The Personal Feng Shui Manual: How to Develop a Healthy and Harmonious Lifestyle [Paperback]

Lam Kam Chuen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 15, 1998

The companion to the popular Feng Shui Handbook.

The Feng Shui Handbook sold over 80,000 copies in just one year. In it, Master Lam Kam Chuen explains the fundamental principles of Feng Shui, a three-thousand-year-old art of manipulating the energy flow of nature. He will attract the same wide audience with this new guide, which details how to apply Feng Shui with one's own individual characteristics and lifestyle in mind. Master Lam reveals how the Chinese zodiac, yin and yang, and the five energies come into play when you employ Feng Shui at home, work, and the places you travel in between.

Topics include:
*understanding which colors are suitable for you and which personality types will make your best partners
*how best to arrange your living space in accordance with your specific needs and qualities
*how to create your own personal direction-finder to lead you through the constantly hanging patterns of time and space
*a helpful section on Feng Shui mistakes and how to avoid them.

With its personalized look at this ancient Eastern art, this book is bound to attract both new and devoted Feng Shui fans.

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About the Author

An internationally renowned Feng Shui expert, Master Lam Kam Chuen is the author of The Feng Shui Handbook, a Chinese medical practitioner, and master of Tai Chi Chuan and Chi Kung. He lives in London.

Product Details

• Paperback: 140 pages
• Publisher: Holt Paperbacks (March 15, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0805055584
• ISBN-13: 978-0805055580
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 8.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,703,312 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Some interesting information, but not the best out there..., October 21, 2000

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Laura Haggarty (Northern KY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Personal Feng Shui Manual: How to Develop a Healthy and Harmonious Lifestyle (Paperback)

I have been using Feng Shui for some years now, and have a number of books on this topic. This book is a very good book in some ways, but is perhaps not the best first book for someone to buy who is looking for an introduction to Feng Shui.

The subject of Feng Shui is actually very complicated, and there are several schools of study which use different techniques to make their recommendations. This book does go into a very good explanation of the Five Element theory, talking about the effects of Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, and Wood and how they control or modify each other. It also gives a nice explanation of how Feng Shui correlates with Chinese Astrology, and gives a brief overview the various astrological personalities.

From there the book begins to get very complicated. It discusses the effects of the compass placement of a particular house on the placement of things within the house. It talks about the alignment of the Ba Gua according the the direction of the house, and gets quite complicated in its workings. I find that for the average North American or European this is too much technical information and is more than we need to know. It is possible to effectively apply the basic principles of Feng Shui to the average non-Asian home without getting quite so deep into esoterica.

All in all, I would recommend this book as an adjunct to others you should have in your library if you're really interested in this subject. But if you're looking for a basic introduction and working manual for Feng Shui try either "Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life" or "Interior Design with Feng Shui", both available here on Amazon.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars For the beginner to Feng Shui, lovely artwork, light on text, July 25, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Personal Feng Shui Manual: How to Develop a Healthy and Harmonious Lifestyle (Paperback)

Like his earlier companion book, a beautifully art filled book. Many pictures but little text in this book marks it for the beginner to Feng Shui. The author is far from a beginner though, clearly he is a Master of his subject. May I suggest Sarah Rossbach's Interior Design With Feng Shui for a standard on the subject, and Eva Wong's Feng Shui, The Ancient Wisdom of Harmonious Living For Modern Times for person seeking their Ph.D. in Feng Shui.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My Favorite Feng Shui Book, December 8, 2001

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Chris Moyer (Decatur, GA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Personal Feng Shui Manual: How to Develop a Healthy and Harmonious Lifestyle (Paperback)

I probably own half a dozen Feng Shui books, and while others have some good introductory material, this is the book I refer to again and again. It's full of reference material on the five elements, Chinese astrology, and how to apply the Ba Gua to your own house. I thought it was all very accessible and easy to follow.