How to Feng Shui the Bedroom

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You can learn how to feng shui the bedroom by following these simple steps.

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Your bedroom is probably the most important room in your home because this is where you rejuvenate and replenish your life force called chi. By proper placement of your bed and other furniture, you're assured of a restive and nurturing environment.

Understanding Chi Energy

Complete the following steps to help you understand the flow of chi in your bedroom:

  • Get a piece of paper and a pencil
  • On the paper draw a layout of your bedroom
  • Mark each door and window
  • Draw a line from each door to each window. The lines reveal how the chi energy flows through the room.

Bedroom Guidelines
  • Consider doors and windows should when positioning your bed.
  • Use matching nightstands on either side of the bed
  • Add soft lighting with lamps instead of overhead lighting

What Not to Do

It's more important to know what not to do than knowing what to do when it comes to applying proper feng shui techniques to your bedroom.

  • Don't place an aquarium, fountain, photo or painting of water in your bedroom.
  • Avoid metal feng shui elements that enhance or draw water.
  • Don't position your bed underneath beams.
  • Don't place your mattress directly on the floor. Use a bed frame.
  • Don't create an office corner in your bedroom. Keep work and rest areas separate, otherwise you'll constantly be thinking about work and feeling as though you must work instead of relaxing from work.
  • Don't store or use exercise equipment in your bedroom.
  • Don't store things underneath your bed. This creates unrest.

Get Rid of Clutter

Declutter. This is one of the first and foremost rules of feng shui.

  • When you undress, don’t discard your clothes onto chairs or the floor. Hang or fold clothing and put it away in closets or drawers.
  • Prevent stagnant chi by dusting, vacuuming or sweeping regularly
  • Wash windows inside and out
  • Clean mirrors
  • Wash linens
  • Dry clean draperies, bed coverlets and quilts periodically

Bedrooms and Televisions

 There are conflicting opinions about televisions in the bedroom. Many feng shui practitioners advise removing television sets from bedrooms.
A TV screen wasn't designed to be a mirror, so don’t treat it as one in feng shui design.

Experts base this concept on the belief that when you rise from the bed you may be startled by your own reflection in the darkened TV screen. Another theory revolves around astral projection, which is the belief that your soul leaves your body during sleep and might be shocked or frightened by its reflection.

While both theories have merit and some feng shui practitioners advise TV removal or covering it at night, many feng shui masters believe this request is impractical for a modern bedroom. In addition, it’s very off-putting to believe you must sacrifice such luxuries and necessities to appease the mandates of feng shui.

Many modern and advanced-thinking feng shui masters believe most people wouldn’t be startled by their reflections and in fact, a few may even admire themselves in the very limited and obscure image a TV provides. While televisions can create reflections, mirror principles shouldn’t be applied to televisions.

If you enjoy having a TV in your bedroom and find it entertaining and useful as well as relaxing, then it serves you and fulfills the basic bedroom feng shui principles – creating a retreat and place of great comfort. You should be able to enjoy those luxuries and necessities without feeling guilty that it’s not proper feng shui.

If however, you seek an excuse to get rid of your bedroom television and agree it doesn’t belong there, then by all means relegate it to another room. Just remember that above all things, feng shui is based on logic. Use good judgment in this issue and decide what is best for you.

Cures for Improper Furniture Placements
  • King size beds - These beds are wonderful but can create martial problems because the box springs are little more than twin beds placed side by side. This creates an underlying separation that contradicts the oversized top mattress. You can overcome the marital discord these separate beds create by covering them with a pink sheet. This seals them and forms them into one unit the feng shui way.
Beams create shar chi.
  • Purchase a bed that has a solid and substantial headboard - In form feng shui, the mountain is a support for life. The headboard will act as this mountain during your time of rest and provide protection and healthy chi flow.
  • Crystals - If you cannot avoid placing your bed directly opposite a door, suspend a multi-faceted round crystal in the space between the door and the bed. This will negate the effects of sha chi (bad chi) such a placement creates.
  • Overhead beams - These can create disharmony in your marriage as well as disease since they symbolically slice through the body. Use a pair of Chinese bamboo flutes and suspend them from the beam with a red ribbon. Make sure the open ends are angled up so the chi energy is rerouted away from you.
  • Mirrors - Don’t place these across from your bed. If the room dictates that your bed be placed so it’s impossible to see who enters the room, place a mirror across from the door or on a wall that affords you a line of sight.
  • Poison arrows - These are sharp angles that point at the bed. Suspend a crystal ball in between the bed and the furniture or wall creating the sharp angle. Plants make good buffers, but not always a good element for a bedroom. Refer to your flying stars report before adding any feng shui elements.

Think Function and Purpose

It’s easy to learn how to feng shui the bedroom when you approach it as a retreat to create a safe haven where you can relax.

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