There are a lot of Feng Shui rules about the placement of beds, which makes sense if you think about how much time we spend there. On average we spend around one third of the day in bed.
Keeping it Simple
The rules about beds and placing them relate to age, health, relationship status, and career. Someone who is trained in Feng Shui will also consider the location of hallways, toilets, stoves and fireplaces etc as they relate to bed placement. There are rules about what you should put in your bedroom, including nightstands and benches. I won’t include all of these rules here. If you want to talk about the rules and your bedroom setup get in touch. For this article I am focusing on just the bedroom and the bed in it.
If you want to sleep better, the position of your bed in the room is best based on the Feng Shui system called Land Form. When we use it indoors, we call it Interior Form.
Outdoors, Land Form is much more powerful than any other Feng Shui method. Good exterior Form enhances good Interior Form, bad exterior Form can trigger problems with bad Interior Form. You might say the same about outdoor Form and Flying Stars.
Interior Form is powerful too. If you can get the Interior Form right for your bed placement, it may be best to stick with that setup for the duration of your occupancy and not worry about employing other Feng Shui methods. That is, unless you have other rooms in your house to use for sleeping. In that case you might change your setup every year because in any given year some of the directions and locations will not be so friendly. We make these kind of choices all the time.
Survival and Opportunities
The general concept of Land Form Feng Shui is based on survival. To put it bluntly, it’s helpful to have your back protected from unexpected visitors or attacks. It’s helpful to have time to respond to whatever might be coming through your door before it gets to you and that metaphorically includes opportunities in life. The most valuable thing in the room (you) is in the most secure spot. When you have a feeing of safety, you can rest better. Set your bedroom up appropriately and your nervous system will be more at ease. If you rest better, your qi will be more vibrant.
For me, Form overrides all other considerations. It’s the most powerful and consistent energy that is present. Land Form cannot be “corrected”, and often no amount of remodeling an existing house will improve the qi.
On the other hand, sometimes Interior Form matches up with our good locations & directions in the system of Eight House and/or it has a helpful distribution of Flying Stars. To find that kind of house you need a professional to guide your search. Should you find a house that has good Form and fits your energetic signature, it will be easy to enhance the effects. Obviously this is preferable to mitigating problems.
Finding a really good house is a process that can take a long time, and process isn’t something that is well supported in our culture, but of course you can choose whatever you like.
Interior Form for Bedrooms
In terms of bed placement, having the correct Interior Form means that when you are lying in your bed, you have a wall behind your head. Set up the bed so that you can see the doorway and so that the energy from it doesn’t cross the bed. The diagram below illustrates a proper bed placement.
Imagine the door projects energy in the shape of the frame into the room. If the energy within the frame crosses your bed, it’s best to move it. Don’t place the bed under a window.
Ideally you will have a headboard. We usually don’t want the head of the bed to be on the same wall as the door.
It’s not easy to meet all the criteria with modern construction, because many modern houses are “backwards”, with the private areas at the front and public areas at the back or some other mixup of yin/yang. In Feng Shui terms, common sense is against having a bedroom with a view. That might mean you are facing the wrong direction in terms of the house itself. Also – when are you going to be looking at that view?
Location, Direction and Timing
Once you’ve got your Interior Form right, consider the location of your bed in the house and the direction your bed is facing. Does the location of your bedroom support you? Is your bed in a supportive direction for you based on 8 House or your bazi? Are there changes to be made due to the change of annual energies?
Make changes such as moving the bed in order to receive or not receive the annual energies, between January 5th and February 4th. If you’re outside of that window, or looking to do major Feng Shui adjustments such as placing water, best results will come from Date Selection.
Working with all of these Feng Shui layers or systems successfully takes a higher level of knowledge than you’ll get from the internet. How do you know the source of the information you are getting is reliable? It’s better to use your natural intelligence or find a human to guide your beginning of the lifetime process of applying Feng Shui. Becoming aware of how to work with the energies of each year keeps us healthier, fresher and relevant.
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