Internal and External Feng Shui - The Energy of Wind and Water
Date: 2004-07-05 By: Jill
Henry
Feng Shui (pronounced fung shway) literally means wind and water. Water
represents the physical, manifest world while wind represents the inner world of
energy that interacts with the outer. External Feng Shui is about arranging our
environment, our homes, and our businesses to open to the energy (Chi) of
Prosperity and Success. Internal Feng Shui is about exploring our inner worlds
of mind/body/spirit and opening these worlds to the Chi of Health and Happiness.
In many Feng Shui resources, the emphasis is on external Feng Shui only.
External Feng Shui techniques are effective, however they are not the whole
picture. For example, many businesses use flowing water by the front door in the
form of a fountain to influence the energy to enhance career and business
success. But if, upon entering the business, the person who greets you is out of
balance and projecting negative energy, then the effect is cancelled out. This
article explores techniques to develop both internal and external Chi and
attract good energy into your life.
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EXTERNAL FENG SHUI
Basic approaches to developing good Chi in Feng
Shui include physically rearranging furniture, colors, and objects in your home
or office to promote good energy circulation and using Feng Shui Cures
(placement of certain objects like statuary, handing crystals, colors) where
physical change is not possible.
Arranging your home, office, business
for good circulation of Energy. In arranging a room, 9 areas are noted to be
of special significance. The center table, also known as a Baqua Map,
illustrates the relationship of areas in a room (or home). Imagine dividing your
room (home, office) into the following 9 areas, then place objects that
reinforce the attributes of each area.
|
Baqua Map | ||
| WEALTH
(purple) Southeast Call in chi with fountains, crystals, mobiles |
FAME
(red) South Fire. Fiery items: candles, incense |
RELATIONSHIPS
(pink) Southwest Pairs of things: bookends, matching statues |
| HEALTH &
FAMILY
(green) East Wood. Plants, flowers, living things |
CENTER
(yellow) Quiet space for centering, meditation |
CHILDREN,CREATIVITY
(white) West Metal. Whimsical items, crafts |
| KNOWLEDGE
(blue-green) Northeast Enhance personal reflection |
CAREER (black) North Water. Flowing water fountains, crystals |
HELPFUL PEOPLE
(gray) Northwest Spiritual guidance, travel, and helping |
|
MAIN ENTRANCE
(Use entrance or compass directions to interpret map) | ||
WHERE TO BEGIN?
Choose a room in which to begin. An office,
bedroom, or family room will do nicely. Decide first whether to view the room
from the directions or from the entrance. When using a Baqua Map from
directions, superimpose the map over the room with each directional area
corresponding to the true compass directions. If, for example, your entrance to
the room is in the South, then you would reverse the map accordingly. An
alternative used in Feng Shui is to simply place the Career area at the main
entrance of the room. You would align the map as illustrated in this article. It
really doesn’t matter which map orientation you choose. We are looking at the
relationships of elements with each other more than the compass directions. Fire
should be opposite of water, and not next to it because fire turns water into
steam and water douses fire. They cancel each other out.
Now, stand in
the main doorway and survey each of the 9 Life Areas as illustrated in the Baqua
Map. Look for "flow-less" areas, dead, empty areas or cluttered areas. Take one
section at a time and simply observe. The following are questions you may wish
to ask yourself during this process. Follow the map clockwise from the entrance
and answer the following questions.
North – Career – Water
1. Is there
anything “flowing” in this area?
2. What is blocking a sense of flow
here?
3. What can be moved or rearranged to create a greater sense of
flow?
4. Can a table fountain or paintings with water in them be added
here?
5. Can I add any touches of the color black to this
area?
Northeast – Knowledge
1. Is there anything here that promotes a
sense of knowledge and understanding?
2. Are there any books here?
3. Is
there a sense of organization and knowing here?
4. What can I clear out of
here that seems to block knowledge or knowing?
5. Can I add any touches of a
blue-green color here?
East – Health and Family – Wood
1. What is
healing within this section of the room?
2. What is here that doesn’t reflect
a sense of healing or family?
3. Are there any living, growing plants
here?
4. When I look here, do I feel healthy? Or do I feel tension,
restraint, conflict?
5. Can I add the color green to this
area?
Southeast – Wealth
1. What is here that makes me feel wealthy
and abundant?
2. What here makes me feel lacking?
3. Is there space for
wealth to come in here? Or is this area too crowded to receive wealth?
4. Can
I add touches of purple here?
South – Fame – Fire
1. What calls fame
and attention here?
2. Are there any candles here?
3. What would “put out
the fire” in this area?
4. Can I add touches of red here?
Southwest –
Relationships
1. What promotes good relationships here?
2. What creates
conflict in this area?
3. What clutter here represents poor communications in
relationships?
4. Can I add touches of pink here?
West – Children and
Creativity – Metal
1. What is playful and creative in this area?
2. What
blocks creativity in this area?
3. Is the clutter here creative, or just
mess?
4. Can I add touches of White here?
Northwest – Helping
People
1. What is here that could help another person?
2. What is here
that prevents me from helping others?
3. Can I add the color grey anywhere
here?
Center – Earth
1. What is grounding and stabilizing here?
2.
What is “up in the air” in this area?
3. What gives comfort here?
4. What
can I trust in this area?
First - Remove blocks to energy (Chi) by
cleaning and un-cluttering. “Clean Sweep” all the tired, unused, and negative
reminders of the past.
Now, using the Baqua Map and your answers to the
questions, bring in objects that match the colors, elements, and attributes
associated with each area. You may also use Feng Shui cures – simple additions
to enhance energy flow including:
Bright Objects: Mirrors, faceted
crystal balls, gems, lights, candles
Sounds: Wind chimes, bells,
music
Living Chi: Flowers, plants, birds, fish
Moving: Mobiles, chimes, fountains
Heavy:
Stone,
furniture
Mechanical: Computers, stereos, TV
Bamboo: flutes
Color: Relates to each area on Baqua Map
(Specific
applications of Feng Shui cures such as hanging a crystal to reflect energy in
dark spaces, or placing a mirror on your door to reflect unwanted energy from
the road back out to the road are discussed in detail in Energy SourceBook –
the Fundamentals of Personal Energy).
Be careful not to re-clutter.
As you are working in each area, reinforce your beliefs in the positive aspects
of each area using internal Feng Shui.
INTERNAL FENG
SHUI
Before beginning your Feng Shui work, pause for a brief 5-minute
meditation for each Baqua area. During these mediations, you will be getting in
touch with your beliefs about the 9 Baqua areas. When you work on clearing your
beliefs as well as clearing your space, your Feng Shui will become more potent
and effective.
The meditation technique is quite easy. Simply sit, close
your eyes and feel the air of your breath moving in and out of your nose. Focus
on the breath. Relax with the breath. Feel the breath flowing in and out, like
you would feel the breeze on your cheek. Now gently ask yourself a question, and
allow the answer to come into your mind. All the while, keep your breath in the
foreground, and allow the answers to gently float up in the background. Don’t
attach yourself to the answers. You are just uncovering your internal clutter.
Simply observe them at this point. After completing the 5 minutes, write down a
simple affirmation you can use while you physically re-arrange that portion of
your room. Affirming your desires while doing something physical is a very
potent process to attract Chi into your life.
I have listed 9 separate
questions below, each followed by an example affirmation, for each Baqua
meditation. Do not try to do these all at the same time. One question for each
meditation. One meditation and affirmation for each Baqua area.
Career
Meditation – What do I believe about my work?
• Career Affirmation – “My
career is wonderful and I am successful and happy in what I
do.”
Knowledge Meditation – How does knowledge affect my life?
•
Knowledge Affirmation – “Every day I grow in knowledge and wisdom and use them
for the highest good of everyone I meet.”
Health & Family Meditation
– What is healthy and loving in my life?
• Health and Family Affirmation – “I
am healthy, happy, loving and free.”
Wealth Meditation – How do I feel
about wealth and money?
• Wealth Affirmation –“I am a mighty magnet for
wealth and money. Money flows to me naturally and effortlessly.”
Fame
Meditation – What do I feel about fame and success?
• Fame Affirmation – “ I
am healthy, wealthy, successful and free!
Relationship Meditation – What
is important to me in relationships?
• Relationship Affirmation – “I enjoy
everyone and everyone enjoys me.”
Creativity Meditation – Where am I the
most creative in my life?
• Creativity Affirmation – “I am willing to let my
creative self come out and play.”
Helping People Meditation – How do I
help others?
• Helping People Affirmation – “I am able to help others without
sacrificing myself.”
Center Meditation – For this meditation, simply feel
your breath, allowing all thoughts to come and go, returning again and again to
your breath.
• Center Affirmation – “I am safe and at peace.”
Try this
form of internal Feng Shui and experience the results for yourself. Detailed
information about mindfulness meditation, belief paradigms, and affirmations is
available in Energy SourceBook – the Fundamentals of Personal
Energy.
SUMMARY
Our lives are Feng Shui, wind and water.
From the unseen beliefs and thoughts we hold within us, to the visible
reflections of these thoughts we see in our environment. The outer reflects the
inner and it is important to work on both aspects of ourselves. If you decorate
the wealth area of your home by placing coins and money there, but every time
you look at the money you feel inside that you don’t deserve to be rich, then
you are re-directing the positive external energy into a negative internal
energy. But, if you are ill, and decorate the Wood area of your home with
beautiful, healthy green plants, and each time you view the plant you see
yourself as growing more and more healthy, then your internal and external
energies are in alignment, and you will see miracles in your life. Enjoy your
path of Feng Shui.
To your Best Energy!
Dr. Jill Henry, Ed.D.,
(North Carolina) has over twenty years of experience in traditional medicine as
a physical therapist, including ten years teaching at the Medical College of
Georgia. Active for sixteen years in complementary and alternative medicine, she
is an associate polarity practitioner, meditation instructor, and workshop
facilitator. Jill may be contacted at her website: http://www.mountainvalleycenter.com
