Understanding the Flow of Energy through a Space
February 9, 2009 – 9:22 am
Cypress Gardens Swamp
Ever sit next to a beautifully still body of water and feel completely at peace?
How about a stagnant body of water? Chances are you would walk away, right?
Why?
Both are still but one feels alive and the other feels dead. The difference between the two is circulation. In Feng Shui that’s called Wind.
Feng Shui literally means Wind and Water. It is the combination of these forces on their surroundings that helps or hurts the flow of energy throughout a system.
Think of wind as the ultimate symbol of energy in motion. Energy moves through everything but most of the time we cannot see it. We can, however, feel it even if we don’t know what we are feeling.
Think about it. Chances are you intuitively know if things feel alive or stagnant, peaceful or tense. This is all caused by energy flow. Feng Shui lets you identify the flow of this energy so that you can manipulate it’s direction and pace.
Look around your environment. If you opened all the door and windows, you could easily see the path of wind through the space. Imagine where it goes and where it stops. Does it race through and never stop? Does it get caught anywhere? Does it pass over areas completely? Does it enter and then get bounced around? This is a key awareness in Feng Shui.
For example, if you sit opposite the front door of an office building that opens and closes constantly, chances are you will feel all of the energies that come at you. Unless you have a strong barrier to absorb some of that energy, you may get sick often or get headaches. You may also experience intense feelings of happiness and sadness because nothing softens the strong energies that come at you all of the time.
Applying this to your home, never put your restful space opposite a door, whether it be the bed, the sofa, the baby’s crib, etc.
