Feng Shui Tip #3-The Bedroom

Your bedroom is your ultimate inner sanctum where you are at your most vulnerable while you sleep and recharge your chi. From a yin/yang perspective, this is a more yin, quiet and peaceful environment; you need to feel protected and do not want distracting and powerful chi to disturb you. At the same time, there needs to be a good circulation of chi and plenty of fresh air available to recharge you.

If you find that you are not sleeping very well, or you are having trouble focusing in school or work, try these minor Feng Shui remedies in your bedroom:

• On entering your bedroom, note where the windows are located. Chi tends to travel between the door and any windows rapidly, so avoid positioning your headboard in line with this “draught” of chi. If your headboard is in line with this wall, you will not be able to sleep as well, or focus as clearly during the day.
• Avoid positioning your bed with the foot facing the door. This is referred to as the “Death position”. Years ago, people typically died in their homes, and the custom was to always be carried out “feet first”.
• If you have a bathroom, toilet or shower leading off your bedroom, make sure that the door to this room is always closed, as is the toilet seat. Bathrooms are unlucky spaces in the home because as water flows away from the room (sink and toilet) so does your luck.
• If there is a TV in your bedroom, cover it with a towel before going to sleep (to stop the electrical waves eminating from it). These disturb your sleep.

Side note:

• If you are single and would like to attract someone of the opposite sex into your life, try hanging a picture of a mountain in your bedroom. You can also place a male sculpture (to attract men) or a female sculpture (to attract women) in your bedroom.

Feng Shui Tip #2

The most auspicious (lucky) number in Feng Shui is the number 9.

Here is a cure to help your house become as lucky as it can be.

Add all of the numbers in your address (EX: 404=4+0+4=8). If your address adds up to anything less than 9, figure out what number you would need to add to your address to equal 9.

Using clear nail polish, add on this new number to the end of your address sign (outside-half size). No one will be able to see the number, but your house will know that it is now the luckiest it can be.

PS: Don't do this when your neighbors can see you (ha.ha)

Simple Feng Shui Cures

As some of you may or may not know, one of my passions in life is Feng Shui.

Feng Shui literally means "wind and water." Pronounced "fung shway" or "fung shoi" (but often mispronounced in English as "feng shu-i"), Feng Shui is the ancient Chinese practice of placement and arrangement of space to achieve harmony with the environment. The practice is estimated to be more than three thousand years old.

Whether or not we can improve our love life, health, finances, etc., by simply moving something around our home, or painting a room a particular color, remains to be seen. However, as long as it doesn’t cost anything, what harm is there in trying?

Occasionally, I will offer you some basic cures for improving your lot in life.

Let’s start with one area near and dear to all of us: MONEY.

Try this…Stack nine cents in the southeast corner of your home (the money section). Also move or buy a small jade or bamboo plant, and place it in this southeast section of your home. That’s it. Theoretically, within a few days, you should receive some unexpected financial windfall. Not a fortune, but found money. Let me know if this cure is successful for you.

My next cure will bring good fortune to your home, simply with a bottle of clear nail polish.