feng shui forms
Forms are the physical things: the mountains, bodies of water, roads, other buildings, trees, rocks, walls, pathways, furniture, objects…
Good Forms are the backbone of good Feng Shui. They can get you a long way towards a Feng Shui house, but should be aligned with your home’s or office’s energies to be completely effective.
Nevertheless, forms are so powerful that, if they are wrong, you cannot overcome this with good energies alone.
The first point to consider, is whether the physical features and objects in your space are beautiful. Do you have a positive reaction towards them? Or are there ugly objects, or ragged unkempt features that make you uneasy? Create an environment that make you feel good.
Balance
Feng Shui is about a dynamic balance between cosy still spaces, and open active spaces. Popular open plan living can be too open – it can be hard to find a corner to relax in.
Older buildings, on the other hand, tend to be enclosed and often have dark rooms – lacking openness and free movement of energies.
Balance does not mean that all spaces in the home are the same, but that there are open areas where energy and people can move freely, and there are more enclosed spaces where you can really rest and chill out.
Safety
We instinctively react to ‘dangerous’ forms. Externally, these may be raging rivers, and large busy, or oncoming roads. Such features are threatening: You can’t get across them; they may be noisy, polluted and unpredictable, and make you feel edgy.
Likewise, you would feel unsettled in a home below an unstable ragged cliff face or over-towered by a 15-story apartment block. You instinctively wouldn’t consider such forms ‘safe’.
power place
Internally, the furniture arrangement can make us feel safe and protected or exposed and edgy. If you look around a restaurant, people will sit with their back against a wall, preferably with view of the door, if they have a choice. We feel 'safer' and more in control this way.
There is an arrangement of furniture that gives you the best support. When sleeping or sitting at a desk or in your lounge, the most powerful position has a solid wall behind you. Viewed from the door, the best Feng Shui bed position - and sitting position is located against the far wall of the room with clear view of the door and windows.
Shapes
You can influence the feel of a place by the shapes of its objects. Round objects are more dynamic than rectangular or square shapes. That is why it is good to sleep on a rectangular bed.
Boardrooms are more dynamic. They often use round or oval tables. To bring more life into a space, choose a round table, or a lounge setting with more rounded forms, or an oval rug.
Natural Pathways
Energy moves naturally in curves. This can be seen by a meandering river that gently makes its way through a plain. Straight long pathways tend to have energy move too fast through them.
Ideally, pathways within and outside a building should meander gently. No straight long pathway or roads should point directly at a door, seat or bed.
A word of caution
Please note that above are general recommendations only. For example, if you slept in a beautiful bedroom in the power position, but its inherent energy was negative, your sleep and health would be still be compromised. The same would be true for a desk position, etc.
If above guidelines don't result in a space that you feel comfortable in, you should consider a professional Feng Shui analysis of your home or office, which would help you tap into the positive potential of your place.
If you are designing a house or moving offices, a Feng Shui analysis can save you time and money involved with activating the wrong energies.
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