Feng
Shui
Feng
Shui Schools
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Shui and PMT
FENG SHUI AND
PMT
(This is the
first article in a series)
In the tradition
of Feng Shui (literal translation - 'Wind and
Water') it is believed that over time, a
structure, it's walls, floors and furniture,
absorbs different energies from the surrounding
and internal environments and that the
atmosphere within a building can transform,
stagnate, congest or consume, for example. The
ambience or feel of an environment can be
palpable. This atmosphere may also be
undetectable by the normal senses, yet still
affect our energies, behaviours, moods and
therefore vitality, surreptitiously.
A Feng Shui
ritual to cleanse a building (notably at the
onset of residence or habitation but also a
process amenable to any time frame), consists of
sprinkling sea salt around the perimeter,
walking clockwise or anti-clockwise starting at
your front door. Sea salt purifies by absorbing
'disturbing' Qi (Chi), inferred to above. Then,
walk in a clockwise or anti-clockwise direction
around the perimeter of your building three
times, ringing a wind chime gently, with the
intent that the chimes' resonance will break up
any disturbing Qi. The chimes should be rinsed
in water between each circling of the building.
Women are
advised not to do this if they are pregnant or
menstruating, as at these times, they are more
sensitive to energetic changes. It's believed
that these 'energetic changes' are too
disturbing to a woman who is, at that time,
extremely sensitive and susceptible to stimuli
of many natures.
Having suffered
varying levels and styles of PMT since having my
children I have often pondered the cause of this
black cloud with many faces. What intrigues me
most is the sometimes subtle and sometimes overt
variance in PMT symptoms and their severity from
one month to another. Indeed, what qualifies as
PMT, while identifying broadly with a range of
symptoms and emotional states is often an
intensely individualized experience each
month.
If we accept
that we are the building and that our
interactions with others lead to absorption of
different energies or produce different
emotional states and responses - short term and
long term interactions may trigger short term
emotional states or continue feed an underlying
long term emotional state.
My personal
experience during a recent time of PMT, was a
heaviness in my feet and abdomen. My emotional
state was extreme sensitivity to all the
feelings passing through me. Negative and
Positive. I cried because I love people, I cried
for feelings of deep restriction in my life and
at chaos created in my life by others. As I sit
writing now the same issues are in my life
however I do not feel them as intensely. I take
them just as seriously but do not feel the
extreme and deep emotional state I accessed
during that time.
I have often
wondered whether difficult or seemingly
unresolvable matters not dealt with "come to get
me" at PMT time. It is as if the premenstrual
and indeed menstrual experience is a canvas upon
which the various physical and emotional states
spanning the whole cycle are painted, ala
personal history revisiting. It seems they will
not be ignored or silenced.
It's possible
that different PMT states and sensitivities
reflect the energetic charge or disharmony
emanating from various underlying processes. In
Feng Shui terms, a Qi imbalance. These may have
arisen during the preceding month or chronic
emotional states that we gain access to at this
extremely sensitive time, but are difficult to
access at other times. We may not be able to
name them, however.
If, according to
Feng Shui, at the time of menstruation, women
are more sensitive to energetic changes, then it
is possible that the few days preceding this
period would be a time of increasing sensitivity
to both inner and outer landscapes. This perhaps
accounts for a preponderance of heaviness in my
body, aches, impatience and frustration as well
as a generally pessimistic outlook.
In Chinese
thought, it is believed our entire environment
is alive with Qi, the emanation of which, is
derived from the interactions of inherent forces
known as Yin and Yang. If we transfer this to
our internal landscape we see that the time of
PMT is one of increasing sensitivity to the
Yin/Yang imbalance or disharmony in our
emotional lives.
Bernadette
Praske.
More to
come……………
