Bedroom Color Feng Shui

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Have you ever walked into a home and felt stifled and uncomfortable, as if the air was a little stagnant?

According to Diane Valentine of Greenport, the likely reason is blocked energy, something for which she says the art of feng shui offers solutions.

“There are many definitions of feng shui,” said Ms. Valentine, who recently conducted workshops at Floyd Memorial Library in Greenport on feng shui for the home and on home staging and decor. “Mine is that it is the acceptance and understanding of the flow of energy — called ‘chi’ — within and around us. And through that acceptance, we achieve balance and harmony in everyday life, and that includes our domestic surroundings.”

Ms. Valentine places the origins of feng shui around 300 B.C. in China when people began to recognize the necessity of living in harmony with the earth, air and water that surrounded them.

“Over the centuries the art has changed and has accommodated elements of different belief systems like Buddhism, but the bones of feng shui are to do with balancing our own energy,” she said. “Just as when we are ill, it may be that one of our chakras — which are energy centers in the body — is blocked, so too an uncomfortable house may be suffering from blocked energy.

Applying feng shui principles to the home is all about ensuring energy flow.”

When you walk into that stagnant house, Ms. Valentine suggests imagining a tidal wave coming in through the front door. “Can it flow naturally around the furniture?” she said. “It needs to meander easily through the house.”

To ensure that unobstructed flow of chi, Ms. Valentine suggests focusing on the front door — a very important component of the home because it is where energy enters.

“In many colonial-style homes out here the front door opens onto a long hallway that leads directly to the back door,” she said. “You don’t want the energy to rush through the house and straight out of the back door, so you slow it down by placing a mirror or a plant to the side of the rear door.”

Furniture placement is also critically important.

“There should never be any furniture with its back to the front door, so the sofa and chairs should always face the main entrance to the home,” said Ms. Valentine. “In the bedroom, the bed should ideally be placed in the middle of the room, with equal spaces on either side, or there could be relationship problems.

How to Feng Shui the Bedroom - Home Decor | Furniture & Furnishings

Feng shui (pronounced fung-shway) literally means "wind and water." It is an ancient Chinese art of space arrangement, object placement and decoration. In feng shui practice, everything is categorized into either yin or yang. Yin conveys slowness, relaxation, passivity, coldness, gentleness and tranquility. Yang, on the other hand, stands for rapidity, excitement, vigor, heat, hardness and restlessness. The fundamental idea of feng shui is to arrange things in a way that keeps yin and yang in good balance so that the "life force or spiritual energy" called "chi" can flow through all objects in your home freely. This notion applies to bedroom feng shui as much as the rest of your home. A good bedroom feng shui should depict a sense of comfort and safety, create a romantic atmosphere for lovers, and invigorate sleepers for a new day. According to all feng shui gurus, if you keep everything in good balance and allow chi to flow freely, longevity, contentment, success and prosperity will also come. Everything that surrounds us, so to speak, affects our life. On a higher level, feng shui can get quite complicated. If you hire a professional feng shui consultant to help decorate your bedroom, a lot of things will be called into consideration. For example, in which direction your bedroom faces, in what year your home was constructed, your birthdate, your partner's birthdate, other buildings surrounding your home, etc. But of course, not all of us can afford to hire a feng shui consultant. So we will just have to do it ourselves! And the good news is it's not that difficult. Here you will learn some basic feng shui precepts, applicable to all types of bedroom. In feng shui, colors are divided into two groups. Yin colors are supposed to soothe your soul and help you relax whereas yang colors tend to motivate and excite you. As a bedroom is a place for retreat, yin colors should be dominant. Having too much yang will stir up too much tension and stop you from relaxing. However, your bedroom should not completely lack the yang energy, for having too much yin can cause languidness and the lack of motivation. are said to be the colors that can enhance our health. Feng shui practitioners believe that the color green symbolizes longevity, growth and rebirth while the color blue represents calmness, flexibility and inner peace. To paint your bedroom walls green or to use it as the theme color is like bringing nature into your room.

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