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Summary: FANTASTIC BOOK!!
Review: This is THE best Book I own on Feng Shui and believe me, I own a LOT of them. THis one is VERY easy to understand and to use. It's logical, practical, and easy. Even if you think Feng SHui is hard, after reading this book (or even a part of it) you will see how easy it really is to get started! Take my word for it, I've found no better book than this one, it's the one I always reference and I've got like 35 bookmarks all over. It's the best!
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Summary: Can all these 5 star reviewers be wrong? NO
Review: This book found me! We were on a ski trip at a friends home in Lake Tahoe. Two books were on the coffee table, one I had given my friend, and this book. Having read other books on Feng Shui, I picked it up for a quick browse and ended up taking copious notes and reading the whole darn thing in 24 hours. Karen (she feels like a close friend after reading it) has organized the material in an easy to digest and "get it" fashion. You will be able to focus and implement cures immediately based on her black hat sect style of feng shui. Yes, you still have to clean house a bit, but with Karen's recommendations, you don't feel overwhelmed, just inspired.
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Summary: In a nutshell.....it works!
Review: People are used to my wacky stories about my family, but my new favorite wacky stories are about Feng Shui. I read this book with much skepticism....but thought, "Hey, it can't hurt, right?" A few years ago, a Feng Shui practicing friend of mine asked me if I closed the toilet lid when I flushed...I said, "Sometimes, but not always...." and she replied, "You're FLUSHING away your wealth!" I had a good laugh, but decided to try it. I began religiously to put the toilet seat down...and got an unexpected check in the mail from the IRS that year. Let me just say that has never happened before or since. I decided to bone up on Feng Shui and did a Bagua map of my home and saw that my wealth area was my back bedroom which was in maxed out disarray due to a flooding problem which had recently been fixed. I took a week off from work and totally remodeled the room....even put new furniture in....and my husband got a nice raise! I know, it sounds crazy... but I think, in part, having an orderly home free of clutter destresses you and helps you become more peaceful and therefore more productive and happy. This was a great book. I can't comment on the love part as I've been married forever (but still love him), but I'm sure it can't hurt to try either! I highly recommend this book, if for no other reason, to get your home decluttered and more organized.
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Summary: Amazing Positive "Chi"!
Review: MOVE YOUR STUFF CHANGE YOUR LIFE, Mar 23,2002
Reviewer: LANIS CHIDEL,owner of Lapachi Art & Design Tampa,Fl
Karen has taken Feng Shui over the top....easier for the reader to understand and apply. The book exudes energy that will lift your spirit and set the direction of your life path on an exciting adventure. Her relaxed style and keen wit makes the reader feel they've received a wonderful, fun letter from a favorite friend. After reading this book, you will be a 'forever student' of this subject as well as spreading the chi by telling others of this 'FUN'g Shway'! Even FS practitioners will enhance their knowledge of this amazing subject.
Focusing on principles in the Black Hat Sect Tradition, it is easy to apply within the framework of our "western lifestyle" So BUY THE BOOK...MOVE YOUR STUFF...CHANGE YOUR LIFE and be a part of positive CHI!!! A book you'll have difficulty leaving and after having read it, continuously referencing back to it... I made reference tabs for mine.. Amazon...We need additional stars here!!!!!!
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Summary: moved my stuff, changed my life
Review: i found move your stuff change your life a fabulous, motivational, inspiring, hilarious way to understand the methods of feng shui! i want to thank karen for answering my question in regards to a seven day candle so promptly! i hope everyone who wants great changes, and want to be enthralled must, i mean MUST read this book! it has been three weeks since i bought this book, and i'm already attracting positive, loving peolple in my life! i find that everywhere i go, there seems to be some type of feng shui connection that finds me, either i hear about it or i see products that relate to it. i'm still working on relationships and love but i know he's on his way!...i'll keep you posted! excellent job karen, and keep it coming! blessed be, anne marie
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Summary: simple, fun, fast and inspiring
Review: Whether you're an advocate of feng shui or not, this is a fun book that provides ample inspiration and ideas to reorganize and redecorate your home or office. I use this book and gave copies to my kids. If you need a quick jump-start when your surroundings are ho-hum or disorganized with clutter, this is the best book that you can read to get unstuck. Don't trust the library to have it when you need it on a rainy, gotta-clean-this-messy-apartment kind of day; get your own copy. You'll refer to it often and, if it works for you as it has for my friends and family, it'll pay for itself in one use.
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Summary: Clarity at last !!
Review: I had attempted to read a couple of Feng Shui books before stumbling across Karen Rauch Carter's book. I instantly appreciated her humor and rejoiced that the advice given in the book was immediately useable. Do this and this will happen. Cause and effect. Maybe that's a little too cut and dried, but there is very little of the cloudy, etherial mysticism and tedious history, (that doesn't help and isn't immediately useable or needed), I have noticed in other books that tends to get a reader bogged down and feeling like you need three years of instruction before attempting to place your first piece of purple in your Prosperity area or hang up your first bell. I am fortunate that I have supportive friends who practice Feng Shui and a husband who is willing to learn. If Karen's book had been anything other than the clear-cut guide that it is, my husband would have chucked the whole idea out the nearest window. As it was, my husband was so impressed that my attempts at Feng Shui seemed to be working, that he let me have Karen Carter come into our home to do a consultation. The un-cluttering of our home has been a sometimes slow process, but it is working. I'm now able to go back to some of the other books with a better understanding of the reasonings and history behind the sugestions they make. This is an almost painless way, (except for cleaning out that closet), to begin changing your lifestyle for the better.
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Summary: I'd Give It 6 Stars If I Could
Review: This is, hands-down, my favorite feng shui book. I really took to the idea of "move your stuff, change your life" because now, as I look around the warehouse that I call my apartment, I realize how haphazardly I (ahem) decorated. In fact, most of what I've done in my apartment was pretty unconscious. Now I'm redecorating consciously. What I choose to put in the east corner or the southwest corner is deliberate, based on what "gua" or "area of life" that area represents. Ms. Carter is about as clear and helpful as any feng shui author I've read. Her writing is breezy and light and everything is clearly expressed and conveyed. I have a notebook full of notes. Right now I have such a messy and small apartment that only time will tell if feng shui has actually "worked" for me (or if I've done it correctly!). The thing is that even with the few things that I've moved around or cleared away, I can already feel how "right" the decorations fit with that part of the room. All in all, this is my favorite feng shui book and this is the one that I would buy as a gift for friends who wanted to get started in redecorating according to the feng shui philosophy. To Ms. Carter I would like to say, thank you and let's hope you're writing another feng shui book!
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Summary: gottalottagotta
Review: I started moving furniture around and got one dollar and seventy three sents from underneath.
I got my boyfriend's love by cleaning the toilet AND the shower while singing "fu manchu fu manchu".
I got my naybors' respect by doing kungfu in the parking lot and getting the apartment complex on television.
I got happiness all along by being the sucker I've always been.
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Summary: In a nutshell.....it works!
Review: People are used to my wacky stories about my family, but my new favorite wacky stories are about Feng Shui. I read this book with much skepticism....but thought, "Hey, it can't hurt, right?" A few years ago, a Feng Shui practicing friend of mine asked me if I closed the toilet lid when I flushed...I said, "Sometimes, but not always...." and she replied, "You're FLUSHING away your wealth!" I had a good laugh, but decided to try it. I began religiously to put the toilet seat down...and got an unexpected check in the mail from the IRS that year. Let me just say that has never happened before or since. I decided to bone up on Feng Shui and did a Bagua map of my home and saw that my wealth area was my back bedroom which was in maxed out disarray due to a flooding problem which had recently been fixed. I took a week off from work and totally remodeled the room....even put new furniture in....and my husband got a nice raise! I know, it sounds crazy... but I think, in part, having an orderly home free of clutter destresses you and helps you become more peaceful and therefore more productive and happy. This was a great book. I can't comment on the love part as I've been married forever (but still love him), but I'm sure it can't hurt to try either! I highly recommend this book, if for no other reason, to get your home decluttered and more organized.
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