Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese philosophy and translates literally into 'wind' and 'water'. As practiced today Feng Shui can advise on how to create a supportive environment in which we are able to live in harmony and happiness.
Feng Shui can help improve health and wellbeing, wealth, relationships and career. To connect and consequently improve the 'feel' of an environment we are using three different approaches also referred to as schools:
Form School
The Form School looks at the actual site of the house / workplace: the land and property shape, the surroundings and the influence the neighbourhood might have. It is also analyses the history, architecture and structure of a building.
Inside a home / workplace it looks into the placement of furniture and their relevance according to the five elements which are: fire, earth, metal, water and wood.
The Five Elements Theory is one of the basic theories used also in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Chinese Astrology. We are aiming to balance all elements as they are interrelated. If for example one element is missing, the created disharmony can cause illness and discomfort.
Compass School
The Compass School looks at the direction the building is facing and uses the eight compass directions as the most important tool.
Each of the eight compass directions represent a part in our life: e.g. career, marriage and partnership, wealth and abundance. They are also each associated with one family member, a body part and organ, a season, an element and number.
The aim is to once again balance all parts and focus on what is important for us in any given situation.
Flying Star School
The Flying Star School is the most important and comprehensive school of Feng Shui. Based on mathematics, the language of the Universe, it is superior to the Form and Compass School as it takes the influence of time on a building into account. It can determine the luck of a building over a certain amount of time. As everything is ever changing with time it also explains why a business for example might prosper at a given time even if the previous tenants may have gone bankrupt.