Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life: How to Use Feng Shui to Get Love, Money, Respect, and Happiness

Like sushi, Giga Pets, and Jackie Chan, feng shui has made its way West in a big way. Promising health, wealth, and happiness, feng shui offers endless appeal — at least in concept. Unfortunately, feng shui's seemingly complicated methods are often difficult to learn and apply in a meaningful way. Fortunately, Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life is written in plain and simple English for the modern Western reader. Presenting sound feng shui advice in an easy-to-understand and easy-to-use manner, Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life communicates how to: <BR>-- GET A RAISE<BR>-- MEET "THE ONE"<BR>-- BECOME ABLE TO CONCEIVE AND BEAR CHILDREN<BR>-- FIND A DREAM JOB<BR>-- EARN BETTER GRADES IN SCHOOL<BR>-- ENJOY A BETTER SEX LIFE<BR>-- ACHIEVE OPTIMAL HEALTH<P>Feng shui is a powerful yet simple tool by which to change one's life. Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life reveals the ancient Chinese secrets that are as useful and necessary today as they have been for centuries.

Promising health, wealth, and happiness, feng shui offers endless appeal — at least in concept. Unfortunately, feng shui's seemingly complicated methods are often difficult to learn and apply in a meaningful way. Fortunately, Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life is written in plain and simple English for the modern Western reader. Revealing the ancient Chinese secrets that are as useful and necessary today as they have been for centuries, Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life communicates how to:

* MEET "THE ONE"

* FIND A DREAM JOB

* EARN BETTER GRADES IN SCHOOL

* ENJOY A BETTER SEX LIFE

Karen Rauch Carter is a professional feng shui consultant and licensed landscape architect. She studied t'ai chi, yoga, alternative energy healing, and parapsychology prior to beginning her studies of Black Hat-style feng shui. She can be contacted at http://www.fengshuipalace.com.

Contents

How to Use This Book

Chapter 1: Opening the Feng Shui Toolbox

Ch'i Wiz!

Ba-Gwhat?

Cures, Cures, and More Cures

So Much to Do and So Little Time

Truth or Dare

Oh, Bagua

The Cycle of Life and Your Home

Lost in Space?

Calling the Panacea Police!

Got the Tools and Ain't Afraid to Use 'Em

Chapter 2: Show Me the Money! — Prosperity

Power Tools for Prosperity

Hazardous Materials for Prosperity

Using Rags to Get Riches

Using Riches to Get Out of Rags

Is This the Stairway to Heaven, or Hell?

Credit Card Blues? Try Another Color

Bust a Move — There's No Place Like Your Own Home

As Soon As I Win the Lottery...Well, Here's Your Magic Ticket

Dirty Money

No Time to Waste — Show Me the Money Now

King in a High Chair

You Get What You Give

Checks and Balances and Ch'i, Oh My!

Opposites Attract

Hip to Be Square

Pieces of Eight

Immediate Action Items for Prosperity

Prosperity in Summary

Chapter 3: They Like Me, They Really, Really Like Me — Fame and Reputation

Power Tools for Fame and Reputation

Hazardous Materials for Fame and Reputation

Swimming in Fame

Undo a "Dis" — Get Respect

Fame Is Not a Four-Letter Word

The Red Carpet Treatment

"Hello, I Do Exist!"

Building a Reputation One Block at a Time

Glowing Reviews

The Red Badge of Courage

Nine-to-Five Respect

Slings and Arrows

Life of the Party

Fire and Ice

Eye'm Famous!

One Is the Loneliest Number

Immediate Action Items for Fame and Reputation

Fame and Reputation in Summary

Chapter 4: Why Can't We All Just Get Along? — Relationships and Love

Just a Spent Fuel Rod in the Toxic Waste Dump of Love?

Power Tools for Relationships and Love

Hazardous Materials for Relationships and Love

Be Careful What You Wish For...

Really, My Seventeen Cats and I Are Fine, We Don't Need Anyone Else

Back Off and Nobody Gets Hurt

My Roommates Are Driving Me Crazy

Not Always the Bridesmaid

Sleeping Single in a Double Bed

My So-Called Wife

Yo Quiero "Cu-ch'i Cu-ch'i"

The Revolving Door to My Bedroom

What Good Could Come of This?

"Come In — May I Take Your Clothes?"

I'll Never Trust Again

The Organ Trail

It Takes Two to Tango

Immediate Action Items for Relationships and Love

Relationships and Love in Summary

Chapter 5: Express Yourself — Creativity and Children

Power Tools for Creativity and Children

Hazardous Materials for Creativity and Children

When the Feng Shui Wind Blows, the Cradle Will Rock

Banishing the Balancing Bunnies

Too Much of a Good Thing?

Taking a Dip in the Fountain of Youth

An Ounce of Prevention

Color Your World — Starting in the Closet

Children — A Big Part of the Family

Washing Their Mouths with a Bar of Soap

Three-Year-Old Thinking

Immediate Action Items for Creativity and Children

Creativity and Children in Summary

Chapter 6: 911 — Helpful People and Travel

Let People Help — It's OK

Power Tools for Helpful People and Travel

Hazardous Materials for Helpful People and Travel

Get Jacked In — Networking Magic

The Dragon Lady

Contractors from Hell

The Art of Selling Houses, Cars, and Products

Getting Even

A Road More or Less Traveled

Wishing You the Best

First Class Taste on Coach Budget

Headin' Out

Five Countries in a Day

Immediate Action Items for Helpful People and Travel

Helpful People and Travel in Summary

Chapter 7: At the Intersection of Possibility and Potential — Career and Life Path

Power Tools for Career and Life Path

Hazardous Materials for Career and Life Path

The Secret Door to Success Shouldn't Stick

Poinsettias and Professions

Stressed-Out Landscape

The First Step on the Path

Take This Job and Love It

Skipping Rungs on the Corporate Ladder

King or Queen of the Cubicle

Ancient Tech Meets High Tech

Left, Right, Up, or Down?

Retail Rescue

Flower Power

Dipping Your Pen in Company Ink

An Ear for Career

Six of One, Half a Dozen of Another

Immediate Action Items for Career and Life Path

Career and Life Path in Summary

Chapter 8: If I Only Had a Brain — Skills and Knowledge

Power Tools for Skills and Knowledge

Hazardous Materials for Skills and Knowledge

Left Your Brain in the Garage?

The Wisdom to Go It Alone

Dumb and Dumber

Everyone Is the Teacher and the Student

It's All in the Hands

Lucky Number 7

Immediate Action Items for Skills and Knowledge

Skills and Knowledge in Summary

Chapter 9: How Not to Play Family Feud — Family

Power Tools for Family

Hazardous Materials for Family

A Family Only Jerry Springer Could Love

Family Ties

Family Heirlooms

The Choice Is Yours — Make It a Good One

Healing Old Wounds

Claim Your Space

Hang Up Your Hang-Ups About Sex

Ward, I'm Worried About the Beaver

Happy Feet

The Four Corners of the Earth

Immediate Action Items for Family

Family in Summary

Chapter 10: Just for the Health of It — Health

Power Tools for Health

Hazardous Materials for Health

Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures

If I Had Only Known Then What I Know Now...

Feng Shui, the Real Maytag Repairman

The Weight of the World Is on My Shoulders, Thighs, Hips, and Abdomen

Room with a View (For One Eyeball, Anyway)

The Body Bases Are Covered

Nine Ladies Dancing

Immediate Action Items for Health

Health in Summary

Chapter 11: Our House Is a Very, Very, Very Strange House

Commonly Asked Questions and Cures

Chapter 12: Pump Up the Feng Shui — Adding Extra Power to Your Feng Shui Cures

OK, Stuff Moved — Volume Level

Invisible Feng Shui

Adding Helpful People to Your Power — Volume Level

Reality Bites If You Let It — Volume Level

Magic Words — Volume Level

Walk the Walk and Talk the Talk — Volume Level

When to Call In the Pros

OK, I Moved My Stuff — Has My Life Changed Yet?