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Harness Natural Energies to Improve Your Life
Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese art that helps us to live harmoniously with our environment. By applying its principles to your garden, patio, balcony, or backyard, you can revitalize your space in a natural way, and bring harmony and happiness into your life.
This highly accessible, practical book shows us how to observe the natural patterns and energies at work around us, and make use of them for our own benefit. Find out how to sense the flow of chi -- the universal life force -- in and around your garden. Does it flow freely, indicating health and abundance, or is it blocked? Learn how to determine the balance of yin and yang, and how to interpret the shapes and colors of the five Chinese elements.
The Feng Shui Garden shows how by simply transforming a flowerbed, moving a garden seat, or re-routing a path you can create your very own special place. Improve the balance of energy in this way and you will also improve your life!
-- Highly visual, practical approach to using Feng Shui in any garden
-- Simple gardening solutions to various life problems
-- How to "read" the environment to create balance and harmony
-- Organic gardening techniques
-- Charts presenting age-old methods of moon and companion planting
Synopsis
This accessible, practical book with full-color photographs, illustrations, and charts shows readers how to direct and use the natural flow of energy in a patio, garden, balcony, or backyard. Readers will be able to see improvements not only in their gardens but also in their lives. A Selection of One Spirit Book Club.
Synopsis
This highly accessible, practical book shows readers how to direct and make use of the natural flow of energy in a garden, patio, balcony, or backyard. Full-color photographs, illustrations, charts, and call-outs make enigmatic principles easy to understand and apply.
About the Author
A visit to Hong Kong several years ago resulted in author Gill Hale's interest in Feng Shui and Taoism. She has gardened organically for over 20 years using moon- and companion-planting techniques. Gill is also a Feng Shui garden consultant and lectures at the Feng Shui Society (for which she is also a book reviewer), The Feng Shui Association, and organic gardening groups in the United Kingdom. She has compiled her knowledge into the book, The Feng Shui Garden. Additionally, Gill writes regular articles on the subject and has appeared in Parkes and Gardens on Radio 4, and her garden was featured in Mind Body Spirit on Cable TV when she appeared in a speacial on geopathic stress. Gill lives in London with her daughter.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Part One: Feng Shui Principles for the Garden
Tao: The Way
Yin and Yang
The Nature of Energies
I Ching
Lo Shu and Bagua
The Tao for Today
The Five Elements
Chi
Vibrational Energy
The Right Time and Place: People
The Right Time: Plants
The Right Place: Plants
Feng Shui in Practice
History of Gardens
A Feng Shui Garden
Part Two: Creating a Feng Shui Garden
Planning a Feng Shui Garden
Clearing Clutter
Creating the Garden
Design
The Bagua as a Design Tool
Paths and Entrances
Buildings and Structures
Seats and Statues
Window Boxes
Roof Gardens, Balconies, Terraces
Choosing Plants
The Eyes to See
Case Studies
Moon- and Companion-Planting Table
Animals, Elements and Year Dates
Useful Addresses
Bibliography and Further Reading
Index
Acknowledgements
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