Listen
to Colleen Pyke's interview with
Sugeet from Lime Radio.
What
happens when I have a Feng Shui consultation?
Feng Shui,
Smoke and Mirrors?
Unseen
health hazards in and around your home and office.
Costco's Take on
Feng Shui and Business:
"Good
Vibes, Good Business" [PDF format, 1 MB]
from The Costco Connection [CostcoConnection.com],
June 2005
What happens when I have
a Feng Shui consultation?
By Sugeet, Creative Visions' Owner
You may
be considering hiring a Feng Shui Consultant, but are unsure
about what will occur. You may have heard stories of consultants telling
people to move walls, change the locations of bathrooms or, worst of
all,
sell and move. Not too many people want to hear this sort of "advice."
Luckily, such cases are few. I believe that a consultation should be
relaxed, fun, and leave you with a home or business where the energy
will
immediately flow more smoothly.
If you
implement the recommendations made by the consultant, you should experience
improvements that can range from subtle to profound. You might sleep
better. Your relationship may change for the better. The kids can begin
to behave. Your business picks up. You no longer have problems with
Madame X in the office. Life flows more easily.
You've
seen "Free Initial Consultation." What's that about? It's
a chance for you to talk about what you'd like to see happen with your
home or business and for me to answer questions about my services. Most
important, it's a chance for both of us to make an informed decision.
For you the decision is whether to engage my services or not. What services
will be most appropriate for you? (Remember, Feng Shui is only part
of the services I offer. Design, both interior and exterior, clutter
clearing, and facilitation are also part of Creative Visions.) Are you
talking to someone you are comfortable with? Without a solid connection
between client and consultant, there's little point in proceeding.
The initial
consultation does not obligate nor cost you in any way. If it's right,
we go on to making an appointment for further consultation. I send you
information informing you how to prepare. There are questions for you
to consider before we meet. It's a bit like the forms you fill out when
you see a new physician. Often your answers help me understand why something
isn't working and gets me started on ways to fix it.
On the
day of the appointment, we go over some of the questions you've been
pondering. I may ask a few more. The next step is usually performing
a blessing on the land, the business or dwelling. Often with businesses
a property blessing isn't appropriate, so the blessing is performed
on the interior space the business occupies.
Next, we
go from room to room and discuss how the space can be improved. Sometimes
there is nothing to do, sometimes lots. I don't get into making your
home of office look like a Chinese restaurant (unless that's what you
want!) The adjustments are based on traditional Feng Shui concepts but
I incorporate your personal style of working and living. You take as
extensive notes as you wish.
Rounding
out the exmination part of the consultation, a survey of the electromagnetic
fields present in your environment is made. EMFs have not been conslusively
linked to certain serious health conditions, but the pattern is consistent.
How many of us want to wait for conslusive evidence that cigarette smoking
causes cancer? [Unseen Health Hazards]
Whether
you choose to implement my recommendations is up to you. Doing just
a couple of things often results in so-so results. Only going part way
produces part way results. I provide you with sources where you may
purchase suggested elements or I can purchase them for you. I will instruct
you how to install and activate all suggested elements.
After working
on the business or home, I will make recommendations for the property.
This can involve design of a complete landscape or a few suggestions.
Again, as with the interior assessment, it will involve recommendations
on placement, orientation, and color, texture, smell.
Included
in my fee are two brief follow-up sessions, usually conducted over the
phone. You won't be left stranded! After you have implemented my recommendations,
you should experience improvements within a week or two. Sometimes results
show up gradually, sometimes they appear immediately: but whatever the
timeframe, they always show up. And you are on your way to a happier,
more peaceful and prosperous life.
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Read
the Medford
Mail Tribune article about Feng Shui and Sugeet!
Feng
Shui
Smoke and Mirrors?
By Sugeet
Feng Shui, the art and science
of creating harmonious and wonderful spaces, provides information for
making one's home into a safe refuge. Even when the arrangement
of living space has been a hidden source of unnecessary stress, or a
business has been adversely affected by weak design, Feng Shui can suggest
useful corrections.
Feng Shui studies how the
life force, or Chi, flows or doesn't flow in a given space. It
then suggests ways to correct stuck or blocked energy. Western Newtonian
science wants to deny the existence of something if it is not detectable
by instruments, and the lack of "proof" of Chi's existence
has always been the major stumbling block for research into what the
East has known for centuries: Chi (prana or life force) exists.
Contrast this to a difference
between Soviet and Western medicine. Soviets include such "esoteric"
disciplines as Kirilian photography, acupuncture and yoga in their treatment
of patients. The Soviets don't care whether an approach is "New
Age" or esoteric‹if empirical results can be shown, the practice
is included in the treatment model.
During recent decades quantum
theory became acceptable; and one of the major paradoxes it revealed
was the dual nature of light seen as both waves and particles. For the
Western linear mind conditioned by Newtonian ideas of the universe,
this stuff was, and is, very unsettling. But perhaps Chi/Life force
is not as outlandish as we first thought.
Part of the reason the West
has had problems proving the existence of Chi has been the basic method
we use for scientific study. We believe (rightly or wrongly) that by
breaking something apart to it's smallest component, we will understand,
measure and control it. The East has sought (both philosophically and
scientifically) to understand the relationship between the part and
the whole. There was no heavy emphasis on breaking apart, rather on
understanding interaction. And so the Eastern tradition has been to
study how this chi affects our lives and how can we use it for our advantage.
Where a few years ago there
were only a handful of texts available on the theory and practice of
Feng Shui, a popular online book source currently carries 444 titles.
Such proliferation may actually be unfortunate, as many people hope
their lives will be transformed by reading Fast Feng Shui or Feng Shui:
Action Movie Role-playing or even Feng Shui for Romance and Prosperity.
As Western culture
commercializes Feng Shui, we lose the art and science in favor of a
quick fix‹which doesn't fix. Then it's on to the next fad in the
hope of finding a solution. Many complain that they read one book and
it says, "Do this!", while the next book purchased says, "Do
that" for a similar situation. Written by adherents to different
schools, the two books are seemingly at odds.
Right now Feng
Shui is in its fad stage and will remain so until the next "new
thing" arrives to take its place. Feng Shui deserves a deeper look.
This is a system that has been worked, reworked and refined for thousands
of years, which could not have happened if Feng Shui were mere superstition.
It does work, but is far more complex than popular authors would have
you believe. Feng Shui is not for dummies or idiots.
If the likes of Lao Tzu
and Confucius embraced its principles, can Feng Shui be just a superstition?
Why are nearly all real estate transactions in Hong Kong first approved
by a Feng Shui practitioner? Real estate tycoon Donald Trump finds his
business improving significantly when he uses Feng Shui. What might
happen if we were to understand and incorporate Feng Shui into our lives?
This ancient practice may
have originated in India and moved through Tibet and into China. The
exact history is impossible to trace. But in all these ancient cultures,
systems developed which worked with the energies of the land. Agrarian
cultures paid close attention to how the weather affected the land and
crops. Success or failure growing food often depended on subtle observations
and acting in concert with the interaction of "wind" (Feng)
and "water" (Shui.)
Ancient China knew heaven
and nature appeared to operate by whim. Yet over time and with patient
observation, patterns began to emerge. Feng Shui was first practiced
to place family graves. If the ancestors' spirits were happy, the
land would prosper and give good crops. What was good for the ancestors
might also be good for the living, so early Feng Shui masters were called
upon to place the family's house in the most favorable position.
Landscapes were also designed to fit in an auspicious manner.
Continuing study
by Chinese scholars started producing various "schools" which
believed that harmony, prosperity and peace could be produced utilizing
different methods. But it's important to know that the fundamentals
always remained the same.
Initially shapes
of the land were studied along with the way energy flowed or didn't
flow. Placement of graves and later of buildings was done according
to the land‹and the "Landform School" became prominent.
A given piece of land might lack desired auspicious features sought
by early practitioners, and another school developed in response to
this absence: a compass was the central device to know how to place
rooms, homes, farms, cities. This school incorporated aspects of astrology
and other ancient studies, as well as holding the older principles.
Over time, the compass became the center of what is now called a Lopan.
A compass is the center of 17 concentric rings.
Each ring is inscribed with calculations necessary to determine particular
aspects of the Feng Shui master's reading. In our western terms, think
of a slide rule: by simply adjusting fixed sticks and reading the result,
advanced calculations result. This Lopan became the centerpiece of the
"Compass School."
In these two early schools
there is a polarity, a yin-yang if you will. Landform used big shapes
and interpretations while the Compass School became very much the result
of precise formulas and calculations. Over time, other schools developed,
mostly around renowned masters. A seminal work for successful architecture
and town planning today is titled A Pattern Language. It can be regarded
as a Western approach to the same information‹it is yet another
interpretation of observing how humans live best in their environment.
The third Emperor of the
Mind dynasty (Yong Le, 1403-1423) was an ambitious man. He usurped the
throne from his nephew, Chien-wen. He then moved to consolidate all
power in his throne. He knew Feng Shui would assist him. Calling for
the greatest Feng Shui masters and the finest geomancers in all China
Yong Le told them to design a city such that he could command the entire
known universe. Two years later, the august body gave him the design
for a 9,999 room palace, sited perfectly. Gu Gong (the Forbidden City)
was started in 1407. When finished, all the Masters and geomancers were
executed so that none of the true knowledge could be available to others.
But it was impossible to
suppress that which had been learned over the centuries and new masters
arose. More schools developed. Landform and Compass con-tinue, and were
joined by Landscape FS, Eight Mansions, Flying Star FS, Black Hat Sect,
Nine Star, Ki, Four Pillars, BTB, and Intuitive.
By now it should be obvious
that Feng Shui doesn't lend itself to the exacting rigors of western
scientific approach. What works is used, there is no need to dissect,
measure and attempt to control it. It doesn't lend itself to the
profit-driven corporate business model widely in use today. Because
of the lack of a concrete bottom line, Feng Shui is dismissed more often
than not in the business world.
While camping at Medicine
Lake recently, I oriented my tent and sleeping bag to face east. I wished
to be greeted by the rising sun. I hardly slept at all that night. During
the day I reversed the bedding so that my head pointed West. I slept
like baby that night. At home, I sleep with my head pointed northeast
and sleep wonderfully. The energies at Medicine Lake appear to be quite
different from those of Ashland.
A few nights ago, a friend
called. There was terrible static on the line. I asked him to move away
from fluorescent lights. He wasn't near fluorescents, but he did
change position. The static disappeared. By a simple change of position,
the energies (in this case the radio frequencies) could move unobstructed
and I could hear without the static. In it's most simple form,
this is what Feng Shui does: it analyzes the flow or blockage of energy
and then moves things about to allow that energy (or chi) to flow freely.
Theodor Schwenk, author
of Sensitive Chaos (a study of the way that water moves) found similar
patterns in the shapes of shells and fish, growing leaves and gnarled
bark, anatomical structures and embryological development. In the book
he included hundreds of diagrams and photographs showing this flow in
nature. Some of the most dramatic are similar patterns formed by wind
on water, sand, and in clouds. Looking at these illustrations, one starts
to grasp how more subtle energies can flow, become stuck, and later
flow on. This volume is probably the best graphic illustration of how
energy moves in nature, and possibly the best way to visualize how chi
moves.
While thought to be "the
art of placement" in the home, Feng Shui has practical application
in all aspects of human endeavor. Feng Shui offers the homeowner or
apartment dweller the opportunity to create greater peace and harmony
at a time when there is so much uncertainty in the world. In business
Feng Shui can affect employee interaction (or lack thereof) and customer
relations and the entire working atmosphere. It can affect the flow
of foot traffic in a store. It can change the cash flow of a particular
location. It can have a great effect on how customers relate to and
feel about a business. Feng Shui offers the architect and builder the
chance to site and design a home in harmony with the energies of the
land. Incorporating Feng Shui principles, the home will have a natural
draw and salability not present in other dwellings. Using Feng Shui
principles to design a landscape results in a creation of beauty, harmony
and peace‹an oasis.
You may wish to
read one or more of the many books on Feng Shui currently available,
but to grasp its subtleties and to really be able to work with the energy,
it is highly recommended that one work with a teacher. Feng Shui, neither
fad nor rocket science, is a complex mixture of precision with intuition,
science and art. When used properly, it can change the way we ride the
river of life.
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The article above was originally published in SENTIENT
TIMES December 2002/January 2003 p.18
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Unseen Health
Hazards in and around your Home and Office
A survey of Electromagnetic
frequencies (EMFs) present in and around you home and business is an
integral part of all Creative Visions' consultations. Creative Visions
uses a precisely calibrated and expensive unit to measure these fields.
[ELFs or Extremely Low Frequencies are what the US Navy has been using
in signal relay in the world's oceans. Preliminary evidence is that
such use has caused massive beaching and death of whales and other sea
life who rely on this method for navigation.]
As Feng Shui deals with energy
flow so everything on the earth carries magnetic fields - again energy
fields - which now can be measured. There is evidence that very very
weak magnetic fields can be helpful to health. Conversely, magnetic
fields above certain limits tend to indicate greater susceptibility
to a variety of very serious health conditions.
If you would like to learn
more on this subject, see below.
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From Microwave News, Jan/Feb
2003:
http://www.microwavenews.com
Swedes Find GSM Radiation
Causes Nerve Damage at Very Low Doses
Leakage Through the Blood-Brain
Barrier
In a new paper that
is sure to reignite concerns over the safety of mobile phones, two Swedish
researchers report that exposure to extremely low levels of digital
mobile phone radiation results in nerve cell damage in the brains of
rats.
According to the
University of Lund’s Drs. Leif Salford, a neurosurgeon, and Bertil
Persson, a biophysicist, certain chemicals leak through the blood-brain
barrier following exposure to microwaves damage the cells.
Microwave News
has full coverage in our January/February 2003 issue, available now.
And in an editorial, we call for an immediate independent follow-up
of these experiments.
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From EMF Services website:
Electromagnetic fields, or
EMF, can be problematic from two perspectives: the concern over potential
health effects from human exposure, and the disruption to computer monitors
and other equipment under high field conditions. . . . EMF exposure
has become a topic of concern for many people and is an active area
of biophysical research. Media reports in recent years have highlighted
scientific studies showing an apparent correlation between exposure
to elevated magnetic field levels and the development of adverse health
effects. The same is true for radio frequency radiation from broadcast
and cell phone towers. Significant controversy now exists over the degree
of risk posed by this exposure, and the exact mechanisms of interaction
by which electromagnetic fields may influence biological processes.
Confronted with this uncertain risk, many individuals have chosen to
take a cautious approach and limit their exposure where possible. .
. .
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Possible Biological Effects
of Electromagnetic Fields Associated with Electric Power Systems
- History and Status of the
Issue -
by Charles M. Keen
complete text can be found
at:
www.emfservices.com/article.htm
for recent developments from
research into EMFs, go to
www.emfservices.com/update.htm
www.dhs.ca.gov/ps/deodc/ehib/emf/RiskEvaluation/riskeval.html
