A good night’s sleep is vital to maintain good health and vitality. After all, by the time you are 80, you will likely have spent around 27 years of your life in your bedroom. That’s a third of your life, which makes this an extremely important spot in your house when it comes to ensuring it has good Feng Shui, and a peaceful and relaxing environment. Even if you have the softest sheets and the comfiest mattress, if the energies in your room are negative, a good night’s sleep will remain elusive.
When looking at bedrooms, you will want to not only look at where the Qi enters the room, but also where the bed is positioned and where the bedroom is located within the house. Violating any rules on the internal forms of the property will negate the advantage of locating the bedroom in a good sector and will aggravate the situation if the bedroom is located in a bad sector.
Achieving a good bedroom form is easier said than done. For instance, before we even begin to evaluate the bedroom, a complete Feng Shui audit needs to be performed to assess the direction of the Main Door, the Flying Star sectors, the internal and external factors and lastly, the surrounding environment. You’ll want the bedroom to be located in a suitable sector based on the formulas in Eight Mansions, Xuan Kong Da Gua or Flying Stars.
The shape of the bedroom plays a role in the balance of the Qi found within the room. Ideally, the bedroom should be square or rectangular shaped. An irregular shape, such as an L-shaped bedroom, a triangular, circular or oval, or even a dumbbell shaped bedroom, creates imbalanced Qi within the room. Since an imbalanced Qi can lead to emotional instability, disturbed sleep and lethargy, it’s advisable to stick to the tried and-true basic four-walled shapes. Sleep is a Yin activity and thus, the bed, in which we undertake the activity of sleep, should therefore be positioned against a Yin feature. Sleeping against a Yang feature will create an imbalance in sleep, resulting in a decline in performance and health problems for the sleeper.
So how do we identity Yin and Yang features in a bedroom? The wall, being a static, unmoving object, is Yin, and therefore the bed’s headboard should be up against the wall, even if it means your bed does not face your favourable direction. The stability of the wall will ensure a good night’s sleep. However, avoid any walls with beams that run over your bed, since it force the Qi down and can cause disrupted sleep, and health and work pressure problems. The windows meanwhile, are a Yang feature since they face open space, and having a headboard up against windows will result in restless sleep and poor health unless the windows are covered with thick and heavy curtains.
Avoid positioning the bed so that your feet face the room door. Though superstitious people call this the “coffin position”, the influences are not that dire. Nonetheless, having the bed located in such a position exposes it directly to the Qi entering the room, causing interrupted or bad sleep. To avoid this, just move the bed to the side, anywhere away from directly facing the door. Some people worry that if a bedroom is located above the entrance and the bed faces the Main Door, the “coffin position” is replicated, but in truth you won’t be affected if you’re located on an upstairs floor.
The furnishings and colour of your bedroom do not matter, and you should go with what you prefer and find most relaxing. Four posters beds and open shelves do not create Sha Qi, and the only effect colour has is a psychological one, not a Feng Shui one. Before resorting to buying a new mattress, new bedding or trying medication to help with sleepless nights and poor health, consider the Feng Shui of your bedroom first. A few minor changes that cost little to nothing may make a world of difference.
