Here are some of the many success stories that have come in over the years. If you’ve got one to share, send it on over at support@karenrauchcarter.com and we’ll add it to the list!
Career Success Stories:
I opened up a board and care in a really nice neighborhood. It has been licensed and ready to go for months. Quite a few people came to visit to check the place out, but none of them signed up – even though everyone said they really liked the place. One couple even came by for a second visit but still did not sign up.
So I decided I really needed Karen’s consultation help. When Karen came over, she helped me literally arrange everything. She noticed some doors were stuck which she said was slowing down incoming opportunities. She also had me to put plants in all rooms, and fresh flowers near the entrance. She also suggested I clean all the rooms and windows even more to change the energy. So after all the space clearing and cleaning, I was so excited because I knew somebody would sign up now because the place looked and felt so different! After one week, the first client that came signed up that same day and moved in the following day. Thank you so much Karen.
Mahlu
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I have been having so much fun with your book. My son was getting desperate looking for a job. I went to his home and began in the career area. He removed all the wood in front of the house. Moved a black metal swing up to the front, painted in his address numbers 701, and placed a black mailbox under them. We added a tin bucket of water. Swept and cleaned everything up. The very next day, friends told him of two leads. He has received his new teaching job. Thank you so much for this fun week.
My husband & I would like to share an experience we had after reading your book and making a few adjustments to our home. My husband became unemployed on 9/03. In the last 6 months he averaged about 1 interview every 5 weeks but he never received a job offer. I had borrowed your book from my sister in December but never read it. In February, with his unemployment benefits coming to an end, we were becoming desperate. One Saturday morning I decided to read your book out loud to my husband. We started in the Career section and noticed we had to make some very drastic, but easy changes. After addressing the Career section we decided to take the challenge on to change the other rooms in our home. Within 2 weeks of making these subtle changes my husband had 3 job interviews in 4 days. One company called him back for a second interview and he was offered the position 2 hours after he left the office. He took the position not because he was desperate, but because it is a stable profitable company with a great benefits package and they offered him the salary he was looking for. I do not think this is a coincidence. Because of our success I gave the book back to my sister who has been unemployed since December. After witnessing what happened to my husband she couldn’t wait to make the changes needed to her home. We would like to thank you for making this information available. The information was a huge success for us and we are grateful. Thank you!!!
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I just bought your book and enjoyed your humor very much. I was out of work and the lady at the job placement agency said things were real slow and the last place she sent me they decided not to hire anyone new. I was bummed so started feng shuing my career and prosperity areas of my house and before I could get half done I got offered 2 jobs. The lady at the agency said the girl was not working out that was at this particular job and she sent me for an interview. The lady there wanted a mature person (lucky for little old me) and she also liked my humor(she is the first) well this little old 63 year old has a new job and part of her house clean, since clutter was bad for my chi…….Thanks. Hazel
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A while back I visited your site and read about the lay-out for the bagua map. For a while I have not done a thing. One day out of the blue, I decided to follow the instructions and went and bought a small battery operated waterfall, hang a mirror right above it facing the front door, then I decided to paint the front door black inside and out. My pure intention was to try and balance the gua so I could find work, I repaired the front door and paint it black then would you believe that the same day I got offered a job.
Then week later was offered two more jobs and I accepted them all working on them part time.
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Hi! Just wanted you to know I punched up my career section of home and desk at work and have received 7 letters of recognition from customers for my work since then! How cool is this?!?! I’m going to punch up the helpful people section for my severe pain due to fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis etc, thanks so much. You’re my bright spot when my pain is so bad!
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I thought you’d like to know about some rather astonishing successes that I’ve had after making what I thought were small changes, using your book.
I have been out of work for almost four months, without much success in the job hunt. My nest egg was running low, and I was beginning to get worried. Two weeks ago, I read your book, and decided to add some enhancements to my career area. I found an indoor waterfall that worked perfectly: it was BLACK, in an UNDULATING SHAPE, and was of course, moving WATER. I set it in my career center and turned it on. A few HOURS later, I received a call from a recruiter about a perfect job: one doing what I love, with a great compensation package.
Inspired, I decided to work on my relationship corner. At the time, it was basically a junk room, filled with old things, including a single bed. Well, I was single and my love life was junky … duh. I cleaned the room thoroughly, ditched the single bed, added a red candle and tossed in a pair of red panties for good measure. Nothing happened…or so I thought. At the time, I had three men in my life. Over the past two weeks since making the changes, two of those men have dropped off rather abruptly, leaving me to invest my energy in the third man, who has turned out to be a gem. Looking back, I realize that by clearing out the junk in my relationship corner, I cleared out the junk in my relationships.
I also added a few small enhancements to my Helpful People/Travel area, mostly to help me get the job, which I did. It turns out that the job requires a move. What’s even more astonishing is that the relationship with the third man had been long-distance, and the move will put me very close to him.
When I get to my new home, I’m going to feng shui the whole place!
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My husband and I had an awesome career experience that ties into feng shui. My husband had been unhappily employed and found out his contract would not be renewed. He took this kind of hard as he felt he had given 110% to the job. He began looking for a new job. Meanwhile, I was researching stones one day and stumbled upon a blurb about how black sapphire was a good stone to carry/wear while looking for a job and/or to manage a current job. I told him about this and he was interested. I found a stone on eBay that he bid on and won. He received the stone and within two days had a solid lead on a job that he obtained very quickly and painlessly. He just completed his first week of work and is very happy. I didn’t think about the feng shui connection until receiving your newsletter – BLACK sapphire (color = career section).
By the way, I LOVE your book 🙂
Susan/Washington State
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I recently wrote to you under a different screen name to tell you how much I enjoyed your book, and that by simply removing a candle and replacing it with a fishbowl, a long awaited for check arrived within 48 hours. Well, it just keeps getting better!
I recently started seeing someone new (yes, the love and relationship corner is working JUST fine, LOL). I remarked after sizing up the layout of his apartment how I imagined his career had been (pardon the vernacular) “going down the crapper since he’d moved” – you guessed it, the bathroom was right smack in the middle of “career”. His reply was, “How did you know THAT?” He was quite amused with me when I did some quick cures with some red tape, a crystal, and simply moved two white ceramic elephants into the prosperity corner (the symbolism worked for us). Well, out of the blue, he was offered a much more lucrative position with better hours and location (he’s the captain of a tug, going up the NE coast and Hudson River, he’s at sea usually 14 days straight). The new position keeps him in NYC harbor, he comes home every night, AND he got a HUGE raise!!! In LESS than 7 days of the minor changes! HE IS THRILLED!!!! Needless to say, he told me I could move ANYTHING I wanted to if that’s what this stuff does.
Thanks again Karen! We’re loving it!!!
Jan S.
Brooklyn, NY
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I consulted with Karen through “Ask Karen Online” about career problems, job litigation and recurring sinus and ear infections. Wow! Thanks to Karen’s advice, I experienced phenomenal and unexpectedly wonderful results, focusing on both the career and fame/reputation sections of my home. Thank you, Karen, for the best advice I’ve ever received! V.T.
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I wrote before about all the good things that happened to me once I implemented your handbook techniques, baby, money, etc… Now years later I wanted to write once more:
Clearing out the front room of all Christmas stuff, adding extra living healthy plants, near the inside of the front door, and in the opposite corner of the room (prosperity) a beautiful water fountain. In the past I thought to leave the fountain off, to save money/electricity. Now I let it run all during the day until bedtime. The result? Lots of phone calls, bookings and recruits for my in-home business! Wow, my sluggish business got a burst of energy once I left that fountain running. Plus cleared the clutter, no more vacuum left in that room, nor the ironing board left in the UP position as soon as you walk in. No. Just tranquility of healthy plants, soothing colors, tiny lights on my (fake) tree, and the trickling of the fountain.
Now customers beep in while I’m talking to other customers!
I try to keep this Feng Shui simple, just focus on what I need to change the most and my energies follow that path. I love when I see results, it’s very exciting!
Lori Hunter
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My daughter told her boss she was interested in a better paying position that was open at work, and he seemed interested in promoting her. Then things got interesting. (I should mention that my daughter disliked her current job and found it boring. She just wanted to hang in there another 6-12 months for more experience, so she could apply for a job in Sales).
For about a month the position she wanted was open, and her boss told her he was going to be promoted. Then, without notice, the company reorganized their administrative staff, and two girls were laid off. My daughter was one of the girls let go, and I must say, she didn’t think the Feng Shui was working real well at the time. However, this story ends well. After a month-long job search, she found a new job in Sales that she absolutely loves, which she describes as her “dream job.” It was exactly the kind of job she hoped to find 6 to 12 months from now after she had more experience. I think it’s interesting that the Feng Shui enhancements helped my daughter’s career by skipping right over the promotion she wanted, where she would have been stuck another 6-12 months in administrative work she didn’t enjoy. Instead, her career was fast-forwarded to the Sales job she hoped to find a year from now.
Nancy (one of my Certified Inspired Feng Shui students turned professional consultant in Los Altos, CA)
Clutter Success Stories:
First I must say I was raised and still a devout Christian. My Dad was a Christian minister and my mother is a strong Christian woman. We kept our home very clean neat orderly and clutter free.(Up-bringing),so that part was a natural for me. I give GOD ALMIGHTY THE PRAISE AND GLORY, for allowing and affording me the opportunity and guiding me to Karen’s book “Move Your Stuff and Change Your Life.”
I began reading the book on September 25th 2010 and finished in about a week. To me, feng shui is a reminder of how to keep my life in order, so that all manner of blessings will flow in my life from GOD. My parents and grandparents used to say “GOD DOES NOT DWELL OR, WILL NOT COME IN TO AN UNCLEAN HOUSE” (Well, feng shui is a strong reminder of that point!) Now, …moving on. On Monday October 18, 2010 my husband played the “Pick Three” here in North Carolina, and won $500.00 cash! And I received some very important documents detailing an inheritance matter in my family the same day Monday Oct 18th 2010, in the amount of over $4000.00!
This is after reading the book and moving a couple of things around in the prosperity section of my home. Look at what believing GOD and practicing a little feng shui (Putting my house in order, which is only a part of Feng Shui) has done for me and my family.
Oh!!! By the way, our 19-year-old son received a full time job offer the same week. Thank you Karen for writing this book, and I Give GOD THE GLORY AND PRAISE FOR THE BLESSINGS HE SENT WHEN THE FLOW WAS JUST RIGHT IN MY HOME.(FENG SHUI).POSITIVE CHI’ AND ORDER.
Deborah A. (North Carolina)
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I took our session to heart and got rid of everything that wasn’t serving me. felt so good! sold a bunch at a yard sale, gave away a lot, threw a lot of stuff out. it’s amazing how much better and lighter I feel with all that stuff gone. I feel like I haven’t been able to focus on the important stuff until I got rid of all the past that was holding me back…. I spent a whole day cleaning out our garage out back and getting rid of stuff, going through boxes,….THAT was exhausting but cathartic……your book should really be titled “throw shit out, change your life”.
It’s amazing how much weight I’d been carrying mentally – especially with regards to my room. there was so much stuff in there that I couldn’t see the forest for the trees…I can find things quickly now, it’s not such a hassle to find things or put things away. my room is a comforting but not a cocoon — it’s not a place to escape the world from..that’s the other thing – I feel much better about the apartment in general. as if it’s not holding me back anymore. it’s a nice place to stay but not hide-away. does that make sense?
Creativity and Children Success Stories:
I just had to write to you again and say Thank you Again! We continue to blessed and enriched by your book and approach to feng shui. Recently my 10 year old son had trouble at school. His teacher was routinely teasing him in a manner that embarrassed him in front of his class, he was having troubles getting along with some of his classmates, and his grades started to suffer. The situation with his teacher and the principal seemed impossible! We had to have the superintendent called in to mediate the enormous mess it had become. We actually thought the only solution would be to move my son from his school. Before the meeting I followed your advice and put all 3 ladies names in our silver box in Helpful People. (Luckily I had my son’s perfect attendance award with the teacher’s and principal’s actual signatures.) The meeting went beautifully! We came to an understanding and have been able to work together since then to ensure he continues to do well in school. This last week we decided to feng shui his bedroom since he was still having a little trouble getting along with some of his class mates. We moved his furniture, desk to Knowledge, (duh!) toy guns out of Relationship, (thunk head smack!) And a lion my father carved in wood to his Fame gua. The next day he came home all smiles. Kids wanted to play with him and his teacher asked him to do a special job. My 4 year old doesn’t “clean” her room now. She “fuwung sh-waays” it! My 12 year old daughter also surprised me with an amethyst pendant hung from my chandelier in Prosperity. She’d heard me say amethyst is good there. You have helped us all, even my husband is a believer. But that’s a long story and this is already toooo long. I just wanted to say thank you.
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Last week, when I got your newsletter, the question of the month was about a duplex. I live in a duplex, and with horror, I realized I had my bagua upside down and backwards! I’d oriented from the original front door (which we have access to) as if we OWNED the home. (Our goal.) So I switched some things around and let it go. I started to get really depressed and lethargic. My husband asked what was wrong and all of these words poured out of me, “I hate this house! I hate our green living room! Look! I stand in the living room and blahhhhhhh [made a face] I walk into our purple kitchen, and ahh…” Back and forth I went to illustrate and he was laughing. I told him I felt the bagua was all wrong for us and wondered if I should just go with my original instinct – as you said one man in your book did. Yesterday I started to rearrange – again. (Yep, husband’s a saint.) I started with creativity, so I’d come up with creative cures. (Using the original bagua, that felt more right to me.) Since creativity falls on a staircase, I had to figure out how to embellish it. I began with tin foil, thinking I could cut it into round circles and place it under the carpet. By the time I was done with the chapter, I had a pile of ideas sitting in front of me, waiting to be displayed. Then I added a cure to each room of the house, finally understanding destructive/creative cycles and how to correct the wooden dresser in my children corner of my bedroom by placing metal on it, for example. Lots of it. Never got that before! And for the first time, I wasn’t tired! I was energized!
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I was reading your book (move your stuff…) and I realized that maybe my eleven year old son is so ornery, whiney and ‘fiery’ because where the stove where we’re renting is in the child/creativity section is where the stove is! Well I went right to work and got a little $5 mirror to put on the wall above the stove. Then I went on line and found the Chinese characters for Creativity and Children and put them on white paper. I pasted that below the mirror and actually have a white frame for it. If it fits on the stove I’ll put it there. He has been in one day, more agreeable than in the weeks before.
Thanks for your great book and I hope his personality continues to remain happier. Diane
Fame and Reputation Success Stories:
I’ve been reading Karen’s newsletter for years. Even so, I kept telling myself that the cluttered detached garage that I never went into (my husband’s “tinkering zone”) in the fame/relationship part of our yard couldn’t be affecting me. Well, we spent one week this summer cleaning it up (selling things, tossing things, etc.) and I can’t believe the difference! Things have certainly “fired up” in the relationship department, AND my husband says he’s being considered for a promotion! I’m a true believer now. Feng shui results CAN happen to me too!
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I just HAVE to share this story with you. In May my sister asked me what I wanted for my birthday, and I told her any book on Feng Shui. I had been curious for some time, and just thought I’d like to know what all this Feng Shui stuff was about. Needless to say, she just so happened to send YOUR book. Although I was quite busy at the time, I couldn’t put it aside, and read it cover to cover within a few days. I proceeded to make some changes, mainly in the Prosperity, and Fame & Reputation areas. I have my own business named “Jody’s Glassations & Stuff”, specializing in “Unique and Personal Custom Stained Glass & Water Fountains”. The Water Fountains are actually made from Stained Glass. Within a few days the phone rings and it’s a producer from HGTV’s “Our Place” wanting to do a feature about my Water Fountains! I had never even heard of the show. They filmed in July and the feature will air sometime Spring 2002. A reporter from the Union Tribune came while they were filming, and I got my name and picture in the Sunday Paper as well. I currently have commissioned work booked till at least the end of this year. How’s THAT for a Success Story!!!!!! I LOVE your book, and am so excited about Feng Shui, I am beginning the process of studying to get certified and add it to my business. It goes so perfectly with what I do, how I do it, and my personal beliefs. Your book was the perfect one to start with. Thanks so much for writing and sharing it.
Your Web Site is WONDERFUL!!!!! I’m sure I’ll visit it often. Jody
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Due to my husband being out of work for almost a year, I was not able to keep my appointment with you the last time you were in Houston. I was very much upset. So I decided to do the next best thing and reread your book and apply feng shui myself. Well, things changed but not the way I had expected. OMG. I can’t even fathom the changes. I went to the family section of my home (formal dining room and found that I had placed a metal table there I removed it and put it in the children’s section (opposite wall); I also remodeled my craft room (which interestingly enough is my children’s section on the 2nd floor of our home). I intuitively had chosen the color yellow and white I then read your book and those are the colors that are recommended there :0) Fast forward a few weeks (I started the changes in mid August) and you will not believe what happened A production company called me to ask me if I would be interested in appearing in a TV series. The ODD thing about it, is that I a NOT in the entertainment industry. I am a psychotherapist in private practice They invited me to appear in 7 episodes once the network viewed my work after the first taping This is all so surreal My husband has found a job, but not one he cares for. The people are wonderful to work with, the commute is more than decent but the pay could be better. We are grateful for the changes, but I have to tell you, I am more than shocked with the changes that took place for me the tv series will air on a new network January 2010. I am excited with the new happenings. I had always taken care of my fame and career wall, but never realizing it that balancing the creativity and family sections wow I can’t even begin to explain it.
Thank you so much,
Aracely
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I look forward to your newsletter every month. This month, I feel it was especially for me. The one where the Lady wrote in “I am getting depressed, I have gained so much weight!” Well, now, that’s me too. So this weekend I followed your words exactly, spruced up my helpful people gua, placed the note to find the right health professionals for me. Then had to wait for the next day to do the skills and knowledge gua, because I was exhausted from de-cluttering of helpful people. Over weight and exhaustion go hand in hand. Nonetheless, I did it! Topped the scales at 205. Of course, when you start moving things around with intention, you get results. I was offered a new trial period for acupressure weight loss at NO COST to me. In one week I had lost 5 pounds! That’s a 5 pound sack of potatoes. Great so far.
Also, I work with all men, I am the only female in a crew of 10. Electrical work. Oddly enough I was having a little trouble being taken seriously, couldn’t get that RESPECT thing going for me. I reread your book, reread and printed off all the monthly newsletters for the last 3 years. Put every thing together in a nice blue notebook with tabs for each gua. Made my plan of attack and executed it. I placed a wooden table in the fame gua of my living room, which is the Fame Gua of my house. Covered the wood table with a red piece of material. On top of the table I placed a bagua shaped mirror, at each gua I placed the proper symbols in direct order, 9 times. For good measure I placed my favorite red and silver lava lamp to hurry things along. A month later most all of the friction has come to a screeching halt. I found that respect I was looking for. Now do I really want to do electrical work the rest of my life?
Thanks, Donna
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I checked out your book a week ago & set a few things in motion. It turned out the bathroom is our Fame & Reputation gua – so no wonder my partner’s tai chi classes couldn’t get hardly any students -AND to add insult to injury guess what color the shower curtain was? BLACK! I used the appropriate cures & in the space of a few days, he’s had someone request private lessons (more costly than attending regular classes) a student already taking class has people at her gym wanting him to come teach them, & a member of the downtown YMCA is wanting to see about getting an early morning class started there. My son comes home tonight & after working at the same job for a year with no promotion & raise, has been told he may have one by next week. I love your book. It speaks to me like nothing else ever has. I’ve signed up for your newsletter & as soon as you offer certification, I’m signing up for it. I’m a true believer.
Warm Regards,
Tracey
Family Success Stories:
Two years ago My relationship ended, My family and I were often sick, my youngest of 3 children was failing in school, and we had financial worries. I bought your book and followed all your advice. I changed my health area from green, and in my relation love area I hung a white cupid chime over the stair way and at the foot I placed a table with a pink vase and 2 pink satin roses. Now I have a degree, money in the bank, from a previous bad investment my money was returned. My oldest son is working on his masters degree and is teaching. My daughter has a great job in telecommunication’s, and I’m meeting new people.
Thank you for your book! Gail
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When my mother passed away last year, I felt a great disconnection from my “family of birth.” My sister and I have not been very close for years, as we live on opposite coasts. I wanted to renew my relationship with my sister, but I was unsure how to do this. The required reading for the Inspired Feng Shui Practitioner Course helped me to recognize that I needed to enhance my Family area of my home. Since I had no pictures, or other memorabilia displayed anywhere in my home to remind me of my sister, I found a snapshot of my sister and three of her four grown children that I had taken several years ago. I framed it and placed it in my guest bedroom, the Family area. Since then, my sister and I have renewed our relationship and have been calling each other more frequently during the past few months. The change is remarkable!
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Thank you so much for your book! I enjoy it and have shared it with my mom & sister-in-law. I have definitely brought about change using what I learned in your book. While living in an apartment, I built up our family gua to manifest a home that would support our family. Within a month (5 months before we planned on moving), we found a house that would support our family and a home office for my husband–so he’s more involved with the family on a daily basis!
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Hi Karen! I wanted to tell you the one thing that is going right in my life – I really need an FS tune up. 🙂 Last year, right after Thanksgiving, my husband bought me a beautiful black lab pup. She spent most of her days over the cold winter (we live in New England) in the family area of our home, blending well. 🙂 She made our house a home, but more importantly, she healed wounds from my childhood that I could not heal on my own. Our love section is missing from our house and although most of our relationships are okay, I’m always the one left behind. Puppy changed all that. I noticed I’ve been much more open, much more out there. I’m gradually learning to trust and let new people in. She is now 7 months, and is here for a reason. I know all animal lovers say there is nothing like a puppy or kitten to heal broken hearts, but I didn’t know for real until my husband brought this wonderful little four-legged heart healer into our family area. 🙂 He’s certainly happy he did !
🙂 I don’t recommend everyone go out and spend hundreds on a pet shop pup, but when I look at the FS of it all: black in the family section, moving/living energy, sound, etc….it all fits. Thanks for listening.
Health Success Stories:
Karen is a long time friend of ours. I was interested in what she was doing with Feng Shui – but not sure, if I believed in it. My husband, Dennis was even more skeptical. When Dennis became seriously ill things changed. After a week of doctors & emergency rooms (they kept sending him home), we did not have answers & he was in a ton of pain & could not walk. Dennis said, let’s call Karen. Almost the minute she walked in the house we got a call letting us know that Dennis was going to be admitted to Mission Hospital. We left Karen at our house to do what she does & she sent me to the hospital with 4 red ribbons & instructions to tie them on the 4 corners of the metal hospital bed place a bedpan with salt water under the bed & let the work begin. Fortunately, after 3 months of last resort antibiotics Dennis was cured of a bone infection. We never knew the source of the infection. I believe Karen’s positive energy along with her gift of Feng Shui definitely aided in the cure. We love & thank our wonderful friend.
Jeanne & Dennis
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I received the Biopro products I ordered from you two days ago, and I’m amazed at the difference they make in our home and our energy fields! As a Reiki Master/Teacher, I’m pretty attuned to subtle energies, and am especially impressed with the Home Harmonizers (we got two, one for each floor.)
The really interesting thing was, as I was looking around for a place to put them, I noticed we had one of those “electronic insect repeller” units, and I decided it had to go. I unplugged it, plugged in the Harmonizers, and the difference has been very amazing!
My teens, who normally bicker a lot, have stopped, and I slept through the night for the first time in several years, not waking up once! I also put the Biopro chips on all sorts of electronics (computer, tv, etc.) and feel they really make a difference. Thanks for offering these products and letting us know about them, they’re great! Laura
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I had been having an ache in my left hip. My husband’s office (was our office but I left because of the clutter) is in our wealth gua. I had ordered the cheat sheets. The day I got them I read that it controls the hip. I had just told him a couple of days before that I was going to break down and go to the doctor. I don’t get sick much so I don’t like going to the doctor. But it had gotten so bad that I really thought I needed to. After reading the cheat sheet, I asked him if he would consider cleaning up the office before I go to the doctor to see if it would work. He was willing to try. It worked. On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the worst pain, I had been around 9. After he cleaned up, the pain went down to about a 2 immediately. Only once in a while do I have any tiny pain. I am so glad I ordered those cheat sheets.
Thank you!
Wanda
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This is just a fan letter. Bought the book by mistake. Am an obsessive reader; so I read it anyway– or enough to find one easy thing to do to prove it wouldn’t work. Predictably it was putting a piece of purple paper in the prosperity corner. Within weeks I received two bonuses at work and an unexpected 10% pay increase. You got my attention. Further reading said the location of my bed guaranteed foot/leg trouble. In the eight years in our house I had developed several unhealed fractures in both feet and at age 52 found myself being urged to have a knee replacement; and being urged to have anything expensive by one’s HMO is pretty remarkable! Did a little mirror under the bed and have now much less pain – am planing to hang a crystal, too. Have read a couple other books on feng shui since reading yours. Yours is the most coherent and useful–am giving copies of it for Christmas (seems I am surrounded by people whose houses are killing them!).
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Last week, when I got your newsletter, the question of the month was about a duplex. I live in a duplex, and with horror, I realized I had my bagua upside down and backwards! I’d oriented from the original front door (which we have access to) as if we OWNED the home. (Our goal.) So I switched some things around and let it go. I started to get really depressed and lethargic. My husband asked what was wrong and all of these words poured out of me, “I hate this house! I hate our green living room! Look! I stand in the living room and blahhhhhhh [made a face] I walk into our purple kitchen, and ahh…” Back and forth I went to illustrate and he was laughing. I told him I felt the bagua was all wrong for us and wondered if I should just go with my original instinct – as you said one man in your book did. Yesterday I started to rearrange – again. (Yep, husband’s a saint.) I started with creativity, so I’d come up with creative cures. (Using the original bagua, that felt more right to me.) Since creativity falls on a staircase, I had to figure out how to embellish it. I began with tin foil, thinking I could cut it into round circles and place it under the carpet. By the time I was done with the chapter, I had a pile of ideas sitting in front of me, waiting to be displayed. Then I added a cure to each room of the house, finally understanding destructive/creative cycles and how to correct the wooden dresser in my children corner of my bedroom by placing metal on it, for example. Lots of it. Never got that before! And for the first time, I wasn’t tired! I was energized!
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I had health problems that finally got so bad we lost the condo in 2002. When I selected a rental apartment, I made sure to obtain one that had no sections cut out. My health continued to decline. In early 2003 I began to consider the possibility that it was time to question the diagnoses and treatment I was receiving from the doctors and therapist I hired while living in the condo. After a Google search on my symptoms, I realized I had to “clean house” and get new, genuinely helpful people. My old doctors had missed the right diagnosis. My new doctor told me that I was dying of advanced obstructive sleep apnea when I came to him. Fortunately, this is an easy condition to treat.
Helpful People & Travel Success Stories:
My Realtor became curious about feng shui when I started looking for houses with her. I brought my colored gua that I purchased from Karen to check the layout of each house I saw. Long story short, I purchased Karen’s book for her on Amazon and had it sent to her office for her birthday this past month. Last week, she e-mailed me and told me about a situation where her daughter’s apartment was raising the rent and she can’t afford to have her daughter move nor is there any safe housing on campus. I told her about the silver box and helpful people corner. She e-mailed me not more than two days later saying she did what I said and put the management company’s name in the box and her daughter’s. The only box she had was a silver fortune cookie box!
Another realtor friend of hers told her he had some apartments available in a safe area near the college campus and the rent is near the same but not higher than the other apartment! What stunned her the most was that this prompted her to open the book and start reading only to find the tips with the little fortune cookie symbols on the pages! And her silver box was a fortune cookie! Coincidence? NOT!
We’ve added another believer to the power of Chi!
Debbie
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Hi Karen, and thanks Karen. My daughter had planned a long awaited trip to Sydney to see Beyonce. A few days before the trip (I know) she found her passport to be damaged and was told she couldn’t travel on it. She tried everything we could think of but to no avail and just no time to get a new one. Major panic set in. Having just read your great book I sprang into action. Quickly drew around my hands and put this in the helpful people and travel section of our home, which happens to be her bedroom. Found an old plastic globe of the world and set in down with Australia in full view, also requested help from the airline and put this message into a silver box. You guessed it, she sailed through customs without a word, there and back, wow, oh yes and was blown away by Beyonce! IT REALLY WORKS! Chris M
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I am really shocked. I am doing a major cleaning/purging of stuff in my house and my idea was to Feng Shui each area as I went, but I got a little anxious and decided to start a Helpful People Box. I put in the name of a friend I just couldn’t get a hold of and the name of my husband. I had to – I was getting so frustrated with having to do everything by myself. Two days later, he did the dishes (3rd time all year), took out the trash, cooked dinner, went grocery shopping, and even picked up the floor after our baby – using the vacuum cleaner – which he’s never ever done. It was so above and beyond the call of duty it just had to be the Feng Shui. The same night my friend who I couldn’t get a hold of called me. OK she NEVER calls. This was the third time she has called me in maybe FIVE years. You could have knocked me over with a feather at that point. Wow. If these had happened on different days I probably wouldn’t have believed it was the Feng Shui but it’s too coincidental to ignore. I am just in shock. THANK YOU for writing the book in such an easy to use way. I really appreciate it.”
Susan
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After moving into a new home, my career instantly took a turn for the worse and I was terminated for no good reason. About a week later a friend came over and upon walking in said you have a picture of a leaf with leopard print in your career section. I had no idea what she was talking about and after she explained I realized that I had obviously turned over a new leaf in my career and the leopard print in the picture was what the girl was wearing that got my fired! I was astonished! I took the picture down and my friend bought me your book. I read all of it within a week since I had plenty of time on my hands, and started making the changes. I see results almost instantly when I’m moving things around. I have started dating a former boyfriend since starting on the relationship corner and everything is great.
But the most astonishing thing to date happened in the “helpful people.” I had an interview with an investigator from the state board regarding my license which was in question due to my former boss. The night before his visit, I worked on that corner and placed his name in a box there. Upon arrival to my house he was very official-even flashed his badge in my face.
After sitting down at my table which is partially in that corner he changed instantly, his attitude and his mind! The remainder of his time at my home was spent talking about him and not what I had supposedly done! Not only that, I later found out that he had contacted my current boss — who was ready to fire me.
He told me if I needed him to, he would call my boss back and straighten her out, which is exactly what happened. The final outcome is yet to be determined but I know if it were not for your book the current outcome would not have been as good. So thank you so much for being you and helping me reveal the truth. This is only one story that I have but my favorite so far! I plan to write back with the final outcome-which is getting a feng-shui pump-up as we speak! Thank you!
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I just rented a new room in a big house yesterday, and have been reading your book for only a few days- so far I have only really read about half of it (the prosperity, fame, love, creativity, andhelpful people/travel sections). Today I was organizing using my notes from your book, and I decided to store my suitcases in the “travel” corner of my closet, thinking, as I did, that this should bring me travel… Well, it sure worked! I won a trip to London on the radio tonight!!!!!!! Thanks…and I’ll keep on organizing my room and my life the feng shui way!!
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Currently, I am traveling a LOT for work, leaving a dog in the kennel and two cats alone. I spaced the pictures out on my travel and helpful people wall, inserting two empty/blank picture frames among them (to represent needing space)into which I taped, to the wall, snapshots of my pets. I THOUGHT this would only affect being home more BUT the outcome has been even better. A responsible neighbor boy agreed to look in on the dog everyday (so the dog no longer had to be kenneled) and within two weeks, I learned of two college students who were going to do summer internships in my city and needed housing for the summer. They are now living at my house, taking care of pets and other things, leaving me free (and guilt free!) to travel for work. Here, I thought I was changing the energy in my TRAVEL area and the feng shui result was changing the energy in my Helpful People area.
Then there is the story of my substantial salary increase (gold foil covered chocolate coins)….but that is another story……
Fun stuff.
You book is delightful – informative, lighthearted – full of humor and easy to read with great, practical suggestions.
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I read your book a couple of weeks after I put my house on the market. I had a couple of people looking at it, however no offers. I took my copper and silver box and put everything connected with the sale in it stating my intentions that the house would be sold within 30 days. The next week I received two offers, one being for cash. The new owners had only seen pictures of the inside and outside of the house before they purchased it! I am hoping that I can get my new house where it should be soon so that I will reap more benefits from Feng Shui.
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I look forward to your newsletter every month. This month, I feel it was especially for me. The one where the Lady wrote in “I am getting depressed, I have gained so much weight!” Well, now, that’s me too. So this weekend I followed your words exactly, spruced up my helpful people gua, placed the note to find the right health professionals for me. Then had to wait for the next day to do the skills and knowledge gua, because I was exhausted from de-cluttering of helpful people. Over weight and exhaustion go hand in hand. Nonetheless, I did it! Topped the scales at 205. Of course, when you start moving things around with intention, you get results. I was offered a new trial period for acupressure weight loss at NO COST to me. In one week I had lost 5 pounds! That’s a 5 pound sack of potatoes. Great so far.
Also, I work with all men, I am the only female in a crew of 10. Electrical work. Oddly enough I was having a little trouble being taken seriously, couldn’t get that RESPECT thing going for me. I reread your book, reread and printed off all the monthly newsletters for the last 3 years. Put every thing together in a nice blue notebook with tabs for each gua. Made my plan of attack and executed it. I placed a wooden table in the fame gua of my living room, which is the Fame Gua of my house. Covered the wood table with a red piece of material. On top of the table I placed a bagua shaped mirror, at each gua I placed the proper symbols in direct order, 9 times. For good measure I placed my favorite red and silver lava lamp to hurry things along. A month later most all of the friction has come to a screeching halt. I found that respect I was looking for. Now do I really want to do electrical work the rest of my life?
Thanks, Donna
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So, I really have two phases to report. I fell at work and injured my right arm and leg and have been involved in a delightful Work Comp case that was going nowhere. I got my hands on your book, began the de-clutter process, and paid special attention to the Helpful People area. I put the name of my court rep, the insurance agent fighting my case, and the judge, along with a few choice affirmations into aluminum foil. Before I knew it we were headed to court and the judge ruled in my favor.
Phase two, a year later. I was missing my connection to the Buddhist masters I often see when meditating and asked that this be rekindled. I went to my favorite bookstore to acquire a copy of your book for my daughter-in-law, and as I walked in I saw a huge book, 36″x 16″, with a beautiful Buddha on the front. Since my meditation occurs in the Helpful People area, the book is propped up there. It has a forward written by Deepak Chopra. I have started focusing on a new career that is fun, with a healthy environment, that provides financial abundance for me and mine, while assisting others in improving the quality of their lives. Several things have synchronistically transpired since then, and the new career opportunity is endorsed by Deepak Chopra!!! I having been laughing for a week now, and giving thanks! Your book has helped me move very stuck energy twice now!!! Thank you so much.
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Also, I was told that ivy and plants which hang down are bad for Feng Shui. I was trying to locate the newsletter about plants but was unable. I wanted to let you know that, after your visit to feng shui our condo for the purpose of selling it, it sold to the first buyer to see it. It sold for $21,000 over the listing price. Escrow hasn’t closed yet, it is scheduled for 7/9. I read about putting something in the “Helpful People” corner, I put a poster on my living room wall and literally within ten minutes a good electrician I needed put his business card through my front door letterbox!
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Please post my testimonial! I’ve had the most noticeable successful in my Helpful People area. I keep a fresh vase of water there, a shiny silver container, and a wooden carving of hands in prayer that open up to the Hindu Lord Ganesha. When I received a silver Lord Ganesha as a wedding figure, I knew just where to put it. There has been a string of small but very nice occurrences, without me asking. Often when I go out, male and female friends and even their friends who I just met want to pick up my tab. A stranger in New York City gave me bus fare. A coworker bought me a bulb when my headlight went out. Another coworker came over my house to fix my DVD. But the biggest reward was when a friend asked me if I wanted to rent her beautiful house at a price only slightly more than my cramped 1-bedroom apartment. She’s letting me use most of her beautiful furniture and has donated some of her exotic African and Indian clothes to me. My current place is a feng shui nightmare in the relationships/bedroom area…her house places the master bedroom in the relationship gua, has hot pink silk curtains already in place, a queen-sized bed, no poison arrow corners, and the master bathtub (outside of the bedroom gua) is big enough for two!
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When I found out that my assistant quit the afternoon of March 31st, I felt overwhelmed and understaffed. So I immediately wrote a note for my helpful people box (a metal box that I use for help requests that I place in the front right hand area of my desk) that said, “It is April 2, 2008, and I now have everyone in place in my company that help me create the company of my dreams that transforms lives quickly, happily, and with seeming little effort. Thank you.”
To tell you the truth, it did not seem possible that a less than 48 hour solution could be met. In fact, it seemed quite ridiculous. But that’s what I wanted. But really, how could I get someone in here working in 1.5 days? (I say this to show that it doesn’t even take faith to work, although I usually say it helps!)
On April 1st I started dialing up everyone I had accounts with to see what orders were outstanding and so on. When I called one of my graphic designers, I asked her if she could be available to help me with any computer situations that might come up in the next couple of weeks because I knew she was a wiz at that sort of thing. She said she could only help me at nights and on weekends because of her job, but her daughter was a temp, and work was a little slow at the moment. She put her on the phone, and long story short, she started working here on April 2nd!
Now, she may not be the ultimate, forever, perfect for a lifetime assistant, but she met the requirements in the parameters that I set and so far, has fulfilled the requirements just fine.
Neighbor Issue Success Stories:
I have been reading and re-reading your book for almost a year. I find so much inspiration in it that I am boundless with the successes that I have received. I can’t tell you how excited I was to see that your website has been expanded to include these success stories…here is just one of many I have witnessed….. I recently moved to a new apartment building. I am on the 3rd floor however there is an apartment above me. Right off the bat all I could hear was loud stomping every night. It was so loud I could not hear my thoughts let alone the TV. I prayed that this noise would stop. Then by chance I logged onto your site for something to do and bingo….up popped these success stories. The one about putting small mirrors facing the floor above caught my eye. I raced out the next day to buy several. I placed them in all the rooms of my apartment and I promise I am not making this up….the stomping and heavy walking completely stopped that same night. I will hear the person on a few occasions but it is not any where as loud as it was. Bless you for being in the right place and providing this advice. I truly understand the concept and your talent for putting it to a level the common person can understand is profound….thank you thank you
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For the last several months, I have been dealing with a very troublesome noisy neighbor situation. I love my apartment, and in all they years I’ve lived here, I had never had a neighbor problem until last fall, when a couple of very social guys moved in next door. They immediately began to have noisy parties nearly every weekend. Their party space was a large deck, located about fifty feet from my bedroom (our houses are VERY close together). I tried a variety of approaches over the months to help these guys understand my need for sleep…to no avail. Letters and calls to their landlord, letters and calls to them…nothing really worked. A few weeks ago, while reading your book, I read about “deflecting” the energy of (as you called them on page 218) “sucky neighbors.” I put a mirror in my bedroom window, facing outward. This mirror has special meaning for me: it’s from the home of an aunt whom I loved very much. Seeing the mirror reminds me of her house, a place where I always felt safe and happy.
Within a few days of putting the mirror in the window, I received an e-mail from a police lieutenant. This officer had been brought into the noisy neighbor situation after I wrote a letter to my neighborhood association. In his e-mail, the officer stated that he had met with my loud neighbors and “read them the riot act.” They have been quiet as MICE for the last two weeks. Not even a loud conversation out on the “party deck.” Wow.
Can’t wait to put some other cures in place and see what happens!”
Johanna
Neighbor Issue Success Stories:
I have been reading and re-reading your book for almost a year. I find so much inspiration in it that I am boundless with the successes that I have received. I can’t tell you how excited I was to see that your website has been expanded to include these success stories…here is just one of many I have witnessed….. I recently moved to a new apartment building. I am on the 3rd floor however there is an apartment above me. Right off the bat all I could hear was loud stomping every night. It was so loud I could not hear my thoughts let alone the TV. I prayed that this noise would stop. Then by chance I logged onto your site for something to do and bingo….up popped these success stories. The one about putting small mirrors facing the floor above caught my eye. I raced out the next day to buy several. I placed them in all the rooms of my apartment and I promise I am not making this up….the stomping and heavy walking completely stopped that same night. I will hear the person on a few occasions but it is not any where as loud as it was. Bless you for being in the right place and providing this advice. I truly understand the concept and your talent for putting it to a level the common person can understand is profound….thank you thank you
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For the last several months, I have been dealing with a very troublesome noisy neighbor situation. I love my apartment, and in all they years I’ve lived here, I had never had a neighbor problem until last fall, when a couple of very social guys moved in next door. They immediately began to have noisy parties nearly every weekend. Their party space was a large deck, located about fifty feet from my bedroom (our houses are VERY close together). I tried a variety of approaches over the months to help these guys understand my need for sleep…to no avail. Letters and calls to their landlord, letters and calls to them…nothing really worked. A few weeks ago, while reading your book, I read about “deflecting” the energy of (as you called them on page 218) “sucky neighbors.” I put a mirror in my bedroom window, facing outward. This mirror has special meaning for me: it’s from the home of an aunt whom I loved very much. Seeing the mirror reminds me of her house, a place where I always felt safe and happy.
Within a few days of putting the mirror in the window, I received an e-mail from a police lieutenant. This officer had been brought into the noisy neighbor situation after I wrote a letter to my neighborhood association. In his e-mail, the officer stated that he had met with my loud neighbors and “read them the riot act.” They have been quiet as MICE for the last two weeks. Not even a loud conversation out on the “party deck.” Wow.
Can’t wait to put some other cures in place and see what happens!”
Johanna
Prosperity Success Stories:
I wanted to let you know that we are able to buy this apartment thanks in part to you and your book. 3 years ago we moved to a rental unit with a fireplace in the prosperity corner. Within months both my husband and I were without jobs and wondering what’s going on! I re-read your book and filled up the fireplace with beads from Mardi Gras (purple/green/gold). Closed it up with a sheet of purple paper in a picture frame, hung a paining with water above and placed money tree & purple amethyst rock in the front. Although it looks very strange everything turned around and we were back on our feet…Actually, we are doing much better than we ever anticipated! We’re now moving out of this apartment into our new condo.
Inna
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OK, so I was a little skeptical, but I bought your book anyway. In the first chapter, low and behold I found out I had a toilet in my prosperity corner. Well I was mortified. So I set out to work. I added a mirror, 2 purple towels, and encircled every drain with a red ribbon. I have my daughter’s wedding to pay for so I really need to hang on to as much “prosperity” as I can. That was on Sunday. Monday evening, I came home from work, opened my mail, to find I received a check for several thousand dollars. It was from my mortgage company (no less) returning overpaid escrow money to me. I had no clue that this was coming. It was totally unexpected. So now I have diligently secured all my drains, and I am viewing hazardous areas of my home in a whole new light.
Next I get to work on my office!
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Thanks for writing such a wonderful book. It is amazing. I bumped up my prosperity area just in the downstairs area of my home and I started getting checks in the mail. Several were rebate checks that I thought would never come, they were already 4 months late, some I didn’t even know I would be getting and I found a winning ($5) lottery ticket that I had forgotten about. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Teresa A
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Karen assisted me last year while in Canada, many changes have taken place. I still respect her perspectives above the others I have encountered. I did, however, receive 59 lbs of chocolate in 2 weeks after using the gold foil chocolate coins cure in my wealth area! I replaced them with gold coins.
I then inherited silver coins!
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Your book arrived on my doorstep unexpectedly, sent to me from my book club by mistake. However, instead of sending it back I decided to read it anyway. Thank goodness I did! Your book has had such an amazing impact on my life.
Thanks to your suggestions for “cures”, my skeptical husband and I were able to sell our home in one week, land my husband his dream job, and receive $2,500 that we were not expecting but came to us at the exact moment we needed it!
My husband is a skeptic no more and has been urging me to find a consultant for our new home.
Many thanks to you for putting the ancient practice of feng shui in a readable, understandable format! I wish you luck and success in everything that you do.
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I started following your methodology right away. My wealth area is in my kitchen and I wanted to put something purple in there. The only thing I could find was a sponge – unused of course! and two pens. I put them on the counter and moved on to the next room. Don’t laugh, okay? But two days later I went to a meeting with my boss for my annual review and found out that the company was upgrading all the jobs and I am now under the new minimum – so I get a raise this week, and then another in April! Logic tells me the plan was underway for some time. But I didn’t know anything about it and wasn’t expecting anything – so I am greatly impressed by the purple sponge! Thank you!
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Soon after my husband and I moved into a new loft, he began to experience what he described as a “brain fog.” He is a commercial photographer and relies on not only his creativity to bring in new business, but also his skills. His creativity was strong, but when he would go to execute an idea, he said that his brain fog was preventing him from thinking through everything that he needed to do to get the shot he wanted. I of course turned to the skills and knowledge area of our new loft, our restroom. I discovered that he had placed all sorts of “mind fogging” over-the-counter medications in the cabinet. I took them all and wrapped them in red tissue paper and placed them in a box under the sink. We both stood in the restroom and said, “I am highly skilled in my profession.” About two days later, he was e-mailing copies of wonderful photographs that came out just the way he imagined!
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Last week I hung a crystal in my Wealth corner in my cube. About 24 hours later I got an email from my payroll department stating that my days worked count is ‘below the norm’, which disqualifies me for a bonus. It would make about 12 thousands dollars difference in my pay (!). I was very puzzled – I have never been in a situation ‘below the norm’. It took me 4 days of intense research and going in circles with the payroll department. I could not get one thing – I just put that crystal in my Wealth corner – and this is what I am getting?!! Further investigation showed, that due to system error my workdays got subtracted. I not only qualify for the bonus, but I got underpaid a few months ago (due to that error), and I will get extra money that I have never counted on!
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Like everyone else new to this, I had to laugh after I read your success stories, made a few changes for me and my daughter, and watched what happened. My daughter had all her bills on her microwave in her prosperity corner. I had her move out all her bills and, since she was in a hurry, put something purple on top of the microwave. She said “How about my hand lotion? It’s purple and in a purple bottle.” So she did. My bathroom is in my prosperity corner, so I tied red ribbons around my bathroom drains and around the flush handle on the toilet, and taped pictures of two elephants with their trunks up (small, discreet) that I cut from a magazine. That was Friday afternoon. In Saturday morning’s mail my daughter received word that she was accepted at the college she applied for–with the money she would be receiving from grants spelled out–and I received an unexpected check from my eye doctor…I thought my insurance company would be returning the amount I paid him that I didn’t need to…but he did instead. We both laughed at how quickly things began. Now we don’t care if it was a coincidence…we’re doing feng shui everywhere to see what adventures happen next!
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After cleaning my wealth area (corner of my kitchen where the sink is) I put the only purple/fuschia things I could find there – a silk wrap, a plastic folder and some carrier bags thinking this would do temporarily until I got something better – so far (within 2 weeks)I have found an old winning lottery ticket for $10, been sent $100 refund on my deposit for my previous apartment that was overdue since last year, got $400 holiday pay I wasn’t expecting for months and received a gift of $200 – let’s hope it continues
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I should have sent this letter a long time ago! I wanted to tell you what feng shui, with your guidance, has done for me. A year ago last September I began to arrange my house according to the guidelines in your book, Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life. I was so worried about Christmas for my 8 year old daughter, who was really struggling with my divorce from her father. We owned our home outright, and I had a great job, but money was tight. I began with my wealth corner. My daughter really wanted to help, so I explained the principles and gave her some ideas of things to find for this corner. We had so much fun! She felt she was contributing to the family and helping eliminate some of her mama’s worries. Well, just as we placed the very last item in the corner, arranging it all tastefully and with great hope, a casual acquaintance dropped by to say hello. He had been looking for antiques in the area to buy for his shop. Within an hour he had purchased a piece of furniture and some other small items I was willing to part with, and I waved goodbye to him with a check for $3800.00 in my hand! Christmas was wonderful. Next I concentrated on bringing balance and calmness to every corner of my home. My computer and work station were set up in the farthest corner from my romance corner, so I felt that business should come before relationships. (And I did not want another relationship!) As I made business contacts on line, I ran across a picture of a fellow that I could not take my eyes off of! Sound shallow? NOT! I ignored the feeling and dropped him a line, thinking that this man was way out of my league and I needed to maintain a business relationship only! We were married July 26 of last year, happily blended our families together, and bought a house we all love. My daughter is a true believer, and looks for ways to use feng shui in all aspects of her life. I will always be grateful for what I learned from you, and how it has enriched my life. I will never live without feng shui in my home or life again!
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I just wanted to write you about our experience with Feng Shui after one day of using your book.
First of all let me explain “me”. I am a vegan, who has fasted for up to five days for health and spiritual reasons for 14 years. I have and feel a real connection to the universe and all that is around me. I have become very intuitive during these years so when I began reading your book, (the first I have ever come across on this subject that I can make SENSE out of-in the past never doing anything with it since I didn’t understand a word of it in any book I would pick up on Feng Shui), I was not surprised that most of my home was NATURALLY arranged in most of what it should have been. That made me initially understand why I have gotten so far in my career and personal life with love and family. I did however find the health area of our house hurting (which made sense why my husband’s diabetes was becoming worse, though he eats well and is a vegetarian. He is also SUCH a packrat!!!!)
I immediately began to work on this area on a Friday and also made so new additions to the wealth area which had already been naturally furnished with most colors and items. Well, low and behold, the very next day I received a certified letter that I had won the grand prize in a contest and now have a free two night stay at any Marriott hotel and $500 in travelers checks. And within that week, my husband has begun to start cleaning up his stashes of “stuff” and throwing tons of things away (just for the heck of it he says) I can only pray his health also begins to improve. And during this first week I must tell you I could hardly sleep. It was like so much new energy was circulating around me and I didn’t need to sleep as much and was getting a lot of things done I was putting off. I would go all day on 3-4 hours sleep as happy as could be and not being the least bit tired.
So, yes, I agree, this feng shui stuff really works and I can only see more wonderful things happening for us. Thank you for a very simply explained and entertaining book. You are a very funny gal.
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I’ve been interested in Feng Shui since reading your wonderful book. It’s already helped me to a point where I can barely believe it. Just last week, I received a message from a friend, and subsequently spent several hours talking with her on the telephone, after not speaking with her for several years. I attribute this to some changes which I recently made to my helpful people and relationship areas. Several months ago, I added a jade plant to my prosperity area and purchased some note pads whose pages look like money (one side has a large bill illustrated on it, the other side is blank). I wrote, in green and purple ink on these papers, “I have money to purchase a new computer.” (Mine was completely obsolete to the point of being nearly useless.) As an added boost, I found a picture of the computer that I wanted, folded it up together with my bill-notes and tucked them under the jade plant’s pot.
Recently, the company that I work for had to cut back, and as a result, they’re looking to get rid of some of extra computers by giving them to us, the remaining employees, as an incentive. Additionally, when Christmas rolled around, I learned, much to my unbounded joy, that my parents had invested in a VERY exorbitant gift for me! A brand new computer! And to make matters even more amazing, it was the very same one that appeared in the picture that I tucked under the jade plant!
So after activating my wealth area, I went from being completely unable to afford a new computer to having people literally GIVING them to me! I hope that picture of Antonio Banderas in my relationship corner kicks in soon!
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I am so happy to say the moment I placed my full purple and red piggy bank in my prosperity corner, my mom called to tell me a refund check that I was not expecting from my storage company arrived at her house! Yay!
Lynn
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I have been using your book for years, and as I finally landed what could be my dream job (I haven’t started yet!). Jazz posters were placed in the prosperity corner of my home, and I had forgotten all about them over the course of two weeks. Now I will be working at the largest jazz radio station in the U.S., WBGO.
Last year, I posted pictures of homes in the prosperity corner of my home, and shortly thereafter bought my first home.
Vickie
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Have been using your book for years, love it! We are in the process of buying a new home, and I added a picture of our new home, with a crystal necklace draped over the frame in the prosperity corner of our bedroom, the results were immediate!(this is also where I keep my jewelry amoire,) – the energy was so strong, I missed a couple nights of sleep! After a week, I moved the picture to a sitting position on the furniture and rehung the picture of my daughter and son-in-law. I felt that even with the fantastic prosperity results we were getting, I still want my family to come first. Things have calmed down a bit but we are looking forward to moving in the near future! Thanks for bringing feng shui to my life. Mary H.
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I got your book and it literally changed my life. My friends and I have been into Feng Shui for awhile getting okay results. I first took down all of my decor and painted my center hall butter yellow. I realized that I had too much wood furniture and my decor was mostly earth.
Within 23 days of getting your book, I got the perfect job for me, after 2 years out of work and just in time to start paying back student loans. We get rewards for being nice and I have great hours. This is with my bathroom being in my career gua. I have a poison arrow facing my toilet, coming from my relationship corner and I painted a red line on it. That helped on so many levels.
I have used the aluminum foil envelope over 10 times and every result has been better than I imagined; I had a doctor who changed her agenda and attitude 180 degrees. My cousin finally got his stuff out of my basement after 5 years. Officials that I have to deal with have been helpful. I’ve used the mirror on my neighbor, he doesn’t play his music loud, which could be heard through both our closed windows and he got rid of his car, so his alarm isn’t going on randomly. Overall, my family is more communicative and I have become more creative.
I now look at my space with a – what would Karen do here perspective-.I’m not done yet A great thank you Karen and to the great people that surround you.
Elizabeth
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Two years ago I was in strife; the Real Estate market started to decline — but I sold my home and walked away with only a $600 profit. I moved in with a friend. After a few months; decided this wasn’t going to work, I needed to be on my own. I found your book. I started to read the book and was truly inspired. Of course, I headed right to the prosperity section… I was really hurting financially. The next morning as I headed toward the door to my office building, I looked down on the grass, and here is a $1 bill laying there. I picked it up and have used it as a bookmark ever since. I tweaked my new apartment and rooms with cures in lots of areas that I need help with. Within 6 months I was able to increase my income at work with a sales product that is helping me tremendously. I would have never thought I could do this, but I am. Slowly, but surely my income is increasing. The $1 bookmark will be a reminder to me of where I was at that time, so that I remember when the funds increase that I become wise in all of my prosperity decisions. Thanks for your book and wisdom. Bless you!
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A skeptical, but desperate friend called to enlist my advice. She and her husband are living on credit, barely making ends meet. As I described the Abundance area and where it could be found in her home and yard she literally gasped in horror. She revealed that it is their catch-all, junk room that they never use because it is filled to the brim with unused, broken, discarded junk. The wealth area of the yard was a shed filled with more junk. After a long conversation about her home and her mindset I sent her on her way with a FREE, but of course labor intensive cure. I told her to de-clutter mercilessly and then to clean the room, closet & shed like she was putting the house on the market. She called me screaming the next day to announce that her husband had received a commission check they had been waiting months for and her mom had sent her an expensive pair of shoes she’s really been wanting. Two days later she called to (breathlessly) inform me that she hadn’t stopped de-cluttering (now the entire house) and she’d found $700 in cash from their wedding that she thought they had spent and $300 in gift cards. Now a believer, I am scheduled to go FS her house in person tomorrow.
Tanya (one of my Certified Inspired Feng Shui students turned professional consultant in Denver, CO)
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My sister was in need of a different place to live. I had been reading your book, and had made some changes to my home, and suggested she use some of your suggestions to find a new place. She wrote down that she wanted a nice little house with 3 bedrooms, a garage and a yard for the baby to play and put it in a silver box with an amethyst beside it and a bamboo flute – all in the prosperity corner. Within a week, she heard about a place that was about to be put on the renters market that was within her price range. It was a small, 3 bedroom house, with part of a garage and a lovely little yard. Made believers out of us. She says that next time, she’ll ask for a bigger house. But she got exactly what she asked for.
Deb
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Great job Karen! I love the book…and your newsletters! I have been trying to feng shui my master bedroom, actually I am using an Asian theme. I hope creamy yellow walls are right, as it does sit in the prosperity corner of the house and yes…it has proven right! The bath is right in the corner with purple towels and I have purple accents in the room….I had read that water was appropriate for this space so I hope some sea shells will do the trick! Strangely enough…moving some books around the room, I found something that had fallen out of a book, it was an old check stub and $225.00!!! That has been in the book for I guess 3-4 years! Then I found 25 dollars more in a jewelry box!! But I do need help on my room to finish it….I have a ceiling fan and the door is right inline with the bed….so I have to figure what to do, because I know that’s a no-no!! Wish me luck !! Thanks b
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Just to let you know…. my prosperity corner of the house is in my son’s room, whom is 12 yrs old AND is fascinated with money and Starbucks the store. So much so that he bought his own IBM register and set up his room as a Starbucks replica!
I have been having financial problems, not liking my current job etc. In playing around with my son one day, on the Starbucks website I applied for a position that I wasn’t really thinking I would even be considered for…even though I have management experience.
One week later I get a call from Starbucks regarding my application! I just had an interview, phone interview with a staffing rep from the corporation office in Seattle for the position I applied for! Come to find out it consists of being the key contact, assisting manager for the facility development of the Starbucks stores from the ground up! 🙂
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Years ago, I asked the woman who worked at my favorite bookstore for something totally new. She gave me my first book on Feng Shui. After reading it, I found it interesting and put it away for a year. The second time I read it, though, I thought I would give Feng Shui a try. I began with my prosperity corner. I purchased a fountain, some green candles and bought a large amethyst and placed them in my prosperity corner. Months later, I unexpectedly came into $9,000, and I was thrilled. D.M.
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Your book arrived on my doorstep unexpectedly, sent to me from my book club by mistake. However, instead of sending it back I decided to read it anyway. Thank goodness I did! Your book has had such an amazing impact on my life.
Thanks to your suggestions for “cures”, my skeptical husband and I were able to sell our home in one week, land my husband his dream job, and receive $2,500 that we were not expecting but came to us at the exact moment we needed it!
My husband is a skeptic no more and has been urging me to find a consultant for our new home.
Many thanks to you for putting the ancient practice of feng shui in a readable, understandable format! I wish you luck and success in everything that you do.
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I have given copies of your book to several people already…
My Prosperity area is in my kitchen (which is a rustic light blue & pink). So- purple doesn’t quite fit the current decor (though I may change it now!) Anyway…I bought some lavender/orchid shelf liner and placed it in a couple drawers and bought some bright purple construction-type paper and put a piece under my microwave.
A few days later I received a TOTALLY unexpected check for $150- a refund from my last apartment complex, even though I moved prior to the end of my lease. (They had told me previously that I was not entitled to a refund, so they did not even have my new address.)
The very next day my new manager approached me to discuss my salary- I was recommended for a raise immediately. Go figure…
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I am a doubter to the end but bought your book after putting an offer in for our new house in Florida. Moving from Ohio to Florida means no basement and our house in Ohio had a full basement, full of stuff…after reading your book, I realized why I felt like a limb was cut when I realized I no longer have a basement to store our belongings and have extra rooms for laundry and entertainment. We move out of temp. housing to the house soon and I am determine to be very selective of what goes into it and where! Oh, the best part was that the temporary apartment was my first experiment: after putting some purple paper and several piggy banks in the apartment’s prosperity corner, our closing costs were reduced by almost $1000.00. Amazing and I am thankful!! (I have a wish for good helpful people to paint our house written on a note and in aluminum foil in the helpful people corner now!!) –Melissa
Relationships Success Stories:
Being a single mother of three, I decided to try feng shui on my relationship corner in my bedroom. I cleaned out the mold and dust, threw away the broken mirror and got rid of the pictures of lonely women surrounded by angels by my bed. I went to the craft shop and bought a picture called The Accolade (where a princess is knighting her knight), red candles, a heart crystal and a Book entitled Enchanted Love by Marianne Williamson. In the months following, I lit the candles and read the book. That year, I learned to date and have a relationship with the most exciting person I knew… myself! Eight months later I met a man at an event I would normally not go alone to and we have been together ever since.
Three months after seeing each other, I went to his home to discover that he had also bought The Accolade, at approximately the same time that I had, and for Christmas that year, he bought me the book called A Womans Worth by Marianne Williamson. We are now married and his picture (much larger then mine) is in our relationship corner in our bedroom. My Accolade now hangs in the relationship corner of my office, as a constant reminder that when you set your intentions, the universe steps in and gives you what your heart truly desires.
Thanks so much for your book!!! D.M.
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After reading your book I discovered two major problems in my apartment. My love and relationship corner was where my sewing was setup and in my bedroom my bed was under my window. Within a month of cleaning up my sewing corner and putting up a romantic poster and moving my bed I met my now fiancee and received a promotion at work. Thank you
Traci
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I bought your book and just started on a few things. The first was my relationship corner. I am divorced and am ready to start dating. As I was cleaning my laundry room out I found a fire extinguisher. I moved it out and put up some red paper and ribbon. Put some pink towels on my washer and dryer, sprayed some lavender and waited. I e-mailed an old friend that I haven’t seen since 1995. He said he had been thinking about me so much the last 2 days. We are meeting in January and who knows from there. I have laughed many times about the extinguisher in my romance corner. Maybe that was why I got divorced!! I enjoy your book a lot. Keep up the good work! Patsy St. Jeor
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I just wanted to write with a quick note to say that I absolutely loved your book. I found the chapter on love extremely helpful you have solved a bizarre problem I was having in my own love life or lack thereof. I’m 29, in shape, tan and live in southern California. But for whatever reason I could not figure out why it seemed like I was not able to make dates or even get close to anyone. I checked out what I had in my relationship corner and sure enough there was sitting a can of Black-flag bug repellent on top of the refrigerator. Once removed and other love items added, my situation quickly changed and people no longer seemed to be repelled by me. Just thought I’d let you know and thanks for the help!
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This is the story of how I met my wonderful husband. After thirty five years of lousy relationships and never having been married, a good friend gave me your book. I took a look at my relationship area (my bedroom) and, wow, it was terrible! Mismatched bedside tables (mine was a cheap, efficient Ikea model, but the one on the other, unused side of the bed was a $5, falling apart, sort of smelly thrift store purchase). The first thing I did was get matching tables. Then I started putting up some pictures. I put up a cross-stitch sampler that my grandmother did, thinking “Grandma can give me a little help, and it has pretty flowers all over it.” Within a week I was asked out three times, all by men that were much older… so I did a little review of the relationship corner and – yikes! – the sampler said 1950 at the top (the year that these men were born – ewwww!). Took that down, put up a photo of some flowers that my mom took, added a pair of little plastic red aliens holding hands. On the bedside table were the books I was reading (I thought, a literary type would be nice) including (on top) a book by travel writer Bill Bryson (who was an American who lived in the UK for years). A few weeks later I went on a trip to Italy and met David. It was the first time I really fell in love. Here’s the weird stuff: he’s a travel writer! he is from England! he literally is an alien (in fact we have to get him a espousal visa to come to the US now)! And when I we went to visit him in Ireland for the first time, there was a huge travel trunk in his relationship corner as well as a bunch of mementos from America. So strange! We are blissfully happy, living in Dublin, Ireland and awaiting that visa to go back to the US (we’ve redone our helpful people/travel area).One of the few books I brought with me from home for my 9-month stay here was yours. Thank you so much!
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Just had to share!!! I gave Karen’s book to a friend who has always doubted Feng Shui. She has a boyfriend who is selfish and does not believe in diamond rings, weddings and all that waste of money stuff. She finally read the book and decided to try a couple of things. She took her red nail polish and drew two hearts with the bottoms touching in the Relationship, Partnership and Marriage corner. This was about a month ago. Last week he took her on a cruise to Jamaica, one beautiful night on deck with an electrical storm far off in the background he got on bended knee and proposed with a beautiful diamond ring!!! And he asked if she would return to Jamaica in the spring and marry him on the beach!!!
Isn’t that beautiful???????? Talk about Happy Ch’i!!!!!!!!
Love to you all,
Pam
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I purchased your book this past weekend. What a difference a simple change has made in my life I practice feng shui, so making changes and accepting them are no problem. I had been experiencing problems of intimacy with my husband and I simply couldn’t figure why. I had been to several doctors who told me there was nothing “medically” wrong with me. I read your section in your book about cleaning out under the bed. I couldn’t believe what I found to be affecting that part of my life! I kept an emergency chain ladder (in case of a fire) so that we could escape from the 2nd floor. Oh my gosh!!!! NO WONDER I ALWAYS FELT I WAS TRYING TO ESCAPE FROM my husband!!!!!!!!! I promptly removed it and replaced it with red items as instructed. The next following days after the change, I felt so much better and actually felt like I wasn’t trying to run from my loving husband!
We have been married for 6 years (poor guy,…he’d heard every excuse for my lack of intimacy) and we have 3 year old twin boys. After reading your book ( Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life), I am going to create some changes, to enhance my husband’s career and improve the health of our boys (they are delayed in their speech).
We had a “feng shui pro” at our home in Feb. 1996 as a birthday gift from my husband. I must say, within a period of 3 months, his salary had doubled and we began to save a lot of money ( I am able to be a stay at home mom, because of those changes). Thanks again for providing me with practical information and practical cures.
Kindly yours, A
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Skeptic that I am, I never thought the feng shui would work at all, let alone so fast! I concentrated on two areas to start – Love and Relationships, and Prosperity. I tried not to overdo it, but I ended up buying a new purple bedspread (prosperity is in my bedroom) and got a pink thing going with my bathroom (where relationships/love reside). I have quite a few heartshaped objects so I tried to put them in the most visually-appealing spots. One solid red heart,in particular, moved from my fame/reputation bagua to the bathroom wall more than a couple of times in less than twelve hours.”
“I was SOOO amused to get a call the very next day from my job counselor (I’m looking for a higher paying job to help me achieve that greater prosperity) with an opening at a lab that specializes in research on the “heart.” Too much of a coincidence, I think. In addition, the same day I got two e-mails: one from a guy I’ve been exchanging e-mails with for about a week and a half who suddenly wants to meet me in person; the other from my ex-boyfriend who wants to see me after 2 months of non-communication.
I can hardly wait to find out what happens next…I’ve only had the book 4 days!! Your sense of humor, by the way, is right on the mark. Thanks for writing this book
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Here are a couple small successes with feng shui since reading your book…
First, the back of my lot has a 2 car garage that makes up the prosperity/fame/relationship guas of the lot. There is a separate door for each car to enter. I thought that I hadn’t opened the door on the right (in the relationship gua) for a while. So I went out and opened it up and swept around out there. (I have tables full of garage sale items in the garage.) The next day I got an email from a girl I hadn’t spoken to in months. She said she missed me and wanted to get back in touch. We’ve been talking again and things are going well.
Secondly, I wanted to add a new cure to my prosperity gua of my house to see what would happen. So I went online and copied a picture of a fruit tree. I placed it on the stove which is also the prosperity gua of the first floor. The next day when I was in the garage dusting my garage sale items my neighbor came up and said, “here, my dad told me to give this to you for your garage sale.” It was a small set of sugar bowls with fruit on them.
Those are just 2 of many. Thanks for the great book and site!
Michael
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My mother constantly sings your praises. I repainted and reorganized my room a couple of weeks ago and as an aid she lent me your book as well as one of your colorful handouts explaining the different areas of the room. Last Friday I took a few minutes to compare the handout to my room and see where I could put some “power tools.” The easiest (and prettiest) one seemed to be fresh flowers to go in the relationship and love corner. So I ventured out into the cold and bought a dozen pink roses, put them in a vase and placed them in my corner. By the end of the weekend, my ex-boyfriend was no longer my ex-boyfriend. He came to me with the prospect of getting back together and trying harder to make our relationship more worthwhile. This morning I looked at the roses and realized what a wonderful thing they had done! Just thought I would share. Thank you!
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Dear Karen, I have been meaning to write this for a long time I had been in an abusive relationship, and got scared off from trying again for over 10 years. Now that my one child is grown and moved out, I decided to feng shui my home. I realized that the relationships corner of my house was actually missing, so I decided to put up a reproduction of a painting, called “The Storm, by Pierre Auguste Cot, in the corner where the missing section should be. I chose that picture because it seemed to portray the qualities I wanted in a relationship. I then proceeded to treat relationships corner of that same room as well, with pretty red flowers, and a lot of beloved art objects. Well, after a month, I met an awesome guy. We are now dating, and I am so happy, at the age of 50, to rediscover love
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I’ve read and re-read your book over the past few years and have never had much luck with any of the cures, but I still believed and kept pursuing the hope that something would change. For 1 1/2 years, I had lived in a tiny, run-down studio apartment in an old apartment building that was on the incline of a steep hill. None of the cures worked. I was miserable. There was no space; I had stuff jammed wherever I could find a place. My attempts of buying a condo in the area had failed and after my last offer was refused, I said enough was enough and started envisioning and planning a move into a nice, spacious new place. Without anything picked out, I began the process of sorting and packing to prepare my mind. Then I went apartment hunting and ended up with the most perfect place—right across the street, no less, in a brand-new, upscale apartment building, overlooking a historical landmark with a huge lawn. The apartment has a little balcony off of the love and relationships gua and I knew immediately that this extra space would bring a new relationship. Well within 2 weeks of moving in, I had met a great guy and we are still together. Actually, I met lots of guys the first couple months of living here, and was thanking the balcony every day! The moral is sometimes you need to change the whole space, like I did, and start fresh.
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09/20/09
I have two female nude pictures (I woman in each picture) on my wall in my very small bedroom. I live alone and I am in a new-ish relationship, about 5 months. I took the pictures down for a while during the time I was working on my bedroom (fame and rep) and we started doing very well. I put them back up and he was sent to work out of town for 4-6 months 7 hours away from here. We are still doing well, but he is far away and I will only see him about once a month on a weekend. I just want to know if I need to get rid of the pictures or is there something I can do to them and keep them? I paid a decent amount of money and they are pretty, but I want the relationship more.
09/23/09 (Karen’s answer)
Well, I think you answered your own question here, but let me explain a few things. When someone isn’t sure about my suggestions for change, I usually say, “Try it for three months. If you don’t see anything change by then, then that item placed there doesn’t appear to be the problem.” Well, it sounds like you already did the experiment!
If it makes you feel any better about getting rid of them, I can tell you that I ALWAYS get good relationship results when the single gals in art go. And I’ve even tossed single dudes in the bachelor pads and it has worked for them as well. I had one gal, who’s home was filled to the brim with single boats painted by her dad (very sentimental). Well, it was the first time I ever ran into that situation but, you know how boats always have girl’s names? I thought, these may be her “single gals ” So we experimented and took them all down and out o the house for three months. And let me tell you, she is my quintessential “married rich” rags-to-riches story. It was really like a storybook…
It sounds like your intentions got you this far, I’d replace the singles with couples (although I’d prefer no people in the bedroom – try flower couples or other patterns in nature versus animals or people with eyes) and watch him return. Keep me in the loop when it happens too
11/13/09
Hi Karen,
My boyfriend called tonight to say he will be back home next week. His job finished 2 months early. I am so excited Thank you so much.
Sincerely,
Dianne N
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I bought your book and just started on a few things. The first was my relationship corner. I am divorce and am ready to start dating. As I was cleaning my laundry room out I found a fire extinguisher. I moved it out put up some red paper and ribbon. Put some pink towels on my washer and dryer, sprayed some lavender and waited. I e-mailed an old friend that I haven’t seen since 1995. He said he had been thinking about me so much the last 2 days. We are meeting in January and who knows from there. I have laughed many times about the extinguisher in my romance corner. Maybe that was why I got divorced I enjoy your book a lot. Keep up the good work Patsy St. Jeor
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For years the back door from the relationship area to the deck has stuck badly. I tried WD-40 which helped at times. That back door NO LONGER sticks I didn’t do anything to it The other day I went out and noticed it wasn’t sticking. It opened easily. Each time I use it, it opens easily. I haven’t done anything to the door (but you KNOW what I’ve been doing to the clutter in my mind and home ) You’re right — WHAT’S HAPPENING IN YOUR HOME IS HAPPENING IN YOUR LIFE. Thank you Karen. 🙂 Arlene A.
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Some day I will take your course & become a Certified Feng Shui Consultant. In the meantime, your book is my Bible. I have so many “Success Stories” I really don’t know where to begin. The most recent is the mirror facing my neighbors house to get rid of a dozen cats they kept outside. The cats hung out on my property, kept me up at night screeching, ( mating), and most of all “P U”. They’re all gone now. I get to hear the birds singing again! Thanks for sharing your Feng Shui knowledge with everyone. I look forward to reading you monthly chronicle.
Love,
Lillian Azzara
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I just finished listening to the Building Better Relationships Teleseminar. I heard you ask for success stories at the end and I have one for you. For about 6 months now, I have been saying my “Thank You’s” every morning that include how wonderful, kind, understanding and loving my husband is. (I had previously been complaining about him like most women.) Well, I have to admit, aside from some feng shui I have done in our bedroom to improve our relationship, I have found that he is turning into the person that I give thanks for everyday. So, I can vouch for the fact that you really do get what you think about. (He’s not perfect yet, but, he is much better!!) So, at least for me, it really does work. Regards, Katie
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I was called in by a young couple who was recently engaged and had bought a house together in March. They found that they were arguing constantly and their romantic life was suffering. Did the house walk through and in the kitchen the sink was directly opposite the stove. I had them hang a 40mm crystal between the two and she reported today that the bickering has almost completely stopped! They also had a hat rack in the relationship corner of their bedroom which was decked out with wet bath towels. Had them remove those and replace with nighties and boxers and presto, the love is back. Thank you for teaching me so well that I could be of assistance for this very adorable and wonderful couple.
Kelly, (one of my Certified Inspired Feng Shui student turned professional consultant in Irvine, CA)
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I read your book (awesome!) and I have been adjusting and fine tuning the feng shui in my new place as a result. I decided to work on my Prosperity corner in my closet this past weekend: cleaned out clutter, threw out some storage boxes I have had since I was really broke and laid down some purple cloth on the shelves. I then planted some purple, green and yellow flowers outside the house in the same corner. I came to work today and found out I was getting an unexpected annual bonus of nearly 1,000$.Thanks!
Amelia
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Hi Karen, and thanks Karen. My daughter had planned a long awaited trip to Sydney to see Beyonce. A few days before the trip (I know) she found her passport to be damaged and was told she couldn’t travel on it. She tried everything we could think of but to no avail and just no time to get a new one. Major panic set in. Having just read your great book I sprang into action. Quickly drew around my hands and put this in the helpful people and travel section of our home, which happens to be her bedroom. I found an old plastic globe of the world and set in down with Australia in full view, also requested help from the airline and put this message into a silver box. You guessed it, she sailed through customs without a word, there and back, wow, oh yes and was blown away by Beyonce!!
IT REALLY WORKS!
Chris McColl
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Dear Karen, I have been meaning to write this for a long time! I had been in an abusive relationship, and got scared off from trying again for over 10 years. Now that my one child is grown and moved out, I decided to feng shui my home. I realized that the relationships corner of my house was actually missing, so I decided to put up a reproduction of a painting called “The Storm,” by Pierre Auguste Cot, in the corner where the missing section should be. I chose that picture because it seemed to portray the qualities I wanted in a relationship. I then proceeded to treat relationships corner of that same room as well, with pretty red flowers, and a lot of beloved art objects. Well, after a month, I met an awesome guy. We are now dating, and I am so happy, at the age of 50, to rediscover love!
Callista W.
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I got your book and it literally changed my life. My friends and I have been into Feng Shui for awhile getting okay results. I first took down all my decor and painted my center hall butter yellow. I realized that I had too much wood furniture and my decor was mostly earth.
Within 23 days of getting your book, I got “the perfect” job for me, after 2 years out of work and just in time to start paying back student loans. We get rewards for being nice and I have great hours. This is with my bathroom being in my career gua. I have a poison arrow facing my toilet, coming from my relationship corner and I painted a red line on it. That helped on so many levels.
I have used the aluminum foil envelope over 10 times and every result has been better than I imagined; I had a doctor who changed her agenda and attitude 180 degrees. My cousin finally got his stuff out of my basement after 5 years. Officials that I have to deal with have been helpful. I’ve used the mirror on my neighbor, he doesn’t play his music loud, which could be heard through both our closed windows and he got rid of his car, so his alarm isn’t going on randomly .Overall, my family is more communicative and I have become more creative.
I now look at my space with a – what would Karen do here perspective-.I’m not done yet! A great thank you Karen and to the great people that surround you. Elizabeth
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I wrote before about all the good things that happened to me once I implemented your handbook techniques, baby, money, etc… Now years later I wanted to write once more:
Clearing out the front room of all Christmas stuff, adding extra living healthy plants, near the inside of the front door, and in the opposite corner of the room (prosperity) a beautiful water fountain. In the past I thought to leave the fountain off, to save money/electricity. Now I let it run all during the day until bedtime. The result? Lots of phone calls, bookings and recruits for my in-home business! Wow, my sluggish business got a burst of energy once I left that fountain running. Plus cleared the clutter, no more vacuum left in that room, nor the ironing board left in the UP position as soon as you walk in. No. Just tranquility of healthy plants, soothing colors, tiny lights on my (fake) tree, and the trickling of the fountain.
Now customers beep in while I’m talking to other customers!
I try to keep this Feng Shui simple, just focus on what I need to change the most and my energies follow that path. I love when I see results, it’s very exciting!
Lori Hunter
Skills and Knowledge Success Stories:
Thank you for the many excellent answers to my many questions. I last wrote to you in February. Many successes have occurred. I have a constant light in my knowledge and skills area as well as lights in my creativity, prosperity, relationship and health areas from time to time. I did the Silva course in February. Then I spent quite a bit of time with Barbara Brennan clearing and healing my chakras. I am now using Silva and NLP, Neuro Linguistic Programming. I have with confidence made the career decision that eluded me for 30 years. My relationships with my husband and children are very good. And I am easily making personal changes which I had found difficult/impossible. I lost 17 lb effortlessly in the last 6 Months. 5 more to go to target weight. My son who was planning to go to Alaska in Dec chose a wiser plan. He left the day after Father’s Day and will be driving back down in Sept. He had a wonderful summer and will be home soon. My older son graduated from medical school and decided on a career in finance associated with that training. I painted his room all the colors of the bagua and then painted the room color over it.
Thank you for all your help. Things are wonderful.
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Soon after my husband and I moved into a new loft, he began to experience what he described as a “brain fog.” He is a commercial photographer and relies on not only his creativity to bring in new business, but also his skills. His creativity was strong, but when he would go to execute an idea, he said that his brain fog was preventing him from thinking through everything that he needed to do to get the shot he wanted. I of course turned to the skills and knowledge area of our new loft, our restroom. I discovered that he had placed all sorts of “mind fogging” over-the-counter medications in the cabinet. I took them all and wrapped them in red tissue paper and placed them in a box under the sink. We both stood in the restroom and said, “I am highly skilled in my profession.” About two days later, he was e-mailing copies of wonderful photographs that came out just they way he imagined!
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I want to thank you for your book! I have been trying to study feng shui for years but have never gotten a clear understanding of it until your book. I just wanted to write and tell you something that was astounding to me. I moved my computer from the “fame” gua to the “knowledge” gua. I had an expensive camera on the desk that had not worked for about a year. It was going to take a small fortune just to get it fixed so I had been delaying it. The other day I was looking at it and thinking maybe I should just throw it away. I started playing with it and it started to work! I was amazed! I feel confident that I owe it to the fact that I moved my camera (a hobby I enjoy) into the knowledge gua. Thanks so much! I knew feng shui worked before but this is a real testament to positive energy.
Leslie