All things in the universe are always changing, and nothing stays the same. The Wu-Xing theory describes this process as the way and the mechanism of change. It is mostly applied in interpreting the dynamic processes and interactions caused by change. In Chinese medicine, we are able to see how the sophisticated use of the Wu-Xing theory helps in diagnosing and treating disease. Unfortunately, today most usage of the theory’s applications is limited to Chinese medicine. This is most unfortunate, as it could be a very powerful tool to help us understand and also provide guidance to all aspects of human endeavors and not just Chinese medicine. If more can understand how to apply the theory, the more we will all benefit.
Take for example, the 2001 tragic incident of 9-11 in the USA. Why did it happen? What was the best way to respond? At the time, there was no shortage of opinions, analysis or suggestions on the reasons for the incident to take place on how the U.S. should respond to the attack. But there was never a clear and wholesome picture of the devastation. Had our leaders in government been able to take a step back and see it from the laws of natural principles, from the Yin-Yang and Wu-Xing theory point of view, they could have better understood the cause of the incident, enabling them to come up with a more wholesome way to respond. This would have helped to obtain a good result. Unfortunately, they were unable to see it from that perspective. Therefore, today, eight years later, President Obama is still sending more troops to Afghanistan to deal with the Taliban.
When the ‘Mission-accomplished’ George Bush had issues with Saddam Hussein of Iraq, he ordered to attack and invade Iraq. Was that the best way to handle this issue? Through analysis based on the Wu-Xing theory, it was so clear that his decision was not the right approach to the situation and would thus lead to very negative consequences. In Blue Mountain Feng Shui classes, we had discussed this subject way before the invasion. We predicted the outcome and sure enough, it turned out to be exactly what we had expected. In today’s current events, how should the United States deal with Iran or North Korea? Could the Wu-Xing theory provide guidance? Yes. May be it’s time for President Obama to a take these classes!
Nowadays in China, except for those in the field of Chinese medicine, most people regard the Wu-Xing theory as a useless remnant of an ancient dinosaur. It’s unfortunate that modern Chinese society is unaware of the benefits it has to offer. In fact, the Wu-Xing is a very powerful tool for understanding the course of changing and transformation for all worldly events. On a large scale, this knowledge should be the required study for all world leaders, military commanders, the CEO of corporations, all people setting economic policies, education systems, etc. Oh, how it could benefit us all!
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Feng Shui For Children's Rooms
Does your child have trouble sleeping or studying? Most children’s rooms need to serve the dual purpose of encouraging active play and nurturing restful sleep. A creative use of Feng Shui for children’s rooms can help support both rest and play.
Where to Place the Bed
The most important consideration in using Feng Shui for children’s rooms is where to place the bed. Feng Shui principles recommend locating the bed where your child can see the door, but not directly in line with it. This will encourage peaceful sleep. The least supportive location for a bed is directly across from the door because this position could make a child feel vulnerable.
If you can’t reposition your child’s bed, make sure he or she has a substantial headboard and footboard. Or, place furniture at the foot of the bed for protection, such as a small chest or bench. Also, you can hang a movement-sensitive object like bells on the door or doorknob to produce a sound when someone opens the door. This can help make a child feel more secure.
Tips For Arranging Bedrooms
Here are 10 more ideas for using Feng Shui for children’s rooms:
1. Add a desk or study area to the child’s room so he or she will study there instead in front of the TV. Children who have a place to study, will study! Position the desk so the child can see the door to the room.
2. Hang a bulletin board over the desk to display achievements and showcase awards and citations that your child receives. You can also hang up artwork, report cards, photos of friends, and great school papers. Help your child update this display frequently.
3. Add room decorations that encourage success. For example, maps ground a child, globes encourage curiosity, and charts of the stars and planets expand horizons. Also, a fish bowl, aquarium, or shell collection are symbols of educational success in Feng Shui, and maintaining the aquarium encourages responsibility.
4. Place family photos in the child’s room. Pictures of parents, grandparents, and happy family gatherings help communicate love and security to a child. Family photos of all sides of the family are especially important for children in blended households.
5. Paint the walls in warm pastels or skin tones like peach, butter cream, lavender, or cocoa. Avoid cool colors such as pure white, gray, cool blues or greens, which reduce the warmth and comfort of a room. If your child likes bright primary colors - such as fire engine red, cobalt blue, or bold yellow - use them as accents but not as the dominant color.
6. To encourage sleep, replace art and objects that show images of flying, falling, driving, or running with scenes that are tranquil and calm.
7. Avoid putting mirrors in the room, especially when your child isn’t sleeping well. If your child must have a mirror, hang it on the inside of the closet door and close the door when the child goes to sleep. Avoid placing a mirror across from the foot of the bed.
8. Since children’s interests change quickly, remove outgrown toys and clothes on a regular basis. Encourage responsibility in your children by encouraging them to select a least one outgrown toy to donate to charity.
9. It is best to avoid letting pets sleep in a children’s room. However, if your child must keep a pet in the room, make sure the tank or cage is always kept clean and the pet is healthy.
10. If your children share a room, give each a separate area in the space to call his or her own.
Using Feng Shui for children’s rooms can create a harmonious space that encourages study, learning, play, and relaxation, and that results in a happy and healthy child.
Where to Place the Bed
The most important consideration in using Feng Shui for children’s rooms is where to place the bed. Feng Shui principles recommend locating the bed where your child can see the door, but not directly in line with it. This will encourage peaceful sleep. The least supportive location for a bed is directly across from the door because this position could make a child feel vulnerable.
If you can’t reposition your child’s bed, make sure he or she has a substantial headboard and footboard. Or, place furniture at the foot of the bed for protection, such as a small chest or bench. Also, you can hang a movement-sensitive object like bells on the door or doorknob to produce a sound when someone opens the door. This can help make a child feel more secure.
Tips For Arranging Bedrooms
Here are 10 more ideas for using Feng Shui for children’s rooms:
1. Add a desk or study area to the child’s room so he or she will study there instead in front of the TV. Children who have a place to study, will study! Position the desk so the child can see the door to the room.
2. Hang a bulletin board over the desk to display achievements and showcase awards and citations that your child receives. You can also hang up artwork, report cards, photos of friends, and great school papers. Help your child update this display frequently.
3. Add room decorations that encourage success. For example, maps ground a child, globes encourage curiosity, and charts of the stars and planets expand horizons. Also, a fish bowl, aquarium, or shell collection are symbols of educational success in Feng Shui, and maintaining the aquarium encourages responsibility.
4. Place family photos in the child’s room. Pictures of parents, grandparents, and happy family gatherings help communicate love and security to a child. Family photos of all sides of the family are especially important for children in blended households.
5. Paint the walls in warm pastels or skin tones like peach, butter cream, lavender, or cocoa. Avoid cool colors such as pure white, gray, cool blues or greens, which reduce the warmth and comfort of a room. If your child likes bright primary colors - such as fire engine red, cobalt blue, or bold yellow - use them as accents but not as the dominant color.
6. To encourage sleep, replace art and objects that show images of flying, falling, driving, or running with scenes that are tranquil and calm.
7. Avoid putting mirrors in the room, especially when your child isn’t sleeping well. If your child must have a mirror, hang it on the inside of the closet door and close the door when the child goes to sleep. Avoid placing a mirror across from the foot of the bed.
8. Since children’s interests change quickly, remove outgrown toys and clothes on a regular basis. Encourage responsibility in your children by encouraging them to select a least one outgrown toy to donate to charity.
9. It is best to avoid letting pets sleep in a children’s room. However, if your child must keep a pet in the room, make sure the tank or cage is always kept clean and the pet is healthy.
10. If your children share a room, give each a separate area in the space to call his or her own.
Using Feng Shui for children’s rooms can create a harmonious space that encourages study, learning, play, and relaxation, and that results in a happy and healthy child.
Feng Shui for Wealth: Fortunate Blessings
1. Activate all three lucks: Heaven, Earth and Human Transcendental: Welcoming the Wealth Gods Earthly and Mundane: Installing water feature Human: Putting money into your savings 2. Human Luck: · Education: classes on business, investing · Clear energy drains: people, situations, habits, thoughts, things, errands and especially those related to finances (unfiled taxes, unsorted receipts etc.) · Increase your chi (difficult to make money when you’re exhausted): visit Chinese Gardens , get enough sleep ·
Be careful who you surround yourself with · Increase your income streams/rivers · Do you have a prosperous mindset (inner Feng Shui) · Absorb wealthy chi and put your own chi in the field of prosperity: banks (nice bank, change money), hotels, spas, restaurants ·
Be full of integrity about financial transactions (karma): pay bills on time; pay back loans; checkbook balanced; don’t live beyond your means; tell the truth etc. · Cultivate Helpful People and Benefactors: Feng Shui consultant, organizer, accountant, financial advisor, virtual assistant · “One Good Deed” daily · Express gratitude: send thank you cards and notes; offerings at altars; write thank you on bills and mortgage payments; give red envelopes · Cultivate your spiritual growth
3. Earth Luck · Clearing stagnant chi: desk, bed, cash register, purse, wallet · Fix any leaking or clogged drains, faucets, sinks, toilets, pools, hot tubs, sprinklers, sewer pipes or clogged water · Keep your drains covered and toilet lids down so your cash doesn’t drain or leak away. · Create a luxurious-feeling environment in your home and office with rich paint colors, fresh plants and flowers, a water feature and personal symbols of wealth (wine, tea, art), scent · Place Feng Shui cures (water features, aquariums, crystal spheres, mirrors, etc.)
4. Have your Feng Shui consultant… · Check for design details affecting your circumstances (such as a missing wealth corner, bathroom in center of house, downward slope at back of house, inside stairs facing out front door, toilet over Mouth of Chi, exit door in wealth etc.) A tree in front of the front door · Work with you to help situations needing more income, such as bankruptcy, job security, losing your wallet, theft, gambling et al. · Increasing business cash flow, referrals, marketing etc. ·
Teach you the Secret Transcendental Cures such as The Great Wealth Accumulator; Welcoming the Gods of Wealth; Red Feet on Bed or Splattering Water at Midnight
Feng Shui Butterfly Symbol
In feng shui applications, the use of butterflies is in many ways similar to the feng shui use of birds symbol. Both birds and butterflies are flying free, which speaks to the deep human longing for a joyful and free life close to heavens/sky.
The most common feng shui use of the butterfly symbol is as a feng shui cure for love and romance, probably because love is the most transformative feeling that makes you feel like flying.
The additional element of using the feng shui symbol of butterflies as a love feng shui cure is the element of freedom to choose among a number of suitors. Butterfly symbol is one of the best feng shui love cures for single people (when used in the Love and Marriage area of the Bagua)
Of course, once you have found a suitable love partner and a ready to settle in, a better feng shui love cure would be one that speaks of lifelong commitment and devotion. Explore the feng shui symbology of birds to help you find the best feng shui love and marriage cure.
However, this is not to say that butterflies are only used as a feng shui love remedy for single people, not at all!
Another excellent feng shui use of the symbol of butterflies is in the Creativity and Children area of the Bagua; this will help energize the free flow of creative energy in your life.
You can also use the image of butterflies as a temporary feng shui cure for any area of your life that needs transformation. If you are currently experiencing difficulties in specific areas of your life, you can bring the energy of butterflies into the corresponding Bagua areas of your home or bedroom.
As butterflies know how to gracefully go through transformational stages in order to become the beauty they are, you will be guided to do the same with ease and grace in your life.
Be it with colorful art, photos, fabric, wallpaper, garden decor and more - there are many creative ways to incorporate the healing energy of butterflies into your home decor.
The most common feng shui use of the butterfly symbol is as a feng shui cure for love and romance, probably because love is the most transformative feeling that makes you feel like flying.
The additional element of using the feng shui symbol of butterflies as a love feng shui cure is the element of freedom to choose among a number of suitors. Butterfly symbol is one of the best feng shui love cures for single people (when used in the Love and Marriage area of the Bagua)
Of course, once you have found a suitable love partner and a ready to settle in, a better feng shui love cure would be one that speaks of lifelong commitment and devotion. Explore the feng shui symbology of birds to help you find the best feng shui love and marriage cure.
However, this is not to say that butterflies are only used as a feng shui love remedy for single people, not at all!
Another excellent feng shui use of the symbol of butterflies is in the Creativity and Children area of the Bagua; this will help energize the free flow of creative energy in your life.
You can also use the image of butterflies as a temporary feng shui cure for any area of your life that needs transformation. If you are currently experiencing difficulties in specific areas of your life, you can bring the energy of butterflies into the corresponding Bagua areas of your home or bedroom.
As butterflies know how to gracefully go through transformational stages in order to become the beauty they are, you will be guided to do the same with ease and grace in your life.
Be it with colorful art, photos, fabric, wallpaper, garden decor and more - there are many creative ways to incorporate the healing energy of butterflies into your home decor.
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