Tonight at the dinner table somehow the conversation subject was gambling. It’s amazing what the boys learn from T.V. My sons have never been to a casino so their information does not come from experience. One of my sons said he recalled a TV program saying that one had a 49% chance of winning on …
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The dining table is an important part of family life. This is where you share a good portion of your life communicating, sharing and interacting with your family. From a feng shui stand point everything has a yin and yang. So, from that perspective a round table is yang, very dynamic and active while a …
The last six months have been a real learning experience for me. My feng shui master, Dr. Hsu, has taught me many new insights into feng shui and clarified many misunderstandings that I had. He has explained to me how some of these gadgets and cures came into use. Most have come from Chinese culture. …
Unlike the homes of the 70’s and 80’s where the kitchen, dining and living rooms were all separated into individual rooms, families today enjoy the use of a great room. The great room usually incorporates the kitchen, family room and casual dining area. We tend to watch T.V. and generally ‘live’ in this space. This …
Feng shui principles teach us to follow nature’s patterns. As the grass turns yellow and leaves begin to change color, we realize summer is coming to an end. Many fruits and nuts ripen and there is a lot of good autumn food we can enjoy like sweet potatoes, mushrooms, apples, pumpkins, squash, chestnuts and persimmons. …
We are having unbelievably warm weather for Seattle and I love it! All the neighbors are out doing yard work, planting flowers, trimming hedges and changing their landscape. On our family deck I have red geraniums, some herbs, various plants in pots and two small hanging plants. Not much but enough. Over the years I …
From an interior design perspective, yin is the quiet or non-active areas of the house while yang is the active and places of gathering. Yang rooms are the living room, kitchen and dining and the yin would be the bathrooms and bedrooms. In the Yang room it is fine to have stimulating objects and colors …
During the school spring break we went up to Whistler for a few days and I visited the First Nations Museum that opened last summer. It features the Squamish and Lil’wat Native Indian tribe’s culture. If you have the chance to visit, it is a wonderful experience. From a Feng Shui point of view, both …
My feng shui master, Dr. Shantung Hsu, always teaches me something new every time I visit with him. It is so energizing to learn from such a knowledgeable yet most humble master. Please check out his website and blog at bluemountainfengshui.com The feng shui that we practice is called form school. In form school, we …
The term Feng Shui is commonly described today in the West as “the art of placement”. Though this is not a complete definition, almost all the books I originally purchased used this phrase and described how to compartmentalize various ‘zones’ in the house to improve prosperity and explained how to cure bad feng shui. We …
