Feng Shui and Money

A Nine-Week Program for Creating Wealth Using Ancient Principles and Techniques (Second Edition)

Eric Shaffert

• Publisher: Allworth
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781621536437
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Personal Finance

"Eric has brightly lit each step of the path to abundance. Take a nine-week walk with him—you won't regret it!" —Karen Rauch Carter, author of the bestselling Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life
In Feng Shui and Money, Second Edition, Eric Shaffert divulges the secrets to creating wealth using the principles of feng shui. Through the easy nine-week program, readers will discover the basic principles and philosophy of feng shui, the spiritual connection between feng shui and money, innovative suggestions for successful interior arrangements at home and in the office, ancient rituals and meditations to create prosperity, and simple guidelines for setting your goals and making real your dreams. This newly revised edition includes updated information on such topics as:

• Insights into your "money script"
• Profound ways to shift the financial flow in your life
• Feng shui "cures" for energetic and financial "leaks"
• Success stories from feng shui students and clients
• New insights that focus on the metaphysical and nondual aspects of feng shui
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  Blending Eastern spirituality and Western psychological insight, Feng Shui and Money is an easy-to-follow guidebook that will lead to financial and spiritual renewal.

WEEK 1

Establishing Your Foundation

A tower nine stories high

Starts with a single brick.

—The Tao Te Ching, Book 64

PRELUDE—YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH MONEY

There are very few areas of our lives, if any, that are not affected by money. If you were born in a hospital, that first breath cost someone a bunch of cash. And if you plan to have the end of your life commemorated with a funeral service, you’d better start making your financial plans now. Though we spend a lot of time worrying about how much we’re spending and how much more we need, few people take the time to think directly about their relationship with money.

By purchasing or even browsing through this book, you are evidently expressing an interest in transforming your relationship with money. So let’s begin with some basics: What are we talking about? What exactly is wealth? Is there a fixed standard that determines if a person is wealthy?

PROSPERITY JOURNAL: “WHAT DOES ‘WEALTH’ MEAN TO ME?”

Take out your Prosperity Journal and write down some initial ideas about what “wealth” is for you. Don’t worry about being right or wrong—the tax authorities will not be checking your answers. Write at least one paragraph: “Wealth is . . .”

Unless you are reading this book for entertainment purposes only, something about your relationship with money probably does not feel right. I make a similar type of assumption when I am asked to do a feng shui consultation. My clients are probably not hiring me because they are curious about feng shui or because they want to keep up with the neighbors who were recently “shui’d.” Instead, something in their life is not satisfying to them, and they want to know if I can help.

Before conducting the consultation, I send forms that ask clients to rate their level of satisfaction in the nine areas of life addressed by feng shui (we will be reviewing these areas later in the book). They rate their satisfaction on a scale from one to ten, with ten being highest. Then, we prioritize consultation work based on these ratings.

Let’s focus on your relationship with money. If you had to rate your satisfaction with money on a scale of one to ten, with ten being highest, how would it rate? Go ahead and try this now:

Low12345678910High

If you scored your relationship with money as a ten, congratulations! Perhaps you can afford to use this book for entertainment purposes only. But if your rating was anything less, our work is ahead of us.

PROSPERITY JOURNAL: “MY RELATIONSHIP WITH MONEY”

Use your Prosperity Journal to explore your relationship with money. What’s working, what feels good, and when and where do you feel frustrated, powerless, or “just not right”? Write one paragraph: “My present relationship with money is . . .”

Where Are We Going?

When planning a journey, you should know where you are leaving from and where you planning to go. Imagine getting on a plane and saying, “Take me someplace that I like—I don’t know where it is, I just know I want to get there fast!” That would set you up for a tiresome and frustrating trip—and a big waste of time. It’s unlikely that you will find a destination you like if you don’t know where you’re headed.

You may already have a vision of how you want your financial life to be. Maybe your best friend from high school is now living the way you always wanted. Or perhaps you skimmed the pages of one too many travel magazines to be satisfied with your present income. Whatever your dream life may be, it’s time to get it out in the open—in as much detail as you can envision. This is not the time to question the propriety or reasonableness of your desires. As long as you keep them inside, they are not going to get you anywhere, and they will only get in your way.

PROSPERITY JOURNAL: “MY DREAM LIFE”

1. Write at least two pages about how you would live if you had unlimited finances: “If I had all the money that I wanted, I would . . .” This assignment alone requires more speculation than most lottery winners ever consider. What would you do? Purchase? Become? Dig deep into your aspirations. Your answers are probably the reasons you bought this book.

2. Now review the essay, and choose ten words or phrases that describe how you want your relationship with money to feel. Try to capture the essence of this seemingly elusive thing called “wealth.” Write a new heading in your journal, “Top ten adjectives that describe my ideal state of wealth,” and list the ten words or phrases. Allow yourself to brainstorm. Don’t worry if the ideas seem irrational or bizarre; your aim is to connect to your subconscious. If you feel like writing “yellow” for some reason, then do so—you can always figure out what that means later.

3. Finally, review your list and mark the words or phrases that are most resonant for you, the ones where you felt yourself saying, “Yeah, that’s it.” Narrow the list down to your top three choices and put them in the place of honor, right here in this book. These will become your emblem of how you want your financial life to feel:

a. __________________________

b. __________________________

c. __________________________

You can copy these words into your Prosperity Journal, as well.

By now, you should be getting a sense of your desired condition of wealth. Your lists are unique. The way that you handle money, and want to handle money, is directly tied to your experience of your own energy and to your connection to life itself. This is one of the most intimate relationships you will ever have. For this reason, books on personal finance tend to gather dust, since no two individuals’ relationships with money will be identical.

Some people are highly conservative with their money and only feel comfortable when they know that it is in a secure account. Others are more adventurous and do not feel the power of their money until it is applied toward greater gains. It could be like asking an Amish farmer to live the life of an Italian soap opera star—the very idea is enough to make them run for the hills!

Your three key words or phrases are your guide to an ideal financial future. You will refer to them often as you do the exercises in this book, and you will see how their tone and energy reflect a deeper purpose for you. In many ways, they are keys not just to your relationship with money, but to your relationship to your whole life.

ENVIRONMENTAL FENG SHUI—THE INFLUENTIAL ENERGY OF YOUR HOME

Your home is not just the place where you sleep at night, it is the area on the planet most connected to who you are. Your home encases you like a bigger body: it affects how you feel, behave, and see yourself. Even when you leave the house each day, you carry the feeling of your home with you, wherever you go.

In each week of this program, we will focus on a different area of your house, and we will look at the ways it affects your financial pote...

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• INTRODUCTION
• WEEK 1: ESTABLISHING YOUR FOUNDATION
• WEEK 2: SETTING YOUR SIGHTS
• WEEK 3: ENERGIZING YOUR LIFE
• WEEK 4: POSSESSING YOUR LIFE
• WEEK 5: FINDING COMFORT
• WEEK 6: NURTURING YOURSELF
• WEEK 7: DISCOVERING YOUR MISSION
• WEEK 8: GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS
• WEEK 9: CELEBRATING THE SPIRITUALITY OF MONEY
• Epilogue: Commencement
• Appendix A: Resources
• Appendix B: Your Prosperity Plan
• Appendix C: Twenty-Four-Hour Time Rating Chart
• Appendix D: Bibliography
• About The Author
• Index