How many books have you read about feng shui? If you read more than one chances are you were confused by contradictions.  You are not alone. When I first started studying feng shui I read my first book and was excited and then I bought my second book and then I was confused. When I began my study of feng shui there were not that many books available on the subject.

I can help you clear up some of your confusion. There are several main schools of feng shui and most feng shui books do not tell from what perspective the author is writing the book.  As I went along with my informal study, I came across the book Sacred Space by Denise Linn. In this book she wrote about Instinctive Feng Shui.  Sacred Space became the Interior Alignment™ system, which combines instinctive feng shui, space clearing and synchro alignment. When I read about instinctive feng shui, I felt a solar plexus connection with the information.  I chose to study this form of feng shui with Denise.

Denise wrote that we each have a deep and vast wellspring of intuitive knowledge about the power of placement.  Instinctive feng shui taps into that knowledge.  A great example is, when you move into a new home and begin to arrange your belongings or just moving furniture around in your current home.  Many times we move something then stand back to see how it “looks”.  We then decided if it “looks” good or not. If it doesn’t “look” good, we move again and again until it “looks” good. 

This “looking” good is our connecting or tapping into our intuition. We are actually “feeling” the change in the room. This “feeling good” is the basis of Instintive Feng Shui which is intuition. 

Instinctive feng shui is the blending of the best of feng shui from Black Hat feng shui, Compass feng shui and Form School feng shui.  These types of feng shui share and agree that harmony with the universe is important in feng shui.  Harmony is the balance of the flow of chi, the balance of yin and yang, and the balance of the elements.

The field of feng shui is enormous. Finding the school of feng shui that “feels” good to you is important and finding the teacher that you feel good about is just as important. Take time to investigate each school and teacher of that school, but rely on your intuition to make your final selection. 

Blessings, Neshi.

All Rights Reserved. Copyright, Yvette Neshi Lokotz, May 2008.