Feng Shui and Indoor Fountains

Feng Shui literally means wind and water. In Chinese practice, Feng Shui is the placement and the arrangement of your living space that allows you to achieve harmony in your environment. Feng Shui has been practiced and taught for thousands of years in China and is a discipline with guidelines for architecture as well as furniture placement in your home to achieve greater harmony in your life. Feng Shui fountains for indoors and out has become very popular as it is a way to incorporate water naturally into the living space. In fact, garden fountains play an important role in Feng Shui. The landscape in China was often prone to floods in lower areas and these contrasted strongly with the windy mountainous areas. The Chinese learned how to read the Earth and balance their land so that they would be able to adjust the flow of water and change the direction of streams to allow them to better utilize the land for agriculture. The garden fountain is an example of how we are able to do this in modern day life. Feng Shui also focuses on diverging other natural elements in life and indoor fountains play a role in this as well. Feng Shui experts look at how you can change the energy in your home or office to make your surroundings to improve the harmony in your environment.

The use of indoor fountains combined with wood, earth, metal and fire are used to adjust your environment. The indoor fountain adds the element of water into the five elements of Feng Shui and in balancing Yin and Yang.

These five elements follow the full cycle of life in that fire burns wood, leaving ash which then becomes earth, the earth provides metal and minerals, which melt and flow as water and water puts out fire. This is a reoccurring cycle that applies in a variety of situations throughout life and is the basis of Feng Shui.

Indoor fountains allow you to add the element of water in your home or office to ensure that you are incorporating all five elements of life into your life.

There are a variety of options available when it comes to indoor fountains. There are floor fountains, small self-contained fountains and floor fountains. There are also a number of different options in terms of material that fountains are available in and include everything from slate and marble to copper and ceramic.