Feng Shui for Harmony & Personal Growth

Metal, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth are the five elements of Feng Shui. These elements interact with each other and create an effect on any individual within the field of energy.

Metal hold water, water nourish wood, wood feed fire, fire produce earth and earth create metal. This is call the birth cycle.

Metal cut down wood, wood clogs the earth, earth muddles the water, water douses the fire and fire melt the metal. This is call the death cycle.

It is a common mistake to state that the death cycle is of no good and should be avoid at all times. Remember there is always life after death.

Too much of good things would result in stress as well. For example, if you are a wood person, someone advice you that having water elements around would do you a lot of good and improve your life. So you start wearing black crystal, blue crystal as they would attract the water element. You start placing water fountain at every corner of your room, your work place. But soon, you start to send something is wrong.

Instead of feeling more vibrant and harmony, you feel more weighted down, slow, tired all the time. The reason is that you have attracted too much water element. Water element is now slowly killing the wood element.

Why is that so? Let try a simple experiment. Get a plant, start watering it till its overflow for a few days. Soon you would see the root starting to rot, leaves starting to falling off and then the plant die.

How to stop this process? Either you could remove some objects that are attracting the water element or introduce object that attract fire element. Fire element would tone down the access water element. A balance must be strives at all time.

Understand this basic nature and characteristic of these Five Elements is the key to designing a harmonious home, work place and life. It is a tool to use for enhancing, neutralize or eliminating elements to create a balance when necessary. Each element is of equal important and the Yin or Yang of each element must be consider before attracting objects are to be introduced.

The best way to bring in the elements is objects that are in their natural state. For example, if you required more wood element, a live plant would be much more preferred than a solid wood furniture. It goes the same for water element. Moving water is much preferred than one that is stagnant.

It is also best to use a brand new object. The reason is that an old object can be already been neutralize or alter by some other previous element and it would take a longer time to reset itself and work for you.

The Five Element is an important part of Feng Shui and should be incorporate to home/office design to bring harmony and balance to all.