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The Basics of Feng Shui and How It Can Improve Your Living Space
TLDR Feng shui is an ancient practice that involves arranging your living space in a way that allows energy to flow freely. By considering the five elements and using tools like the Bagua map, feng shui can help improve various aspects of life.
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Feng shui is the practice of allowing chi, the Chinese concept of energy, to flow in the best possible way.
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Feng shui is the practice of arranging your living space in a way that allows energy to flow freely, and it has been practiced for thousands of years in both China and India.
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Feng shui originated in India and was later spread to China, where it was developed into what we now recognize as feng shui, and it involves taking into account the five elements and how they affect one's living space.
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Feng shui can be divided into the compass school, which involves detailed research and calculations to determine the correct orientation of a house, and the black hat sect or Western feng shui, which focuses more on object placement and interior design.
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The interaction between the elements in your house or the way you arrange your house will determine whether the phases of qi are destructive or productive in their interactions together, and if you have too much of one thing, you need to balance it out with something else.
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The Bagua map is a static hexagon grid that is used to divide up space in a house or room and determine the placement of different elements, such as career, knowledge, and wealth, in order to maximize the flow of chi.
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Traditional feng shui practitioners use the Bagua map to align a house to a magnetic direction, which can reveal significant problems with the house and may require rebuilding, while Western feng shui focuses more on interior decorating and offers easier solutions.
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The Bagua grid uses different colors to represent different aspects of life and practitioners of feng shui suggest placing certain objects or items in each corresponding section to unlock positive energy.
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Feng Shui practitioners believe that the placement of objects and the orientation of buildings can affect the flow of chi, or energy, and can be used to improve various aspects of life.
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