Can feng shui improve your cash flow? |
| By Jay MacDonald
• Bankrate.com |
| You don't have to sell architect
Dianne Kett on the financial benefits of feng shui, the ancient Chinese discipline
of placement used to enhance the flow of energy through your home or office. She
has seen it work wonders, both in her own office and in the homes she designs
for others.
Three years ago, Kett, owner of DK Studio in Austin,
Texas, took advice from feng shui consultant Stacy Davenport on
how to energize the left rear corner of her office, the section
that in feng shui corresponds to money, abundance and power. Her
accoutrements include a wooden bowl, a fern, a money tree plant,
purple amethyst crystals and two statues of Lakshmi, the goddess
of abundance. She lights a tea candle as she focuses on her intention.
Her fortunes have been on the upswing ever since.
"Whenever
I need a check to come in, I talk to Lakshmi and light candles for intention,"
she says. "If I light a candle and say I need a check to come in today, it
usually will show up that day."
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| 10 feng shui money tips by Davenport |
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Would
Kett's studio have fared as well without all the "woo-woo?" "It
probably could have, but I don't know if it would have grown as fast or that it
would have been as direct," says Kett. "I think it's a really direct
approach." The DK clients who have allowed Kett to align
and design their new homes using feng shui principles agree. "One
client used feng shui in building their home and Stacy came in after it was built
and gave them a few more tips and the money just flew through the door,"
says Kett. "Her business soared and he got a raise and a promotion."
Isolated incidents? Luck? Chance? Perhaps. But when
such bottom-line uberdevelopers as Donald Trump and Disney include
feng shui in their blueprints, even the skeptical among us have
to pause and wonder, though some do consider
feng shui a pseudoscience at best.
Since its introduction in
the West in the 1970s, feng shui has become almost mainstream, as Davenport found
out when she recently realigned the energy flow in the classrooms and offices
at an Austin middle school.
"I was using dowsing rods and all sorts of tools
that I work with and everybody walking by just goes, 'Thank you!'"
she says. "It's definitely a different day."
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