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Would You Like To?
SuperCharge the Love in Your Life!
Improve Your Overall Health!
Get Rid of All that Clutter Once and For All!
Feel More Comfortable & Safe in Your Home!
Plan a Great Wedding that Supports a Good Marriage!
Make Sure Your Home is Ghost Free!
Create a Child's Room that is a True Haven!
Enjoy a Really Good Night's Sleep Consistently!
Yes? Then This is the Perfect Book for You!

Table of Contents
Introduction: The Easy Way
Chapter 1: Which School Works Best for You?
Chapter 2: A Practical Feng Shui
Chapter 3: Creating Love in Your Life
Chapter 4: The Feng Shui of Good Health
Chapter 5: Clutter Free Forever
Chapter 6: Clearing & Cleansing
Chapter 7: The Perfect Wedding
Chapter 8: How to Clear Ghosts
Chapter 9: Happy Children's Rooms
Chapter 10: Getting a Good Night's Sleep
Appendix A. The Euro Bagua Maps
Appendix B. Dowsing
Appendix C. The Nature of North
Appendix D. Essential Oils

Note: Each chapter begins with a story!

Chapter One Which School Works Best for You?

The Story of the Red Bag

Once upon a time Feng Shui Masters were carried to their clients on palanquins. It's a bit different these days but Ralph has this red bag, a briefcase really, that he carries with him to Feng Shui consultations. It's getting a bit old now, but it still looks great. It's made out of thick, red leather that has grown supple over the years.

The shoulder strap is wide and comfortable and, from years of wear, the bag has shaped itself around Ralph. Despite Lahni's offers of a newer, fancier briefcase, when they're heading out the door to go Feng Shui-ing, it's the red bag he grabs because it says Feng Shui to him.

He claims it's the color. In the Mystical Schools red is widely used because it only attracts positive energy. That's a nice quality when you're going into possibly negative situations. Inside the bag are cards with various symbolic images on them, which invariably include some red in their design that they'll use during the consultation.

Because the eyes are always drawn to red first, there's less chance that he'll misplace his bag during a consultation and it's so comfortable that it doesn't distract him from his work. Feng Shui Fuzion, when it's done right, is also very comfortable and doesn't distract you from your life. Inside the bag Ralph carries their tools and files. These include the dowsing rods and pendulums they use for finding out what is hidden in the Earth beneath a building.

This is a part of what is traditionally called Form School, where one analyzes and adjusts the ebb and flow of natural energy in and around a space. Of course today, these tools are used as much to find electrical pollution as underground streams. In a file folder, Ralph keeps their compass, maps and the various Astrological and Locational Charts for the clients of the day.

These instruments are part of Ralph and Lahni's modern version of the ancient Compass School. With these tools, they can discover how the building and the client are related to the cosmos and what kind of 'deal' they can make to improve that relationship. When they leave their office for a consultation, their preparations and calculations done, that red bag contains all of the tools Ralph and Lahni will need to access the wisdom of the three major Schools of Feng Shui, plus their Western counterparts.

What comes out of that red bag depends upon what Ralph and Lahni decide will help them to help their clients the most. Their sessions aren't science experiments where they'll try anything that seems interesting at the moment. They are solution finders, facilitators and illuminators. When they use techniques from multiple systems, the synergy creates a powerful, healthy momentum. They jump from School to School like equestrians jumping fences and streams, pulling from their 'bag of tricks' whatever will help their clients live happily ever after.

The Material

Understanding Why There are Diverse Schools of Feng Shui In our modern world, Feng Shui is many things; artistic discipline, mystical practice and spiritual technology, to name a few. One thing it is not is a sport. We can be fairly sure that we won't be seeing Feng Shui Masters going head to head in big city arenas any time soon, sharing the bill with the stars of Kung Fu and Karate. For those of you pushing to have Feng Shui become an Olympic event, here's some sage advice, "Chill out!" Maybe, some day, we'll see some friendly competition on television. Imagine a show similar to the cult cooking-extravaganza, Iron Chef, where the great Chefs of Japan battle it out creating theme dishes from target ingredients, like chocolate with bananas and sushi. Of course the Feng Shui show probably wouldn't have the sushi.

Despite the fact that Feng Shui isn't a sport, we, as practitioners, students and consumers, often fall into a habit we learned in kindergarten, namely choosing sides. The teacher picks two captains who take turns picking their teams. The very physical kids are chosen first, the emotional ones next, and the intellectuals are picked last. Once you're on a team, you are expected to embody the idea that your team has the power of God, stands firmly in the right and the opposition is a gang of motley curs. To get the flavor of what we're talking about, just consider the sport of rugby, the battles on the floor of Parliament, or the advertising intrigues typical in the presidential elections in the United States. The problem with picking sides is that you're stuck on your side of the net. What if the solution you need is on the other side?

Luckily Feng Shui is not a sport, it's an art, so it is inclusive rather than exclusive. Instead of working in the chaotic physical and emotional realms where sports excel, the arts also work in the mental and ultimately, the spiritual worlds. Feng Shui is a reflection of the art of living. The craft of Feng Shui is recognizing that all of the important energies that we need to understand, to be effective artists, can be found in the human design.

While life is driven by the polarity of Yin and Yang (responsive and dynamic), the human design manages that energy through a trinity of systems. For instance, the body consists of three main sections; legs, torso, and head, and daily life concerns include the physical, emotional and mental realms.

What is most important to realize is that these three parts not only interact, but they are interdependent. Your thoughts affect your emotions, your physical state influences your thinking, your thoughts influence your body and so on and so on and so on. Feng Shui techniques depend upon these interactions.

It was the projection of these three levels of human experience into the external world that created different schools of Feng Shui. All of the traditional schools (as well as systems from other diverse cultures) approach the art from one of these three areas and no one system is necessarily better than another. The approach that works best is truly a matter of personal preference and specific need.

Something we learn from Chinese face-reading is that the face has three parts. From the bottom of the chin to just under the nose mirrors the physical. From the bottom of the nose up to the bridge between the eyebrows represents the emotional, and from the bridge to the top of the forehead shows the mental. Ideally, these three are the same height. Yet typically, one section of the face will be longer than the others, depending on which part of your life you are concentrating upon at that time.

What is most remarkable is that the relative height of these face sections changes rather quickly. Faces are not made of stone. It's not uncommon to find a shift of height dominance within a few months. If you spend the summer running five miles a day, surfing, playing tennis and working on your tan, look for that elongated chin to start dominating the face. Yet come September, if you plop yourself back into your office and chain yourself to the computer for twelve hours a day, by Christmas you can expect that your forehead will be so enhanced that you'll swear your hairline is receding. If you want to know which school of Feng Shui is best for you, then just measure your face. But don't be surprised when the dimensions shift as your focus changes. It's okay to stop reading for a few minutes and check out the dimensions of your face in the mirror. But hurry back, there are lots of neat things ahead.

Just like the three sections of the face, no matter which system you use, they are interdependent. When you nudge the physical, you're going to tweak the emotional. When you realign your life's direction through the mental, you'll drag the physical and emotional along behind it. In this section we'd like to explain the three basic approaches. Each approach has its strengths and its weaknesses. To make it simple, we'd like to describe them in relation to the three qualities that create health and well-being.

The ground beneath your feet creates the food you put in your mouth. Your basic nutrition supplies the building blocks for constructing the temple of your body. An ancient herbal tradition called 'Signatures' explains that we can know plants by their shape, color and their similarity in shape to parts of the body. For instance, the walnut looks very much like the brain, in amazing detail, and contains many of the vital nutrients that promote cerebral health. The human body, on the most intimate level, knows the world through the shapes and colors it perceives. It's from this physiological reality that Form School developed. It could be called the physical or shape school, because the body walks and touches the world in order to know it and your sense of yourself stands upon those foundations. Someone who lives on a beach feels and thinks quite differently about themselves than someone who lives on a mountain top.

The minerals beneath your feet and the streams that weave through the earth speak a language in which the human body is fluent. Your physical body is aware of a multitude of information that it rarely shares with the conscious mind. A good indication that you're using Form School methods is that the solutions require moving heavy objects around. Making profound changes on a physical level, whether it's shaping the land or placing a pond carries with it a tremendous amount of long-term leverage. The correct changes can positively influence thousands of people for many years. This has the advantage that once the change is in place, you rarely have to worry about people inadvertently reversing the corrections. Coming from below, the physical schools tend to be feminine and Yin in nature.

The weakness of the Form School approach is that it requires a huge amount of effort to do the changes properly. There aren't a lot of quick fixes or easy solutions here. Someone is going to get muddy and sweaty by the time the corrections are in place. This was a favorite practice in antiquity, where the wealthy and powerful would shape the land, and through that, direct the lives of those within their kingdom. It is still a favorite practice for the powerful to use their wealth to shape the land and the cities, through parks and skyscrapers. The results influence the people who live and work there, for better or worse. The purpose of the modern municipal planning board is to make sure that the change is for the better. Every township planning board needs a Form School Feng Shui consultant to keep them out of trouble.

The next approach to Feng Shui is the mental. To create your well-being, remember that what you think creates who you are. How you talk to yourself foretells the future you'll enjoy. The ideas you use to construct your life become the pillars supporting the dome above your temple. This is the approach of the Compass School, as well as the Western Geomancy passed down from the Master Masons and the ancient Egyptians.

In pre-electrical lighting, agricultural societies, the sources of natural light were all important. In the natural world, the language of the heavens has a pervasive power. Those who lived so intimately with the moods of the sky passed along, through the generations, the poetry of the Stars, the messages of the Eclipses and the rhythm of the Lunar travels. The ancient Christian-Astrological tradition described the sky as the ‘Forehead of God’. They believed that the stellar travels and the patterns of clouds and weather could reveal the celestial mood, like the lines and wrinkles on the forehead of a bearded sage.

A great deal of the Compass School wisdom boils down to "Align your structures so that the face of the building is pointed towards a direction where the sky is smiling. Don't point it towards a direction where the sky is frowning." It sounds like good advice to us. Of course, it's not that simple because an amazing amount can be understood from reading those lines and creases. You can get help from the heavens, but you need to understand which part of the sky smiles for you. Coming from above, the mental schools tend to be masculine and Yang in nature.

The weakness of the mental system is that it's not easy to elicit the help of the heavens. Compass School works in a world of ideas and directions and speaks in an arcane language full of puns and double entendres. It depends heavily upon symbols and since it has a universal approach, shaping it to personal needs is tricky. But when done well, it sends ripples that can shift an entire society at the ideological level. In antiquity, this was the realm of the Stargazer who guided society with gentle, pervasive and powerful touches. If you understand the symbolic language and have a command of the tools, you can personalize the universal. This part of the art is a lifetime study, but the time spent understanding it is well worth the effort, on many levels.

Between Heaven and Earth, between the roof and the floor, the human experience rushes about, full of emotions, yearnings and daily needs. The Mystical School is the most emotional and ephemeral way to approach Feng Shui. Within the word 'emotion' is the word 'motion'. Within 'motion' is the word 'moon'. The Moon is the fastest moving object in the sky. Between Heaven and Earth, people move around all the time asking,

"How do you spend your days? Who do you spend it with? Do you enjoy your work? Does it fill your rice bowl? Do the people who love you, feed you? Does the food taste good? Can I have some?"

What do all these questions have in common? They are all about things that have a powerful emotional influence on a person and they're all things people can change.

The Mystical Schools make their changes in the interior environment, the place of the emotional stronghold. It is a person-centered system that works through shaping the flow of human energy. Mystical School methods work best in urban settings where you can't control the shape of the land or the quality of light from the sky. In an apartment building brimming with people, the collective human energy is often the most powerful element at work.

Understanding how to control the resonance of that energy is essential. Recognizing the design of the human aura and how to activate sections of it can bring quick results. Consider that a little thing like the gift of a rose can charm you and spark your emotions. The Mystical School approach is both the rose and its scent, alternately Yin and Yang, depending upon where it's applied. In Asia it seems to have a Yang flavor but in the West it seems to lean towards the cozy, feminine Yin.

This approach is often implemented through the use of small objects like chimes, mirrors, crystals, flowers, plants and pictures. It might use simple rituals to initiate the changes. It's an easy system to teach and simple to use. It doesn't require bulldozers, compasses or computers. In any case, it only takes a little bit of changing to get a lot of results and you don't have to get muddy to practice it.

The system's weakness is its transitory quality. When you're not looking, people take down the chimes, move the pictures and give away the plants. Even rituals will dissipate quickly if they're not followed-up by moving physical objects as an energetic reinforcement. But in today's people-packed urban environments, it's often the little things that are the biggest help.

So whichever School you attend, system you employ, or team you join, consider that all approaches are valid because they reflect an approach to life that best serves the person’s own style. Just think of the power generated and the horizons that open up when you expand into the previously uncharted territories of another school of thought.

Recognizing that humans are complex beings of muscle, heart and mind, we can understand why enlisting the help of all of these wisdoms together exponentially increases Feng Shui's ability to improve our world. Be prepared to jump some fences to find the answers you need.

Copyright 2005 Cuore Libre Multi Media Publishing.