The environment and Feng Shui -

Our environment essentially defines our lives, the effects upon us being either physical or psychological. The physical can be caused by a range of things from living in a war zone to being in a house that has a high Radon count or is on a flood plain. Psychological reasons can be more tenuous as they are based on the individual viewpoint of the client. For example, you may be a country dweller at heart but have to live in the centre of a city because of your work, or you may have inherited the house and the memories it invokes are painful. Whatever the cause, your environment has an effect.

Many forms of Feng Shui also relate stories of 'secret arrows, lines of energy and such like, and whilst they have a valid place in the scheme of things one should not forget the 'bricks and mortar' aspects of environmental influence. In our advice to clients who are thinking of moving we often ask check for

• large electrical substations in close proximity
• very high voltage power lines close to the home
• possibility of flooding
• past or potential subsidence
• evidence of brown site restoration or land fill

• old stagnant wells beneath the property
• sighting on old graveyards
• sighting at T junctions or cul-de-sacs
• ley lines