Book Tuesday -04/14/09

The Practical Encylcopedia Of Feng Shui

by

Gill Hale

(From the author's website)
Also sold as The Complete guide to Feng Shui, this comprehensive illustrated guide to the powerful Chinese art of Feng Shui, covers homes, gardens and offices.  Ancient formulae and symbols are explained and interpreted for today's world and simple tables will help you apply them.
The theories of Feng Shui are explained, and practical advice is offered on how to create supportive environments to enhance your life, to foster your health, improve relationships and encourage prosperity and fulfilling lifestyles.
You are encouraged to discard everything which is cluttering your life and to encourage positive energy flows inside the home, and create a nurturing garden outside by working with natural forces.  At work, where you sit, and the characters of your workmates all affect your productivity and relatively small changes can have instant impact.
Over 600 photographs and illustrations, including commissioned photographs and detailed easy to follow charts enable the book to illustrate how this increasingly popular ancient philosophy can be used in the modern world to focus your thoughts ~ and that of your environment ~ to create the life you really want.
(I read this book a few years ago.  In fact I had to read it twice to understand some of the concepts.  Never the less,  I see a great many similarities between the principles Gill Hale puts forth in her book and the habits of homemaking taught to me in my upbringing.  The blending of textures and materials and the arrangement of items in the home in an orderly way certainly is something that makes one feel like home is a special place.  It is fun to put things about keeping the Bagua in mind.)