Feng Shui is for everyone. It is about how you live, work, and play. Whether you are young or old, lead a simple or extravagant lifestyle, are a homemaker or professional, live in a big house or small apartment – or favor a traditional, contemporary, or eclectic style – the benefits you’ll reap from bringing feng shui into your life are huge and many. This ancient art of placement helps you to arrange your home, office, indoor and outdoor environments so that your life is harmonious and your dreams are realized to their fullest.
The Chinese characters for the words “feng shui” represent “wind” and “water.” They are symbols for creating a gentle flow of energy in your environment. In the same way that blood and oxygen must flow freely and purposefully in your body, so must energy and life force circulate throughout your daily environments. The rooms and spaces you inhabit influence your well being and your opportunities in life. Feng shui provides practical methods to strengthen the positive energy in your surroundings and to create beauty. It gives you techniques to transform your home into a sanctuary: a place where you feel happy, healthy, and motivated, where your aspirations become reality. Your daily stress can be greatly reduced when you minimize the chaos of the outside world by creating your own safe haven. When your surroundings nourish you, your energy increases and you feel most empowered to achieve your goals. By infusing your environment with vibrant energy and symbols of beauty, love, success and bounty, your space becomes a living, breathing manifestation of the life you want to live: a blueprint for your destiny.
Excerpt from Feng Shui Your Life
Jayme Barrett
