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Feng Shui for Business: Harmony or Weapon?

The ancient Chinese art of Feng Shui is used in the U.S. mostly to create harmony but in China it's often used as a weapon to outperform rivals. In the United States and other Western countries the Chinese art of Feng Shui is mostly thought of as a way to put one’s life and home in harmony.

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Anna Marie Vlad from Greenwich, Connecticut says she’s aware of Feng Shui, ”I’m an architectural designer,” she said. “And I do think about the way the placement of rooms, of entries, of furniture in rooms.”

Forbidden City, Beijing. The design follows Feng Shui rules. For instance the Hall of Supreme Harmony was placed at the center of the city along the axis line. The city’s design invokes the harmony of humans and heaven.

But in China this ancient art can be used as a strategic tool for power.

Angel de Para is a master of classic Chinese Feng Shui and Chief Executive of Earth Luck International in Miami. “In Asia, my observation of it, Feng Shui is used as a weapon. It’s not used for harmony.”

De Para says people can also use Feng Shui as weapon for success in business or finance. His Feng Shui calculations include location, compass directions, the CEO’s birthday and derivatives. He said first he considers his clients need, “What are their goals and desires? I try to match the location to their goals and desires so they peak at the moment they’re expecting their strategy to peak.”

Feng Shui Compass

For instance the energy of the so-called “Lipstick Building ” in New York is about attracting money.
De Para who has studied many buildings in New York said, ”That building reflected the people that were going to be attracted to that building were going to be gathering large sums of money from the masses.”

“Lipstick Building”, 885 Third Ave, NYC.
Design by Philip Johnson and John Burgee.

That energy can be used in a positive or negative way.

Unfortunately convicted swindler, Bernie Madoff chose the negative. It’s here that Madoff ran a $65 billion ponzi scheme that bilked thousands of investors worldwide.

Another building, The Metropolitan Opera has a different energy. De Para says it reflects fame, which makes it the perfect location for an opera.

The Lipstick building, the Metropolitan Opera
and Bernie Madoff were not clients of de Para.

Classic or traditional Feng Shui is actually quantitative analysis and can even be used to pick stocks.

De Para explained, “Because you know their corporate headquarters and you know the individuals running the companies. So, you already know two of the factors right there. Then when you look at the data and you project backwards, you can see if reflects a pattern, then you can project going forward.”

The Metropolitan Opera

NY Stock Exchange Big Board

Looking ahead, de Para says his Feng Shui analysis shows energy is the most important sector until 2024, that the U.S. may take a financial dip in 2013, and that it will be at least 2014 before the U.S. economy rebounds strongly.

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Feng Shui for Business: Harmony or Weapon?