Feng Shui:   Myth or Truth
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Feng Shui or the power of suggestion? One more example of how many believe that the structure of a building can affect your fortune. . .

The Hyatt Hotel in Singapore had a considerable increase in business after adapting their building to improve the Feng Shui.

Good Feng Shui or coincidence?

Today businesses around the world use Feng Shui principles when designing their buildings and decor. These include the offices of Citibank, Morgan Bank, Chase Manhattan, and the Asian Wall Street Journal.

Feng Shui or Power of Suggestion?

Okay, the last ones may not have made a believer out of you so try some stories from the personal experience of myself and my friends. (Warning: They get harder to disbelieve.)

The Power of the Red

Red is said to awaken the energy around an object, enabling it to interact harmoniously with the qi in the living space.

My friend (call her Christine) mentioned that she was placing red under her business phone to increase her business. Later in the day, I was told the same thing by my friend, a Feng Shui practitioner. After hearing this twice in one day (and never before that day), I decided to try it out. What could it hurt I figured?

The results were amazing! Every other day of that week I ended up receiving money… unexpectedly in the mail (from the sale of merchandise after almost half of year of receiving nothing)… from a moonlighting job from a stranger… from a bonus from work… The money just kept coming in (should have played the lottery that week!). This eventually slowed down a bit but the results were surprising and hard to dispute.

In the meantime, Christine was suddenly totally swamped with work. As an independent real estate appraiser, she was inundated with work from various banks who had given her very little business in the past. After a month of hectic business, her steady stream of work ran out for no good reason. She was quite confused by why this unexplainable change. Then she remembered that she had added a fax machine to her office. Upon moving the red paper to under that phone, her business once again boomed. (In fact, these days she removes the red paper when she needs a break!)

So how would you explain those results?

The Powerful Horse in the Travel Position

Hoping to help her husband's business, one woman placed a horse in her travel position based on her Chinese horoscope from her year of birth. Within months, her husband became so successful that he was never home so she removed the horse. His travel immediately lessened to a more tolerable state.