Good Fengshui
A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Balance and Harmony in Your Home
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
Fengshui master Eva Wong breaks it down for beginners.
This easy-to-use, fengshui 101 guide to the ancient practice will give you invaluable advice as you choose or build a home—and bring positive, healthy energy to your existing home, office, or garden.
Enhance the energy of your home, workplace, or garden using the principles of the Taoist art of fengshui. This primer will teach you to bring harmonizing, beneficial energy into any space.
Taoist arts master Eva Wong introduces readers to the powerful traditional system of fengshui. It is not simply a list of directives for arranging interiors for good luck—it is the art of reading the patterns of the universe and living in harmony with the environment.
Bedrooms with good fengshui maximize health and minimize illnesses. Home offices with good fengshui facilitate business vision and accumulation of wealth. Even garages, driveways, and gardens can affect our health, livelihood, and the way we interact with the world.
Whether you are buying, renting, or renovating a home—or you want to change the atmosphere and energy of the home you are in—Wong will teach you to identify and work with the possibilities and limitations of your space.
In this concise book, Wong explains the essential principles and guidelines of fengshui; offers tips for home buyers, including architectural positives and negatives, and neighborhood perks and challenges; shows you how to assess your indoor and outdoor spaces; and much more As the owner of a construction and engineering business, Wong’s recommendations are practical, safe, and economical.
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In this comprehensive outing, Taoist scholar Wong (How to Win) offers guidance on how to arrange one's home in accordance with feng shui, the Taoist concept that seeks to create "harmony" in a space through the positioning of its constituent elements. Blending practical advice on decorating with philosophical background on feng shui, she explains that the practice is rooted in the belief that "land and all living things" have energy, or qi, and that the relationship between the features of a room or landscape determines the mood of the space (for example, "architecture with strange and grotesque features is associated with fearful energy"). Wong dispenses useful tips for furnishing one's home, recommending that readers avoid clutter (open space makes room "for energy to gather and circulate"), placing beds against windows (which "let in unpredictable energy from the outside"), and using red kitchen appliances (which enhance the "energy of fire" in the room). Other suggestions are harder to implement, such as her advice to "destroy" negative energy from "gnarly" tree branches by mounting a handsaw on a stand between the branches and one's home. However, the more pragmatic guidance is well complemented by the thorough background on the spiritual and philosophical underpinnings of feng shui. The result is an ideal primer on modern applications of an ancient tradition.
