In search of a better (Feng Shui) mouse-trap

A student asks me if he should take someone's "Hi-Hi-Hi Feng Shui" and "La-La-La Feng Shui" courses (course titles withheld to preserve the integrity of the original methods).

"Take the courses if your father owns a non-U.S. bank". I told the student.

"Besides, you have taken quite a few Feng Shui courses! You may already have the best Feng Shui mouse-traps without knowing."

To my dismay, this student's father really owns a non-U.S. bank! So I need to explain further.

"Hi-Hi-Hi" method was originally designed for fast-changing battlefield environment and "La-La-La" method was designed for divination of daily events. Either method can easily take someone a life-time to master.

To apply a method in a new field that is not originally designed for may need more cautions and time to be proven. Also the credibility of the source of such new methods needs to be considered too.

My personal bias is: I tend to be on the conservative side. "Discoveries" in Chinese metaphysics can easily take 50+ to hundred years to be "proven" and/ or widely accepted.
While these methods may somehow be directly or indirectly related to Feng Shui, it may not be the most efficient way (cost or time-wise) to tackle Feng Shui problems.

"Hi-Hi-Hi" and "La-La-La" methods are not easy to learn even assuming cost is not a consideration. If these methods were easy and powerful, it should be "Hi-Hi-Hi" and "La-La-La" and not Flying Star Feng Shui, dominate the current Feng Shui field.

To learn or use Feng Shui, you may want to go straight to traditional Feng Shui courses like San Yuan, San He or the like directly.

The same logic can also be applied to Bazi (4P) and ZWDS. Both are also somehow related to Feng Shui. One may apply these methods to Feng Shui if by chance one had taken these classes already.

But to take a class on 4P or ZWDS or "Hi-Hi-Hi" or "La-La-La" because you want to do Feng Shui, is like taking a guitar class because you want to learn typing.

There may be new or attractive claims on "Hi-Hi-Hi" or "La-La-La" Feng Shui that may be too much to resist. I cannot help or advise you on those claims. But again, all I can say is:

"Take the courses if your father owns a non-U.S. bank".

For those who have a poor dad, you may want to do some "mining" with your old Feng Shui course manuals instead. Very often, people take a course, get excited and then shelve the course materials without testing or trying it.

I had the same "better mouse-trap syndrome" when I was young. Instead of examining and studying of what I already have, I tried to look for a "better mouse-trap" to "spare" me of the hard work required to learn. The result was wasting tons of money and time chasing and buying repackaged or recycled "mouse-traps".
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Introduction to Bed Feng Shui

Three imperatives of Feng Shui are: main door, master
bedroom and stove.

There are many ways to manipulate the door to
re-direct qi flow to the house-- tilt it or move it
around. We FS guys have been toying with the front
door for centuries.

There are also many ways to move the stove around to
achieve health, wealth and luck concerns. Ba Zhai or
8-mansions school is the more familiar one.

Obviously, FS guys would move the bed around like they
do with doors and stoves. How come we have not seen
much about bed Feng Shui in the west?

So, what can we do to the master bedroom to improve
the life of its occupants since one-third of their
lives are spent on the bed?

There are some familiar form FS restrictions about
bedroom, like no mirror, no lamp or fan hang above the
bed, no setting bed in front of windows, no sharp
objects under your bed, no skylight above your bed, no
double-doors for bedroom, .....

There are many ways to set up a bed to improve spousal
relationship, to improve luck, to promote fertility
and to improve health. The followings are some major
ones:

1. Ba Zhai bed-setting
This is the easiest one-- setting the bed according to
your ming gua.

2. San He bed-setting
This method is for giving birth to male baby using San
He theories based on husband's 4P.

3. "8-door addition" bed-setting
This method using Qi Men's 8 doors methodology to
improve one's luck.

4. San Yuan Qi Men bed-setting
This method uses Qi Men Dun Jia to set bed and is a
pretty complicated method.

5. 9-stars bed-setting
This method is a piece of cake for people who know
flying star method. It helps improve spousal
relationship and even solves health problems that is
caused by bed and bedroom door locations. With
misguided intention, this method can be used to
control your spouse.

6. Pillowing on "Tai Yang" (Great Male) bed-setting
This method is for giving birth of male baby by
locating the "Tai Yang" position on your bed, have
your wife laying on it and do your baby-making
procedure there. The opposite of this method is "Tai
Yin" (Great Female), which locates the "Tai Yin"
position on your bed, is for getting baby girl.

A word of caution: If your client has pregnant woman
in the house, DO NOT MOVE THEIR BED!!

Ken Lai
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