Anyone else in here believe in getting a Feng Shiu reading for your home? My mom does it, and I have to you tell, it's pretty freaky.

Here's the story:

My buddy and I own a home together as an investment. When we bought the house, my mom did a reading and said that we need moving water in the backyard. Water is good for money. We both were like But we said what the hell, it'll be cool to have a Koi pond in the back anyway.

Well, about three weeks after I got the pond up and running, I got a job offer that paid a lot more money. Hmmm ... we both said.

Unfortunately, I kind of jumped the gun on the pond, and I really didn't keep it up properly. So I had to drain it, clean it out and restart it. So, the pond was empty for about two weeks. My housemate is in sales. So one day, he tells me, half jokingly, "Hey, get the pond going; I'm only at 80 percent of quota."

So I got the pond going. Two weeks later, he tells me, he'a at 110 percent of quota. Needless to say, we both were a little freaked out, and I'm a firm believer in Feng Shiu.

 

fuck that noise.

 

I did a (very) little reading on Feng Shui, because my fiance's aunt is really into it and said that the date we picked for our wedding was a bad number. What I found was that most of the American Feng Shui is BS, because it is applying general advice to the general public. True Feng Shui must be tied to the person, based on their birth date, and will be differet.

Regardless, I think it's total BS and your annecdote is purely coincidental.

 

Could be, and yes, a true Feng Shiu reading requires knowing when the person living in the house was born.

As far as I'm concerned, proper Feng Shiu can't hurt, so why not do it?

 

haha,

you guys who don't believe this kind of shit must not be asian. If you go to las vegas, you will notice that almost all of the big hotel resorts build their shit based on feng shui. And you can have different kinds of objects to counter the negative energy in feng shui. YOu don't have to make drastic changes to your home either. Subtle changes make all the energy flow correctly.

 

It depends if your talking about the house's internal or external energy. Altering the external energy sometimes can be difficult.

 

Well yeah, thats because feng shui is just another name for interior design. It looks better aethestically and makes people more comfortable. You put a mirror in a certain spot, put some water here, a plant there. Don't have your desk facing a wall, don't sit with your back to people, don't have your bed next to an whirring appliance...Feng shui calls it energy or chi or whatever, but its just applying the fundamentals of good design. I don't see any kind of magical shit in it.

 

Actually, that's BS/Americanized Feng Shui that some Asians use to dupe people.

 

^^ damn dood, don't give away the traditional money making technique yo!

 

Right, sorry, I'm sure the 'real' feng shui does have magic powers, like my Liger.

 

Ugh. Maybe before mocking something, you should attempt to understand it first.

And I know many people who believe that there's something to it.

 

Sorry don't mean to be a dick. I'm glad its working out for you.

 

I agree that it connotes positive or negative energy but it doesn't magically make things happen. Like, if you have a bad arrangement for TV watching, you get glare, but glare on TV isn't going to make your dick shrink. Beliefs like that are no different than voodoo. There's a lot of people who think superstitiously, but again, that's not true feng shui. The whole not moving on certain days of the month, etc are also voodoo type of beliefs that some people really stick to in asia but I think again, it's self-created and self-reinforced superstition.

 

Just to be clear: I don't believe Feng Shui has some magical powers or is some cure-all for all of life's ills. To be honest, I was skeptical of it, which is why my housemate and I were like when my mom did the reading and told us what to do. Was it coincidence? Maybe, or maybe not. All I'm saying is I was skeptical, but after experiencing certain things, I believe there's something to it.

 

I agree. I have had a ton of more gas since I moved my ottoman to the west wall.

 

my parents used to have a koi fish pond and all it did was generate alot of mosquitos.

 

nevermind the taco bell binge you went on right before moving said ottoman

 

I've not studied Feng Shui seriously, as to do so requires a significant committment of time. However, I believe the core of the concept of Feng shui is the understanding that space, and spatial/color/form/textural relationships can have emotional impact on those who use the space. Hardly an earth-shattering assumption.

The Chinese have developed Feng Shui as an emperical art over centuries, and it has, in its pure form, a great deal of structure and elegance to it. Does it work in "magical ways" - I dont' think so. DO applying basic interior design rules and spatial definition rules create an ambiance or atmosphere more conducive to certain life activities ? yep.

We can, of course, do that within the context of a Western tradition, but the Western separation of mind/body makes such thinking very difficult, as it is not culturally ingrained. However, it is emerging in some subspecialities of architectural design as "evidence-based design" - for example, it has been established that using landscape art in helathcare settings reduces blood pressure and pulse, both stressor metrics, and thus promotes a more relaxed state in the patient and their family. There are more that are emerging - patients who have bedrooms with landscape views than hardscape views recover quicker, request fewer pain meds and generally have a more fruitful recovery journey. In my field, we are taking serious note of this kind of research to inform what are otherwise rather emperical decisions.

There can be a similar metaphor to acupuncture, an emperical art/science that has emerged over centuries. Western science has validated that electrical energy moves through the body in channels very similar to those defined as "meridian lines", thus confirming this emperical craft. Western science has also determined the value of stimulating those energy lines via blind studies, thus confirming some essential Chinese assumptions of the effecacy of the tool.

The challenge of applying cultural perceptions across cultural lines is challenging though, as culutral context does have a lto to do with individaul spacial and color perceptions. Applying Feng Shui willy-nilly as a set of encyclopaedic rules is propably pretty naieve.......

 

Heh, my dad had one of those, it had running water, it did not help generate money, in fact it took money. Money when the pump broke, money when the liner cracked and tons of money when a crane found our pond and ate $600 worth of koi in one sitting.

 

the asians like the fung shwei becaus they can eat the koi in the backyard.

 

Getting a Koi pond is not some standard Feng Shui fix. There's no standard "do this and it'll be good for this." It depends on when the house was built, which way it faces and who lives there.