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Feng Shui

What is Feng Shui and what does it have to do with healing?

What most people know about feng shui is that it concerns the balancing of the chi or energy of a house.

This is perfectly correct but not the whole story. Feng shui has application in many areas, including healing and the enhancement of achievement. The principles are as applicable to people as to houses.

Simply put, feng shui is how the Chinese accommodate time and space in a single system. Each direction of the compass relates to a type of chi. East, for instance represents yang wood: a growing expansive, thrusting type of chi, youthful and ambitious, outgoing and hungry for change. Enhancing this area of a house supports these types of activity.

East also represents youth, Spring, and above all the Eldest son, the hours before dawn, the feet and movement, transport, the growth of plants and eating.

This would probably be the area for attention if the owner of a house wanted a career boost or indeed suffered from an eating disorder. One implies adding to the wood, the other draining it.

Attention to wood affects wood characteristics. Enhance one and you enhance them all.

So the feng shui Master locates and works on the East of a house if these are the aspirations to be supported. But how do we identify the East or yang wood of a human being?

How ba zi's help
The equivalent to surveying a house for an individual is to draw up what is known as a ba zi. A way to describe it is as a personal element survey.

Feng shui means simply wind and water and ba zi means eight pictures. The eight pictures referred to represent the mix of energies at a person's hour of birth. Every time the Chinese write the date in traditional characters they express just such an energy mix. The year 2003, is quai may, the Water Sheep. As the sheep is of yin earth, the overriding chi of the year is earth and water.

The precise moment of birth carries an even more unique chi signature. This is what a ba zi defines. More usefully it projects it forward so that a feng shui Master can describe an individual's unique cocktail of chi now or at any moment in the past or future.

Chi will be balanced or unbalanced. If unbalanced it can be put back into balance. Balancing, whether a house or a person, is at the heart of what a feng shui Master does.

Returning to the example of wood, too much will tend to lead to hyperactivity and stress; too little to apathy. If the ba zi shows that wood is the problem, we can magnify or drain it. Whether to enhance performance or relieve physical or psychological ailments, a huge part of the job is to identify when and where a problem may occur.

So the ba zi can be used to identify the chi of the patient and locate times of particular difficulty (or ease!) and since everything will be expressed in terms of elemental balance, the remedy is rebalancing. Sometimes a ba zi shows a distinctive episode of distress in a person's past. Locating and identifying it without fuss, may save the patient a great deal of time and upset.

What can the ba zi be used to help?
The ba zi has been employed effectively with conditions as diverse as drug dependency and ovarian cysts. Stress and psychosomatic conditions are especially appropriate as is the creation and nurturing of relationship. The Chinese have ensured satisfying relationships this way for thousands of years.

Having read the ba zi, the practitioner can draws on a range of procedures which may include the I Ching, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, acupuncture or Chinese herbal remedies.

Positive results have been reported in conditions from writer's block to warts!

The underlying philosophy is that all healing is a returning to our centre where we are naturally whole.

A full feng shui house survey can be a comprehensive solution to attitudinal, psychological, behavioural and circumstantial problems for the whole household.

Ba zi healing simply serves the individual in the same way.

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