Others were moving beds away from windows, as dictated by feng-shui.

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But Mr. Ergen doesn't discount the role of luck, which may be why he has several bottles of feng shui water in his office and says he has "feng shui-ed" with rituals for luck all his satellite launches since Dish first sent a satellite into the sky in 1996 on a Chinese rocket that was charmed by auspicious Chinese water and chants.

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The brokerage has a team of about six people plus feng shui masters -- they won't say who they are -- working on the report for several months leading up to the publication.

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Try the 40-year-old Sunbeam Theatre which narrowly escaped closure earlier this year thanks to philanthropist of Li Kiu-ming, a feng shui master and theatrical troupe owner.

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Long before Feng shui became trendy, East-Asian designs abounded in the country homes of Japanophile and master architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

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That, more than his off-hand remark about bad feng shui, is the reason he will not live or work in Government House, home to a dozen British governors.

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He says there is "soft data" in the form of surveys and interviews that suggests buildings that adhere to feng shui principles make their occupants happier -- be it a shopping mall, office block or a hospital.

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De-cluttering it seems (with or without Feng Shui) can be a process of letting go of things that have been holding you back or distracting you from your current life.

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Floor plans also observed feng shui: Stairwells, for example, don't directly face the front door, for ideal energy-flow.

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