Decorating with Feng Shui


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Having great bedroom feng shui will make you wake up with good energy, ready for whatever the day holds for you. Since you spend more than six hours each night in this room, the feng shui (flow of energy) of your bedroom has a huge impact during sleep, which in turn affects your overall health and happiness. You'll avoid moodiness and be inspired to move forward -- in school, at work, in your relationships and in all other aspects of your life. Follow these basic feng shui bedroom tips and you can start enjoying positive results immediately:

Opt for Curves, Not Corners

Try to choose furniture pieces with soft lines and curvilinear forms. Square corners have too much pointed energy and can create a 'sharp' environment. The arrows formed by right angles are thought to direct negative energy directly at your sleeping form, which can cause a feeling of uneasiness. To help existing furniture with sharp edges, you can soften its corners by draping a piece of flowing fabric over the top or placing a healthy plant on top, leaves cascading over the corners.

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Creating Room Division

The bedroom should be where you relax and recharge. It is where you separate yourself from the high-energy required activities of daily life — work, exercise, hobbies, music, etc.. If your bedroom must do double-duty as a work or exercise space, use a lightweight folding screen or beautiful fabric hung from a ceiling-mounted curtain rod to conceal them.

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Open Your Eyes to Beauty

A common feng shui strategy is to choose art and other objects that depict things you'd like to see manifest in your life, whether success, love or inner peace. In the bedroom, practitioners suggest hanging your favorite piece of art on the wall opposite your bed. The last thing you see before you go to sleep and the first thing you see when you open your eyes should be something that makes you feel joyful and inspired. What hangs above your bed connects with what you dream about at night or in your life.

If you are single and interested in attracting love, don't hang a picture of a single person as this is not what you are dreaming of. Instead, hang an image of a tender couple. Don't hang depressing images, aggressive, chaotic images, images of fierce animals or overpowering images of nature. What hangs above you influences you each night, and you don't have any defense against it as you sleep, so choose images that support your dreams and soothe your spirit. Keep images which remind you about the things you want to happen in your life. Ward off gloomy images from your room.

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Mirror

Another thing not to place opposite, next to or over the bed (and definitely not on the ceiling, which is a crime against more than just feng shui) is a mirror. In addition to bouncing too much energy around the room to allow for good rest, these reflective surfaces are thought to magnify problems and worries — and some feng shui practitioners even say that mirrors in the bedroom can invite a third party to interfere in your relationship. If you have mirrored closet doors, "treat them like windows and hang curtains in front of them," suggests Terah. Move other mirrors out of the room, face them away from the bed or drape them with a pretty piece of fabric when you turn in for the night.

Mirror placement is only a problem if the mirror faces your bed and you can see your face and upper body in the reflection. If the mirror looks sideways onto your bed it is not a problem, why are mirrors in bedrooms considered bad? Two schools of thought, the first belief is when you sleep at night your soul is supposed to leave your body and when it leaves the first thing it sees is a reflection of itself and gets startled and this is what causes nightmares and a restless sleep. The second is when you sleep your body recharges itself with fresh Ch'i and the negative Ch'i leaves your body, if there is a mirror facing you the negative Ch'i cannot leave you. This does not just apply to mirrors, anything reflective like a photo, painting, computer screen or metal surface. If you cannot move the mirror place a cloth over it when you sleep.

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