The Principles of Feng Shui

Everything in the world can be seen in terms of two kinds of energy: Passive and Active, or Yin and Yang, which is one of the fundamental principles of Feng Shui.

 The concepts of Yin and Yang offers a comprehensive way of looking at the world and how it affects you.  It makes it possible to adjust your relationship with people and your surroundings so that you can place yourself in favorable rather than unfavorable situation.  

Similar principles can be applied to your home, diet, exercise, work and leisure activities.  They all have all aspects that are more Yin or more Yang, and you can encourage them to work for you or against you depending on your needs at the time.  

Yin and Yang are relative terms used to compare everything in the universe.  Things are more Yin or more Yang depending on what they are compared with.  For example, resting is more Yin than working, but more Yang than sleeping.  Yin and Yang can describe physical things or non-physical things.

Although everything is either Yin or Yang, as an entity it seeks some kind of balance.  Individually nothing is in perfect balance, nor can it be as everything is either more Yin or more Yang.  Something that is more Yin can reach a more balanced state with something that is more Yang.  Often we drift either side of the middle path.  For a whole we become more Yin and then make changes that makes use more Yang and vice versa.  

Below is a list showing how these energies are expressed in our surroundings:

Yin:                                        Yang:

winter                                    summer

moon                                      sun

cold                                       hot

introvert                               extrovert

passive                                  active

smooth                                  rough

curvilinear                            angular