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How to Feng Shui Your Bedroom
The bedroom is a key space in the home and can have a big impact on your sleep and overall well-being. When I consult with my clients, we typically focus a lot of attention to this area. By incorporating the principles of feng shui into your bedroom design, you can create a peaceful and harmonious space that promotes relaxation and rest. Here are some tips for feng shui-ing your bedroom:
- Choose a calm and neutral color palette. Soft, neutral colors such as white, beige, and pale blue can create a sense of tranquility and relaxation in the bedroom. Avoid bright, bold colors that can be stimulating and overwhelming.
- Incorporate natural elements. Nature has a calming and grounding effect, so incorporating natural elements such as plants, stones, and wood can help create a sense of balance and harmony in your bedroom.
- Use soft lighting. Bright, harsh lighting can be jarring and stressful, so it’s best to use soft, indirect lighting in the bedroom. You can use candles, dimmer switches, or low-wattage bulbs to create a soothing ambiance. Use blackout curtains, as well.
- Keep the bedroom clutter-free. Clutter can create a sense of chaos and disrupt the flow of energy, so it’s important to keep the bedroom clean and organized. Make sure to regularly declutter the space and remove any unnecessary items to maintain a sense of calm and order.
- Choose comfortable and relaxing materials. The materials you use in your bedroom can have a big impact on the energy of the space. Soft, comfortable materials such as plush blankets and pillows can create a sense of relaxation and comfort. Avoid hard, cold materials such as marble or concrete that can feel uninviting.
- Position the bed in a commanding position. In feng shui, it’s important to position the bed in a “commanding position,” which means that it should be placed in a spot where you can see the door but not directly in line with it. This helps to create a sense of protection and security in the bedroom.
- Reduce electronics. EMF devices like televisions and cell phones should be removed from the bedroom, if at all possible. The only electronic devices I like to see are a white noise sound machine and soft lighting.
By following these tips and using the principles of feng shui in your bedroom design, you can create a peaceful and harmonious space that promotes relaxation and rest.
If you need guidance to improve your space and your life, I’m always available to help. Learn more on my website today and book a virtual consultation. Better feng shui can help you in profound ways on life’s journey.
I am a 3rd generation feng shui expert and have helped thousands of people add harmony and balance to their homes and offices without making it look like a Chinese restaurant exploded.
I can help you attract the life that you deserve with feng shui. Contact me today!
Is it Good Feng Shui to Have a Fireplace in the Bedroom?
Fireplaces can add warmth, aroma, and ambiance to your room, but is it good feng shui to have a fireplace specifically in your bedroom? My short answer is generally no. In fact, when I work with home builders, I always suggest they remove plans to automatically include a fireplace in any bedroom.
Here are a few reasons why it is bad feng shui to have a fireplace in your bedroom:
- Fireplaces provide exciting energy. In feng shui, fire is associated with passion, excitement, and transformation. These can certainly be positive qualities in some areas of your home, but not here. Your bedroom is a space to get some rest and relaxation.
- Fireplaces can be a safety hazard. A fireplace increases the risk of fire in your home. Even if you don’t actively use your bedroom fireplace, it can create an unconscious sense of stress, which certainly doesn’t help you relax. Certainly never fall asleep with a fireplace on.
- Fireplaces can disrupt sleep. Heat and light emitted by your bedroom fireplace can interfere with your precious sleep. Your bedroom should be cool, dark, and quiet to help promote sleep. Fireplaces, however, can disrupt this balance.
So, what are some cures? Removing the fireplace altogether just isn’t usually practical. When I consult with my individual clients who already have a fireplace in their bedroom, we work together to try to mitigate its negative effects. A couple of suggestions include using a fireplace screen and keeping it turned off when not in use. I also suggest balancing the energy of the space by using other feng shui techniques, such as incorporating natural elements, a carefully-placed painting of calm water, or the use of soothing colors.
If you need more specific and custom guidance to improve your space and your life, I’m available to help. Learn more on my website today and book a virtual consultation. Better feng shui can help you in profound ways on life’s journey.
I am a 3rd generation feng shui expert and have helped thousands of people add harmony and balance to their homes and offices without making it look like a Chinese restaurant exploded.
I can help you attract the life that you deserve with feng shui. Contact me today
How to Feng Shui Your Bathroom
The bathroom is often overlooked when it comes to feng shui, but it’s an important space in the home that can greatly impact your energy and well-being.
Historically, homes didn’t have indoor bathrooms because there was no indoor plumbing. Try as I might with my home builder clients, there’s no avoiding indoor bathrooms now. If we don’t feng shui them appropriately, positive energy called chi could be drained, causing problems with your health, finances, career, etc.
Here are some tips to feng shui your bathroom:
- Choose the right colors. Select a color scheme appropriate to the section of the Bagua where your bathroom is located. There’s no need to paint the whole bathroom – simply accenting the area with décor should be fine.
- Use natural elements & shapes. Incorporate elements and shapes appropriate to the Gua where your bathroom is located.
- Use soft lighting. Bright lighting can be stressful, so it’s best to use soft, indirect lighting in the bathroom whenever possible to create a soothing space. You can use dimmable lighting and vanity mirrors with focused lighting when necessary.
- Keep the bathroom clean and clutter-free. Clutter can create a sense of chaos. It disrupts the flow of energy, so it’s important to keep the bathroom clean and organized.
- Choose comfortable and relaxing materials. The materials you use in your bathroom can have a big impact on the energy of the space. Plush towels and rugs can create a sense of relaxation and comfort. Avoid hard, cold materials such as marble or concrete that can feel uninviting.
- Add the element of fun. Be creative and have fun when decorating your bathroom space. All of the energy coming into your bathroom is designed to go down the drain. Counteract that by creating an uplifting environment.
- Redden the drains. Wrap red duct tape or string around drains in the bathroom or even paint them red if they’re hidden by a cabinet. Doing so slows down chi energy that is escaping your home through the drains.
- Use bagua mirrors. Further slow escaping chi by reflecting it back up your drains with a flat bagua mirror placed underneath each drain.
Follow these tips and use the principles of feng shui in your bathroom design to improve your energy flow and stop the loss of uplifting energy in your home.
If you need more specific and custom guidance to improve your space and your life, I’m available to help. Learn more on my website today and book a virtual consultation. Better feng shui can help you in profound ways on life’s journey.
I am a 3rd generation feng shui expert and have helped thousands of people add harmony and balance to their homes and offices without making it look like a Chinese restaurant exploded.
I can help you attract the life that you deserve with feng shui. Contact me today!
Feng Shui Tips for Studio Apartment Renters: Creating Harmony and Balance in a Small Space
If you’re a renter living in a studio apartment, you may be looking for ways to create a sense of harmony and balance in your small space. The principles of feng shui can be a helpful tool for optimizing the layout and design of your apartment to promote well-being and support your goals. In this blog post, we’ll explore some feng shui tips for studio apartment renters.
- Declutter and organize your space. One of the most fundamental principles of feng shui is the idea that clutter blocks the flow of energy in a space. By decluttering and organizing your apartment, you can create a sense of clarity and calm that supports your well-being and goals.
- Choose colors and materials that align with your desired energy. In feng shui, different colors and materials are believed to have different energies and properties. By choosing colors and materials that align with your desired energy, you can create an environment that supports your well-being and goals.
- Pay attention to the layout and design of your space. The placement of furniture and other objects can have a significant impact on the flow of energy in a space. By placing your furniture and objects in a way that promotes harmony and balance, you can create an environment that supports your well-being and goals.
- Incorporate natural elements. In feng shui, incorporating natural elements like plants, wood, and stone can help to bring a sense of balance and harmony to a space. In a small studio apartment, consider adding some natural elements to bring a sense of the outdoors inside.
- Use the bagua map to guide your design. The feng shui bagua is a map that helps practitioners understand how different areas of a space correspond to different aspects of a person’s life. By using the bagua map as a guide, you can create a space that supports your well-being and goals in each of the eight areas.
By following these feng shui tips, you can create a sense of harmony and balance in your small studio apartment. By decluttering and organizing your space, choosing colors and materials that align with your desired energy, paying attention to the layout and design of your space, incorporating natural elements, and using the bagua map as a guide, you can create an environment that supports your well-being and goals.
If you need guidance to improve your space and your life, I’m always available to help. Learn more on my website today and book a virtual consultation. Better Feng Shui can help you in profound ways on life’s journey.
I am a 3rd generation Feng Shui expert and have helped thousands of people add harmony and balance to their homes and offices without making it look like a Chinese restaurant exploded.
I can help you attract the life that you deserve with Feng Shui. Contact me today!
Using Convex Bagua Mirrors in Feng Shui
Convex bagua mirrors are a tool often used in feng shui to deflect negative energy. By deflecting negative energy, they may help prevent accidents, protect against theft, and calm overwhelming feelings.
Convex bagua mirrors are specifically shaped like an octagon. Each side and the center of the octagon represents one of the nine areas of the bagua, which in turn represent different aspects of life, including wealth, career, relationships, and health.
When I work with home builders, I advise them on creating housing developments that are most auspicious for future residents. We’ll work together to avoid or minimize homes located at T-intersections, the end of a cul-de-sac, corner lots, and in other situations where a home has poison arrows pointed at it.
If you already live in a home with any of these situations, however, there are often remedies. When I consult with homeowners, we’ll identify areas of concern and I will advise specific cures, which may include a convex bagua mirror.
There are several ways to use convex bagua mirrors in feng shui. One common placement is to hang the mirror just above the front door, facing outward. This is believed to deflect negative energy and protect the home from negative influences. If you have poison arrows facing toward your window, you may hang the mirror above the window, again, facing outward to deflect negative energy from the outside. Whether with a door or window, the mirror could be inside or outside of the wall as long as the reflective part of the mirror is facing outwards towards the negative energy.
Please ONLY use convex bagua mirrors for protection and NEVER use them to intentionally harm or bring negativity to others. Use them with caution, as they can be very powerful and can even reflect or amplify negative energy back at you if used incorrectly.
If you’re interested in using convex bagua mirrors for feng shui in your home or business, it’s important to consult with a feng shui expert to determine the best placement for maximum protection. When you use and place them appropriately, convex bagua mirrors can provide you with powerful protection by bringing positive energy to your space.
Click here for a referral link to a convex bagua mirror that I suggest to my clients.
If you need more specific and custom guidance to improve your space and your life, I’m available to help. Learn more on my website today and book a virtual consultation. Better feng shui can help you in profound ways on life’s journey.
I am a 3rd generation feng shui expert and have helped thousands of people add harmony and balance to their homes and offices without making it look like a Chinese restaurant exploded.
I can help you attract the life that you deserve with feng shui. Contact me today
Feng Shui in Quarantine
Use Feng Shui to lose the overwhelming, uneasy or overworked feelings that can come with working from home
Probably like you, I went from driving to school, to the office, to visit clients, back to school, and to the kids’ practices, to now setting up work meetings, my kids’ distance learning and virtual practices, all from the “comfort” of my home via videoconference, while giving in to provide snacks seemingly every fifteen minutes to the kids. That run-on sentence captures how this new normal can make us feel. For the first two weeks at home, I felt overwhelmed, frustrated, angry, sad, and just wanted to be left alone, which are not typical personality traits of mine at all. And then I was reminded of the solution while on a videoconference with a home builder client.
The modern practicality of the 3,000-year-old practice of Feng Shui consistently amazes me. Most people only think of Feng Shui for its placement of objects and the use of colors, but it’s also about the placement of ourselves within our environment, whether-or-not we have an expansive home office. Working from home is a challenge because the environment is designed primarily for relaxation, not laser focus on work when others are also home. The good news is that Feng Shui helps us integrate better with our environment, even in times like these.
In a famous incident a few years ago, BBC World had a live video interview of a political analyst from his home office which was crashed by his two small children before his wife could drag them out, knocking books off the bed on the way. Since the quarantine started, such incidents now seem normal. Our efforts to find a quiet place to work or conduct videoconferences have resulted in multiple examples of poor office Feng Shui, which also happen to have real-world implications, even for a videoconference.
The client videoconference I alluded to had many examples of bad Feng Shui. One person had her back to a window, darkening her face in the video and overwhelming her with energy. Another had their back to the office door, just like the political analyst, where we saw kids running down the hallway and probably giving that person an anxiousness of people watching over their shoulder. Yet another had a poster behind him of large waves crashing onto a lighthouse, symbolism that probably manifested into a feeling of unease that would explain the bags under his eyes. I even saw someone working from her closet, probably the only way to provide segmentation between home- and work-life.
It was this video call that reminded me of my bad Feng Shui positioning that needed to be remedied. In an effort to give my husband space for his video calls in our home office and to be close to the kids to help with their distance learning, I unwittingly placed myself in a position on the dining table near a fireplace where my back was to the patio door. Once I realized my error, I moved to a location at the table where my back was to a solid wall and I could see all of the doorways to the room. My mood immediately improved. Though I still juggle my work, a flood of emails, the kids’ distance learning, and snacks every fifteen minutes, I no longer feel stressed out, trapped, or overwhelmed. I now have natural light hitting my face and perspective over the entire room. It also prevents my kids from videobombing my calls, allowing me to preserve my professionalism. I feel in control of my domain again.
Next Steps
If you feel overwhelmed, uneasy about your work environment, or simply can’t stop working at all hours, try to implement these tips for your workspace, however small that workspace may be:
- Keep your back to a solid wall where you can see all windows and doors in the room.
- Ensure proper lighting is in front of you, rather than only behind or directly above you.
- Make sure only calming pictures and elements surround you.
- Eliminate clutter from your home.
- When work is done for the day, hide it from view however possible, even if that means covering your computer with a blanket or storing your documents in a closet at night.
- Ensure you always have good posture at your computer workstation.
- These same principles also apply to your workspace at your office, so make sure to apply them when restrictions are lifted.
Learn more about Feng Shui on my website.
If you are interested in improving your life through Feng Shui, I can help with a virtual consultation.
I am a 3rd generation Feng Shui expert and have helped thousands of people add harmony and balance to their homes and offices without making it look like a Chinese restaurant exploded.
I can help you attract the life that you deserve with Feng Shui. Contact me today!
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