Feng Shui as Effective, Complementary Medicine

--Feng Shui and Health: The Anatomy of A Home
Offers Energetic Solutions to Common Health Problems-

New York, NY, March 6, 2002-A new book is hitting the shelves that promises to change the way we view healthcare. Touted by Deepak Chopra as "highly recommended…for anyone who is looking to improve their well-being and their home," Feng Shui and Health: The Anatomy of a Home: Using Feng Shui To Disarm Illness, Accelerate Recovery, and Create Optimal Health (Three Rivers Press/Random House, March 2002) expands Feng Shui from a homeowners' hobby to a viable holistic medicine.
"As I began to use Feng Shui principles to address my client's illnesses, I was amazed at the results," said Author and International Feng Shui Expert Nancy SantoPietro. This book chronicles those successes and provides a glimpse into what SantoPietro learned through her years of experience about how to best disarm the energetic patterns that accompany disease.
For the past few years, the ancient Chinese Design System of Feng Shui, commonly known as "the art of placement" has been ardently embraced by Americans here in the West. Now, in her new book Feng Shui and Health: The Anatomy of a Home, expert Nancy SantoPietro expands the applications of Feng Shui, demonstrating through case studies and easy step-by-step instructions how moving and re-directing the energy in our homes and offices can accelerate our internal physical and emotional healing process.

Nancy SantoPietro has taken the practice of Feng Shui far beyond its basic principles and prior commercialization and is leading the way as Feng Shui gains new attention as a complementary system to help diagnose, assess and combat illness. Her exclusive concept of healing ties Feng Shui with one's metabolism and connects it to Chakra/Color Energy Systems and the 21st Century Paradigm Shift. Ms. SantoPietro ties together the bigger picture of the 9 Hallmarks of the current day Paradigm Shift with each specific energetic Chakra and Feng Shui area in one's home. Certain challenges of each hallmark, when left unaddressed or unresolved can cause energetic blocks that can lead to various illnesses associated with each hallmark. Ms. SantoPietro shows us how to analyze these factors to move through, transcend and shift these blocks. For example: Hallmark #1, Scarcity to Abundance, can lead to illnesses effecting the lower back, legs, feet and circulation; Hallmark #3, Fear to Trust, can lead to digestive problems, liver, stomach illnesses, ulcers, and diabetes.
Integrating her training as a psychotherapist, she coined the term ESP's™-or emotional, spiritual and physical underpinnings-of illness. Throughout the book, readers will learn how the Feng Shui in one's home mirrors our life and body, subconsciously recreating all of our emotional, spiritual and physical blocks or issues. Everything from moving furniture to working with color as a therapeutic tool, utilizing spoken mantras, wearing semi-precious stones and crystals and ongoing home maintenance can work together to break the matrix of disease. Ms. SantoPietro's exclusive Chakra Therapy utilizes color to help prevent illness as well as restore health when we are sick. Working with color can include the food we eat, the color of the clothes we wear or paint our walls, or color breathing meditations, all of which affect our health.
"Every illness has a unique energetic vibration, frequency and thought form that accompanies it. When we directly address and then rework these energetic principles that contribute to poor health, illness and disease, healing accelerates," said SantoPietro.

"Addressing all aspects of the matrix of a disease-including variables from a non-tangible perspective-is what, I believe, a true holistic approach to healing is all about. This work is very important to me because I believe it can truly transform the way in which we view good health, illness, death, dying and the healing process," said Ms. SantoPietro.
Ms. SantoPietro feels so strongly about the benefits of Feng Shui on healing, in fact, that in 1998 she founded Feng Shui Around The World, a non-profit organization based in New York City committed to providing complementary Feng Shui consultations for those with life-threatening diseases and now, more recently, the families impacted by the World Trade Center tragedy.
"Feng Shui Consultants are more trained than any other group of healers to understand the energetic nuances that accompany illness and tragedy and the impact and influence that the environment plays in its development," said Ms. SantoPietro. "I am committed to not only letting others know about the incredible health benefits of working with Feng Shui Design (in tandem with the Chakra Energy System), but also to bring these alternative healing modalities into mainstream society to help the world and all of its people navigate through this current time of upheaval and all of its subsequent chaos."
Feng Shui and Health: The Anatomy of a Home is expected to be on sale beginning March 6, 2002. Nancy SantoPietro & Associates, Inc. (www.fengshui-santopietro.com) is located in Brooklyn, NY and specializes in Feng Shui Health & Illness Consultations, Consultant Training Programs, Individual Psycho-Spiritual Chakra/Color Therapy Sessions, Healing Retreats and other Educational Workshops. Spanish-speaking bilingual counselor on staff.

Contact: Diane Hoffmann, Senior Associate
Nancy SantoPietro & Associates, Inc.
Phone: 718-256-2640

There are several different "Schools" of Feng Shui, with different methods and backgrounds. Today, many of these schools have blended together and honor each other's teachings. Some schools are:
Form School - the focus is on the shape of topography .
Auspicious locations need the green dragon.
Compass School- stesses compass directions, birthdates,
Use of Luo Pan- Chinese Feng Shui compass.
There are many branches of this school.
Black Hat Sect Feng Shui - promoted through the teachings of Master Lin Yun.
Uses the BaGua to "read" the areas of a property, home, room, etc. Also stresses the metaphysical and unseen factors involved. Very popular in the west, and is expanding rapidly throughout the USA.