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The Feng Shui Advantage: Get Your Space Working for You!
$17.95 Quick ViewThe Feng Shui Advantage: Get Your Space Working for You!
The Feng Shui Advantage is a thorough overview of the philosophies behind the practice of shifting the arrangements and energy of a home or office.
Kathryn Wilking's practical self-help guide The Feng Shui Advantage addresses office layouts and proper energy flow-among other esoteric applications of feng shui.
The book focuses on the feng shui philosophy of the Black Hat Sect or Black Tantric Buddhism, which emphasizes the five element theory of Chinese medicine. Herein, the elements-wind, fire, earth, metal, and water-represent ways of characterizing objects, people, and energy. Such feng shui, the book implies, can be used to alter the energy flow of a space-or to understand human behavior. In service of this, it includes an overview of feng shui as it pertains to work environments, which have the potential for quick energetic shifts.
There are instructions for arranging both offices and cubicles herein. Both are given with the goal of optimizing one's energy and productivity in a particular space. And the guidance extends to advice for where to sit in a meeting and the best position to work from in a coffee shop, among other scenarios. An intriguing overview of the bagua grid (which divides space into different areas of emphasis-for example, career, fame, and family) and its areas' connections to the elements, colors, and shapes fleshes out this work, illuminating how such associations might be used to encourage energy flow to a particular region.
The book's supporting material is multifaceted: personal stories from Wilking, her friends, and her clients are used to illustrate the different personalities, showing how feng shui can be used to shift energy and better understand others. And photographs are present to model how different objects might be used to emphasize particular elements, such as displaying items made of clay to support the earth element, which relates to relationships, health, and knowledge. Further, the book ensures its continued usefulness by acknowledging that a person's dominant tendencies can change over time.
The book does an able job of addressing the elements as a window for understanding one's personality traits, alongside a quiz for assessing one's own dominant elements. Related information about how certain personalities can work together or clash expands the book's perspective. However, the elements are not introduced in a way that seems reflective of how they build upon each other. Indeed, the book makes recommendations regarding changes in one's physical environment before establishing a thorough understanding of either personal elemental tendencies or how the elements interact at home and in workplaces.
And while some topics, like wealth and abundance, receive thorough treatments (on that subject, Wilking highlights the uses of positive thinking, personal expression, and enhancements of personal space to direct positive energy toward goals), not all subjects are handled with the same depth. Additionally, some of the book's advice is too dated, as with its rundown of Zoom etiquette and its coverage of working from home with children. Nor is there advice for reckoning with the reality that individual workers don't always have control over furniture or seating arrangements in their offices.
The insightful, layered lifestyle guide The Feng Shui Advantage covers home and office organization, decoration, and personality assessments in a way that goes beyond appearances, helping people to attract positive energy and opportunities.
Reviewed by Sarah White
December 12, 2023$17.95
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Shattered But Not Broken
$17.99 Quick ViewShattered But Not Broken
The founder of Parents Against Gangs, and the Family Trauma Advocacy Counseling Center, Betty Major-Rose shares her story of the many grief experiences she lived through including the tragic and sudden death of her first husband and murder of her seventeen year-old daughter. She walks us through each death she endured and reveals the complexities that come with grief. Her story sheds light on the struggle with grieving in pain while holding hope, and battling with depression and anxiety, while trying to maintain faith in God. Being shattered by loss time and time again, her vulnerableness in the darkest hours built a strength and resilience that never left her broken. The mending from each loss brought about a continuous transformation that ultimately led to her having the grace to support others who are grieving the sudden and traumatic loss of their loved ones.
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Kany Rising
$18.42 Quick ViewKany Rising
As Kany, a mineral of phenomenal applications, searched and tracked down throughout the world from the beginning of time, is about to be discovered and extracted in an obscure corner of Africa, a nation called Mezi, powerful forces with major competing interests are unleashed. Dr. Anthony O'Shea, who has suffered a life-time humiliation in academic circles while pursuing relentlessly his studies of exotic minerals, has finally recruited Kano Wasiri, a reluctant scientist but a natural born nationalist leader, in the quest of extracting Kany in the high plateau of Mezi.
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Future Poets: A Guide For Aspiring Writers
$20.00 Quick ViewFuture Poets: A Guide For Aspiring Writers
This book is for all my fellow teachers out there who enjoy poetry and believe their students will become better writers if they keep practicing. Here are hundreds of ideas to stimulate your student's imaginations; students who are often willing to write, but don't have a clue what to write about. These ideas will give them a place to start.
Poetry works well for engaging student writers because it is challenging and yet flexible. There are so many types and styles of poems they can experience. There's also a lot of leeway in terms of punctuation, idioms and slang, and how the words appear on the page.
Poetry lends itself to success. Anyone can do it and it's personal; it comes from the students' experiences and emotions. It's subjective; the sort of writing to be appreciated rather than judged. The emphasis in this book is "students as poets." It's not about studying the famous poets who have gone before. It's about finding a love for expressing yourself that can last a lifetime.$20.00
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Loose Horses Poetry
$23.00 Quick ViewLoose Horses Poetry
Poetry for healing, transformation, and reconciliation work. Jehann is an alchemist, a "mystic" artist, "who exposes the intersectionality of various forms of human oppression through this collection. It is a must read collection of poetry, especially for those individuals who are committed to social justice and the transformation of our institutions.
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Skyflower Izfree
$26.99 Quick ViewSkyflower Izfree
I made this book to show you that sometimes, bad things happen and it can feel like they only happen to you or make you feel alone. I want to encourage you to find places where you feel safe and to know that feelings are an important part of growing up. Sometimes really terrible things happen and sometimes it feels terrible and it really isn't that bad. What is important is to know that you matter, and what you see, and experience matters. You have a right to tell your story. If you are not comfortable telling your story to someone who is safe and can help you then you can paint or draw to feel better.
I am so happy to share the story of Skyflower Izfree with you. I hope you like her, and enjoy her story of how she got her horse. I grew up in a time and place where I was the only child with one parent who was from America and one who was from Egypt, in Africa. I was bullied because of that, so I want kids that have parents who might seem different, for any reason of kids who feel different or kids who are bullied, for having something that makes them different, to know that "different is good ''.
I also want kids to know that they have a right to talk about things that make them feel scared and that it is okay to talk about fighting, and make more peace in the world.$26.99
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Hobo, Succubus, Bueno Rio
$28.65 Quick ViewHobo, Succubus, Bueno Rio
3 captivating tales in 1 collection.
Embark on a journey into the depths of human experience with a collection that brings together three captivating stories that explore the resilience of the human spirit in the face of adversity.$28.65