Feng Shui is a mysterious and highly intuitive art. It is the art of observing and manipulating all things within ones personal or professional space to create a flow of chi (the Chinese word for energy). At its best, Feng Shui allows ones space to be a cause for power and love.

Feng Shui is an answer for those in search of well-being. Depression, stress and family tensions fall away when Feng Shui is applied properly. How can this be? When your space sings a clearer tone than you have been singing, your space begins to cause health, peacefulness and vitality. Your space becomes a sanctuary for your body, mind and spirit. Pure Feng Shui is a duet in perfect harmony, a harmony of vitality and relaxation, of activity and rest.

We are all in relationship with everything, Every Thing; and we are in a direct relationship with our personal environment. We choose our living and work spaces and fill them with hundreds of object -- broken objects in need of repair (old clothing, old food, things stored for others) and the beautiful objects. The entire package -- land, house and contents -- represents our thoughts and feelings, our limitations and doubts, our hopes, joys and sadness, our health and disease, our power and weaknesses. We are the creator and the direct cause of our spaces.

Pure Feng Shui is sublimely flowing chi. It is not by the rules, but neither does it ignore the rules.The traditionally taught tools of Feng Shui are simple. They are the map (the bagua) and the cycles of elements -- (fire, earth, metal, water, and wood). Feng Shui is often presented to students as the bagua, followed by the elements, followed by a series of rules. This approach to Feng Shui, however, is not holistic. It is like reducing the richness and depth of a culture to the words and paragraphs of a social science textbook. Pure Feng Shui is not by the book. How could it be? It is uniquely individual in every case. Sublimely flowing chi supersedes all rules. It carries with it relationship, health and empowerment. It reverses the order of cause and effect. With sublimely flowing chi, your home becomes the cause for the goals you have set for your life. It gently helps you to be the powerful and loving spirit that you really are.

The study of Feng Shui is not a quickie. It requires deep personal transformational work, emptying oneself of useless beliefs in order to see without personal projection. The subtle and intuitive nature of Feng Shui requires that the practitioner be of complete wellness of mind.

Good Feng Shui is a feeling. It feels like an opening or expansion of the chest. It feels both strong and light. It feels like the peaceful relief of a quiet mind. If all of us are really in search of the same thing -- relationship with ourselves, each other and the world at large, then Feng Shui is for everyone. It is a joyful path to profound relationship.

-Jackie Patricia