Excerpts from the Website of Nancilee Wydra
Feng Shui is the science of how human beings connect with their physical spaces. Feng Shui evolved in China through several millennia, developing in various schools and sects and draws from Taoism, a Chinese philosophy. The words feng shui literally mean "wind water". The practice came about as an effective way for people who lived in the mountainous regions of China to protect their dwellings from harsh winds and dangerous water.
Coming to America changed feng shui in response to a completely different culture with a diverse set of customs, symbols, and traditions. We often synthesize wisdom and knowledge from all of the schools of feng shui while filtering out cultural and geographical proclivities, and placing heavy emphasis on current social and physical sciences. Some fields that support Feng Shui include geology, meteorology, cultural anthropology, molecular cell biology, neuroscience, cognitive science, physiology, and psychology, to name a few.
Feng Shui is an information system that reveals how a home or workplace can affect health, relationships and self-actualization. Our experience in life cannot be isolated from the language of our environment.
“Where we are is as important as who we are.”
When merely a few cells old, where we are situated in a womb determines if we will survive. But our survival is not the only biologically programmed determinant. The threads separating us from many other species is the cognition of our own condition.
“We strive to be happy.”
The relationship of person to place provides simple, easy-to-implement solutions for inauspicious conditions of an environment, that can tip a balance in our favor. Feng Shui fills a void at a time when we are beginning to acknowledge that our experience of place is integral to a quality life.
