This Life In Balance series would not be complete without introducing the ancient art of Feng Shui. The best explanation I found was at About.com: Feng shui is an ancient art and science developed over 3,000 years ago in China. It is a complex body of knowledge that teaches how to balance the energies in any given space - be it a home, office or garden - in order to assure good fortune for people inhabiting it.
As good fortune comes in many ways - better health, successful career, fulfilling love life, etc - feng shui has detailed tips for almost any area of one's life. You will see that one of the Feng Shui tools, known as a Bagua, looks like the Life Wheel we introduced to you early in this series. I like to incorporate this in my home as a whole, and in any room I spend a lot of time in, like my office!
Feng means wind and shui means water. In Chinese culture wind and water are associated with good health, thus good feng shui came to mean good fortune, while bad feng shui means bad luck, or misfortune. Feng shui is based on the Taoist vision and understanding of nature, particularly on the idea that the land is alive and filled with Chi, or energy.
The ancient Chinese believed that specific land's energy could either make or break the kingdom, so to speak. The theories of yin and yang, as well as the five feng shui elements, are some of the basic aspects of a feng shui analysis that come from Taoism.
The main tools used in a feng shui analysis of any space are the feng shui compass and the bagua. The feng shui energy map, or bagua, is an octagonal grid containing the symbols of the I Ching, the ancient oracle on which feng shui is based.
Knowing the bagua of your home will help you understand the connection of specific feng shui areas of your home to specific areas of your life. For example, you have a love and marriage area in your home, a career area, a health and family area, etc.
There is a total of 8 bagua areas in your home that can be worked on in order to improve the areas of your life that are connected to these bagua areas. Read: All About Your Feng Shui Bagua
Feng shui offers a variety of cures to improve your life. From the feng shui use of aquariums to attract prosperity to the feng shui use of crystals and fountains; from the right feng shui use of colours to the feng shui use of clocks, there are many ways you can improve the energy in your home or office with solid, good feng shui. Read: 25+ Popular Feng Shui Cures for Your Home
Although some levels of feng shui are easy to understand and apply, the core knowledge takes years of study. Just like the Traditional Chinese medicine, the feng shui knowledge is deep and complex. The more you know about feng shui, the more there is to explore!
That is one of the things I hope you get out of this series...a desire to explore things you might not have considered before! And while we are on the subject of energy, here is a book that I found fun and you might want to check this out ... Inside are a series of experiments you can try to see how you might be affecting energy. I look forward to hearing about any personal experiences you might have. Mine were mind blowing! 
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