Sleep Well Using Bedroom Feng Shui
The ancient practice of feng shui manipulates the flow of energy, or chi, within rooms to support the activities that take place within those rooms. You can use feng shui in your bedroom, making simple changes in the arrangement, decor, and clutter to keep energy moving smoothly and in a healthy way. Good chi means good sleep and dreams. Here’s how you do it.
- Avoid doors and windows opposite one another, and never sleep facing a door. These placements cause chi to rush between the openings, and to drag your own energy out the door, so you don’t get a restful sleep. Locate your bed so it is not in such an energy pathway. If you can’t avoid such placement, use soft folds of draperies or decorative room screens to redirect the chi.
- Tip the balance of the elements toward the yin, the softer, feminine side of the yin-yang balance. Water, Earth, and wood are yin elements; metal and fire are yang (masculine, sun, active energy) elements. Put a fountain in your bedroom to further soften the chi.
- Don’t arrange your bed under any beams or rafters, or with any corners of the room pointing at you. Beams that cut across you horizontally can cause health problems, according to feng shui, and beams that divide couples can result in relationship problems. Corners send arrows of negative energy at you while you sleep. If your bed must be located under beams, drape a soft cloth over the beams to hide their shape, and place objects in front of corners.
- Keep all dead or dying plants out of your bedroom. These encourage poor health, low energy, and depression. According to feng shui, beautiful fake plants are preferable to wilting live plants.
- Don’t locate any mirrors so that you can see yourself in bed. This can cause anxiety, if you should wake up in the middle of the night and see yourself. Mirrors reflecting the bed are a feng shui taboo!
- Clear the clutter. Clutter—lots of furniture crowded into the bedroom, clothing piled on chairs, overflowing closets—causes chi to stagnate, catching it like a dirty drainpipe. This results in a sense of staleness in the room. Less is more when it comes to freshening the energy in your bedroom: clear off surfaces, and keep the space under your bed clean and clear of junk.
- Pamper the relationship corner. Stand in the doorway to your bedroom, looking in. From where you are standing, the upper right corner of the room is the relationship and marriage corner. If you want a healthy relationship, keep this corner free of junk and beautifully decorated with symbols of love and passion: red and pink flowers or pictures of flowers, wind chimes, and representations of couples.
Using these techniques of feng shui, your bedroom will have good chi and you’ll sleep like a baby. Happy slumbers!
From The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Dream Dictionary by Eve Adamson and Gayle Williamson (a.k.a. Dream Genie)
