Feng Shui and Good Study Habits
With Feng Shui in mind, it is possible to recommend an optimal Good Study Habits location for an adult or child.
How Feng Shui Can Help Promote Good Study Habits
People of all ages find times when they need to study or learn something new. There can be several areas of a home to address when the topic is studied, and the goal is to do well academically.
We can look to the bedroom and literally sleep in a good direction (for sound sleep), which can aid the overall learning process, comprehension, memory, and retaining information.
When people study, they may also find themselves distracted if their study area is too stimulating. And yet, mothers sometimes plink their children down at the kitchen table so that they can keep an eye on their children. At the same time, they do homework or monitor their internet choices.
Kids often have a desk in their bedroom for homework and study. Still, it is not necessarily the best place for them to study, as Feng Shui often reveals. Each person has an ideal location and direction for studying, based on their birth year, which could land in another part of the home.
Going way back in Chinese culture, young people needed to do well on their exams so that they could get a secure job or a bureaucratic position and not have to remain a peasant. Unfortunately, this high-achieving, ingrained motivation has actually become a noticeable stereotype among Chinese Americans, who usually do quite well in school and are disciplined and excelling, above and beyond their fellow students.
It may seem strange that a birth year can determine a good study location for a person. Still, we are so much influenced by nature and time cycles that we need not be so suspicious. We also get conditioned over time to expect things to happen at regular intervals. For example, those of us who have not been in school for decades may still feel the energy of autumn (in the Northern hemisphere), where September begins the “back to school” season. With summer concluding and all the outdoor activities less enticing, the cool down in weather can help people focus on more intellectual activities and not resent spending more time indoors. Studies have also shown that people born in winter, spring, summer, or fall tend to have predictable personalities.
Consciously or not, many of us are more apt to “take a course” and learn something new in the fall, just as we may also feel motivated or programmed to embark on big cleaning projects in the springtime. With Feng Shui in mind, there are times when I can recommend a Good Study Habits location for an adult or child. It requires using a to-scale floor plan and an accurate compass reading to know where these locations happen to land in your home. Historically, this “Wen Chang” location was used to help students when taking their Imperial exam. Still, it could be used now for any leg up in studying.
Birth Year and Good Study Habits
The birth year determination rests with the last digit of the year. It is not based on the Chinese zodiac Branch sign, which repeats every 12 years. Rather, it is based on the “stem” system, which repeats every 10 years for birth years ending in 0-9. What follows are the Best Study Directions based on year of birth. Remember that the Year of Birth is based on a Solar calendar for these purposes, not the lunar calendar.
The Solar calendar begins on February 3rd or 4th each year, in contrast to the lunar calendar, which vacillates much more, sometimes starting in January or February. If a person was born in January 1970, their birth year is 1969, and “9” would be the last digit to pay attention to.
Birth Year ending in 0 = Hai (Pig) position of NW-3
Birth year ending in 1 = Zi (Rat) position of North-2
Birth year ending in 2 = Yin (Tiger) position of NE-3
Birth Year ending in 3 = Mao (Rabbit) position of East-2
Birth Year ending in 4 = Si (Snake) position of SE-3
Birth year ending in 5 = Wu (Horse) position of South-2
Birth year ending in 6 = Shen (Monkey) position of SW-3
Birth year ending in 7 = You (Rooster) position of West-2
Birth year ending in 8 = Shen (Monkey) position of SW-3
Birth year ending in 9 = You (Rooster) position of West-2
Please note that birth years ending in 6 or 8 have the same Wen Chang direction, and birth years ending in 7 or 9 also have the same Wen Chang direction.
The way to use this information for studying is to sit in this location of the home when studying and/or face that direction (no matter your location) when studying or taking an exam, if possible.
For example, a person born in 2015 would try to position themselves to study in the Horse sector of their home (dead-on South) or at least face directly south when studying or taking an exam.
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