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The Feng Shui Doctor: Ancient skills for modern living

Feng Shui is a traditional Chinese art dating back thousands of years, but it can be easily adapted for the 21st century to enhance your wellbeing and quality of life

This practical guide to Feng Shui is designed to shed light on the underlying beliefs and practices; showing you how you they can used in everyday life.

It's not magic, but Feng Shui can strengthen periods of good fortune and support you in times of trouble. So try these tips for enriching the flow of chi around and within you.

Living room
The chi in a living room needs to be balanced toward lively yang energy, to support pleasure and social activities. Make sure that you have good chi coming into the room, then let it circulate freely. More...



Garden
You can have any style of garden - an English cottage garden, a Mediterranean-style garden, a formal courtyard, or a simple back yard with some pots - and still apply feng shui effectively. More...



Kitchen
Kitchens are necessary rooms, but it can take a lot of work to produce the right blend of energies for them. The kitchen will always be a "yang" room, with lots of activity, but the sharp corners and electrical items in it may make the chi move too quickly. More...


Bathroom
Clean, pure, flowing water represents good yang chi, power and "richness of life" (ts'ai fu). However, watery rooms such as bathrooms and utility rooms need particularly careful treatment in feng shui. More...



Excerpted from The Feng Shui Doctor by Paul Darby, priced £9.99, published by Duncan Baird Publishers.



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Created: 23/02/2007  Updated: 23/02/2007
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