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In your home, you want to feel comfortable—especially after a long, exhausting day, you long for a sense of security, peace, and relaxation. All of this can be provided by your living environment, your space. With Feng Shui, you have the opportunity to recognize your full potential, and by thoughtfully designing your living space according to its principles, it becomes much easier to relax and let go.
Use the power of Feng Shui to allow positive energy to flow through your space and create a place of calm and relaxation.
Feng Shui literally translates to “wind and water” and is a philosophy of harmony. It symbolizes the space around us and the creation of an ideal environment.
Just as the clear water of a meandering river makes the land fertile and the gentle wind of spring carries pollen and seeds forward, the smooth flow of Qi (life energy) makes life possible.
Everything is a matter of the right quality and the right speed. Living according to Feng Shui enables a person to shape their space in a way that allows them to reach their full potential. In Feng Shui, the consultant assumes that all matter is connected to the individual, and that the layout of a space and the positioning of furniture have a significant impact on well-being.
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Feng Shui offers you the opportunity to analyze living spaces using a structured system. Whether individual rooms, entire houses, apartments, or even your garden—the Bagua serves as a template for your floor plan. It is based on the fundamental principles of Feng Shui. With the help of the Bagua, you can assign a specific meaning and effect to each area of your home.
The term Bagua is derived from the Chinese word ‘ba,’ which stands for the number 8, and the word ‘gua,’ meaning trigram.
At the center of the Bagua lies life energy—Tai Qi. Surrounding this center are the eight zones representing the eight trigrams. The Bagua can therefore be understood as a kind of map of life.
With the help of the Bagua grid, you can assign functions to different areas of life according to the energy they correspond to most closely. For this, we use the 8-house system and its connection to the Bagua. The guiding principle is: the more symmetrical and balanced the layout, the better Qi can flow.
Each of the eight trigrams represents a family member. The eight trigrams can be divided into two groups: one Yang (masculine) and the other Yin (feminine).
| Yang – männlich | Yin – weiblich | ||||
| Qian | Himmel | Vater | Kun | Erde | Mutter |
| Chen | Donner | 1. Sohn | Xun | Wind | 1.Tochter |
| Kan | Wasser | mittlerer Sohn | Li | Feuer | mittlere Tochter |
| Gen | Berg | 3.Sohn | Dui | See | 3.Tochter |
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The living room is the heart of your home and should therefore receive special attention. It should be a place where you feel comfortable and can relax. At the same time, the living room often serves multiple purposes—it is not only a space for rest and unwinding, but also a place for gathering and connection.
In your Feng Shui living room, you welcome guests and friends, making it a place of lively exchange. It is therefore important to create a harmonious and inviting atmosphere through the right lighting, color choices, and the proper arrangement of your furniture.
Use wall art, Feng Shui décor, and a few indoor plants to enhance the ambiance of your living room. If you wish to place a mirror, always ensure that you choose the right position.
With Feng Shui, even small but highly effective changes can transform your living room into a positive energy space. Harness the power of Feng Shui—because when your space smiles, you smile too.
Surround yourself with everything you love—this naturally creates a sense of comfort and well-being.
This was already pointed out by the renowned physician Paracelsus (1493–1541).
Bedrooms should ideally be places of rest and regeneration. We spend a significant amount of time there, recharging our energy for everyday life.
However, many people find that they cannot fully recover in their sleeping space, feel tense, or may even become unwell. One common cause of this can be geopathic stress zones.
It is a side effect of our modern society that we are surrounded daily by varying levels of electrical, magnetic, and electromagnetic fields—for example, from home electrical installations, office wiring, technical equipment, household appliances, mobile communications, cordless DECT phones, and more.
Today, the average household in Germany has around 40 electrical devices. Our workplaces are also fully equipped with modern electronic technology.
But how does this affect us?
Electrical, magnetic, and electromagnetic fields can lead to physical and psychological stress and, over time, may negatively impact our health.
Mirrors are used very deliberately in Feng Shui. If negative energy affects the house—especially the entrance—a Bagua mirror is used to deflect that energy.
In living spaces, mirrors should always reflect something pleasant and positive. Placing a mirror directly opposite the entrance can have negative effects.
In addition, mirrors in the bedroom should not be positioned in a way that reflects the bed. Mirrors belong to Yang energy and do not align with the calm Yin qualities that are essential in a bedroom.
Your environment influences you, everything around you has an effect. You have it in your hands! Create change through Feng Shui.
With Feng Shui knowledge, you can lead a happier, more successful, and healthier life. Through the correct placement of furniture, the right orientation, and the professional use of colors and shapes, you can create harmony between yourself and your surroundings.
Bring balance and positive energy into your life with Feng Shui, especially into your bedroom.
One basic rule of a Feng Shui bedroom is: keep things tidy, which often means letting go of old and unnecessary things.
Perhaps you should part with old and unneeded bed linen, or decorations that you no longer like?
Feng Shui offers many more tips on how to achieve a restful and relaxing sleep.
Feng Shui offers many more tips on how to achieve restful sleep.
A vacuum cleaner can easily turn into a “dream sucker” if you leave it standing openly in the bedroom. Like other objects associated with work activities, it interferes with your ability to switch off and negatively affects restful sleep.
This happens because our subconscious likes to play tricks on us. If there is ironing lying around, it becomes impossible for our subconscious to forget about that task. The same applies to other things connected with work and activity, such as desks, drying racks, vacuum cleaners, boxes, or work materials.
The same also applies to other objects associated with work and activity, such as desks, drying racks, vacuum cleaners, boxes, or work materials.
One basic rule of Feng Shui is:
No work-related activities in the bedroom!
Children react very sensitively to a poor environment!
The consequences can be: difficulty concentrating, aggression, lack of motivation, frequent illnesses, introversion, skin problems, etc.
If you notice these signs, it may be useful to examine the children’s room according to Feng Shui principles.
Useful tips for this:
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How many working hours do you spend at your desk? Certainly a large part of your lifetime. And you should not spend that time in a workplace where you feel uncomfortable.
With a careless design, a room can have a counterproductive effect on you. The Feng Shui office is one such space that often receives too little attention. Yet today, it is often necessary to bring living and working under one roof into harmonious balance. When choosing the location for your workspace, one simple rule applies: Separate professional life from private life!
With Feng Shui, you can transform your home office into a source of inspiration and create a place of joyful and efficient work. Through Feng Shui, combining work and life under one roof can become a promising path to success for you.
For efficient work and inspiring ideas, order and organization are essential. Houseplants and regular fresh air circulation can help balance the electrosmog generated by devices such as your computer.
The older historical term for the study of environmental observation was Kan Yu. Kan Yu means “observing the heavens and following the path of the earth.” Only later did the term Feng Shui become established.
Translated literally, Feng Shui means “wind and water,” the elemental foundations of life. An adequate amount of water and gentle winds were always crucial for a rich harvest and were associated with prosperity and good health. Rivers and ponds were therefore of great importance during the early development of Feng Shui.
In times of drought, they guaranteed the survival of a community. Gentle winds brought rain and therefore cooling and refreshment for people, animals, and plants. At that time (around 6000 BC), choosing a good or bad place to live could mean the difference between life and death.
Through observations and studies of the landscape and the settlements located there, theories and hypotheses began to emerge. The resulting effects on the people living in those places were documented and collected; this marked the true beginning of the science of Feng Shui.
The scholars of ancient China observed the recurring phenomena of nature and their influence on people over thousands of years. They came to the conclusion that success and failure are not solely the result of human actions, but are also influenced by the forces of the earth, which affect an individual’s well-being and health.
Particular attention was given to the effects of certain landscape formations. Patterns and relationships were identified, and useful formulas were developed from the extensive knowledge of the ancient masters. In addition to the shape of the landscape, the orientation and positioning of buildings were further criteria for finding a favorable construction site and designing the associated building.
The teachings of Authentic Feng Shui make it possible to view a living space in a holistic way. Even today, a master passes on the correct application of this knowledge to their students.
All living beings are subject to the cycles of nature and time. Today, however, we and our environment are increasingly falling out of balance. Negative influences create disharmony and weakness within our living spaces. With the help of Authentic Feng Shui, it is possible to restore harmony and balance to our lives.
When applied correctly, Feng Shui helps dissolve blockages and obstacles and directly supports our actions. It motivates, creates harmony, and encourages us to live more consciously.
The Ba Zhai system originates from the classical San He system and is based on the harmony of the different trigrammes.
These are divided into two groups, each with four harmonious directions: the West Group and the East Group. Every building and every person belongs to one of these two groups and therefore has four cardinal directions that strengthen and support them, and four directions that weaken and hinder them.
The more advanced refinement of this system is still unknown to many consultants in Germany. The eight trigrammes are reassigned to the 24 directions of the Luo Pan compass, allowing unfavorable directions to be balanced with very specific positive directions.
The Ba Zhai system is very effective and powerful. It can be used very well in apartments and offices and is easy to apply.
In Western Feng Shui, experts assume that each direction is associated with a specific area of life.
For example, the wealth corner is assigned to the southeast, fame to the south, partnership to the southwest, and children to the west. The northwest represents helpful people and friends. Career is located in the north, while knowledge and wisdom are found in the northeast, and health is associated with the east.
This Three-Door Bagua method was introduced from America to Germany in the 1980s. Professor Lin Yun and his student Sara Rossbach established this method in the German Feng Shui market.
This method is still practiced by many people today. Practitioners enter a house without using a compass and arrange the energy according to this simple system.
There is no classical tradition or long-standing body of proven experience behind it.
The traditional masters of Feng Shui speak of a long life in good health, harmony within the family and among friends, as well as well-raised and intelligent children, a good reputation and appreciation in society, stable income and wealth. A happy marriage and harmonious partnerships, successful studies, and professional success are also considered important.
Feng Shui masters say that all of this can be achieved through Feng Shui. These are by no means empty promises, but such results can only be achieved if the necessary conditions are in place. This requires a careful analysis of the environment, the qualities of time, and the personal circumstances of the residents.
This raises the question of how we can achieve this.
It is possible when we understand what truly matters: the complete harmony of the residents and the interaction with the external environment. All factors must be analyzed and taken into consideration in order to achieve the greatest potential of each individual.
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Qi is what holds the world together at its core and keeps it in motion. Everything affects everything else because all things are interconnected. Its complete disappearance results in death.
Qi is a life-force concept from China. It is used to explain the origin of all life on Earth.
A disturbed exchange of Qi (stress, night shifts, jet lag, etc.) can make people ill.
An unbalanced person often becomes sick more quickly than a balanced person. In such cases, this is referred to as a Qi deficiency.
Every illness requires two things
Feng Shui enables people to detect and make use of Qi in nature. Qi Gong, Asian martial arts, and yoga help us cultivate the Qi of the body. Meditation allows us to refine the Qi of the mind and psyche. Through the methods of Feng Shui, the goal is to create a healthy exchange of Qi for people.
Qi must possess certain qualities in order to be beneficial for humans:
Feng Shui has categorized the qualities of Qi into four beneficial and four harmful types for humans.
Sha Qi is considered the worst quality of Qi — very unpleasant energy — and should definitely be avoided.
Example:
One of the worst possible situations is when a house is “attacked” from three sides by fast-moving, straight-flowing Qi. Everything that takes place in front of our front door influences the Qi within the house.
Feng Shui enables people to detect and make use of Qi in nature.
Through the methods of Feng Shui, the Feng Shui master aims to create a healthy exchange of Qi for people. Qi Gong, Asian martial arts, and yoga help cultivate Qi within the body.
Meditation allows us to refine the Qi of the mind and psyche.
Yang represents the bright, warm, masculine, extroverted, and active aspects of life. It is symbolized by the light section in the Yin and Yang symbol. Yin represents the inward, withdrawn, feminine, and passive aspects.
The two dots symbolize that Yin contains the seed of Yang, and vice versa — just as light contains darkness, and darkness contains light. Even the cycles of life are represented within this symbol.
Sky
Sun
Day
Light
Activity
Hot
Fire
Earth
Moon
Night
Shadow
Rest
Cold
Water
This teaching of Yin and Yang emerged as a philosophical concept during the Han Dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD).
Slightly younger is the doctrine of the Five Elements, which was also derived from observations of human life and is attributed to a certain Zou Yan (around 300 BC). For example, shiny things were associated with Yang, while dull things were associated with Yin. A lively or excitable person represents Yang, whereas a lazy or calm person represents Yin. The early morning hours, when life awakens, are considered Yang, while twilight approaches Yin.
The character traits associated with the Five Elements were also used in Chinese physiognomy (Siang Mien) to draw conclusions about a person’s character based on their appearance and overall impression. According to this system, the Metal type corresponds to a square appearance, the Water type to obesity, the Fire type to sharp facial features, the Earth type to a sturdy build, and the Wood type to a lean figure.
For example, the expressive impression of a Wood type may suggest restless behavior and a nagging or unfriendly nature.
In the dynamics of the world, all phenomena pass through the cycle of Yin and Yang as well as the cycle of the Five Elements. Therefore, a more accurate term than “Five Elements” would actually be the “Five Phases of Transformation,” because the Chinese concept emphasizes that one phase follows, transforms, or overcomes another.
The complexity of the system is ultimately rooted in these transformational phases: first, they themselves are related to Yin and Yang, and second, they replace one another in several different sequences. The most important of these, as already mentioned, are the cycle of mutual generation and the cycle of mutual overcoming.
The cycle of mutual generation works as follows:
Wood generates Fire, Fire generates Earth (ash), Earth generates Metal, Metal generates Water (through the melting process), and Water generates Wood.
Conversely, the overcoming cycle works like this:
Water overcomes Fire, Fire overcomes Metal, Metal overcomes Wood, Wood overcomes Earth, and Earth overcomes Water.
| Wandlungsphasen | Holz | Feuer | Erde | Metall | Wasser |
| Jahreszeit | Frühling | Hochsommer | Spätsommer | Herbst | Winter |
| Temperatur | Wind | Hitze | Feuchtigkeit | Trockenheit | Kälte |
| Geschmack | Sauer | Bitter | Süß | Scharf | Salzig |
| Sinnesorgane | Augen | Zunge | Mund | Nase | Ohren |
| Organe | Gallenblase | Dünndarm | Magen | Dickdarm | Blase |
| Speicherorgane | Leber | Herz | Milz | Lunge | Nieren |
| Emotion | Wut | Freude | Nachdenken | Trauer | Furcht |
Time-related aspects also play an essential role in bringing the Feng Shui of a house into harmony.
There are 24 possible directions that can be analyzed within nine cycles. The main goal is to bring the life force, Qi, into harmony with both the residents and the house. Quiet spaces, such as a Feng Shui bedroom or a meditation room, should be located in an area of the garden or in a calm zone (from the outside perspective).
Yang spaces, such as the entrance, the kitchen, the Feng Shui living room, and also the Feng Shui children’s room, should be assigned to the active energies of the house.
Ultimately, the Feng Shui of a house is an individual and complex analysis designed to bring the residents into harmony.
In this way, inflows and outflows of water can be intentionally designed according to authentic Feng Shui in order to achieve the best activation of external energy. Likewise, streams can be deliberately created and guided through the garden in a meandering form to stimulate activating energy.
Carefully placed stones can be used like acupuncture points. In this way, Qi is stimulated and activated to guide positive energy toward the house. Resting areas, as well as garden furniture, require a protected space and are positioned intentionally.
In a Feng Shui garden, nothing is left to chance, so that the harmony of Yin and Yang can be tangibly experienced.
In 2012, Petra Coll Exposito was engaged as the consulting and leading Feng Shui master for Haus Shanti in Bad Meinberg. Following the great success of the implemented measures, she became the Feng Shui consultant for the entire complex and continues to be regularly consulted for advice.
Further examples:The PRIMAVERA LIFE building https://feng-shui.de/feng-shui-gebaeude/
Healing practice designed according to Feng Shui https://feng-shui.de/praxisraeume-nach-feng-shui-gestaltet/
Together with the then chairman, Jürgen Schulz, Feng Shui was incorporated from the very beginning of the renovation work. Today, the children’s hospice is considered one of the leading institutions in the care of children and young adults at the end of life.
Further examples:
Barbara’s Tiny House
Tiny House Designed According to Feng Shui
Organic store using Feng Shui
Feng Shui in an Organic Store Led to Increased Sales
Are you interested in becoming a Feng Shui consultant yourself?
In my popular training program, you will learn everything you need to deliver professional Feng Shui consultations and earn a living from it!
The goal is always to make use of the greatest possible consulting potential in order to achieve the best results for our clients. Alongside Feng Shui, there are certainly many additional measures that may be necessary to bring about positive changes and improvements in our well-being and health.
The importance of preventive measures is becoming increasingly recognized in light of the changing environment, growing pressures, and increasing stress factors. In Feng Shui, prevention also means being supplied with good external energies (Qi), so that energy can flow harmoniously within.
The center of the house, as well as the center of each room, should always remain open. This allows Qi to circulate and spread freely.
If the center of the house is occupied by a bathroom or a kitchen, this may lead to stomach and digestive problems or even an unfulfilled desire to have children.
Here you can learn everything important about the individual rooms:
Feng Shui in the Bedroom
Feng Shui in the Children’s Room
Feng Shui in the Office/Home Office
FAQ
With the methods of Feng Shui, you can create a more harmonious living environment. Every space around us affects us, just as other people can influence us as well.
Our external surroundings are responsible for how harmoniously our lives unfold and how happy we can become. In Feng Shui, environmental features indicate how favorable the quality of a person’s living space is.
Especially indoors, sleeping areas and everyday living spaces are designed in a way that is in harmony with the individual. For example, a poor sleeping environment can negatively affect a person’s quality of life.
The right place to sleep can create a major positive change in a person’s life. Using the principles of Feng Shui, you can design or discover this place yourself.
Translated literally, Feng Shui means “Wind and Water” and symbolizes the changing nature of energies on Earth. Wind itself has no form, but it takes on form through the direction from which it comes. For example, a windsurfer can accelerate or slow down by adjusting the position of the sail.
Water also takes its shape from its surroundings. Riverbanks shape rivers, just as the shoreline shapes the sea. A glass of water has a different form than the water in a pond. In Chinese philosophy, metaphors are often used to describe concepts and circumstances.
In Feng Shui, the energies of the environment are primarily analyzed and applied in ways that are beneficial to people, in order to design each individual’s living space according to their needs. Shapes, directional qualities, cardinal directions, and time-related factors all play an important role in this process.
In authentic classical Feng Shui, the cardinal directions are determined using a geomantic compass in order to bring the house and its residents into harmony.
There are guidelines ranging from simple formulas to highly complex systems of analysis that every Feng Shui expert can follow to align people with their homes or living spaces.
Just as the cycles of nature influence us as human beings, all external components of a room and its surroundings also affect us. Feng Shui helps us recognize negative features in the environment and transform them.
Special attention is given to interior spaces, using colors, shapes, and directional qualities to bring people into a more positive energetic state.
Many experts assume that Feng Shui is more than 6,000 years old. However, the earliest Feng Shui practitioners were primarily concerned with finding good grazing land and water for daily life.
Over time, this evolved into complex systems of analysis that also included the cycles of time and the surrounding environment.
In this way, the first dwellings built according to Feng Shui principles emerged purely from a survival perspective. Today, Feng Shui experts use the principles and methods of Feng Shui to bring people into harmony with their living environment.
It is written that this book is more than 3,000 years old. For thousands of years in China, it has been consulted as an oracle to seek insight into the future.
It may seem to belong to the category of fortune-telling, like tarot cards, astrology, or palm reading, but it is much older than all of these forms of predicting the future. Its answers are also often considered uncannily accurate, which is why the I Ching is sometimes referred to as the highest oracle.
Since this book was written, many scholars have translated the I Ching from Chinese into Latin, German, English, and numerous other languages.
Especially in recent decades, interest in the I Ching has spread widely throughout the Western world. Many followers treat its statements and judgments with great seriousness. Comparisons with the genetic code have also become increasingly common, since DNA, like the I Ching, contains a system based on 64 codes.
