Feng Shui: Feng Shui in the bedroom

By Evelyn Seed

Feng Shui (pronounced “fung shway”) is ancient design philosophy. When you care enough to change your future, you’ll care enough to read on and roll up your sleeves!

Most Feng Shui principals are common sense, so be prepared to ‘clear' and ’Create” before you ‘add’ anything. Since we spend many hours in our bedroom, more than we do in any other room.

Your personal focus should begin IN THE BEDROOM to create Serenity, auspicious circumstances and opportunities and imminent growth.

Let’s start to create Serenity with The Door and the Greeter The door is where the energy (or Chi) enters your space.

A bedroom door needs to open completely (90 degrees /at a right angle.)This represents the full allowance of fortuitous opportunities and good possibilities to come in. Doors that open less than 90* symbolically means restricted of opportunities .

The Greeter is the first thing your eyes see when entering through the doorway in your bedroom. You could strategically place something that energetically says nice things to you, such as a photo, a favorite quote, a painting, sculpture, flower vase or any symbol of welcome.

Clutter and organization Clutter needs to be cleaned up to Create Serenity, to live efficiently and to function optimally. Clutter ‘keeps you in the past’ and does not allow forward progress. Symbolically clutter represents all that is left undone in your life. Tackle small projects at first, to avoid “overwhelm”.

Begin with a drawer or a portion of a closet. You’ll then be inspired to move on to the bureau and the entire closet & other cluttered areas. Better organization empowers you. Clear Energy Flow Feng and Shui mean Wind and Water which both have natural flows. For your safety and well as for clear energy circulation, its best not to have an obstructed walk way. Pick up shoes, bags, wires, and papers to assure good energy flow, ease of movement , a sense of organization & a serene place to rest.

What’s opposite the door Often there is a window across the room directly aligned with your door. This may mean that the energy that comes in and flies right out. A cure for this would be to hang from the ceiling, a multifaceted crystal midway between the door and the window. This will help the energy to stay in your space.

If a wall is opposite your door and the distance is shorter than you are tall, the cure would be to hang a mirror on that wall to help circulate the energy instead of having the energy hit a (brick) wall. . Ideal bed orientation The direction that your bed faces (as you sit up in bed & look over your feet upon waking), determines the ‘command position’. This means your are in control or not!

Don’t worry about the absolute direction, like East north, etc. The command position or power position just means that you’re able to see the entrance/ bedroom door. With a sense of Command, there lies serene assurance. It is not good to be in direct alignment (feet pointing out the door ~the Chinese and other cultures say this is the ‘death position‘~). If you can’t move your bed so that you see the door, the cure is: to rig a mirror to enable yourself to see the door when you sit up in bed.

Try not to have a mirror opposite the foot of the bed. Cure: it is better to place the mirror behind the bed or to its side. This cure assures that you feel, serene & like yourself upon waking. In your Bedroom, be careful not to sleep under an exposed beam in the ceiling~ a direct symbol of oppression~,There is no serenity with direct oppression.

Cure: Move the bed, if you can’t move the bed, place two Chinese flutes on the wall on either side of the bed to symbolically lift the oppressive energy. Lay on your bed and see if you are in direct alignment with a ‘poison arrow’ which is any sharp corner whose tangent is aimed and shoots ill energy toward your head.

There is no serenity while under attack. Cure: move the bed or soften and camouflage the sharp corner. So you see with this understanding and some ‘work’ at cleaning up first, setting a scene of what represents quiet serene, calm and warm-fuzzy cultivation and then adding a few cures you can invite opportunities, enhance your power. keep the good energy within,, and feel better about yourself and your serene surroundings.