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How to Map Your Bedroom with Feng Shui
Adapted From Teen Feng Shui, by Susan Levitt (Inner Traditions, 2003).
The ancient Chinese method of Feng Shui helps us to balance our homes and create happier, more successful lives, room by room.
At this time of year, with days growing shorter and nights getting long and chilly, we often turn our attention to the bedroom, the sanctuary where we can rest and recharge.
It’s easy to “map” your bedroom according to Feng Shui principles so you can create more harmony in the bedroom. Here’s how:
1. First, draw a roughly square outline of your bedroom on a piece of paper. The wall that has the primary entrance to your room in it should be the lower line of the square.
2. Divide the square into nine equal squares, three rows of 3 squares each.
3. Start with the lowest row of squares, that describes the areas when you first walk into your bedroom. The far left corner of the room when you first enter is the area of Knowledge. The center square relates to Career, and the right-hand square is Helpful People/Travel.
4. Now look at the central row of squares, that describes the middle of your bedroom. The far left square relates to Family/Health. The central square is the Tao, or Center, and the right-hand square is Creativity/Children.
5. Lastly, look at the top row of squares. The far left square relates to Wealth, the central square to Fame/Reputation, and the far right square to Relationships/Romance.
Your layout should look something like this:
Wealth-Fame/Reputation-Relationships/Romance
Family/Health-Tao-Creativity/Children
Knowledge-Career-Helpful People/Travel
6. Here are some objects that will work best for each area
of your room, helping you to attract more of what you need.
Knowledge: Bookcase, books, tools for self-development.
Career: Mirrors or water-related items. Images to support your career goals.
Helpful People/Travel: Pictures of your helpers.
Family/Health: Family photos, heirlooms, plants.
Creativity/Children: Art supplies, artwork, computer.
Wealth: Money, jewelry, fish, fountains, anything red, purple or gold.
Fame/Reputation: Candles, awards, plants, anything red, orange or purple.
Relationships/Romance: Round or oval mirrors, anything pink, pictures of loved ones, paired objects (like two candlesticks or two crystals).
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add your comment »Every once in a while I read something on Feng Shu to see if there is something I can get from it, but each time I have a similar response: It rubs me the wrong way.
Now it may be because I have deeply personal feelings about intuitively knowing where I should place objects in my own room. Or, maybe underneath it all I suspect that my values might be quite different than these age old wisdoms and whose to tell me to even think about wealth or fame?
After some deliberation, I've tried to rethink the point since anyone entering my room would see that I clearly need some guidance. If the purpose of Feng Shu is to create "balance", in essence this is a tool for aranging objects in our home relating to the elements of our lives that need balance.
So if my resistance begins with putting career objects centrally, because that's where I move, flow, and do stuff, then that would be imposing what I think of as my unimportant career into a space I deem for other purposes. However, maybe the act of putting a career object in center might be a way of forcing myself to rethink where my energies should be going and what my career is.
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I will be trying some of these...
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wow , nicely written and explained to the point. Very informative .
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Ooh this is just the article I've been looking for :} Can't wait to try it
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Interesting. Of course, my current living space is 8 feet by 8 feet in an 8 x 12 steel shed also occupied by a black cat, bed pallet, bucket toilet, and a dresser subdivided between upper essentials, bottom dirty laundry, and in-between hand tools. There is barely space to walk through this, and options are further limited by the rollup garage style door that covers the entire "front wall".
However, when the time comes--in perhaps another 3 to 5 years--that I have a somewhat larger space to consider, then Feng Shui might be something to consider. And if so, then yes, this is definitely the easiest explanation to understand that I've encountered so far!
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what if my room isn't square? there are 5 walls and has 2 doors.. one in the south and the other in the south-east://///
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I cannot get enough of feng shui
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great article :) thanks:)
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it's also good to place a mirror above your desk, gives you the feel of a bigger room
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I've heard that it's good to place your bed in the farthest point in the room.
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