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Would You Like To Create Greater Self Confidence?
Make Prosperity Your Serious Goal?
Learn to Reduce Your Stress?
Command the Energy of Money?
Recognize the Doors of Success?
Get the Important People Talking?
Own the Keys to Real Estate Sales?
Use the Successful Business Checklist?
Yes? Then This is the Perfect Book for You!

Table of Contents
Preface: The Keys to This Book 1
Chapter 1: Creating Self Confidence 5
Chapter 2: Success as a Modern Goal 10
Chapter 3: Stress Busting 21
Chapter 4: The Energy of Money 24
Chapter 5: Rainbow Machines 60
Chapter 6: The Three Doors of Success 63
Chapter 7: Architecture Lessons 85
Chapter 8: Make Your Front Door Work for You 91
Chapter 9: Talking 111
Chapter 10: The Art of House Sales 115
Chapter 11: Casper in the Corner 133
Chapter 12: The Successful Workspace 137
Chapter 13: Secrets for a Happy Marriage 162
Chapter 14: Essential Health 167
Appendix A. The Euro Bagua Maps 171
Appendix B. Dowsing 177
Appendix C. The Nature of North 187
Appendix D. Essential Oils 196
Website Resources 203
Acknowledgements 208
About the Authors 210

An excerpt from:

Chapter Eight
Make Your Front Door Work for You
The Story of the Holistic Center and the Health Food Store

There was a natural foods market that we liked so much that we drove miles out of our way to get there. The selection was good, the people were nice and the sense of community was strong. They shared their western entranceway with a holistic healing center. The arrangement worked well for many years. Then, natural foods became big business and the market needed more room. They decided to expand when an adjoining store became vacant. A plan was developed, the changes on the market were carried out and when the work was completed, the manager was disappointed with the results.

The new plan wasn't working right, and both the customers and employees were disgruntled. The manager called us to see what we could do to help the situation. Not surprisingly we received a second call, from their neighbor the Holistic Center! Here was the problem. The natural food store had changed the entranceway. Instead of using the doorway they shared with the Holistic Learning Center, that had served them both so well for many years, the architect had decided to use the entranceway of the store they had annexed. On the surface this seemed like a good idea. The other door faced south, a classically good direction with higher visibility.

Yet every business that had used that door previously had closed after two to three years. Not a good sign! Why was it such a bad door? Simple! The driveway from the street aimed every car and at night, their headlights, directly at the entrance. Then, just to shoot them in the foot, the new entranceway was a big glass box, which let that noise and light pollution pour into the store. Now to shoot the other foot, they put the check out lines immediately inside those doorways! Very quickly the friendly, helpful staff turned surly, impatient and bizarre (a lot more pierced body parts, tattoos and purple-green hair).

Customer dissatisfaction was on the rise. Now with their new arrangement, in order to reach the Holistic Center, customers had walk into the market, through to the far end of the store, to a doorway that was half obscured by displays filled with bottles. The Center was dying on the vine. Our suggestions to the center included placing strong visual signs to reinforce their presence, several energetic tricks to increase communication and a red carpet to lead people inside.

They did everything we suggested and the next thing they knew, they had a wonderful new fundraiser and lots more volunteers. Meanwhile at the market, we explained to the manager why the new design was failing. While there were lots of little things they could do to improve the situation, the best solution was to move the entranceway back to the original position, with some adjustments to accommodate a greater traffic flow. This would keep both customers and staff out of the flow of negativity coming from the cars and address the needs of their long-term neighbors, the Holistic Center. It would also result in an overall increase in the amount of usable display space.

Unfortunately the market didn't do any of the changes we suggested. Their poor performance created a vacuum and six months later a large chain of health food markets announced the opening of a state-of-the-art store four blocks down the street, cutting the original market's business in half. When that market went chasing the bucks with their expansion, they forgot that a building is part of a community and their relationship with their neighbors had sustained them for many years.

Buildings and their doorways are not so much about profitability, as they are about responsibility and relationships.

How Doors and Directions Work and How to Make them Work For You

The last thing a client wants to hear from a Feng Shui practitioner is " Oh my, your front door faces the wrong direction!" Suddenly visions of sledgehammers and bank loans are swirling though their heads and they start patching together a plausible story to feed the spouse about the Visa charges looming on the horizon.

Meanwhile, the practitioner is galloping off to the kitchen, theoretically to inspect the stove and, coincidentally, following the scent of fresh coffee and cake, completely oblivious about the need for an explanation and maybe some practical solutions. In our experience, there are no "bad" front doors but that doesn't mean that every one is necessarily great. We've seen thresholds that were pretty seriously challenged, aka: screwed up! But the compass direction of the door does not, by itself, seal the resident's fate. Why not?

There are three reasons. First, every degree of the compass has a lesson to offer us. Some directions are more powerful while some are more challenging. Like the 64 hexagrams that compose the 'I Ching', each degree has its place in our world and makes a unique contribution to the divine cycle of life. Second, the direction that works best for one person may mean trouble for another. People are not popped out of cookie molds.

Their auras are imprinted at birth with an individual pattern, like the notches on a key. A door facing a specific compass direction is the lock. With some door directions you slide right in and trip every tumbler effortlessly, but with others, try as you might, as much as you wiggle, you can't find the correct fit. This is the reason why people will sometimes walk into a house and say that it "feels right"....

 

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