Essential Feng Shui Tips: All Bedrooms
Feng Shui Definitions
Because our Western culture puts little importance on rest, our bedrooms are frequently not conducive to a good night’s sleep. Ideally, our bedrooms are a perfect combination of cozy nest, rejuvenating oasis, and romantic hideaway—a sensual embrace where we go to completely recharge our batteries.
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Essential Feng Shui Tips: Beams
Feng Shui Definitions
Overhead beams are a popular structural feature in Western architecture and are considered to add character. They can also add a sense of heaviness and danger over your head, especially when you sit or sleep directly under them. The bigger, darker, and lower they are, the more you want to lighten them up in some way.
- Paint or refinish beams to match the ceiling color. Or, paint them white or a light pastel color.
- Literally lighten up beams by running strings of tiny white lights along them. Or, place up-lighting directly beneath beams to lift them from below.
- Symbolically break the beam’s heaviness by hanging two objects at angles that suggest a drawbridge partially open (/ \). You can use two bamboo flutes, hung with the mouthpieces down to symbolize the Ch’i flowing up to lift the beam. Or, hang things that imply a lifting and lightening of the beam, such as feathers and ribbons. Appropriate subject matter such as vines and birds can also be painted on beams to artistically lighten their presence.
- Hang beautiful handwoven textiles, prayer flags, floral swags, banners, mobiles, or any other lightweight items from the beam.
- When applicable, soften the hard line of a beam by rounding its sharp edges. Or add curves at each end of the beam to simulate an arch.
- Canopy your bed when there’s a beam over it and you cannot move the bed to another location.
Essential Feng Shui Tips: Bathrooms
Inner Feng Shui
This inner work is about the draining and cleansing forces in your life. Sit quietly for a few minutes and ask if you are being environmentally, emotionally, mentally or spiritually drained in some way. If you are, it’s time to lift this downward pull on your vitality. Don’t let anything drain your Ch’i! Cleanse yourself of anyone or anything that is pulling you down, and close the drains, literally and figuratively!
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Essential Feng Shui Tips: Bathrooms
Feng Shui Definitions
The primary function of our bathrooms is to clean our bodies-inside and out-via the sink, shower, bathtub, and toilet. In Feng Shui, plumbing is considered a potential threat to the vital Ch’i circulating through the house. Just like water, Ch’i can be pulled down the drain. Although we’re grateful to have bathrooms so conveniently located in our homes, we certainly don’t want to flush our prosperity down the toilet or watch our health go down the drain! We can design our bathrooms so that the Ch’i remains buoyant; and our health, wealth, and happiness flourish.
- Keep the drains of the tub and sink closed when not in use, and make sure you keep the lid on the toilet seat closed. The latter is especially important due to the toilet’s large opening.
- If possible, install the toilet so that you don’t see it from the door. Put it in its own room or behind a wall or screen. When this is not possible, hang a round-faceted cut-glass crystal from the ceiling between the door and the toilet to help lift and circulate the Ch’i (see other Ch’i enhancers).
- Make all bathrooms beautiful! You can quickly lift the Ch’i with a fresh coat of paint, new towels, art objects, and plants.
Essential Feng Shui Tips: Art
Feng Shui Definitions
Art of all kinds, including paintings, sculptures, collages, and textiles, has a powerful effect on people. To enhance the Ch’i in your home, choose art that elicits positive feelings and in some way makes your heart sing. Your goal is to make sure that every piece of art in your home is one that you love.
- Match your art with the function of each room. Choose soothing, romantic, or sensual art for your bedroom; lively, colorful art for the living room; powerful, motivational art for your office.
- Use the Bagua Map to help you find the places in your home that correlate with your goals in life. If you wish for romance and your Love and Marriage area is in the dining room, choose art that’s romantic and appropriate for your dining area. If you wish to improve your health and your Health and Family area is in the bathroom, display art there that evokes radiant health and vitality.
- Honor everyone living with you by making sure they also like the art displayed in shared rooms.
- Your art should portray whole images and serene or inspirational subject matter. Art depicting violence, death, distortion, or negativity is not advised.
- Very special Ch’i resides in art that you and your family create. Sow your personal Ch’i into your home by expressing your creativity. Make sure you aren’t hiding away any art pieces that deserve to be framed and displayed.
New Moon Meditation
Happy New Moon!
Bring a pen or pencil, paper, and find a comfortable place to rest… Enjoy this process of exploration into New Beginnings.
Let us know what you’re going to begin!
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