Good Fengshui: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Balance and Harmony in Your Home

by Eva Wong

Fengshui master Eva Wong breaks it down for beginners.

This easy-to-use, fengshui 101 guide to the ancient practice will give you invaluable advice as you choose or build a home—and bring positive, healthy energy to your existing home, office, or garden.

Enhance the energy of your home, workplace, or garden using the principles of the Taoist art of fengshui. This primer will teach you to bring harmonizing, beneficial energy into any space.

Taoist arts master Eva Wong introduces readers to the powerful traditional system of fengshui. It is not simply a list of directives for arranging interiors for good luck—it is the art of reading the patterns of the universe and living in harmony with the environment.

Bedrooms with good fengshui maximize health and minimize illnesses. Home offices with good fengshui facilitate business vision and accumulation of wealth. Even garages, driveways, and gardens can affect our health, livelihood, and the way we interact with the world.
     Whether you are buying, renting, or renovating a home—or you want to change the atmosphere and energy of the home you are in—Wong will teach you to identify and work with the possibilities and limitations of your space.
    In this concise book, Wong
explains the essential principles and guidelines of fengshui;   offers tips for home buyers, including architectural positives and negatives, and neighborhood perks and challenges;   shows you how to assess your indoor and outdoor spaces; and much more     As the owner of a construction and engineering business, Wong’s recommendations are practical, safe, and economical.

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help, Reference, Audiobook

206 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 6, 2023

About the author

Eva Wong is an independent scholar and a practitioner of the Taoist arts of the Pre-Celestial Way and Complete Reality lineages. She has written and translated many books on Taoism and related topics.

Reviews

[Alex Kearney · Rating 2 out of 5]

Lotta kookiness with some helpful advice (most of which is common sense anyways).


Example: if your house is across the pointed corner of a road, you might counter that negative energy by mounting a pair of boxing gloves onto a stick in your yard. Because if you don’t counterbalance that negative pointy energy you will experience sharp pains in your marriage, finances, and health.

Or, if your house is across the street from a sculpture of a gun, you need to put something “energetically stronger” in your yard to destroy the gun sculpture’s energy, something like “a miniature cannon or model rocket.” 😐

And for the love of all that is holy avoid the color red.

[Rosie Luther · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am a complete newbie to the concept of Fengshui, so for readers like myself, this book may be helpful. However, anyone with any familiarity to the concept of this book may find it repetitive or lacking in depth. The author does note that they have written a more in-depth, technical manual for the determination of the fengshui in your spaces, and that may be the place to start, should you already have any knowledge of the topic.

The short chapters make it easy to speed through, and has given me a base understanding of fengshui. This was a great starter guide on how to use my intuition to make a space that is more welcoming, efficient, and comfortable.

[Bookworm · Rating 4 out of 5]

I do not know much about fengshui but decided to borrow this on a whim after seeing it was available through my local library. As the Goodreads summary says, it's a 101-level guide to what fengshui is, how you can use it in your life, how it can affect your day to day to long-term situation and what you can do to address deficiencies, bad energy, etc.

Wong takes the reader through the history of fengshui, what it can be used for, how you can use it in your life (from how you arrange your rooms to where you choose to live) to the ins and outs of what is good and what is bad and why. It's a pretty easy to read explainer of the concepts and also includes simple drawings to help demonstrate what Wong is writing about.

That is pretty much it. If you're new to the concept this might not be a bad pickup. It was not too esoteric and I felt it was good for a layperson/someone who is not extremely familiar with the concept but still definitely had stuff that you could learn (ie, it did not talk down to the reader). If you're not at the level 101 this may be too "easy" or repetitive for you, though.

That's pretty much it. I would say that I perhaps did not find it particularly scintillating as a read but also did appreciate it was not exceptionally technical or New Age-y, etc. I would consider myself at level 101 and this was probably right for me.

I borrowed from the library and that was best for me. Probably best for most people but if you know of someone who is also just curious or looking to integrate more fengshui in their lives then this may be a good pickup to buy.

[Sirah · Rating 3 out of 5]

The title promised me steps to creating balance and harmony in my house. The text did not deliver. The first half of this book discusses landscape and outdoor features that can affect the energy of a home. There's a great deal of wisdom about what not to do, but I'm at a loss of where my house should be located if I want to have access to a road. The author then moves inward, discussing yard and driveway features, then spends quite a bit of time discussing fireplaces and the color red.

I found this book to be useful as a basic primer, and I appreciate considering the three areas of a home (landscape, outdoor, and indoor) as well as levels of intimacy (guests welcome, family community space, and private space). I will not be installing giant sheets of aluminum to reflect the sharp energy that appears outside my window, though. Really, I was hoping to find more practical tips for arranging furniture and decor, which probably means that I'm not completely aware of what fengshui is trying to accomplish, but since I can't easily change where I live, the architecture, or even the paint color, that's what I've got to work with, and this book was woefully inadequate for that purpose. But at least I understand why it's so much harder for me to feel motivated to work at my desk when the door is shut and the blinds are closed.

[Tara Weiss · Rating 3 out of 5]

Energy is all around us, and Good Fengshui is an introductory look at the bagua map and how features and elements in a home could challenge the positive flow of energy. While the basics of Fengshui are discussed at the end of the book, you feel like you're just getting started - you'll want to know more. As an introductory text, this may work, but the text is more about what to look for in the physical makeup of a home. There is some remediation for ways to change the energy, but the meat of the book is in the physical arrangement of space.

[Mathew · Rating 3 out of 5]

To be honest, I expected more.
Eva Wong is such a knowledgeable resource to anyone interested in Chinese history or culture that this book feels like quite a letdown. It reads a bit more like a repitive list with little historical or cultural background, but to be fair, she does admit to this being a guide as opposed to a text meant for study, but after the 10th time of being advised to avoid pointy features and the color red, I statrted to feel a bit patronized. If you are completely ignorant on this topic and want a clear and easy intro, this is a great book for you.

[Sharon Naylor Toris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some good gems in here. If you're familiar with, or very experienced in, feng shui, you'll note lots of this material as fine introductory wisdom. If you have a friend or relative who wants a first dip into feng shui, this is the book for them by far.

[Laura H · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good Fengshui: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Balance and Harmony in Your Home by Eva Wong was divided into three parts -Talking about Fengshui, what you can do about it, and strategies. I appreciated the real estate tips. I had only considered fengshui in a home, not on a large scale. I particularly liked what it said about the energy of gardens, plants and pets. The text contained doable measures, interesting countermeasures, and a nice conclusion. The cover of the paperback edition is sleek and intriguing. The illustrations were sharp and informative. The text had no typos. Great intro to the concept!

[Brandi Autor · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was great to learn a little more about Fengshui and its history and applications, but I didn't have many takeaways personally as a homeowner, only that I should probably move since I live at a T-junction 😅

[DeAnn Steffens · Rating 2 out of 5]

Flying stars charts?! Birthday year & building direction…what? I am quite familiar with energy but this book seems a bit overwhelming. Structural changes and engineering changes. I don’t know. I think I’ll just stick to using my own intuition.

[Mel Dennis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great introduction to fengshui! Can’t wait to start implementing what I’ve learned into my home.

[Debbie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Learned new things in this book. It's not just the home but also the environment around that affects us.

[Matthew Chapman · Rating 3 out of 5]

The meeting ground of common sense in house hunting with a healthy dose of cuckoo-bananas.

[eva · Rating 3 out of 5]

very basic information. a good introduction to the subject. well narrated.

[Marcus · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good, common sense introduction. Easy read, can't believe I took over a year to finish this.

[Abby Carpenter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Little book and good intro to feng shui. I found it pretty fascinating and glad to discover my own home has no major issues.