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

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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.

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.

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.

This Feng Shui manual is a perfect book for beginners and advanced alike. The format is simple, well illustrated, and easy to read. The author explains Chinese zodiac, the importance of the direction of your property, your qualities and energy and how this relates to your home, as well as using the Five Animals to help you find the most harmonious positions and locations in any room. It also explains the basic principles of picking furniture, etc and how to properly place it in a room. I recommend this manual to any enthusiast.

The book is really for beginners to feng shui. I think I've read at least 25 books on the subject over the years (pretty obsessive) and cannot say I gleened any new information from this material. As I said, maybe this is a good one to start out with.

If you know nothing about Feng Shui, this book could be useful. It skips lightly over the surface of this ancient and complex practice leaving you with more questions than answers. It ends by telling you how to find a reputable Feng Shui expert to solve any problems. The author is very careful not to suggest any remedies to conditions that do not meet with Feng Shui principles.

I just think Master Lam really stands on two continents. He's bicoastal in the very best sense of the word. After introducing a language to discuss feng shui concepts in his earlier 'Handbook,' here Lam focusses on a few key concepts.

Like ba gua. This north house, southwest house stuff is about the funnest part of practicing feng shui. Lam's observations on architecture are always fascinating, and often witty.

There are very many schools of feng shui. But whether you live in China or the U.S., the problem of urban life-finding yourself in that space-is the central issue today. The 'Personal Manual' offers a feng shui approach to that problem.

Call it wacky; call it wind/water. It's no goofier than Heisenberg. Live a little; enjoy!

Simply reading text on feng shui may make most people confused. This book successfully combines text with illustration, allowing the neophyte feng shui student to better understand (by way of beautiful water colors) this mystical Chinese way of life.

This book told a lot of information, but not about how to DO Deng Shui on your home. It does explain the concept of chi energy with good diagrams.