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I wanted to share with you my incredible success after reading your book. I had long been interested in the practice of feng shui, and had actually purchased several other books on the subject as well (all of which collected dust together!). After seeing an advertisement for your book in a QPB mailer, (and assuring myself that I really WOULD read this one!) I anxiously awaited it's arrival... and then I put it on the bookshelf, and swore I'd read it soon. Well, when times get dark enough, they inspire people to try anything to improve their life, and for me, that meant pulling your book off of the book shelf and reading it cover to cover. I loved the down to earth way you presented the concepts of feng shui; so many other books I had read on the subject clouded the real issues behind too much psychobabble. Your book was very humorous, and offered easy 'cures' to a variety of situations. After putting just a few of your ideas into practice in my own apartment, my husband and I experienced a very uncharacteristic influx of good fortune; our careers, our income, our LOVE LIFE (you weren't kidding about that red felt!!!). Consequently I have decided to pursue my own dreams of becoming a professional feng shui consultant! Thank you for the inspiration!
I just rented a new room in a big house yesterday, and have been reading your book for only a few days- so far I have only really read about half of it (the prosperity, fame, love, creativity, and helpful people/travel sections). Today I was organizing using my notes from your book, and I decided to store my suitcases in the "travel" corner of my closet, thinking, as I did, that this should bring me travel... Well, it sure worked! I won a trip to London on the radio tonight!!!!!!! Thanks, and I'll keep on organizing my room and my life the feng shui way!!!!
Currently, I am traveling a LOT for work, leaving a dog in the kennel and two cats alone. I spaced the pictures out on my travel and helpful people wall, inserting two empty/blank picture frames among them (to represent needing space)into which I taped, to the wall, snapshots of my pets. I THOUGHT this would only affect being home more BUT the outcome has been even better. A responsible neighborboy agreed to look in on the dog everyday (so the dog no longer had to be kenneled) and within two weeks, I learned of two college students who were going to do summer internships in my city and needed housing for the summer. They are now living at my house, taking care of pets and other things, leaving me free (and guilt free!) to travel for work. Here, I thought I was changing the energy in my TRAVEL area and the feng shui result was changing the energy in my Helpful People area. Then there is the story of my substantial salary increase (gold foil covered chocolate coins)....but that is another story...... Fun stuff. You book is delightful - informative, lighthearted - full of humor and easy to read with great, practical suggestions.
Hi Karen !!! I just wanted to thank you for your book and the products you sell. I have seen many feng shui books but yours really works--I guess I was supposed to get it when I did (you know how that goes). I have been making changes daily to each area and my life is changing amazingly. In some instances, it only took about a day or two for the effects to integrate into my life. I especially enjoy my fame area now--no more Rodney Dangerfield for me ("I can't get no respect").The colors seem to really make a difference. Now I'm going to sit back and take a deep breath and enjoy my success. Thanks again. You're great.
I recently wrote to you under a different screen name to tell you how much I enjoyed your book, and that by simply removing a candle and replacing it with a fishbowl, a long awaited for check arrived within 48 hours. Well, it just keeps getting better! I recently started seeing someone new (yes, the love and relationship corner is working JUST fine, LOL). I remarked after sizing up the layout of his apartment how I imagined his career had been (pardon the vernacular) "going down the crapper since he'd moved" - you guessed it, the bathroom was right smack in the middle of "career". His reply was, "How did you know THAT?" He was quite amused with me when I did some quick cures with some red tape, a crystal, and simply moved two white ceramic elephants into the prosperity corner (the symbolism worked for us). Well, out of the blue, he was offered a much more lucrative position with better hours and location (he's the captain of a tug, going up the NE coast and Hudson River, he's at sea usually 14 days straight). The new position keeps him in NYC harbor, he comes home every night, AND he got a HUGE raise!!! In LESS than 7 days of the minor changes! HE IS THRILLED!!!! Needless to say, he told me I could move ANYTHING I wanted to if that's what this stuff does. Thanks again Karen! We're loving it!!!
wow,karen i cant believe it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i placed a silver box filled with coins in the prosperity corner of my house which falls in our bedroom about 2 weeks ago. Then i placed a purple coloured paper on top of it.two days after it really worked!my husband got a huge HIKE in his salary!!!!!!!!!! thanks karen! Of course my husband still doesnt believe in feng shui.he says he got the hike because of all the efforts that he put in last year. Either way we have profited.And my belief is growing.i have placed water in the "helpful people section" and also wrote my wish to pass the exam and placed it in a silver box(inside is lined with red.is it ok?)and have again kept it in the "helpful people" gua. hope this works for what i am looking.
She wrote me today with an astounding story about their inadvertent feng shui. It began about a year ago when Anne and her husband Dave decided they would like to find out if either of them had any relatives left in Sweden where both their families had immigrated from many generations ago. They began to do some digging and discovered they did. After contacting a couple of their relatives they decided that they would really like to go to Sweden to meet them but had no idea how they would be able to afford to do that. They got a map of Sweden and layed it out on their dining room table so they could see where the villages were where the family lives now and where the families who immigrated had lived. Except for family gatherings when they need the table, they have kept that map and all the information they have gathered right there on the table. Today this is what she said: "I have skimmed the feng shui book. It is one I will read several times. I believe that there is truth in all these philosophies...whether it be religion or fend shui etc. I now respect Feng Shui, and am very interested in it. Last year we put a big map of Sweden and Finland on our dining room table, along with many travel books, etc. Do you know that our dining room happens to be in our travel and helpful people area of our home? Do you realize that we just had a very helpful visit from the Lindgrens, from Sweden who have offered to let us stay in their home when we go to Sweden in Aug.? Do you know that last night we visited with our friends from Findland, and not only did they give us all kinds of travel help for Scandinavia, but Harri offered to take Dave with him on a quick trip to Stockholm at the end of the month...seems he has an extra ticket that will expire so Dave will travel for free! It is also very possible that Dave will have a job with United Airlines just in time to get our Aug. tickets nearly free!! Now I ask you...what is going on???" I wrote back...HEY, THIS IS FENG SHUI IN ACTION! Wouldn't you agree? Wow, it left me breathless. This is enough for you to read for one email....just had to share with you since it was your book that opened their eyes!
I don't usually send notes to people whose books I've read, or who I've ordered something from... But I just had to thank you for helping me in a major stress area - lousy neighbors! I live in an apartment complex and for the most part, the people who live around me are decent, quiet people. But in January a wild bunch moved in above me, on a six month lease. The first month was okay, they were quiet, but after that it was party time. Loud music, laughing and yelling, and trash thrown all over outside. Since I won't be able to move for another ten months, I had to find a way of putting up with their noise. Your book said to place mirrors facing the neighbors. Since mine were upstairs, I bought a bunch of little mirrors at the crafts store - square, round, octagonal. But since I'm basically lazy and a procrastinator, I just tossed them on the kitchen table (in the health area of my apt) and left them. All were facing up (still are). I had originally planned to tie picture-hanging wire around them and hang them from the ceiling, facing upward, but that turned out to be unnecessary. Within a week the neighbors had moved out! No notice, and late at night while I was sleeping. It's great! Thanks again for such a great tip!
I thought you'd like to know about some rather astonishing successes that I've had after making what I thought were small changes, using your book. I have been out of work for almost four months, without much success in the job hunt. My nest egg was running low, and I was beginning to get worried. Two weeks ago, I read your book, and decided to add some enhancements to my career area. I found an indoor waterfall that worked perfectly: it was BLACK, in an UNDULATING SHAPE, and was of course, moving WATER. I set it in my career center and turned it on. A few HOURS later, I received a call from a recruiter about a perfect job: one doing what I love, with a great compensation package. Inspired, I decided to work on my relationship corner. At the time, it was basically a junk room, filled with old things, including a single bed. Well, I was single and my love life was junky ... duh. I cleaned the room thoroughly, ditched the single bed, added a red candle and tossed in a pair of red panties for good measure. Nothing happened...or so I thought. At the time, I had three men in my life. Over the past two weeks since making the changes, two of those men have dropped off rather abruptly, leaving me to invest my energy in the third man, who has turned out to be a gem. Looking back, I realize that by clearing out the junk in my relationship corner, I cleared out the junk in my relationships. I also added a few small enhancements to my Helpful People/Travel area, mostly to help me get the job, which I did. It turns out that the job requires a move. What's even more astonishing is that the relationship with the third man had been long-distance, and the move will put me very close to him. When I get to my new home, I'm going to feng shui the whole place!
Dear Karen, Your book arrived on my doorstep unexpectedly, sent to me from my book club by mistake. However, instead of sending it back I decided to read it anyway. Thank goodness I did! Your book has had such an amazing impact on my life. Thanks to your suggestions for "cures", my skeptical husband and I were able to sell our home in one week, land my husband his dream job, and receive $2,500 that we were not expecting but came to us at the exact moment we needed it! My husband is a skeptic no more and has been urging me to find a consultantfor our new home. Many thanks to you for putting the ancient practice of feng shui in a readable, understandable format! I wish you luck and success in everything that you do. Sincerely, Jennifer K
Karen: I have given copies of your book to several people already... My Prosperity area is in my kitchen (which is a rustic light blue & pink). So- purple doesn’t quite fit the current decor (tho I may change it now!) Anyway...I bought some lavender/orchid shelf liner and placed it in a couple drawers and bought some bright purple construction-type paper and put a piece under my microwave. A few days later I received a TOTALLY unexpected check for $150- a refund from my last apartment complex, even tho I moved prior to the end of my lease. (They had told me previously that I was not entitled to a refund, so they did not even have my new address.) The very next day my new manager approached me to discuss my salary- I was recommended for a raise immediately. Go figure...
Karen: Skeptic that I am, I never thought the feng shui would work at all, letalone so fast! I concentrated on two areas to start - Love and Relationships, and Prosperity. I tried not to overdo it, but I ended up buying a new purple bedspread (prosperity is in my bedroom) and got a pink thing going with my bathroom (where relationships/love reside). I have quite a few heartshaped objects so I tried to put them in the most visually-appealing spots. One solid red heart,in particular, moved from my fame/reputation baqua to the bathroom wall more than a couple of times in less than twelve hours.
I was SOOO amused to get a call the very next day from my job counselor (I'm looking for a higher paying job to help me achieve that greater prosperity) with an opening at a lab that specializes in research on the "heart." Too much of a coincidence, I think. In addition, the same day I got two e-mails: one from a guy I've been exchanging e-mails with for about a week and a half who suddenly wants to meet me in person; the other from my ex-boyfriend who wants to see me after 2 months of non-communication. I can hardly wait to find out what happens next...I've only had the book 4 days!! Your sense of humor, by the way, is right on the mark. Thanks for writing this book.
Hi Karen I recently wrote to you to tell you how much I enjoyed your book, and that by simply removing a candle and replacing it with a fishbowl, a long awaited for check arrived within 48 hours. Well, it just keeps getting better! I recently started seeing someone new (yes, the love and relationship corner is working JUST fine, LOL). I remarked after sizing up the layout of his apartment how I imagined his career had been (pardon the vernacular) "going down the crapper since he'd moved" - you guessed it, the bathroom was right smack in the middle of "career". His reply was, "How did you know THAT?" He was quite amused with me when I did some quick cures with some red tape, a crystal, and simply moved two white ceramic elephants into the prosperity corner (the symbolism worked for us). Well, out of the blue, he was offered a much more lucrative position with better hours and location (he's the captain of a tug, going up the NE coast and Hudson River, he's at sea usually 14 days straight). The new position keeps him in NYC harbor, he comes home every night, AND he got a HUGE raise!!! In LESS than 7 days of the minor changes! HE IS THRILLED!!!! Needless to say, he told me I could move ANYTHING I wanted to if that's what this stuff does. Thanks again Karen! We're loving it!!! Jan Brooklyn, NY
I bumped up my prosperity area just in the downstairs area of my home and I started getting checks in the mail. Several were rebate checks that I thought would never come, they were already 4 months late, some I didn't even know I would be getting and I found a winning ($5) lottery ticket that I had forgotten about. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Teresa A
I just rented a new room in a big house yesterday, and have been reading your book for only a few days- so far I have only really read about half of it (the prosperity, fame, love, creativity, and helpful people/travel sections). Today I was organizing using my notes from your book, and I decided to store my suitcases in the "travel" corner of my closet, thinking, as I did, that this should bring me travel... Well, it sure worked! I won a trip to London on the radio tonight!!!!!!! Thanks and I'll keep on organizing my room and my life the feng shui way!!!! Karen S
Currently, I am traveling a LOT for work, leaving a dog in the kennel and two cats alone. I spaced the pictures out on my travel and helpful people wall, inserting two empty/blank picture frames among them (to represent needing space)into which I taped, to the wall, snapshots of my pets. I THOUGHT this would only affect being home more BUT the outcome has been even better. A responsible neighborboy agreed to look in on the dog everyday (so the dog no longer had to be kenneled) and within two weeks, I learned of two college students who were going to do summer internships in my city and needed housing for the summer. They are now living at my house, taking care of pets and other things, leaving me free (and guilt free!) to travel for work. Here, I thought I was changing the energy in my TRAVEL area and the feng shui result was changing the energy in my Helpful People area. Then there is the story of my substantial salary increase (gold foil covered chocolate coins)....but that is another story...... Fun stuff. You book is delightful - informative, lighthearted - full of humor and easy to read with great, practical suggestions.
I don't usually send notes to people whose books I've read, or who I've ordered something from... But I just had to thank you for helping me in a major stress area - lousy neighbors! I live in an apartment complex and for the most part, the people who live around me are decent, quiet people. But in January a wild bunch moved in above me, on a six month lease. The first month was okay, they were quiet, but after that it was party time. Loud music, laughing and yelling, and trash thrown all over outside. Since I won't be able to move for another ten months, I had to find a way of putting up with their noise. Your book said to place mirrors facing the neighbors. Since mine were upstairs, I bought a bunch of little mirrors at the crafts store - square, round, octagonal. But since I'm basically lazy and a procrastinator, I just tossed them on the kitchen table (in the health area of my apt) and left them. All were facing up (still are). I had originally planned to tie picture-hanging wire around them and hang them from the ceiling, facing upward, but that turned out to be unnecessary. Within a week the neighbors had moved out! No notice, and late at night while I was sleeping. It's great! Thanks again for such a great tip! Ellen Phoenix, AZ
Ok, so I was a little skeptical but I bought your book anyway. In the first chapter, lo and behold I found out I had a toilet in my prosperity corner. Well I was mortified. So I set to work. I added a mirror, 2 purple towels, and encircled every drain with a red ribbon. I have my daughter's wedding to pay for so I really need to hang on to as much "prosperity" as I can. That was on Sunday. Monday evening, I came home from work, opened my mail, to find I received a check for several thousand dollars. It was from my mortgage company (no less) returning overpaid escrow money to me. I had no clue that this was coming. It was totally unexpected. So now I have diligently secured all my drains, and I am viewing hazardous areas of my home in a whole new light. Next I get to work on my office! Thanks, Diane
Hi Karen, I've been interested in Feng Shui since reading your wonderful book. It's already helped me to a point where I can barely believe it. Just last week, I received a message from a friend, and subsequently spent several hours talking with her on the telephone, after not speaking with her for several years. I attribute this to some changes which I recently made to my helpful people and relationship areas. Several months ago, I added a jade plant to my prosperity area and purchased some note pads whose pages look like money (one side has a large bill illustrated on it, the other side is blank). I wrote, in green and purple ink on these papers, "I have money to purchase a new computer." (Mine was completely obsolete to the point of being nearly useless.) As an added boost, I found a picture of the computer that I wanted, folded it up together with my bill-notes and tucked them under the jade plant's pot. Recently, the company that I work for had to cut back, and as a result, they're looking to get rid of some of extra computers by giving them to us, the remaining employees, as an incentive. Additionally, when Christmas rolled around, I learned, much to my unbounded joy, that my parents had invested in a VERY exorbitant gift for me! A brand new computer! And to make matters even more amazing, it was the very same one that appeared in the picture that I tucked under the jade plant!
So after activating my wealth area, I went from being completely unable to
afford a new computer to having people literally GIVING them to me! I hope
that picture of Antonio Banderas in my relationship corner kicks in soon!
Hello Karen,
I just wanted to write you about our experience with Feng Shui after one day
of using your book.
First of all let me explain "me". I am a vegan, who has fasted for up to
five days for health and spiritual reasons for 14 years. I have and feel a
real connection to the universe and all that is around me. I have become
very intuitive during these years so when I began reading your book, (the
first I have ever come across on this subject that I can make SENSE out
of-in the past never doing anything with it since I didn't understand a word
of it in any book I would pick up on Feng Shui), I was not surprised that
most of my home was NATURALLY arranged in most of what it should have been.
That made me initially understand why I have gotten so far in my career and
personal life with love and family. I did however find the health area of
our house hurting (which made sense why my husband's diabetis was becoming
worse, though he eats well and is a vegetarian. He is also SUCH a
packrat!!!!).
I immediately began to work on this area on a Friday and also made so new
additions to the wealth area which had already been naturally furnished with
most colors and items. Well, low and behold, the very next day I received a
certified letter that I had won the grand prize in a contest and now have a
free two night stay at any Marriott hotel and $500 in travelers checks. And
within that week, my husband has begun to start cleaning up his stashes of
"stuff" and throwing tons of things away (just for the heck of it he says)
I can only pray his health also begins to improve. And during this first
week I must tell you I could hardly sleep. It was like so much new energy
was circulating around me and I didn't need to sleep as much and was getting
a lot of things done I was putting off. I would go all day on 3-4 hours
sleep as happy as could be and not being the least bit tired.
So, yes, I agree, this feng shui stuff really works and I can only see more
wonderful things happening for us. Thank you for a very simply explained
and entertaining book. You are a very funny gal.
Nancy
Kansas City, Mo.
I started following your methodology right away. My wealth area is in my
kitchen and I wanted to put something purple in there. The only thing I
could find was a sponge - unused of course! and two pens. I put them on the
counter and moved on to the next room. Don't laugh, okay? But two days
later I went to a meeting with my boss for my annual review and found out
that the company was upgrading all the jobs and I am now under the new
minimum - so I get a raise this
week, and then another in April! Logic tells me the plan was underway for
some time. But I didn't know anything about it and wasn't expecting anything
- so I am greatly impressed by the purple sponge! Thank you!
And is this a success story? You be the judge!
Karen assisted me last year while in Canada, many changes have taken place.
I still respect her perspectives above the others I have encountered. I did,
however, receive 59 lbs of chocolate in 2 weeks after using the gold foil
choc coins cure in my wealth area! I replaced them with gold coins.
I then inherited silver coins!
Beth, Salt Lake City, UT We'd love
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Thanks
for writing such a wonderful book. It is amazing. I bumped up my
prosperity area just in the downstairs area of my home and I started
getting checks in the mail. Several were rebate checks that I thought
would never come, they were already 4 months late, some I didn't
even know I would be getting and I found a winning ($5) lottery
ticket that I had forgotten about. Thank you, thank you, thank you.