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By Kathy Neal, FSII
Owner/Designer-EcoDeco
Feng Shui is not decorating, but it is great design. Feng shui explains how place affects the human condition and how to modify less-than-ideal factors. We react to and interact with our environment all the time. How we see, what we hear, smell and touch influences our experience of life, in turn affecting our health, wealth and happiness. By altering our physical space we can stop repeating useless patterns and take advantage of what is around us to achieve our goals.
Feng shui works to create a sense of well-being. For instance: We humans prefer to be outside. Originally humans came inside to be safe from danger. Because of this original purpose for shelter, deep down in all of us is a small sense of dread whenever we go indoors. Thus, Feng Shui always seeks to bring the outside in as a way to counteract this unease. Plants, water features, natural objects of all kinds are used to create a sense of our favorite outside places.
Feng Shui was originally an ancient tool from China. Pyramid Feng Shui, a western offshoot, has blended Feng Shui’s underlying principles rooted in nature and biology with current scientific research. Because we now know a lot about how humans process information, modern Feng Shui using contemporary discoveries asks such things as:
- How do we see?
- How do others perceive us?
- What distances between things and people feel good or bad?
- What space size is optimum?
- What pace is best for moving through a space?
- What colors work best to encourage a desired result?
In Pyramid Feng Shui, teachings from earlier schools are honored but scrutinized for the root veracity (truth) utilizing all current social and physical sciences to support ancient ideas before accepting them. For instance: in traditional Feng Shui, stairs in view of the entry are considered bad. Why? Current science states that humans see sharp angles first because they do not exist in nature much except as dangerous things: falling trees, tiger leaps, flying spears, etc. Therefore, Pyramid Feng Shui suggests that stairs are not so much bad luck as attention hogs, dominating any space where they are in full view.
Pyramid Feng Shui also embraces ideas and concepts unknown to ancient Chinese. Primary Imaging, new studies on healing with color, and Bau biology (sick house prevention) are just a few.
Most importantly, Pyramid is different from other schools in that it focuses first and foremost on the person, seeing place as only the tool. It is person-centered. The question is always: what is the intention for the people in this space? What needs to happen here?
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What is a consultation?
1--assessment- generally about 2 hours if client has prepared short list of goals before hand. (photos, measurements, extensive questionnaire)
2--- recommendations are made for landscape, furniture arrangement, art and artifacts.
3--- Client is given detailed instructions for DIY or EcoDeco can do all or part of the hands-on arrangement.
Specifically for a business there are two parts to the goals question: #1: Your business goals and #2: What you want for your clients
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