Creating Sacred Space With Feng Shui: Learn the Art of Space Clearing and Bring New Energy into Your Life - Softcover

Kingston, Karen

 
9780553069167: Creating Sacred Space With Feng Shui: Learn the Art of Space Clearing and Bring New Energy into Your Life
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0553069160 ISBN 13: 9780553069167
Verlag: Harmony Books, 1997

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Provides simple and effective techniques on how to create harmony and abundance by clearing and enhancing home and workplace energies, and explains the link between inner peace and the buildings in which we live. Original.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Karen Kingston divides her time between London and Bali, Indonesia. She blends the results of her studies with Balinese priests and shamans together with Feng Shui wisdom and ancient knowledge from other cultures into a program that really works. Karen leads workshops around the world and is in great demand for both business and private consultations.

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the ancient oriental art of enhancing and harmonizing the flow of energy in your surroundings. Over the last twenty years, Karen Kingston has pioneered the study of a specialized branch of Feng Shui called Space Clearing. In this fascinating and easy-to-follow guide she shows how you can use Space Clearing and other principles of Feng Shui to enhance the flow of energy in your home or workplace and so create happiness and abundance in every area of your life.

You will learn how to:
Clear "stuck" energy and create sacred space
Consecrate your home
Create a clutter-free environment and simplify your life
Safeguard yourself against electromagnetic and geopathic stress
Place furniture, mirrors, wind chimes, and other Feng Shui enhancements to create balance and harmony

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What Is Feng Shui?

For many people who have studied visualization and other methods of manifesting changes in their lives, Feng Shui and Space Clearing open up huge exciting new vistas.  When you "put your house in order," it is like discovering a whole army of helpers you never realized were at your disposal.

The information in this book will take you on a journey of self-discovery by teaching you how to read the symbolism and energy of your home and how to change it for the better.  By adjusting and balancing the flow of energy within your home, you can powerfully and effectively influence the course of your life.

Your home

Think for a moment about your home.  If you are reading this book at home, pause for a moment to look around you.  How would you describe it?  Is it elegant, untidy, welcoming, makeshift, grandiose, stark, functional...?

Whatever your description, realize that what you are looking at is the outer manifestation of your inner self.  Everything in your outer life--especially your home environment--mirrors your inner self.  Conversely, everything in your home has an effect on you, from the smallest object to the largest design structure.

Most people are not even conscious of the huge effect their home and work environments has on them.  They usually think of buildings as being something in the background, not realizing that they can help or hinder their progress substantially.  They respond unconsciously without even knowing they are being affected.

A good Feng Shui practitioner can tell as much about you from reading your home as, say, an astrologer can tell from looking at your birthchart, a palmist can tell from reading your palm, or a graphologist can interpret from your handwriting.  It is all there in your home to be seen and felt.  It couldn't not be there, because it all came from you in the first place.  On some level, consciously or unconsciously, you have chosen where you live, chosen everything in it, and positioned items wherever they are.  It all has a significance and an effect.  Your home is the living portrayal of everything you are and what is happening in your life.

Everything is alive

Understanding Feng Shui and Space Clearing begins with the awareness that each particle of creation is alive and filled with life force energy, filled with spirit and intelligence.  Our homes are alive.  The chairs we sit on are alive. The rings we wear on our fingers are alive.  Their consciousness is different from ours, but they are conscious, and if you know how to listen, all things can speak to us and reveal their secrets.

All my life I have had a sense of the livingness of things.  The idea is not new, of course.  Animism is an integral part of most so-called "primitive" cultures in the world that still have their connection to universal consciousness.  In Bali, animism blends with Balinese Hinduism to form the basis of their religious practices.  All families own at least one sacred object, which is believed to have mystical powers.

This beautiful planet on which we live is not a dead lump of rock hurtling through space, destination unknown.  It and everything on it is pulsating with energies.  The Chinese call it chi, the Japanese call it ki, to the Hindus of India it is prana, to the Polynesians it is mana, and every other spiritual culture has its own name for it.  We call it "spirit," "life force," or simply "energy."

One way that this can be seen is in the many different languages and cultural customs in the world, which arise in response to the different energies emanating from the earth.  In some places you can journey just a few miles down the road and the local dialect changes completely, because the energy of the land is completely different.

Pure energy is all around us even though we may not see it until it affects something physical in our vicinity.  Light cannot be seen until it illuminates something.  Electricity cannot be seen, but we take it for granted every day when we turn on a light switch.  Kirlian photography offers proof to the clinical Western mind of the energy fields emanating from all things.  I once saw a Kirlian photograph of a slice of processed white bread alongside a slice of organic brown whole-grain bread.  Around the white bread there was a flimsy excuse of an energy field, whereas the brown bread's emanation was strong, vital, and many times bigger.  The difference was so startling that I have hardly ever eaten white bread since!  Processed food loses so much of its vitality.

At its essence, Feng Shui is about living consciously on Mother Earth and enjoying the highest quality of life force possible for the human.  It is the art of balancing, harmonizing, and enhancing the flow of natural energies, and since all things are permeated by these energies, this ancient art really can be applied in one way or another to everything we do.

Feng Shui in the East

The name Feng Shui originates in China and translates as "wind and water."  I use this term rather than any other because it has become the best-known name for this art in the Western world, but each traditional culture has its own name for it in its own language.

Feng Shui was first used in ancient China about three thousand years ago to determine the most auspicious sites for the tombs of ancestors in order to give them the best vantage to help their living descendants.  Later it was used to site palaces, important government buildings, and monuments, until finally whole cities were designed and built according to Feng Shui principles.

Hong Kong is one such case in point, and its incredible prosperity is often cited as a prime example of Feng Shui's effectiveness.  An estimated 90 percent of all properties in Hong Kong are built according to Feng Shui principles. The famous case of the Bank of China in Hong Kong, which was reportedly sued by neighboring businesses because the sharp angles of its seventy-story building impeded on them, is an example of how seriously Feng Shui is taken in the East. There is no doubt at all that the architect of this bank knew exactly what he was doing and deliberately designed a structure that sends arrowlike "killing chi" energy at its competitors.  The immediate recourse of the occupants of surrounding buildings was to erect Feng Shui mirrors to attempt to reflect the dangerous energy back to its source--and commence litigation.  This is an example of Feng Shui being used to manipulate energies rather than working for the highest good of all.  The law of karma will ultimately be the great leveler, since what you give out is what you get back.

Feng Shui in the West

In the early 1990s Feng Shui started to become popular in the United States, and--as with most things--it then slowly spread to the rest of the Western world.  Today Feng Shui has become one of the "buzz" words of the latter half of the 1990s, and London is the Feng Shui capital of the Western world, with more workshops and training programs than in any other country.

Many people, when they first discover Feng Shui, say that it explains so many things they always knew deep down inside but never knew they knew!  Most successful business entrepreneurs actually practice some form of Feng Shui without knowing they do.  Sir William...

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Verlag
Harmony Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0553069160
ISBN 13 
9780553069167
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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