The 1950s and 1960s were interesting times to grow up in Hong Kong. For the educated and entrepreneurial it was time of enormous growth and prosperity. My parents were professional people who happily embraced anything that came from the West. Anything Eastern, such as feng shui, was dismissed.

At least, that is how it appeared to me at the time. However, we moved apartments regularly. Each apartment was larger or better than the previous one. My mother was always concerned about the outlook from our front door. A strange man with protruding eyes came and looked at each apartment before my parents agreed to move in.

Gradually, I became aware that my parents were practicing feng shui, even though they claimed it was simply an outmoded superstition.

At school and in the streets, I heard mention of feng shui all the time. Naturally, as a family we celebrated the Chinese New Year, even though at home, in our westernized apartment, Father laughed at the primitive superstitions of the ordinary people. It didn't seem strange that my father would send paper offerings to his ancestors. When my Nana died Father spent an enormous amount of time choosing an auspicious site for her grave, even though, in Hong Kong, she would be buried for only seven years.

Probably because it was a way of rebelling against my parents, as a teenager I became more and more interested in Eastern philosophies. I studied Taoism, astrology, Chinese natural healing methods, and feng shui. I gradually came to understand, that despite appearances to the contrary, my parents were practicing many of the things they claimed to deride.

The book on how to feng shui your home is I hope the first of many brining these beliefs and practices to you in a way that enables you to draw from the tradition and strength in them.

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