The idea behind feng shui is simple: to improve any aspect of your life, create the right atmosphere to support it. All the strands of this ancient practice come together in this intelligently organized, visual reference that emphasizes feng shui's practical benefits. Real life applications and examples enhance lucid explanations of the fundamental concepts: chi energy, yin and yang, the five elements, and eight trigrams. All the essential tools are laid out, too--everyday objects like mirrors, plants, and fountains that keep the energy flowing smoothly. A comprehensive directory shows how these principles can enhance relationships, finances, creativity, career, health, and spiritual connections.

What if you could always have a sparkling clean and organised home by just spending 15 minutes per day on your housework? The 15-Minute Clean will teach you how to do just that.

Cleaning has never been easier than with TV's Queen of Clean, Lynsey Crombie, and her guide to your new daily cleaning routine. No more mess, no more hours of chores on the weekend - just one 15-minute session per day that you will power through in a flash - leaving you to enjoy the rest of your day. Once you adopt your daily 15-Minute Clean, you'll never look back.

• Create your own quick and easy daily routine
• Declutter and organise your home without a fuss
• Create more time for loved ones
• Soothe your soul with a tidy and calming environment
• Never spend a weekend on chores again

Many books have been written on the subject of Flying Stars, a Classical Feng Shui sub-system popular amongst Feng Shui practitioners in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Malaysia. In this book Joey Yap shows you how to apply Xuan Kong Flying Stars in the course of just eight chapters. Many Flying Stars books are heavy on theory or are orientated on giving the reader the technical skills required to plot a Flying Stars chart. Some books advocate the use of objects as cures or do not focus on the skills needed to interpret a Flying Stars chart. Forms is also frequently ignored in many books on Flying Stars. Xuan Kong Feng Shui combines all the key technical and theoretical skills you need to have, with the all-important practical components of interpretation and application. This book is written in the easy-to-read style that has become the hallmark of Joey Yap books. Joey shares with you techniques and tips on not just how to unlock the potential of the Flying Stars in a property using methods and techniques, practised in the field by professional Feng Shui consultants. Most importantly, Joey shows you how this can be done without the use of any symbolic objects or without the placement of 'good luck' cures. With this book: Understand the key basic theories of Classical Feng Shui; Learn how to plot a Flying Stars chart and super-impose a Flying Stars chart onto any property; Learn how to apply Flying Stars in any period, in any property, to activate Wealth Luck and People Luck; Understand how Forms work with Flying Stars Feng Shui, practical tips and techniques on dealing with common problems like the 5 Yellow Star and how to unlock the Qi in auspicious stars.

A comprehensive illustrated guide to the powerful Chinese art of Feng Shui in the home, garden and office; declutter your life and encourage positive energy flows. A newly updated and relaunched large-format edition. It will encourage you to discard everything that clutters your life by encouraging positive energy flows inside the home, and creating a nurturing garden based on natural forces. At work, you will find that relatively small changes can have instant impact. Over 800 illustrations, including commissioned photographs and easy-to-follow charts, show you how this increasingly popular ancient philosophy can be used in the modern world. It will focus your thoughts about your environment and help you create the life you really want.

Life Star's basic characteristics and how you operate in matters of career, wealth, relationship, and a health overview. Favourable and unfavourable personal directions. Bed Alignment Directions. Best Floors (for high-rise living). Detailed guide to how the Xuan Kong Nine Flying Stars will affect your personal Life Star when it flies into a particular sector of your home or office. Life Star's compatibility with other Life Star individuals. 2 Black Life Star. The 2 Black Life Star character is a nurturing, resourceful, and supportive one. Like the Earth of the soil cradles all of life, you tend to be the patient and forgiving individual who helps others realizes their potential.

The study of BaZi (Chinese Astrology) is a sophisticated and multi-faceted exploration into how the simplest information - a person's birth date and time - can reveal a wealth of knowledge about that particular person's character, temperament, behavioural attributes, luck outcome and fortune. This BaZi Hour Pillar Useful Gods Reference Series is designed to supplement the studies and practice of BaZi students and practitioners in helping them understand how each Hour Pillar defines a BaZi Structure, how to select the Useful Gods and Favourable Elements of a chart and how to analyse and interpret these Structures. The information in this series is based on classical methods and techniques that are derived from traditional Chinese BaZi texts and material. It presents the transliterated version of these traditional texts for the modern, English-speaking practitioner and student without losing the essence of the original. This book focuses on Wood Day Masters. It serves as a functional and helpful reference guide and includes: The Hour Pillar attributes of Jia and Yi Wood respectively in each of the 12 months. Useful Gods selection reference guide based on the Hour of Birth for each of the 12 months. Learn how to select the Useful Gods and Favourable Elements of a BaZi chart for the Wood Day Masters in all 12 months of the year based on its Hour of Birth. Detailed classical commentary on the factors affecting the overall strength of the Day Master and the Hour Pillar in 12 different months. Additional Hour Attributes that may affect the Day Master depending on different Structures and Useful Gods.

Change Your Look, Change Your Life

Feng shui master Carole Swann Meltzer and David Andrusia present feng shui in a new way: Instead of feng shui-ing the space around you, you feng shui your body. Learn how to use color, cut, fabric, and style -- even your accessories and hair color -- to:

• jump-start your career
  
• inspire your creativity
  
• ensure your health
  

You'll also learn effective meditation techniques to gain focus in all that you do, plus easy exercises for greater energy than ever before. Feng Shui Chic will help you achieve your greatest goals...and prosper in every part of your life -- today, tomorrow, and in the time to come.

A practical guide to the art of feng shui. Filled with easy-to-use tips and techniques for improving the energy in your life, this book will teach you to harmonize and lay out spaces in your home to enhance your personal energy, improve your overall wellbeing, and bring good fortune and balance into your life. Includes information on how to: Declutter to clear the energy in your home Use the Chinese bagua (number square) to map out rooms to enhance energy Employ the five elements to harmonize the energy of your home Use feng shui for the exterior of your home and outside landscaping This wonderful primer will be hailed by anyone interested in interior design, Chinese legend and lore, and the creation of healing and harmonious living spaces.

Life Star's basic characteristics and how you operate in matters of career, wealth, relationship, and a health overview. Favourable and unfavourable personal directions. Bed alignment directions. Best floors (for high-rise living). Detailed guide to how the Xuan Kong Nine Flying Stars will affect your personal Life Star when it flies into a particular sector of your home or office. Life Star's compatibility with other Life Star individuals. 7 Red Life Star. The 7 Red Life Star character is an observant, resourceful and communicative one. For a Metal element associated with precious metals and gold, you are someone who possesses a cheery disposition and a good capacity for extravagance and fun.

Declutter every aspect of your life - from your wardrobe, exercise schedule and food budget to your phone, bookshelves and beauty regime - with this realistic guide to getting neat and keeping things that way.

Anna Newton is just trying to balance work, her friends, her family, her husband Mark, a growing handbag habit and a love for takeaway pizza. Over the past 8 years of running the blog and corresponding YouTube Chanel 'The Anna Edit', she's grown a loyal viewership who tune in for her weekly videos on everything from house renovations to the best summer foundation.

Anna is a typical Virgo she loves being organised. She s Marie Kondo'd her house, nearly throwing away her TV remote in the process. She's waved goodbye to her things with Fumio Sasaki. She's minimized and bullet-journalled her schedules down to the finest detail. Along the way, she's realised something key: there s no one prescription for an organized life, a tidy home and calm mind. Instead, it's all about editing.

Learn how to edit your:

- Home

- Calendar

- Exercise regime

- Social life

- Me time

- Capsule wardrobe

- Household budget

- Digital detox

- Beauty routine

- Office space

It's about how to utilise your time and spend more of it doing what makes you happy. An Edited Life is here to help you stay on top of every aspect of your world.

This title includes contents such as: Introduction; Feng Shui Theory; The Bedroom; Children & Pregnancy; Colours, Numbers & Water; Date Selection; Festivals; Decorations & Symbols; Doors & Windows; Exteriors; Feng Shui Calculations; Internal Shapes & Structures; Mirrors; The Office & Work; Other Rooms; Spiritual Matters; Chinese Astrology; Chinese Names; and, Index.

Life Star's basic characteristics and how you operate in matters of career, wealth, relationship, and a health overview. Favourable and unfavorable personal directions. Bed Alignment Directions. Best Floors (for high-rise living). Detailed guide to how the Xuan Kong Nine Flying Stars will affect your personal Life Star when it flies into a particular sector of your home or office. Life Star's compatibility with other Life Star individuals. 1 White Life Star. The 1 White Life Star character is a reflective, courageous, and independent one. You possess an inherent duality that makes you a mystery to others.

From being the sole and secret preserve of the ancient Chinese Emperors, the art of Feng Shui has been discovered and successfully applied in the West. Now it is widely accepted as really useful and beneficial. Until the arrival of this book, the subject has been presented in all its highly structured and complex philosophy. Here you will find that keep it simple has been successfully achieved. This is a brilliant lifestyle guide. Step by step, it builds the application of Feng Shui around you. With it you will be able to energise your environment to generate greater harmony and positive health and wealth benefits.

Ian Bruce has written this book with the aim of helping the amateur grasp the concepts of this ancient Chinese ideology. It includes an introduction about the philosophy of Feng Shui and explains terms such as Ch'i in easy to understand language. Each room of a house is given its own chapter and includes ideas for creating ideal living space. It is fully illustrated throughout and includes colour pictures to help you make the most of your home.

Pick up The Ultimate I-Ching and you will be able to start working with the hexagrams straightaway, guided by the easy-to-follow bite-size teachings, unique explanatory graphics and clear, non-mystical hexagram readings. This is the only book to compare and contrast the different theories and traditions and dig down to the essence of this incredibly profound and ancient Chinese divinatory practice so that anyone can use it to receive advice from the universe. Learn: * how to cast a reading with coins or with stalks * how to interpret each of the 64 hexagrams, drawing in wisdom from a huge range of scholarly sources * how to use the readings as a practical life guide * all about the I-Ching - from its history to its theory to its practice. There are many huge volumes of I-Ching theory, but all you need to know is contained in The Ultimate I-Ching. It is written in the spirit of Confucius, who said that the I-Ching - the Book of Changes - is a book that should be carried with you everywhere, because life itself is full of changes.

In her third book "Conversations with Your Home," Carole Hyder goes radically beyond Feng Shui principles into a new dimension. She dares to open the door to the idea that a house is alive and vital and that it wants to help, to protect, and to inspire those who live within its walls. Through touching stories, her personal observations, and thought-provoking exercises, this book will guide you in having meaningful conversations with your own space in order to help you create your perfect life. "Conversations with Your Home" is a landmark approach to creating a sacred place you can call "home." Using her Feng Shui experience to propel her into new territory, Carole Hyder guides you into discovering the possibilities your home may offer. The first part of the book looks at your home from a psychological perspective, exploring how your home may already be indicating your future without you knowing exactly what it's saying. In the second part of "Conversations with Your Home," Carole offers exercises to help you make a connection with your home. Each exercise is intended to help you open the door to having an active communication between you and your space. The third part helps you understand your home by identifying an archetype that your space may be expressing. Nine different archetypes are presented for consideration, accompanied by a questionnaire to assist in discerning the unique energy your home may be holding. All three sections of the book are intended to help you build and nurture a healthy and vital relationship with your home. In doing so, you will realize that you are not alone in your journey but instead are connected to a conscious energy that happens to come to you in a spatial format. This energy can help you feel whole and safe so that, in the end, you can create your perfect life.

The study of BaZi (Chinese Astrology) is a sophisticated and multi-faceted exploration into how the simplest information - a person's birth date and time - can reveal a wealth of knowledge about that particular person's character, temperament, behavioural attributes, luck outcome and fortune. This BaZi Hour Pillar Useful Gods Reference Series is designed to supplement the studies and practice of BaZi students and practitioners in helping them understand how each Hour Pillar defines a BaZi Structure, how to select the Useful Gods and Favourable Elements of a chart and how to analyse and interpret these Structures. The information in this series is based on classical methods and techniques that are derived from traditional Chinese BaZi texts and material. It presents the transliterated version of these traditional texts for the modern, English-speaking practitioner and student without losing the essence of the original. This book focuses on Earth Day Masters. It serves as a functional and helpful reference guide and includes: The Hour Pillar attributes of Wu and Ji Earth respectively in each of the 12 months. Useful Gods selection reference guide based on the Hour of Birth for each of the 12 months. Learn how to select the Useful Gods and Favourable Elements of a BaZi chart for the Earth Day Masters in all 12 months of the year based on its Hour of Birth. Detailed classical commentary on the factors affecting the overall strength of the Day Master and the Hour Pillar in 12 different months. Additional Hour Attributes that may affect the Day Master depending on different Structures and Useful Gods.

Life Star's basic characteristics and how you operate in matters of career, wealth, relationship, and a health overview. Favourable and Unfavourable personal directions. Bed Alignment Directions. Best Floors (for high-rise living). Detailed guide to how the Xuan Kong Nine Flying Stars will affect your personal Life Star when it flies into a particular sector of your home or office. Life Star's compatibility with other Life Star individuals. 8 White Life Star. The 8 White Life Star character is a consistent, reliable and optimistic one. Like the Earth of big immovable rock formations and mountains, you epitomize solidity, calmness, and a certain form of majesty.

Joey Yap continues his exploration on the study and practice of Feng Shui in the modern age through a series of essays and personal anecdotes. Debunking superstition, offering simple and understandable Feng Shui-It-Yourself tips, and expounding on the history and origins of classical Feng Shui, Joey takes readers on a journey that is always refreshing and exciting. This book was written for people both new and familiar to Feng Shui. In his trademark lucid and forthright style, Joey covers themes and topics that allow anyone to read the book from start to finish, or dip sporadically into any one specific chapter that takes their fancy. Besides taking you behind-the-scenes on actual Feng Shui audits, there are also chapters on how beginners can easily and accurately incorporate Feng Shui practice into their lives, as well as travel articles that offer proof that when it comes to Feng Shui, the Qi literally knows no boundaries. It makes a perfect gift for yourself, or someone you know with an interest and curiosity in Feng Shui and Chinese Metaphysics. Among the highlights you will find in this book are: The power of Date Selection: It works for me and you, and it works for Hollywood too; The fallacy of object placement: Why placing Mandarin Ducks in your study has only aesthetic, not Feng Shui, value; The other Art of War: The power and potency of Qi Men Dun Jia, a field of Chinese Metaphysics; How to spot a fake Feng Shui consultant from a real one: Be on guard against Jedi Knight consultants; The different schools of Feng Shui: An overview of the San He and San Yuan systems of Feng Shui; Questions on Feng Shui from regular folk like you: Joey Yap plays Feng Shui agony uncle.