Pseudoscience in Feng Shui

 Knowing pseudoscience as an assortment of beliefs that are mistakenly being based on the scientific method, there are tons of theories from HIV to healing crystals to even conversion therapy. As you can see, the sky is truly the limit with how far the range of pseudoscience can go. 

My favorite pseudoscience is acupuncture. While I have not tried it, I have watched videos and am fascinated. I am most fascinated by cupping acupuncture. I find it weird and strange yet cool all at the same time!

Feng shui is a pseudoscience. Feng shui is an ancient Chinese belief of how the flow of energy is concentrated in the way that objects are arranged or organized. Through this arrangement, people believe that harmony and balance will bring peace and prosperity. This can also go into the balance of yin and yang with the flow of chi. Those who participate in feng shui believe that this can be seen through improvements in your life through wealth, health, relationships, and overall, your well-being in your day-to-day life. Some examples of feng shui involve the placement of mirrors to reflect negative energy away from one or that wind chimes can attract positive energy. For Chinese people, they believe the placement of ancient Chinese grave sites is very important as it establishes positive chi. Most focus on adding or moving the five elements: water, wood, fire, earth, and metal. 

I believe that feng shui does bring people joy and possibly, improvement into their everyday lives. While there may be no scientific evidence that proves this method correct to be a science, I believe it lies in a person and their personally connection to the subject matter. I ended up picking feng shui from my lifestyle. From today's discussion, I learned what can be considered STEM but specifically, science. Using things like the scientific method can prove indisputable science but sometimes things as simple or complex (however one views it) as horoscopes can have a heavy influence on someone forming friends or even relationships. To me, horoscopes are a perfect example of something that's borderline between pseudoscience and science due the heavy influence it has had on my generation, Gen Z.