According to my observations over the years a lot of people working in the Feng Shui „industry“ suffer from feeling a lack of recognition, not only within the Western world. There are a plenty of people out there, questioning the theories and the effects of Feng Shui methods.
And as there seems to be not much recognition coming from “outsiders”, but much more depreciation - the trouble with the lack of recognition is remaining inside of the community. It´s just that the fights among the masters and their students - who is better, which methods create the best results, who owns the “top” secrets, which school has the longest history etc. - haven´t caused any noticeable improvement on the quality of service offered so far. Especially in the Western world there still seems to be a significant imbalance between the amount of existing consultants and clients who want to have a consultation. But why is that? Usually when there is a useful product it starts selling itself.
Some consultants claim that the clients are just too stupid or want to have things which cannot be served. But is it really the stupid client who doesn´t know what is good for him? Or does the client just feel that the offered Feng Shui consultation can´t provide what is needed?
Usually in normal Western business when a product isn´t sold, one has to search for the reasons why nobody wants to have it. The normal reasons of lack of business can be found i.e. in the price compared to the benefit/quality of the product, the product is simply not something what is considered a priority need or the consultant appears not trustworthy enough or too unfriendly, the product offered doesn´t match the target group of the advertisment and many more.
So, who is losing when claiming that the clients are just too stupid to go for Feng Shui or astrological consultations?
