Different types of Qi/Energy

Hey guys welcome to Learn Feng Shui where you'll Learn Feng Shui from a classical point of view taking out the myth and Superstition if you like weekly tips as well as fun folklore Tales you'll enjoy learning fun with me hey guys welcome to today's episode today we're going to talk about different types of chi so we're going to talk about what Chi is how can impact you you know the different types according to Chinese metaphysics some can be positive some can be negative and some can just be kind of stagnant I'm Candace splink I'm your host for today's episode obviously uh certified fun practitioner and red RI professional with an international fun Guild so let's get into different types of chi spelled Qi or Chi which is defined as a vital force or a life generating energy it's like this lifegiving energy that's inside of us and again according to Chinese metaphysics there's different types and not all are the same and these can all be found within our home you know how can you kind of identify these types of energies that are there um this is a little bit of a revamping of an episode I presented a couple years ago that was still up so I have taken that down and I've kind of redone some audio for it so if you heard this episode before stick around and maybe you'll learn something new let's get into different types of chi all right guys so looking at the energy we can kind of compare it to our our life cycle right ourselves as a person everything in nature is kind of cyclical you know we have this um cycle of death and and birth right or death or rebirth according to you know what what you believe you know who knows right and so but we have this this the cycle you know in nature you know plants have the cycle people have the cycle and so when you think about it you know us as as people we're born you know we don't know a lot we're in our infancy we're trying to discover things and learn how the world works you know and we go through adolescence and we grow and we learn things you know and so there's this growth stage and then when we get to our our young adulthood you know our 20s our 30s I'm going to say 40s cuz that's where I'm at we're at this peak you know where our energy High uh we're feeling good still you know um we're reproducing we're having babies we're climbing in our career you know things are at a peak in life you know where they're they're climbing up they're they're doing well for us you know and um you know kind of that that stable part of of our lives right and then of course we get towards retirement we get a little bit older towards middle age maybe we slow down a little bit you know we want to kind of just take things slower maybe life has been particularly diff diffult and you're tired you know maybe your body is slowing down because you're having health issues things like that and so we kind of come to the stage where there's a little bit of stagma energy right and maybe just not doing as much and then of course in our old age we get towards you know the things that old age bring us and eventually pass away you know that's just his life and energy right and so the energy and she can be very much the same way there's life generating there's stagnant there's you know a p peak of energy and then there of course is a deadly or death energy and so in our house it can be very much the same so let's look at how to identify that within our house and what these energies are called so we're going to start with the prosperous Chi which is called wanging Chi so here in these Joy app Notes it says it's the most vibrant form of chi and chi in this form is at its prime stage where it's strong nurturing and fortunate it accelerates performance performance and improves the quality of our lives so the way funed describes it is it translates to a prosperous energy but it says it represents current wealth and current luck and happiness so it's a timely amount of energy it's almost like um uh you know it's it's a time in your life where you've been very prosperous I can can I can liken it to that so it's a part of your home that might be receiving a good amount of chi so it is the most appropriate type of Chi for people who need immediate luck to tap into and usually that comes with using um date selection and funu Activation so it's a active Chi the next one is Shing Chi it is described as a growing stage of chi and it's called growing Chi so chi in this stage of Life Is Life generating and growing it is strong and promotes prosperity and good fortune it hastens opportunities and progress and it sharpens our thinking and stabilizes our emotions so uh here from funu it says that it translates to growth energy or growing energy it is a chi that's mentioned most by funct practitioners and a shing Chi refers to growth your future life and well-being and um it is one of the directions in eight Mansions so usually you'll see what your shingi direction is and that's the direction usually you'll be facing um to be like when you're working or thinking or being active the next is called retreating Chi or to Chi and in this stage the chi has expired and it's waning it's going away so it's an old and beginning to lose its strength and the energy is growing weaker um here from the funu article it says meaning retreating Chi It's associated with slowing down aging or escaping she among the energy that might reside in a home this is one of the lowest potencies and has has negative effects that can be lived without lived with without major consequences so the way I would describe this um so that would probably be bad something like bad forms and um so in a form which you're not actually collecting CH flow into your home so that can mean that the CH flow isn't actually coming into your front door or you know the entrance that you use or you have a form in which the chi is escaping so maybe you have a front door that directly faces a back door it could be something like that the next one is called Dead Chi or C Chi and chi in this stage is dead and non-moving these energies can actually be toxic and obstructing and she in this form impedes performance and upsets balance and this is a stagnant stage of chi so it translates to death energy it means Mo motionless backwards or stale and as the name implies it's not a good type of energy to have in a home home that you want to be prosperous so the way I kind of describe this Chi really is probably um the uh the presence of a really cluttered home um a home that doesn't get regularly cleaned maybe it's like a store room in your home that um has no windows and you're not you're not moving stuff around in the area this can be a stagnate g one of the other most notorious forms of this energy is the sha qi so sha qi is another one that's referenced most by many function by practitioners and it is defined as a killing Chi and is a form of chi that's actually considered destructive and harmful and in my notes here it says its force is strong and menacing killing Chi reduces vitality and has The Binding effect to one's thinking and performance and this is a violent stage of chi so how do you find this Chi you know the sha qi and this is usually identified by bad forms especially in your external environment and of course when I say funu forms that does mean you know those kind of rules we follow when we do funu so that's what a funu form is you know we want to have our back to a wall we don't want to sleep you know with our headboard up against the window those are functua forms and so but negative forms will be considered you know beams over our head while we're sleeping Sharp Corners pointing to our our bed while we sleep or if we are working in a specific area and there's a sharp corner pointing towards us beams overhead um you know stuff like that drains and pipes can be considered a shachi if they're in the wrong area if they seem to be bothering you may be there behind you when you're sleeping um bad forms could also be considered where you know maybe there's power lines maybe there's um radio towers maybe there are 5G Towers like those are all considered bad negative forms if you look at your front door and you see Sharp roof line pointing directly towards your door that could be a shoty negative form you know especially if it's particularly negative earlier I talked about things blocking your front door so I don't know if it's better to have it blocked or to have something sharp pointing towards it you know not receive the energy or to have something actually attacking it you know I'd rather have the not receiving the energy have the stagnant energy and so another thing that can impact this is uh incorrect what is called direct and indirect spirit and that is actually just where mountains and water are seen within our external environment and so sometimes if there's a negative water placement you know maybe it's in the wrong area in relation to where our home is that can be a shachi and a lot of times these don't generally affect us until maybe a bad Flying Star combination comes in you know a negative year negative combination or something for that year comes in then we have this negative form in the area that shachi and then it can have the impact on it so it might not impact you on an everyday basis um but it might be something that one could potentially cause long-term health issues or two when a negative Flying Star combination comes in you have bad forms then you will feel the impact and maybe somebody will experience some sort of illness or something within the family so that is the shachi energy all right guys there also is a CH call and this uh from the funu article here I had never heard of this term until I looked in this funu article but I have heard of the concept um and it is called D again refers to Earth energy from the ground and is sometimes referred to as Earth Chi it says here it's one of the focal points of geomancers to tap on D so that home residents can benefit from auspiciousness that it brings generally a property that is built or standing on land will be linked to D and apartments that are above the ground will suffer from lack of D um again I've heard of this concept but I never heard it called D until I looked at this article um I don't do a lot of Assessments of high-rise just because I don't have a lot of my area I've only done them remotely so thanks to you guys have S of let me do your remote assessments on the high-rise because it is something that is pretty interesting so one of the questions also that I get sometimes when doing highrises um is you know uh maybe about like certain energy that that might be present and there I will say that there's there's not ways to make calculations on some specific energies um some uh different um energies that I talk about on the podcast sometimes if if the apartment itself is not sitting on the ground you won't have those energies within your home because it is a Earth Energy like um the tyo the Grand Duke for example that would be considered Earth Energy and if your house isn't on the ground or it's above you know I have a second level to my home I don't have to consider those things on the second level because that's not touching the ground and the Earth and so Renovations actually won't affect the area which is really nice um another thing about dii um I I would assume that when you're doing functuay for burial um one of the things you can look at is assessment of the soil quality and that goes for building a home too but um also for again function way for burial because it said that the body absorbs the Earth Energy you know the chi that runs through the Earth right and so uh I have heard of it referred to in that way also and again earlier in the year I did a episode on soil assessment and different types of soil and um so that kind of shows you the chi that is in the soil and so I'm guessing that's part of the earth Chi also is soil assessment so yeah again I know that um also if there's a maybe there's an apartment that is built above a garage a void uh maybe there's a area that you drive underneath you know there's there's certain times you can't make certain calculations uh if the building is not touching the ground and that also goes for buildings that are maybe elevator for flooding I know some houses maybe sit like on a stilt or something like that um just kind of depending on the area so yeah um your house would lack the Earth Energy and if you need to make Renovations your house actually wouldn't count if it's not touching the ground you don't have to worry about those no renovation areas that I talk about out each month uh to avoid so that's kind of an advantage but another disadvantage is certain uh energies can't be tapped into and you can't make certain calculations if you're not touching the ground so let's cover yin and yang Chi a little bit um because it does cover it here in this article so Yen Chi um it's really a still energy it's a calm energy it's the low lighting you know it's the the little bit lack of sunlight um it's really an energy where we want to be calm and an area that we don't maybe use a whole lot that refers to again energy maybe the um CH energy flow is a little bit lower in that area um but yangi yangi is more active it's referred to in the masculine and it said to be like the living you know um just like with funu there's a Yen housee fun which is Funway for burial and a Yang House Funway which is Funway for the living and um so they're not necessarily one's not good and one's not bad it's just um opposite just like we we need a feminine and a masculine to reproduce we need you know a yin and yang to um produce if that makes sense and so we need the the opposition we need the low lighting we need the sunlight you know we need the sun and the moon so we need those the two opposites um so one's not bad or one's not considered negative even though it's Yen I think a lot of people um because the yin is supposed to be a more feminine energy and that people sometimes refer to they think it means it's something negative but it's doesn't mean negative it just means opposite if that makes sense opposite of the Yang and so Yang energy it's going to be a room that's bright full of light um maybe it's Lively you know maybe you um it's anything that's very active so that's the difference between the two energies of Yin Andy and when looking at these five types of chi the Wong Chi the chingi the toyi the CI and the shachi those can actually be mapped out in our home much like we do with like the eight Mansions mapping you know or favorable and unfavorable areas in our home or if you've had me do the energy mapping I map it out in that pie kind of shaped grid um or um if you do btb funu you might have those you know those life aspirations right um the the bogw that's laid over so the same exact thing can be done using a system called purple white funu purple white stars and it shows where all all these sectors are in your house and when I was doing this episode I was like why have I not offered to map people's um purple white areas out why haven't I not offered to map out the most vibrant areas of energy in your home I don't know I usually just stick to the eight sectors I think maybe I thought it wouldn't be um as as easy to follow I suppose because is a different concept uh not a lot of function practitioners use it but it is the school of thought that I follow and I do use it very often when I do my assessments I actually you know will kind of go through and it's one of those things where I don't uh necessarily talk about it with the client because I felt like it would confuse them and so uh this is kind of how it would be used let's let's just give an example um the shingi you can actually enhance the area and uh you can activate it you know um it shows the most vibrant shingi life generating area and that's the one we activate the most because it's a building energy that's um you know it's it's good to use that wangi the peak of the energy but if you think about it when you're at your Peak are you going to go any further or are you going to eventually decline right it's like uh when it's the hottest outside it's not going to get any hotter than that it's going to that's the hottest it's going to be our high temperature right our highest temperature for the year it's not going to get hotter than that so it's like using the hottest temperature in the oven you can't make it any hotter right um and so for that reason we usually as a practitioner use the Shing Chi section s and uh enhance those you know with the Funway activations and stuff like that kind of pinpoint some areas and so I do this for clients I just don't talk about it uh because again it's just a little um maybe could be a little complicated however uh if you want me to do that I am more than happy to do that um and it is uh probably when I thought about I was like it's probably actually easier than looking at the eight sectors and trying to enhance it that way you know and so uh another way it can be used also is is to look at say maybe your kitchen in the north and you've learned that you know the north of course is a water sector and that you know you have a stove there which obviously represents fire and so you have a fire and water a clashing energy and so you wonder is my stove being in the north going to impact my health you know how's it going to impact me you know it may be a question and so the answer to that is that with with this purple white system we're mapping it out in in this way we're able to say like okay maybe it's in the sea or the shoty area of your home and maybe then your health would eventually be affected you know and there's some different uh times we can pinpoint when that might happen you know just depending um and then there's another thing kind of like what I talked about the shachi um but then there's the the other side of it right where you're like oh my kitchen's in the north and um you know so uh but the shingi you know sector is right there the most vibrant Chi area is right there and so that means means that that is going to have less of an impact you don't really need to worry about it and so that's another way it's kind of used so again if you want to take advantage of that um just kind of note um you know that on the on the floor plan but definitely check out the link below because I do have a link that just takes you directly you can actually just upload your floor plan just tell me I just want the uh you know vibr areas of my home or something like that you know just kind of leave a little note there and kind of specify what you want um and yeah we check that out but um um I really think that this might be easier for you as a listener to understand and I think I might um kind of move to this a little bit because I was like why haven't I why don't I talk about it you know why don't I talk about it so I know let me know what you think all right guys let's go ahead and go to Folklore Friday segment and talk about the origin of dumplings and why they're eaten on the winter solstice um last week you may have noticed that there was an unexplicable lack of an episode if you're a weekly listener and uh I had this episode planned for last week I was going to take the first off uh I was going to take take this week off and I get everything ready for December um but uh plans changed my I had a nice little you know work week planned uh some some light working had you know getting all this done before the holiday season and also had some activities planned with my family and just kind of generally enjoy the Thanksgiving break you know and started off with my dog getting sick then the other dog got sick and my daughter was also sick and so uh I didn't have the middle capacity to put out an episode I was trying to get everything done everybody into the Vet 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goes that on the winter solstice uh people eat dumplings because of a famous doctor named xang xaing and so again famous doctor that found that many people's ears were frozen and festered in the snowy winter kind of sounds like ear infection I used to get this all the time uh so when he came up with the idea to help these people he had asked his followers to set up a medical shed in the Street then he boiled mutton with pepper and some Chinese Med medicines after that he chopped them up and wrapped them into dough and he lastly he boiled these for people to eat and after taking the food the ears of the people were cured since then people have eaten the food on the winter solstice and named it jaaji which means dumplings um and it's said to prevent your ears from being frozen so if I mispronounce that I apologize to my Chinese speaking listeners okay uh another reason that these dumplings are said to be eaten is to memorialize a fairy named Jiao and so there is in the winter solsa folklore it said that eating dumplings is in memorandum of this fairy so in the leang dynasty the emperor believed in Buddhism so much that he forbade his people to eat meat and to sacrifice meat to the gods so the gods um were so unhappy with their sacrifices that this actually started a three-year drought uh but there was a cypress tree fairy named Jiao and she could not bear to see the people suffering so much so that she turned into a girl uh and named herself Jiao on the winter solstice she then taught the people to wrap up meat and dough and sacrificed the foods as an offering to the gods the gods were so moved by her actions and it started to rain and the drought was over later jaia was murdered by the emperor very harsh and it doesn't even say why and to memorialize the fairy and her good deeds of people named the food ji or jashi again sorry to my to my native speaking Chinese okay so uh with a similar pronunciation oh with G's name and ever since then have eaten dumplings on her birthday which is said to be on the winter solstice all right guys I hope you enjoyed today's episode of course we're kind of winding down for the rest of the year next week is the December energy update and then we're already into January can you believe that crazy and then we will be into 2024 um Lunar New Year's coming up Year of the Dragon is coming up pretty crazy um kind of talking about wrapping up the year Spotify wrapped released last uh yesterday actually just yesterday and uh shout out to listeners in of course the the most listen to countries I think the most uh countries I'm listening in is the United States shout out to them no surprise there because I live in the United States uh in close second though Philippines hey Filipino listeners I really appreciate you listening from different countries number three is Australia welcome Australia listeners Ireland and the United Kingdom so thank you guys so much especially my International listeners surprisingly enough I feel like I get the most communication from of the United Kingdom from my British listeners um you guys are the ones that send the most floor plan mappings in interestingly enough so yeah welcome guys I I really appreciate you guys listening and I look forward to the continued growth next year I really feel like I've seen growth this year and uh look forward to it just to continue to grow so I appreciate you very much and of course show my appreciation I do offer those free energy mappings of the floor plan let me know which one you want if you want those uh you know it mapped out with the five different types of chi it might be very helpful to you right um I I really think I'm going to kind of push towards mapping that way because I think it's a little bit more understandable so if you want that done shoot me a message you can literally upload directly to my website and you don't actually have to have a exact facing direction for that it might be a little easier for you to understand so I think I'm going to work on shifting to mapping that way um thanks to this episode so anyway you just shoot me a message if you need anything and I'll catch you guys next week for energy update uh one thing that I don't want to announce too is I am going to have like a little New Year's Live party where I do the zodiac signs I think I'm going to make it like a just like a little New Year's Event which I think will be fun so I will do that live I'll probably just do live on Zoom I haven't had a lot of luck in other platforms so if you want to join me just for a zoom session a zoom little New Year's zodiac party I think that'll be fun so let me know what you think I'll have more on that in the next couple weeks because I there's some stuff I had to get you know kind of ready to do that so I look forward to that and really hope you join me for that and I look forward to uh January and uh even February and looking at what this year of the dragon what that shift is going to look like and so yeah I'm just getting all that ready for you guys and I hope you're looking forward to it as much as I am I'll catch you guys next week for energy update for a free energy mapping of your floor plan please check the link in the show notes to support today's podcast go to learnfengshui.com sign up for emails leave a review and share with your family and friends