Are you well-positioned for greatness?

WHETHER you’re running a marathon or taking on a big business deal, some form of preparation is required to achieve the best results. Some goals require immense physical preparation while others take incredible mental strength to be attainable. However, no matter how different your goals are, you will need to be fuelled by a strong sense of desire and belief.

But what if you’ve done everything right from the beginning but things still slip right through your fingers? There is a strong possibility then that you have overlooked the energy around you.

Paying attention to this omnipresent energy helps orchestrate a better approach towards achieving greatness. In metaphysical studies, energy is known as Qi, and ensuring your abode or property receives this energy well assures you a healthy position in achieving nothing but the best. Let’s take a closer look at how they all come together.

Property location and direction

In Classical Feng Shui, direction and location are primary references. Therefore, it is important to understand these crucial aspects. Direction refers to the line in which you are facing, while location refers to the position you are in at that point in time.

An easier way of understanding this is to picture yourself standing in the middle of a large square. Being smack in the centre, you would be able to turn, facing in front, 360° on a compass. If you reposition yourself at any one of the corners of this square, you would be able to do the same. But this means that your location has moved.

These core basics can stretch quite extensively into other systems such as Eight Mansions and San He, but we will be using the Flying Stars system. It is no less effective compared to the others and is in fact more suited to modern living spaces. It is applicable to a wide range of properties such as home offices and apartments.

In Classical Feng Shui terminology, location is denoted as “sector” or “palace”, while “facing” is used to denote direction. A Flying Stars chart (3x3 grid) is superimposed against the map of your home, and from there we can see, for instance, that the Main Door could be located in the southeast sector but faces south. Similarly, this is applicable to any other room and feature in the living space. For example, the study room may be located in the north sector, but its door could be facing east, and the desk in the southwest subsector could be facing west. These things may appear insignificant, but are far from negligible.

Welcome and harvest the Qi

Once you have determined the type of energy that resides in the different parts of the property, one can then tap into the energy.

Direction is then used to add a higher level of personalisation to this process. In Classical Feng Shui, location takes priority over direction. This is because it is indeed possible to face any given direction while in a specific location.

It would be best to be in a good location with positive Qi, and then proceed to ensure that you face one of your favourable Facing Directions — based on your Gua number. If you happen to find yourself stuck in a situation where you don’t know what to prioritise, simply remember the rule of thumb — being in a good location is always better than having a good direction.

Should you have all of these in check along with the necessary preparations, there should not be any other hindrances in your journey towards achieving greatness. Feng Shui is all about getting the mind to be attuned with the energy around you to get what you desire.

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Datuk Joey Yap is the world’s leading Chinese Metaphysics consultant and bestselling author of more than 160 books which have sold over four million copies worldwide. He is chief consultant of the Joey Yap Consulting Group and founder of Mastery Academy Of Chinese Metaphysics. His nearly two decades of professional consultancy includes working with Microsoft, Sime Darby, UEM, Prudential and Citibank. He has students in more than 30 countries.