Feng Shui for the Beginner - What is Feng Shui? from Kyle Stancle's blog

The two questions I seem to get asked by new people the most are "What is Feng Shui?" How can Feng Shui help me? You'd think that after more than 17 year of Feng Shui work, I would be able to answer these two questions as easily as a tape recorder. But I still stumble over my answer just as I did when I was first asked. There is no simple answer. It depends on the person's understanding of Feng Shui. You have to give a little more explanation to a person who has just heard the term Feng Shui for the first time vs. somebody who has read an article or maybe even a book on the subject and still has some questions. So lets proceed with the first question, "What is Feng Shui?" assuming you are the person hearing about Feng Shui for the very first time.

Feng Shui is an environmental science, it is not a religion, and it is not a cult. Feng Shui is 30 centuries old, yes, that's 3000 years, a thousand years before Christ, 1000 BC, originating in ancient China and has at least 9 know schools, or disciplines, that are being practiced today around the world. Feng Shui can be used to bring harmony and balance into your life. It is not magic, voodoo, or witchcraft. Feng Shui has evolved from eons of observation of the environment and how it relates to your life or life events. It connects your intentions to your environment and therefore to your higher power. It allows you a better control over your life through your environment and helps you to achieve balance and happiness. black and white

Feng Shui is relatively easy to understand and easy to apply, it is not mysterious or restricted or unavailable. Feng Shui is more spiritual in nature than intellectual or physical, although both physical and intellectual "cures" are used to connect you to the power behind Feng Shui. Feng Shui is not tied to a religion or really even to a culture; it is connected to universal principals and the laws of cause and effect that govern the universe. Feng Shui is not affiliated to any religious philosophy but relies on the same principles that underlie all of the great religions of the world. It allows us to connect to our inner self and to the higher power that governs us all. You can manifest your intentions for your life. Using your higher power can be as personal to you as you want it to be. Feng Shui doesn't care about your beliefs, but only your intentions. In this way, Feng Shui is an equal opportunity, opportunity.

Let's now explain the Feng Shui structure. Feng Shui cures are applied in nine "life event" categories, and uses your physical surrounds to gain control and achieve your intentions or goals in these categories. You can Feng Shui your home, but also a desk, work area, or even your garden. Bagua is a pattern or map that organizes the nine categories. These include Health, Wealth, Knowledge and six other categories. Each Bagua category has specific symbols that are supportive or destructive, such as colors and shapes. Feng Shui Practitioners use these symbols along with the Bagua Map in order to balance an individual's life and environment. Understanding the relationship between the nine Bagua zones and applying the Feng Shui remedies to clarify your intentions is the key to achieving this. Feng Shui can be viewed as the ultimate tool for setting goals, but with some added bonuses. health

This is just the tip of the Feng Shui iceberg. There are numerous details and processes and practices that go along with these concepts. When a new person first starts to learn about Feng Shui, they can become easily overwhelmed. With a little patience, and good instructions it starts to become clear and useful pretty quickly. I have been associated with Feng Shui over 17 years now. I was initially expose to it at a two hour adult education seminar and since then have read many books and articles, communicated with countless other practitioners, achieved a Masters Rating and used Feng Shui as a source of income for about the last 15 years.