FENG SHUI ARTICLES
BY CLAUDIO HECTOR MELLONI DE MEDINA
In architectural design in Feng Shui key, the final goal is to obtain environments with a vibrant, positive flow of Qi that circulates harmoniously, so that users perceive that they are living a place in an intense, full and with greater sensitivity. These are elements that professionals and technicians should take into account in their interventions, in order to create a perfect synergy between man and the surrounding environment.
When this goal is achieved, the designed well-being, deriving from environmental energy (tangible and intangible Qi) in synergy with the well-being of the body and soul, in intense and perfect harmony, contribute to creating a condition that facilitates man to be happy, beyond the permanent trials of the world in which he lives.
Growing internally, with external, precise help, based on the classic Feng Shui approach of tangible Qi (Xing Shi, of the School of Form) and intangible Qi (Liqi Pai, of the School of the Compass, Mathematical Method), allows us to find without a doubt a stimulating path to rebalance and enhance our vital energies.
The Feng Shui of the Compass is an ancient art that has been experimented for a long time, initially for the centuries in the East, capable of allowing and enhancing the energy of spaces by promoting: prosperity, health and harmony. In recent times to open a new chapter in the West, introducing a practical, in-depth tool, necessary for professionals in architecture and interior design.
Practitioners who operate without using the tools of advanced classical Feng Shui, such as the Xuan Kong Fei Xing School (Flying Stars of Space – Time), the Pa-Chai or Ba-Zhai (Method of the 8 Palaces or of the Wandering Stars) and finally the Ba Zi (Method of the four Pillars of destiny), lose a fundamental part of quality in the evaluation of the procedures for the creation and sustainability of the project objectives set by this ancient art of Wind and Water. In fact, not taking into account the characteristics of the flow and power of Qi (or Chi) as an incidence of environmental energetics and the emotional psychophysical aspects of the human being who occupies the spaces, we have a partial evaluation.
It is therefore necessary to enhance, spread and use with wisdom and absolute trust the tools of the original classical Feng Shui. In recent times, with the “New Age” some non-classical schools (not belonging to the historic Compass Schools) have also spread in the West, focused on the expectation of a result deriving from the application of an intuitive method, with an energetic return of an “animist” type.
This non-classical approach, but quicker to learn, is necessarily associated with objects and elements defined as Feng Shui (colored objects and symbols), which increasingly, also due to a fact of fashion, are subjected as a strong temptation in the eyes of potential customers with a solely commercial purpose. In this way, an ancient art that has always characterized the architecture of cities, monuments and gardens is debased.
We must then consider Feng Shui in its various interdisciplinary aspects (geology, geobiology, architecture, topography, geomancy, anthropology, philosophy, art, geography……) to consciously address the original classical tools. Taking advantage of the success and worldwide expansion of this ancient discipline of building, considered a pseudoscience and “energy matter”, we must strive to obtain the greatest possible rigor in the use of diagnostic and application tools derived from the classical method.
Just as the support of people with their will and their faith in what they do, or what they believe in, is considered valid, classical Feng Shui is also fundamental as a discipline of architecture, providing the mastery of “energy matter” and environmental Qi, beyond thought or personal characteristics.
In fact, the fundamental properties of classical Feng Shui are based on the study of Qi that can be transported or distributed by the movement of the wind, slowed down by natural or artificial volumes (buildings) or retained by water. Working with the nature of Qi means working with the art of Feng Shui.
Understanding this concept means intuiting the true essence of harmony, through the perception of Qi with the five senses (tangible Qi) and the perception of subtle Qi, that which “is felt or lived” (intangible Qi), explainable only with the original classical model of Feng Shui.
Taking into consideration only one of the two aspects of energy, and ignoring the other, we certainly lose the indispensable holistic, integral vision of the interaction with universal energy, the basis of our life, but above all of the quality of our life.
In these times when man needs reflection, peace and inner growth, we have at our disposal an extraordinary, ancient tool that works from the beginning, from the analysis of the external environment, to move on to the inside and finally arrive at the well-being of people. Feng Shui teaches us to harmonize energy integrally.
Theory is important, but even more important is the practical experience of this formidable knowledge, and better yet, its application in a conscious way.
The results can be surprising. The history of Feng Shui, with more than 4,000 years of life, demonstrates this.
