Feng Shui for the kitchen

Hey guys welcome to the Learn Feng Shui podcast where you'll Learn Feng Shui from a classical point of view taking out the myth and Superstition so if you're interested in learning funu Chinese astrology all things Chinese metaphysics as well as the superstitions and myths that connect it all you'll enjoy learning fun with me hey guys with November and the coming Thanksgiving holiday let's revisit the kitchen a little bit and talk about punctu for your kitchen so when we are looking at our kitchen some of the things that I'm not really going to talk about and discuss today is leaning more towards um a western view of fun not that the uh Western View or western style newage style is not valid but from my perspective the most important thing in the kitchen is actually your stove location so from a classical perspective one of the most important things is actually the location of your stove your bed you know your work desk um and how it is receiving energy and this is very true for stove position your stove relates a lot to your health and if you're having some health issues it would definitely be a factor that a function practitioner would go in and look at um to see if you know maybe there's something going on there and so for that argument sake let's look at locations and let's look at maybe some positions that the stove could be in where they're not receiving a good energy stove position so one of the things that we need to look for is a stove on an island so a stove on an island and a stove um Center of your home so say your kitchen is in the center of your home and the stove is directly in the center of that these formations are both known as is fire burning the Heavenly heart they can cause long-term health issues so if you you know have a stove on an island in the middle of your kitchen or if you have a stove that is in the center of your floor plan I would highly suggest you you know getting a crock pot using instant pot or even one of those um induction burners uh really these are really big concerns if you have a gas stove because as we know it's putting out fire you know it's not so much of an issue arguably I I say if you have like an induction cook top or you use those little camping cook tops and you kind of move it off to the different area of the room you're going to have a lot better um energy coming into your your your stove top your cooking infusing that cooking with good energy um then you would if you just use that stove particularly if it's real fire real gas and it's burning in the center of your room or your home you also hear a lot about bathrooms and funu and I tend to kind of glaze over them a little bit because I mean everybody has a bathroom everybody's got to go um the key is keeping it clean but when you have a stove or a kitchen and you can directly see the toilet it's directly across from your stove then it could be causing some health issues could be some concern so here the key really is to just again keep it clean you can put a ball a bowl of um coarse sea salt out on top of the toilet um and you can also just keep that door shut so it could cause issues but let's keep that door shut um you know we can't all have the perfect floor plan we can't all have perfect Funway but knowing how we can um create a better energy in our home working with what we have rather than like panicking and thinking oh my gosh I don't know what to do you know it's sometimes it's just as simple as keeping it clean and closing the door so that's what we'll do if so again it's really going to be the directly across from type of issue so if you turn you know facing away from your stove and you see that there is a bathroom right there you know then that's an issue if it's off center from the stove it's not really as much of an issue but in any proximity to the kitchen it's still needs to be kept clean speaking of stuff across from the stove um some people have back doors that lead into their home and you might have a back door or a even a front door heck who knows that opens Direct ly to your stove now this is considered a negative position for a stove if a door opens directly to it so remember it's going to be directly across so if you just have a door that opens in the kitchen whatever it's not affecting it as much but I would say to use that door a little bit less um remember with funu the goal is to collect and receive the energy or the chi that is in your space when we open doors it brings that energy in but the space that we open the door from could have a rushing energy to it specifically if that stove is across from the door it's like a flood of water going to it you know it's just this flood of energy um just like we don't want to sleep in the position where we're our do is opening directly to our bed when we're you know when we open it and we see that you know we don't want our stove to be directly acrossed from a door because we want that energy to circulate throughout the house and throughout the kitchen and collect in our stove and we want to be able to use that stove and generate and hold that energy so it's just a thing of it being too much energy for the space that's supposed to be conductive to health and it's just too much of a fast rushing energy so again if this is your stove get a little convection burner get one of those little um stove top uh those little camping stove tops or something and you should be okay little induction or burner work so this is kind of looking again at the position of really kind of the kitchen but if you have a kitchen that is directly underneath a bedroom you want to make sure that your stove isn't right underneath the bed so this is really just a matter of thank God not moving the stove or anything or not having to move that but really I mean move the bed upstairs so that could lead to a Restless night's sleep as well as some health issues so again it's just a matter of like you know kind of seeing where in your floor plan where your stove is and where you're placing your bed so do be cautious of that if you have a second story and you have a room that is over your kitchen just to kind of elaborate on the point I was just making I'd like to share a story that was shared to the international Funway Guild's Facebook group from a Funway practitioner who studied with a Funway master named Professor Len Yun so Professor Len Yun was actually a professor out at Berkeley and he was was really responsible for the funu movement here in the US and kind of the westernization of it in the 1980s so he kind of brought it to the US and um say there's a woman in the group who studied very closely with him and she kind of recounted this tale of them having him a you know a dinner to honor him and in this dinner they tried to set him at a really good place in the table where he was going to be facing his one of his best directions you know eight Mansion directions right a really favorable you know get this favorable energy to they thought they were going to honor him this way but he notic he kept like getting bumped and moved and you know the servers were trying to go around him and squeeze around him and it just was an uncomfortable position in the table and I guess when he was asked about it he was he had said that the location needs to be better than the direction and this is so true with those ground rules of funu so if you have your bed your stove or your desk in a position that's not really convenient and and it's violating some of those funu rules we want to make sure that you know maybe we kind of rethink that space and position it in a little bit better position because you'll be receiving a better energy than if you try to like angle your bed or you know place your your desk somewhere weird or you know of course we're talking about the stove so but it'll really you'll really be receiving a better energy if you follow those funu form rules and um kind of put the formulas off to when you learn a little bit more about fun way so this really is the beginning of the holiday season for us here in the United States so I'll be taking of course next next week will be off and um I'll come back on December that first Friday of December for energy update and then oh my gosh guys after that it is a Stones Throw to the new year and then to the Chinese New Year year of the water rabbit so I'll be getting ready for all our January content getting looking for the new year you know best sectors worst sectors um you know animal signs all that good stuff so stay tuned and you guys have an amazing holiday and I'll catch you very soon 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