How to Feng Shui your way around your dorm room
Kyle Griffin
Issue date: 3/26/08 Section: Entertainment
College dorms and first apartments are not always the best platforms for creative style designs. Money is usually too tight to make successful endeavors into interior design and some people just don't care enough to make the effort. But a nice looking room or apartment has benefits that are often times overlooked. Bringing over the parents is an occasion to state a student's independence and ability to thrive on his or her own. Similarly, having a date come back to a room is another time to impress. It would figure, then, that a pigsty doesn't scream, "I'm an adult" or "Let's make out." There are always relatively cheap solutions to these problems if some research is done, and one of those is an ancient Chinese practice called Feng Shui. Besides sprucing up the place, this art form claims to bring the inhabitant's life into harmony.
A Brief Overview:
Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese practice that's believed to utilize the Laws of both Heaven (astronomy) and Earth (geography) to help improve life by receiving positive 'Qi.' Frequently translated to mean energy flow, Qi is a kind of life force or spiritual energy for the Chinese. The words 'Feng Shui' literally mean 'wind-water' in English.
Feng Shui practitioners believe that adjustments to the outer, physical world change and improve the inner self. Purposeful placement of objects using Feng Shui techniques creates balance and frees energy in the environment and in people's lives. It's an important part of Chinese culture and there are many schools that teach the basic principles and techniques of the design style. Most of today's Feng Shui schools teach that it's the practice of arranging objects, such as the internal placement of furniture in one's living space, to achieve harmony with one's environment. It's also used for choosing a place to live, for plotting a burial site, and some use it for agricultural planning.
Fundamental Theory:
The goal of Feng Shui, as practiced today, is to situate the human built environment on locations with good 'qi.' The "perfect spot" is described as a location and an axis in time. Some areas aren't suitable for human settlement and should be left in their natural state. While finding the perfect spot may not be feasible right now, Feng Shui can still be used to make the best of the living space you own. To determine the best spots to place objects, areas are assessed for quality. One part of this assessment that readers may be more familiar with is determining a location that contains a balance of polatiry, expressed in Feng Shui as Ying and Yang. The polarity within Feng Shui is buildings of the living (yang) and buildings of the dead (yin).
A Brief Overview:
Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese practice that's believed to utilize the Laws of both Heaven (astronomy) and Earth (geography) to help improve life by receiving positive 'Qi.' Frequently translated to mean energy flow, Qi is a kind of life force or spiritual energy for the Chinese. The words 'Feng Shui' literally mean 'wind-water' in English.
Feng Shui practitioners believe that adjustments to the outer, physical world change and improve the inner self. Purposeful placement of objects using Feng Shui techniques creates balance and frees energy in the environment and in people's lives. It's an important part of Chinese culture and there are many schools that teach the basic principles and techniques of the design style. Most of today's Feng Shui schools teach that it's the practice of arranging objects, such as the internal placement of furniture in one's living space, to achieve harmony with one's environment. It's also used for choosing a place to live, for plotting a burial site, and some use it for agricultural planning.
Fundamental Theory:
The goal of Feng Shui, as practiced today, is to situate the human built environment on locations with good 'qi.' The "perfect spot" is described as a location and an axis in time. Some areas aren't suitable for human settlement and should be left in their natural state. While finding the perfect spot may not be feasible right now, Feng Shui can still be used to make the best of the living space you own. To determine the best spots to place objects, areas are assessed for quality. One part of this assessment that readers may be more familiar with is determining a location that contains a balance of polatiry, expressed in Feng Shui as Ying and Yang. The polarity within Feng Shui is buildings of the living (yang) and buildings of the dead (yin).
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