Feng Shui and Money: A Nine-Week Program for Creating Wealth Using Ancient Principles and Techniques [Paperback]

Eric Shaffert (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2002

Develop wealth and prosperity using the easy-to-apply feng shui principles contained in this unique guide. Easy to understand and fun to read, this entertaining volume helps readers to connect to the spiritual and psychological dimensions of their financial lives using the proven principles of feng shui. With the history of feng shui and money for starters, the book covers the basic principles of feng shui thought, innovative suggestions for favorable interior arrangements at home and in the office, rituals to create prosperity, chi enhancement exercises, and valuable advice on how to tend to one’s spiritual landscape. A nine-week action plan inspires readers to translate the suggestions of the book into an individual, achievable program of financial and spiritual renewal. Written by an experienced psychotherapist and feng shui consultant, this pragmatic yet sensitive guidebook is a refreshing and lively blend of Asian spirituality and Western psychological insight.

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About the Author

Eric J. Shaffert is is a Feng Shui consultant, certified psychotherapist, and money coach who specializes in revealing the relationship between financial health and the layout and design of one’s environment. He is known for his popular FENG SHUI AND MONEY course, which he teaches “caravan”-style, with the class moving to another student’s apartment each week to learn the effects of feng shui practice. With an M.F.A. from Catholic University and a background in Tibetan Tantric Feng Shui, transpersonal psychology, and body-centered psychotherapy, he brings his unique form of transformative environmental healing to a wide range of residential and corporate clients, both domestically and internationally.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Allworth Press (September 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1581152396
• ISBN-13: 978-1581152395
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #636,894 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WHAT A GIFT!, January 11, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Feng Shui and Money: A Nine-Week Program for Creating Wealth Using Ancient Principles and Techniques (Paperback)

This book has been a tremendous gift in my life as I have come to a greater self-awareness regarding my relationship with money, my environment and myself.

The practical exercises have been very helpful to me, and I love to tell the story of one particular experience in which I reflected on being more welcoming towards money. I placed a vase of flowers at the entrance of my home, and the next day I received an unexpected phone call with a $2,000 scholarship offer! Remarkable and true.

With its insight and humor, I have found it to be an excellent and well-appreciated gift. I highly recommend it!

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Best Books on Feng Shui, September 11, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Feng Shui and Money: A Nine-Week Program for Creating Wealth Using Ancient Principles and Techniques (Paperback)

This book is a clear outline of how feng shui works and exactly how to create better conditions in your home and office. A lot of the other books on this topic have lots of complicated theory that tends to lose me after the first few pages. But, this book took me step-by-step through each area of my house, and showed me how my energy, life, and even my financial outlook are being directly affected. It is more than just a book--it is really a guidebook that takes you step-by-step through a program--like having a professional consultant working with you.

The other part that has been really motivating for me is the way that it explains personal finance. It is really like a feng shui book and a personal finance book in one. It goes through spending habits, savings, and even investing, and shows the relationship to your feng shui situation. I am in the second week of the nine week "program" and already my relationship with money has shifted. I feel more empowered with money, more hopeful, and more confident about making a good living doing the things that I really love to do. For the first time, I am starting to really respect myself as someone who can handle money, and I feel a lot more in control of my financial future.

Instead of feeling that I should be miserly, the book is showing me how my finances are a direct expression of my life energy and spiritual outlook. I don't usually hear people talk about money and spirituality in the same sentence (at least in a positive way), but this book is one of the first that explains how these two aspects of life go together harmoniously.

The book has a lot of humor, but it also has a lot of practical principles and ways for making a better life for yourself and having a better relationship with money. I want to see how my life continues to improve as I do the exercises and feng shui changes in the book. I definitely recommend it for peope who are interested in feng shui and, like most people, who are interested in creating a better money situation for themselves. I have aready gotten a couple of copies for some friends, and now they are getting some copies for some of their friends!

41 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars You'll Need Patience and Persistence To Finish This Program, March 19, 2004

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This review is from: Feng Shui and Money: A Nine-Week Program for Creating Wealth Using Ancient Principles and Techniques (Paperback)

This author's approach to Feng Shui for prosperity cannot be described as "easy", but it is certainly thorough.

Each chapter covers different areas of your living space, and how you can transform them (for wealth) through the principals of feng shui.

In addition, each chapter includes different activities and meditations which are used along with the physical principals.

Finally, there is a summary at the end of each chapter, done checklist-style, to assist the reader in completing all the chapter's actions.

Though the book is well-written, the problem I had with it was this: the author's use of lots of (authentic) feng shui terms and language. This does NOT make for easy reading for anyone who is a beginner to the uses of Feng Shui.

Now, if you don't mind reading chapter after chapter filled with phrases like "Make one step every day toward the fulfillment of your Chen goal from your Dream Bagua", then you'll probably enjoy the book and get a lot out of it.

As for me, the struggle to keep on wading through the new-to-me language of Feng Shui convinced me that finishing the book would be worthwhile, but starting the program would not be.

I think a more mainstream use of language would have turned this book into a five-star read.

However, for the reasons given above, I can only rate the book three stars. I don't believe the average reader will even finish reading the book unless their interest in Feng Shui is VERY strong.

Reviewer: Linda Painchaud