Who is Various Schools of Feng Shui
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Several Schools of Feng Shui
The two main types of feng shui prevalent in the States are the Form School or the Compass School. You will be confused unless you stick with one particular school of feng shui.
The traditional school includes: form, compass, eight house and flying star schools. The traditional practitioner utilizes all these schools to arrive at their conclusions and prepare a plan for the client.
To keep it a little simpler
Form school looks at the outside environment, the mountains, rivers, lakes, contour of the land, quality of the land and surroundings. This determines whether or not the site is suitable for building or what problems will arise if the site is used.
Compass school takes into consideration the orientation of the proposed/existing buildings according to readings taken with a luo pan (Chinese compass) in relation to the surroundings. Magnetic readings rather than those adjusted for declination are used in traditional feng shui.
The flying star part of the formula is where time becomes important. Energies or stars rotate around the 8 major divisions/locations of the compass in a particular pattern, combining and recombining with varying results. This pattern is proscribed and takes place on several levels changing in periods of 20 years, annually, monthly, daily and hourly.
When all of these schools are put together an individualized picture emerges that is particular to this house and to the people who live in it. Each instance is specific to that place, person and time.
In Black Sect Tibetan Buddhist feng shui, on the other hand, there is a particular corner in each room such as the far right corner from the door that represents marriage and relationships etc.
Black Sect Tantric Buddhism Feng Shui or Black Sect Feng Shui (BTB or BHFS) was developed by Professor Thomas Lin Yun, it has its roots in the Bon religion of Tibet. The Professor has developed a form of feng shui for the western world that many people find easy to use.
Many of the theories and terminology are shared between the schools of feng shui. One major difference is that BHFS (BTB) does not use a compass to determine a unique sitting and facing for a building. Instead the main front door-the one you recognize as the primary entrance, sometimes called the architecturally designed front door- becomes the focus. The sections of the bagua- 8 trigrams-have been assigned certain characteristics or life values. The East is health and wellbeing, Southeast represents wealth and abundance, the South is fame and popularity, the Southwest is marriage and relationships, in the West is Children and pets, the Northwest is influential people, North is career and reputation and finally Northeast is knowledge and wisdom. When you stand at the door facing in you place the bagua with north closest to you and south furthest away from you. This establishes a "virtual north" instead of the magnetic north used by traditionalists. In the simplest terms, you now know which area of your house affects the various aspects of your life. You can repeat this at the door way of each room if you like. For example your marriage corner will always be in the furthest right hand corner. Unlike traditional feng shui, BHFS uses items such as mirrors, crystals, flutes and mantra-chanting, mudra-special hand positions and intention to strengthen the adjustments made by the practitioner.
This is a very simplified explanation of the differences between Traditional and BHFS.
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Clutter represents stagnant energy and the list is endless - burned out light bulbs we keep forgetting to replace, dead moths and dropped leaves on the window ledge, scum marks around the bath, the squeaky door. Each of these requires only one minute of time and attention, but their accumulated effect can make years of difference to the pace and 1qualify of our lives.Give old books to friends or libraries. Take clothes that don't fit to the local charity shop. it is far better to live for today and create space for something new which we will enjoy and use now.
Things constitute a major problem in most homes. Get rid of the useless stuff. I've been throwing and giving away this weekend - feels great! So get unstuck by clearing out your space, you'll be glad you did.
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