Dear Karen,

I read your book, Clear your Clutter with Feng Shui. While talking to friends, one mentioned that colon cleansing was not part of Chinese Medicine, so it is interesting that you mention it in your book as part of Feng Shui. If my friend is correct, is this form of colon cleansing a part of traditional Feng Shui or have you expanded your interpretation to include this? As well as including clearing out emotional, mental and spiritual clutter? All this is a leap beyond organizing your furniture. Warm regards,

- Tom Cooper, USA

Karen's reply:

Your friend is correct that colon cleansing is not part of traditional Chinese Feng Shui. Neither is clutter clearing, come to that. But the fact of the matter is that all Feng Shui is only minimally effective if a place is cluttered, simply because of the stagnant energy that collects around clutter. This has become a particularly dire problem in our materialistic western world at the present time.

None of my books are actually written from the standpoint of Chinese Feng Shui. China is just one of many traditional cultures that has evolved a form of these arts, which are all based on understanding the workings of the unseen realms of energy. By studying these unseen realms for so many years, I have been able to access a form of Feng Shui that is universally applicable and does not contain the superstitious elements of local versions of Feng Shui. I have also been able to extend it to other aspects of life, such as colon cleansing, which is a form of inner clutter clearing). This practice will make a lot more sense to you if you also read my first book, Creating Sacred Space with Feng Shui.