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The Yin and Yang of Feng Shui
Is Feng Shui really friendly for all
genders? While there is no question to the fact that it can invite
some positive vibes into your home just by the mere art of
rearranging your furniture and the orientations of your
surroundings, it may actually reveal so much more about culture if
one takes a good look at it.
For one thing, the Yin and Yang illustration is a very famous facet
of Feng Shui. It simply states that opposites are necessary to be
able to appreciate the beauty of things. You cannot appreciate the
good without bad, light without darkness and so on. This theory of
opposites and balance extends to the elements of the earth: water,
wind, fire, wood and earth. These elements are also in balance if
good Feng Shui is present.
Yin is often characterized with strength, viability and
aggressiveness. More importantly, it is attributed to the masculine
side of identity. On the other hand, weakness and femininity are
interchangeably attributed to the Yang side, the softer side of
things. Is this really a good thing? While it has been maintained
that it is a world for the masculine, the main precepts of Feng Shui
are actually more tailored to suit male, establishing them as the
strong ones in the spectrum of life.
The Feng Shui concept is already organized in its scope. Any person
you ask about Feng Shui may tell you its symbols: the bagua, the yin
and yang diagram and the charms used by Feng Shui experts to cancel
bad luck. However, the main concepts are not entirely original. The
philosopher Heraclitus from Greece is credited for having first
denoted the concept of having opposites. And consequently,
psychology on colors and other visual media can also state some
theories that are resonant with Feng Shui precepts.
Interestingly, there are more women drawn to the Feng Shui habit
than men, who may or may not be conscious that they are actually
supporting a form of belief system that establishes males as strong
and females as weak. But other than the Yin –Yang concept, there is
no other outward manifestation of this gender bias.
Is it really a good thing to believe in Feng Shui and apply it? The
answer is relative. It depends on the person who is asking and the
background under which he or she is raised. If you are born in an
open-minded culture which holds less restrictions on what you can
and cannot do, the applying of Feng Shui may be a non-issue.
Meanwhile, if you are under a movement that opposes the main beliefs
of Feng Shui, you may have to make a more substantial choice of
lifestyle changes.
Feng Shui also has its own Yin and Yang to speak of. If you are
really intent on ruminating on the deeper aspects of Feng Shui, you
may have to dig deeper beyond what you see on promotional materials
and even hate literature against Feng Shui. For the most part, Feng
Shui is quite harmless in nature and it does not really explicitly
cause major changes in one’s lifestyles or belief systems.
But if in case you choose to be more meticulous, you may find that
analyzing beneath the layers of promotion of Feng Shui that there is
more to it than just rearranging furniture.
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