If you are here reading this, then there is a good chance that you know all about Feng Shui. The people that believe in Feng Shui think that it holds the answers to everything that is important in their world. People that do not believe in it simply think it is an excuse for the way other people act. People can liken it to baby clothes and designer diaper bags loaded with cute baby clothes all arranged in a certain way. To the person that packed the bag, it is exactly what and how they wanted it to be. To the onlooker simply gazing into the bag, it is a bit over the top with little bearing on reality.
So what is there about Feng Shui that attracts people? Is it the desire to improve your relationship with some ancient practice? Is it merely a way to get you through the day? Baby clothes are something that is necessary for a young child. But is it necessary to have a designer diaper bag full of cute baby clothes? More than likely the answer to this question is going to be a resounding no. However, if you are the person with that particular bag full of clothes or the baby that has a parent that has that bag it is going to be important to you,
A nice flow through your home will do wonders towards making your life a more harmonious thing. Feng Shui will allow that to happen. It’s not really magic; it’s not really a true ancient science. It is a way for you to allow a harmonious flow through your home that will make things easier on all that happen through.
It will reduce the clutter that has built up over the months and years of living at one location and will create a wonder sense of harmony in the home. Simply by the nature of removing the clutter, the stress in the home will be reduced by a marked amount and there is also something that is known as the placebo effect. This is a real phenomenon where the power of the mind, where the person actually thinks that Feng Shui is making a difference, actually starts to believe that it does. This can be likened to the old sugar pill scenario where a doctor gives a patient a placebo pill made of sugar and the person’s own mind, convinced that the pill is real, actually heals its self.
The truth of the Feng Shui actually is likely to lie somewhere in between all of those many possibilities and may lean heaver to one for me and towards another for you. The truth is that removing the clutter in our lives today can do nothing more than good things for us all and the end result will be less stress and a healthier environment with some harmonious overtones.
And there certainly is absolutely nothing wrong with that happening in our lives no matter how you look at it.
Posted on March 8th, 2011 by Susan Palmer
Filed under: Feng Shui
