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How
to tap that vital energy flow Feng Shui,
meaning wind and water, is an art that endeavours to strike a balance
between wind and water and thereby allows favourable energy (Chi)
flow. It deals with
placing your furniture in line with your element or colouring your
home or office in line with your element and preparing yourself
for your up and down cycles through appropriate direction, orientation
and positioning. Speaking to
an enthusiastic audience at Odel Unlimited in a heavily incensed
room decorated with Chinese bamboo, lanterns, bells and candles,
Master Ong shared his experiences as a Feng Shui practitioner who
counts a decade of service. "When I came into contact with
Feng Shui, it was in the form of a joke. Someone told me that according
to Feng Shui a husband may have to smell the wife's feet and the
wife the husband's if they didn't share the same position of sleep,"
he said, pointing out that the principles of Feng Shui developed
over 2000 - 3000 years ago had a logical basis. Explaining
the joke, he said that we are either easterly or westerly persons
when it comes to our position of sleep. "If you don't sleep
in the appropriate position you will never get proper sleep and
always twist and turn in your sleep. I know this because I carried
out a number of tests on my family. I used to position my son's
pillow to suit a westerly person because he is easterly and he would
always get up from the wrong side of the bed. Those who have problems
in getting proper sleep must find out their sleeping positions and
this well help them to a great extent." As to whether
one is easterly or westerly can be determined by a small test. A male must
take the year of his birth and deduct the last two digits of the
year from hundred and divide the outcome by nine or the closest
dividend of nine. Where the number is the closest dividend, the
difference between the number to be divided and the dividend must
be considered. If this number is 2, 5, 6, 7 or 8 the person is a
westerly and must place his head towards north-west, west, south-west
or north-east. And if the outcome is zero one must consider 9 as
the outcome. Those who get
an outcome of either 1,3,4 or 9 are easterly and must place their
heads towards north, south, east or south-east. (If the year of
birth is taken as 1950, 100-50 = 50/9 = 45, 50-45 = 5, westerly). For females,
the calculation is somewhat different but the numbers are the same.
A female must deduct four out of the last two digits of the year
of birth and divide the outcome by nine or the closest dividend
of nine and follow the same procedure as the men. (If the year of
birth is 1950, 50-4= 46/9 =45, 46-45 = 1, westerly) Feng Shui focuses
on energy flow and as an art it directs people to have the most
appropriate energy flowing into their homes or businesses depending
on the element (Fire, Water, Earth, Wood, Metal) of the breadwinner
of the family or head of a business. "A business
facing a junction will never prosper because there is too much energy
flowing in and out. If I happened to own a hotel at a junction,
I would have closed the front opening and created a side opening
and transformed it into a transport company." Master Ong pointed
out that a number of Orchard Street hotels facing junctions blocked
their entrances by way of screens and fountains in order to allow
favourable energy flow. According to
the principles of Feng Shui, you must never have cactus at your
main entrance because the Chi or energy flowing into your house
becomes spiteful when it comes into contact with the cactus and
creates disharmony. "Nor should
you have pointed things facing your entrance; that causes your downfall.
You must also avoid taps that face windows or doors because the
money that comes in is caused to go out easily," said Master
Ong who feels that there is a growing demand for Feng Shui services
the world over. "Over
30,000 Feng Shui practitioners offer their services over the worldwide
web and you must be able to distinguish bogus Feng Shui practitioners
from real practitioners because it is a big business today."
An authentic
Feng Shui practitioner, according to Master Ong, will calculate
one's element (Fire, Water, Wood, Earth or Metal) based on the person's
date and time of birth and determine how best the energy flow (Chi)
could be utilised to bring prosperity. An art of placement,
Feng Shui is used to analyze neutral environments in order to locate
sites with a favourable circulation of life energy. Feng Shui principles
are, therefore, applied to analyse and enhance urban and interior
spaces. "No major
building project in Singapore or its neighbouring countries is undertaken
without consideration of the Feng Shui of the site and building.
The owner of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank demanded Feng Shui
be applied in the design of its skyscraper headquarters. This influenced
everything from the form of the exposed structural system to the
placement of the lobby escalators and doors." When Feng Shui
is applied to a home or business many different features are examined
and analyzed. These include neighbourhoods, streets, sites, directions,
shapes of buildings, roofs, doors, windows, rooms, stairs, location
of stoves and other equipment, chimneys, drains, beams, columns,
lights, and many others. Feng Shui is used for the enhancement of
space conducive to the accumulation and flow of good Chi. People who
live and work in such an environment feel more energetic, creative,
and balanced, thereby increasing the potential for social and financial
success and personal harmony. The Feng Shui
of a place also can be 'tuned' for specific uses by taking the Chi
of the owner and occupants into consideration. A house benefits
from calm, harmonious Chi, but a store requires more stimulating
Chi to promote sales. According to
Master Ong, having pointed objects facing your entrance causes trouble
and one can determine how best to use the Chi by doing a calculation
with his/her own element. "It helps
you to find co-relation factors that will bring you luck. "It also helps you to find your up and down cycles and make maximum use of your vitality year. It helps you to determine your best sitting position, colour, job or career based on your element enabling you to reap better results by attuning your environment to meet the favourable Chi."
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fountains,
junctions and plants and lost his life savings in an attempt to
master the Chinese art of Feng Shui. Ten years later he is a master
of the age-old Chinese art of Feng Shui and runs his own Feng Shui
service at Coronation Shopping Plaza, Singapore. Master Philip Ong
of Imperial Geomancy Services, Singapore, was in Sri Lanka last
week to deliver a couple of introductory lectures on Feng Shui.
