I once attended a Qi Gong seminar. Very skeptical, though, when we had to visualize stuff to improve our health, change our hair colour, smoothen our skin... But I'm not 100 percent against it. I believe in benefits from subtle energies.
I've been a pretty active student of Wu Shu Kung Fu, and I really liked inventing my own forms. Sometimes, in the midst of it, I could feel interesting energies in my body, and I would give it a "voice" or a movement, and I'd find myself just executing movements without a real structure, it was like improvisations. I really loved doing it, it was fun, to break down some boundaries.
Not sure about the Feng Shui stuff, either. What bothers me is that in the Western world, it's harder to give reverence to these strange Ancient Asian rituals, because almost nobody abides by it.
The thing at my friend's house was years ago. She actually seemed to give up her intention, because nearly before a month later, I went ahead with hanging around their house. And besides....my grandma wasn't even that close to me, I'm 2 generations away, and she didn't even die in my house!
I agree with the strong belief thing. Mine are extremely strong when it comes to sexual morality, and I will go quite literally insane if it's violated enough. I tried modifying it, being more slack, but to no avail. My Christian convictions are too strong. I went through a lot of crap trying to change it, but I decided I couldn't.
I remember I used to hate to go home after school everyday. I hated the way my house made me feel, and the way it looked. Could that be a Feng Shui issue? Like, I dunno..maybe...
