The Feng Shui Directory

by Jane Butler-Biggs

Book Overview

Pocket-sized but packed with wisdom, this one-stop guide to applying age-old Chinese secrets to twenty-first-century living offers clear, practical advice for anyone interested in self-improvement,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Spiral-bound
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823016579
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.6" x 1.1" x 5.9"

Customer Reviews

Superb "Primer" for the Beginner in Feng Shui

Sure wish I had found The Feng Shui Directory when I was first exploring feng shui. I was two years into it before I found this superb, easy to use, and understand resource. I have given this as a gift over 15 times and every person has loved it and benefited. This is the best (or at least one of the top) books for an introduction to feng shui and the essential principle of "de-clutter".

One of the Best on Feng Shui

This book is fabulous. I have purchased many feng shui books and this ranks as one of the best. It does a better job than any other book relating psychological issues to feng shui. It is very well laid out and easy to read in sections, or at one time. Much more thought provoking about how your life relates to your environment than the others. No trite cures here. It would be good to read a more basic feng shui book before this one so you understand the bagua etc. This book does not cover that, it seems to assume that you know the basics. A real winner. I have ordered more for friends.

The Art Behind the Placement

Jane Butler-Biggs and editor Alison Daniels? We should bless their very socks and shoes, for in writing The Feng Shui Directory, they have given us a book that shines like a beacon out of the musty, dusty, teetering pile of current Feng Shui titles. Everytime I dip into this book, it starts my synapses zinging!The Feng Shui Directory helps us to change our attitiudes, not just our furniture. It shows us how to PAY ATTENTION, giving us the skills to recognise how our homes affect us, and, reciprocally, how our behaviour and thinking affect our homes.Consider the chapter on prosperity. It begins with several thought-provoking questions to ask ourselves regardingabundance. It goes on to offer solutions for long-term patterns of poverty, a ritual to promote abundance and several methods to to invite sucess into our lives. With a wonderful assortment of practical techniques to apply all over the house and garden, it even informs us how many changes to make at a given time, how fast to do them and how to tell if youve gone a bit overboard boosting your wood energy!The Feng Shui Directory is a really supportive book, written with much compassion, humour and crystal clear common- sense. As a Feng Shui practitioner, I recommend this book to those clients, who, in the true spirit of transformation, really wish to explore the art behind the placement. It 's a great book!

The Feng Shui Directory

Excelent book of fheng shiu, easy, dinamic, well organice, interesting. The perfect book to underestand this ancient art of well living as a beginner.

A Great Feng Shiu Guide

The Feng Shui Directory is a great way to start Feng Shiu and learn more about it. Much more than a guide to interior decorating or an ancient scheme of superstitions, Feng Shui is presented along with all the psychological and scientific benefits. This book isn't organized - like other books of it's sort - by the rooms in your home. Instead, chapters like "Family" or "Love and Realtionships" describe how to use Feng Shiu to change different areas of your life. Feng Shiu is presented as a way of thinking and getting in touch with yourself, not as a guide to rearranging furniture.The authors take a minimalistic approach - change slowly, over time, and feel things out. You won't be told where the table must go, but how to tap into your intuition and figure out (within the guidelines of Feng Shui) where you might best place it.The entire book is in full color, and the illustrations and "Quick Fixes" sections are a great addition. This book is probably too general for the experienced Feng Shui-er seeking to improve specific areas of his/her life, but overall it's a definite thumbs up.