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Feng Shui for the Body: Balancing Body and Mind for a Healthier Life
Feng shui means "the flow of things." In this breakthrough book, the Chinese principles of energy flow, usually applied to arranging one's home, are extended to the most intimate house we inhabit--our human body. As Daniel Santos learns from three fascinating teachers to balance the energies of body and mind according to feng shui principles, he guides readers on a profound journey of self-discovery and self-healing. Postures, exercises, innovative meditations, and journaling techniques based on the principles of Chinese medicine and feng shui teach readers to "Become Aware of Your Center,""Contact Your Energy Body," and use the "Four Motions" of body movement, breath, eye movement, and sound to improve the body's energy flow for greater health and well-being.
256 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 1998
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March 17, 2025Pg 23: The four perceptual motions - sight, sound, body movement, breath. It is through these mechanisms that we learn to stabilize our reality according to the cultural standard.
Pg 67: The four motions - movement, breathing, the use of the eyes, and the use of sound. These are four ways of breaking down our physical indoctrination to a very limited system of being. However, we can also use them to free ourselves from this indoctrination.
All of the four motions are interconnected. Redirecting any one of them will affect the others.
The Watcher, the Observer, luminous Essence.
Pg 82: the vibrant language of tactile resonance. How bodies vibrate and interact with each other. The language our multiplied senses have with each other.
Male-female agreement: the ingrained behavior between men and women.
Pg 125: words limit our awareness of sound, whether we think them or say them. They usually objectify our perceptions because they are a linguistic structures based on our learned behavior. If we identify too much with words, we lose our sense of flow.
Language can be useful, allowing us to communicate, but we have to realize what words are. They are vibrational phenomena with a twist. Taken in context, words contain belief structures that go into the far distant past, back to the beginning of time as we know it. Words actually create time.
Our internal chatter restricts us in a great many ways. In fact, the more self- involved we become, the less contact we make with the world at large and the more we are involved in dialogue and projection, both externally and internally. When you see someone extremely involved in their internal chatter, you see a person who is very closed off from the world.
Words and the belief structures that they’re attached to impose limitations on our perception, and these limitations color our view of the world. If we can decharge or break the connection between our old ingrained belief structures and the words we use, we can be in the world of words without limiting our perception. To do this, we need to identify with our sound rather than with our words.
Pg 205: the undulating energy on the outside, wants to merge with the luminous essence on the inside. The luminous essence on the inside simultaneously wants to merge with the energy on the outside. The learned behavior is what separates them, and our idea of the body is the battleground. If you burst the shell of your learned behavior from the inside, yourself – concept has to be put together in a whole new way, the old way isn’t going to work anymore. all disease is the expression of resistance to this merging happening in the right way. In illness, you can either resist merging or use the illness to facilitate it. You have to learn the language of the body. Sickness can move you to a more fluid idea of your body, or it can reinforce your rigidity. Some people, regardless of their physical condition, gather a great deal of knowledge and transform their lives through the process of being ill. Others use illness only to recharge themselves and create the same problems all over again. If you focus on the disease, you put energy into that which resists growth. If you focus on the opportunity to gain more energy and understanding, then the illness becomes an ally or a set of directives. The art of healing is to understand these directives and assist their implementation.
Pg 215: lining up with gravity in a different way breaks apart the usual concrete structures of learned to behavior. Actually, sitting is the best posture for concentrating thought. The energy is no longer forced to flow out into your legs by gravity, and not much is pumped into your arms. So movement in the sitting posture is mostly in the trunk of the body. in the lying down posture, gravity pulls on us unimpeded, in a most relaxed fashion. This is where we recede into sleep and make direct contact with the core of our being. I recalled my chiropractor friends statement that 30% of the motor output of the brain is expended in lining us up correctly with gravity. it is through the moving posture that we most directly contact our relating body. Energy moves to our extremities and back again, from the core of our being out into the world. This is why I showed you the movements for the feng shui of the body. The last posture is standing, the most powerful of all. in standing, we can move the concentration that we experience while sitting throughout our bodies, from our trunk to the extremities and back. We can focus on the internal motion of gravity. To make real change in our being, we need to alter our perception through all of our postures. this is why treating a patient when he or she is lying down doesn’t go far enough. They still have to get up and function – deal with the world through all the various postures. It is important to teach your patients about motion.
Pg 67: The four motions - movement, breathing, the use of the eyes, and the use of sound. These are four ways of breaking down our physical indoctrination to a very limited system of being. However, we can also use them to free ourselves from this indoctrination.
All of the four motions are interconnected. Redirecting any one of them will affect the others.
The Watcher, the Observer, luminous Essence.
Pg 82: the vibrant language of tactile resonance. How bodies vibrate and interact with each other. The language our multiplied senses have with each other.
Male-female agreement: the ingrained behavior between men and women.
Pg 125: words limit our awareness of sound, whether we think them or say them. They usually objectify our perceptions because they are a linguistic structures based on our learned behavior. If we identify too much with words, we lose our sense of flow.
Language can be useful, allowing us to communicate, but we have to realize what words are. They are vibrational phenomena with a twist. Taken in context, words contain belief structures that go into the far distant past, back to the beginning of time as we know it. Words actually create time.
Our internal chatter restricts us in a great many ways. In fact, the more self- involved we become, the less contact we make with the world at large and the more we are involved in dialogue and projection, both externally and internally. When you see someone extremely involved in their internal chatter, you see a person who is very closed off from the world.
Words and the belief structures that they’re attached to impose limitations on our perception, and these limitations color our view of the world. If we can decharge or break the connection between our old ingrained belief structures and the words we use, we can be in the world of words without limiting our perception. To do this, we need to identify with our sound rather than with our words.
Pg 205: the undulating energy on the outside, wants to merge with the luminous essence on the inside. The luminous essence on the inside simultaneously wants to merge with the energy on the outside. The learned behavior is what separates them, and our idea of the body is the battleground. If you burst the shell of your learned behavior from the inside, yourself – concept has to be put together in a whole new way, the old way isn’t going to work anymore. all disease is the expression of resistance to this merging happening in the right way. In illness, you can either resist merging or use the illness to facilitate it. You have to learn the language of the body. Sickness can move you to a more fluid idea of your body, or it can reinforce your rigidity. Some people, regardless of their physical condition, gather a great deal of knowledge and transform their lives through the process of being ill. Others use illness only to recharge themselves and create the same problems all over again. If you focus on the disease, you put energy into that which resists growth. If you focus on the opportunity to gain more energy and understanding, then the illness becomes an ally or a set of directives. The art of healing is to understand these directives and assist their implementation.
Pg 215: lining up with gravity in a different way breaks apart the usual concrete structures of learned to behavior. Actually, sitting is the best posture for concentrating thought. The energy is no longer forced to flow out into your legs by gravity, and not much is pumped into your arms. So movement in the sitting posture is mostly in the trunk of the body. in the lying down posture, gravity pulls on us unimpeded, in a most relaxed fashion. This is where we recede into sleep and make direct contact with the core of our being. I recalled my chiropractor friends statement that 30% of the motor output of the brain is expended in lining us up correctly with gravity. it is through the moving posture that we most directly contact our relating body. Energy moves to our extremities and back again, from the core of our being out into the world. This is why I showed you the movements for the feng shui of the body. The last posture is standing, the most powerful of all. in standing, we can move the concentration that we experience while sitting throughout our bodies, from our trunk to the extremities and back. We can focus on the internal motion of gravity. To make real change in our being, we need to alter our perception through all of our postures. this is why treating a patient when he or she is lying down doesn’t go far enough. They still have to get up and function – deal with the world through all the various postures. It is important to teach your patients about motion.
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