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

Karen Rauch Carter (Author), Jeff Fessler (Illustrator)

Book Description

Release 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

Editorial Reviews

Review

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: Simon & Schuster; 1st edition (January 6, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0684866048
• ISBN-13: 978-0684866048
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (215 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,140 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #9 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Home Improvement & Design > Home Decorating & Design > 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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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

336 of 338 people found the following review helpful

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

By J. Whitford TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

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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.

114 of 116 people found the following review helpful

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

By A Customer

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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.

95 of 97 people found the following review helpful

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

By Marion VINE™ VOICE

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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.

58 of 61 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A book easy to follow, apply, and make use of... April 30, 2000

By Laura Haggarty

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I have a number of books on Feng Shui, and this is easily the most accessible. It is written clearly, provides concrete examples, and the reasoning behind doing certain things is explained properly. In other books I have on the subject, a lot of time is spent dealing with the more arcane aspects of Feng Shui, which many of us do not need or want.

This book is practical and easy to use, and its format allows one to walk around the house carrying it and applying its suggestions without having to take volumnous notes and study for days. If you want to bring order to your life, stimulate the flow of "chi" (energy) through your home, and make it a happier, brighter place (and your life better at the same time), this is the book to help you. It's sort of like "Feng Shui for Dummies", but better. Don't hesitate on this one, buy it!

41 of 42 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars No need for mumbo-jumbo December 21, 2004

By Moonflower

Format:Paperback

I was attracted to this book for the very reason that so many people seem to dislike it: it's basic, simple, straight-forward. I lived in Asia for 5 years and have accumulated numerous feng shui books - and was completely turned off by the whole attitude that "real" feng shui knowledge and power is only for those who have "earned" it. I don't believe this, and neither does Karen. Her attitude is that the power to change your life is right there, and with some adjustments, you'll tap into it - all on your own, with no "masters" or years of study. While I respect those who can and do study, the fact is that feng shui is an accessible and simple philosophy, and I see nothing wrong with a book promoting that.

Another thing I like about this book is that it troubleshoots many situations, such as what to do if you live in a flat (as opposed to a house, which so many of us do) and what to do if part of your Prosperity, Family, Health and Fame corners fall outside your flat (as mine do, since I live in an "L"-shaped flat). Nowhere else have I seen such practical, real advice.

I walked through my flat with the book in one hand and I noticed that all areas of my life that are going well (Helpful Friends, Creativity, Career, Knowledge, Relationships) already have things that Karen recommends, so I left them alone, as she says. But the areas where I am stuggling (mentioned above) all fall outside my flat, specifically in a dirty, dusty, unheated general storage room across the hall, full of tables and dead flowers (this is my Prosperity corner, so no wonder I'm living from paycheque to paycheque) and in the stairwell outside. I can't do anything about the architecture of my building, but she gave me several ideas how to help the situation and make up for this lack of chi.... I made the changes yesterday (I buried a purple pencil in the dirt floor of the storage room, for example, in hopes of nudging my Prosperity into action) and am hopeful that things will improve. I'll keep you posted! Read more ›