Clear Your Clutter With Feng Shui
by Karen Kingston
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Author: Karen KingstonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-05-04
ISBN: 0767903595
Number of pages: 179
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
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- ISBN13: 9780767903592
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Book Reviews of Clear Your Clutter With Feng Shui
Book Review: Declutter Your Home and Life This Weekend
Summary: 5 Stars
What a wonderful addition to Ms. Kingston's collection of books on Feng Shui. In a manner this is a sequel to her marvelous Creating Sacred Space. What Westerner has not read a Feng Shui article or book all enthusiastic and energized to start, only to realistically looked at their home (or office desk! lol) and not realized that they needed desperate help first with their clutter.
A lot clutter is about "Anything Unfinished" which includes both emotional connections as well as projects. After 7 deaths in 6 years, and receiving a lot of stuff in addition to my own stuff, the very action of clearing through the clutter and decluttering required addressing the emotion of grief and loss. I found that following the Grief Recovery process in The Grief Recovery Handbook, 20th Anniversary Expanded Edition: The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, and Other Losses including Health, Career, and Faith very helpful to do first, and THEN I was prepared to DO all the decluttering. A number of people dealing with the emotions around a loved one's death, as soon as they had done the Grief Recovery process, then were sufficiently energized and equipped to tackle the boxes upon boxes of their love one's stuff.
Now we do not all have to be perfectly hyperly organized as a result of implementing her tips. Don't worry, that is not Kingston's goal. She does talk a lot about "the energy" of belongings and our space. That may or may not appeal to you. If that's the case, just glaze over those sections and practice and implement her VERY helpful specific tips for decluttering your space and your life.
Ms. Kington invests a number of chapters telling you all you are losing out on in life by retaining your level of clutter. You might not need to read every single section of this if you are ALREADY hugely motivated to declutter. However, if you know you need support there, or if in the midst of decluttering you hit a wall or get bogged down, sift through those chapters to help get your decluttering efforts on track.
Chapter 9 where she addresses Clutter Zones in Your Home is one of my favorites, because she very kindly and gently identifies precisely where we DO accumulate clutter. And once you let clutter start to accumulate, in many ways, you may not be seeing all of your clutter. So this chapter is helpful while she is very kindly... (tee hee) ruthless with us about seeing and addressing all of our clutter. Here she brings up our Portable Clutter - handbags, purses, wallets, and our cars, as well as The Garage.
For those of us who love books here at Amazon, Chapter 11 where she addresses Paper Clutter is quite funny. Ms. Kingston's whole approach is always kind, generous, and gracious... while she is ruthless in a marvelous way to tell us the truth. Indeed, for those of us with books, it must become a regular practice to sort through and release old books we are not reading or will not read again for a long time. For example, Romance Novels. What woman does not have some favorite romance author whose books she loves and adores. Does she horde and keep them forever? She might. One way to share the love and keep your house decluttered is to share and rotate them with your other friends. On the energetic level, this is generously sharing the love and keeping your energy softly (not too rapidly, like of curved roads and river beds versus straight arrow rushing freeways) moving in your life. On the practical physical perspective, you have made space in your bookshelves to clean and dust and put new books or maybe finally a place for photographs.
She devotes so much of Section 2 to IDENTIFYING and seeing where we each have clutter. In Section 3 is where Ms. Kingston provides the wealth of HOW TO DECLUTTER. You might be reading along in the first 2 sections and start identifying your clutter and begin to experience feelings of OVERWHELM, like, "How will I ever have all the time to declutter everything?" No worries. Start with an area (think 1 chapter example) at a time and apply her practical steps to each. You can do this.
Many people might find odd Chapter 18 where Ms. Kingston addresses Clearing Clutter from Our Body. Well then just skip over it. It is only one chapter. However, what she suggests there is perfectly normal practice 100 years ago in the USA, and is normal in many areas of the world. If you can keep an open mind, just take a deep breath and read the chapter, and if not. No problem. Skip it. She is being thorough in discussing and pointing out all areas of clutter.
Her end to the book, the Appendix, has an excellent 21 Steps for Basic Space Clearing.
Ms. Kingston was even so thoughtful as to consider the SIZE of the book so as to keep it small to avoid ADDING to our clutter in reading this marvelous book on Feng Shui and Clearing Clutter.
Summary of Clear Your Clutter With Feng Shui
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
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.
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