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The Feng Shui Companion: A User-friendly Guide to the Ancient Art of Placement
Clear instructions for incorporating this Chinese art into your personal environment to create balance and prosperity.
The Feng Shui Companion is a user-friendly handbook for anyone interested in employing the ancient Chinese art of geomancy for creating balance, harmony, and prosperity in their personal environment. Feng shui, the Chinese words for wind and water, is a time-honored system of rules, concepts and principles that explain how our lives are pragmatically and spiritually linked to our environment. As the author shows, based on his own experience, these principles can be implemented at little cost in both new and existing buildings, often with significant improvements to the physical and financial well-being of the people who live in them. Just a simple change in the placement of furniture or the addition of a plant to a room can have a noticeable impact on an individual's life. With expert summaries of the key feng shui concepts, the author provides clear instructions for creating a place in which you want to spend time rather than one in which you are constantly trying to escape because "something doesn't feel right."
Unlike other books on the subject, The Feng Shui Companion details specific ways to incorporate feng shui principles into your own home or work space.
The author shows how just a few seemingly inconsequential and inexpensive changes in both new and existing structures can have enormously positive effects.
The Feng Shui Companion is a user-friendly handbook for anyone interested in employing the ancient Chinese art of geomancy for creating balance, harmony, and prosperity in their personal environment. Feng shui, the Chinese words for wind and water, is a time-honored system of rules, concepts and principles that explain how our lives are pragmatically and spiritually linked to our environment. As the author shows, based on his own experience, these principles can be implemented at little cost in both new and existing buildings, often with significant improvements to the physical and financial well-being of the people who live in them. Just a simple change in the placement of furniture or the addition of a plant to a room can have a noticeable impact on an individual's life. With expert summaries of the key feng shui concepts, the author provides clear instructions for creating a place in which you want to spend time rather than one in which you are constantly trying to escape because "something doesn't feel right."
Unlike other books on the subject, The Feng Shui Companion details specific ways to incorporate feng shui principles into your own home or work space.
The author shows how just a few seemingly inconsequential and inexpensive changes in both new and existing structures can have enormously positive effects.
208 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 1997
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November 28, 2023
Mystic gobbledygook, pseudoscience, earth-energy, and a whole lotta mirrors.
The book disappointingly contains practically no discussion of aesthetics and consistently asserts that Feng Shui has "proven" impact to relieve serious health conditions and seriously impact personal finances. The basic "principles of placement" are laid out poorly and are accompanied by superstition, pseudoscience, and outright logical fallacies at every turn without even once attempting to be critical of ancient Chinese myth.
The author is likely the type to firmly believe in the health benefits of healing crystals, homeopathy and Himalayan salt lamps. Heck, he even suggests finding "geological faults", "underground water streams", and "geomagnetic lines" by swinging a pendulum or stick around your room.
It is also riddled with typos.
At least it has some entertainment value.
The book disappointingly contains practically no discussion of aesthetics and consistently asserts that Feng Shui has "proven" impact to relieve serious health conditions and seriously impact personal finances. The basic "principles of placement" are laid out poorly and are accompanied by superstition, pseudoscience, and outright logical fallacies at every turn without even once attempting to be critical of ancient Chinese myth.
The author is likely the type to firmly believe in the health benefits of healing crystals, homeopathy and Himalayan salt lamps. Heck, he even suggests finding "geological faults", "underground water streams", and "geomagnetic lines" by swinging a pendulum or stick around your room.
It is also riddled with typos.
At least it has some entertainment value.
January 12, 2024
Good for an overview of the basic principles of Feng Shui. Couldn’t help notice many spelling and grammatical errors in the book and also many sections where the author tried to back their claims with examples of people who had “changed one element in their home and now they have loads of money!! - coincidence??” For me that isn’t good writing. I enjoyed the use of diagrams, but wanted to know more about certain objects, colours and furniture that could be used to improve the energy in a room/building
July 1, 2012
Not bad. It helped me understand the basic principles anyhow. =)
August 22, 2012
Interesting and easy to employ. I think my home feels good. Now waiting for the cabinet I organized in the money corner to PAY OFF!
May 18, 2013
It seems to me that the mystical element is proven entirely through faulty proof by coincidence. However, the principles do drive an aesthetically balanced, consistent, and pleasing result.
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