Clear Your Clutter With Feng Shui | 
| Author: Karen Kingston
Publisher: Broadway
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  206 reviews
Sales Rank: 3561
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0767903595
Dewey Decimal Number: 133.3337
EAN: 9780767903592
ASIN: 0767903595
Publication Date: May 4, 1999
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Condition: 5m some shelf wear, very readable
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Drawing on the success of her first book, Creating Sacred Space with Feng Shui, Karen Kingston has met popular demand by expanding on the indispensable activity of clearing clutter. There is very little of actual Feng Shui here, and certainly nothing you can't get elsewhere, but the clutter problem gets full and complete treatment. Kingston reminds us that clutter is stuck energy that keeps you stuck in undesirable life patterns. Therefore, you can "sort out your life by sorting out your junk." Kingston covers the reasons we keep things as well as the amazing stories of people who have cleared their clutter away. More than just junk, clutter is all those things that have negative symbology and that collect stagnant energy. This latter can also apply to bodily, emotional, and spiritual clutter, all of which Kingston describes with characteristic passion. In an age of accumulation, it's good to see a book that frees up life again.
Product Description
Clear Your Clutter and Transform Your Life!
Clutter is trapped energy that has far-reaching effects physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. The simple act of clearing clutter can transform your life by releasing negative emotions, generating energy, and allowing you to create space in your life for the things you want to achieve. In Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, Karen Kingston, pioneer of a branch of Feng Shui known as Space Clearing, expertly guides you through the liberating task of clutter clearing. You will learn:
Why you keep clutter
How to identify and clear clutter in your home or workplace
How to clear clutter from your body, mind, and spirit
How to stay clutter-free
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 Feng Shui For Clutterbugs March 18, 2008
For individuals who suddenly find themselves with more stuff than they have space for, this book is helpful in clearing out the clutter. Keep in mind that clutter doesn't develop overnight so it will take time to achieve your goal of getting rid of it. This book is a good first step of a long journey.
Liberating March 14, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Whether you buy into feng shui or not, this book could change how you look at what you own.
I first encountered this gem of a book when it initially came out, and over the years I have bought multiple copies for friends and family members.
The basic premise is simple but liberating: If you don't love it or it is not useful, get rid of it. I was so motivated after reading this book that I started sorting the very same night, and within a short period of time I was left with: a heck of a lot less than I had before, but all of it stuff that I loved and valued. And since that time I have retained the same desire to own less, while seeking out quality.
To date I've read many books on simplicity and clutter clearing, and I can honestly say that none of them come even close to this one. It is short and to the point -- and that is the beauty of it.
Jennifer Skinner
Author of The Very Small Closet
Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui February 23, 2008
Reading this book was a life-changing experience. It made me look at the reasons I hold onto things, and helped me gain the courage to pass them along when needed, or be clear about why I was keeping them. It also helped to create fresh energy, which got many of the "stuck" areas of my life flowing again. I would highly recommend it.
 Not a book to be lightly tossed aside: throw it with great force instead January 14, 2008
11 out of 17 found this review helpful
In my continuing effort to clear my home of clutter and throw off bad habits learned from my parents, I read a number of reviews praising Karen Kingston's "Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui" for its simplicity and useful information.
They were so wrong. This book is horrendous.
The first half of the book is more a paean to Kingston herself than anything else: every page contains a testimonial detailing how incredible she and her books and her seminars are despite the fact that every idea she has is either stolen from the quack medicine community or from true Feng Shui practitioners. Among other things, Kingston believes (and I am not making this up, no matter how bizarrely ludicrous this all sounds):
* that she can tell if somebody died in a house, even years earlier, because the death causes "energy" to ball up in one area of the home
* that if someone went bankrupt, committed a crime, or - horrors of horrors - gained weight in the house, buying that house means the same thing will happen to you too
* that blowing water up your rear end regularly will somehow not just make you rich; it'll also cure any disease you have (apparently all her clients are immortals?)
* that having stuff around that you only use once a year is an "energy drain" (apparently you're supposed to throw it out and buy it again every year?)
* that somehow having millions in the bank doesn't make you rich, because she wasn't rich when she bought a million-dollar estate in Bali. It was just feng shui.
I am personally offended by this book, so much that I have returned it hours after receiving it. WHY would anyone publish such pseudoscientific claptrap nonsense? Oh, I forgot: because people will believe anything as long as it has absolutely no scientific basis whatsoever.
This book is an embarrassment to the publishing world, and I don't recommend it.
(Title borrowed from The Portable Dorothy Parker (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition): if you want to spend money, buy something of hers instead.)
This book changed my life! January 8, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book literally changed my life and made me realize what clutter meant growing up ina household with Depression Era parents. Why I held on to certain things that I did and why it made me anxious! It also made me realize that my purpose was to help others overcome their clutter issues. I moved forward to become a professional organizer and start my own business. Four years later this is still the number one book I recommend my organizing clients read! Simple truths and an easy read put it all into perspective!
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