Feng shui is the ancient Chinese belief that your environment controls energy that can help your life. Using Feng Shui, you can set up your home or room to direct and enhance the chi, or energy flow in your home. If the chi flows in the proper directions and in the proper ways for what you want it to do, then you can be more successful in your life. To do this, you need a Feng Shui Bagua.
A Feng Shui Bagua is the map that you use to set your home up in the proper Feng Shui manner. It is usually seen as an octagon, although you can square it off, to make it easier to use it to plan your room. You can also stretch it out as needed, to fit your room. The reason that it is seen as an octagon is that it has eight areas, surrounding the center, which is the tai chi. The eight different sections are divided into different aspects in your life. Each aspect also has a color, and a part of your body that it is associated with.
The eight different sections are called gua. The Bagua is called so because it means eight areas that divide the center tai chi in Chinese. They are
- wealth,
- fame,
- relationship,
- family,
- health and balance,
- children and creativity,
- self understanding,
- career,
- and finally, helpful friends and travel.
Health and balance are the center around which each of the other gua depend. Having the chi flowing in the right directions around the healthy and beauty gua will put your life in order and help you be in balance.
In Feng Shui there are many things that you can do to in each bagua. Many of the things that you can do increase the chi for each gua aren’t big. You don’t have to move furniture or completely rearrange your home. You can add things like fountains, mirrors or house plants. Feng shui can really help your life be better, in a way that you can do easily.