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228 Pages·2004·2.11 MB·English

FAST FENG SHUI SERIES
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STEPHANIE ROBERTS
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Prosperity
8 Steps
on the Path to Abundance
S T E P H A N I E R O B E R T S
Lotus Pond Press, LLC
Fast Feng Shui for Prosperity
8 Steps on the Path to Abundance
by
Stephanie Roberts
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FOREWORD
Coming to terms with our relationship to money and balancing the core issues we
have about money allows our lives to be rich and money to flow. Fast Feng Shui for
Prosperity delivers profound ways to increase wealth potential by exploring how
feng shui can be used to enhance the inner as well as outer aspects of wealth.
In this groundbreaking new book, Stephanie Roberts shows how our inner-
most thought processes can either support or sabotage our best efforts to raise our
level of financial wellbeing. In the safe and private honesty of our own minds,
with this book as our guide, we can analyze how thought and behavioral patterns
either help us to achieve an experience of abundance (even with little money in the
bank) or banish us to the poor house.
Part I of Fast Feng Shui for Prosperity provides a thorough introduction to the
nine Fast Feng Shui principles as they apply specifically to money issues—from
defining your goals and identifying key “power spots” in your home, to correcting
feng shui problems, adding specific wealth enhancements and more. Readers with
a sense of urgency may skip directly to Part III, to choose from a variety of cash
flow cures drawn from a range of feng shui traditions.
It is the central section of this book that will lift your understanding of the
relationship between feng shui and prosperity to an entirely new level. In Part II:
The Inner Path, Stephanie revisits the feng shui ba gua—the energy template of Chi-
nese metaphysics and the map that defines the energy centers in your home—and
translates its archetypal energies into thought-provoking and evolutionary inter-
pretations that help us understand our relationship with money.
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With great psychological depth, Stephanie reveals how and why our own atti-
tudes and actions are so powerfully implicated in the success or failure of standard
feng shui strategies. The concrete action steps and practices that she provides for
each step in this transformational model can lift your consciousness and catapult
you to a higher experience of wealth.
As you follow the steps presented in this powerful book, you will discover the
secrets revealed by your outer actions and innermost beliefs about wealth. Fast
Feng Shui for Prosperity will guide you gently into a deeper and truer consciousness
of how your own thoughts and actions are at the root of happiness—and how feng
shui can be applied from the inside out to align those thoughts and actions with
your most heartfelt dreams and desires.
Along the way, you will discover key insights such as: whether you are truly
open to receive what you desire; how letting go of attachment can impact what you
receive; why jealousy, envy, and shame keep you from experiencing the wealth
you desire; what your financial habits reveal about your ability to care for and
nurture yourself; why the true meaning of the “wealth corner” encompasses every
kind of blessing whether financial in nature or not; and why learning to let go of
doubt, worry anxiety is the key to a happy and rewarding life.
One of the most essential benefits of reading this book is that it invites you to
embrace what I believe is the most important secret to living richly: When you stop
worrying about your bills, and think instead about the sheltering roof over your
head, the nourishing food on your table, the gift of your health, the love of your
family and friends, and that you are alive, you realize that in this moment you
really do have all that you need. Sure, we’d all like to have a higher income and of
course we can look forward to a vacation or a new car, but in knowing that we have
all we need right now, we can live a happy and full life in the moment instead of in
thoughts of future desires. That’s the easy part.
The hard part is to create conscious moments throughout your day when you
remember all the good things that are present for you right now. This is a challenge
for all who continually aspire to evolve into better and more enlightened human
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beings. For most of us, including me, when confronted with the day-to-day “afflic-
tions of an imperfect world,” our unconscious mind automatically runs the tape
that includes all our frustrations, insecurities, and disappointments. I say this to
you, as I daily remind myself: Be mindful when less-than-perfect situations occur,
be kind to yourself, and take a grounding and patient breath. Know that you are
human and full of grace.
Living more prosperously can start right now. When you wake up, review your
good fortune. When you go to sleep, say thank you for all your blessings. Freedom
comes more easily from relaxing and being happy within than it does from the
relentless pursuit of more money. Ebb and flow are the essential cycles of nature,
and financial challenges are a natural part of the life experience. Even in times of
adversity, the road is rich when your attitude is uplifting, and the journey smoother
when you use feng shui and inner serenity to smooth out the rough edges of expe-
rience. When we encounter these financial bumps in the road, the practical steps
for both feng shui enhancement and self-inquiry that you will find in this book
will help you proceed with grace and equanimity.
It has been an honor and privilege to introduce Stephanie Roberts’s Fast Feng
Shui for Prosperity. I encourage you to relish and process every morsel of this excel-
lent offering.
To you dear reader, I wish great success in developing your inner and outer
riches.
Jami Lin
Author of the Feng Shui Home Study Mastery Program, Feng Shui Today, and
The Essence of Feng Shui.
For more wisdom and insight from Jami,
please visit her website at: www.JamiLin.com
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this book is dedicated to
Lakshmi
Hindu Goddess of Abundance
Thank you, Lakshmi, for all of your blessings!
om shrim maha Lakshmiyei swaha
(cid:67)
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Author’s Note
For many years before I discovered feng shui, I was an independent training
consultant in New York City. I made good money when I was working, but often
the weeks between projects would stretch on for longer than was comfortable, and
the balance in my “incredible shrinking bank account”—as I jokingly called it then—
would get a little scary before a new project came along to fill it up again. As you
will learn in Part II of this book, using those words to describe my finances was not
a good idea. I wish I’d known that at the time!
As I began to study feng shui in the mid-1990s, and applied the principles that
I now write about to my own life, I experienced enough pleasant surprises to con-
vince me that these methods were having a positive effect.
When I moved to Hawaii in 1999 with my husband-to-be, I gave up my career
as a training consultant to live in a place where the natural beauty is almost as
mind-boggling as the extremely high cost of living. Throughout the sometimes
challenging process of writing and launching the Fast Feng Shui books and becom-
ing Internet entrepreneurs, we have continued to use the principles that you will
learn in this book to create both an inner and an outer environment that support
our financial success.
Many people are attracted to feng shui by the idea that they might solve their
money problems by making a few simple changes to their home. I can’t promise
that you will enjoy miraculous effects from feng shui, although it can work that
way for some lucky people. For the rest of us, feng shui can help smooth the way to
a promotion at work, bring new opportunities to earn and prosper, and ease the
stress and anxiety that so often accompany our financial affairs.
If you see those around you enjoying a level of prosperity that you can’t seem
to achieve, no matter how hard you try, I’ve written this book for you. It’s also for
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anyone who would like to experience more ease and abundance in all the financial
aspects of his or her life.
The contemporary Western style of feng shui that I practice and write about
(which is based on, but does not strictly follow, the BTB methods) places a great
deal of emphasis on the power of intention as a key factor to success. Intention is
also the power behind what is called “deliberate creation,” “prosperity conscious-
ness,” or “the law of attraction.” This is the level at which we either attract into our
lives that which we desire, or we trip ourselves up, get in our own way, and hold
ourselves back—often without being aware how our unconscious attitudes and
beliefs are making it difficult, or even impossible, to experience the abundance
that we see others around us enjoying.
This book will teach you, step-by-step, how to apply key principles of the con-
temporary western style of feng shui to your home so you can find your prosper-
ity power spots and make important corrections and enhancements right away. It
also explores how each area of the ba gua (the feng shui energy map) can be used to
support greater abundance and corresponds to a key attribute of inner prosperity.
By combining outer feng shui with inner realignment, the sometimes rocky and
winding path to abundance becomes smooth and straight.
Wishing you a delightful and rewarding journey,
Stephanie Roberts
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Table of Contents
FOREWORD by Jami Lin 1
Author’s Note 5
INTRODUCTION 9
Prosperity Consciousness & the Feng Shui of Money 10
How to Use this Book 17
PART ONE: GUIDING PRINCIPLES 19
Know What You Want 21
Locate Your Power Spots 23
Create a Path for Chi 26
Repaint, Repair, Renew 33
Clean Up Your Clutter 35
Neutralize Negative Influences 39
Activate Your Power Spots 53
Work on Yourself as Well as Your Home 59
Evaluate Your Results 62
PART TWO: THE INNER PATH 65
Prosperity Feng Shui from the Inside Out 67
Start from the Center 68
The Eight Steps 72
Step 1. Receive 74
Step 2. Give 82
Step 3. Nurture 90
Step 4. Trust 98
Step 5. Express 105
Step 6. Observe 114
Step 7. Begin 124
Step 8. Complete 133
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