Power Your Career with Feng Shui

Portland, Oregon (PRWEB) June 22, 2009

Can store owners use feng shui in retail environments to increase business? Can job seekers use feng shui career tips to get that next promotion, or secure their position in a faltering economy? Financial analyst and co-author of the ebook, Power Your Career with Feng Shui, Jim Reyes, of Portland, Ore., believes they can. He and his wife Anezka Drazil, a 20-year feng shui consultant, had already seen feng shui work "wonders" in Reyes' own career, and had also seen it work for countless others through Drazil's practice as a feng shui consultant.

Drazil, who has studied under feng shui notables Denise Linn, author of Feng Shui for the Soul, and Marie Diamond, of The Secret video fame, directs the Portland Feng Shui Institute in Portland, Ore. "I provided the know-how," says Drazil, "while Jim helped put it in layman's terms."

"We wanted the book to be accessible to everyone, particularly because of the hardships caused by the economic recession" Reyes said, "so we explain it all in easy to grasp language." The ebook is presented over 170 pages and nine chapters (nine is a significant number in feng shui) and includes their initial introduction to feng shui, Reyes's early reluctance "as a numbers guy who is not at all woo-woo," he says, and then shows how they used feng shui principles to create opportunity after opportunity for Reyes's career, and later, the careers of Drazil's feng shui consulting clients.

One of the book's early chapters is an entertaining "he says/she says" format as Drazil first begins to learn about feng shui and introduces its principles to Reyes, starting with items that needed to be addressed in their own home. "At first I thought she was just trying to get me to complete my 'Honey Do' list," Reyes writes. When, after one weekend of improving the Career area of their home, Jim returned to work the next day to a promotion and retroactive raise that his boss had been stalling on for several months, "I became a believer," he said.

After taking readers through the all-important clutter-clearing phase, the book introduces space and energy clearing methods to rid the environment of negative energy that may be left over from previous tenants or previous emotional difficulties. "All matter is energy," says Drazil, "and everything from a water drop to the walls in a room can hold the vibrations of negative energy." Drazil and Reyes outline several methods to release this energy, and then fill the space with positive intentions. Drazil considers energy clearing a significant contribution to her feng shui consulting practice. "It makes everything you do with feng shui more powerful," she says.

The book refers the reader to the bagua map, a directional map used by feng shui practitioners for centuries, to show where the wealth, career, health, relationship, and other areas of the house are located. "Once these areas are identified, it becomes a matter of looking at them to see what's there," says Drazil. "Often whichever area of a person's life is in turmoil will also be an area of the home or office that is in need of repairs, sprucing up, or enhancing."

In addition to the Career Area, another bagua map location that are central to the book are the Wealth area, and the Helpful People area (referred to as Networking in the book). The authors describe how to optimize these key areas, and indeed, all areas of the home or work space, to promote career success.

If certain problems exist (stairs in the wrong place, the house at the junction of a T in a road, Drazil and Reyes show how to apply feng shui remedies to combat these.

At the back of the book are a list of feng shui resources for further reading and exploration.

Power Your Career with Feng Shui is available in ebook format (as an immediate .pdf download) for $ 27 through Drazil's Web site, at Access Feng Shui.

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Applying feng shui to your home does not mean you have to hire an interior designer or expert of feng shui. Instead, there are some simple ways you can increase the feng shui of your home. For those that are beginners in regards to feng shui, this article will offer a few basic tips you can make your home a beautiful place to dwell within.

The first key to making your home a place you wish to live in, is to identify the problem areas of your home. Maybe there is a bathroom or bedroom you simply never enter, because you do not like being in those rooms. Maybe you love your kitchen, but the den is a disaster. Other areas that people frequently forget about are the garage and a backdoor patio or deck. It is crucial that you place these rooms on a list of rooms that need better feng shui.

After you have identified the rooms that need more attention, you can proceed with actually implementing some feng shui tips. When starting out, it is best to keep a relaxed approach. Instead of feeling the need to make your home perfect in one day, try to pick a room to work on throughout the week.

One feng shui tip that is easy to implement for beginners is checking the flow of chi in your home. This involves a simple visualization technique, that can be helpful in determining which areas to work on in your home. Visualize water flowing throughout your home. If there is a place it stops due to bad energy, then work on this area. For example, many people have a patio that the "water" does not even touch, because it is empty or too cluttered. If your patio is still sparse, then create good energy in the area by placing a set of chairs and table in the area. Also, you may want to place a fire pit in the area, to make it a place that is more readily enjoyed by you, your family, and your guests.

You can also apply feng shui to your patio by considering if it is a place for social gatherings or a place for personal refuge. This will help you better decide how to design your patio. For example, you may want to place a larger table and chair set on the patio if it is for social gatherings. Or, you may want to place more bushes and trees in the area if it is for a personal refuge.

However you decide to design your patio and home is up to you. However, improving the feng shui of its design can lead you to a happier life spent in the home you have worked so hard to earn!

Geoffrey F. Moore
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