Feng Shui
 

By any chance, anyone here have their homes set up Feng Shui style?

Anyone?...............................................anyone?...........................................................Bueller?

I don't fully understand Feng Shui. From what I do understand, it's based around the idea that the way things are set up in a room will effect the energies that room puts off, right?

I believe this to be true. I hate a poorly set up room. It puts me on edge.

I always set the furniture in a room up in the most comfortable way possible.

Yeah, that's pretty much it.

When I moved in this house 10 years ago, I was completely Feng Shui'd out. Right down to auspicious symbols and elements in each room, etc. And I felt good. Granted, it was a new house but waking up in the morning felt good. Coming home felt good. Etc. etc. But it's been 10 years lol. Nothing is like it was. I need paint, new carpet, so on and so forth. So I'm starting up my Feng Shui again. I thought I'd start a new thread to see if there's anyone I can bounce ideas off of.

I really believe in it. There's nothing flakey or magical about it. It's just the flow of energies. Even just air. Clutter's a no-no. Common sense really. But yah - I'd like to start it up again.

In the back yard the other night, listening to the pond mostly, a stranger brought this up & made me wonder; does it sometimes come unconsciously?

Totally. It's a feeling of peace and calm. And if you get your home set up right, the feeling is essentially constant. When I worked outside the house, I had my office decorated in Feng Shui. My co-workers would come in just to sit because they said it was so tranquil lol. I had a little fountain, plants, lamp lighting, etc.

You have areas with varying air temperatures and radiant heat from appliances and building materials with different insulation values affecting that, then there are radio waves everywhere, background radiation from your environment including soil, building materials, radon, etc, and the occasional cosmic ray. What energies are manipulated and in what way do they flow other than air currents? Please consider the laws of thermodynamics in your response, and feel free to cite controlled studies giving any sort of evidence for the effectiveness of Feng Shui.

What I've done is put placebos in every corner of my house. It seems to help the energy.

I'm not here to argue it scientifically, Panch. Just interested in discussing the art of it with others. Thanks for contributing lol.

Did you see the study that placebos that cost more work better than cheap placebos?

i'm pretty sure feng shui couldn't help my shitty ass little apartment. really, the only thing that would help would be a fire. i'd totally try it though, i think if the right person who knows what they are doing helps you, it will work on some level. chef ming tsai did it for his restaurants, which is good enough reason for me to think it works.

book helped me the most. I've purchased quite a few. But I'm thinking if you spent some time online, you may be able to find just as much info.

i think i've seen it. i've looked through a few feng shui books, i never quite did any of the stuff, but i read them and thought about it a lot...

You can Feng Shui up a room. So it doesn't matter how small your home is. For starters, you're supposed to place the 'bagua' (octagon,) over the layout of your home - career always being your front door. Morph the octagon to fit your layout (rectangle, etc.) From there, you can tell what areas represent what aspects of your life. Then just read up on what you should have in each room. Essentially, you should have something of each element in every room (metal, fire, water, etc.) There are target colors for these areas as well. It can get super complicated if you let yourself delve to much into it. So I keep it at the basics.

If I come across a good site with basic info, I'll post it.

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