Ebook Uses Feng Shui to Combat Recession

Portland, Oregon (PRWEB) June 22, 2009 -- Can store owners use feng shui in retail environments to increase business? Can job seekers use feng shui career tips to get that next promotion, or secure their position in a faltering economy? Financial analyst and co-author of the ebook, Power Your Career with Feng Shui, Jim Reyes, of Portland, Ore., believes they can. He and his wife Anezka Drazil, a 20-year feng shui consultant, had already seen feng shui work "wonders" in Reyes' own career, and had also seen it work for countless others through Drazil's practice as a feng shui consultant.

Drazil, who has studied under feng shui notables Denise Linn, author of Feng Shui for the Soul, and Marie Diamond, of The Secret video fame, directs the Portland Feng Shui Institute in Portland, Ore. "I provided the know-how," says Drazil, "while Jim helped put it in layman's terms."

"We wanted the book to be accessible to everyone, particularly because of the hardships caused by the economic recession" Reyes said, "so we explain it all in easy to grasp language." The ebook is presented over 170 pages and nine chapters (nine is a significant number in feng shui) and includes their initial introduction to feng shui, Reyes's early reluctance "as a numbers guy who is not at all woo-woo," he says, and then shows how they used feng shui principles to create opportunity after opportunity for Reyes's career, and later, the careers of Drazil's feng shui consulting clients.

One of the book's early chapters is an entertaining "he says/she says" format as Drazil first begins to learn about feng shui and introduces its principles to Reyes, starting with items that needed to be addressed in their own home. "At first I thought she was just trying to get me to complete my 'Honey Do' list," Reyes writes. When, after one weekend of improving the Career area of their home, Jim returned to work the next day to a promotion and retroactive raise that his boss had been stalling on for several months, "I became a believer," he said.

After taking readers through the all-important clutter-clearing phase, the book introduces space and energy clearing methods to rid the environment of negative energy that may be left over from previous tenants or previous emotional difficulties. "All matter is energy," says Drazil, "and everything from a water drop to the walls in a room can hold the vibrations of negative energy." Drazil and Reyes outline several methods to release this energy, and then fill the space with positive intentions. Drazil considers energy clearing a significant contribution to her feng shui consulting practice. "It makes everything you do with feng shui more powerful," she says.

The book refers the reader to the bagua map, a directional map used by feng shui practitioners for centuries, to show where the wealth, career, health, relationship, and other areas of the house are located. "Once these areas are identified, it becomes a matter of looking at them to see what's there," says Drazil. "Often whichever area of a person's life is in turmoil will also be an area of the home or office that is in need of repairs, sprucing up, or enhancing."

In addition to the Career Area, another bagua map location that are central to the book are the Wealth area, and the Helpful People area (referred to as Networking in the book). The authors describe how to optimize these key areas, and indeed, all areas of the home or work space, to promote career success.

If certain problems exist (stairs in the wrong place, the house at the junction of a T in a road, Drazil and Reyes show how to apply feng shui remedies to combat these.

At the back of the book are a list of feng shui resources for further reading and exploration.

Power Your Career with Feng Shui is available in ebook format (as an immediate .pdf download) for $27 through Drazil's Web site, at Access Feng Shui (http://www.accessfengshui.com/feng-shui-career-tips.html).

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