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How To Feng Shui Your Bedroom
Adapted from Feng Shui for Life, by Jon Sandifer (Inner Traditions, 2000).
Your bedroom is your ultimate inner sanctum where you are at your most vulnerable while you sleep and recharge your chi. From a yin/yang perspective, this is a more yin, quiet and peaceful environment; you need to feel protected and do not want distracting and powerful chi to disturb you. At the same time, there needs to be a good circulation of chi and plenty of fresh air available to recharge you.
Here are 16 tips to Feng Shui your bedroom. Make this all-important room a sanctuary:
1. Ideally, the bedroom should be as far away as possible from the front door, mirroring the practice of our prehistoric ancestors who did not sleep in the mouth of their cave.
2. On entering your bedroom, note where the windows are located. Chi tends to travel between the door and any windows, so avoid positioning your bed in line with this ‘”draught’” of chi.
3. Position your bed so that you can see the door from where you sleep. This gives you a deep sense of inner security.
4. If it is feasible, position your bed as far away from the door as possible.
5. Avoid sleeping with your head close to a window as your chi will dissipate through the window and make you feel more tired on awakening.
6. If you have a bathroom, toilet or shower leading off your bedroom, make sure that the toilet door is always shut while you are asleep.
7. To help you protect your own chi while you are asleep, to internalize it and recharge it, make sure you have a strong, stable headboard. Chi energy enters and exits the body through the feet, hands and the top of the skull. Having a solid “mountain” behind you while you sleep is far more beneficial than a cold, blank wall or worse, the cutting chi of an ornate brass bedstead.
8. If you sleep with another person, note the position of your bed relative to the wall that it is up against. Is it equidistant? In the middle of the wall? This is vital in a relationship as it gives both individuals who share the bed equality in the relationship. A shared bed crammed into the corner of a room, is giving more freedom of chi to the individual on the open side whereas the partner will literally and symbolically feel up against a wall.
9. Make sure all bedside tables have rounded edges and not square to prevent cutting chi being focused towards the occupants. If two sleep in the bed, ensure matching beside tables on either side for added stability and protection in the relationship.
10. Ceiling beams above the bed are a feng shui nightmare. They can be a source of cutting chi and the beams carry a tremendous load, and this pressure is focused into the beams generating chi which continues downwards, placing direct pressure on you while you sleep. Some tips:
Paint the beams; drape fabric over the beams; hang bamboo flutes 2-3 inches below the beam to soften the load (the flutes are hung at a 45-degree angle to the beam with the mouthpiece downwards).
11. If you sleep with another person, make sure your bed is symbolic of this relationship. Beds that are rickety or likely to fall part speak volumes about the state of the relationship.
12. Given that the bedroom is a more yin environment, the lighting that you choose needs to reflect this. Soft lighting is ideal. Avoid having ceiling lamps right directly over your bed.
13. Pastel colors are ideal.
14. Avoid sleeping with your image visible in a mirror. the worst scenario of all is a mirror at the foot of your bed.
15. Place something beautiful that inspires you where you first look in the morning.
16. Pay attention to what is under your bed. Keep the space clear and get rid of any unwanted items there.
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Let's see: I live in a house that was built in the 50's (all the bedrooms and the bath room are on one side of the house and the other rooms on the other side). In my room there are 4 doors: one leads to the bathroom, the other bedroom and the kitchen (the 4th is my closet door). The 'east' wall has two windows and the the biggest wall where my bed goes which runs east to west shares the wall with the bathroom and the toilet pretty much "faces my room". And no matter how I sleep my chi is going into that toilet and/or out the window which my is positioned against. I have limited wall space because of the doors and its like no matter how I change the room, I'm either sleeping too close to one or two doors, can't see either or the chi from one of them cuts right the bed. HELP!!!
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just curious, the last tip about clearing out under your bed...what about beds with drawers underneath for extra storage?
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Can anyone help me. I recently put a beautiful picture that my friend painted over the headboard of my bed. The picture's theme is for the bedroom and the wall over the headboard of the bed seems the only choice. Is it bad to have picture hang over your head? What should i do? Thank you! P.S. The picture is the image of a woman (not full body - from a little lower the shoulders to a little lower the knees) wrapped in a silk sheet. The colors are from dark chocolate brown to red brown, and the picture is done by charcoal. I hope all these details will help to give me a good advice. Thank you!
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We just bought a home and cannot figure out where to put the bed. The door into the bedroom is at an angle,but on the south wall. There are no windows on the south wall-we have our dresser with mirror there. The west wall has the entrance to the bathroom. The only way the bed could be on that wall would push either myself or my husband u[ against a wall-but- their is a window rigth there on the north wall where the other side of the bed would be. The north wall only has the one window as already mentioned. Then there would be room for the bed against the north wall which faces the door but it is bad because the far side of the bed would be near the east wall(where our bed is now)abd there are two windows on the east wall-just far apart enough for our bed to go between and maybe two feet of space from our heads to the windows. I hope I have explained this well enough for you to help me. Also we were planning to paint our bedroom (3 walls) in sage or dark forest green. I nguess we should go with the lighter saage. Helop me !!!!! Sue Hall psvhall@yahoo.com Thank you.
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We just bought a home and cannot figure out where to put the bed. The door into the bedroom is at an angle,but on the south wall. There are no windows on the south wall-we have our dresser with mirror there. The west wall has the entrance to the bathroom. The only way the bed could be on that wall would push either myself or my husband u[ against a wall-but- their is a window rigth there on the north wall where the other side of the bed would be. The north wall only has the one window as already mentioned. Then there would be room for the bed against the north wall which faces the door but it is bad because the far side of the bed would be near the east wall(where our bed is now)abd there are two windows on the east wall-just far apart enough for our bed to go between and maybe two feet of space from our heads to the windows. I hope I have explained this well enough for you to help me. Also we were planning to paint our bedroom (3 walls) in sage or dark forest green. I nguess we should go with the lighter saage. Helop me !!!!! Sue Hall psvhall@yahoo.com Thank you.
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Is anyone else completely in love with this website? My house has been a mess forever. I mean a real pig sty clutter heap. I have been doing one room a day with the help of this website and I literally feel like a weight has been taken off my shoulders.
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What is the big deal with a mirror at the foot of the bed? I have a beautiful round mirror/antique dresser which I placed facing the foot of the kingsize bed, thinking the metallic aspect of the mirror, being against the eastern wall, would do something good for me. Can anyone clarify the error with this?
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I just wanted to put this out there for all the coulpes that sleep in a bed together that if you have a King size bed it is very bad for your feng shui because the boxspring is seperated in two..the quick solution: put a red sheet on top of the boxspring. that will connect you and your loved one also red is the color of love....
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Hi i just wanted to put some advice out there.If you are a couple and you have a king size bed.Its not good. The reason to this is simple, king size beds are seperated in two at the boxspring...Solution: Placing a red sheet right on top of the boxspring. This will connect the couple and also red is the color of love.
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