Feng shui (traditional Chinese: 風水; simplified Chinese: 风水; pinyin: fēng shuǐ; pronounced /ˈfəŋˌʃueɪ/ foong-shoy in Chinese Mandarin, "fheng-schway" in American English) is an ancient Chinese system of aesthetics believed to utilize the Laws of both heaven (astronomy) and Earth (geography) to help one improve life by receiving positive Qi. The original designation for the discipline is Kan Yu (traditional Chinese: 堪輿; simplified Chinese: 堪舆; pinyin: kānyú; literally: Tao of heaven and earth).

The words feng shui literally translate as "wind-water" in English. This is a cultural shorthand taken from the following passage of the Zhangshu (Book of Burial) by Guo Pu of the Jin Dynasty:

Qi rides the wind and scatters, but is retained when encountering water.

Traditional Feng Shui practice always requires an extremely accurate Chinese compass, or Luo Pan, in order to determine the directions in finding any auspicious sector in a desired location.

Saturday, April 4, 2009

3 Steps You Can Implement Now to Clutter Free Living

As a civilization, us Westerners are really big clutter freaks! We hold onto things that have "sentimental value" when secretly we know that a lot of the time they have no real value to us at all. Learning to live clutter free can also help you unclutter your mind and see with more clarity and concentration.

MASSIVE PURGE

Bin all the things that you know underneath that you do not want or have not used in the last 6 months. With clothes, get a seperator and put all your clothes on the left hand side. Put them back on the right hand side. After 6 months, you can get rid of all of the clothes still left on the left hand side.

Get rid of things which bring up negative emotions in you. Like love letters from an ex or a book on a Spanish course that you never got started on. Bin things that you are keeping simply because you perceive them as valuable, if they are, you could give them to a charity shop or sell them.

ORGANIZE

Now you have threw out everything that is unnecessary, you should set a goal to organize each area of your room/home. Get everything out onto the floor that is not organized into a permanent place and then sort them into places that are easily memorable. This is also a good time to recycle any useless paper you may find. You may want to take out a weekend to do this.s

Next step: Sit back and feel how great a feng shui room feels!

All in all what you need here is to be able to set goals to maintain this clutter free lifestyle both mentally and physically in your house. Setting goals is usually done poorly but with a system that gives 100% guaranteed results every time and unconventionally focuses on habit change, why not give it a go?



Autor: Richard Shelmerdine

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Added: April 4, 2009
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