How to Feng Shui Your Bedroom
It’s the room where you spend one-third of your life. So why not try to make it a little luckier by adding a feng shui touch or two?
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You Will Need
- Discipline
- Paint
- Fabric
- Paired objects
- Something beautiful object
- Furniture with rounded edges
- Decorations that represent your dreams and goals
Steps
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Step 1
De-clutter
De-clutter your bedroom. Pare down the knickknacks; clear off dressers; and move out the TV, computer, and any exercise equipment. Toss things associated with bad memories and repair or throw out anything broken. All can block positive energy, or 'chi.'
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Step 2
Repaint
Paint your bedroom in a warm skin color -- anything ranging from pale peach to chocolate brown. These shades create a sense of harmony.
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Step 3
Position your bed
To promote a feeling of security, position your bed away from -- but in view of -- the door. Try to arrange the bed so that your head isn’t too near a window, through which chi can escape. If the room is big enough, don’t place one whole side of the bed up against a wall: That can inhibit the free flow of chi.
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Keep the bedroom doors closed at night, especially if one leads to a toilet -- you don’t want to 'flush out' any chi!
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Step 4
Get some curves
If you’re buying new furniture, choose pieces with curved or rounded edges. Sharp edges cut into chi like a knife. To soften square-edge furniture you already own, drape it in fabric.
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Step 5
Create balance
Create balance by placing paired objects around the room.
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Step 6
Awaken to beauty
Position a beautiful object so that it’s the first thing you see when you wake up in the morning.
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When choosing pictures or figurines, pick images you hope to see come true in your real life.
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Step 7
Air out the room
Open the windows often to keep air -- and chi -- circulating. And don’t be surprised if things start to go your way.
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Designers for the Trump Tower, MGM Grand, and the Getty Center all used feng shui principles.
