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Promising health, wealth, and happiness, feng shui offers endless appeal -- at least in concept. Unfortunately, feng shui's seemingly complicated methods are often difficult to learn and apply in a meaningful way. Fortunately, Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life is written in plain and simple English for the modern Western reader. Revealing the ancient Chinese secrets that are as useful and necessary today as they have been for centuries, Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life communicates how to:
* MEET "THE ONE"
* FIND A DREAM JOB
* EARN BETTER GRADES IN SCHOOL
* ENJOY A BETTER SEX LIFE
Product Details
| Publisher | Fireside |
| ISBN | 0684866048 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Author | Karen Rauch Carter |
| EAN | 9780684866048 |
| Label | Fireside |
| Edition | Original |
| Dewey Decimal Number | 133.3337 |
| Studio | Fireside |
| Number Of Pages | 240 |
| Title | Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life : How to Use Feng Shui to Get Love, Money, Respect and Happiness |
| Publication Date | 2000-01-06 |
| Manufacturer | Fireside |
Customer Reviews
Great book about organizationReview by B. Taxy, 2010-08-12
This book says it's about feng shui, and it is, and of all the feng shui books I've read it's easily the clearest, most intuitive and most understandable. But the real power of the book, for me, has been in helping me to understand and implement organization. By examining space using principles of feng shui, I can ask questions about each object and its purpose and evaluate it in the context of my life. This allows me to get a snapshot, if you will, of my unconscious mind, and to make it congruent with my conscious goals and values. So it's not so much the moving of stuff that changed my life, but the investigation into my stuff, into my objects, that provided me with a mechanism for evaluating who I am and what elements could be added or subtracted from my space and from my Self. I do wish the book had an index, but I've been working with this text for ten years and it continues to be a valuable resource. Well done, KRC.
Horrible! Not real feng shui at all!
Review by It's me, 2010-07-24
Carter claims that "proper feng shui is purposefully arranging the stuff around you to gain positive results." That right there tells anyone who knows anything about feng shui what garbage this book is. I picked up this up because of all of the reviews and I was appalled at how bad it was! Yes this book is easy to read. It's really small and simple. It lets you know that all you have to do to improve your life is put a color here and move a chair there and a money tree there and wallah!- You become a great success and meet the love of your life.. Ah yes wouldn't that just be grand if it were true? No wonder so many love this book; Wishful thinking!
But here's why it's such a quick read and takes zero time or effort to implement- Because it's not actually feng shui. Real Feng Shui is a little more complicated than that. It requires some time to figure out certain equations and books that teach you genuine feng shui as has been done in the east for centuries show you how to do at least some of these equations for you to implement the art to your home with adequate results. People love this book because it requires no time and no figuring out of anyting- Just buy certain things and move them around- so it offers no results either. In fact one can actually end up making things worse as far as real feng shui is concerned. Just to give you an idea- this book as well as the author's other book entitled "clear your clutter" were voted among the worst feng shui books on the market by writers and practioners of traditional feng shui. This woman either doesn't know what she's doing or she's banking on the fact that westerners don't want to put in the time for real feng shui so she's instead written a couple of books on neatness and design and decided to call that "feng shui" to make money. This book may motivate you to organize yourself and add certain colors and things that you otherwise wouldn't & that's great, but I guarantee you that with this book you won't be practicing feng shui. For the real deal try books like The complete idiots guide to feng shui or Chinese Whispers. They've got more content and therefore aren't as quick to read and apply, but even if you don't have the time to study those books I feel its better to read & apply a tiny portion of real feng shui in your home than it is to read entire books of crap that's deceptively marketed as feng shui.
move your stuff change your life
Review by Sharon Ely, 2010-06-24
excellent book ...bought it used but it looked newer than any of the other books I have on hand....i'll order the express shipping next time. thanks for the book.
The best Feng Shui book ever (R-rated though)
Review by KathrynNotKathy, 2010-06-20
This is the most readable, entertaining Feng Shui book I have found. Most of them read like encyclopedias but this one is enjoyable to read, and contains good information for the novice Feng Shui student. I did find some of the author's humor a bit tasteless, however. Keep the book away from your kids.
Watch out...! There are better books for beginners....
Review by Sunny T, 2010-06-15
This is a friendly, fun book to read, but it is not going to help you change your life *positively* with feng shui, and it could lead to disastrous results. Some of Carter's advice makes no sense whatsoever, which I found out as I learned more about the elements and energy circulation.
Sometimes I say that "I made every feng shui mistake in the book" - well, this is the book of mistakes.
If you're interested in Western feng shui and maybe just starting out, I recommend Terah Kathryn Collins' feng shui books or Jayme Barrett's Feng Shui Your Life. They contain good, solid, useful advice to get you started.
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