Practical Feng Shui: Arrange, Decorate and Accessorize Your Home to Promote Health, Wealth and Happiness - Softcover

Brown, Simon G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 070637634X ISBN 13: 9780706376340

Publisher: Cassell Illustrated, 1998

Synopsis

Promote good health and general well-being, improve your sex life and interpersonal relationships, and realize your personal and professional aspirations by arranging and decorating your home. Described by the author as "a Shiatsu massage for your whole being," Feng Shui is the ancient Chinese art of designing your surroundings in order to channel the positive energies of the universe and promote success in life, health, wealth, and happiness. Begin by studying the basic principles of Feng Shui: the concepts of chi energy, yin and yang, the Five Elements, the Eight Directions, and Nine Ki astrology, and learn to use the tools of the art. Next, examine the structure and shape of your home as well as its setting, and determine how these affect your life favorably or unfavorably. See how to furnish and decorate each room in the house in the best possible way. Guidance is given in choosing colors, fabrics, plants, mirrors, lighting, artwork, and other decorative elements. Arrange the seating in the living room to promote family harmony and sociability. Select table settings that will improve mealtimes. Situate your bed to enhance your communication skills, cure insomnia, or heighten romance. Regardless of how you want to improve your life, using Feng Shui you can get the forces of nature to work with you rather than against you. Ward Lock 160 pages (all in color), 7 3/4 x 10.

About this title

About the Author:

Simon Brown is a feng shui teacher and consultant. He has worked as a design engineer, has studied Oriental medicine and is a qualified Shiatsu therapist and macrobiotic consultant. He is the former director of London's Community Health Foundation and taught some of the first major courses in feng shui in the UK. His feng shui clients include celebrities and public companies. He is the author of Feng Shui in a Weekend and the bestselling Practical Feng Shui.

From Booklist:

When multinational corporations the size of British Airways adopt an Eastern philosophy in practice, it is time to take notice. Such is the case with feng shui, the art of designing home and office to promote success. Since the discovery of the concept by the media in the early 1990s, books on the topic have become numerous. But Brown, author of The Principles of Feng Shui, has exorcised the mysticism from his explanation, preferring, instead, a how-to approach. Filled with charts that reinforce all his teachings, his book leads novices carefully through their paces, outlining yin and yang, chakra, and other basics, then discussing a home's structure, shape, and materials. Plus, he identifies problems, including clutter, which slows chi (energy); lack of natural light (for which one should substitute daylight bulbs and ivy plants); and I-shaped rooms, which cut chi (a mirror should be used in the narrow part). Though many people may scoff at the potential benefits of feng shui, to just as many other people, it's a sure thing. Barbara Jacobs

About this edition

• Publisher: Cassell Illustrated
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 070637634X
• ISBN 13: 9780706376340
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160