Feng Shui literally means wind and water. It is rapidly becoming a standard practice for creating the ideal environment in which to live and work. Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese study of the natural and "built" environment and has been practiced for thousands of years. This environment can be at the office, in your home, or in a place you just want to feel comfortable in. Feng Shui examines the surrounding environment, the building, and how the people interact with the building. Based upon these considerations, changes can be made on how to improve your relationship with the environment around you. Results include prosperity, health benefits, and well being. Properly applied, Feng Shui can result in improvements in the life of the individuals who occupy the property. The goal of Feng Shui is to unite your surroundings, interior and exterior design, and the interior flow of energy in a building as one integral entity. .
The most important contributor to the Feng Shui of a house is the surrounding environment, including natural landforms and nearby buildings. If you find problems in the surrounding environment such as malevolent landforms like jagged rocks and steep cliffs, grotesque-looking trees, threatening structures such as large power transformers, or a road running straight at the house, don"t give up. To change the Feng Shui of the external environment, you may think you have to undertake difficult, expensive, or impossible actions such as moving the landforms, altering the course of a river, or getting your city to change its road patterns. However, this is not that case. The surrounding environment, or nature, balances itself using the Creative Cycle and Destructive cycle. The Creative Cycle involves one element "creating" another . For example, water "feeds" or creates wood. However, the Destructive Cycle order is different because an element can overpower another one. For instance, water will "douse" or destroy fire.
