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How to create a feng shui bedroom
The principle of a feng shui bedroom is very easy: This is where you rest. And that’s it. (Yes, and have sex, of course, but that also makes you feel very relaxed, or what?) Your bedroom is not an office. It’s not a television room, a workshop or a room for storage, either.
It’s easy to ignore your surroundings and think that they don’t influence you when you’re asleep, but they do. When decorating the feng shui bedroom your main concern is not what you see, but what you sense. How often haven’t sounds from the outside penetrated your dreams? The barking of a dog became the rattling sound of machine guns in your dream war scenario. Some happily drunk people passing outside your bedroom window put you in a dream scene of a cocktail party. The same with smells – hasn’t your neighbour’s midnight cooking made you dream of eating a huge meal? If you’re cold you might dream of a snow storm and if the wind is shaking your house you might dream you’re out on the open ocean on a ship.
We don’t shut out everything just because we’re asleep. Quite contrary, we’re even more vulnerable and open to what’s going on around us. I remember reading about a father who dreamed of fire and woke up with a sudden feeling of fear. It turned out that his child’s bedside lamp had tipped over and fallen onto the sheet of the bed. There was only a vague smell of heat in the room, but without doubt, if the father hadn’t woken up, there would have been a fire.
So even if you close your eyes to the workload on your bedroom desk, the pile of ironing on the ironing board or the half-finished work on your sewing table it still influence you. It creates an atmosphere of work, not of rest – like there should be in the feng shui bedroom. Try to avoid having a desk in your bedroom. Of course, sometimes there is no other option. Then it can be a good idea to have some kind of ritual that marks when you start and when you stop working, for instance by lighting and blowing out a candle. Also make sure to tidy up your desk at the end of every day. Needless to say, the computer should be turned off. Put a hood or a cloth over the screen if you don’t have a laptop that you can close. If possible screen off your work area. You could have a built in area with cupboard doors or a curtain that shuts, or simply put a decorative screen in front.
Keep your feng shui bedroom tidy and clean. Good idea not to have a chair in the room, as it tends to become a magnet for clothes that otherwise would have been hung straight into the closet.
A TV doesn’t belong in the feng shui bedroom. I know lots of people like to lie in bed and watch television until they fall asleep. Sometimes they manage to turn of the TV, other times they wake up in the middle of the night and it’s still on. Throw the box out. (If you like so much to lie in bed and watch TV get a bed in your living room. Or a sofa you can lie on.) You are NOT going to fall asleep to the sound and images of the TV. Before you fall asleep you have a quiet time where you’re in an almost meditative state, thinking about the day that’s been or the day that will come. This is a great moment to daydream. Or to say gratitude. Or just let your mind drift. Because your mind should be allowed to drift freely. Keeping the TV on will not let it drift anywhere but into what’s going on in the box. Very bad habit!
Most of us sleep best when the bed is positioned north-east.
Make sure no mirrors in the bedroom reflect you while you sleep.
You don’t want a lamp directly over your head. If you have a wall-mounted bedside lamp make sure it’s on the side of the bed.
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