30 Kick start - Space Clearing

Preparation of Fung shui practice begins with removing unwanted articles from your home. By removing unorganized, dusty articles around the home means removing the idea of "do it later". It greatly improve the positive Chi welcoming to your home. Starting with the Compute desk, organize the over crowded desk by removing old articles, print outs, post office junk mails, unopened bills, and, unused cables, food plates, coffee cups, bottles, and coins. Keep your computer desk clean and organized means to removed congested mind and confusions, and welcome new ideas and innovations. Space clearing at home results removing heavy and dull feeling and allow the positive Chi to flow easily. Negative energy will be replaced by Healthy flow of Chi. Therefore, arguments, confused minds, and traumas will be replaced by joyfulness, happiness, peace, and harmony. We sometimes have an idea to save some items and someday could be usable and end up collecting too much boxes of junks around the house that we don't even need to use for years. Old cloths that never been put on for over 2 years should belongs to salvation army. Look around the house, you don't have to do it all in one day. Clean them up little by little, area by area. After that, you will feel "Less means More". you will be amazed.

29 Destructive Cycle Water

The water element has the power to control and finally distinguish the fire element.
When water is heated it is beneficial for cooking. Using Destructive Cycle is very useful whenever you have an overwhelming influence of a particular element. In offices, equipped with computers, electrical wires and components. When a person stay for a long period in these overwhelming level of Metal element will soon feel tension around shoulder and neck. Small plants, and green fixtures represent wood element and so will calm the metal element.

28 Destructive Cycle Wood

The Wood element has the power of absorbing and eventually destroy the Earth element.
Imagine the roots of trees as they penetrate into the soil of earth, seeking for minerals, nutrients, Earth is exhausted by the energy of the wood element and left barren.

27 Destructive Cycle Metal

Metal is an very powerful entity and eventually can destruct the wood element. Imagine a metal axe can cut and make tree fall. In the modern world, Power cutting tools are used to cut into desirable shapes and sizes.

26 Destructive Cycle Fire

Starting with the fire element. Fire element is capable of reducing and eventually destroying the energy of metal element. when heat applied to metal it turns to pools of liquid form.
This energy is useful in the real world when heat applied to metal becoming flexible and can be moulded and shaped into a useful object. such as metal frame for automobile, steal bars in buildings, and structure for ferry, and cargo ship, etc.

25 The Constructive Cycle

beginning with the Fire cycle: whenever the fire element become extreme it will create the earth element. This can be seen in nature, as a fire will produce ash.
Earth in turn is capable of production the metal element. Under pressure the earth will condense minerals into metal ore, which is mined from the ground.
Metal is the element that gives birth to the water element. This transition is more obscure than the others, however, when you place metal under extreme conditions, such as high heat (yang) the metal will turn into liquid. Likewise when you place metal into freezing (yin) conditions, the molecules that make up metal will retract and attract miniature drops of condensation.
Water is the element that feeds and nourishes the wood element, as can be seen daily in nature, where plants will wilt and eventually die if they are staved of water.
Wood is the element that gives birth to the fire element, just as logs are used to fuel a fir.

24 Constructive - Destructive Cycle

Feng Shui uses elements to enhance and balance the personal Chi. But before you can understand the use of these elements for achieving balance you have to understand the cycles of these elements. All the elements can enter into cycles that can either be constructive or destructive. In nature the destructive and constructive cycles are balanced, but in a space we can create the balance using the Feng Shui.

Constructive Elemental Cycle

Wood -> Fire -> Earth -> Metal -> Water -> Wood

Destructive Elemental Cycle

Water -> Fire -> Metal -> Wood -> Earth -> Water

In the constructive cycle, wood creates fire which creates earth and so forth. This uses the positive manifestations of each of the elements and shows basic compatibility. For instance, a person born in a wood year would have an elemental compatibility with a person born in water or fire year. In the reverse, water puts out fire, which destroys metal, which chops wood, which depletes the earth, which is washed away by water. Two elements next to each other in their destructive cycle are NOT compatible. So when we are making use of these elements one cannot use them together. Then there is a concept of a buffer element; if a compatible element is placed in between two destructive elements it can lessen their impact.

The five elements are also important in Chinese medicine because each element also corresponds to an organ of the body: Water with the kidney, fire with the heart, earth with the spleen, metal with the lungs and wood with the liver. The Correspondences of the five elements has considerable diagnostic significance in Chinese medicine because each of the elements is related to separate external easily visible bodily parts or organs. Since the Liver(wood) is related to the nails and the eyes for instance, diseases of live may often be diagnosed by inspecting the eyes and the nails. Additionally, since the liver is related to the emotion of anger, this also assists in the diagnosis of wood diseases. It can also be seen from the correspondences, that the spleen (earth) is sensitive to dampness, the liver (wood) to wind, the lungs (Metal) to dryness, the kidneys (water) to cold, and the heart (Fire) to heat.