Skye Alexander - 10-Minute Feng Shui: Hundreds of Easy Tips and Techniques for Prosperity, Health, and Happiness

10-Minute Feng Shui is designed for busy, action-oriented people who want quick results without a lot of bother. Many of the feng shui tips and solutions in can be implemented in ten minutes or less. The others shouldnt take longer than a day to complete. These tips are grouped into four categories: prosperity, love, good luck and happiness, and health/well-being. If you dont want to know anything much about feng shui or why it works, you can go directly to this section and get started.

If, on the other hand, youre the sort of person who likes to understand a bit about the tools youre using, covers the basics of feng shui without getting too technical or philosophical. It also explains what your home says about you and how you can change your life by making changes in your home.

The most important factor in using feng shui successfully is your intentthe physical cures are only part of the process. Youll get better results if you truly want to correct a particular problem and believe what you are doing will work. In this way, feng shui is like any other endeavorthe more you put into it, the more youll get back.

F eng shui, the ancient Chinese art of placement, is thousands of years old, yet few people in the West knew anything about it until twenty or thirty years ago. And although millions of Westerners have now heard of feng shui, most are still confused about how to use it. Books, articles, and websites have raised as many questions as theyve answered. Which school of feng shui is best? How can I evaluate my home in feng shui terms? What can I do if I live in an apartment and my options are limited? Does all this stuff really work?

To answer the last question first, yes, feng shui really works. And it works even if you dont understand or believe it, although in my experience results may take longer or be less successful if you approach feng shui with a closed mind. Regardless of your living circumstances, you can use feng shui. Few homes or apartments are ideal; most can benefit from some feng shui adjustments. Because there are so many ways to implement feng shui, it offers something for everyone and virtually any problem area can be rectified.

Feng shui lets you make your own luck. Here in the West, we tend to view luck as pure chance, an inexplicable and quixotic force thats outside our control. Feng shui practitioners, however, believe luck can be cultivated and directed to enhance health, wealth, and happiness.

Much of feng shui focuses on using cures. Theyre called cures because they remedy problems in your home and in your life. of this book offers hundreds of quick and easy cures you can implement to increase prosperity, enhance relationships, improve health, and attract good luck. But before we get to that, lets look briefly at some of the principles and concepts that underlie this simple system.

The objective of feng shui is to create harmony and balance in your environment. This involves applying practical solutions to everyday problems, such as establishing convenient traffic patterns through your home, positioning furniture in comfortable arrangements, and eliminating clutter in your living and work spaces. Theres nothing magical about these curesthey are sensible ways to make life easier and more efficient.

Feng shui has an esoteric side as well, and this is the part that can often feel unfamiliar or even uncomfortable to newcomers. But once you understand a few basic tenets, its really quite simple. Much of feng shui is based on symbolic associations. Some of these symbols also appear in other schools of thought such as numerology, dream analysis, and aromatherapy. For example, green is a color we connect with plants and healthy, growing things. It is also the color of paper money in some countries. In feng shui, green can be used symbolically to promote financial growth. (In , I explain the most common feng shui cures, how to use them, and why they work.)

The most important part of feng shui, however, is your intention. When you put a cure in place, you demonstrate a willingness to take charge of your life and to change something that you dont like about it. Many cures work by helping you to focus on your goalto make more money, attract a romantic partner, or improve your health. They succeed through the power of suggestion. Each time you look at the cure, you are reminded of your objective and your resolve is strengthened. In this sense, the cure has no real power in itself, it is merely a mental aidyour willpower is what makes feng shui work.