The age-old principle of Feng Shui had been in use since ancient times. For millennia, ancient peoples have understood that both the physical environment around a building and other, subtler element have a profound effect on the quality of life of the building’s occupants. Early farmers found that certain places worked better for homes, businesses, and tombs than others.
What now known as Feng Shui came from a codified discipline that emerged in Asia more than 5,500 years ago. In India, the system was known as Vastu Shastra—the science of buildings—a foreshadowing of its principles that would later be corroborated by more modern sciences like geology and psychology. In China, it was first attested in the Zhou Dynasty and subsequently evolved into the different schools of Feng Shui. Some archeologists even speculate that a similar discipline had formed in prehistoric Europe.
As the disciplines developed, the practice was extended beyond domestic architecture. Geomancers and engineers worked closely with one another. In China alone, major cities were planned according to the tenets of Feng Shui.
The geomancers of ancient China and India understood what many modern engineers and architects would later learn. Certain locations and design choices often had a profound influence on people’s well-being and, at times, the structural integrity of the building. One location may cause a building to be susceptible to decay. Some design choices have time and again proven to be more pleasant or less stressful to the inhabitants.
Cultural fascination brought the art of Feng Shui away from its Asian roots to the world at large in the 1980s. Feng Shui principles were adopted in many places, the first being hospitals, that found that hallways redesigned to follow Feng Shui principles reduced stress.
Pallavi Chhelavda and her company, International Vastu Feng Shui Research Institute, work to help clients plan locations and design their properties according to the tenets of Feng Shui. Learn about her background and work in the field of Vastu Shastra and Feng Shui here.
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As the disciplines developed, the practice was extended beyond domestic architecture. Geomancers and engineers worked closely with one another. In China alone, major cities were planned according to the tenets of Feng Shui.
The geomancers of ancient China and India understood what many modern engineers and architects would later learn. Certain locations and design choices often had a profound influence on people’s well-being and, at times, the structural integrity of the building. One location may cause a building to be susceptible to decay. Some design choices have time and again proven to be more pleasant or less stressful to the inhabitants.
Cultural fascination brought the art of Feng Shui away from its Asian roots to the world at large in the 1980s. Feng Shui principles were adopted in many places, the first being hospitals, that found that hallways redesigned to follow Feng Shui principles reduced stress.
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Image source: wikimedia.org
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