Feng Shui in Natural Locales
Feng shui aspects of beach, mountains, or desert
Choosing to live in a particular area of the world can affect your life with chi that comes with specific types of landscape.
Feng shui teaches that location and movement of items can bring about chi, or good vibes. Location of your furniture can determine the harmony that surrounds your family, or constant illness that has no apparent cause. Location is perhaps 90% of feng shui. The other 10%, though not any less important, is attitude and a positive outlook, as well as each person’s personal destiny.
According to feng shui, the location of personal items is not the only factor that determines how smoothly and peacefully your life runs. The actual location of your home or office as it pertains to the landscape of your area can have a great effect on the chi of your family life, your health, or your business.
If you live in the desert, you may experience hard times that demand insight into your reason for living there. Like the saguaro cactus, people who make a successful life in the desert have an inner strength that will get them through many of life’s upheavals. At first glance, the desert seems to be nothing but death. But the hearty ones who thrive on the desert’s sparseness appreciate what the barren land has to offer. In their lives, they see past the desolation to the blooming, spiny ocotillo.
To the Native Americans in northern Arizona, the San Francisco Peaks hold deep spiritual meaning. The chi of mountains can be a paradox. A volcanic range holds pent up energy that can release good or evil. Molten lava can eradicate a town, but renewed life will emerge stronger than before. If the flora and fauna of a mountain or hilly locale flourishes, the possibility for harmony exists. But, as seen in the Appalachians, many people have suffered who have potentially rich chi.
To live near water is conducive to a successful happy life. If you open your door each day to a view of a bay or a stream running past your yard, according to the practices of feng shui, good luck is yours. Millions of people in Indonesia have much different stories to tell , though, about the disaster that water brought to them in the wake of the terrible tsunami not long ago.
If you are considering a move to a different part of the country or the world, you may want to consider what different types of landscape offer in terms of chi. By preparing yourself ahead of time, you will be able to work around the positive and negative aspects of the new area in which you choose to live.
