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Feng Shui for Your Home

NOTE :: Originally a Barnes U Noble University online course I completed Dec. 2001, immediately after the 9-11 tragedy.

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Description: In this course, you’ll discover how feng shui influenced ancient Chinese architecture and landscaping and how to employ some basic principles in your own home. You will trace its roots from ancient Chinese philosophy and practice to modern day practical uses. You will be able to examine drawings and photographs of feng shui do’s and don’ts. Most important, you will come away with an idea of how your surroundings affect your life.

Prerequisites

All you need is to bring an open mind, good judgment, and an artistic eye and imagination. The lessons and readings will do the rest.

Objectives

  • Understand the basic philosophy behind the practice of feng shui
  • Learn how feng shui shaped the Chinese landscape, design, and life
  • Discover how these ancient precepts can be applied in your own surroundings
  • Begin to create a more harmonious living environment

Materials You Will Need

clip_image002 Feng Shui Design: The Art of Creating Harmony for Interiors, Landscape and Architecture
In Feng Shui Design, Master Lin Yun and Sarah Rossbach have written a serious guide to the Chinese art of placement, providing historical information as well as modern practical ideas to incorporate feng shui into your home, garden, or office.

clip_image004 Interior Design with Feng Shui: New and Expanded
A centuries-old Chinese practice, feng shui has captured the Western imagination as a tool for design and well-being. In this classic book, complete with helpful drawings and photographs, Sarah Rossbach shows how anyone can apply its principles to enhance their careers, family life, health, and prosperity.

Additional materials

clip_image005Living Color: Master Lin Yun’s Guide to Feng Shui and the Art of Color
Colors are key to the Chinese art of feng shui (“fung away”), a system of placement whose simplicity and ecological good sense have struck such a chord recently in the West. Now Lin Yun and Sarah Rossbach, well known for their introduction to the West of feng shui, have written a fully illustrated guide to color application in all areas of life: home, garden, clothes, food, environment, health, and fortune-telling.

clip_image007 Feng Shui: The Chinese Art of Placement
Feng shui is an ancient Chinese practice based on principles from design, ecology, architecture, mysticism, and common sense. In this masterful work, Sarah Rossbach interprets the teachings of feng shui master Lin Yun for contemporary Westerners, offering the classic essentials on achieving harmony with one’s environment. They apply not only to the layout of a building, but also to the arrangement of furniture within a room and to the best design of offices and public spaces — in short, to any arrangement of man’s environment. Learn the philosophy of this centuries-old art to help you achieve financial prosperity, good health, and happiness in today’s complicated world.

clip_image009Creating Sacred Space with Feng Shui: Learn the Art of Space Clearing and Bring New Energy into Your Life
Feng Shui is the ancient oriental art of enhancing and harmonizing the flow of energy in your surroundings. Over the last twenty years, Karen Kingston has pioneered the study of a specialized branch of Feng Shui called Space Clearing. In this fascinating and easy-to-follow guide she shows how you can use Space Clearing and other principles of Feng Shui to enhance the flow of energy in your home or workplace and so create happiness and abundance in every area of your life.

Suggestions for Further Learning:

  • Feng Shui at Work: Arranging Your Work Space for Peak Performance and Maximum
  • Profit
  • Lillian Too’s Feng Shui Space Clearing Kit
  • Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life