Good feng shui in your bedroom enhances health, wealth and happiness.
The ancient Chinese art of feng shui tells us that our personal chi or energy is strongly influenced by our immediate environment. It's important that the energy in your bedroom is as good as possible--after all, you spend hours sleeping there each night, and it's probably the setting for your sex life. Feng shui techniques or cures work by increasing the flow of positive energy and eliminating negative energy in your bedroom.
Keep It Tidy
It is all too easy to undress at the end of the day and leave your clothes lying wherever they fall. Unfortunately, clutter in the bedroom only serves as an obstacle to the free circulation of energy. Put yesterday's outfit in the hamper before you go to sleep and make your bed each morning. Tidying your bedroom is a powerful feng shui cure. This simple habit eliminates stagnant energy that wears you out and blocks your love life.
Remove Mirrors
Mirrors facing the bed can invite unwanted third parties into your relationship.
Lillian Too, author of "Lillian Too's Feng Shui Workbook" and more than 80 other books on feng shui, warns that mirrors create energies that can disrupt sleep and cause infidelity in relationships. Remove mirrors from your bedroom. If you don't wish to remove a mirror, cover it at night or place it so that you can't see it from your bed.
Let in Light
Your bedroom should be as dark and quiet as possible when you're sleeping there, but if you never open your blinds it can begin to feel more like a tomb. Christopher Cole, a feng shui consultant and acupunturist practicing in Southern Ontario since 2004, advises letting the sun shine in through your bedroom windows during the day. Your room should have an even balance between yin and yang energies--dark and light, silence and sound, calm and activity. Sunlight is a form of yang energy, and counteracts the darkness of the hours when you're using your bedroom for rest.
Eliminate Poison Arrows
A sharp desk corner creates a poison arrow aimed at the bed.
"Poison arrow" is a feng shui term for the harsh, negative energy generated by anything with sharp corners. A dresser, bookshelf, alcove or window nook can create poison arrows that will disrupt your sleep. Eliminate all poison arrows that point at you when you sleep, says Clear Englebert, author of "Feng Shui Demystified." Drape a soft cloth over your dresser, cover your window nook edges with a curtain or place trailing plants such as ivy on your bookshelf to soften the poison arrows.
Position Bed Carefully
Windows and doors are high-traffic areas for chi. If your bed is directly under a window, or placed so that your feet point toward your bedroom door, you are trying to sleep each night in a rushing river of energy. Rearrange your room so that your bed is away from the window or door. If for some reason you must place your bed near the door, close it when you sleep to calm the flow of energy.
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