What is Feng Shui? – Interview

so you’d like to try feng shui hi I’m
Rebecca Brighton and welcome to
watchmojo.com and today I’m speaking
with feng shui expert trace McKenzie
about the basics of feng shui so firstly
what is feng shui how does it work well
basically Fung Shui is a system and
energy mapping system okay it was
developed in ancient China and we’ve
applied it today in order to be able to
increase the energy in the home to help
harmonize the elements in order to make
you healthy happy and more successful
what aspects of life is feng shui
supposed to affect we can increase your
career potential we can increase your
prosperity love generally just about
anything can be increased or harmonized
what does the term feng shui translate
to Fung Shui literally translates to
wind and water so in ancient China
highly thought out place would be one
that would be protected from the strong
winds coming from the north and have
water in the south so that any the house
or the the city or capital that was in
this geographical location could benefit
from that she coming from the water
what’s this I hear that Feng Shui was
once used for a grave placement
originally Fung Shui was developed in
order to find the most ideal spot in
order to bury someone because the
Chinese believed that the prosperity of
the descendants of that person depended
on how well a location was chosen for
the person that had died what kind of
training have you gone through and do
consultants go through to become my
function expert well I studied with a
master and
I spent a lot of time practicing feng
shui it’s over 12 years now if you’re
going to practice traditional Feng Shui
compass school Fung Shui you really need
to study with a master because the
advanced forms of function way are
actually very very complicated it’s not
a question of hang a wind chime hang a
crystal and your lights going to be
beautiful so what are some of the basics
of Feng Shui for someone who just wants
to start out on their own they can get a
very good book called the complete
idiot’s guide to feng shui it’s a very
very good book and it talks about all
the systems at the basic level you will
use the bagua the ba gua is eight pieces
of pie or eight trigrams each one
corresponds to a direction and a life
station so for example the North
corresponds to career the South
corresponds to fame the southeast
corresponds to prosperity a lot of
people used a nine square grid you know
the nine grid because it’s easier to
divide your house into nine equal pieces
versus the eight but I’m old school I
was I I did it so long ago that you know
back then there was only eight can you
tell us a bit about how Feng Shui
utilizes color well we often use color &
Fung Shui in order to weaken and energy
or in order to increase in energy famous
associated with the color of red so if
we wanted to increase let’s say the
famed sector at the basic level which
would be the south we would add red
objects to this location of your home
you don’t just have to repaint or
something like that not no I mean
obviously and in the perfect world we
would repaint a good feng shui
practitioner should be able to find a
solution for you and use your own stuff
to do it thank you very much you very
well