Feng Shui Bedroom Tips

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The following feng shui bedroom tips will help you achieve a bedroom that is peaceful and harmonious. Make it a place for romance and rest that leaves you feeling rejuvenated and ready for the beginning of each new day.

Basic Bedroom Tips

  • Eliminate Clutter: Remove all the clutter from the bedroom. If you do not love, need or want an object get rid of it. Give it away, donate it or throw it out and as you free yourself of things you no longer use, the positive energy will increase. Keeping the bedroom quiet and simple is important.
  • Keep Bedroom Clean: Making sure that your bedroom is a clean space prevent it from becoming a depressing, dirty environment  that will drain positive energy. Dust and dirt also create clutter and block beneficial chi energy.
  • Air Quality is Important: The air in the bedroom should be fresh. Eliminate the stale, stuffy air that carries pollutants by opening the windows often. If this is not possible, use an air purifier to ensure fresh, oxygen-rich air.
  • Remove the Television and Other Electronic Devices: All electronic devices produce electromagnetic fields. It is believed that the negative energy produced suppresses the body's immune system. Try to eliminate all electronic devices from your bedroom and for any that you do decide to keep, including your alarm clock, place at least three feet from your sleeping area. If you must keep a television, computer or stereo system in your bedroom, enclose it in a cabinet and keep the doors shut while you sleep.
  • Use Colors That Are Soothing: The colors of your bedroom should achieve the balance of yin and yang. Warm colors are exciting and stimulating while cool colors elicit a calm and relaxed feeling. Find a good balance between the two.
  • Lighting: Use two types of lighting, soft bedside lamps and brighter floor lamps. Dimmers soften the light in the bedroom. Avoid ceiling lights positioned directly over the bed.

Decoration and Furniture Tips

  • Wall decorations should reflect positive images hang positive wall decorations that reflect the things you want in life. Avoid sad, depressing or lonely images. Display a painting of a pair of mandarin ducks or peach blossoms for a happy marriage.
  • Use matching nightstands or bedside tables for each side of the bed. They should have rounded corners to prevent sha chi in the form of poison arrows being directed toward you while you sleep.
  • Keep closet and bathroom doors leading into the bedroom closed at all times.
  • Hang a full length mirror on the inside of your bathroom door to keep negative chi contained.
  • Only display photographs of you and your lover in bedroom, adding others invites them into your marriage or relationship.
  • Use paint or fabric to soften ceiling beams or place a pair of flutes suspending with red ribbon or cord with the open ends tilted upward. The best solution is to remove the beams since they create cutting effects to those underneath them and can cause illnesses.
  • Do not use your bedroom as a place to exercise and remove any exercise equipment.
  • If you choose to have a mirror in your bedroom, hang a round mirror. Never position a mirror directly across from your bed. This sets up chi activity that will keep you awake.
  • Your bedroom should provide a sense of security.
  • Do not sleep where your image is reflected in a mirror.
  • Decorate your space simply using beautiful objects that inspire and relax you.

Specific Tips for Your Bed

  • Don't sleep with your mattresses directly on the floor. This will block chi energy and it'llbecome stagnant. Also, you'll be in a vulnerable position to anything that enters your room.
  • Place your bed in the command position, which means to place your bed on the far side of the room facing the door without it being directly in line with the door. Arranging your bed in this position allows the chi to flow through the bedroom giving you its benefits without exposing you to too much energy.
  • The height of your bed is very important. The optimum height is approximately 18 inches. This height allows you to feel grounded and balanced.
  • Your bed should be easy to get to from both sides.
  • Do not use the space under your bed for storage.
  • Use natural fiber bedding.
  • Use footboards and headboards that are solid instead ones with slats.
  • Place the headboard against a solid wall.
  • The footboard should be several inches higher then your mattress.
  • If you have a king size bed with two box springs, use a fitted pink sheet to cover the separation between them.
  • Do not place the head of your bed on a wall that is shared with a bathroom.

Pamper Yourself with Positive Chi Energy

Creating a bedroom where Morpheus, the God of dreams, would feel welcome to spend the night begins with understanding the principles of feng shui and the importance of the bedroom as your home's foundation. Using feng shui bedroom tips to create the space of your dreams allows chi to enter the space and flow freely giving you the energy of life.