Maybe no other mystical practice has taken the Western world by storm quite like Feng Shui. Science has tried to break down its tenants and has failed. But for those that believe in Feng Shui and swear by its results, there is no convincing them otherwise. The Internet is the greatest reference tool in history and there is no better place in the world to look up and learn about Feng Shui. Here are a few good sites to start with, but remember, Feng Shui is very personal, and you may have your own favourites. The best thing to do is to keep an open mind and allow yourself to learn about all forms of Feng Shui
 

• http://www.wofs.com/ The World of Feng Shui is a great site for starters and experts, alike. The site is run by Lillian Too, a respected Feng Shui expert. The site provides a wealth of information to visitors, including a library of articles on using Feng Shui in the home, for your career, for your children, for your education, for fame, family, health, love and many other topics. The sheer amount of information here is fantastic and it serves as a great jumping off point for further exploration into Feng Shuialike.
  

For every person who decides that Feng Shui is for them, their motivations are different. For some, it can be a decision made to help give them insight into their love life, or lack of one. It could be a way to help further their career by organizing their lives. Some choose Feng Shui to help with health problems that medical science says are incurable. And maybe the most popular reason that people turn to Feng Shui is to increase their wealth. Who doesn’t want to be rich? For those that are looking for Feng Shui tips on how to help channel wealth, here are a few pointers.
         

• The first and most important step to using Feng Shui to help increase your financial resources is your attitude. By using charms and energy to help increase your wealth, you are counting on cosmic forces to bring you positive results. If your attitude is negative, how do you ever expect it to work? It simply won’t. Before you begin by choosing a charm and then placing it in your home to help create wealth, you must change your attitude. If you grew up with a negative outlook on money or wealth, you must change it. You must believe that the charms will work and that they will bring you nothing but prosperity. The rest of the steps are null and void unless this first step is taken.

Each color of the rainbow is associated with one of the nine life areas, making color a powerful element in the art of Feng Shui. Colors can increase or decrease the flow of chi – the energy that flows through our homes and our bodies – bringing energy to some rooms while promoting calm in others

Choosing colors to calm or excite

Calm colors, primarily greens, blues and soft purples, encourage balance and harmony because the vibrations of the color are slow and steady. Choose soothing colors for rooms used for sleeping or for relaxing at the end of a long, stressful day. Bedrooms, bathrooms and family rooms should be painted in these cool colors.

If you find yourself more relaxed in a sage green bedroom, or more energetic in your butter-yellow living room, you’ve felt the advantages of Feng Shui, the ancient art of bringing harmony to your home through the placement of objects and choice of colors.

The most important life area in Feng Shui is the one devoted to health. Without health, little else matters, so it should be your main concern when arranging your home. Chi, the energy that constantly flows throughout our bodies, can be adversely affected by stress on the body. Chi flows through our blood, our skin, our muscles muscles, and our organs. When the chi that enters our bodies is pure, it facilitates the healthy flow of energy through the body. But if the flow of chi is impure, has very little value to the body or can even pollute the system. Feng shui helps to assure that the chi in your home is pure and healthful

In Chinese feng shui translates to wind and water. As a form of knowledge and mystical instruction it dates back several thousand years to ancient China. Thousands of years ago, the rulers of China needed to consider carefully the geography and layout of the country, since constructing any buildings, bridges or infrastructure depending on the land.  In particular builders needed to carefully plan their constructions around the severe winds, mountains and water masses, as well as the propensity of China to flood.  Because of these earthly considerations, the word feng shui (meaning wind and water) came about

In America, we became acquainted with Feng Shui back in the 1840’s during the California gold rush when many families from all over the world came to the US to seek their fortunes in gold. These days we are all know about feng shui and it is a common principle that modern people use to help organize their lives.