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What should I do to have a Feng Shui bedroom? How to Feng Shui my bedroom then?

Well, first I think we should stop to use “Feng Shui” as a verb. Feng Shui is a body of techniques, and takes into account the whole premises. Therefore it is not possible to “Feng Shui” a room only. You cannot “Feng Shui” your sofa, dog and cat, plates and cutlery. There is no feng shui room, or good Feng Shui country for that matter; only proper Feng Shui houses, flats or business premises.

That point being made, I think you have understood by now that there is no magical recipe, no one-die- fits-all in Feng Shui. As such there is no Feng Shui bedroom cures. So it is impossible to tell you how to achieve perfect Feng Shui in your bedroom and house without seeing the place, and matching it with your chart and the whole building.

However the recommendations to transform your bedroom are as follow:

• First, it is important to choose the best location. The bedroom, ideally, should occupy the sector of the house that is best suited to the chart of people sleeping in it. If you need the Wood Qi for example, an east bedroom can be ideal

• Ideally, a bedroom should be quiet and at the back of a house rather than facing the main street

• The position of the bed has to be precisely matched with the best 24 mountains for the people whom occupy the bedroom. A bed position and location is a very major part of any Feng Shui audit – it can make or break the benefit of the house. While in your bed you receive a constant energy, night after night. The sleeping direction and the sleeping location are therefore very important in Feng Shui.

• The Feng shui bedroom placement should then be worked out around the bed position; not the other way around

• It is best not to put the bed on your personal Peach Blossom location

• There is no feng shui colours for bedrooms as such. Your bedroom must be painted in order to enhance the right Element for its occupants, or to transform the Element if the one entering the space is not favourable. Once again it is based on the Bazi of the people.

• The best is not to choose a colour tone too aggressive for the sleep. If you need Fire, a pale rose is better than a bloody red in a bedroom

• If there is some external Sha Chi affecting the bedroom, it must be converted into a benevolent Chi

• A bedroom is a resting space. Therefore it should be a more Yin space, and extra stimulation such as stereo, TV etc are better kept for other space

• Water and bedroom are best kept apart. Water feature and aquariums are not recommended in a bedroom as they keep the Chi too active

• Mirrors are seen as major threat in modern Feng shui, but actually they are not a real problem. However Chinese believe that the spirit leaves the body during the sleep and might be disturbed by a mirror – this belief matches the idea of astral projection. This is the initial reason for no mirror in the bedroom. The other idea of affecting the relationship through reflection in a mirror is bogus, pure Mc Feng Shui.

• Statues of deities and religious artefacts are best kept outside of the bedroom. It is considered disrespectful for the deities to “see” you in your bedroom.

• It is preferable not to be in the alignment with the bedroom door, or worst in between door and window. However if this is the best sector for your bed, based on your Bazi, then it will still benefit you. The superstition of the “dead coffin” position should not be a concerned for westerners. Those are the main guidelines for your bedroom.

I would add to not compromise on the quality of the mattress, to avoid synthetic paint and material, but those points are not cannon Feng Shui.

Your bed position and the bedroom location account for 60% of the Chi your receive in residential Feng Shui! So do not take a chance and book now a Feng Shui home consultation based on your Four Pillars (Bazi) to determine the best bed position and Feng Shui your home and bedroom.