Feng shui addresses how the environment affects our success, health, reputations, and relationships. Using the tools of feng shui, with sensitivity and knowledge, there is the potential to make improvements in each area of our lives and businesses.
A perfect example is the Trump International Hotel at Columbus Circle. The traffic pattern coming around the circle and off Central Park South all point toward the Trump building on its way to Broadway. As many are familiar, Donald Trump has used feng shui principles in his projects for decades. The reflective surface of the silver globe at the offended corner is intended to deflect the energy of the oncoming traffic and thus 'protects' the building.
This crossroad of NYC has a few interesting feng shui factors. Firstly, Trump coming to Columbus Circle initially raised the chi of an area that was blight. Renovating the long neglected fountain immediately energized the area. The element 'water' is associated with money and cash flow. AOL turned up on the scene and I for one was not surprised to see that their beautiful design directed sha chi toward the Trump building.
Now if it were not for Columbus and his fountain the AOL complex would have their own problem, that being the fact that they are located at end of a T intersection. Talk about sha chi ... they would be taking a direct hit from the traffic traveling west along Central Park South. But instead the entire AOL complex takes every advantage of the fountain and was literally designed around it. Of course Central Park itself is the heart of New York. So both the Trump and AOL sites pull in enormous healthy chi from it.
In a New York Times interview in 1994, billionaire Donald Trump commented: "Feng Shui is another element in which you can have the advantage over your competition...This is something we cannot ignore."
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