Promote positive energy and improve your productivity. Angi Ma Wong presents 400 feng shui techniques that will help you reach your life’s goals and gain inner peace. You’ll learn simple strategies for decor and organization that can develop your career, strengthen your family, encourage total body health, and free your mind. Organized alphabetically for easy reference, this guide will inspire you to explore how the spaces you inhabit are an integral aspect of a successful and enriching life.  Learn more than 400 tips for improving your career, relationships, health, and prosperity U right away! Do keep aquarium fish in multiples of nine U eight gold, one black. DonIt fret if a fish dies; it has absorbed something negative that would have happened to you! Angi Ma Wong is a feng shui consultant, author, and promoter of Asian-American businesswomen. She has been featured in newspapers, on radio, and on TV, including Oprah, and has consulted to businesses such as Universal Studios, Four Seasons Hotel, Motorola, and Bank of America. She lives the Los Angeles area. Introduction Throughout history, cultures around the world have believed that spirits dwelled in nature, the weather, and things they could not explain but intuitively sensed were special. Even primitive peoples identified natural places they considered unique and sacred. To the ancient Chinese, that feeling was captured in the philosophy of feng shui. Feng Shui Philosophy Literally translated as "wind-water," feng shui is the art of placement and is one of the five components of a person's destiny. The first factor, fate, is determined by heaven at the moment of your birth. Luck, the second element, occurs in the form of pure luck, man-made luck, and heaven luck. The third component is feng shui, or earth luck. Next comes philanthropy, and finally education and experience. I like the analogy that life is a journey from one place to another. You start out in a particular circumstance, but the choices and decisions you make determine your mode of transportation. The last three components of your destiny are the proactive things you can do to make changes along the way. Feng Shui Concepts The three major concepts of feng shui are the flow of energy; the balance of yin and yang; and the interaction of the five elements in the universe: fire earth, metal, water, and wood. The flow of energy is expressed in nature, where perfectly straight lines occur only in very short segments, such as sugar cane and bamboo stalks. Even the tallest trees have irregularities, and it is a natural law that energy flows in wavy lines similar to breezes and streams. When energy travels in a straight path, as in the case of a roaring flood, its awesome power is unleashed. When a flood destroys everything in its path, it usually follows something man-made, such as a road. Freeways, tunnels, bridges, buildings, and lampposts have straight edges that are conduits of negative energy called sha or "killing" energy. In feng shui, straight lines and the angles they create are called "killing" arrows. The second important concept is the duality of the universe, expressed in the yin/yang symbol of one dark and one light teardrop positioned in a circle. One teardrop embodies yin qualities, which are female, soft, passive, nurturing, dark, fluid, even numbers, and the right side of the body. The other teardrop signifies yang traits, which are male, bright, hard, active, aggressive, odd numbers, and the left side of the body. The two halves comprise a whole, yet there is an element of each in the other. A fluid S-shaped line divides the two teardrops and personifies the balance within the universe, nature, the environment, and the self. It is our task to maintain the balance of yin and yang within our physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and intellectual selves. Achieving this balance results in feeling grounded - much like a rock that is pounded by the elements but remains solid. The third concept includes the five universal elements, each of which relates to the others in two ways: a generative or creative connection that provides strength and power, and an overpowering or destructive relationship that denies strength and power. Knowledge of these relationships is critical in feng shui; placement based on misinformation or ignorance can result in an effect opposite to the one you want to achieve. Generative Cycle Fire generates earth Earth generates metal Metal generates water Water generates wood Wood generates fire Destructive Cycle Fire melts metal Metal cuts wood Wood moves earth Earth dams water Water puts out fire Using Feng Shui I have created the acronym CANE -- C for color; A for animal; N for number; E for element - to help you place objects according to general feng shui principles. Basically, place the C, A, N, and E in its corresponding direction if you want to improve that aspect of your life. You can also add the element that precedes it in