects. But I can’t really say any of them were due to the Feng Shui, because most of them happened before the fact.

Anyway, here’s the odd part… one day, I decided to take a break from my home office upstairs and work in the living room, which is on the opposite side of the house. My business boomed that day. I was getting new leads, e-mails, phone calls.

Fast forward a few months, and I once again brought my laptop downstairs and started working. Again, a massive boom of success ensued. My phone was ringing all day. How in the heck was the part of the house I worked in affecting my business?

Had I been doing it wrong all these years? Was one side of the house actually more lucrative than the other?

It’s enough to make a person wonder. Afterall, the Chinese culture has been using it for centuries.

We’ll see what develops. In the mean time, I’m keeping this computer downstairs. You can bet on it.

Wed, Aug 1, 2007 @ 1:47 am | Filed in Abundance | Permalink

3 Comments

I must say I’ve been skeptical ever since I saw this show where they got two supposedly renown experts in Feng Shui to reorganise the same room without knowledge of each other. They came up with completely contradictory ideas. Who knows?

Posted by enihsnus on Wed, Aug 1, 2007 @ 4:56 am

I’ve known a lot of Chinese people who are heavy into Feng Shui. Chinese seem to be really good at anything that has to do with aligning your energy flow and being in harmony, like acupuncture and Tai Chi.

Posted by DEL on Thu, Aug 2, 2007 @ 11:19 pm

I found this post very interesting. I may look into this. Never paid to much attention to Feng Shui.

Posted by vfrankl on Sat, Aug 4, 2007 @ 9:19 am