Sometimes I wonder what happens to people who request a feng shui study and when they receive the suggestions they don't carry them out? Or just any of them?
It may be due to carelessness, or did they expect that only with a paper report would things change?
There may be times when a family member is not pleased with the idea, and going further with changes seems very difficult. Human beings are reluctant to change. But when someone tells me "I don't notice anything, Feng Shui doesn't work for me," and I ask him: “Did you do this or that?”; I usually get "Oh, that, not yet." I find it curious to see how we are. Although they tell us what needs to be done, we continue to do the same in almost every aspect of our lives, expecting different results. We are just like that.
Do not expect different results if you do not change
Other times it seems that people pay to have their ideas reaffirmed. It seems that when you describe the situations that are happening to you, you will be comforted to know that it is not something in your head, that it is real. Then it seems that they prefer to continue in the same way.
In that sense I have encountered different types of people. There are those that cooperate to the fullest taking into account that, the more details of what is happening at home are shared, the more obvious it will be for the consultant to identify congruence with the energy picture, and evidently the suggestions will be very clear and specific, generating changes right away. There are times that, due to the reforms or doubts in the year of construction, it is necessary to make more than one picture, and only with the cooperation of the inhabitants can we know which energy chart corresponds to that house.
Actually, we are not magicians. Feng Shui requires a lot of study, but any observer who prepares and practices enough can be a great consultant. When I meet clients who share nothing, who assume that it is our job to guess or "see" what is happening, it is more complicated, because we are not fortune tellers, we are consultants, and the more details we know, the more possibilities of a good result we have.
Sometimes we think we can do Feng Shui in our bedroom only, and things don't work that way. Feng Shui is part of a cosmos macro. We must see what is around us— that counts and counts a lot. When we look out the window, what do we see? Beautiful or ugly images? By the time we get to the bedroom, we have already reviewed a lot. I wish everything was as simple as placing the bed in the right position; I usually say that this is the cherry on the cake.
Practicing Feng Shui is a way of life
Practicing Feng Shui is a way of life, it is not an event, because we also have the annual afflictions that rotate in cycles and combine with the basic energy that is in the picture of our house, and this combination offers different possibilities every year . What do I mean by possibilities? It is not that money arrives at the door or love. Possibilities is what comes to us every day and sometimes we are not ready, we do not take it or see it.
When I have a client determined to practice Feng Shui, I suggest they keep a small diary about the new things that are happening regardless of the decision made. One day a client told me, but what else? And I replied, what else do you want? You and your whole family are healthy, you have a lot of work, you have been given a promotion, what is your definition of prosperity? Perhaps the benefits of Feng Shui have been misinterpreted as a marketing technique.
When the Feng Shui of a place is good, things flow well, without major setbacks. When something is wrong, it is when we do not explain why so many obstacles or things that seem not to have a reason, a logic. If not, then everything is as it should be.
Another thing that comes into play is the Ba Zi of the person, luck or energy of the same. You have to read the inhabitants of a place to understand how the effects of the same place will affect each one differently. The correlation between all things is a fact; there is no limit between our energy and that of the place where we are, they communicate and combine. Nothing is a casualty. The study of metaphysics is infinite. One part is Feng Shui, which studies the invisible forms and energy around us, affecting our health and our prosperity.
Another part is astrology, Ba Zi, which studies the stages that each individual has to go through from the day and time of their birth. All this and more is related in classic Feng Shui. Unfortunately, the practice of black hat or Bagua, or the western version of Feng Shui, has made some people believe that they know, or even more, that they already practice it, and it does not work.
Also, a good Feng Shui consultant knows that practicing Feng Shui doesn't solve everything. There are things we cannot solve, and there are others that require other practices or disciplines. Lately I have had the opportunity to work with houses that have an energy vitality below 6500 bovies, and this is considered as negative for people, in addition to being so low energy, Feng Shui suggestions may not have an effect. Geobiology experts say that a house must have adequate vitality so that when new elements are introduced the energy has enough strength to react. In this sense we must be open and alert to use other techniques when necessary.
That said, what is your idea about Feng Shui or your experience? If you want to share it, I'll be happy to hear it!
Leonor Estrada
Classic Feng Shui Consultant accredited by IFSA and FSS