feng shui for good health

by Louisa Ong-Lee

If there is a subject that intrigues researchers of Chinese history and culture, it is Feng Shui. It is a 4000-year-old practice that has long been seen as a mysterious science and art. Within the past 20 to 30 years many Western scholars have studied Feng Shui to unravel its mysteries.

Feng Shui started as a landscape art for situating burial grounds, cities, homes, and businesses. It then branched out further into the practice of personal Feng Shui, where each individual is deemed to have an impact on the environment they occupy. Both are based on the universal theory of balance and harmony in life. This is what the Chinese call “yin and yang.” This balance is evident in their social and family interactions, their health practices, academic achievements, career development, and wealth pursuits.

How can a Westerner accept this traditional practice of Feng Shui for good health? Old Chinese wisdom established a broad balance in meals, when in winter one ate food that generated heat to provide warmth, and in summer consumed food that would cool them down. Their winter diet included more meat, vegetables, herbs, and fruits. These are rich in iron and produced heat within the body. In the summer, when the objective was to keep cool, their diet would contain less meat but more fruits, herbs, and vegetables with high water content.

However, Feng Shui goes further to promote good health by determining health directions for an individual. Once the health direction is determined, Feng Shui has guidelines on eating and sleeping. It is a belief and practice that when one faces one’s health direction, the food that one consumes provides better nourishment for the body. Another health tip that Feng Shui promotes is the placement and direction of the bed. In order to receive optimal nightly rejuvenation, sleeping with your head pointing to your health direction is very important .

"Health direction" is determined by your KUA number. This is defined by your gender and year of birth. Once this is known a Feng Shui practitioner can determine the best directions for the various elements of your life. If you wish to find out your own KUA number there are several websites that can perform this calculation. Simply type "KUA calculator" into a search engine.

In my practice, I have seen many cases where Feng Shui has been used to enhance better health. For example, a city parent told me her 5-year-old son had problems sleeping . After a change in direction and bedroom, he now sleeps through the night! Coincidence? Maybe, but thousands of years of Chinese history would say the art of Feng Shui created better balance.

Feng Shui and good health go hand in hand. It is impossible to separate them. Feng Shui practice seeks to establish balance and abundance in life, of which good health is one of the more important goals.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Louisa Ong-Lee is a Feng Shui Master and native of Singapore where she lived most of her life. She trained under the traditional Feng Shui method of a master-disciple relationship. Today, her clientele spans the globe in Asia, the UK, and the US. She consults in classical Feng Shui for organizations and homes. She can be contacted at her company, Feng Shui 8, (585) 752-7862, or email fengshui@rochester.rr.com.