| Feng Shui is the definitive art of living in harmony and | | | | passing on to the next after-life dimension and they |
| balance with nature. And the vast majority of Feng | | | | hang out on earth without a physical body to express |
| Shui articles focus on how you can increase your | | | | basic human urges. How would you like to be hungry |
| income, stop fighting with family members or | | | | with no stomach to feed? How would you like to be |
| co-workers, and improve your health by adhering to | | | | confused and disoriented as to why other people are |
| Feng Shui principles in your home or place of business. | | | | living in your house and completely ignoring you? This is |
| But what about the darker side of Feng Shui? I will | | | | why priests, "ghost-busters", paranormal experts and |
| share with you some little-known facts: | | | | shamanic type space-clearers need to muster |
| Certain house types are more prone to attracting | | | | incredible focus to help free the ghost from being |
| ghosts, especially when they have not just one, but | | | | trapped on the earth plane. |
| several of the following components: | | | | Sometimes a home owner can talk frankly to the |
| Houses built right into a mountain side. | | | | ghost and ask it to leave, but that is only if the ghost |
| Houses that are perpetually dark and damp. | | | | recognizes what has happened. Not all ghosts are |
| Houses that are older because there is statistically a | | | | former human beings either. Your beloved cat that you |
| greater chance of past occupants being relentlessly | | | | buried in your back yard may have returned. |
| attached to the property. | | | | Grave sites: |
| Houses where someone died. | | | | Historically, a big branch of Feng Shui knowledge |
| Houses built on top of native American battle fields or | | | | (called Yin House Feng Shui) is devoted to the |
| grave sites. | | | | divination of grave sites. For centuries, the Chinese |
| Houses within blocks of a cemetery or even a church. | | | | have believed that a poorly situated grave site could |
| Houses very close to criminal activity, prostitution, | | | | cause a spiritual, social, political or economic downfall |
| alcohol and drug consumption. | | | | for future generations of the deceased. |
| Houses close to hospitals (where people die). | | | | This still remains one of the most secret parts of Feng |
| Houses close to slaughter-houses. | | | | Shui wisdom since the application of Yin House Feng |
| Houses with a lot of banana trees on the property. | | | | Shui can impact families for so many generations. In |
| Houses with poorly-placed wind-chimes. This one | | | | order for the dearly departed to truly rest in peace, the |
| comes as a surprise to many Feng Shui novices who | | | | total surrounding environment adjacent to the grave |
| think that hanging wind-chimes is a symbol of good | | | | must have specific topographical features, such as the |
| luck and protection. There are some house types | | | | proper shapes of nearby mountains. |
| where wind-chimes can ATTRACT a ghost! | | | | The actual grave needs to be positioned so that the |
| How to rid your home of ghosts: | | | | body can rest in a good direction for that person, |
| Based on some of the circumstances which attract | | | | based on their own astrology. This means that it is |
| ghosts to begin with, it is not always an easy task. This | | | | very individualized, just like Feng Shui for the living. |
| is where the popular practice of ritual space-clearing | | | | Cosmic lines of energy are transmitted from |
| can often help. Burning sage, thoroughly cleaning your | | | | underground and into the bones of the body at rest. |
| home, and eliminating excessive moisture and | | | | Those bones are energetically connected to the |
| darkness in the environment are usually mandatory. It | | | | bodies of all living descendants. We even have a |
| also requires a very concentrated meditative mind to | | | | saying in our own culture that someone could be |
| address the ghost and gently usher it back into the | | | | "turning in their grave" if they knew what misfortune or |
| light. | | | | negativity was happening to a living relative. |
| Ghosts are confused beings. They somehow missed | | | | |