The Feng Shui of Trees

Trees are important life source and vital members of our outdoor community. Often called "the lungs of the Earth," trees take the carbon dioxide that we breathe out and return it to us as oxygen. They also prevent groundwater run-off and soil erosion. It is obvious that trees are a crucial part of our living Earth and treasured members of our landscape family.

Besides being beautiful, they provide us with shade, beauty, and a wonderful place to climb or swing from. Fruit and nut trees give us good things to eat. On a less tangible level, trees also exert a powerful influence on the feng shui of our homes. For this reason, it is important to look at the trees surrounding your home. What else do trees have to offer us? Let's take a look at the feng shui of trees.

1. Trees give excellent support. Planted at the rear of a house, trees provide important "Mountain support" at the rear of a property. Ideally, all homes and businesses are situated on a lot with a rise at the rear of the property. If this rise is missing, or if the landscape is flat, or if there is nothing taller or larger than your house or building, vital support can be missing, making you have to struggle in key areas of your life. This rear support is a critical element in feng shui. Planting a row of 5 trees across the back of the property can simulate the missing support.

The Feng Shui of Trees

2. Plant bamboo for the best luck of all. Bamboo is considered a tree although its habit is more like that of a hedge. At the back of a property, bamboo gives solid support. At the left or east side of the property, it gives excellent dragon energy - considered the best energy of all. At the front of the property, bamboo gives very auspicious energy for wealth and opportunity. The front is considered its most auspicious planting location. So, consider potting bamboo to put in the front of your home!

3. Flowering trees bring reward. Orange trees are believed to bring wealth and are especially beneficial when planted in the SE corner of the garden. Lime trees are also helpful and bring wealth, particularly to SE facing homes. Lime and oranges planted at the front of the house bring great opportunities in the form of wealth and advancement.

Apple trees are believed to promote good relationships in the home. Plant pomegranates to stimulate love - even pregnancy. Planted in the south, pomegranates and apples can also bring recognition luck. Plant peaches in the west for excellent and lasting children's luck and family happiness.

4. Plant trees to raise beneficial chi. If your home or business slopes down on the left side (as you look out of the house) or is low here, trees can be planted to raise the chi. This puts the auspicious "dragon" more in control, rather than the tiger (or right) side of the house. Be sure to have trees planted on both sides of the house to keep the household harmonious. Trees on the left control the husband's anger and trees on the right control the wife's anger.

5. Trees promote growth and good health. Planted on the east side of the house, trees can stimulate personal growth and good health. Select large hardwood varieties for this side of the house.

6. Plant pines for longevity. Want to grow to be a ripe old age? Plant pine trees. These are considered to be especially auspicious when planted in the east corner of the yard.

7. Remove dead trees. Dead or decaying trees can draw a tremendous amount of energy from a home. Be sure to remove any dead or dying trees, especially if someone in the home is ill or elderly.

8. Trees must not touch the house. Any tree touching a house will give the house "yin" energy - which is negative energy. Make sure there are no limbs touching the house.

9. Keep trees away from earth corners. Earth corners include the SW, NE, and center locations. Strenuously avoid having trees at the center of your lot or home (either in a container or in an inner courtyard) as this causes severe financial difficulties. Trees planted in the SW corner of the garden create relationship difficulties and trees in the NE create educational problems.

10. Use trees to block negative energy. If there is a view of something that is unappealing, or a church, hospital, or cemetery directly across from your house, plant a row of trees to block the energy. They can also be planted to block poison arrows created by roads.

11. Trees must not be planted in front of the door. Trees that block a door, block opportunities and promote personal struggles with finances and career. Either remove the tree or if you can't cut the tree down, then place a gazing ball or mirror that pushes the tree energy back.

12. Plant weeping willows in the water sectors. Weeping willows and other weeping plants are generally not considered to be good feng shui. However, I believe they can be planted as long as attention is paid to where they are planted. For instance, they should not be planted in front of the house or there will be problems with career and constant stress and sadness. They should also not be planted at the rear, as they suggest water, and water at the rear of a property is not beneficial.

Instead, plant them where their "fountain" effect is utilized, such as the SE, N, or E sectors of the garden, unless these areas happen to be at the front or the rear of the property.

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Swimming Pools - 6 Feng Shui Tips to Make Them Auspicious

Swimming pools are a wonderful addition to any home. They create an instant place for fun, relaxation, and exercise. Plus, water is extremely beneficial in any landscape. However, in feng shui, swimming pools can often create negative influence. That's because swimming pools possess a great deal of energy. It is also because swimming pools are often located at the rear of the home, and that is extremely inauspicious according to feng shui.

Even so, there are some instances when pools are a benefit to the homeowner. This would include a pool that is correctly sized, shaped, and positioned. Certain pool shapes and sizes can create problems, such as poison arrows, which are harsh points of energy directed at the house.

On the plus side, pools positioned in certain locations can actually benefit homeowners. These are pools that are placed according to flying star. At their best, pools can be positioned to tap the "wealth star" -- the secret location of prosperity that is tied to the direction of the front door. Another benefit of flying star placement is to overcome negative energies, as pools can offset negative energy from poor star placements.

Swimming Pools - 6 Feng Shui Tips to Make Them Auspicious

Look at placing your pool in an auspicious location and follow feng shui's design criteria to make sure your pool benefits you! Positioned right, swimming pools can add tremendous wealth luck to a home! If not, though, it can be a very negative influence that can harm your wealth. To be sure about your pool, though, consider checking in with a feng shui consultant.

The Top 6 Feng Shui Pool Rules

1. Select a shape that is auspicious.

The best shapes for pools are round, oval, kidney, or curving. This is because none of these shapes have any hard edges or points that can create a poison arrow effect that square-shaped pools often do. Other good choices include octagons and figure-eights.

2. Keep your pool size proportional to the size of the home.

Pools are better if they are not overly large. If they are too large for the home, they can "overwhelm" it, imparting much negative energy. Better to go with a smaller pool than one that is too large.

3. Place pools at the sides of the yard.

If possible, it is better to position swimming pools at the side of a yard rather than directly in the rear. If that can't be accommodated, then do try to avoid having a pool that is directly in line with the rear center of the house. Pools that do can become menacing, as water behind you is considered bad feng shui.

4. Pools that embrace a home bring good luck.

These pools appear to wrap around a home or curve toward the home. These are a good design choice as they don't have hard edges pointing at the house.

5. Locate pools in a favorable sector for periods 8 and 9.

Until 2043, pools should ideally be located in the North, Southwest, East, or Southeast sectors.

6. Incorporate the five elements around your pool.

Pools should be mixed with the other elements, such as metal (handrailings, pumps, electrical equipment), wood (plants, arbors, gazebos), earth (rock, cement surroundings or deckings), and fire (lighting). This helps to ensure that the pool is well-balanced and harmoniously incorporated into the landscape.

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Lucky Feng Shui Gems, Crystals and Minerals for Snake Year 2013-14

Gem, Crystal and Mineral are extremely popular as their polished, bright, multi-faceted forms heighten positive and diminish negative energies wherever located. Frequently used as Feng Shui remedies and 'Cures' they have serious good-luck and wealth attraction potential during Snake Year 2013-14 considering it has wealth-linked Water as Year Element.

The Snake itself is an ongoing Chinese luck and good fortune symbol(forget western Biblical traditions of 'wicked serpents'). The Feng Shui principle of 'resemblance' assists those eager to improve their prospects during this period in surprising ways.

Mineral Money Magnets

Lucky Feng Shui Gems, Crystals and Minerals for Snake Year 2013-14

Feng Shui wealth-enhancers aka 'money-magnets' from the Gem, Crystal and Mineral kingdom obviously include Diamonds. Traditionally graded in 'Waters' these symbolise the 2013-14 Year Element's wealth associations.

Feng Shui's 'resemblance' principle means Iron Pyrites and Citrine (aka the Merchant Stone' as it brings wealth to businesses)also assist here as their appearance is similar to Gold. Quartz too has much to offer as it magnifies and amplifies energies of materials displayed alongside it for these purposes.

The 'real thing' would be ideal but too expensive for most to even consider. 'Resemblance' however means glass and plastic imitation Diamonds (even photos and artwork) function equally well. Found only in Herkimer USA (but available from Crystal Shops and suppliers everywhere) Herkimer Diamonds, inexpensive Quartz crystals with a particularly pleasant appearance, function as both energy amplifiers and wealth-attractors. Even plastic copies of Quartz crystals enhance the energies and effects of other crystals and objects they are placed next to!

The South East 'Wealth' (or Wood) sector of locations is where Crystal 'wealth attractors' should be deployed during this period as Water 'supports' Wood in 5 Elements Feng Shui. To further encourage your prosperity to grow add Topaz, Aventurine and Agate to your displays.

'Mock' Mineral Money Makers: 'Resemblance'

As real Diamonds aren't needed and glass or plastic copies work equally well (similarly diamond pictures or photos) these are fortunately cheaper and easier to find. Thanks to the 'resemblance' principle an old store promotion supplied me with some extra-large plastic diamonds.

Gold and Silver ingots were once used as Chinese Currency. Thus, stage props like fake gold-bullion bars and even 'Stage-money' are also excellent for weath-enhancement purposes, similarly old Chinese coins (copper rather than plastic copies).

Objects for Wealth Enhancement Purposes

Metal and Crystal Dragons (Chinese not Western) and Crystal Treasure Ships have clear Water/Wealth connexions, likewise wealth-growing Crystal Trees (especially Agate ones). The 3-Legged Toad or 'Chan Chu', particularly when pictured sitting on piles of coins, is always a popular water-linked wealth-attractor.

Love and Romance Luck

Place clear and Rose Quartz samples together in rooms and dwellings' S.W 'Relationship' sector to improve your fortune in this area (as we know, Quartz amplifies energies of adjacent crystals). Polished cabouchons, solid pieces of matrix or 'points' are all equally useful for this. Assist your endeavours further by adding Rhodonite, Pink Morganite and Rodochrosite to your displays.

Business and Career Luck

Kept next to till or computer Citrine, the 'merchant stone' via the 'resemblance' principle (thanks to its golden colour) can enhance your prospects and generate 'feel good' vibes, especially when placed in locations' North Business Sector. Pyrites placed next to mobiles and laptops will absorb negative energies to assist you further.

For General Protective Purposes

Particularly if placed around the foot of the bed, Blue Calcite, Haematite (the polished black variety in particular) and Black Tourmaline will provide positive protective support during Snake Year 2013-14.

Displays

Mirrors and Quartz both are both Yin Metal which supports Water and its Wealth Associations in 5 Elements Feng Shui. Displays reflected by the former and supported by the latter may prove particularly effective during Yin Water Snake Year 2013-14.

To encourage wealth and prosperity to flow into your life, display fake diamonds on desktops during Yin Water Snake Year (2013-14). Add some fake Gold ingots, bars, Pyrites, a Horse-Shoe Magnet and 3-4 Chinese Coins (Yang-side up) linked by a red thread. Some Quartz and a 'Chan Chu'/Three-Legged Toad would also be ideal!

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New Moon Feng Shui Rituals for Attracting Wealth, Happiness and Health

The New Moon in any given month is when the moon's energy becomes especially ying and it's the perfect time for many who follow Feng Shui when they know it's time to renew the Qi within themselves and within their homes.

The new moon is waxing into the full moon and therefore it is strengthening with each every passing day until the full moon arrives when the moon and its ying energy is at its strongest. There are other rituals to do on the full moon, but I will share those with you in another article.

With the start of the new moon, it is the perfect time to ensure you start any wealth building feng shui tricks you may already know, though I will list some of them here for your convenience. These are said to really help attract wealth luck and career luck, if done faithfully, and with the right intentions.

New Moon Feng Shui Rituals for Attracting Wealth, Happiness and Health

With a simple internet search, you can easily find when the next new moon will be. But for the next few months the dates are as follows: May 5th, June 3rd, and July 3rd for 2008. It is on these dates, when the new moon begins that you should do any and all of the following Feng Shui tasks.

renew fresh sea salt in your 'kitchen' wealth bowl. (this can be a dark blue mug placed in a dry area of your kitchen counter) refresh the sea salt in the little container or plastic wrapping in your wallet. refresh sea salt that you may have place into the corners of your home. give your plants (which signify wealth growth) a fresh misting of water, turn them around so their other sides can receive the wonderful sun and light. - This is also a good time to trim and remove any unhealthy leaves that may be on your plant. write with a red pen, a dollar sign on your right palm - place this on your left palm, if you are a lefty. It is said you should do this every morning from the start of the new moon until the full moon. This will help attract money luck and increase wealth opportunities to come your way. make sure you are not keeping your shoes lined up by your front door, as this is said to have your 'money and opportunity luck' symbolically walk out the door. Light incense, open your windows, turn on the lights, and walk around each of your rooms blessing each room and all occupants of your home/office for health, happiness and wealth. Do a quick decluttering of all your table tops, remove the piled junk mail, and remove any garbage from your home. Wash your crystals with sea salted water to cleanse them of any dust, and to refresh their chi energy. Also great is to allow them to soak up the sun, during this new moon day to re-energize their strength. Clean out any bad food from the fridge (bad stale food equals killing Qi), add fresh fruit to your dining room table bowl - which reflects and can also attract an increased bountiful family life. Refreshen any 'still water urns' with fresh water that you may use to calm noisy neighboring walls or near your entrance door.

As with each passing day and night as the moon grows with its energy into the full moon, you can be assured the Qi in your home can also grow. There are so many wonderful tasks one can do to keep and ensure growth in your home and life by following the various Feng Shui techniques. And so many do not require much time or money. But do following these simple techniques you will find your own self being renewed with refreshed Qi (chi) as well as the energy on your home, so that the best can be brought into your home and into your life.

With following these new moon Feng Shui techniques you will find new opportunities coming your way quite easily to help attract for wealth into your life, an increased happiness within and not only will you feel 'it', you will see the difference in your attitude within yourself and those among your family members. In turn, this refreshed Qi during the new moon phase can be a big boost in attracting more wealth, happiness and greater health to you and in your home.

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Bed Positions For Optimizing Feng Shui

We spend a third of our life sleeping. Not only is it a sizable chunk of time, but it is time spent unconscious. We are at our most vulnerable when we sleep, most susceptible to subtle influences that our waking minds might shrug off. Because of all these factors, feng shui places considerable importance on where a bed is positioned in the room, or more specifically, the direction the bed is pointing.

The "direction" of a bed can be confusing. What I mean when I say the direction of the bed is the direction an arrow would be pointing if you were lying in th bed and your head was the head of the arrow, and your feet were the tail of the arrow. There are two kinds of directions going on with bed placement -- the first is the direction the bed is pointing, and the other is which area of the room (North, South, East and West) the bed is actually in. Of the two, the pointing direction is much more important, but its influence can be enhanced or diminished by where the bed is in the room. There is actually a third direction which matters, though it matters less, and that is the entire room's placement in relation to the rest of the house. For this article, I am just going to focus on the direction of the bed.

Now that we're clear on that, here are the nine major directions and what each one means for bed placement.

Bed Positions For Optimizing Feng Shui

North

Good for spirituality and feelings of peace, this position can be very helpful for insomniacs and for older people who are light sleepers. The risk is that it will be too peaceful -- this position is also known as the death pose. Skip this position if your life feels boring.

North-East

Avoid the spiky, unstable energy of the North-East when sleeping. This direction is generally not good in feng shui, but exposing yourself to it while you are sleeping would be particularly bad. It could cause nightmares. The one time when it would be helpful is if you wanted to give yourself or some part of your life a kick in the behind -- a real spike of motivation. Just don't keep the bed facing North-East too long.

East

The best position for children, and for people who want to feel like their whole life is ahead of them. Sleep with your head facing East if you want to grow a lot, either in your career or by making your life much more active. Depressives as well as entrepreneurs should sleep in this direction.

South-East

People who collaborate and communicate for a living would do well to sleep in this direction. It will make those tasks easier for you, but also afford you some of the robust growth of the East position, but cool it down just a bit for steady, sustainable achievement. This position is also excellent for creative work.

South

A South-facing bed would be good for a hot weekend romantic retreat, but you don't want to live with your head in this direction while you sleep. It is too busy, too high energy. You may find yourself arguing with people from this position. Of course, sometimes you need extra confidence and the courage to stand up and argue. If so, try a week of South-facing sleep.

South-West

This is an excellent position for family harmony and solid, peaceful relationships. It is best for people who are established, because otherwise the energy of contentment from this direction may be too calming for building a new career or starting new projects.

West

Income and romance lie to the West. Its a good place to be. There's also a lot of contentment, which is helpful for sleep. But, like the South-West, the West energy may be too mellow for you if it is a time in your life when you need to "get up and go". This position is more for "lie back and take it easy".

North-West

This position of authority and wisdom is ideal for parents, older people, and people in powerful positions. The risk is misusing that authority. The North-West direction also pulls off the very calming Northern energy, so you will sleep more deeply pointed North-West than most other directions.

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What Is Feng Shui - A Science or Belief?

Over the years, I have put forth the view that Classical Feng Shui is a scientific practice. Now, I have espoused that view of Feng Shui all over the world, when I teach Feng Shui, BaZi and Mian Xiang at seminars. So I was very pleasantly surprised to find out that my comments had created a buzzing debate over the question of what creature Feng Shui is - is it scientific practice? Pseudo-science? Or purely belief? Hence, I thought I would address this issue in more depth and explore the scientific side of Classical Feng Shui.

You have to Believe in Feng Shui, so it's not science.

Wait a minute - you also have to believe in your doctor, before you go and see him or her. You also have to believe in your lawyer before you appoint him to defend you in a case. Does that mean that the entire body of medical science is not valid if you don't believe your doctor's diagnosis? Of course not.

What Is Feng Shui - A Science or Belief?

When people exhort that Feng Shui is not a science or not scientific, the problem is, people may not understand what science is to begin with. The word 'science' comes from the Latin word scientia, which means knowledge. According to Wikipedia, science can be defined simply as "any systematic field of study or the knowledge gained from it". So, how does Feng Shui measure up against this definition?

There is no doubt that Classical Feng Shui is a systematic field of study: by systematic I mean it has basic models, basic principles, empirical evidence and most importantly, documented observation. It is not made up. It is not this today, that tomorrow. It is not without logical explanation.

How do scientists arrive at scientific conclusions? They conduct experiments, observe the outcomes, repeat those experiments if necessary to ensure a consistent outcome and then document their observations. Feng Shui has basic models and principles: the Five Elements, Yin and Yang, the He Tu, the Lo Shu, the principle of Cosmic Trinity are examples of principles at the core of Feng Shui and many Chinese Metaphysical practices. What about empirical evidence? This has been accumulating since the Tang Dynasty! Ancient classics contain not only descriptions of landform and the principles of Qi, but drawings of mountains and water.

New books and new theories on Feng Shui, adjusted to the modern world that we live in, are constantly published and written in Hong Kong and Taiwan. The study, and the body of knowledge, is constantly growing, not unlike scientific practices like medicine and engineering.

In any science, a critical component is observation. Feng Shui is a component of Physiognomy, which is one of the Chinese Five Arts. It is known as a science of observation of the environment. Many of the principles in Feng Shui are the result of observation by practitioners since the Tang Dynasty, which are then documented into classics like Qing Nang Jing (Green Satchel), Ru Di Yan (Entering Earth Eye) and Zi Bai Jue (Purple White Verse). Some of the classics that form the basis of Feng Shui study are not original classics that propound new ideas, but weed out the observations that did not pan out and the ones that did. Feng Shui until the early 1900s was exclusively for Imperial use only. So the research was often carried out from one generation to another, without breakage or pause. This enabled observation of what worked and what didn't, over the span of several hundred years.

Today, whilst not all Feng Shui masters can claim affiliation to lineages, those that do, document their cases extensively and thoroughly, so that the body of knowledge collected during their lifetime, can be passed on to the next generation of the lineage, so that they may continue to observe the outcomes, and grow the body of knowledge.

Science is not just physics, chemistry and biology. That is an extremely narrow minded perception of science. Science encompasses amongst other things, social sciences like anthropology and sociology, earth sciences like geography (traditionally perceived as an 'arts' subject in Malaysia) and applied sciences such as engineering, computer science and psychology.

You can't touch it, you can't see it, how do you measure it?

Many people also point out that it is hard to accept Feng Shui as a science because it is not possible to measure Qi. Again, that is a flawed perception.

Before Michael Faraday (1831-79), electricity and magnetic forces couldn't be measured. Does that mean that until Faraday's time, electricity and magnetic forces did not exist? Electron microscopes helped pioneer the field of virology or the study of viruses. But does that mean before that, viruses did not exist? Quasars and blackholes cannot yet be actually measured but no one disbelieves Stephen Hawking when he talks about the wormholes in the universe, even if no one has actually seen one to know how it works, except on Star Trek.

Can you measure blood pressure with a stethoscope? Of course not. We tend to assume that all things in our world and universe are measurable by rulers, test tubes and electronic devices that we read about or have heard about. But if that were the case, then there would be no need to design special tools for measurement or observation in new fields like space exploration or quantum mechanics. Until the Hubble telescope, man studied the stars and the universe through observation only. We had to build the Hubble. Just like to explore space, we had to build the rocket.

So, when we talk about measuring Qi, we must ask: what is the device for this particular type of practice? Are we not able to measure it because we are not using the right device?

The Chinese already had devices to measure Qi. The Solar and Lunar calendar, the Luo Pan and observation skills - using one's eyes to study the environment. Of course, nowadays, some of us use Google Earth. And you can buy an electronic Luo Pan. And plotting Flying Star or Da Gua calculations (a method for quantifying and identifying types of Qi) can be done electronically with a computer these days, or even a Palm program. So who says that Qi is not measurable? It is simply that Qi is not measurable through the devices or means in which people assume are used to measure everything in this universe, from gases to insects. You don't use a stethoscope to measure blood pressure after all, right?

Art in every science

The other debate over Feng Shui is whether it is an art or a science. Let me throw out a potentially bold suggestion: In every science, there is art. I think if you ask a doctor or a dentist, they will most certainly tell you that there is an art, to the science that they practice. This art is judgment. It is subtle elements that come with experience and application of knowledge in different cases. Even in the purest science, the Queen of Science, Mathematics, there is beauty and aesthetics!

Science only affords us the pure application. Art is what enables a person trained in a scientific practice to make a decision as to which technique to apply, and in what instances a technique can or cannot be used. This is true in Classical Feng Shui as well. There are universal principles in Feng Shui, and formulas. This is the science. But choosing the right instance to apply the interpretation, or qualifying the instances when a formula can be used, this is the art behind the science. Similarly, environmental formations, mountains and water, are unique in each environment. So while they will conform to certain basic rules (for example, mountains always stop at water) and fall within a clutch of more sophisticated rules, how the Qi is best tapped and utilised, based on the structure (house, office building, resort) is the art.

It makes sense if you consider this all within the Yin and Yang context that is a bedrock principle of Feng Shui and all Chinese Metaphysics. Yin and Yang symbolises balance, perfection. Within science, that which is grounded in strict principle, there is room for interpretation, or artistic application. Yin and Yang.

Thinking Metaphysical

Metaphysics today is sometimes associated with kook practices like the occult but this ignores the very venerable history of metaphysics in the Western world. Aristotle was one of the famous thinkers associated with Metaphysics, as was Rene Descartes and Albert Einstein. Western metaphysics is quite a brain cracker and I don't profess to be an expert in Western metaphysics. But a cursory search on the Internet will reveal that metaphysicians are interested in questions of existence (why are we here?), the study of Gods or the divine, along with understanding causality (why things happen), relationships and the universe. It combines reasoning and logic, with philosophical ideas.

Classical Feng Shui and the Chinese Five Arts were always recognised as metaphysical subjects by the Chinese - in other words, scientific practices with philosophical existential issues to it. Metaphysics is a more accurate means to describe Feng Shui, BaZi and Mian Xiang (although this doesn't detract from its scientific nature) because these scientific practices originated out of a desire by the Chinese to understand issues of destiny, the universe, fate, existence and identity, which are essentially metaphysical or philosophical issues. Feng Shui, BaZi and Mian Xiang have philosophical connotations to their scientific findings because they essentially are sciences in which to understand a person's life.

Now, I'm a Feng Shui practitioner and trainer. I'm not a philosopher and I'm certainly not an expert on metaphysics or sciences. My goal in this article has been to give you an inkling of how I have arrived at my conclusion of Feng Shui as a scientific practice. I do not expect people to immediately be convinced of my viewpoint but I believe that getting to the truth is never about what one person thinks, but about opening our minds to possibilities before we arrive at conclusions. Stimulating debate, opening the door to discussion and putting out alternative perspectives is part of the way in which new ideas can be accepted.

For the longest time, people believed Feng Shui was about superstition, cultural beliefs (symbols and trinkets) or religion. Less and less people think that today. Just like thousands of years ago, people thought the world was flat. People may not be convinced that Feng Shui is a science or scientific practice, but if they open their mind to the possibility, just like Galileo opened minds to the possibility that the earth was round, I have done my job!

What Is Feng Shui - A Science or Belief?
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