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

by Karen Rauch Carter

A hilarious and enlightening look at the ancient Chinese art of Feng Shui.

Reviewed by: April Chase
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Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life: How To Use Feng Shui to Get Love, Money, Respect, and Happiness I first acquired Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life in one of those synchronicitous ways, which if you believe the theories behind feng shui, may not really be accidental. Help comes when least expected, as they say. Anyway, I forgot to send the reply card back to my book club and lo and behold, shortly thereafter, a package arrived in my mailbox. I opened it, found this book, thought, "How stupid," but read it anyway because I didn't have any other reading material to take to the Laundromat with me that weekend. I found I could not put it down!

Over the past several years, the ancient Chinese science of feng shui has moved from obscure fad to mainstream practice, with countless articles and books published on the topic. However, much of the information available on feng shui is very arcane and mystical, not easily understood by the general public. Certain concepts, however, are such common sense ideas that they immediately ring true - once deciphered. Clutter is depressing, color affects mood, it is important to like your surroundings. Pretty basic, huh?

In Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life, feng shui practitioner Karen Rauch Carter de-mystifies the more inscrutable precepts of feng shui in a witty and practical way. This book is full of easy, affordable techniques that can be used by anyone to perk up the energy flow in their home or office, room by room. Although deeply skeptical at first, I tried some of the tips, just to see what would happen, and was amazed that they actually seemed to work. One in particular, involving red bikini underwear and unattainable love interests, had very successful results. Suffice it to say, I have since made stroll number two down the aisle!

But whether you believe in the theories of chi (energy) flow and balance or not, this book is still an entertaining and worthwhile read. Rauch writes like a modern-day, cosmically attuned Erma Bombeck - funny, hip, and immensely appealing. As added side benefits, dirt is a strict feng shui no-no, so the book may inspire cleaning frenzies in those willing to give it the benefit of the doubt (most philosophies agree that cleanliness is a good thing) and the book is also a terrific conversation starter. People seem to be intrigued that something so simple as rearranging the furniture could have positive life benefits other than no longer stubbing your toe on the dresser corner every morning. So impress your friends - read this book!

Click here to buy this book, or read more about it at Amazon.com: Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life: How To Use Feng Shui to Get Love, Money, Respect, and Happiness

Copyright © by April Chase, 2002

Reviewed by April Chase:
-- Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life - by Karen Rauch Carter
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