Feng Shui and Health is a groundbreaking guide that aims to foster wellness through home furnishing placement and design. Readers will learn how they subconsciously recreate illness patterns in their homes through the placement and design, and how they are often drawn to rent and purchase homes that reflect all the emotional, spiritual, and physical underpinnings of their illness. Feng Shui and Health will include an introduction to the basic principles of Feng Shui as well more advanced information on our internal energy system, the Chakras. The book will also include information on common room layouts that can lead to illness & how to correct them; the role of color in health; and a multi-level approach to alleviating 18 common illnesses. Nancy SantoPietro is a feng shui consultant who specializes in the uses of feng shui to enhance health and alleviate illness-related issues. She is also a globally in-demand instructor and lecturer and is the author of Feng Shui: Harmony by Design and Feng Shui and Health: The Anatomy of a Home .  Thomas Lin Yun Rinpoche , a native of Taichung, Taiwan, is often regarded as the founder of feng shui in the West. He has lectured and led workshops around the world, including in the United States, across Europe, and in South Africa, Nigeria, Australia, Taiwan, China, and India. He also taught at San Diego State University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, University of San Francisco, and at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies at Seton Hall University. Chapter 1 feng shui is a design system based on the flow of energy (ch'i) through your home or environment. It differs from the principles of traditional interior design, which bases its concepts mainly on function, form, and aesthetics. Although Feng Shui has been around for more than 4,000 years, Westerners first began to become aware of it in the mid-1980s, and it became popular in mainstream society in the 1990s. There are three main schools of thought in Feng Shui, but this book will exclusively address the nontraditional school of what is known as the Black Hat Sect. Unlike other schools, which utilize a compass (Lo' Pan), the Black Hat Sect uses entranceways and a mapping system called the Bagua to determine location and proper positioning. But, no matter what the school of thought is, the primary objective of Feng Shui is always to create home and work environments that are in alignment with the healing forces of nature, thus creating spaces that naturally support and nurture the individuals who occupy them. When these patterns of invisible energy are aligned, they produce environments that strengthen all the different circumstances an individual will encounter during his or her lifetime. Although the connection between Feng Shui and career opportunities, personal relationships, and finances is becoming better understood, until now, the connection to health has been less so. As you further explore concepts of vibrational patterns, you will begin to see energy patterns both within an individual and within an environment. Collectively, these two forms of patterns can create balanced and healthy energy patterns or unbalanced and unhealthy patterns of energy. Such patterns, when left uncorrected, can aggressively cause blocks in your career, poor health, illness and disease, dissatisfaction in your love life, and difficulties with your finances. By learning to assess and analyze vibrational patterns and the Feng Shui of your environment, you will be able to tap in to a new approach to understanding, diagnosing, and treating illness, and attending to your own health. As you begin to work with Feng Shui concepts to improve your health, it is important to remember that the art of Feng Shui, so rich in metaphors, will mirror your health and life back to you as you subconsciously re-create them in your environment. It will manifest and reveal all the aspects of your health that you are not able to see objectively. Interpreted correctly, the Feng Shui of your environment will reflect back to you all the emotional, spiritual, physical, conscious, unconscious, and subconscious issues that are contributing to many aspects of your disease. It will provide you with an objective, tangible way to expose the hidden pieces of your illness as revealed in your home. Then, by making energy changes and corrections to your environment, you can dismantle the part of your illness that is being supported by unhealthy energy patterns and design layouts. This book will gently invite you to look at your life, your home, and your health from a new perspective. It will challenge you to rethink illness from an understanding that our home and office environments have a direct impact on the quality and status of our health. As you explore these principles, you might be surprised to find that there are many ways to assess the Feng Shui and health status of your home. Although many factors play into why and how an individual gets sick