Feng shui literally translates as' wind and water'. The mixing, interaction, flow and penetration of these two life-creating elements best describe the essential energy (known as 'chi') that forms the basis of feng shui.
Feng shui is all about understanding the way you interact with you environment. Because your home has one of the biggest influences on your life (and because it is something over which you have control), feng shui tends to focus in practice on people's living spaces. You can of course also apply feng shui to you working environment, your garden or any space where you like to spend time. By understanding the vital connections of feng shui, you can change those things that influence you most and therefore change the way you feel.
It was in China the core principles that make up modern feng shui originated. Already embedded in Chinese culture was the concept of subtle charge of electromagnetic energy (known as chi) connected people to the world around the: the concepts of yin and yang, the five elements and the trigrams defined how this interaction happened. These concepts were used throughout the Chinese traditions of healing, philosophy, astrology and the martial arts, binding everything together with common threads. Practitioners simple applied the same principles to different subjects.
Feng shui work on the basis that you have an emotional energy field running through and around your body. The energy can be seen around you as your ' aura': it flows inside you through activity centres called 'chakras', and out along the paths knows as 'merdians'. This subtle charge of electromagnetic energy carries your thoughts, ideas and emotions to every cell in your body. It is a two-way process, so the way you use your body also influences you mind and heart, as the altered energy flows back. This process of changing and colouring each cell links your physical and emotional beings.
In addition, you surface energy mixes with the atmosphere around you, with the result that subtle changes occurs in the way you think and feel. Over a long period of time this mixes with external energies can even affect you physical body. External influences on yours energy fields are many and varied and include, landscapes, cities, the people your live with, workplaces and homes, the weather, the sun's solar system, the moon and the position of the plants.
Your emotional energy is constantly interacting with the energy of your home, as a result, some of your feelings reflect the place in which you live. Not only that but your energy spills out into the rooms that you spend time in, filling the atmosphere there with some if your emotions.
You thoughts, feeling and ideas constantly mix with the world around you, and you are always being influenced by the different energies entering your own energy field. At the same time you are radiating energy that disperses out into the space you occupy.
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