Balance Your Space with Feng Shui

The perfect one-stop manual on how to rearrange and energize your home and life using simple Feng Shui.

In this revised and updated, paper-over-board edition of the classic, bestselling book on organizing, Karen Kingston teaches readers how to free up their lives by getting rid of clutter.

Often credited as starting the crossover of feng shui from Asian esoterica to Western mainstream culture, the first edition of Feng Shui Made Easy was the most influential book on the subject in the 1990s, selling 100,000 copies. Now, fourteen years after its initial release, this updated version will appeal to a new generation of readers interested in bringing more success, harmony, and happiness to their homes, environments, and lives.

A centuries-old Chinese practice, feng shui has captured the Western imagination as a tool for design and well-being. In this classic book, complete with helpful drawings and photographs, Sarah Rossbach shows how anyone can apply its principles to enhance their careers, family life, health, and prosperity.Rossbach interprets the teachings of feng shui master Lin Yun for contemporary Westerners, offering practical methods for achieving harmony with one's environment. Focusing on common problems in business and residential settings, she discusses everything from the site of a building to furniture arrangement to wall decoration. In a chapter new to this edition, she explains how to choose colors that satisfy individual needs and preferences. Rossbach's easy-to-execute advice includes such simple steps as moving a microwave oven, repositioning a desk, and hanging mirrors to alleviate negative influences.

This fully illustrated, comprehensive workbook is designed primarily for homeowners, renters, architects, and business owners who want to put feng-shui to practical personal use—to choose a home, build a house, select an office, or find a retail space. Real estate agents, interior designers, and architects will also find it useful as a reference manual. The text and exercises proceed in systematic fashion from basic principles to specific projects, covering the following lessons:    •  Evaluating the landscape and external environment by using the techniques of the Landform School    •  Using the geomantic compass to chart patterns of energy within a building    •  Planning the usage of space    •  Matching occupants to a house    •  Deciding on the placement of furniture    •  Improving the feng-shui of a building with countermeasures, enhancers, and renovations    •  Building a new house    •  Choosing or designing an apartment, business suite, or retail space

Feng Shui and Health is a groundbreaking guide that aims to foster wellness through home furnishing placement and design. Readers will learn how they subconsciously recreate illness patterns in their homes through the placement and design, and how they are often drawn to rent and purchase homes that reflect all the emotional, spiritual, and physical underpinnings of their illness.Feng Shui and Health will include an introduction to the basic principles of Feng Shui as well more advanced information on our internal energy system, the Chakras. The book will also include information on common room layouts that can lead to illness & how to correct them; the role of color in health; and a multi-level approach to alleviating 18 common illnesses.