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From the Back Cover: Feng Shui and the Tango is the 'Cappuccino' of the environmental healing arts. It's a tasty mix of the best techniques for successfully designing your way to the life style you choose to create. Tango is built upon ancient Asian and European design knowledge and then it's supercharged with healthy amounts of modern ergonomics and energetic physiology. This 'East meets West' approach is like having green tea with your apple pie, or chocolate dipped fortune cookies and it possesses that particular western genius for practical synthesis and innovation. The result is easy to understand from a modern western perspective and as importantly, simple to implement.
It provides powerful solutions that can lead to remarkable results and still work with whatever design styles make you feel comfortable. Do you want more fun and romance in your life? How about greater commitment in your relationships? These are two easy programs that you have the power to design for yourself. Is greater professional acclaim and increased cash flow your goal? You've programmed your environment for where you are now. Feng Shui and the Tango will show you how to program your surroundings for where you want to go.
Some Reviews of Feng Shui and the Tango, followed by a sample chapter.
"This book is a delight and goes far beyond most contemporary books on Feng Shui in that it addresses the underlying, essential concepts and their expressions in realistic ways. They align terrestrial mechanics of points, curves and geometries with the cosmos in an insightful and amusing way. I recommend it for anyone, beginner's mind or expert." A.T. Mann Author of "Sacred Architecture"
"-one of the best Bagua sections I have ever seen. I have learned many new and interesting Feng Shui tidbits. It is a good addition to your library." Louise L. Hay Author of "You Can Heal Your Life"
"A rich, informative and authoritative tapestry. A delightfully romantic key to the eastern puzzle. Each chapter informs, each chapter delights. It's upbeat tempo and intimate glances make this a swinging 'must-read' for Feng Shui-aholics and the curious." Dennis Fairchild Author of "Healing Homes"
Chapter One
The Secret Language of Rooms
Your Intimate Lair
We’ve always begun our seminars with the ringing of timbale chimes. Their song reminds us that while the chimes are solid, they sing and make themselves felt in a vibrational world. In the same way our physical bodies are solid, but they sing the universal language of vibration. As you pass through every doorway, you aura colors and dabs that pathway with energy like a big paint brush and your best hope is that the person who preceded you was in a good mood, because you're going to feel their trace energy. This living box of paints and brushes are the breath of Feng Shui.
They draw the designs of our personal programs and divine Geomancy creating a potent Earth Magic that wraps around us and guides our lives. This aura surrounding you understands the subtle language with which your body speaks to your environment, and with which your home, office, bedroom and garden respond. It is a language found in your genetic codes and the history is recorded in your blood. It is a five-dimensional dialect that you, as a little child, understood perfectly .
Your command of this language is often lost along with your childlike sense of discovery. It just takes a little practice to wake up those forgotten codes and stretch the corners of those eyes that once saw the nature spirits in the trees and heard songs in waterfalls. How do adults get into this sorry condition? That sounds like Peter Pan asking a grown-up Wendy, "How could you forget how to fly?" Somewhere along our path to a modern world, people lost track of a few essential magical truths. First, we are human, we are animal, but we are also magical, and full of both brilliance and basic needs.
We thrive on daily allotments of certain things such as light, color, fresh air, and clean water. We need environments where we can relax and be able to get away daily from that constant tension that we, as members of a modern society, wear as a badge of honor. Every day we need to feed our emotions as well as our bodies. Sometimes it’s best to empower the feelings of your body and ignore the thoughts in your head.
Remember walking into places that just “felt right?” Remember other times where your nose told you to “turn around and leave” and you did! You were practicing Feng Shui right there and you didn’t even know it. Have you ever almost endlessly rearranged your furniture, only stopping when it felt good? Why didn’t the first dozen arrangements satisfy you? They didn’t feel good. This one felt better! That’s exactly the point. We do the most important things by feeling, just like every other creature in this garden. Here’s a hint: Our bodies are much more in touch with our feelings than our minds.
Trust your body: it rarely lies. Consider the denizens of your intimate lair. If your cat is napping on your bed, probably on your expensive silk pajamas, you can pretty much bet that kitty’s head is facing the doorway. Why? Because she can’t relax unless she knows that the second she hears a footfall, she has only to slit one lazy eye to check out the intruder. If it’s someone suspicious, maybe of the canine persuasion, she’s ready to dart out of there! If it’s her pet human, that’s another matter entirely. But it’s only when Miss Kitty can comfortably command the entrance way that she can feel secure enough to close those baby blues and catch 40 winks.
Which brings us to the first principle: Command the Door Do you think that we are really any different from that cuddly feline? You never really feel comfortable with your back to the door. Whenever we walk into a room, we lay down that pathway of energy, painting it with the colors from our personal field. Remember, we have to live with those colors we create. After a time the people walking through a house carve an energetic stream that affects everyone and everything there. Your body won’t relax with your back facing the doorway because your nervous system can feel that energy stream rushing in behind you.
The spine is your body’s primary electrical pathway. It reads this disruptive energy of the entrance and feels vulnerable to any saber-toothed tigers that may be lurking outside. It doesn’t matter to your body that you consciously know that the alarm is on, the dogs are watching, and for all intents and purposes, you are safe. Your animal body doesn’t care about the silly musings of your conscious mind. It knows what it feels. If your body can’t command the entrance to your “intimate lair” and feel able to respond quickly to any threat that appears there, you stay tense on a subtle but profound level. Remember: your mind will lie to you about survival issues, but your body won’t.
Believing your head and ignoring your body can be a major cause of chaos in your life! After all, Feng Shui is like a magical dance. When you go spinning across the floor, it's not about what you're thinking. It's about what you're feeling! You go dancing with your body and soul. It's like falling in love, when you're traveling between desire and surrender. It wraps you up in beauty and carries you along. When your Feng Shui design is wonderful, your life glows. Logic and reason aren't even on the dance floor with you. They're barely in the same room.
We're not saying to ignore your brain when you're creating your design. What we're saying is, the success of a good energy design is felt in your belly and your heart. In the Asian tradition, it’s said that the three most important places in a house are the front door, the stove, and the bed. The front door is your face upon the world. The stove is your place of nurturing. The bed is important because it’s where you restore yourself. To those three we would add the desk, probably because we spend so much time sitting at ours. The desk relates to how you communicate, how you do business, and how you think about the world. What we’ve been talking about in this chapter is the relationship between the door and these very important parts of your life. If the door to your house or to your room represents your responsibilities to the outside world, the way in which you physically relate to that door will pattern how you relate to those responsibilities.
Where are the most important places this dynamic will affect you? Your kitchen! What kind of tension is being served with your favorite meals when the stove position doesn’t allow the cook to command the door? Many families don’t cook because of a badly placed stove. This fragments the close, personal relationship. Food tastes better when it’s infused with comfort and love. Your Desk! How can you concentrate on doing your best work if you’re tense because you’re sitting with your back to a door or walkway? How can you command your future if you can’t command the door? Your Bedroom! How can you get a good night’s sleep if your body is on alert because your bed position doesn’t let you command the door? (Note: Later we discuss placing the bed in relation to the compass directions.
This is important, so read the section on directions before you start moving the heavy furniture.) You dramatically improve your attitude and ability to handle stress when you take a commanding position! What if you can’t move your desk, or your bed is nailed to the floor? That’s what mirrors are for. Your body is smart and knows how to use a rear-view mirror. Who says they’re only for cars? They work great on desks, stoves, and in all types of places.
Copyright 2005 Cuore Libre Multi Media Publishing.
