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Tue 3 Jul 2007
July 2007 monthly updates
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Just a quick note to let you know that the
monthly updates, almanac, twelve animal and Xuan Kong flying stars
have been uploaded on the main site,
click here to view them. I am now back from my travels for
a few weeks so hoping to get some posts on this blog in the next
few days.
Tue 29 May 2007
What is Qi? A valuable
lesson.
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Also known as Ch’i, Ki, Prana or Mana. Together
with the sun, wind and water it is life, without it we would not
exist. It is an invisible force that is around us at all times,
it affects our health, wealth and happiness. Try and imagine you
are Qi and you are roaming around your home, are there areas that
make you want to go faster, maybe in a long hallway, are there
areas that make you slow down because there are pieces of furniture
in your way or maybe a pot plant outside that fills in a dark
corner.
Try and look at your house and gardens as if you were the Qi trying
to get around. You need to slow down fast Qi and activate slow
stagnant Qi. One of the most popular cures is a faceted crystal
sphere; if you use these make sure you keep them clean. I use
warm soapy (fairy liquid) water, washing in the soapy water first
whilst hanging and then rinse in the clean water and dry with
kitchen towel, they come up beautifully. Be careful on those high
out of reach windows. Another good test is, stand outside your
front door looking out and see what poison arrows are pointing
towards you, are there any lampposts? Any corner of other houses/buildings?
An end of road pointing at you? Church, police station, prison
etc. If there is you need to cure them, you can do this by placing
a Ba Gua mirror outside or hang a crystal sphere. These are quick
cures, others you can use are more natural, like a tree, pot plant
etc.
Sha Qi: also known as poison arrows or killing Qi. As the
names suggest this is not good and can be found in:
* Windy unprotected or exposed areas.
* Corners of rooms or outside areas with an inverted corner.
* Places with stagnant water.
* Canals or rivers with sharp bends.
* Corners and edges of buildings.
* Lamp posts.
* Straight lines, long hallways, end of a t-junction, end of a
road.
* Dusty and unclean areas under beds, furniture, cupboards, behind
radiators, toilets, etc.
* Corner of gardens
* Build up of dead leaves/litter
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**TIP**
When sweeping your driveway or patio always sweep away from your
door, so you do not bring in any Sha Qi into your home or office.
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Sheng Qi This is good Qi; imagine it being a wavy line
moving at a steady pace meandering along. This is known as the
breath of the contented Dragon and in a nutshell this is what
Feng Shui aims to achieve. So if you have a long hallway this
Qi will move very fast (Sha Qi) all you need to do is slow it
down. Now you could place a crystal faceted spheres in the hallway
and this would do the trick, however, (here I go again, I must
remember to try and sell you something, and not keep putting you
off) I prefer to do it more naturally, place a few items of furniture
or plants staggered to slow it down. The same applies to your
path leading to your front door, if it is a straight path, try
and place pot plants to make it a wavy path.
A lot of people get confused about Feng Shui, it is not just about
buying cures from our shop, it is also looking at your home and
gardens and seeing where a room or area doesn’t feel right, you
can feel and smell Sha Qi, you must of heard the saying about
someone looking to buy a new house, “I can tell the second I walk
in through the front door if this is the right house for me” this
is not just about how it looks, it is also about how it feels.
You have the same power to sense this, just open your mind and
take a good look round your home this weekend, or better still
invite a friend over who has a similar interest and get them to
look round your home and do the same to theirs you’ve heard of
the saying “sometimes you can’t see the wood for the trees”
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** TIP **
Never have a mirror facing your front door, any Sheng Qi that
enters will be sent straight back out.
*** “Many people suffer poor health, not because of what they
eat, but from what is eating them” ***
Mon 21 May 2007
A word of warning
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I am currently in Malaysia at the moment
and amazed at how many market stalls and shops that are selling
allegedly ancient Feng Shui items like Lou Pans, Ba Gua mirrors
and temple Lions, they all claim they date back hundreds or even
thousands of years and I have to say they look pretty impressive
but believe me these replicas are probably only a few days/weeks/months
old, whether you are in Honk Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur or
Beijing and you are in a normal market type area you are very
unlikely to find genuine antiques relating to Feng Shui or other
artefacts. I have even seen these items on well known auction
sites selling for silly money and outrageously high postage, please
be aware these are fakes, albeit very good fakes.
The photos below are of a shop in the China town area of Singapore
last week, it is hard to tell from the photo but the display is
showing supposable antique Lou Pans (Feng Shui compass), Fu Dogs,
Mah-jong sets, Buddha’s, Chinese warriors and much more. I not
saying it is bad to buy these items just make sure you pay a fair
price as a replica.
Singapore Chinatown street market photos
Fri 18 May 2007
Hearts of gold in Singapore
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As I am working in Singapore and Malaysia
this week I thought I would go and visit the new Buddha Tooth
Relic Temple in the heart of Chinatown Singapore (pictures below).
Of the 420kg of solid gold it took to build this remarkable structure,
234kg was melted from donated gold jewelry pieces from locals,
talk about hearts of gold, it is incredible to see. The building
is amazing and inside is laden with gold statues, tiles and flooring.
The seven story building will open on Vesak day which sadly I
will miss, if you are in Singapore on the 31st May (check dates
to confirm) you should pop down to see the opening; it will be
quite an event. The whole project cost $59 million (Singapore
dollar) of which $42 million was donated or sponsored.
The temple is built along the Sago lane area of Singapore which
is where the death homes used to be. The poor Chinese immigrants
used to go to die in these death homes as it was considered very
unlucky for them to die in their own homes as it would give the
remaining occupants bad luck. These very basic homes were very
cramped in dormitory type rooms with little or no medical attention
so you can imagine what it was like. As dismal as this all sounds
they were guaranteed a good funeral which is thought to bring
them good fortunes in the next live and these death homes whilst
not a very nice place were extremely important to the Chinese
community. Death homes were outlawed in 1961, not that long ago
really.
On that somber note I am off to the famous Raffles Hotel to have
my Singapore Sling cocktail, and they call this work. Zai Jian,
Bai bai, Joi Geen (goodbye for now)
Photos taken on a very hot Friday 18th May 2007
Fri 4 May 2007
10 Top tips that we
use in our home and business.
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10 Top tips that we use in our home and business. ==================================================================
1) Use the Tong
Shu (almanac) for selecting important dates like weddings,
engagements, starting a new business, signing contracts, interviews,
travel, installing a pond or water feature, getting married, building
work. Any event that you think is important.
2) Don’t assume when something bad happens in your life that your
Feng Shui has gone pear shaped, it is probably just a passing
influence of the monthly changes in the flying stars. The first
thing is look at our website or use our Feng
Shui software and check the monthly stars, this normally explains
why something has happened and more importantly what you can do
about it. Do not get paranoid though, sometimes things happen
because it is part of your destiny earth luck and nothing to do
with the Feng Shui of the home, it could be because you are a
Dog or other animal and your forecast that month was not good.
Do not worry, it will pass and remember we spend 70% of our time
worrying about things that never even happen.
3) This advice may sound condescending to some and if so I am
sorry but don’t think by buying a three legged Toad or a pair
of Mandarin ducks and placing it in your office or bedroom that
you will win the lottery one day and the next day your dream date
will come knocking on the door. You have to address the basics
first, a clean house, garden and body and live your life as best
you can. Whatever you give out in this world will come back to
you tenfold good or bad. Don’t get me wrong the Toads and ducks
or any other enhancer are very important but like everything in
life some elbow grease has to go into achieving your dreams. These
enhancers are superb but a little like having a perfect diet and
plenty of exercise but smoke 60 cigarettes and drinking a bottle
of whisky a day. There is no point in placing your 3-legged Toad
in a place where you make space by clearing all the dust and dirt
to one side.
4) The garden is often overlooked and now is a perfect time this
bank holiday weekend to make sure all drains are cleared and cleaned,
and I do mean lifting drain covers and cleaning out and disinfecting,
this is very important and the Sha Ch’i (negative energy) from
them can cause many problems. Gutters and down-pipes also hold
much Sha Ch’I (negative energy) especially if they are full of
dead leaves, just put your nose up close and the smell will tell
all. I know this may not seem like the exciting text you would
normally read in Feng Shui books but to us and the more authentic
Feng Shui Master these jobs are critical for good Feng Shui.
5) It is worth spending a few hours cleaning the main door and
glass, oiling hinges, polishing brass, fixing broken door furniture
etc because the main door is one of the most important areas of
the home, it is usually where the main Ch’i enters your home and
the quality of Ch’i will be as good as the state of repair to
the door. Remember the quality of the Ch’i that enters your home
is governed by the quality of your main door and its surroundings.
This also applies to door mats and door frames. Door mats should
be kept very clean and make sure no shoes are kept by the door.
Did you also know that dirty windows can make you loose 30% daylight
(Sheng Ch’i) in a home?
6) When you have completed these jobs you should check to make
sure all the annual cures and enhancers are set up inside your
home for the year. You should have a Pi Yao in the southeast facing
northwest, six Chinese coins tied in a row with red ribbon placed
in the northeast and also centre of home, along with a salt water
cure, you should have a crystal or ceramic items in the southwest,
for further details of the 2007
cures and enhancers follow this link http://www.fengshuiweb.co.uk/advice/flyingstars2007.htm
7) To activate wealth and relationships this year 2007, place
quartz crystals, crystal balls or hanging faceted crystals in
the southwest of your home, also place some romantic objects like
Mandarin ducks or painting/statues of hugging couples etc. Store
your important financial papers here like pensions, stock portfolio
etc. If you use symbolic cures this is where you should place
your three-legged Toad facing your Sheng Chi direction.
8) Keep a diary of changes you make in the home and garden. You
can easily identify with changes that happen in your life and
use it as a measure of how powerful Feng Shui can be.
9) Try and face your best direction when working, sleeping, writing
etc. Everybody has 4 good and 4 bad directions. To find your good
and bad directions and for more information on this follow this
link http://www.fengshuiweb.co.uk/advice/eightmansions.htm
Of course you can also use our Feng
Shui software.
10) To avoid arguments and legal problems this year avoid spending
time in the northwest of your home or office. Burn a candle here
with care and place something red to weaken the negative energy.
“Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary
ones that are unconquerable.”
Mon 30 Apr 2007
Lausanne, Switzerland.
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For those of you that do not know me or
are new to our website and newsletters you will soon find I love
photography with such a passion and always capture many images
on my travels and use them in my training as powerful teaching
aids.
The photo below was taken (I think around 5am) from my hotel room
in Lausanne, Switzerland a few weeks ago, the area is breathtaking
and whilst I was working here I felt very much on holiday. The
Feng Shui of the majority of the town was very good with spectacular
views over the lake and Alps beyond.
From a Feng Shui point of view the image would be very good for
a mountain 8 star and water 8 (double facing or sitting) also
a 8-1 or 6-8, so if you use traditional Feng Shui Xuan Kong flying
star look out for an image like this to hang. What makes the image
quite powerful is the fiery sun rising at its strongest yang qi
(dawn) and also the fire shaped mountains enhancing (fire creates
earth in the five elements) the 8 mountain star. To many this
may seem quite technical but this is traditional authentic Feng
Shui not the type that rearranges cushions and minimalist rooms.
Art and images are very important in Feng Shui but they need to
be placed carefully, if you study or are familiar with flying
star (Xuan Kong) Feng Shui or indeed use our
Feng Shui software, place an image like the one below to support
and enhance, I have done a quick natal chart below with our software
showing good areas to place this image. I intend to show hundreds
of photos on this blog so check back soon and leave your comments
if you wish, I love to get feedback.
Mon 30 Apr 2007
Welcome
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Welcome to our Blog. I will be updating
this blog often as I now have the freedom to update from anywhere
in the world, so a great opportunity to share with you all some
photos and learning on my travels from all over the world.
All you long term followers of our website know that we do a newsletter
each month and currently we have a database of over 60.000 subscribers,
our biggest problem is that every time we do a newsletter it generates
far too much response and it is impossible to deal with the thousands
of emails we received each month so we have not done a newsletter
in a while. This blog is not replacing the newsletter but it will
be filling in the gaps and of course we can add small amounts
daily, weekly or even on the hour, we shall see how it goes. Bookmark
this page now as I intend to share some quality Feng Shui
resource that you can apply to your home or business.
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