The Hidden Energies Behind Feng Shui Blog

   Sound is an integral part of feng shui.  In ancient times, sounds were used to vibrate the cells of the body to promote healing.  In the Chinese system of chi gong, a set called the Six Sounds Healing is used to vibrate the organs of the body to purge impurities, energize and heal.  Since emotions are the basis of dis-ease in the body, breath work in the Six Sounds helps release and balance emotions associated with the Liver, Spleen, Heart, Lungs and Kidneys (anger, sympathy, joy, grief and fear, respectively).  Dr. Zhi Gang Sha in his book Soul Mind Body Medicine states that chanting certain sacred numbers in Mandarin stimulates healthy cellular vibrations in specific organs and parts of the body.  Dr. Jason Liu created Acupuncture-Music Therapy based upon the same principles. 

   Keeping all this in mind, it is not hard to understand why the feng shui cure of a fountain at a doorway influences us; the sound of a fountain at a doorway helps calm frayed nerves and promotes a feeling of peace in our living/working environment.  When I worked in the high school setting with angry, troubled teens, I used background music to help soothe frayed nerves.  The sound of whales combined with classical music, Mozart for the Mind, Native American flute–all were used as feng shui adjustments to promote harmony and change the atmosphere in the school room setting.  Since teens are often plugged in to music that has a dominant element of Fire (loud, banging, fast), music that is soft and flowing like Water helps bring balance.  There is a real need for this type of feng shui adjustment in the school setting.  Dr. John Diamond discovered that certain types of rock music affect teens negatively, causing muscle weakness as well as perceptual difficulties.  Feng shui in the classroom is much in need today and could do wonders if applied in schools throughout the nation.

   We are sensitive to all frequencies around us; the video game and movie industry uses this knowledge to entrain our heart rate to keep us on “the edge of our seats”.  On a subtler level with negative consequences, we are bombarded by low level frequencies from cell phones, Wi-Fi, television sets, computers and various other sources of modern technology that we have come to take for granted.  In our immediate living and working environments, we do need to use whatever innovative feng shui cures to compensate for the emf pollution that surrounds us daily.

   Perhaps in times past when the Earth was purer, we lived in entrainment with the natural frequencies of the planet and the Universe, which probably contributed to our health and longevity.  It was probably a time when we perhaps did not call it by name but understood feng shui intuitively.  The Native Americans and others like the Celts understood this and called it a “time when magic ruled”.  Many today are put off by the word magic but perhaps not so when it is realized that the magic they spoke of was just another name for advanced science.  They probably understood in a larger sense what we have rediscovered in modern times: that through resonance, molecules in our bodies create a cascade of frequency information when set to vibrating by outside sources; this explains the “magic” of how cosmic forces influence us and how body-wide instantaneous chain reactions take place in cell metabolism. 

   Here again is reason to practice feng shui daily in our lives.  Everything is made of vibrating energy.  Feng shui gives us the ability to influence the subtle and multitudinous energies with which we are surrounded so that we may create the best environment for maintaining a healthy lifestyle for quality of life.  Feng shui gives us a vehicle to focus our personal energy through intention to interact with and change the vibrations of our environment.  It is certainly a truth which the Vedas pronounced thousands of years ago: All is Sound!

The hidden energies behind feng shui that are the cause of its very real influence upon us in the physical world are based upon a new type of physics–one that validates what Eastern mystics have been teaching for centuries.  If you delve into the writings of physicist Dr. Paul LaViolette, it becomes apparent that since the 1950s, our military-industrial-scientific complex has been exploring research and creating technology based on a new physics that is not taught in the conventional world.  Einstein’s relativity and other classical concepts are “out the window”.  The new physics deals with the ether or aether which fills all space and is the unobservable subatomic substance out of which all matter is born.  The new physics is the stuff of Nikola Tesla’s work and perfectly explains the why and wherefore of the workings of feng shui.  The new physics postulates that subatomic particles are born of the ether and spontaneously self-organize and materialize in our physical world based upon our thoughts and intention; this is the power behind feng shui cures and why they work.  Our intention empowers the feng shui cures we apply in our surroundings, and the benefits to the flow of our life style and our health can be astounding.

The ether and the zero point field (subatomic particle field) is also the stuff of anti-gravity drive (going faster than the speed of light) and other classified technologies that have secretly gone beyond the standard rocket propulsion parameters to which classical physics has limited us.  Feng shui is demystified and explained by the new physics, including the concept of chi.  Chi originates in the ether; it vibrates and pulsates and connects everything.  It is the energy of the universe and in Chinese lore, is known as the dragon’s cosmic breath.  Feng shui follows the laws of Nature.  It is through our thoughts and intention that we interact with the subatomic of the ether and manifest harmonious energy in our homes and workplaces and natural surroundings.  This is the stuff of feng shui and is also the knowledge the ancients used to create harmony in their world.  Hopi ruins, the Egyptian pyramid complex and the Aztec Temple of the Sun complex all align with the constellation of Orion; the ancients understood the energy of the Heavens and though lost to us, they applied this knowledge in their ceremonies and throughout their daily lives to make their crops flourish and cities prosper; it was the energies of feng shui applied on a grand scale.  For more see The Kivas of Heaven and also my book The Hidden Energies Behind Feng Shui.

   As one progresses in their practice of feng shui, it becomes clear that to have clear thinking and a balance between the emotional mind and the wisdom mind , giving attention to the quality of our air and more attention to the food we take in becomes an integral part of one’s feng shui practice since the end result is to have balance in our lives in as many ways as possible.  Using an air ionizer in our living space is one obvious way we can clean the interior air we live in.  Experimenting with reducing meat from our diet and mvoing toward a more whole foods plan becomes necessary when one sees the link between balanced living, our state of mind, our emotions and ultimately, our health.

   The Post-Birth chi generated form the air we breathe and food we eat warms the body and so is called Fire Chi; it is associated with the emotions.  Pre-Birth chi is called Water Chi and has its foundation in the kidneys.  In the theory of the Five Elements, Water rules Fire.  The importance of keeping the kidneys strong arises partly from this relationship.  Since the Water Chi is associated with what is called the Wisdom Mind and Fire Chi with the Emotional Mind, the cooling effect of healthy kidneys will keep the emotions in check and the mind and body balanced.  In this way wisdom rules your life and emotions are controlled rather than suppressed; emotional suppression is very unhealthy and eventually shows up in physical ailments.  This perspective is fundamental whether we are addressing our food plan, our intake of air through chi gong practice or applying feng shui cures to bring our surroundings into a healthy, balanced state.  The more we gain understanding of these things through our personal practice, the more we will come to understand that feng shui, food and the mind are inseparable.  (My thanks for some of this material to Dr. Yang, Jwing Ming in his book THE ROOTS of CHINESE QIGONG)

   The quality of the air we breathe in and the food we eat affect the quality of chi produced in the body.  Polluted air makes poorer quality chi.  Types of food and their inherent qualities also will affect the Post-Birth chi that is formed.  Chinese medicine believes that emotions and temper are affected by the food we eat.  Natural observation supports this.  In nature, animals who eat plants are tamer and less violent than those who eat meat.  The same applies to the human condition. 

    Besides food,  impure thoughts and depressed thinking contribute to upsetting your emotional balance.  The taking in of drugs and alcohol also affects how we think and imbalances the emotions.  The environment which we create consciously or otherwise contributes to our negative behaviors and helps keep us “stuck” in them.  This is why color, placement, sound and other factors are addressed in feng shui.  Situations in our living/working spaces that create downward energy and/or chaotic thinking contribute to our impaired emotional states.  Foods taken in that do not support us moving toward a higher vibrational state (health), also add to these negative dilemas in which we sometimes find ourselves.  The deeper one goes in studying and practicing feng shui in their daily lives, the more it becomes apparent that food needs to be addressed as part of a total approach to living a healthy, balanced life.

   Our intake of food should follow the feng shui principles that dictate balance.  A meal that creates in the body a harmony of Yin and Yang is one that has a balance of quantity.  But quality of chi is also important, if not more.  If we consume foods of poor quality, we lower our body’s overall vibration because there is not much vibrational energy or chi that can be given to the body.  In addition to foods that are of low quality chi,  both the air we take in and the food we eat often contain contaminants that affect the quality of the Post-Birth chi that is formed.  Dr. Yang, Jwing Ming addresses this in his book The Root of Chinese Qigong.  He states that because the body cannot discriminate between good and bad raw materials, many undesirable ingredients in the food, air and water one takes in are converted into chi along with the good ingredients.  Such tainted or dirty chi can excite your emotions and create emotional imbalance.  Also, as the polluted chi circulates in the body, it can cause blockages in meridian pathways creating undesirable effects such as high blood pressure, which speeds up the deterioration and aging of the internal organs.  The mind is also affected.  When polluted or low quality chi circulates in the body and reaches the brain, it scatters the mind so that there is not enough will to control the emotions.  This is the root cause of emotional imbalance; the  “Fire Chi”(solar plexus/middle dan tien/Yang) and the “Water Chi”(below the navel/lower dan tien/Yin), the origins of the emotional mind and the wisdom mind, respectively, are not in harmony.  Impure quality chi creates heat as it circulates and creates too much “Fire Chi” which is Yang.  This is one of the main reasons why a vegetarian diet is more in line with feng shui principles.  Food that comes from animals generally has more contaminants than the food that comes from plants, and so the chi produced from animal sources makes the mind more scattered and excited.  This is especially true today when livestock are routinely given antibiotics and growth hormone.  In addition to creating too much “Fire”, food of poor quality chi does not support kidneys and weakens them, thus not providing enough of the “Water” element (wisdom mind) to control “Fire” (emotional mind).  (For more in depth on energy frequency and the body, see the work of Dr. Royal Raymond Rife)

   Feng shui works by adjusting the chi in our surroundings to positively influence the chi of our bodies.  Chinese medicine and chi gong practitioners believe in  two general types of chi: Original or Pre-Birth chi and Post-Birth chi.  Pre-Birth chi is recieved from both parents before you are born and is stored in the kidneys.  Post-Birth chi comes from the air we breathe and the food we eat after we are born.  Taking in air and food of good quality has grown difficult in these modern times because there is so much pollution in the air and contaminants in the food chain.  Beyond these factors, if we focus just on quality food intake for the moment, the influence of feng shui on our Post-Birth chi makes perfect sense if we keep in mind that eating balanced foods that have an abundance of positive chi in them creates harmony in our bodies; by ”quality food”, what is meant is food that has a high amount chi in the form of vibrational energy.  Grabbing food at the local gas station mart, microwaving a meal, or eating something off the shelf that has been processed and packaged does not do this.  Such foods are low energy nutritionally.  Just as feng shui recognizes that clutter in our living space and/or improper placement of furniture can create conditions of low energy, so consuming foods of low quality can also compromise our bodies.  For example a hamburger’s vibrational frequency is about 5 megahertz.  Processed foods can have a zero frequency.  Herbs and fresh vegetables have frequencies considerably above this.  Since the body is healthy mentally and physically at a range of 62-78 MHz and disease begins at 58 MHz, why would you take in food that will lower your body’s biofrequency (chi)?  In following feng shui principles regarding our food, we should always keep in mind the original teachings of Hippocrates: Let food be your medicine.  Let medicine be your food.

    Feng shui is about creating harmony between ourselves and our environment.  This applies not only to what we view as traditional feng shui cures such as placement but also to the food we eat.  Feng shui would dictate that our food should have different colors, aromas, and a balance of flavors–all creating a harmonious interplay of Yin and Yang.  This is especially important because the food and water we take in and the air we breathe contribute to the overall quality of chi in our bodies–when we use cures in feng shui, what we are doing is adjusting the chi in our surroundings to flow more harmoniously and to be in balance.  Because of the energetic connection between our body and our surroundings, using feng shui daily in our lives has great impact upon us.

      This is also true of the food we eat. First of all, we transmit chi into our food when we prepare it by connecting to it with our Dan Tien (sea of energy located just below the navel).  Secondly, foods themselves carry chi or vibrational energy, the quantity and quality depending on growing conditions, storage, and how they are prepared.  The food we eat and air we breathe combine to form Post-birth chi which is stored in the middle Dan Tien (solar plexus area).  This type of chi is what warms the body and is associated with our emotions.  The amount and the quality of chi we take in from our food and air ultimately affect our emotional balance and thus our health, both mental and physical.  The more one delves into this, the more it becomes apparent that food is an integral component in addressing the overall application of feng shui daily in our lives.

   When working with feng shui, we are actually adjusting the chi of our environment to positively influence the chi of our bodies.  The term Chi gong or gigong usually only refers to breathwork with movement for the improvement of the chi in our bodies for health. Really though, all aspects of chi could be referred to as chi gong, and this broader view should also apply to our conception of feng shui.  There is the chi of the natural cycles of the sun, moon and stars (Heaven) as well as the chi of nature (which includes the wind and water feng shui in the landscape or Earth as well as weather and other natural patterns).  All of this affects human chi.
   A broader view of feng shui would include the entire spectrum of chi gong as the chi of Heaven and Earth interacts with our human chi to affect not only our health but our destiny. Applying feng shui daily in our lives raises our awareness so that we stay in harmony with the natural order and do not have any aspect of our lives that creates imbalance by being out of order with the chi flow of the natural cycles around us.  The more we understand feng shui the more we will be able to fine tune the chi in our surroundings and in our bodies; we become more a part of nature instead of separate from it and thus create the best conditions for health, happiness, prosperity and long life.

   In light of both the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the 80s (which still affects all of Europe) and now the Japan Dai-Ichi reactor melt down, there is certainly a heightened level of anxiety we feel daily whether it is conscious or not. Feng shui has its place in assisting us in extreme situations like this also–not just in our common everyday lives.
   There are two types of cures in feng shui–mundane and transcendental. The latter are mysterious and do not follow logic, especially to the Western mind. In addressing concerns about radiation, there exists a transcendental cure that may provide not only comfort but some very real help as well. Agnihotra is an ancient practice that involves spiritual ritual for protection of our living/working environment. For those who are curious and wish to pursue this further, I suggest the following link: www.spiritualresearchfoundation.org/…/id/spiritualresearch/spiritualhealing/agnihotra

There are no limits to the wonders of feng shui.