Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life: How to Use Feng Shui to Get Love, Money, Respect and Happiness - Softcover

Carter, Karen Rauch

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0684866048 ISBN 13: 9780684866048

Verlag: Atria, 2000

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An essential and accessible guide to increasing happiness, improving your financial well-being, and bettering your health through the timeless Chinese art of feng shui.

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

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Karen Rauch Carter is a professional feng shui consultant and licensed landscape architect. She studied t'ai chi, yoga, alternative energy healing, and parapsychology prior to beginning her studies of Black Hat-style feng shui. She can be contacted at FengShuiPalace.com.

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Like sushi, Giga Pets, and Jackie Chan, feng shui has made its way West in a big way. 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. Presenting sound feng shui advice in an easy-to-understand and easy-to-use manner, Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life communicates how to:
-- GET A RAISE
-- MEET "THE ONE"
-- BECOME ABLE TO CONCEIVE AND BEAR CHILDREN
-- FIND A DREAM JOB
-- EARN BETTER GRADES IN SCHOOL
-- ENJOY A BETTER SEX LIFE
-- ACHIEVE OPTIMAL HEALTH

Feng shui is a powerful yet simple tool by which to change one's life. Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life reveals the ancient Chinese secrets that are as useful and necessary today as they have been for centuries.

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Chapter 4: Why Can't We All Just Get Along? -- Relationships and Love

If you lovingly move your stuff in the Relationship corner according to feng shui wisdom, you can enhance your life in many ways. You can

• find "the one"
• make a commitment without fear
• get married
• put the sizzle back into a relationship
• get along better with family, friends, and coworkers
• learn to trust people again.

Let's take the word relationship. The root word is relate. The question here is, how do things in your home relate to one another? How does your particular combination of household items affect how you relate to others on a subconscious level? Can you relate? Not yet? OK. Here's how it works. First you need to find the Relationship corner. It happens to be the back right-hand corner of the whole house, as you walk in the front door. Enter here and hold on tight -- you may not be alone tonight!

Just a Spent Fuel Rod in the Toxic Waste Dump of Love?

Are relationship blues causing you to consider a career as a sensory-deprivation-tank test volunteer? Whether you're looking for Mr./Mrs. Right or for Mr./Mrs. Right Now, here are some tips to help you in your search for a successful relationship.

Certain colors and objects reflect love. Pink, red, and white are excellent Relationship colors. Flowers and heart shapes are perfect Relationship objects. (See? Valentine's Day is not just a Hallmark holiday after all.) Just stick those things in your corner. It's that easy. It may sound crazy, but think of one thing about love that isn't.

Love is not a sight, a sound, or a taste (although in some cases it can be). It's a feeling, something emotional and intuitive. It's intuition that makes feng shui work. So look around your home or room, and walk over to your Relationship corner. How does it feel? Loving? Probably not, or you'd be out on a date instead of reading this book. Focus your energy on this very special corner, carefully decorate it, and think loving thoughts. Then loving things will naturally happen in your life. I once knew a woman who, upon hearing about feng shui for the first time, walked over and threw a red pair of panties in her Relationship corner. She said to herself, "There, take that," and didn't give it another thought. A month later she was happily married to a millionaire. It could happen to you! But you have to want it and you have to do what it takes to make it happen. It all begins with awareness and action. Lights, camera, action -- you are now the star of your own love story (and you get to decide what it's rated).

Be prepared for the avalanche of affection you discover on your new feng shui journey. At times it can seem like a landslide of love, a tsunami of sensuality, an earthquake of emotions. Bear in mind this caution: use the tools wisely and don't overdo it. Too many lovers and too much love can bring a whole new set of problems to your life. Then you'll need another book to solve those problems.

What is appropriate for your Relationship corner? Take a look.

Power Tools for Relationships and Love

Mirrors Love is energy, and energy is a living thing. Control this energy by bouncing it around the room using mirrors. They work twenty-four hours a day, drawing in the light and energy so you can attract that special someone. Round ones work best here.

Candles Candles generate heat and energy. Heat up your corner and heat up your love life. Try using one for each person in the relationship.

Hot Tub It's about as hot and steamy as it gets.

Fresh Flowers Dandelions from the crack in the sidewalk, or long-stem roses -- if they're beautiful, fragrant, or full of life to you, they'll work here.

And continuing in the plant category: mistletoe is an obvious choice for love and relationships.

Think Pink Soft, satiny, sensuous pink. Fresh, frosty, frilly pink. Pink feels like love, so let it color your corner. Add the Energizer bunny if you think there is a need to keep going and going...

Anything Red The power is in the feeling of the color. Red hearts are obvious, but use what you have: a jar of maraschino cherries, a can of tomato soup (it worked for Andy Warhol), a silk scarf, a notebook, a red-hot chili pepper.

Undergarments Does this really need an explanation?

Sensual Sounds Since musical taste is in the ear of the beholder, you're on your own a little here. But I would venture to say, head-banging guitar or drum solos don't get Relationship ch'i in the mood.

Symbols That Mean Love to You Come on. Get creative. You can do it. Here are some of my personal favorites:

• Barbie and Ken in formal bridal wear
• Barbie and G.I. Joe
• fireworks
• animal-print material
• a bottle of champagne and two glasses
• a bride-and-groom wedding cake decoration
• actually, two of just about anything -- statues, lovebirds, plants, lights, pillows
• a bowl of passion fruit or Hershey's Kisses

(A man I knew had an old yellow ski lift sign above his bed that said Singles Pair Up Here. Tacky to me, but it worked for him.)

Equality Make sure there is equality on both sides of the bed (whatever gua it falls into in the home). Two matching nightstands are best, even -- and especially -- if you are single. Don't take one of the matching tables and use it in another part of the house. This will cause imbalance in a relationship.

Hazardous Materials for Relationships and Love

Negative Images Don't cloud your corner with unhappy thoughts. Pictures of ex-lovers, icebergs, limp noodles, riots, or the Hindenburg explosion won't foster loving thoughts. Thoughts are energy too, very much related to the energy of love.

"Unfriendly" Stuff Cactus, Venus flytraps, and stinkweed plants do not a loving statement make. Lose the medieval weapon collection too.

"Frigid" Stuff The air conditioner and refrigerator are working against you if you want a hot love life.

"Single" Stuff If you are stuck with a twin bed for now, at least invest in a guest pillow. Lose the photos of yourself alone in this corner. Take a look around and see if you have surrounded yourself with "single" symbols -- especially art. I can't tell you how many feng shui consultations for relationship-seeking single women I have done where they have decorated their entire homes with art depicting women alone.

Games You don't want to be playing games in your relationship, do you?

Uncleanliness Creating a loving energy is difficult when dust balls, fingernail clippings, and old Twinkie wrappers clutter your corner.

Storage That space under the bed looks like the perfect place to tuck away holiday wrapping paper, skis, and suitcases, but if you are looking for a relationship without a lot of baggage, clean it out. Having the area under your bed stuffed with stuff is the monster that makes us have bad dreams as adults.

Distractions If your television is in the Relationship corner (especially if it also happens to be your bedroom), it may be getting in between you and your mate. If your computer is there, you may be more interested in surfing the Net than boogie-boarding with a loved one. If your ex-boyfriend's guitar is there, you may find yourself hanging on to that old song, rather than finding a new one.

If these things must stay, however, drape them, when not in use, with a nice fabric befitting the Relationship corner. The color cobalt blue is said to have EMF-negating properties, which may be a good idea for all those computer cords and screens.

Be open to change. The type of mate you desire may not be the best person for you. Forget old ideas of love. They didn¹t work before, so why...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Atria
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0684866048
• ISBN 13: 9780684866048
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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