There are three forms of electronic smog made up of electrical fields. These fields are also often talked about with their abbrevation EMF.  

Household wiring that, even when no electricity is consumed in the house, still emits a radiation into the building and beyond creates the first.
 

The second is created by electrical appliances like televisions, toasters, kettles and others that all emit a magnetic field up to five feet from them when switched on. Be aware that these appliances continue to emit when they are in stand-by modus. Also things like the new light bulbs continuously emit radiation which actually means that even though they are saving electricity they are actually causing a much higher concern in regards to health. The closer and longer a person is next to something electrical raises the dose taken into the body. A radio clock and electric blanket are two such items found in many households are causing bad sleep, headaches and loss of physical energy.

The third part of the smog is the radio frequency fields emitted by microwave ovens, television and radio transmitters, mobile telephone masts and even a mobile telephone held close to the head. A new addition to this is all wireless communication devices, like your wireless internet at home.
 

Scientists studying the rise in cancers have concluded to date that the smog that most of the population throughout the world are exposed to causes 30 per cent of all cancers and are possibly responsible for one in ten of all miscarriages.
 

Doctors are becoming aware that new causes of depression and even allergies to electricity are increasing rapidly causing people to make complete life changes in order to escape the electrical fields.

Things are so bad that the World Health Organisation (WHO) have estimated that three in every 100 people in the world now suffer from an allergy to electricity.
 

On a positive note there are some remedies you can take: Eliminate all electronical equipment in your bedroom, this includes an alarm clock that requires to be plugged-in, use a battery one instead. Also take out your TV. Don’t use energy saving light bulbs. They came with a special technology that when switched on emits a big spark of electronic smog.
 

Also avoid technical equipments with starters like the energy-saving bulbs mentioned above, fluorescent lighting or with separate power adapters. These emit electronical charges not only when switched on but continuously. A good idea is to use sockets with separate switch-on buttons.
 

Not only will you save energy as most technical equipment now-a-days don’t switch off completely but instead remain in standby-modus, it also reduces the electronic smog in your house and flat.
 

Another more traditional remedy are salt lamps and quartz stones which are believed to take out part of the emission in the room.

This article has been written with the kind guidance of a blog post published by The Green Ghost.

In traditional Chinese culture, qì (also chi or ch'i) is an active principle forming part of any living thing. Qi is frequently translated as life energy, lifeforce, or energy flow. Qi is the central underlying principle in traditional Chinese medicine and martial arts. The literal translation of "qi" is breath, air or gas.
 

Concepts similar to qi can be found in many cultures, for example, Prana in Vedantic philosophy, mana in Hawaiian culture, Lüng in Tibetan Buddhism, and Vital energy or pneuma in Western philosophy. Some elements of qi can be understood in the term energy when used by writers and practitioners of various esoteric forms of spirituality and alternative medicine. Elements of the qi concept can also be found in popular culture, for example The Force in Star Wars. Notions in the west of energeia, élan vital, or vitalism are purported to be similar.

So, what exactly is Qi?
 

Etymology

The etymological explanation for the form of the qi logogram in the traditional form 氣 is “steam (气) rising from rice (米) as it cooks”. The earliest way of writing qi consisted of three wavy lines, used to represent one's breath seen on a cold day. A later version, 气, identical to the present-day simplified character, is a stylized version of those same three lines. For some reason, early writers of Chinese found it desirable to substitute for 气 a cognate character that originally meant to feed other people in a social context such as providing food for guests. 

Appropriately, that character combined the three-line qi character with the character for rice. So 气 plus 米 formed 氣, and that is the traditional character still used today.

Definition

References to concepts analogous to the qi taken to be the life-process or flow of energy that sustains living beings are found in many belief systems, especially in Asia. Philosophical conceptions of qi from the earliest records of Chinese philosophy (5th century BC) correspond to Western notions of humours and the ancient Hindu yogic concept of prana, meaning "life force" in Sanskrit. The earliest description of "force" in the current sense of vital energy is found in the Vedas of ancient India (circa 1500-1000BC), and from the writings of the Chinese philosopher Mencius (4th century BC). Historically, it is the Huangdi Neijing translated as, The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Medicine (circa 2nd century BC) that is credited with first establishing the pathways through which qi circulates in the human body (see also details on Traditional Chinese Medcine (TCM) on this website).

 

Within the framework of Chinese thought, no notion may attain such a degree of abstraction from empirical data as to correspond perfectly to one of our modern universal concepts. Nevertheless, the term qi comes as close as possible to constituting a generic designation equivalent to our word "energy". When Chinese thinkers are unwilling or unable to fix the quality of an energetic phenomenon, the character qi (氣) inevitably flows from their brushes. 
—Manfred Porkert

 

The ancient Chinese described it as "life-force". They believed qi permeated everything and linked their surroundings together. They likened it to the flow of energy around and through the body, forming a cohesive and functioning unit. By understanding its rhythm and flow they believed they could guide exercises and treatments to provide stability and longevity.

Although the concept of qi has been important within many Chinese philosophies, over the centuries the descriptions of qi have varied and have sometimes been in conflict. Until China came into contact with Western scientific and philosophical ideas, they had not categorized all things in terms of matter and energy. Qi and li (理, li, pattern) were 'fundamental' categories similar to matter and energy.

Fairly early on, some Chinese thinkers began to believe that there were different fractions of qi and that the coarsest and heaviest fractions of qi formed solids, lighter fractions formed liquids, and the most ethereal fractions were the "lifebreath" that animates living beings.
 

Yuán qì is a notion of innate or pre-natal qi to distinguish it from acquired qi that a person may develop over the course of their lifetime.

 

Philosophical roots

The [morally] noble man guards himself against three things. When he is young, his xue-qi has not yet stabilized, so he guards himself against sexual passion. When he reaches his prime, his xue-qi is not easily subdued, so he guards himself against combativeness. When he reaches old age, his xue-qi is already depleted, so he guards himself against acquisitiveness.
—Confucius, Analects, 16:7
 

Not only human beings and animals were believed to have qi. Zhuangzi indicated that wind is the qi of the Earth. Moreover, cosmic yin and yang "are the greatest of qi." He described qi as "issuing forth" and creating profound effects. He said "Human beings are born [because of] the accumulation of qi. When it accumulates there is life. When it dissipates there is death... There is one qi that connects and pervades everything in the world."

Mencius described a kind of qi that might be characterized as an individual's vital energies. This qi was necessary to activity, and it could be controlled by a well-integrated willpower. When properly nurtured, this qi was said to be capable of extending beyond the human body to reach throughout the universe. It could also be augmented by means of careful exercise of one's moral capacities. On the other hand, the qi of an individual could be degraded by averse external forces that succeed in operating on that individual.
 

Another passage traces life to intercourse between Heaven and Earth: "The highest Yin is the most restrained. The highest Yang is the most exuberant. The restrained comes forth from Heaven. The exuberant issues forth from Earth. The two intertwine and penetrate forming a harmony, and [as a result] things are born."
 

"The Guanzi essay 'Neiye' 內業 (Inward training) is the oldest received writing on the subject of the cultivation of vapor [qi] and meditation techniques. The essay was probably composed at the Jixia Academy in Qi in the late fourth century B.C.
 

Xun Zi, another Confucian scholar of the Jixia Academy, followed in later years. At 9:69/127, Xun Zi says, "Fire and water have qi but do not have life. Grasses and trees have life but do not have perceptivity. Fowl and beasts have perceptivity but do not have yi (sense of right and wrong, duty, justice). Men have qi, life, perceptivity, and yi." Chinese people at such an early time had no concept of radiant energy, but they were aware that one can be heated by a campfire from a distance away from the fire. They accounted for this phenomenon by claiming "qi" radiated from fire. At 18:62/122, he too uses "qi" to refer to the vital forces of the body that decline with advanced age.
 

Among the animals, the gibbon and the crane were considered experts in inhaling the qi. The Confucian scholar Dong Zhongshu (ca. 150 BC) wrote in Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals: "The gibbon resembles a macaque, but he is larger, and his color is black. His forearms being long, he lives eight hundred years, because he is expert in controlling his breathing." ("猿似猴。大而黑。長前臂。所以壽八百。好引氣也。")
 

Later, the syncretic text assembled under the direction of Liu An, the Huai Nan Zi, or "Masters of Huainan", has a passage that presages most of what is given greater detail by the Neo-Confucians:

Heaven (seen here as the ultimate source of all being) falls (duo 墮, i.e., descends into proto-immanence) as the formless. Fleeting, fluttering, penetrating, amorphous it is, and so it is called the Supreme Luminary. The dao begins in the Void Brightening. The Void Brightening produces the universe (yu-zhou ). The universe produces qi. Qi has bounds. The clear, yang [qi] was ethereal and so formed heaven. The heavy, turbid [qi] was congealed and impeded and so formed earth. The conjunction of the clear, yang [qi] was fluid and easy. The conjunction of the heavy, turbid [qi] was strained and difficult. So heaven was formed first and earth was made fast later. The pervading essence (xi-jing) of heaven and earth becomes yin and yang. The concentrated (zhuan) essences of yin and yang become the four seasons. The dispersed (san) essences of the four seasons become the myriad creatures. The hot qi of yang in accumulating produces fire. The essence (jing) of the fire-qi becomes the sun. The cold qi of yin in accumulating produces water. The essence of the water-qi becomes the moon. The essences produced by coitus (yin) of the sun and moon become the stars and celestial markpoints (chen, planets).

—Huai-nan-zi, 3:1a/19

Qi and Feng shui

The traditional Chinese art of geomancy, the placement and arrangement of space called feng shui, is based on calculating the balance of qi, interactions between the five elements, yin and yang and other factors. The retention or dissipation of qi is believed to affect the health, wealth, energy level, luck and many other aspects of the occupants of the space. Attributes of each item in a space affect the flow of qi by slowing it down, redirecting it or accelerating it, which is said to influence the energy level of the occupants.
 

One use for a Luopan is to detect the flow of qi. The quality of qi may rise and fall over time, feng shui with a compass might be considered a form of divination that assesses the quality of the local environment.

 

•     Luan Dou Pai (environmental analysis without using a compass)
•     Xing Xiang Pai (Imaging forms)
•     Xingfa Pai

•     Dragon Gate Eight Formation
•     Xuan Kong (time and space methods)
•     Xuan Kong Fei Xing (Flying Stars methods of time and directions)
•     Xuan Kong Da Gua ("Secret Decree" or 64 gua relationships)

•     Accessing Dragon Methods
•     Ba Zhai (Eight Mansions)
•     Water Methods
•     Local Embrace

•     Four Pillars of Destiny (a form of hemerology)
•     Eight Characters (the date and time of birth)
•     Major & Minor Wandering Stars (Constellations)
•     Five phases (relationship of the five phases or wuxing)
•     BTB Black (Hat) Tantric Buddhist Sect (Westernised or Modern method not based on Classical teachings)

•     Luan Dou Pai (environmental analysis without using a compass)
•     Xing Xiang Pai (Imaging forms)
•     Xingfa Pai

•     Dragon Gate Eight Formation
•     Xuan Kong (time and space methods)
•     Xuan Kong Fei Xing (Flying Stars methods of time and directions)
•     Xuan Kong Da Gua ("Secret Decree" or 64 gua relationships)

•     Accessing Dragon Methods
•     Ba Zhai (Eight Mansions)
•     Water Methods
•     Local Embrace

•     Four Pillars of Destiny (a form of hemerology)
•     Eight Characters (the date and time of birth)
•     Major & Minor Wandering Stars (Constellations)
•     Five phases (relationship of the five phases or wuxing)
•     BTB Black (Hat) Tantric Buddhist Sect (Westernised or Modern method not based on Classical teachings)

About Feng Shui

Feng Shui is a Chinese system of geomancy or simply "earth-wisdom" which uses the laws of both Heaven and Earth to help one improve life by receiving positive energy (qi | chi). The original designation for the discipline is Kan Yu.

Feng Shui, which literally means "wind" (Feng" and "water" (Shui), originates in China almost 6,000 years ago. It is an ancient method of constructing and optimizing residences and its surroundings to bring happiness, abundance and harmony into ones life. It includes architecture, urban planning, interior design, garden design, burial grounds and placement of objects in our environment. To harmonize the surrounding energy Feng Shui uses layout, framework, materials and colors of building and environmental structures. With this an ideal situation harmonizing the immediate environment can be created.

History of Feng Shui

The Lo Shu Turtle has been said to bring eight different types of heavenly blessings, and especially “wealth luck”. When it is depicted with a baby (right), it is said to be especially powerful. The image on the left is taken from Feng Shui Best Buy..

Already early in time, the people in China discovered the need of being protected from the influence of nature. Especially the climate, which in China has its axis from North to South was an important factor. Chinese buildings did not use glass windows or similar and where hence looking for ways to be protected from the cold winds. Through observation of nature, they found out, that the best place for a house is with a mountain range behind it, higher hills to the Eastern side, less high hills on the western side and an open view, ideally with some water like a river or lake, infront. This brought them the needed warmth from the sun light while being protected the cold northern winds. To explain these findings to illiterate people, the Chinese found a way of explaining a certain landscape by assigning it to the four animals (si ling). Today, the four animals are an integrated part of the Feng Shui Form school. The art of Feng Shui was refined over many centuries, producing an abundance of learned scholars.

Traditionally, Feng Shui was considered a highly guarded secret of the Chinese Imperial Court. All Feng Shui Masters were forbidden to release their potentially powerful knowledge to outsiders. Consequently, knowledge was handed down from father to son within family traditions. A few masters however ignored the laws and went out to help the poor who would not be able to afford the fee for a feng shui consultancy.

Magic Squares and Turtles

Chinese literature dating from as early as 2800 BC tells the legend of The “Lo Shu Magic Square” or “scroll of the river Lo”. 

More than 4.000 years go, Dayu (Great Yu), the founder of the Xia Dynasty (2100-1600 BCE) saw a turtle emerging from the Luo River and discovered the - what today is called - magic square on the turtles back. Today this pattern is still called "Luoshu" or alternatively "Guishu" (turtle pattern).

Dayu with his great knowledge on the universe, studied this pattern and gained a great understanding through it. Amongst others he developed a large system of waterways to prevent further flooding.  The magic of the circle is its arrangements of dots, that when summed up always comes to: 15 (row, column and diagonally).

The number 15 equals the numer of days in each 24 cycle of the Chinese solar year. The legend of the Lo Shu Turtle is told in The Book of Rites, one of the five classical texts of ancient China.

Fu Xi - from Turtles to Trigrams

Fu Xi was the first of three noble emperors, the San-huang, in Chinese mythology. According to tradition he ruled from 2952 to 2836 B.C. (116 years). The Chinese attribute many inventions to the legendary emperor Fu Xi, like the use of fishing nets, the breeding of silk worms and the taming of wild animals. He apparently also invented music, however something he is most known for is the invention of the Eight Trigrams (Bagua) which is one of the tools used in Feng Shui, but also many other other ancient Chinese arts. Another important invention is the divination technique of casting oracles by the use of yarrow stalks.
 

Fu Xi is said to have invented the one hundred Chinese family names and decreed that marriages may only take place between persons bearing different family names.

“In the beginning there was the one.” [Lao Zi (Lao Tse) the father of Taoism

Coming back to the invention of the Eight Trigrams (Bagua) which represent the qualities of Heeaven,  Earth, Thunder, Mountain, Water, Fire, Lake/Marsh and Wind.  They symbolize the quality of change within the world.  The trigrams are depicted in yin (broken) and yang (solid lines). They are hexagrams which means they consist of 6 lines. The change is indicated by only one different line between the trigrams. By knowing the essence of each change the user can not only find out more about him and his surroundings but can also predict what might happen next. 

... China's oldest philosophical text: The I Ching

The I Ching (or Yi-Jing)

The Book of Change, or Yi Jing (known in the West as I Ching), is China's oldest philosophical text. Its origins are lost in the mists of time, but scholars believe the first compilation was done early in the Zhou Dynasty (1022 BC to 256 BC). The latest findings actually present a date right at the beginning of the Zhou dynasty. Based on a divination system using the eight trigrams (groups of solid and broken lines), permutations of 64 pairs of hexagrams were worked out.  The story is that these hexagrams were already in existence before the invention of the Chinese writing system.

The hexagrams themselves are already full of symbolism and meaning, each trigram (one hexagram consists of 2 trigrams) has in itself already three meanings: one for heaven, one for earth and one for the human being. 

In addition over time commentaries were added to the Yijing, it is important to point out that these are tools to help us understand the hexagrams but the main meaning is the hexagram itself.

"Lü / Treading [Conduct]
Above CH’IEN THE CREATIVE, HEAVEN
Below TUI THE JOYOUS, LAKETREADING.
Treading upon the tail of the tiger. It does not bite the man. Success.”

The Book of Change charts the movements and developments (hence, ‘change’) of all the phenomena in the universe. Many regard it as a complete system of philosophy in itself. Emperors, statesmen and generals throughout Chinese history consulted it. Revered by Confucius, the Book of Change was included in the five classic texts of Confucianism. It was one of the few books spared when Emperor Qin Shi Huang (259-210 B.C.) ordered the burning of previous dynasties’ works. The Illustrated Book of Changes is a venerable classic made available to modern readers in Chinese and English. The 64 hexagrams and their traditional commentaries are explained with illustrations, and the Chinese text has been written by leading calligraphers.

These five classic texts have spawned not only Feng Shui, but Tai Chi, Chi-Gong, Acupuncture, and other philosophies and sciences. The I Ching is one of the primary sources for the calculations of Feng Shui. If you look at a Chinese Luo Pan Compass, you will recognize the trigrams.  The I Ching is always a tool for divination and is used in Chinese astrology.

For extensive background and detailed description of the I Ching, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching

 

About 1,600 years ago, the Chinese had already determined that there were invisible forces at work beneath the earth.

 

The Chinese Compass (Luo Pan)

Already more than 1.600 years ago, the Chinese knew that there were invisible forces beneath the earth. These were later confirmed as magnetic forces. The Chinese divided these forces into positive (yang) and negative (yin) and developed a first compass for it. This compass traced the true magnectic forces. As a needle a spoon was placed in the middle.

Over time, this compass was further developed and the Luo Pan was born.
  

The original magnetic compass used for navigation was constructed in the 7th or 8th century with the needle floating in water. The true North-South meridian was first set down by Chiu Yun Han (c. 713 - 741 A. D.) and known as the Cheng Chen.

This was used until roughly 880, when readings were so far off the mark that an immediate correction was required. In the eight or ninth century it was further refined with the discovery of magnetic declination. Yang Yun Sang added specialized compass points to compensate for the variation.

The Feng Chen or “seam needle” fixed the Cheng Chen’s variations.The compass was again adjusted in the 1100s when Lai Wen-Chun came up with the Chung Chen (the central needle). Chinese people used compasses for centuries prior to even the most rudimentary ones on European ships. As late as the seventeenth century, all Western compasses still pointed south just like the ancient south-pointing spoons they were built to imitate.
 

In Feng Shui, the luopan is an image of the cosmos (a world model) based on tortoise plastrons used in divination. At its most basic level it serves as a means to assign proper positions in time and space, like the Ming Tang (Hall of Light). The markings are similar to those on a liubo board.

The oldest precursors of the luopan are the shi (Chinese for astrolabe or diviner's board) also called liuren astrolabes unearthed from tombs that date between 278 BCE and 209 BCE. These astrolabes consist of a lacquered, two-sided board with astronomical sightlines. Along with divination for Da Liu Ren the boards were commonly used to chart the motion of Taiyi through the nine palaces. The markings are virtually unchanged from the shi to the first magnetic compasses.

During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1969), the old ways came under scrutiny and many ancient traditions were forbidden and destroyed. While traditional medicine received some official sanction from the government, Feng Shui did not. It was eventually outlawed. Ironically, since many Chinese leaders owed their rise to power to Feng Shui, they purposely kept Feng Shui texts hidden from the masses. Today, what little Feng Shui survives in China is under strict control of the Communist government.  Some of the ancient Feng Shui knowledge has survived by people moving to Taiwan or Hong Kong. Feng Shui is still strong and used daily in both these territories.

Yin and Yang
 

The Chinese believe that there are energy forces (Chi) in the body as well as the universe. They believe that out of the one (wuji) comes Taiji (the potential) which gives birth to yin and yang. Out of yin and yang comes the bagua and out of the bagua comes the 10,000 things - basically everything we see and experience and much more. The Chinese also believe that these forces need to be balanced to bring harmony to life, nature and the universe. This principle is applied in all ancient chinese arts and wisdom traditions, like chinese medicine, taoism, tai chi and qigong, music and much more. 

 

Feng Shui is the art of detecting the Chi in a room, building, or site, and regulating it for best results.

 

Feng Shui is the art of detecting the Chi in a room, building, or site, and regulating it for best results. The benefits of Feng Shui were once restricted only to the rich and powerful in China, but are now becoming widely available.

Simply put, Feng Shui harmonizes your surroundings with your own needs. It’s largely based common sense and it's not much to do with luck or superstition.

For example, it just feels better to have your back to a wall and see the door in your office. To have your back to the door, you tend to feel anxious that someone will sneak up on you. This makes you less productive. It is based on the human need of protection. In a working environment it also helps you to keep in touch with the bigger picture.

This is also why in a restaurant, everyone prefer to take the seat against the wall, looking out, with a view of the widest expanse of the room. They instinctually feel more able to protect their partners in this position. You are also safe from attack.

Feng Shui intuition runs very deep, and we all feel it. Knowing how to manipulate it is another matter. It is about taking care of a myriad of rules and details like this, in your home or office, which all add up. The overall effect can be improved dramatically by using these rules to adjust your furniture, objects, colors and materials. Once you find out about Feng Shui, you will never see the world the same way again.
 

Source: Feng Shui Harmony, Feng Shui Style (US), Wikipedia

TCM - Traditional Chinese Medicine

What is Chinese medicine?

Taoism is the indigenous belief system of China with a unbroken history of over 4.000 years. Taoists fulfilled roles similar to that of today's scientists, philosophers, doctors and priests today. A lot of the ancient Chinese thought has been influenced and developed by Taoism and for example found its way into medicine, feng shui and body practices like Qi Gong and Tai Chi.

Chinese medicine is at its core based on knowledge gained through meditiation and observation. Combining this with anatomical knowledge and philosophical concepts evolved into a comprehensive medical system today now known as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).

TCM includes herbal medicine, dietetics, acupuncture, massage, qi gong and meditation all which has been refined through millennia of clinical usage.

The theory behind Chinese medicines is that a living human body is imbued with energy (qi) which is fundamental for its healthy functioning.

The ease with which this circulates directly correlates to your sense of being fully alive. Illness and disease are considered to arise or remain because this circulation is impeded in some way. Thus Chinese medicine aims to help release these blockages in the tissues, energy flow, and mind that can cause daily life to become a burden rather than a pleasure.

One way to view the channel system of acupuncture is to compare it with the way rivers, streams, reservoirs and underground springs function in nature, which then become a metaphor for the functions and transportation of the vital substances (qi [chi], blood, essence, body fluids) throughout the body. 

Feng Shui places the same importance on unimpeded energy flows - only the focus is in the environment rather than in the body.

The goal of the Chinese Medical practitiioner and the feng shui consultant is to arrive at solutions to balance and harmonise a person’s “temples” i.e. their body and home; by adjusting the quality and quantity of Qi, yin/yang and the five elements to ensure a person is able to reach and maintain a complete state of full vigour and purpose enabling them to thrive in the areas of their lives that are important to them. 

So what we can learn from Chinese Medicine and for example the field of acupuncture is a great enhancement to the understanding of energy flows analyzed and harmonized in Feng Shui.

In our section "The Basics" you will find more details on subjects like:

• Qi (Chi)
• Five Phases (5 Elements)

as well as other basic concepts helpful in understanding Feng Shui.

 

What is the cost of a Feng Shui consultation?

Each customer's needs are unique. This is not just to do with the size of the property in question.  Before we can give you an estimate, we would meet up for non-binding, free 30-minute preliminary talk and briefing.

For this briefing, we require the following details:

- floor plan / layout of the property in question
- birthdates including hour and place of birth of all individuals part of the consultancy.

By knowing your individual needs and requirements, we are able to present anonymised showcases. This way you are able to gain an overview of what kind of presentation and recommendation to expect from the consultation.

We then talk about your budget and how detailed you would like to receive advice and recommendations. Based on these details, we are able to hand-over an estimate of costs involved.

Here are a few examples of possible scenarios:

The consultation process

After the initial brief and placing your order, we will discuss the timing. Important are on-site visits before we can start the analysis. This will be followed by a thorough written report and presentation of the concept.

As soon as this has been finished (usually within a working week), we will meet on-site and discuss the full Feng Shui Analysis while inspecting each room on the property.

What is part of the consultation and what is not

We are looking at rooms and their structure and how to use the energies in these to enhance the surroundings.

The documentation that you will receive, you will be taken step-by-step through each room explaining the Feng Shui analysis and its recommendations. You will receive a clear and precise illustration of recommended measures including colour recommendations, lighting enhancements, furniture arrangements and much much.

It is very important to us to ensure that you understand the underlying principle applied to enable you to work on independent and individual solutions. This way you can choose your own details to enhance your living space. Naturally we are including recommendations however we are not raising no claim to completeness.

For us it is important that you have a better relationship to your living space and that you are able to work with your living surroundings in a more conscious way, enabling you to enhance it further through own ideas and solutions.
 

For exmple when planning a new home, this could include:

• Where should the view axis be?
• How would you place your driveway?
• How should the main building be constructed?
• Which colours and materials make sense?
• What about the neighboorhood and the pre-dominant building structures used?
• What kind of floor plan makes sense?
• Where should the bedroom, living room, kitchen and bathroom be placed?

If you are looking at a condo, apartment or flat, this could include:

• Which rooms make sense for what task? (e.g. office, children's room)
• How can the rooms functions be improved without major restructuring?
• How can individual rooms be divided into different functional areas?
• How could furnitures look like and how would they be arranged?
• Are there certain colours or stylistic devices for individual rooms?
• How and where could the lighting be arranged?

You will receive an "energy manual" for your rooms. This way you are able to make smaller adjustments in the future by yourself. If the recommendations include greater effort, we will supply a multi-step action plan for your overall design-concept, sorted by priorities. 

In addition to a house, apartment, office or condo feng shui consultation, we also offer gardening and landscape design: 

Garden- and Landscape design:

• How can the garden best integrated into the overall estate?
• What kind of design and composition possibilities exist for both your front and rear garden?
• What kind of colours, plants and materials fit your garden?
• How can a pond or river flow be integrated?
• What kind of visual axis can be created? 
• What kind of decoration is suitable?

Are you interested? We sincerly hope so, please contact us to discuss your personal Feng Shui consultation:

Many books on Feng Shui touch the subject either very simplified or sometimes even contradictory. You will find many book recommendations both for German and English books in the Feng Shui Shop (see link above). In this section however I would like to highlight a few of those books that should be part of any Feng Shui library.

English Feng Shui book recommendations: 
 

Elizabeth Moran 
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Feng Shui

Through this book you are able to gain a good overview on the various methods applied in Feng Shui. It is featuring a variety of traditional methods based on the ancient knowledge. It is great first step to learn more about authentic feng shui and its applications.

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Reviewed by Feng Shui For Modern Living Magazine as "an American masterpiece that tops the lot," it is now considered the feng shui bible by classical practitioners, teachers, and students of feng shui. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Feng Shui, Third Edition will continue the first edition's success with the following two major additions.The revision includes coverage of the next level of a method of classical feng shui called Flying Stars. And second, for those readers interested only in arranging one's furniture to allow qi to meander in a productive pattern, this section is expanded. More photographs and floorplans are included.

Stephen Skinner:
Guide to the Feng Shui Compass: A Compendium of Classical Feng Shui

For anyone who is particularly interested in the so called compass school feng shui this book is a must-have.

Description
This title shows you how to read the "San He" and "San Yuan lo p'an", with an explanation of each ring in detail, the history and background of feng shui and the lo p'an (luo pan). This book is packed with detailed information which is very clearly explained, so that after reading it anyone should be comfortable using even the most complex lo p'an. The book is the result of 30 years of research and practice. Over 50 rings are illustrated, tabulated, and classified by Plate and School, with their use and history. Anyone reading the book can go from being a complete novice to complete familiarity with any lo p'an, ancient or modern that they may pick up. It clearly explains for the first time in English how feng shui developed and the relationship between the San He and San Yuan Schools. There are over 65 tables, 174+ illustrations, and 32 full colour plates. These include rare pictures and analyses of Ming and Ch'ing dynasty lo p'ans. Every technical term, book title, or person's name, is carefully footnoted in traditional Chinese characters with supporting pinyin and Wade-Giles transliterations. There is a also a detailed feng shui history time-line. 

David Twicken 
Flying Star Feng Shui Made Easy

The subject of Flying Star Feng Shui is rarely touched on in Feng Shui literature and only very few books are available. This one is a well-written one and is very recommended on this topic.
 

Description
Flying Star Feng Shui is one of the most popular and powerful forms of Feng Shui practiced throughout Asia. Flying Star Feng Shui Made Easy includes beginning and advanced methods designed specifically to assist in creating healthier, happier and more prosperous living environments. Twicken details sophisticated instructions for practicing this ancient metaphysical art and science in modern living environments.Flying Star Feng Shui Made Easy includes: Yin-Yang, Five Elements, Eight Trigrams He Tu, Early and Later Heaven Ba Gua, Feng Shui Luo Pan Compass, Nine Stars, Grand Duke, Three Killings, Evil Lines, Annual Stars, Monthly Stars, Peach Blossom Romance, Sum to Ten Prosperity String of Pearls Prosperity, Parent String Prosperity, Ling Shen Prosperity, Zhao Shen Prosperity, He Tu Castle Gate Prosperity, Castle Gate Prosperity, Water and Mountain Fan Gua Prosperity, Five Ghosts Carry Money and Flying Star Charts. Flying Star Feng Shui Made Easy has some of the most powerful Feng Shui methods for prosperity, most never before published in the English language. The charts are user-friendly and designed for the next twenty years, 2004-2023.

German-speaking Feng Shui literature:
 

Manfred Kubny 
Feng Shui: Die Struktur der Welt

Wer etwas über die Geschichte des Feng Shui's und über die Wissenschaftliche Arbeit in dem Zusammenhang erfahren möchte, dem sei das Mammutwerk von Manfred Kubny "Feng Shui: Die Struktur der Welt" ans Herz gelegt.  

Kurzbeschreibung
Feng Shui ist im Westen zwar in aller Munde, aber die Informationen, die uns bisher aus China oder über den Umweg amerikanischer Feng-Shui-Experten erreichen, sind äußerst dünn. Die bisherige Vermittlung von Feng Shui in den Westen zielte auf eine leicht verständliche Anwendbarkeit von Methoden aus der chinesischen Geomantie. Der Sinologe Manfred Kubny legt nun erstmals ein Buch vor, in dem er anhand chinesischer Urtexte die Geschichte des Feng Shui und die der chinesischen Raumpsychologie zugrundeliegende Philosophie umfassend darstellt.

Richard Wilhelm:
I Ging. Das Buch der Wandlungen

Wer sich tiefer mit dem Feng Shui befasst, der wird mehr über die Chinesischen Philosophien wie z.B. der Daoistischen wissen wollen. Ein Klassiker der unweigerlich auftauchen wird, ist das I-Ging (auch "Yijing" oder "I Ching" geschrieben).

Kurzbeschreibung
Das I Ging ist das älteste Buch Chinas. Als Orakel befragt, gibt es vor, wie man in einer konkreten Situation handeln soll. Es sagt nicht eine fest determinierte Zukunft voraus, sondern zeigt dem Fragenden, bildhaft verschlüsselt, die Gegenwart und auch die Richtung, in die sie tendiert: eben den Wandel. In den 64 Hexagrammen baut sich eine geniale Weltformel auf: einerseits ein geschlossenes philosophisches System, andererseits ein Ansatz, die Welt intuitiv und poetisch zu erfassen. Die legendäre, sprachlich tiefe Übersetzung Richard Wilhelms, die sich seit Jahrzehnten bei den I-Ging-Benutzern als Standardtext durchgesetzt hat.