Clear Your Clutter With Feng Shui | Karen Kingston | Amazing book for the hoarders, with...

Clear Your Clutter With Feng Shui | Karen Kingston | surprisingly appealing to the pragmatic mind

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	Clear Your Clutter With Feng Shui Karen Kingston Broadway, 1999 - 192 pages average customer review:based on 224 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Amazing book for the hoarders, with interesting side effects

Finally a book for all of us who find no help in suggestions like: "throw out everything you have not used in one year". This suggestion makes sense, but I never followed it, because I thought "what if I need it.." etc. Karen Kingstons' book tells us all the reasons we are hurting inside at the thought of throwing stuff out, resulting in all our clutter. And she tells us with great warmth and joy. She really gets us thinking and believing that it is ok to finally let go. I highlighted half her book, and for the first time ever in my life, began immediately with de-cluttering.
Also, because she mentions again and again that objects in our house need empty space around them (for the energy to flow freely), guess what the end result of my de-cluttering was? A home where every object still standing in it has been made into a feature, something that designers have been telling us for years. So, a vase with flowers, a small statue, my CD-collection, my coffe table, my bed, is no longer just sitting there. They now look beautyful, because with less stuff, they really stand out and look a little bit like art. So for the effective advice, the warm writing and the amazing decorative end results, I give this book the best rating, and recommend it to every hoarder.

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surprisingly appealing to the pragmatic mind

I had my doubts about this book when it was given to me as a gift. I am generally not a very mystical/spritual person and was doubtful about how a book based in Eastern religion/philosophy was going to be helpful to me. I was pleasantly surprised to find that this book was well grounded in very practical suggestions and commentary. I did find some parts to be a bit too far "out there" for me, but her definitions of clutter really opened my eyes to the amount of it in my life. It is still a work in progress, but I am clearing clutter on a daily basis and have tried to change my attitude about sutff. If it is not bringing joy into my life, I really need to consider if it belongs with me, and if not...move it on out! Two examples of my personal clutter clearning that came about as a result of reading this book: 1. I finally donated an 18" braid to Locks of Love...I was no longer enjoying my long hair, and they certainly could use it! 2. I realized I was collecting scrapbooking materials (stickers, scissors, etc.) not to use, but to have. When I had a hard time opening a sticker pack because it would no longer be "complete" I recognized it as a collection/cluttter problem. I have decided not to get any more scrapbooking stuff until I actually start using it...and if I don't do it soon, that will let me know it's not as important to me as I thought it was. It's been an interesting time of seeing my life and myself a little differently - and hopefully, a little better. I have passed along the ideas in this book, both by telling people and by giving copies as a gift.

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Instead of getting a shrink to sort out your materialism ways read this!

This is a refreshing book that focus on your emotional needs and it really helps you focus on things that are inside of you that you don't realize. This books goes every where I go and when I want to shop I just pull it out and it all goes away. This author really focus on you as a person and why we do the things that we do. This book has twenty one chapters and they are all excellent , short, and to the point. I am so happy I pick up this book, my whole life feels so much better and I feel good!

A Delightful Introduction to Feng Shui

My sister is a certified Feng Shui consultant, and I've learned quite a bit from her, but nothing was as much fun as reading Karen Kingston's book. She covers all the important ideas and material one needs to know about the Western approach to Feng Shui, but she does it in an extremely practical, down-to-earth, and often hilarious way. I'm not sure how librarians catalog this book--as philosophy, architectural design, or humor! I also have several other Feng Shui books in my collection, but I find myself referring to this one most often, because it's organized so sensibly.

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Clean Up Your Clutter

This is a very small book. Sometimes there is just so much to say about an issue and it doesn't take a lot of room. That is what happened here.

As I worked through the book I realized that I had cluttered up my life, and my home, with things that belonged to interests that I no longer was interested in. Some of those things have been easy to get rid of; some are taking longer. But I am doing the work.

I probably don't have as much of this stuff as some people my age because we moved across the country several times and you tend to be forced to cull out things you should not be keeping when you do that, but I was surprised at how much there still was. There are a couple of things that I have given away that resulted in a huge release once they were out of the house. That was a surprise.

It is worth reading the book and doing the work.

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