Excerpts from Fast Feng shui: 9 Simple Principles
for Transforming Your Life by Energizing Your Home

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What’s Your Feng Shui Type?

There are five different feng shui types, based on attitudes and housekeeping styles. Which type are you? Read the descriptions below to see which one most closely describes you and your home. Helpful tips for getting started with feng shui are included for each type.


NEAT FREAK
Your home is so neat and tidy that it may be a little rigid, sterile, or monochromatic. You tend to like the minimalist look, and are the most likely type to have all-white decor. Bring some natural energy and color into your space in the form of living plants and flowers, and don’t shy away from adding personal touches here and there. If all your artwork is abstract, find a place to display a few favorite photographs of friends and family members, so there are some human images around you. Your love for clean, simple spaces and attention to detail mean you are probably on top of any maintenance or clutter issues, so focus on creating a good flow of chi through your home (Principle 3), neutralizing any negative influences (Principle 6) and activating your power spots (Principle 7). Your clean and tranquil home is a wonderful environment for the self-nurturing methods described in Principle 8.


PACK RAT
Your biggest problem is clutter! Closets are overflowing, books are stacked two deep on every shelf, you’ve saved every greeting card you ever got, and all the flat surfaces in your home are piled with stuff. You might still be able to breathe, but your space may not be getting any chi at all. Create some breathing room in your house before you do anything else (Principle 5), or you’ll just activate all your clutter. Chances are you’ve been feeling stuck, so focus on getting rid of the old to make room for the new before you do anything else. Once you’ve cleared out enough stuff to get a good look at your house, make sure you’ve got a good flow of chi through the space (Principle 3) and address any maintenance issues (Principle 4) before tackling Principles 6 and 7. Your own chi will shift a lot as you clean out your home, so be sure to practice some of the grounding and balancing methods in Principle 8.


FREE SPIRIT
You’ve been feng shui-ing your home since the day you moved in, even if you didn’t know what to call it. You are the type most likely to want to work on everything, so be sure to define some priorities (Principle 1) before jumping into changes. Your enthusiasm for creative décor may lead you to overlook basic maintenance issues and allow clutter to pile up. Take care of those first (Principles 3-5), then make sure you’re applying your individuality to your power spots instead of just scattering it randomly about the place (Principle 7). Make sure that you haven’t overlooked any hidden feng shui problems (Principle 6), and use your creativity to develop your own unique feng shui enhancements (Principle 7). You’ve probably tried some of the personal renewal methods described in Principle 8 over the years, but may not have kept up a consistent practice. Make a commitment to pay as much attention to the inner you as you do to your surroundings.


GO-GETTER
Your house is probably beautifully furnished and well maintained, but you may have delegated so many of your home-maintenance chores that you no longer have a strong energetic attachment to your space. Make sure you don’t delegate all your feng shui tasks, too, or they won’t have much power behind them. Find small, simple things you can do yourself and be sure to put some of your own energy into enhancing your power spots (Principle 7). If you arrange for someone else to take care of other feng shui chores (Principles 3-6), it will be especially important to perform the body-speech-mind empowerments on each one once the work is done. Chances are good you’ve been pushing yourself pretty hard for a long time, so be sure to pick a few ways to balance and renew your own chi from Principle 8.


WHIRLWIND
You’re usually moving too fast to pay much attention to your house, but once you get into feng shui you’ll want to do everything at once. Do some planning before you begin, or you’ll jump from one unnecessary enhancement to another without getting to the important stuff. You want to start with Principle 7 because it looks like the most fun, but if you skip Principles 1 and 2 you won’t know where to begin, and overlooking Principles 3-6 could sabotage your other efforts. Instead of reading Fast Feng Shui at home—where you’re liable to jump up to make the first change you read about—why not take the book on your next business trip? If you read it on the plane with a pad of sticky notes, you’ll return home with important pages flagged and a list of key changes to make. You’ll benefit from the discipline of empowering your changes with a daily ritual—it’s an essential part of the process, and the thing you’re most likely to skip! Pamper yourself with something from Principle 8, and you’ll be amazed how much calmer you feel.

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