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While the whole concept of this may appear to be ‘hog wash' or ‘superstitious mumbo-jumbo', then you need to read this article and learn how to use an ancient art to improve the look and feel of your home, without breaking your budget.
Energy can take invisible forms. It works with the invisible energy in a home and can vary depending on the season. In the outdoors, energy flows freely, taking the road of least resistance. A building captures energy and traps it.
This energy resides in different parts of the home, effecting the feel and mood of the rooms. The principles of the spatial and temporal dimensions of a building have created a method called the Flying Stars System. This lets Feng Shui masters identify and evaluate the invisible energy in the home.
The flying star system breaks a home into a tic tac toe grid. This grid determines the rooms that have the strongest positive energy and those that have the negative energy.
Home decorators who take time to learn this type of decorating will find some startling facts. Despite the fact that the system uses ancient techniques, many of today's homes are built on a similar scale.
Most new homes have the master bedroom at the front corner of the home – as apposed to a room in the middle of the home, where negative energy is strongest. The center square is the living room. In many of today's home designs, the house is built around a center entrance way that leads into a living room.
Our kitchens are also placed in a back corner of the home. This may imply that while Americans are unconscious of the fact, they are instinctively following the energy patterns of their home.
How can this benefit the average person? Many people are suffering from diseases that have no origin. Even if moving from one bedroom to another will not heal a person, it may reduce stress and a negative impact.
Whether the flying star system tracks loose ions in the home, or energy that escapes from our many electrical appliances, is not understood. What is understood is that many people are finding relief from stress and pain by moving from one room to another in the home.
If a homeowner can get over the ancient Chinese classifications like ‘flow of prosperity', ‘promoting wealth', and references to the year that a building was constructed, it is possible to glean some practical benefits from the study of the flow of energy in a home.
In many cases, feng shui will help home owners create a home that balances with the surrounding landscape.
One thing we do understand, art has a dramatic impact on people's emotions and well-being. To view feng-shui as the science of turning a home and the surrounding environment into a ‘work of art' than you'll be able to reap the full benefits of managing the home's energy and its affect on the homes occupants.