Improve Your Feng Shui: Understanding Chi

First, let's say it out loud: chee. (If you've been saying "chai,"
don't feel bad-most of us did at one point or another!)
Easy to say, harder to understand. Chi is one of those words
that, like shalom in Hebrew, has many different meanings
in modern English. It can mean energy, life force, or breath.
It also means vapor, a nice metaphorical variation of its
basic definition. That said, we instantly see why this
concept is so very important to the study of feng shui.
But chi also has a larger meaning, one that is very much
more than the sum of its parts. Chi is a "breath force" of
energy-unseen but very much felt-that radiates life into
and through all living things.
As Such, chi is a focal point not only of feng shui and other
Asian disciplines, but of Chinese medicine as well. Whereas
Western doctors typically treat a symptom, Chinese doctors
seek to cure or realign the body as a whole in order to have
the body perform at its peak and to eliminate one or more
medical issues at any given time.