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In feng shui practice, it is helpful to develop sensitivity to yin and yang energies. This understanding means the difference between success and failure when placing all your feng shui enhancers.

In a similar way to placing the final piece in the feng shui jigsaw, yin and yang energy makes the picture whole and complete. So understanding its manifestations is a crucial starting point in developing feng shui instincts.

The Chinese believe that yin and yang forces give existence to each other. So, yin is passive, darkness, night, cold, quiet, and stillness; yang, on the other hand, is positive, daylight, brightness, warmth, heat, sounds, and activity. They cannot exist without the other, so without the yin of cold there is no yang warmth, and without yang sunshine, there can be no yin moonlight! Another attribute of the yin-yang cosmology is that one contains the seed of the other. So in yang there must always be a little bit of yin, and vice versa, so that when there is an excess of either, the space affected is said to be unbalanced and not in harmony. When such a situation occurs, it is felt that there just cannot be any good luck.

So in feng shui, yin-yang balance requires the simultaneous presence of both the forces. However, because we are dealing with life energy when we speak of yang feng shui, it is vital that the environment must always have yang energy and yet should never be too yin. Maintaining this very delicate balance between the two forces is really the essence of feng shui practice – what it is essentially all about.