SantoPietro - Feng Shui and health: the anatomy of a home: using Feng Shui to disarm illness, accelerate recovery, and create optimal health

Susan Olsen
Robin Spiegel
Greer Jonas
Lisa Braun
H. H. Professor Thomas Lin Yun Rinpoche

for continued love and support,
and for walking beside me,
lifetime after lifetime.

To each one of you, thank you108 times over .

AS WITH ALL CREATIVE ENDEAVORS , many tangible and intangible factors need to come together to help birth the final project. Many wonderful individuals have participated, some knowingly and some unknowingly, in the birthing of this book. I thank the following people for their love, generosity, and heartfelt contributions: Lisa Aldisert; Irene Prokop; Doveen Schecter; Julie Anna Alverez; Petra Sacco; Silvana Occhialini and Mrcia Silva De Luca, my Brazilian angels; Durga Das Patello; Pat Coliene; Judy Wicker; Jenny Parra; Ma Baghavati; Nurit Schwarzbaum; Carolyn Rangel; Marina Lighthouse; Janine Sneider; Crystal Chu; Dr. Lien Nguyen; Mary Hsu; Lin-Lin Cheng; the Yun Lin Temple and Monastery staff; Jeneane Willyard; Melissa Willyard; Erik Willyard; Marie Alvino; Jazan Higgins; Faye Lane; Jill Higgins; Mary Zimmerman; Susan Sollinger; Eddie Sollinger; Julia Sollinger; Florence Kapovich; the Hayslip family; Howard Jaffe; Irene Jaffe; Katherine Cohen; Jerry Cohen; Benjamin Cohen; Audrey Levy; Carole Katz; Patricia Belfanti; Gabriella Messina; Gigi Estabrook; Dr. Serafina Corsella; Dr. Howard Bezoza; Dr. Richard Ash; Michel J. Landron; my Black Hat Sect family and colleagues; R. D. Chin; Melanie Lewendowski; Sarah Rossbach; Lillian Garnier; Robin Lennon; Mary Cordaro; Carol Adrienne; Gregg Braden; Ruby Holladay; my mother, Matilda Amendolare; my sisters, Cathy SantoPietro and Rita Harrison; my aunt, Virginia Siniscalco; Susan Failla; Phillip Reinhardt; Aralys Estevez; Rev. Charmaine Colon; all my Feng Shui Consultation and Therapy clients; the students, lightworkers, and graduates of my Feng Shui Consultant Training Program, The Accelerated Path; all the volunteers, merchants, and Feng Shui consultants who have contributed their time, expertise, and monies to the Feng Shui Across America and Feng Shui Around the World Projects; a big thanks and appreciation to Shelly Sparks and the Gang in L.A. for continuing to Light the Way

Denise Linn for her love and friendship, and her spiritual example of what true heart-based leadership really is; Katherine Metz for her commitment to excellence and for eloquently preserving the Black Hat Lineage and H. H. Professor Thomas Lin Yun Rinpoches teachings; Dr. Heather Anne Harder for her cutting-edge work and for bringing my understanding of the bigger picture of life to a whole new dimension; Nancy Rosanoff for continued brilliance, fifteen years of mentoring, guidance, and a treasured friendshipher teachings on the Chakras and intuition continue to have the most powerful influence on my work and my life today; Deepak Chopra for his generous blessings and his embodiment of limitless possibilities; my Chinese mother, Dr. Catherine Yi-yu Cho Woo, for teaching me the things I didnt know I needed to learnwith love from Little Dog to Big Dog; Cindy Booth for her wonderful illustrations and constant serenity; Candice Fuhrman, my agent; Agnes Krup, my foreign-rights agent; my editorial team, Patty Gift, Carrie Thornton, Stephanie Gunning, Jazan Higgins, Robin Spiegel, and Susan Olsen; Nora Adela Montoya for her gift of healing the manuscript, so it could heal others; Diane Hoffmann for her heartfelt assistance, editing, and ongoing support; Sarah Spataro, whose support and years of loyalty helped shape the beginnings of my work, my business, and the manuscript of this book thank you, thank you, old friend. And to Hey, Whats An Angel Doing Here? With flower candy kisses I thank you for your love, kindness, and incredible support! And to all of you readers who have struggled in the face of a chronic illness, never give up hope that a healing is not only possible, but expected!

Robin Spiegel for a bonding and a friendship that always was and slways will be; Greer Jonas for love without conditions; Lisa Braun for spiritual guidance and compassionate, wise counsel; Susan Olsen, whose continued love, friendship, humor, camaraderie, and assistance carried me, once again, past the finish line of this manuscript, thank you for everything; and a special acknowledgment of thanks and gratitude to H. H. Professor Thomas Lin Yun Rinpoche, who single-handedly, with much grace and humility, changed the world for the better, and me along with it

My late stepdad, Dominick Amendolare, for his love and support that has emanated from the Yang life, and continues to flow through the Yin life you are always in my heart.

My friend the late Holly Huang of the Yun Lin Monastery. Thank you for all your years of dedication, service, and quiet acts of kindness. You will be greatly missed.