Thursday, March 15, 2007

Feng shui text

As NWE produced a Chinese supplement I decided to write about feng shui. The article was not published, perhaps it will be included to a supplement about the DESIGN. We will see. Anyway my blog is always the best way to get my things published. Enjoy reading.

Happy at work and home??

The humans always tried to find a way to make themselves happy where they live and work. Feng shui can definitely help.

"Feng shui meaning wind and water is an ancient Chinese science and art of space's improving" says Mr Jacek Kryg - an expert and a member of International Feng Shui Society in Singapore.

Primary feng shui was connected with creation of family tombs. Next step covered the cities. Currently the most typical and worldwide understanding of feng shui is a help to arrange houses and offices' interior.

" Feng shui is a science because at very beginning a consultant needs to collect all required data e.g. a date of birth, feng shui is also an art because there can be as many ideas how to arrange the space as the number of consultants" adds Mr Kryg. Feng shui is not an ideaology with one valid truth. There are the schools and their masters.

" Feng shui in Poland is a very sensitive issue like politics" explains Mr Kryg. There was an idea that Warsaw after London could be another capital of European feng shui school" comments Mr Kryg. "Unfortunetely it was only an idea" - he continues.

According to Mr Kryg a book of Sarah Rosbach "Interior desing with feng shui" in 1996 can be taken as a kickoff of feng shui in Poland.
After that date many eagers took part in the trainings about feng shui. Presently more people prefer to invite a consultant to their houses and offices. "Many well-known people and companies ask me for a help in arranging their interior but they do not want to have any obvious elements connected to feng shui like Chinese painting or bells". I guess they feel ashamed to be considered as non-rationalists" says Mr Kryg.

It seems Poles want to be happy and ask for help in order to achieve it but they are not open enough to say how it was obtained - it is very interesting.

Some pictures from the interview












With a delay I published some pictures from the interview.