Workings of Feng Shui 2
When it comes to chi within the building, the primary objective is to encourage the good chi and keep out the sha chi. The chi is meant to flow around the building in a gentle fashion, unhindered by obstacles and general untidiness.
The beneficial currents of chi should enter by the main door and circulate throughout the house, leaving by a window or the back entrance. On its way around the house, it should really pass through every room.
When checking a house to ensure it has the optimum arrangement for the flow of chi, it should be possible to visualise a flow entering by the main door and then branching and flowing around each floor and up the stairs to the next.
As it flows it divides to enter the various rooms with one flow continuing around the house. In this way the chi can go into each room through the door and exit either by a second door or by a window, but not by the same entrance through which it entered the room.
Doors should open inwards to encourage the flow (other stipulations concerning doors are considered in the appropriate section). Specific topics and measures are dealt with but a few general principles can be mentioned here.
It is important that the chi has the opportunity to flow around the room before leaving - if it leaves too quickly there is little opportunity for the chi to stimulate the room space. The rapid loss of chi can happen in many circumstances:
In addition to losing chi, there are many spaces in buildings that are to all intents and purposes, dead areas. This is when the flow of chi is stopped, either in the corners of rooms or in rooms without windows or a suitable exit point for the chi.
The corners of rooms can easily be dealt with, as specifically indicated in other sections, by placing plants, ornaments and similar items in the space.
Rooms that are effectively closed systems are best relegated to use as store rooms and cupboards but it does help if the door opens outwards in these cases, the contrary to what is normally required.
Quite often garages (those attached to houses) are dead spaces. It will help to have a back door as well as the main entrance.
However, if a bedroom is built above a garage which is a dead space there is the possibility that the bedroom will suffer from the dead chi.
Other `closed' buildings, such as halls of certain types or cinemas where there are not meant to be any windows, may also suffer in this respect but outward-opening doors will help.
The beneficial currents of chi should enter by the main door and circulate throughout the house, leaving by a window or the back entrance. On its way around the house, it should really pass through every room.
When checking a house to ensure it has the optimum arrangement for the flow of chi, it should be possible to visualise a flow entering by the main door and then branching and flowing around each floor and up the stairs to the next.
As it flows it divides to enter the various rooms with one flow continuing around the house. In this way the chi can go into each room through the door and exit either by a second door or by a window, but not by the same entrance through which it entered the room.
Doors should open inwards to encourage the flow (other stipulations concerning doors are considered in the appropriate section). Specific topics and measures are dealt with but a few general principles can be mentioned here.
It is important that the chi has the opportunity to flow around the room before leaving - if it leaves too quickly there is little opportunity for the chi to stimulate the room space. The rapid loss of chi can happen in many circumstances:
- where there are windows at opposite ends of the room
- when the stairs descend directly towards the front door
- when a house is `divided' by a central corridor, with the back door visible from the front
In addition to losing chi, there are many spaces in buildings that are to all intents and purposes, dead areas. This is when the flow of chi is stopped, either in the corners of rooms or in rooms without windows or a suitable exit point for the chi.
The corners of rooms can easily be dealt with, as specifically indicated in other sections, by placing plants, ornaments and similar items in the space.
Rooms that are effectively closed systems are best relegated to use as store rooms and cupboards but it does help if the door opens outwards in these cases, the contrary to what is normally required.
Quite often garages (those attached to houses) are dead spaces. It will help to have a back door as well as the main entrance.
However, if a bedroom is built above a garage which is a dead space there is the possibility that the bedroom will suffer from the dead chi.
Other `closed' buildings, such as halls of certain types or cinemas where there are not meant to be any windows, may also suffer in this respect but outward-opening doors will help.
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