Frequently asked questions
It’s this and that
No. Feng shui is about enhancing the quality and flow of energy in places.
You might see images of Buddha, angels or various deities used in feng shui, but that’s all down to personal preference.
Feng shui is flexible enough to support people with whatever religion or belief systems they have. Some choose to have football, music or other inspirational icons around the home. As a general rule – if it makes you feel uplifted and it’s in a suitable place, then it’s good feng shui!
It’s really difficult to assess our own living spaces. We’re just too close to work out objectively what’s really going on.
Even Feng Shui Pros get help from colleagues to assess their own home and office.
There are many books on Feng Shui and lots of information on the internet, so you might think that it’s cheaper and easier to do it yourself. The more books you read the more confusing it is, as much of the advice is contradictory.
Many people try implementing one-size-fits-all advice in their home. Some will experience small improvements, but most will quickly come to the conclusion that Feng Shui just doesn’t work.
There are almost as many confusing styles and systems of Feng Shui out there as there are diets, so I’ll use weight loss to illustrate:
If you try to combine a high protein and a high carbohydrate diet to lose weight you’ll probably get fatter. You’d get results but not the result you were looking for. To lose weight effectively you’d need to choose one dietary system that combines foods that suits your particular body type, lifestyle and tastes.
Feng Shui is the same. For optimum results you need to combine Feng Shui tools that work together as a system tailored to your particular home, lifestyle and tastes. A professional consultant has the training and experience to do this quickly and effectively.
Hiring a consultant can save you lots of time and money as we know what questions to ask and exactly what to look for in and around a property. From your situation and location we’ll know which Feng Shui ‘tools’ to combine for greatest effect then we’ll only suggest you change the things that will make the biggest difference
Nope, it’s not a magic spell. It will however support you as you sort out your own life.
Not unless you want to
Yep
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No, I’m bust on a big project
Yes, Feng Shui works most of the time… if a building is evaluated properly and the suggested changes are followed through by the client. Most problems can’t be solved by using Feng Shui alone, however if you use it to create a more supportive atmosphere, you’ll be able to tackle large ongoing problems with less stress and greater ease.
That depends. Improvements can be noticed within days, other times it can take longer.
If you as a client follow through and make the changes, you’ll experience improvements on many levels as a result of getting your space to work for you and support you.
If you as a client don’t follow through with making the recommended changes, it’s unlikely you’ll experience the results you want.
Feng Shui is a useful tool, not a magic wand. It’s impossible to predict exactly what will happen when. The best way to engage with it is to be flexible, enjoy the process and keep an open mind as the results unfold.
In the East Feng Shui is commonplace. Homes are made and businesses are run adhering to its commonly understood principles. In the West we’re less aware of the impact our surroundings have on our health, wealth and happiness.
Many people in the West are cynical simply because it has a ‘funny name’ or they don’t understand the practical nature of it. Feng Shui is often misunderstood as a magical, mysterious or even a religious practice, or as not relevant to our modern lives.
On the other hand many people know the value and benefits of having a consultation but struggle to find a good practitioner that they can trust to do a good job.
More people use feng shui than you might imagine. Many successful people think of it as their ‘secret ingredient’ for their success, yet don’t choose to share the fact that they regularly use it. Donald Trump has famously used feng shui to support his personal and business success. So has Oprah, Madonna, the Beckhams, Bill Gates, Meghan Markle to name a few. Big businesses in places like Hong Kong and Singapore incorporate feng shui principles into every aspect of their organisations
In China where Feng Shui originated, toilets were dirty, unsanitary places which meant they created an unhealthy atmosphere that wasn’t ‘life enhancing’. Because of this, toilets were always viewed as an energetic drain and therefore harmful. Today our toilets are clean and sanitary, so they are not seen as harmful in the same way.
A dirty toilet however, with the lid up will obviously create an unhealthy atmosphere in whichever part of the building it’s in. A clean toilet will rarely cause a problem.
A good Feng Shui consultant will always fit the consultation to the needs of the client. In order to do this I need to know ‘who’ you are from a Feng Shui perspective – elementally and energetically. We do this by utilising different types of Energy profiling – sometimes called Feng Shui astrology.
Please don’t mix up the word ‘astrology’ with fortune telling. It simply uses your time of birth to calculate which of the 5-elements are strong within you and which need supporting within your environment.
Yes it can, if you can create the right conditions to attract wealth. Most buildings have an area that can help bring in ‘good fortune’, if appropriately enhanced. Sometimes windfalls of good fortune do happen after a consultation, however these obviously cannot be guaranteed.
People living and working in environments with good Feng Shui are more likely to be healthy, active, happy, and alert to opportunities.
Feng Shui is not a lazy person’s way to riches, but it can enhance and support your wealth creation activities.
No, Feng Shui isn’t a religious practice. It’s been developed over thousands of years of observing people and the environment. Many of the past Masters may have come from different religious backgrounds but that was incidental.
Although it isn’t a religious practice, it can be used to enhance one’s religious or spiritual practices. For example: creating a meditation space, an altar or a prayer space in an appropriate sector of a building.
No, the forms of Feng Shui I use are based on common sense, observation and experience.
For example, if 10 different people walked into a dark, damp, cold, dirty, unventilated office (An extreme example of bad Feng Shui)… chances are they would all want to get out of there ASAP. Not for superstitious reasons – it’s because humans need certain things in their surroundings (e.g. light heat and clean air) in order for them to relax and perform well.
This is an obvious example but Feng Shui addresses many other unseen influences that the environment has on the people within it.
There are some schools of Feng Shui that have evolved around odd culturally specific superstitions. Also, Feng Shui is often misquoted and misrepresented in a ‘New Agey’ kind of way. The Type of Feng Shui I use does not incorporate these practises.
As part of your consultation, after the survey I will teach you the basic principles in order for you to understand what changes to make and why.
Some people try and get the consultant to teach them all about Feng Shui at the same time as they are surveying a property. This is not a good idea as it distracting for the consultant who needs to concentrate on doing the job properly.
Teaching Feng Shui and evaluating a property using Feng Shui principles are two separate sets of skills that would be undermined if we tried to do both the same time.