Best Way to Understand Chi Energy

Chi energy is a subtle electromagnetic energy that flows through everything. It flows around our bodies carrying our thoughts, ideas and emotions, so that every cell in our body is fed with blood-transporting oxygen and nutrients.

When your thoughts or feelings change your chi energy changes. This is why having negative emotions can, in the long-term, result in a health problem. If you have visual images in your home that make you feel happy or inspire you with positive thoughts, your chi energy will change, and it is this chi energy that will circulate around your body.

At the same time, whatever effects your chi energy will also change the way you think and feel. If you are feeling depressed, which suggests that your chi energy is too slow and dispersed, and you are then immersed in some opposite, extreme chi energy, such as, violent storm, it will be very difficult to maintain your depressed state. This is because your own chi energy will speed up in response. Similarly, when you feel angry, which is a sign that your chi energy is too intense and concentrated, you will let go much more quickly if you breathe slowly and deeply while stretching and letting your chi energy slow down and expand.

Your chi energy field does not stay inside your skin and will typically extend between10cm(4in) and1m(1yd) around your body. This makes it easily influenced by the chi energy around you. The atmosphere in a room can, therefore, help you think or feel differently. One of the great benefits of feng shui is that you can set up a room to help you think or feel the way you want to. More than this, you can also set up a room so that your thoughts and emotions are those that will most help you succeed in life.

Some of your own chi energy mixes and changes with the chi energy around you. As the chi energy around you also contains chi energy that carries information from far away a wide range of information from the whole universe is constantly influencing you. This includes the weather, the phase of the moon, season and position of the sun. Through statistical information we now know that all these things affect our behaviour and emotions. Feng shui also takes account of the position of the planets and the movement of the earth in relation to the galaxy.