Feng Shui: A Cycle of Natural Elements
Natural elements play a strong role in the feng shui cycle. There are five major elements to feng shui that are addressed throughout the practice: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. Each of these main aspects needs to nurture each other in order to maintain a healthy circular system. As a result, if one of these is not nurtured, it weakens and prevents the circle from being completed. In decorating, many of the pieces in a room reflect one of these five elements. For example, wood is symbolized by living plants, fire by candles or fireplaces and metal by many possible shiny objects.
As with most natural health practices that draw from spirituality, in order to harmonize the mind and body, like yoga and traditional Chinese medicine, feng shui must be taken seriously in order for it to work. Buying a plant for your entryway, a table fountain for your dining room, painting your kitchen red, and keeping a lucky penny on your mantle won’t help to bring you fortune or good health unless you invite the actions of feng shui.
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March 26th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
What do Feng Shui and StarWars have in Common?
The Chinese culture is ancient and it had preceded the west in many scientific discoveries, and philosophical advances in many aspects. Contemporary men often look at the Chinese as superstitious and weird in their outlook of life and the way they perceive the world.
It behooves us to study and try to understand this ancient civilization better and try to see similarities rather than pointing out the obvious differences. The biggest obstacle in understanding the Chinese is the spoken and written language.
There is a basic concept in the Chinese thinking is the dual energies the Yin and Yang.
Yin and Yang
The Yin and Yang as we refer to this in the West is used to describe how seemingly opposing forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world, giving rise to each other in turn. The concept of polarity lies at the heart of many branches of classical Chinese science and philosophy, as well as being a primary guideline of traditional Chinese medicine, and a central principle of different forms of Chinese martial arts and exercise, such as Tai Chi.
Tai Chi as the name implies works with the life force of the human body called Chi (or Qi).
This unseen force that keeps humans and all living forms alive actually exists in inanimate objects as well, albeit in a lower quantity.
What is the relationship of the Yin and Yang to this mystical life force? The answer is simple, they are interconnected. If you look at the symbolism, of the yin and yang it is obvious that the polarity exist in oneness, hence it is seemingly a paradox. The oneness of dark and light is an occult secret, hard to understand but the underlying principle that propels everything in this Universe is the Qi (or Chi), this is the Life Force, the prana as the Hindus refer to it, used by BOTH – Dark or Light. This word is in Sanskrit and it has the same translation as Qi in Chinese (meaning “breath”).
To understand the relationship of Yin and Yang to Qi we have to take you back in time a little and use popular culture in America. Star Wars was viewed by millions of people worldwide. If you remember the Force that Yoda was using and teaching to young Luke Skywalker, then you’d remember the dual existence of the Force the Dark side and the light side. Actually the movie never explicitly said “white”, “Right hand” or “Light”.
It was left to the viewer to decide. It was the opposite of the ominous of “Dark side”.
This energy (Qi) was renamed “Psychic energy” by my former teacher. I do not mean to confuse the reader by all this terminology. The reason I mention this is to illustrate the multiplicity of this concept. It exists in virtually all religions and cultures. The name is just another name referring to an age old concept but it is strangely appropriate.
Most if not all phenomena, true psychic work, magic and healing is performed using this force.
This energy can self heal, preserve youthfulness, and create miracles. Jesus raised the dead using Psychic Energy; he could walk on water according to the Bible.
The question probably arises from the reader, if we all are born with this psychic energy how come that we end up aging and ultimately dying? The answer is simple. This energy can dissipate and rise according to our lifestyle, thinking and to some external factors such as diet, habits and company we keep.
It is important to point out that this energy is in flux and remains in the body and can be transferred from one body to another and it can leave the body if the host remains uninhabitable.
The biggest factor in keeping our level of psychic energy is our thinking and beliefs. For example if a person refuses to believe in the very existence of psychic energy for whatever reason, this will pose a serious obstacle long term. On the other hand, the idea of realizing something and adopting it into our fabric of being will enhance that concept and strengthen it. When we are born, the slate is clean in our consciousness, we are innocent and no worldly ideas, dogmas and false teachings exist in our subconscious. This state is beneficial to our level of psychic energy.
Factors that enhance psychic energy;
Meditation (raising our consciousness)
Exercise
Fresh Clean Air (right breathing at high elevation)
Vegetarianism
Purification of the body (fasting)
Love towards all
Factors that inhibit psychic energy;
Stress
Pollution
Alcohol
Meat
Drugs (both legal and illegal)
Sex
Certain things we can do to enhance psychic energy are as follows;
Wearing proper talismans or amulets, amber jewelry
Pine needle and pine (even cut and processed into lumber)
Tibetan Musk
A healer (in extreme cases).
I hope this essay is beneficial to you in your understanding of the basics of the supernatural and magical. The importance of this is that having this power is not easily obtainable, as Mother Nature jealously guards her secrets, but the end result is entirely up to you.
It is all obtainable and you do not need a priest or a rabbi, or in fact you do not need any intercessor to get there. It is your birthright.