
Feng Shui For Dummies
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Take a look around you. What do you see? Whether or not you're aware of it, your environment profoundly affects your health, wealth, family life, relationship, and yes, even your destiny.
Feng Shui (pronounced fung shway), which means wind water, is the ancient Chinese study of harmony and energy flow between you and your physical surroundings. Now, Feng Shui For Dummies, 2nd Edition shows you how you can apply Feng Shui principles to your home (inside and out) and workplace (from window office to cubicle) in order to achieve a better life.
* Principles are explained in an easy-to-understand language
* Practical tips show you how to incorporate the traditions of Feng Shui to your everyday life
* Before-and-after illustrations and full-color photos of real-life Feng Shui makeovers in an all-new 8-page color insert
Free of technical jargon and brimming with practical tips and advice, Feng Shui For Dummies shows you how to feel and access the energy of your environment and create harmony and happiness in your life.
P.S. If you think this book seems familiar, you're probably right. The Dummies team updated the cover and design to give the book a fresh feel, but the content is the same as the previous release of Feng Shui For Dummies (9780470769324). The book you see here shouldn't be considered a new or updated product. But if you're in the mood to learn something new, check out some of our other books. We're always writing about new topics!
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- About This Book
- Conventions Used in This Book
- What You're Not to Read
- Foolish Assumptions
- How This Book Is Organized
- Part 1: Getting Started: Feng Shui Made Clear
- Part 2: Energizing Your Home's Exterior
- Part 3: Feathering the Nest: Nurturing and Nourishing Indoor Spaces
- Part 4: Going to the Next Level: Using Feng Shui for Life Change
- Part 5: The Part of Tens
- Icons Used in This Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part 1 Getting Started: Feng Shui Made Clear
- Chapter 1 Discovering the World of Feng Shui
- Demystifying Feng Shui
- The Meaning of the Term Feng Shui
- Ancient Chinese Secrets: The Big-Picture View of Feng Shui
- Unearthing Basic Feng Shui Principles
- Yin and yang
- The Three Realms of Influence
- Five top factors affecting your fortune
- Understanding the Schools of Feng Shui
- Landform and Compass Method Feng Shui
- Grandmaster Lin Yun's Feng Shui school
- Distinguishing the schools from each other
- Looking at Feng Shui Factors That You Can Use to Your Advantage
- Finding Life Solutions with Feng Shui
- Selecting a Feng Shui approach
- Choosing the Life Areas to improve
- Taking steps to Feng Shui success with a range of available cures
- Getting Additional Help
- Chapter 2 Mastering the Principles of Feng Shui
- Chi: The Energy of Feng Shui
- The Types of Chi
- The chi of the heavens
- The chi of the Earth
- The chi of homes and living environments
- The chi of humans
- The Flows of Chi
- The ideal chi state for the physical body
- The ideal chi state for the home
- The positive and negative traits of chi flow
- Cultivating Chi
- Benefits and rewards of chi cultivation
- Eight factors that affect your personal chi
- Positioning: Your Place in the Scheme of Things
- Understanding the Theory of Relative Positioning
- Using the Commanding Position method
- Presenting the Three Life Pillars
- Recognizing the importance of the entry
- Improving the place of rest and rejuvenation
- Activating your home's energy generator
- The Psychology of Feng Shui
- Know that improvement is possible in any situation (especially yours)
- Maximize your current situation
- Recognize that you're the center of the equation
- Choose to take action
- Be open to change and receiving the new
- Basic Pointers for Feng Shui Success
- Chapter 3 Unveiling the Secrets of the Octagon
- Discovering the Magic of the Octagon
- The Helpful People Area of the Octagon
- The Career Area of the Octagon
- The Knowledge Area of the Octagon
- The Family Area of the Octagon
- The Wealth Area of the Octagon
- The Fame Area of the Octagon
- The Marriage Area of the Octagon
- The Children Area of the Octagon
- The Health Area of the Octagon
- Orienting the Octagon
- Placing the Octagon on your home's main floor plan
- Placing the Octagon upstairs and down
- Placing the Octagon on other spaces
- Troubleshooting Octagon Placement
- Missing areas and projections
- Entrances with turns
- Angled entrances
- Complex or oddly shaped floor plans
- Changing Your Life with the Octagon
- Chapter 4 Picking Up Your Feng Shui Tools
- So What Is a Feng Shui Cure?
- Motivations for performing Feng Shui cures
- Five types of Feng Shui cures
- Using the Three Phases of Your Cures
- Phase I: Setting the intention for the cure
- Phase II: Performing the physical activity of the cure
- Phase III: Reinforcing your intention and activity with spiritual energy
- Opening the Feng Shui Toolbox: Creating Your Cures
- Creating positive placement
- Adding what's needed, minor and otherwise
- Adjusting by repairing, cleaning, and changing
- Using ceremony to create new energy states
- Making personal Feng Shui adjustments
- Employing meditative methods
- Making Minor Additions to Bring about Major Changes
- Light cures
- Sound cures
- Living cures
- Water cures
- Color cures
- Mobile cures
- Weight cures
- Bamboo flute cures
- Powered cures
- Fragrance cures
- Touch cures
- Chapter 5 Harnessing the Energies of the Five Elements
- The Energies of the Five Elements
- The energy of Wood: Growth
- The energy of Fire: Expansion
- The energy of Earth: Stability
- The energy of Metal: Contraction
- The energy of Water: Stillness
- Placing the Five Elements in Your Environment According to the Octagon
- The Cycles of the Five Elements
- The Creative Cycle of the Five Elements
- The Destructive Cycle of the Five Elements
- Creator and Offspring Elements
- Using the Five Elements in Different Cure Methods
- Method I: Placing Elements in their natural locations
- Method II: Removing or counteracting offending Elements
- Method III: Utilizing Creator and Offspring Elements for added power
- Method IV: Combining all the Elements for power and creativity
- Applying Five Elements Cures for Life Change
- Chapter 6 Tapping the Inner Power of Feng Shui
- Introducing the Outer and Inner Aspects of Feng Shui
- Discovering the Magic of Intention
- Applying the Power of Intention to Cures
- Know exactly what you want
- Have the right attitude and motivation
- See and feel the result before it happens
- Believe completely that the result will happen
- Relax and allow the results to happen
- Revealing the Secrets of the Three Secrets Reinforcement
- Defining the Three Secrets Reinforcement
- Performing cures with the Reinforcement
- Frequently Asked Questions about the Three Secrets Reinforcement
- In what order should I perform the three steps of the Reinforcement?
- How long should my Reinforcements take?
- Is how I'm thinking and feeling during the Reinforcement important?
- How do I know whether I'm doing the Reinforcement right?
- How many times do I need to perform the Reinforcement?
- Part 2 Energizing Your Home's Exterior
- Chapter 7 Harnessing Nature's Power to Enhance Your Outdoor Spaces
- Looking around the Neighborhood
- Reading the chi of a neighborhood or place
- Noticing how street energy charges your home
- Enjoying the ideal street situation
- Curing street problems
- Investigating and Curing Potential Nearby Negatives
- Understanding types of nearby negatives
- Performing cures for nearby negatives
- Eliminating Home and Lot Problems
- Too close for comfort
- Whole lotta shakin' goin' on
- Problematic neighbors
- Sitting Pretty: Ideal and Not-So-Ideal Home Positioning
- Diagnosing and treating problems with your home's location on the lot
- Positioning your home topographically
- Living high up or down low from the road
- Diffusing projecting roof ridges
- Curing poison arrows
- Enlivening Your Lot with Healthy Trees and Plants
- Introducing bamboo, the all-purpose plant
- Utilizing positive tree energies
- Employing helpful tree-selecting hints
- Avoiding negative tree situations
- Curing dead or dying trees
- Using Color to Empower the Life Areas of Your Property
- Engaging the Power of Water
- Moving water brings flow
- The soothing and clarifying effects of still water
- Positioning Outbuildings
- Who's that sneaking 'round my back door?
- Stuffed shed syndrome
- Honey, I shrunk the view
- What's so draining?
- Chapter 8 Making the Most of Your Lot and Home Shape
- Discovering What Shapes Mean to You
- Enjoying Balance: The Positive Effects of Symmetrical Shapes
- Living foursquare: Squares and rectangles
- Round and round: Circles and octagons
- Defining Projections and Missing Areas
- Hey, are you projecting?
- Oops! My areas are missing!
- Locating Projections and Missing Areas
- Using the 50 Percent Rule: Remembering the importance of "less than half"
- Using the 33 Percent Rule
- Enhancing the Benefits of Projections
- Curing Missing Areas
- Exterior solutions for missing home areas
- Interior solutions for missing home areas
- Cures for missing lot areas
- Fixing Irregular Home and Lot Shapes
- L-shaped and boot-shaped homes
- Cleaver home shapes
- Dustpan and money purse lot shapes
- Triangular home and lot shapes
- Angled lot side
- Multicornered and other oddly shaped lots
- Chapter 9 Open Sesame! Creating a Welcoming Entry
- Recognizing the Importance of the Front Door and Foyer
- Dealing with Driveway Issues
- Positive driveway conditions
- Problematic driveway conditions and their solutions
- Clearing the Way to the Front Door for Natural Chi
- Solving the hidden front door dilemma
- Curing common outdoor stairway dilemmas
- Dealing with pesky approach issues
- Making the Most of the Mouth of Chi
- Knowing the principles of the ideal front door
- Solving front door problems
- Changing your luck with front door colors
- Moving On In: Mastering Interior Entryway Problems and Solutions
- An upward-leading interior stairway that faces the front door
- A downward-leading interior stairway that's directly in line with the front door
- A mandarin duck stairway
- A split view upon entering
- Being Aware of Continual First Impressions
- Examining features of the ideal entrance
- Entering regularly other than through the front door
- Handling two separate doors on the front of the home
- Part 3 Feathering the Nest: Nurturing and Nourishing Indoor Spaces
- Chapter 10 Reinventing Your Home's Layout
- Looking at Your Home: Front and Back
- Good rooms for the front
- Good rooms for the back
- Finding the Center of Your Home
- Recognizing the importance of the center
- Knowing the ideal energy condition of the center
- Figuring out what's good in the center
- Curing troublesome central areas
- Addressing Neighboring Rooms
- Toilet/stove and toilet/bed wall connections
- Stove/bed wall connection
- Curing Opposing Doors
- A bathroom door opposite the master bedroom door or kitchen door
- A kitchen door opposite a bedroom door
- The back door in line with the front door
- Chapter 11 Maximizing Results in the Bedroom
- Putting Your Bed in the Commanding Position with Four Important Principles
- Commanding Position Principle One: Situating the bed far from the door
- Commanding Position Principle Two: Widening the sleeper's scope of vision
- Commanding Position Principle Three: Ensuring bedroom door visibility
- Commanding Position Principle Four: Keeping the bed out of the door's path
- Putting all the principles together
- Exploring Additional Bed Positioning Secrets
- Recruiting the power of the mountain
- Addressing a bed in the path of the door
- Selecting cures for problematic bed situations
- Recognizing the Critical Importance of a Good Bed
- New versus used beds
- Good times to get a new bed
- Types of beds
- Improving the Power of Your Bed
- Placing Your Master Bedroom in a Powerful Position
- Recognizing ideal bedroom location using the Commanding Position
- Rescuing a bedroom over the garage
- Protecting a bedroom threatened by a car
- Considering Your Bedroom's Shape and Layout
- Positioning the Octagon
- Dealing with doors and windows
- Curing multiple layout issues
- Resolving the master suite dilemma
- Curing an empty door
- Enlivening the Entryway into the Bedroom
- Remembering the Purpose of the Bedroom
- Chapter 12 Now You're Cookin': Feng Shui for Your Kitchen
- Understanding the Energy of Food
- Maximizing Kitchen Location, Layout, and Stove Placement
- Recognizing the ideal kitchen layout
- Positioning your stove for wealth and health
- Curing multiple doorways and traffic pattern problems in the kitchen
- Looking at the Stove: Your Home's Energy Generator
- Choosing a new stove versus a used stove
- Improving the cleanliness of your stove
- Inspecting the condition and use of your stove burners
- Examining the overall functioning of your stove
- Solving Miscellaneous Kitchen Problems
- The kitchen is small
- The stove is next to the refrigerator
- A window is over the stove
- A toilet or bed is located directly behind the stove on a common wall
- The kitchen is dimly or harshly lit and dark in color
- Knives are visible in the kitchen
- The stove is outside the front door
- Chapter 13 Home Is Where the "Shui" Is: Enhancing Your Family Areas
- The Living Room, Family Room, and Den
- The Dining Room
- Kids' Bedrooms
- Obtaining good room locations and curing problematic ones
- Creating positive bed positions for children
- Choosing the right bed for your child
- Looking at colors and special cures for kids' bedrooms
- The Bathroom
- Being aware of negative locations for the bathroom
- Considering positive and negative bathroom layouts
- Employing basic bathroom cures
- Applying additional bathroom cures
- The Garage
- The Basement
- Improving light levels
- Optimizing air quality
- Utility Rooms
- Chapter 14 Sprucing Up the Bits and Pieces
- Doors and Doorways
- Taking a look at good and bad door alignments
- Addressing four or more doorways in a row
- Curing clashing doors
- Setting stuck doors free
- Relieving a reversed door
- Treating angled doors
- Windows: The Eyes of Your Home
- Windows that are blocked from the inside or outside
- Stuck, malfunctioning, sealed, or broken windows
- Windows overwhelming doors
- Windows that are too high, are too low, or come down too far
- Skylights
- Angled Walls
- Method I: Stabilizing the wall's energy
- Method II: Slowing down or diffusing the energy flow
- Ceilings
- Dealing with slanted ceilings over the bed
- Applying general ceiling cures
- Beams
- Resolving beams throughout the home
- Curing a beam over the bed
- Hallways: A Home's Main Energy Arteries
- Hallways with too many doors
- Long and narrow hallways
- Stairs
- Transforming spiral staircases
- Looking at assorted stairway problems and simple cures
- Pillars, Columns, and Posts
- Fireplaces
- Chapter 15 Power-Boosting Your Home's Energy
- Lighting Up Your Life to See Positive Results
- Nurturing health and life with natural light
- Taking advantage of natural-light substitutes indoors
- Recognizing the importance of improving interior lighting levels
- Adding Life with a Splash of Color
- Recognizing good colors for rooms of the home
- Using the colors of the Feng Shui Octagon's Life Areas
- Employing the three special Feng Shui color systems
- Keeping Things Shipshape and in Working Order
- Maintaining your plumbing, foundation, and electrical system
- Making sure air is flowing
- Checking the roof for potential issues
- Fixing or replacing malfunctioning or broken elements
- Chapter 16 Improving Your Apartment with Feng Shui
- Addressing the Common Fate Principle
- Examining Your Building's Structure
- Living up high in the sky
- Sittin' on pins: Pillars in the garage
- Dealing with elevators and stairwells
- Optimizing Your Living Space
- Defusing entrance issues
- Resolving an oddly shaped unit
- Taking on a teeny living space
- Making the most of multiuse rooms
- Giving yourself some breathing room
- Delving into Details That Make a Big Difference
- Neutralizing harmful nearby influences
- Helping out in the kitchen
- Bringing the outside in with natural chi
- Fixing stubborn windows
- Clearing the air
- Chapter 17 Using Feng Shui in Your Office to Enhance Your Career
- Using the Feng Shui Octagon and the Five Elements in Your Office
- The Octagon
- The Five Elements
- Working with Your Office Layout and Floor Plan
- The positioning and quality of your office space
- Private offices versus cubicles
- Putting Yourself in the Commanding Position at Work
- Using Commanding Position desk principles
- Seeing the door equals success
- Understanding other key desk placement factors
- Making Sure You Have a High-Quality Desk
- Part 4 Going to the Next Level: Using Feng Shui for Life Change
- Chapter 18 Hitting the Ground Running: Your Fabulous Feng Shui Action Plan
- Avoiding the Road to Confusionville
- Sticking with the methods of one Feng Shui school
- Performing a limited number of cures at once
- Gathering the Information You Need for Success
- Obtaining an accurate lot plan
- Acquiring an accurate floor plan of your home
- Honoring the Importance of Focus
- Addressing the Three Life Pillars
- The front door
- The master bed
- The kitchen stove
- Analyzing the Energy of Your Lot and Home
- Chapter 19 Taking Care of the Big Three: Your Money, Honey, and Health
- Generating Cash Flow
- Hitting the hot spot in the bedroom
- Placing your desk in the Commanding Position
- Knowing the right things and the right people
- Putting Pizazz Back into Your Partnership
- Positioning your bed for good fortune
- Planting new life
- Removing distractions from your bedroom
- Enhancing multiple Marriage Areas simultaneously
- Maximizing Health and Vitality
- Deflecting poison arrows
- Centering your home for healthy living
- Saving the stove and the cook
- Curing exposed beams
- Enhancing Wealth, Relationships, and Health All at Once
- Evening out the shape of your lot and home
- Keeping your front pathway unblocked
- Brightening your front entrance
- Chapter 20 Looking Before You Leap: Selecting Your Next Home with Feng Shui
- Understanding How Feng Shui Can Help You during the Home-Selection Process
- Starting Off the Feng Shui Home-Selection Process on the Right Foot
- Setting your intention
- Making a list and checking it twice
- Evaluating a Home's Feng Shui Features
- Assessing and Addressing Predecessor Energies
- Dealing a one-two punch to predecessor energies
- Getting a handle on Initial Momentum
- Reading the predecessor factors
- Chapter 21 Creating New Energy with Feng Shui Blessing Ceremonies
- Dealing with Unseen Occupants in Your Home
- The Advantages of Feng Shui Blessing Ceremonies
- Reasons for employing blessing ceremonies
- Good occasions for blessing ceremonies
- Frequently Asked Questions about Feng Shui Blessing Ceremonies
- Tips for Performing Feng Shui Blessing Ceremonies
- Out with the Old, In with the New: The Rice Blessing
- What the Rice Blessing can do for you
- How the Rice Blessing works
- Items to gather for the Rice Blessing
- The stages of performing the Rice Blessing
- Frequently asked questions about the Rice Blessing
- Results from the Rice Blessing
- The Citrus Water Blessing
- How the Citrus Water Blessing works
- Items to gather for the Citrus Water Blessing
- Performing the Citrus Water Blessing
- The Fresh Flowers Home Blessing
- Chapter 22 Unleashing the Genie: Personal Feng Shui Empowerment
- Putting Bad Luck to Bed
- Giving yourself a boost: The Red Cloth Protection Cure
- Doing fancy footwork: The Red Feet on Bed Cure
- Getting Personal with Feng Shui
- Building strength and stability with a yu bowl
- Refreshing personal chi with the Orange Peel Bath Cure
- Promoting a long and happy marriage with the Marriage Cure
- Letting the Sun Shine In
- Great Sunshine Buddha: Round 1
- Great Sunshine Buddha: Round 2
- Great Sunshine Buddha: Round 3
- Feeling Clean, Clear, and Refreshed with Meditations
- Supreme Yoga Stage 1
- The Five Elements, Five Colors Meditation
- Part 5 The Part of Tens
- Chapter 23 Ten Principles for Success with Your Feng Shui
- Retain Your Energy
- Pay Attention to Life's Feedback
- Follow Your Intuition and Act with Urgency
- Fine-Tune Your Feng Shui
- Keep on Keeping On
- Work on the Mundane as Well
- Continue to Increase Your Knowledge
- Keep the Faith
- Enlarge the Team
- Employ Special Timing for Stronger Cures
- Chapter 24 Ten Tips for Finding the Right Consultant and Sticking with the Plan
- Gauge Your Commitment Level
- Set a Working Budget
- Nail Down Your Intentions
- Find a Real (Professional) Consultant
- Discover What's Involved in a Consultation
- Make Sure the Vibe Is Right
- Get Specific Action Items
- Just Do It - All of It!
- Track Your Cures and Keep Your Eyes Peeled: Change Is A-Comin'
- Document Your Life Changes
- Chapter 25 Ten Tips for Selling a Home with the Help of Feng Shui
- First Things First: Taking Care of Business
- Activating Your Helpful People and Money Energies
- Enter Buyer, Stage Right
- Sending Out Your Message with Sound
- Enhancing the Visibility of Your Entrance
- Removing Obstacles from Your Entryway
- Letting the Good Times Flow with Fountains
- Cleaning Like Your Sale Depends on It - 'Cause It Does
- Start Moving Now
- A Little Birdie Told Me: The Birdseed Cure
- Chapter 26 Ten Unique Calligraphies to Bless Your Life
- Appendix Feng Shui Resources
- Index
- EULA
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