Anjie Cho - Holistic Spaces: 108 ways to create a mindful and peaceful home

HOLISTIC SPACES

HOLISTIC SPACES

anjie cho

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to my mother and father.

Thank you for creating safe, loving, and nurturing spaces for me throughout my entire life.

Published in 2018 by CICO Books

An imprint of Ryland Peters & Small Ltd

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Text Anjie Cho 2018

Design CICO Books 2018

Photography Ryland Peters & Small Ltd and

CICO Books 2018

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A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress and the British Library.

ISBN: 978-1-78249-667-0

eISBN: 978-1-78249-773-8

Printed in China

Photography: full credits can be found on

Illustrator: (Chippy) Heung-Heung Chin

Commissioning editor: Kristine Pidkameny

In-house editor: Anna Galkina

Art director: Sally Powell

Production controller: David Hearn

Publishing manager: Penny Craig

Publisher: Cindy Richards

CONTENTS

Anjie Chos Holistic Spaces shows a new direction in providing simple help to implement the benefits and blessings of feng shui and green design. If you follow her suggestions, you will create spaces in your home and workplace that support your dreams and advance your life.

When I was a child in the 1960s, feng shui was virtually unknown in the West. Even in China, many rejected this profound art and science as superstition. As the first person to teach and consult in feng shui in the West (even before my master, His Holiness Professor Thomas Lin Yun, Da Shih, a living Buddha, came to the United States and opened the roads for feng shui to be an international force), I have seen interest grow from a trickle to a torrent. My childhood dream of understanding and using the unity of person, place, and universe to help mankind has become a reality. Professor Lin Yun asked me and two colleagues to create a professional education program to train skilled practitioners to benefit society. This three-year program, of which my friend and student, the eminent architect Anjie Cho, is a graduate, continues as the BTB Feng Shui Masters Training Program in New York City in partnership with the New York Open Center. It is the only program of its type to have state accreditation.

Of my many students, Anjie Cho is one of the most gifted. I have known Anjie since 2010, and in the eight years since then, she has earned my respect as a student able to bring feng shui knowledge into accord with modern architectural practice and green design to advance her ideal of holistic feng shui.

I knew that Anjies book would be of high quality and relevance even before she asked me to read the text, make suggestions, and write this foreword.

I have witnessed her interest, application, long-term study, respect for the tradition, ongoing commitment to self-improvement and gaining knowledge, and kindness and wish to help the world. Each of these is an important characteristic of a good feng shui consultant. Anjie has attended many consultations with me both as a student and after she graduated the masters program. She has provided excellent analysis and suggestions for residences, businesses, and localities, drawing upon her broad studies in architecture and green design and on the feng shui knowledge that she shares so cogently in this book.

In the first part of her book, Anjie presents key concepts and applications of the feng shui bagua map, also known as the ever-changing eight trigrams. In an easy-to-understand format, she provides many concepts, techniques, and tools for transforming and improving environments, including how to use colors most effectively. She draws upon her knowledge of the method of minor additions, selecting the easiest and most effective ways of applying light, life, color, five element theory, and more in a way that is truly easy to integrate with how people now live and work. She includes secrets of the commanding position, and describes the power of intention to allow you to position yourself for success and to bring both visible and invisible forces to support your life. She also includes simple and effective methods of space clearing to cleanse and invigorate your home or office.

In the second part of the book, Anjie shares how to create an inviting entry to receive what the world brings to you. She also conveys how to create a lively and entertaining living room to support lifes pleasures and comforts. She imparts how to create a kitchen that will nourish you at many levels, including contributing to your advancement in the world, and conveys how your dining room can best support satisfaction in eating and also connect family members and friends. She explains how to skillfully set up a home office, coordinating practical aspects of feng shui and green design. She shares bathroom basics and techniques for both protecting your wealth and making your bathroom friendly to the environment. She also offers good advice and best practices to make your bedroom a fortress of comfort and repose. Her discussion of this important influence on our lives includes examining how to select the right bed and what you need to know to make your bedroom nurturing, supportive, and encouraging of a wish-fulfilling life.

Anjie also discusses where best to meditate, the meaning and best use of closets, the role of plants, and how to understand and employ doors and windows, the mouth and eyes of your home, including how to correct some difficult door and window situations so that what once may have created a life problem is transformed into an uplifting and supportive environmental factor.

Holistic Spaces concludes with a section on how nine minutes a day of feng shui maintenance, support, and activity can help you easily move toward your goals.

Let Anjie take you by the hand and lead you on a path of learning and self-improvement in correctly and creatively adjusting your environment. I encourage those who open this book to read it thoroughly, think about what is presented, and implement the suggestions. You will bring the blessings of holistic feng shui and green design into true effectiveness. Starting with yourself, advance on this true path toward a better life for yourself and the world.