Feng Shui Tips and Information Guide

Simply Brilliant! - This is the first book I have ever met which deals equally well with the three-pronged approach to Chinese esoteric knowledge - Feng Shui, Chinese Astrology and Chinese Spiritual Alchemy ( in fact, this is a reflection of classical Jing-Qi-Shen, Body-Energy-Spirit integral method ). I strongly recommend it to any devoted practitioner of Spiritual Alchemy, especially the Spiritual Qi Gong chapters which give details about highest levels of practices such as Kan/Li, etc. And, most important, the teachings are targeted to integration of one's immortal True Self in everyday life. This is the greatest - and simplest - secret of the Golden Flower.

A MUST HAVE! - This book is an essential tool for the serious practitioner. It is a complete manual which provides you with clear, precise, in-depth information no other author has yet published.
 

Creating Soothing Environments with Essential Feng Shui - It is a real act of courage to open your Feng Shui eyes and take a detailed look at what your home is saying about you. It usually leads to extraordinary insights, immediate calls to action, and deeply empowering inner and outer changes. ~Terah Kathryn Collins

Feng Shui (fung shway) is a 3,000-year-old Chinese design philosophy that encourages you to analyze and change your environment for personal growth and relaxation. As your mind starts to change, this change is reflected in your environment. You can also change your environment and adjust your viewpoint or even bring more success and peace into your life.

Terah Kathryn Collins is an internationally recognized consultant, speaker and teacher. Her writing style is highly creative and filled with positive energy. Her ideas are enlightening and comforting and they changed how I viewed my environment. Through the application of her ideas you can improve your creativity, change your health, bring positive energy into your home and create a home that reflects who you are becoming. This is a practical approach with personal flair. You can personalize the ideas to suit your goals. There are 125 black-and-white and color photographs to give you ideas and to explain the text.

After a quick introduction to this art, Terah Kathryn Collins introduces "The Bagua Map." This was great fun to draw (This just looks like a tic-tac-toe board drawn over a footprint drawing of your home.) and by the time you have your house mapped out, you can start to map your office and bedrooms. Then, you can make notes around the drawings. Additional chapters include:

Yin and Yang and the Five Elements
Romancing the Home - art, color, crystals, lighting, living things, mirrors, nature objects, sound makers, water features and wind dancers.
The Front Entry and Foyer
The Living Room
The Dining Room - Nurturing Body, Heart, and Soul
The Kitchen - Nourishment's Birthplace
The Family Room
The Home Office
Bedrooms
The Sanctuary
Bathrooms
Laundry Rooms and Garages
Attics, Basements and Other Storage Areas
Hallways and Stairways
Windows and Doors
Cleansings and Blessings - Creative ideas for making a home yours, especially if you are not the first owner.

This book also explains why you can buy dried flowers, but presents the idea as a long-term arrangement instead of a permanent arrangement. There are also cautions against placing crystals in windows with direct sunlight and other cautions that can keep your home safe.

I realized the power of Feng Shui personally when I moved my desk so I could see the door and the window. The gift of a wonderful Zen fountain and the placement of a lamp on the desk also brought more serenity to my writing experience. It is amazing how much more relaxed my relationship with my husband has become just because I moved my desk. Now I can see him entering our home and even when I'm deep in a writing trance, I can acknowledge his presence and Princess Sasha cat now enjoys looking out of the window while I'm typing. Air can flow more freely into the room and the scent of flowers from the planter drifts over the desk as I type. Just one simple example of how Feng Shui changed my immediate existence. The desk on page 167 was my guide for arranging a more effective writing space.

This book would make a wonderful house warming present! Especially with a Zen fountain, plants or candles.

Personally, I'd recommend making changes over time. Moving furniture could be the first step and then you could purchase items over a few months or years. Even the author explained how she made small changes at first and planned for changes in the future when she could afford to buy a new couch, etc.

Half the fun is making changes over time and seeing wonderful energy start to flow into your life. The author promotes inner and outer work. She explains how "you" breathe "the magic" into the changes you make. When your environment is more positive and nurturing, you will feel more creative and this can lead to lasting changes.

If you love to decorate you are going to love this book! This is my favorite Feng Shui book because it has ideas that have changed my life.

The BEST First book to read on Feng Shui - This is the first book I read about Feng Shui. I found I really enjoyed Collin's breezy style of writing, but more than that, after reading 10 other books on Feng Shui, I can honestly say this is the best book out there for the beginner Feng Shui reader.

Collins goes over all the Feng Shui basics in this book - the bagua, enhancements, colors, the five-element theory (nourishing and destructive cycles), etc. She then goes on with the theories of each Room beyond the bagua (such as that bathrooms are watery, etc, and how to prevent them from being overly watery). I found this very helpful. I also enjoyed how Collins had affirmations for each gua and each room. The affirmations, for example, for the bathroom, involve letting go of toxic thoughts and emotions.

This book is also full of photos, both black and white and color, that are really helpful in allowing you to see what the author means when she gives an example of good or bad Feng Shui. The photographs are really gorgeous, too, and simply make the examples stand out really well!

After reading this book, I went back and read her book, "The Western Guide to Feng Shui", but didn't enjoy it nearly as much. It doesn't has the photographs, the writing is stilted, and she doesn't go into as much detail with enhancements and color theory as she does in this book. If you had to choose which book to start with, start with "The Western Guide to Feng Shui: Room by Room"! Simply the best First book to read about Feng Shui!

Excellent resource for those new to Feng Shui - I read several books on Feng Shui before this one-mostly slogging through all the history and technical information that was not at all useful to me. Then I found Ms. Collins book. She presents just enough history and technical information to be useful, and offers many simple and practical ideas which can change the energy of your home and your life. The pictures were very helpful in illustrating how a few small changes can dramatically change the energy of a whole room. I highly recommend this book.
 

A Must Buy! Be More Successful, Clear Clutter and Stay Calm - This book turned out to be a little gem. My employees keep borrowing it from my desk. I struggle with clutter, stress and remembering the 'Big Picture' at work. This book actually presents Feng Shui in a way that is understandable, practical and has ideas that can be implemented immediately. I loved the beauty of design, hip illustrations, inspirational quotes and page after page of Feng Shui ideas that I can use around the Office. Chapter titles include: Feng Shui for you Desk, Stress Relief, Prosperity, Around the Office and on the Go. Keep it on your Desk and Enjoy!
Monique J.

You can create your own Feng Shui garden - I followed the guidelines for plants, color, fragrance, shapes, and meaning, and designed five interlocking Florida Feng Shui gardens based on Nancilee's book. We used the bagua to locate the right spots (for us) for a Meditation garden, a Healing garden, a Fertility garden, a Child's garden and, in the Power Corner, the Lover's garden.

The result is a tropical paradise which enchants us, our friends, and garden enthusiasts. The book was a great guide to learning by doing.

Provides a new way to analyze your garden. - I recommend this book if you are looking for a new approach to what might be called the garden metaphor. This book provides wonderful definitions of the garden and the importance of place, but also gives practical ways to analyze faults as well as checklists and questions to help gardeners pinpoint where they might want to go. I found it helped to diagnose my problem areas and also pointed to some not so radical solutions that changed emphasis just enough to give my garden a whole new look. I highly recommend it.
 

Very nice! - This is a great book! It is not based on the traditional Feng Shui, but ascribes to pyramid Feng Shui. So if you are looking for why everyone in the house experiences the same illness that cropped up when you moved in, this may not fit the bill. But it addresses the flow of chi and the balance of yin/yang in detail. It is a great read and opens you up to the different sounds, textures, smells and visual aspects of your home that makes a home interesting and appealing to everyone that experiences it. It literally brings your awareness to the fact that your home is a live energy.

Excellent Resource! - As a registered interior designer and certified Feng Shui professional, I found this book to be an interesting read. It will help designers and architects, as well as homeowners, analyze space and make informed decisions as to build or remodel. The charts are easy to follow and right on point. This book is filled with illustrations that are wonderful in demonstrating the ideas being presented. The "forward thinking" floor plans at the end of the book show that these two authors understand the diversity of how people live today and how their homes could be better designed to meet their needs.

A Must Read for Building & Remodeling - I found this book to be a "must read" if you are planning to build or remodel and it is easy to understand. My husband and I are building a home and we found this book to be a vital resource for our decision making. It helped us select the outside colors, wall colors, flooring, lighting, window coverings, as well as furniture placement. In our meeting to finalize the floor plan with the builder, his wife was so impressed with our feedback and rationale that she asked me to get her the book!
 

Clearing Your Space To Allow Romance to Enter. 10 Stars! Stephanie clearly knows Feng Shui and she shares her knowledge and expertise while offering you dramatic improvements you can make in your life that work, just as it did in her own. She provides easy to understand techniques, suggestions and backs it up with her in-depth wisdom to clear out the stifling energies in your home, in order to allow romance to enter and bloom. Her in-depth knowledge is a gift. Use it, because it works!

Brilliant! A Must Read for Any Single Person! The wisdom and expertise in this latest of Stephanie Roberts' outstanding books goes beyond Feng Shui - right to the heart. Her style is elegant, down-to-earth, and easy to understand, even if you don't know much about Feng Shui. Her wisdom brings an undeniable contribution to helping single people clear whatever may be blocking their attraction or maintenance of a healthy, enriching relationship. This book is substantial, and by far the easiest to understand and apply, compared to other more complicated books on the market.

Charming and truly helpful! I've been into Feng Shui for quite a while now and so have read several books about it and I can say that Stephanie's book is definitely one of the easiest to follow, most original and most charming ones that have ever come my way. The greatest thing about it is that it doesn't only talk about the "usual" FS stuff, like symbols or gadgets that'll enhance chi in certain guas, but it also works as a kind of a psychological guide: it takes you trough the different phases of a relationship and gives you ideas on how you can make your inner self more -so to say- productive - as well as your home. Stephanie's writing style is truly charming - you feel as if she was sitting there with you. An absolute must-have on everyone's shelf looking for a new romance - whether or not into FS.