Harmonious Environment: Beautify, Detoxify & Energize Your Life, Your Home & Your Planet

by Norma Lehmeier Hartie

Overview

Harmonious Environment: Beautify, Detoxify & Energize Your Life, Your Home & Your Planet, by Norma Lehmeier Hartie,was The Grand Prize Winner of Writer's Digest Book Awards and Best New Non-Fiction USA National Best Books 2008. Harmonious Environment is an indispensable reference book for anyone who cares about their health and well being and for the future of the planet. Hartie concisely covers a wide range of subjects and includes a comprehensive listing of advisory organizations, product and service resources. Part I of the book, Banish the Ugly from Your Life, is a blueprint for green, sustainable living. Discover how to replace toxic and unsustainable products from household cleaners to food (including recipes) to furniture to personal care products with safe, eco-friendly ones. Hartie is the tough but motivational Life Coach in her approach to cleaning, removing clutter and on organizing the home or office. Part II, Bring in the Beautiful to Create a Harmonious Environment and Self, includes a chapter on Earth-based spirituality and a fascinating look at the Four Elements (Earth, Fire, Air and Water) and the Medicine Wheel. The core of Hartie s philosophy blossoms in Chapter Seven, Applying Harmonious AdjustmentsTM: Using Feng Shui and Other Techniques for Powerful Results. Unlike other Feng Shui authors, Hartie has experience as a designer and her skills are apparent in this chapter and the following two. She has combined principles of Feng Shui, the Four Elements, color, energy, Vastu, and good design principles that create a unique and eclectic approach to home decorating. Finally, Hartie provides guidance on how to manifest personal or professional desires. In Part III, Putting the Pieces Together, Hartie skillfully integrates the many subjects of the book into a unified and cohesive whole.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012623768
Publisher:	Lingham Press
Publication date:	01/01/2007
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	228 KB

About the Author

Award winning author, speaker, green Feng Shui staging designer and the originator of the practice Harmonious Adjustments.

Editorial Reviews

Worried about what your family is being exposed to? Are you hoping to increase your wealth or find love this year? Trying to decide on the best color to paint your walls? If you answered "yes!" to any of these questions, then Harmonious Environment is a must read.
The goal of this book is to create positive energy both in your home and your life and to be kinder to the earth. Hartie is a design consultant, chef, gardener, and healer. She shares her professional and personal experiences with

Yuka Mizushima

“We can all use more harmony in our lives, and this book delivers a helpful assortment of what the author calls ‘Harmonious Adjustments,’ designed for achieving the harmony, peace, and beauty we all strive for. From the most basic housecleaning tips to expert spiritual advice, Norma Lehmeier Hartie brings together a perfect blend of the practical and the magical to help us recapture the simplicity that modern society has stolen away.”

Jim Barnes

“Design consultant, gardener, and chef Norma Lehmeier Hartie presents Harmonious Environment, a guide to transforming one's home into a life-affirming sanctuary, by harnessing the principles of Feng Shui, applying the Four Elements based on one's birth date, color, Vastu, energy work, and other factors. From practical tips for eliminating clutter to replacing harmful products with eco-friendly ones, a how-to guide for dowsing one's house, embracing the spirituality of honoring mother eart

Midwest Review

“Have you ever entered an indoor or outdoor space (like a beautiful park) and suddenly felt peace and joy? You were entering a space filled with positive life-force energy,” the author writes.

According to Hartie, that’s the ultimate goal for readers of her debut work. It’s a handbook for those wanting to achieve a healthier, happier lifestyle in harmony and balance with nature.

She’s the creator of the practice known as Harmonious Adjustmen

Robin Farrell Edmunds.

“You can get a glimpse of this handbook’s ambition from its run-on categorization on the back cover: ‘Decorating/Interior Design/Self Improvement/Reference/Spirituality.’ So where it gets shelved at your local Barnes & Noble is anybody’s guess. Author Norma Hartie has put together this well-designed, highly informative volume to introduce the world to her applied philosophy of ‘Harmonious Adjustments™,’ intended to do everything from cleari

P Miller