Feng Shui is all about harmonizing the energy in your life and the environment around you. It encourages positive things to enter your life while minimizing negativity. This guide will show you how to use feng shui in the bedroom.
The bedroom is where people many people spend the most time in their homes, as about one third of life is spent sleeping. Creating a positive energy flow in this room can therefore help you lead a more positive existence. The bedroom is intended to be a place of relaxation and often romance, and you can use feng shui to encourage both of these things.
Where to Position the Bed
Placement of the bed is an important part of bedroom feng shui. In this video, you will learn where to set the bed so that it is in what is known as the "power position."
Step 1: Free the Bedroom of Clutter
The principles of feng shui dictate that a cluttered life is inhibiting, as it prevents the free flow of energy. If your bedroom is littered with various odds and ends, it is blocking energy. Therefore, you should remove anything that you do not either love or need to have on hand. There should be no piles of paper or broken items stashed about, no objects that you do not like to look at, and no collections of "stuff" that does not fit comfortably in the space that you are working with. http://www.instituteoffengshui.com/clutter_clearing.html
Step 2: Provide Quality Ambience
Once the clutter has been removed from your bedroom, you can get to work on the overall ambience. This includes lighting and air. You should have several of levels of light available, and thus a dimmer switch is ideal. If a dimmer is not a possibility, you may choose to have a couple of different lamps of varying brightness, or one lamp and some nontoxic candles for when you need less light.
- Keep quality air flowing through your bedroom by keeping windows open for freshness, or using an air purifier if opening windows is not an option. http://fengshui.about.com/od/love/qt/perfectbedroom.htm
Step 3: Arrange Your Bedroom
- The bed should not be directly in line with the door http://fengshui.about.com/od/love/qt/perfectbedroom.htm
- The head of the bed should be against a wall for support http://www.thespiritualfengshui.com/feng-shui-bedroom.php
- You should be able to get to the bed from either side
- Each side of the bed should be flanked by a table
- Your desk or workspace should not be in the bedroom
- Close bedroom doors at night
- Decorate in skin tones
