Book excerpt: Improve Your Health, Wealth And Relationships With Indian Feng Shui - Vastu Shastra Vastu Shastra is the art of arranging your home or work place to work in harmony with the flow of energy that surrounds us on a daily basis and to mimic nature in such a way as to honor it. Much like the Chinese art of Feng Shui, Vastu Shastra is becoming an integral part of everyday life for millions of people around the world. When we invest time in our homes and our personal well-being, there are bound to be positive effects with long reaching benefits that bring happiness and peace to our lives. Vastu Shastra may have originated many years ago in India, however, the lessons it teaches are timeless and especially important in the current high-stress society that we live in today. Vastu wisdom teaches us to reunite with the forces of the universe to achieve personal wealth, health, and happiness on a variety of levels that can only happen once we have acknowledged and honored the endless energies that flow through our lives at any given time. With the use of colors, positioning of household items and lawn ornamentation, personal health practices, and positive mental attitudes, Vastu Shastra guides us in making choices that not only encourage positive flows of energy throughout our homes, but it also reminds us of the beauty of the world in which we live. By bringing nature into the homes in which we live, we encourage positive forces to work in our lives. When we seek positive enrichment, our lives change on many levels and we become well-rounded individuals which opens the door to personal gains that we may have only previously dreamed about. While the history may seem complex, the techniques are simple to follow. Vastu Shastra is like a road map to a positive future.