fengshui – 2

i spent a whole noon at a fengshui class. and another noon following the teacher goes around 5 of my friends’ houses and listening to his comments. here’s the influence on me:

the fengshui teacher hit the chord on one point that prompts me to shift furniture around in my room again. i spent the whole day shifting, and cleaning. And it is the cleaning part that becomes meaningful this time.  

he said we have to develop relationship with our house/room. just like a living being, a plant, a pet.. we have responsibility to look after it, so that our house becomes alive and responsive.

fengshui is about harmony of the 5 natural elements. and our external reflects our internal. making a point to care for our external will affect the harmony of 5 internal elements.

last night i was still perturbed about the noise from MRT track. in fengshui, it is a 声煞, the noise level will affect the stability of one’s mental-emotional state, leading to problems with the heart, kidney, etc… And about the toilet having a co-relation with my career ! … Hearing these, i can’t help feeling terribly unsettled, coz there is some truth in what he said with my own experience. 

instead of letting his words pull me down even further, i decided to perk up. Take care of health, use my instinct to shift my furniture again.. and to clean. instead of grumbling. complaining, fearful, withdrawing and hiding from the MRT noise, i shift my table to the window, confronting it face to face. it is the same as inner work, the more you run away from your inner monsters, the more terrifying they grow in you.

another reason is, i really miss the view from my window. and the view of greenery, expanse of sky, fresh wind will wake me and let energy move. i suffered the last few days with terrible experience of stagnancy in energy level… leading to near depression and cynicism.

i don’t know if the movement and noise will subtly work its way to affect my health adversely. i will just take it as an experiment.

all things done, if I can’t change the MRT track, i have to change my mindset (ie. mental programming).

i recalled the story of Dipa Ma, the Indian meditation teacher who maintained a peaceful and cheerful demeanour even though she was living in the midst of the most chaotic and noisy street (city) in india. if she could do it, it means i can try to be like her.