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From China with Chi
Feng Shui is the science of correcting energy of a building. It is gaining popularity over vaastu shastra.
A plant here, a wind chime there, can work wonders with your life, claim feng shui practitioners.
When Bhavesh Wadia found the blade of a kitchen knife pointing upwards, he knew he had reached the heart of the problem. With a dexterous flick of his wrist, he saved the Kapadias' marriage. For Anuradha Kale, it was the portrait of a sinking ship that bore ill for a business family. Three months later, rid of the portrait, business began to look up again.
Grim pictures, overhanging beams, bedroom mirrors, desks and beds with their backs to the door, wind chimes, crystals, clocks… such minutiae can make or break our lives, says feng shui.
Pronounced 'foong shway', this Chinese science of correcting the energy of a building is gradually gaining ground over its Indian counterpart, vaastu shastra. Where vaastu advocates expensive measures, such as breaking down walls or relocating rooms, feng shui is content with symbolic 'cures'.
Is the toilet wall adjoining the bedroom giving you restless sleep? Place the picture of a mountain on the wall to block the toilet's energies. Is your career graph on a downward swing? Place a metallic leaping frog on your desk. Correct wrong directions by placing mirrors, transform inauspicious zones. In short, buy happiness for the price of a potted plant, a crystal bowl and the color red.
