REFLEXIVE PSYCHOLOGY - The Art of the Self: Feng Shui- Synposis & Tips

REFLEXIVE PSYCHOLOGY - The Art of the Self: Feng Shui- Synposis & Tips: "What Feng Shui supplement can provide for your home or work environment? Definition Feng Shui is the ancient Chinese science of ' q..."

Feng Shui- Synposis & Tips

What Feng Shui supplement can provide for your home or work environment?

 

Definition

Feng Shui is the ancient Chinese science of "qi" (energy) that acquire its knowledge and foundation based upon the concession of the natural laws of Heaven and Earth. Feng Shui powers are invested in nature own energy structure (what we would call the Five Elements). This energy and wealth provides a stable flow of polarity (derived from the utility of Yang and Yin) as the necessary tools to blend positive/negative energy of one's own environment in total cohesion.

Yin and Yang/Polarity

This cohesion for the spaces we occupy, whether it be for residence or for work, contains energy unknown to our bodies. These energies can influence the development in our bodies internally and externally within these spaces, environments we occupy on any given moment.

To describe the actions that creates this energy let's first discuss "yin and yang," which are the oppositions we experience  in nature such as dark/light, fire/water, liquid/solid, internal/external, and masculine/feminine. The second actions to discuss is "polarity," which is the creation of yin and yang within these environments being built from that energy. These actions can represent a number of things, but all these actions will equate either a positive or a negative energy. When you have a stable utility of polarity your yin and yang will provide a balanced body-mind-spirit in either your personal or professional environments.

How to apply to home and work spaces (environments)?

To apply such a unique science in the western hemisphere has been simplified in many different techniques (like the video above); however, I would suggest you study the original Chinese philosophies to understand the history and the power of Feng Shui's concepts from it's origins. The key understanding from Feng Shui practice is we want to invest our time and our research into "qi (energy)" that will supplement our environments into an equilibirum with the Self and with others inhibiting these spaces. Feng Shui is easy and fun to practice whether you have a small or large space.

Below are some URL's to various sites that have information, history, and tips on how to apply Feng Shui to your space-environment for your lifestyle or any other lifestyle that seems fit in this world.

Feng Shui URL's

http://www.chienergy.co.uk/yinyangtext.htm

http://www.fengshuitips.co.uk/home.htm

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Feng-shui/112485522099225?sk=info

http://www.designingonline.com/home_decorating_articles/feng-shui-decorating-tips-bedroom.html

http://officerefurbishmentlondon.wordpress.com/2010/02/04/the-ancient-art-of-feng-shui/
http://www.fengshuicrazy.com/
http://fengshui.happyhomezone.com/fengshui/

The Art of the Self (Asceticism-Part 1)

The Art of the Self (Asceticism-Part 1)

Can we truly be humble? Can we truly be merciless? Can we truly be ascetic? I remember standing at the bus stop on Westwood & Santa Monica Blvd. on my way to the beach on Saturday. I exited off the Metro 704 express at Westwood to catch the Big Blue No. 8 bus into Santa Monica. I saw a homeless man carrying large bags at the bus stop; he boarded the same bus with me and was able to afford a ride going up the street for 10-15 blocks. We reached his stop that was a supermarket to recycle some cans and bottles for cash. I didn’t understand the point of his trip when he could just have walked. I presume he was tired and the comfort of public transportation allowed him not to waste energy he could used for other means like eating, talking, and work. I realized from watching this man, from watching a group of cyclist ride their bikes from L.A. to Santa Monica down Santa Monica Blvd., from watching joggers running around the neighborhood at the various bus stops off Santa Monica Blvd., and  from watching people walking their pets up and down the Boulevard; how paramount ascetic practices are in development of the Self and how the Self can take this methods to strengthen their abilities to the next level while in practice. Yet, what would be required of ourselves from this method to obtain these strength and virtues of mega synergy?

To begin, let's define the term asceticism that is described as "a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from various sorts of worldly pleasures often with the aim of pursuing religious and spiritual goals."  There are many examples provided for the practice of ascetic methods. It seems the principle purposes of ascetic practices are to obtain energy while freeing the Self from compulsions, indignations, and uncontrollable behaviors clouding an indivdual's spirit. I believe in application of ascetic methods in the Art of the Self these categories will be involved:

1. Environmental (space-community-dwelling)
2. Physiological (body-mind-spirit)
3. Psychological (behaviors-habits-beliefs)

Those categories are the paramount focus for my series on asceticism in the fortifying the Art of the Self. The ascetic methods will bring into fruition the importance of these categories involvement in the transformation in the Art of the Self. There can be no future state without a present state to evolve from. This is the idea behind the Self, to evolve, to revitalize, to progress, to demonstrate to anyone how the Self is the nexus of every morsel of energy we utilize to have our surroundings enriched with synergy. Asceticism, what does it offer to the Art of the Self from the environment itself?

Ascetic practice: Environment

The environment is a surrounding that we may enculture, saturate, or disintegrate within the Self; yet, these qualities are sometimes surface level and sub-surface level. When we practice ascetic methods we must develop knowledge of our Self in the environment; this would be a sort of self-observation. There are certain idiosyncratic qualities contained in the surroundings we inhibit.  These inhibitions are central to peeling and shedding the surface of the Self. For example, we should notice how the various images from modern culture has provided in the guise of vices, devices, and products to fulfill our consumeristic desires. These desires merit our success in our modern societies, yet when tedium has converted to compulsion, what will we direct our energy toward to merit a reward for our continued success? How can we see that these consumptive-compulsions are barriers toward a dire deaden of the Self?

When we have reached this apex of tedium, this inquisition plants the seed and this fruition begats the first step toward enriching the Self with a pure merit that energizes the spirit. One great example we could investigate is how we could organize our personal space-environment in a collective number of ways. This one historical method is known as Feng Shui (translates "wind-water" in English) is a perfect example of ascetic practice for in in this method there is an aesthetic belief of one (Self) wanting to introduce 'positive energy' into their environment by the governed laws of Heaven and Earth.

In a sense, this ascetic practice is a alchemical method of weeding out the malignant energy in our environments and constructing the inter-structure of these environments into a more powerful space of  peace and tranquility; thus, utilizing the polarity of the positive and the negative infusions into the environments we inhabit as a safe refuge from the world outside parameters of the organized space we have transformed.

As we draw ourselves farther away from our descension that leaves some of us disheveled in clear context, we should ask ourselves at this primary point: What got me here in the first place? We must take a long hard self-examination at what had perpetuated this dishevelment and what our environments did to help perpetuate this emasculation of the Self. This is the paramount power of asceticism; when you can wipe the surface clean and eliminate all distractions without exerting access energy to further progress in the transformation; this energy is what I want to ascertain your attention at this moment, in the utmost dire sense.

Energy's basic definition is the ability to work, activity; however, when we use the word work, activity it's definition varies. What the ascetic practitioner develops from methodical exercises is to alleviate there wasteful attention of these various vice, devices, and products that has us in a state of delusion derived from illusionment within the environments. We must understand "our energyenergy to accomplish more goals within the environments.

In our existence, its necessary to survive and to overcome any damages to our energy in the environment we inhabit; in other words, we have to learn to shed our own skin. By doing so, we understand that to alleviate the Self of certain vices, devices, or products, which are to substitute ideas and virtues that we had deem healthy, pleasurable, and desirable due to there accessible position, is a paramount adjustment to invest in the Self for better energy and brighter synergy. Once we learn to eliminate these distractions then our journey will elevate to newer iridescent boundaries. Everything will become lucid and we can learn that "subtraction" could equate to "addition" in a reflexive quality of the Self. The establishable goals for the ascetic practitioner from this point of view is patience, discovery, and energy (synergy). These things will come into fruition once the Self has decided to embark upon this transformation.Remember, life isn't handed to you gift wrapped for things have to be constructed  in time allowing deconstruction of the basic situation we inhibit, particularly the one familiar to us: ourselves. As the Self echoes this reprise to the air of Heaven and Earth, "your environment is suitable as you make it, not the environment is made suitable for you!"

The Part Two of this discussion on ascetic practices will continue on the Physiological category, the realm of the human body. Until the next voyage in to the realm we know as the Art of the Self! This is an Art that not only heals, but is an Art that unreels from only the Self.