How to Create a Positive Environment in Your Home With Vastu
Our homes, carefully oriented, have the power to give us comfort
and security and to be one of our best investments. We spend a
great deal of time and money to accomplish this. However, many
of us do not know if we are creating a positive and
life-supporting place to live and work. Many people have
reported health and financial problems after they had moved into
a home or have done home improvements. Unknowingly, we may be
doing more harm than good! Vastu Shastra, the architectural
science with roots in ancient India, takes into account
environmental factors that we may be unaware of yet influence
the quality of our lives.
Vastu is the oldest and most complete system of architecture
known to man. It involves assessing all environmental influences
that affect us, such as geopathic stress, the five elements
(earth, water, fire, air and space), the sun, moon and the
planets in our solar system. It considers building orientation,
placement of rooms, proportions and measurements, slope and
shape of the land, location of bodies of water and other
environmental and geopathic influences.
According to Vastu Shastra, the sun creates different qualities
of energy on its path from east to west. These different
energies influence and enhance specific functions and activities
that correspond with specific areas of your home. Where you
enter a house or room, where you prepare and cook your food,
where you sit while eating, the direction in which you sleep,
where you face while studying, the placement of bathrooms and
areas for socializing and meditating are more optimally
supported in specific parts of your home than in others.
Vastu not only takes into consideration the environment in which
we live, but how our environment affects the health of our
bodies and our ability to create in the world. The earth is a
magnetic force and is composed of the five elements, as is our
brain. The thalamus is the relay center for all sensory and
motor signals (except smell) in the brain. Neurological research
has shown that firing patterns of neurons in the thalamus of the
brain function differently depending on which direction one is
facing. Our mind then is the interactive result of the affect of
the magnetic field in our brain cells. By placing our bodies and
environments in alignment with the magnetic axis, we can think
and act more in tune with nature, which can benefit us in the
most amazing ways. Our actions and decisions will be
successfully supported by the forces of nature, much like
swimming with the current of a stream is easier than swimming
against it. We all know or can imagine what it is like to swim
up-stream, meeting with resistance to our success!
We live on this earth, but we also live in a sea of
electromagnetic and cosmic influences. Our actions are affected
by every shift in the cosmic atmosphere. Every particle of
energy in the universe is linked to the next. Designing using
the principles of Vastu Shastra, creates environments that are
more open to life supporting influences and more protective
against influences that are harmful. Unfortunately, most present
day architecture is based on function alone. Even so-called
green architecture may only take into account forces of the sun,
wind, water and climate. It does not, in most instances, account
for that which affects us such as planetary, geomagnetic and
geopathic forces. Homes and offices that have been designed or
corrected using the principles of Vastu Shastra are not intended
to