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| thebodymindandsoul - mind - feng shui - ancient feng shui knowledge Ancient Feng Shui Knowledge
Ancient Knowledge – Modern World : The relevance of feng shui today. “I’m not having some 3000 year old Chinese guy telling me where to put my sofa”. It is not uncommon to hear people express this kind of sentiment when talking about the concept of feng shui. Actually, mankind has not evolved much in biological terms in the last 3 millennia, and so much of the original research on human life that was done by our ancestors is still as relevant as it ever was. The world that surrounds us today continues to play a bigger part in our day to day lives than might be immediately apparent. There is no life on Mars because the environment does not support it. Numerous species are becoming extinct or endangered on our own planet because their supporting environment has been damaged or destroyed. If the environment is not right, life cannot survive. Science could probably measure quite specifically what environmental requirements are needed to support a given life form. But as we all know, there is much more to being alive than what science can currently tell us. “Location Location Location” is a phrase that has become part of our language and acknowledges the importance of position, particularly when it comes to the desirability of property. Everybody wants to live in a good environment, and are willing to pay for it. Quite what constitutes a good environment in this context is something that is still beyond conventional science, but it is something that we can all understand on a different level. Not in my back yard! We regularly hear about the NIMBY culture when new developments are proposed. People will naturally want to preserve keep their local environment as “good” as possible and will fight anything that threatens it; while they instinctively understand the need, it is difficult to quantify that in any real way, and as a result the planners usually get their way. Most householders will at some point have decorated their living room. The chances are, that the reason they did it was “because it was needed”. The old decor was affecting them in such a way as to cause them to change it. The expectation is that when the job is completed, the room will feel “better”, and they will therefore feel happier living in that space. Environmental issues affect everyone. Traditional feng shui methods can provide a means to better understand a situation in relation to the human aspect rather than the purely scientific. When people are comfortable and supported by the environment around them, they are happier, healthier and more productive than they would otherwise be. Feng shui can show how to create or improve an environment that can properly support the people living in it. So yes, many of the methods have been
handed down over thousands of years, but they are just as relevant
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