Feng Shui Garden Design and Principles
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Feng Shui garden design and principles offers us the opportunity to connect with the Natural World. By embracing Feng Shui garden design, we come into a closer relationship with Life as it is, not how we would like it to be. We find ourselves willingly adhering to Universal Principles, thus bringing greater peace and harmony into our lives. We can change our whole outlook, our whole philosophy, once we find that inner peace, but how many of us realize that a solid start can be made by just practicing Feng Shui garden design principles. Such practice, can become a meditation in itself; an awareness.
When we buy a house, or move into our new apartment, villa, or town-house, the Principles of Feng Shui still apply. They’re Universal. But what do we do? So often we find ourselves doing a check on the location and layout of the house, that is, the inside of the home. Then a quick look at the garden: seems okay. And that’s it, as far as the outside is concerned Oh, of course, we’ll mow the lawn and trim back a few trees and things later…But garden design, and Feng Shui Garden Design Principles? You kidding?
Feng Shui Garden design and principles (Yin Yang)
Yin and Yang: negative and positjve, black and white, space and non- space, female and male - opposites. Without opposites there would be no “Relativity,” no big and small, hard and soft, easy and difficult, fast and slow. So we must have opposites. But if we have too much of one and not enough of the other, we have imbalance. And we know what happens when things are not balanced: they fall over.
Our lives these days are full of so much Yang activity- action! So much “making it,” “getting there,” “ achieving,” “winning.” We’ve become unbalanced. This is so much the case that we often forget about our recreational time (note that word Recreate) until our annual holidays arrive, when we try to wind down (often by packing in as much sight-seeing as we can) We’re just starting to relax and enjoy and- Whap! We’re back on the commuter train again.
These Yang activities – or rather the stresses that accompany them – take a toll on our physical and mental health. How to counteract them? Balance them? In this case, balance them with Yin activity. And how to do it regularly, thus ameliorating those daily build-ups of stress? (Which, incidentally, are held in the body in perpetuity, until they are released in some way) Take a stroll around, or sit quietly in your own little peace of heaven: your Feng Shui garden.
Feng Shui garden design and principles for an apartment or small flat
So you live in a tiny apartment or small flat? In all probability we can still gain many of the benefits derived from Feng Shui. It is not the size of the garden which counts. Rather it is the feelings that are created when we’re focused. It is when we are tuned into the Now, the what is. The atmosphere of the Feng Shui garden is designed to bring us to this awareness; to take us out of our immersion, identification and automatic reactive emotions, thus bringing us the peace and rejuvenization we so earnestly desire.
The tradition of the Feng Shui garden dates back thousands of years. It certainly goes back to the days of Lao Tse, and the teachings of The Tao. The tradition of such gardens has been passed down over the millennia, though it is only in fairly recent times that these ideas have begun to reach us here in the West. We now know that Feng Shui garden design principles help us relate to our own psyche in most beneficial ways. We can tap into the spirit of our own environment, drawing its relaxful energies to ourselves; re-invigorating, recreating ourselves anew.
As we update this website, we will walk you through centuries old techniques and translate them into modern day formulas. Together, we will discover how Yin, Yang, and the Five Elements can be interpreted and utilized in both your indoor and your outdoor settings. Feng Shui is the art of directing the energy of the environment in ways in which we can feel optiminally comfortable. We know that the plants, furnishing and objects we surround ourselves with impact upon our lives. How they do so, and how we can turn this to our advantage, is what will be dealt with here.
Yes, the everlasting, unseen energies of the Universe can be channeled by us to our own advantage. Feng Shui Principles can be used to engender relaxed, contented mood, peace and happiness. So why ignore them?
Written by Marty and Thomas Ware
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