The Art of Using Feng Shui to Eat Right

Feng Shui originated in China more than 4000 years ago.and its practice has a long history throughout the East. Feng Shui is used to harmonize one’s surrounding environment. Feng “foong” translates as wind and Shui “swaay” translates as water.

What is Feng Shui?

Feng Shui is the art of designing your home to promote success in life, health, wealth, and happiness.

Principles of Feng Shui

The concepts of chi energy, yin and yang, the Five Elements, and the Eight Directions and incorporating them to make changes can transform your life.

Chi energy

“Chi” is a subtle flow of electromagnetic energy which links all things in the universe. In the Far East the understanding and control of energy flows underlies traditional healing systems such as acupuncture and Shiatsu.

Chakras

The Chakras fall into this area. Chi flows through your body by means of channels called meridans. They radiate from seven key points.in your body where energy is concentrated. These key points are the Chakras. The Chakras include crown, mid-brain or pituitary, throat, heart, stomach or solar plexus, navel, and reproductive organs (coccyx).

Yin and Yang

Yin and Yang Balance: First determine whether you are too yin or too yang, Eat the right kind of food that can help you balance your personal levels of yin and yang.

Foods can range from the most yang (salt and meat) at the top to the most yin (liquids and sugars) at the bottom. Balanced foods include brown rice, millet, quinoa, buckwheat, dark, leafy greens, squash, carrots, parsnips, mushrooms, beans, and legumes.

The Five Elements

The Five Elements: These Elements are associated with season, color, taste, and organs. When you eat foods according to the season, it will help balance the corresponding organ.

The Five Elements of Food include:

Wood: Green, Spring, Sour, Liver and Gall Bladder, Purification
Fire: Red, Summer, Bitter, Heart, Circulation
Earth: Yellow/Orange, Late Summer, Sweet, Stomach, Spleen, and Pancreas, Digestion
Metal: White, Autumn, Hot, Pungent, Lungs and large intestine, Respiration
Water: Black, Winter, Salty, Kidneys and Bladder, Elimination

For example, the Metal Element is associated with the color white, the season of Autumn, and the body organ of the lungs. So incorporating hot and pungent white foods, such as those in the onion family, are useful for dissipating mucous and common colds that often occur during this time of year.

The Eight Directions

The Eight Directions is used to determine the pattern of chi in a home. The directions include: North, North-West, West, South-West, South, South-East, East, and North-East.

Benefits of Feng Shui