Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life : How to Use Feng Shui to Get Love, Money, Respect and Happiness [Paperback]

Karen Rauch Carter (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 6, 2000

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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Professor Lin Yun World's Foremost Black Hat-Style Feng Shui Authority This book is a page-turner and one that cannot be put down until the last page is read. It offers vibrant new directions to those who are lost in life; it is an oasis in the desert.

Denise Linn author of Sacred Space With wisdom and humor, Karen Rauch Carter has taken the best-kept secrets of feng shui and made them accessible for everyone. Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life is funky, fun, and filled with practical information to create harmony and balance in life.

Denny Fairchild author of Healing Homes Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life is home improvement, entertaining, educational hilarity that will have you smiling while scrubbing and glowing in the feng shui flow. Martha Stewart, move over. Cuddle up and declutter with Karen.

About the Author

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 http://www.fengshuipalace.com.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 233 pages
• Publisher: Touchstone; Original edition (January 6, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0684866048
• ISBN-13: 978-0684866048
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (169 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,801 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #3 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Personal Health > Stress > Feng Shui
  • #16 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Interior Design

More About the Author

Karen Rauch Carter is the author of the national best-selling feng shui book, Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life (Simon & Schuster, 2000).

Move Your Stuff is the feng shui fix-all book packed with practical exercises, clear illustrations, fun-to-read anecdotes, and life-changing advice that makes creating ideal personal space simple and meaningful. It has been reviewed as the most accessible feng shui book on the market.

Karen's background as a landscape architect makes her feng shui advice not only meet the sound principles of good feng shui, but good design as well. She provides lectures and consultations to individuals and corporations worldwide. Karen has helped create the ideal settings for doctors, lawyers, architects, real estate agents, stock brokers, horse trainers, moms, movie directors, theme park designers, and more.

Karen founded www.KarenRauchCarter.com (originally www.FengShuiPalace.com,) where feng shui information and products are available to assist those seeking to improve their lives. www.KarenRauchCarter.com is also the go-to place to find out what's new since she wrote Move Your Stuff Change Your Life. It has the latest on all the feng shui tips on how to create living and work environments that consistently support life, love, respect, health, and wealth.

Karen has recently launched the Academy of Exquisite Living, which is dedicated to making the world a better place by educating others to become active feng shui professionals.

In addition to Karen's knowledge of Feng Shui, Design, Life Coaching, Pranic Healing, Holistic Health and Longevity Diet Counseling, she is recently certified in Advanced Neurological Repatterning, Ericksonian Hypnosis, Performance Consulting, and as a trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

She is available as a keynote speaker, seminar leader, panelist, and trainer on the subject of feng shui.


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305 of 306 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The easiest and best feng shui book available!, April 21, 2000

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J. Whitford (Falls Church, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life : How to Use Feng Shui to Get Love, Money, Respect and Happiness (Paperback)

I have over 2 dozen books on feng shui, and they all left me confused and frustrated. Which feng shui system should I use? Where the heck is my prosperity corner? Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life knocks all the other feng shui books off my book shelves. The others try to be mystical, philosophical, and pay homage to their feng shui masters. Move Your Stuff just gets down to business with a lot of humor, and a lot of great information (that I did not find in the other so-called expert feng shui books.) I admit I had lots of accumulated clutter to clear before I could think about arranging my work and living quarters for optimum prosperity and well being. However, it was easy once I read each chapter as outlined for each of the segments of feng shui (fame and reputation, prosperity, love and marriage, etc.) One of the best things in the book is that Karen explains how to determine if there is a problem, and what you need to do to resolve it. She makes it clear - fixes are not just physical - they are mental and emotional, too. You must be clear in your intent to improve your life and take the necessary steps yourself. No one can take action for you. But Move Your Stuff can sure give you great guidelines for making positive energy flow in your life again. Try it. I promise your energy will increase and your circumstances will improve as you take feng shui actions to improve your life.

102 of 104 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Practical (and fun) Feng Shui!, September 30, 2000

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This review is from: Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life : How to Use Feng Shui to Get Love, Money, Respect and Happiness (Paperback)

I've bought several books on Feng Shui, and this is the first one that actually makes sense! Yes, it's probably simplistic in its presentation of a complex topic and practice, but finally I got practical tips and tricks to immediately implement--on my own. Almost immediately after implementing some of her suggestions as well as some ideas of my own using her info, things started changing in my life. I hadn't realized how stuck the energy was in my house until I could feel it moving! I feel energized and motivated instead of exhausted and mired in mud. I also realized that things were basically where we had put them out of the moving boxes 5 years ago; now things are beginning to be put in their place, where it feels right for them to be--and I am finding such enjoyment in seeing them there. I think I will still call in an expert at some point (our powder room is in our prosperity gua, and there's a piece missing!), but I really am having fun doing a lot of it on my own. I highly recommend this book. It's a quick and easy read, and even funny sometimes.

79 of 80 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars In a nutshell.....it works!, March 26, 2004

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Marion "[e-mail]" (Louisiana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life : How to Use Feng Shui to Get Love, Money, Respect and Happiness (Paperback)

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.