Pronounced fung shway, feng shui means wind & water in Chinese. It is the practice of creating an environment that serves as a positive affirmation for the future. The future that you want to create for yourself. It is the art of arranging your furnishings, in your home or office, to enhance your life, helping you to achieve harmony & balance in everything that you do.

If you’ve gone through any other feng shui website, or have read any books about feng shui, it can be extremely confusing. I know, it was for me, when I first started investigating what feng shui was all about. In this website I have tried to make it more understandable. First of all, we all need it, and if it’s too hard to understand, how are we going to apply it into our lives, or the lives of our family and friends, and co-workers? After you have gone through the website, please email me, let me know your comments, and if I have succeeded in making it clearer for you to understand. I thank you, in advance, for that!!!

If you are living in a very small apartment or home, which is very common, especially in New York City, and you have no other place to put your desk other than in your bedroom, over time that can cause a definite problem. In feng shui, it may not be a large noticeable problem, but after a while, it creates a large problem. Visualize a rock at the bottom of a beautiful waterfall, the rock sits over to the right, and does not actually have the waterfall coming down on it but one drop every once in a while lands on the rock, after a long time that rock begins to erode. That is what happens in life, a small thing happening over and over again begins to erode your life. Getting back to the bed and the desk in the same room. If you are unable to get to sleep because you are thinking about checks that have to be written out the next day, or work that needs to be done, or during the day, when sitting at your desk, you are yawning, and it is very difficult for you to concentrate and at times, stay awake. A very good feng shui remedy for that would be to put a pretty screen in front of the desk, so that you are unable to see the desk from the bed, and vice-versa. You have now created something that is aesthetically pleasing as well as a feng shui remedy.

Being aware of your favorite colors, and surrounding yourself with them, or re-arranging your furnishings, washing your windows, cleaning, getting rid of all those magazines that are in piles on the floor or the table, trying to get rid of all the clutter, lighting a beautifully scented candle or essential oil. These are things that when you walk out of the room, and then walk back into it, are the things that make the room feel like a totally different room. The main thing is that when you are doing all of these things, that you do them with intention, the intention that it is clearing your life of any negativity, and inviting good and positive energy into your room, and your life, this is what living with “Peaceful Living” is all about. This is what the Chinese people called “Feng Shui” 5,000 years ago. Along with intention, there is a Black Sect Tantric Buddhist tradition that I follow, which makes the intention that much more powerful.

It is the 3 Secret Re-Enforcement.

1. Body (Mudra) you flick away the negativity with your hand. 2. Speech (Mantra) the six true words, Om Ma Ni Pad Me Hum, (English version: I see the light in you and I bow to that light-meaning everyone is equal), and 3 Mind (visualization) in your heart, and in your mind, you reinforce what you want.

The same hold true for your children. They are just small adults. They have rights too. Respect them, allowing them to choose the colors in their rooms, allowing them to hang what makes them happy on their walls, explaining to them what the bagua is, where to put their piggy bank, (in the wealth area), and explain to them what affirmations are, explain to them where to put their friends photos,(in the relationship area), where to put posters or photos of what they aspire to be, (the fame area). This is what living with “Peaceful Living” is all about. Our children are our future, if anyone at all needs feng shui, it is them.

Feng shui can be compared to acupuncture. When you go to an acupuncturist, he or she moves chi energy through your body by inserting very thin needles in different meridians along your body. When you go to a feng shui practitioner, he or she moves chi energy in your home or office by clearing areas for chi to meander through slowly. This is done by possibly moving furniture that may be in the path of chi, allowing it be become unblocked. Or by placing different items in a certain area with intention. These are both the seen aesthetic mundane remedies in moving ch’i. The unseen, transcendental remedies are done energetically through the use of crystals, chimes, applying the five elements, which in feng shui, is actually more important than the mundane changes. Using both is creating more balance. It is bringing in Eastern culture as well as our Western culture.

There are THREE MAIN PRINCIPALS to live by to help create balance & harmony:

FIRST: Everything is alive with Chi (vital energy), inanimate and animate, so therefore, you should give everything you own a good home. Attic & basement “stuff’ need a good home, because the items in those areas, as well as your entire home, mirror your life. Avoid clutter, clutter is why things can’t move forward for you, energy gets stuck. If your energy in your home is stuck! you are stuck. Stuck in a job that no longer fills your needs, stuck in a relationship that no longer fills your desires, and so forth. In clutter, they are material well-being possessions holding a mediocre place. An example of that would be your two $30,000.00 vehicles(or whatever they are worth) sitting outside of your garage, getting rained on, and snowed on. Is the garbage sitting in your garage worth $60,000.00?

SECOND: Everything is inter-connected. Love everything that surrounds you. Be greeted as you walk into your home with something that makes you feel welcomed and comfortable. If there are things hanging on your walls that don’t make you very happy, or have negative energy connected to them. Get rid of them. Sell them, give them away, or throw them away. You walk into your home 6,000-9,000 times a year (per Master Lin), if whatever you look at when you walk in does not make you happy, you will not be happy. Another very important point to make is living with safety and comfort, and out of that beauty will be formed. You cannot go wrong, if when you look at something, you smile, and then when you sit on it (if it happens to be a sofa), you feel overwhelming comfort, you then naturally feel safe in your surroundings. Another point to follow, be in good standing with your neighbors, any negativity that you show toward them will definitely come back to you. That negativity then passes on to another neighbor, then to someone at work, then they pass it on, and it goes on and on and on.

THIRD: Everything is constantly changing The seasons, our bodies, our children, our relationships. When you leave your home in the morning for work, and come home at night, you may see the difference. It may be something very subtle, or when you go away for a weeks vacation, it’s almost a definite that you see or feel that something is different.. Work with it move things around till it feels right to you. There are a few rules in feng shui for placement of furniture. Never let your back face the door, when sifting at your desk, always make sure that you are able to see the door. If you are unable to move your desk, put a mirror on the wall in front of you, so that you can see if someone is coming into the room behind you, preventing you from being startled. In time, you could experience pain in your neck (this is from constantly turning around when you get the feeling that someone is behind you) When you are in your bed, always make sure that you can see the door, but make sure that your bed is not directly in line with the door. Both of these suggestions, are putting you in the command position, which is where you ALWAYS want to be... RIGHT???