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Master Chan 曾 Bedroom feng shui
3 critical factors to place your bed for better health, harmony, career and money-making opportunities. First, it must fulfill the physical landform (形家长眼法) principles based on the structure of your bedroom. Second within one of the positive sectors and ideally fits your Home Destiny Energy Chart or Gua Number or Bazi Useful Elements.
Some feng shui masters proposed the bed position to place diagonally to the right angle corner of the wall see picture. It looks odd and create negative feng shui energy. I have clients complaining sleeping in this position feeling giddy when awake, disoriented, headache and migraine.
Another Master place it in the middle of the room!
The vacuum space on the 4 sides absorb “Yang Active Qi”. It violates a foundational principle of I Ching Yin Yang i.e. 阴主静，阳主动. So the client that engaged me complained about nightmares and tiredness when awake.
1. The ideal feng shui bed position is diagonal to your bedroom door with a wall behind your headboard.
2. Never place the bed diagonal to the corner of the wall just because it suits your Bazi or Gua Number whatsoever.
3. Neither should you place your bed beside or along the pathway of your door 门冲. This will disturb your sleep. I Ching “Yin-Yang” principle.
4. One signature of a feng shui master is to place the bed in the middle of the room like robinson crusoe. Never do that this is absolutely incorrect. It will cause sleeplessness and poor health.
5. Do have headboard. A high headboard is good for mentor luck and benefactors support. It doesn’t matter if your headboard is against the windows if your bazi requires a particular direction. You can always have opaque blinds or curtains for the window to block the light and air.
6. Place bed at your Home Destiny positive sectors. Based on Xuan Kong home destiny chart the best location is where the “mountain star 1, 6, 8 or 9” resides.
7. Do not put your iphone, ipad, android, xbox, playstation, LED tv, notebook, charger or any electronic toys besides your head. Although the your electronics maybe off but there is still electromagnetic radiation. If you need to place your TV, you can put it in the opposite direction of your headboard.
8. Allow plenty of sunshine and ventilation into your room. Do not sleep 24/7 everyday aircondition, is really bad for health.
9. Do use bazi lucky colours that are suitable for the person sleeping in the bedroom. If you are unsure use “beige” or “cream” colour which is consider as neutral. Do not use red or black for walls or curtains.
10. Do have adjustable dimmer to adjust the level of brightness in your bedroom. A room that is too bright cannot accumulate wealth which is bad fengshui. A room that is too dark will invite evil spirits and affects your health. A well balance lighted room with sufficient sunshine is ideal.
11. Mirrors Must Not face your bed. Unless you wanted a late night episode of the “living dead”. If you wanted to dress for success in the morning, conceal your mirrors inside the wardrobe.
12. Don’t orientate your bed towards the toilet. In other words the back of your headboard should not be the toilet.
13. Behind your headboard wall Must Not be the kitchen Stove.
14. Don’t sleep under an overhead beam. You will wake up having problem with the position of the body that is under the beam.
15. Do not have see-through glass shower room.
16. Don’t place rubbish under your bed. You are not a rubbish collector.
17. Don’t have 2 single mattress side by side it impacts the relationship of the couple.
18. If it does not conflict with the house destiny or your bazi favourable elements ideally your bed should be in a North-South orientation because it matches with the Earth’s gravitational physics and rotation.
19. Do not sleep underneath a staircase, this is a common problem found in maisonettes and loft designs.
20. Do not have your bed place inside the kitchen.
21. Do not leave a gap of space between the wall and your headboard.
22. Nothing wrong with having lights or ceiling fan above your bed.
23. Colour wise there are no special requirements except to avoid using black or red colour for walls or curtains. These 2 are extreme yin or yang 阴阳 colours. One client asked me that she was advised against using pink colour from her ex-master mentioning that it will lead to “extramarital affairs”. Pink colour is useful for internal and external human relationships.
24. Ensure that the toilet door is not in directly opposite to your bed. This will cause marriage disharmony or even divorce. It also causes sickness to the body part that is in conflict with the toilet door. Closing the toilet door when sleep does not solve the situation because you still have to open the toilet door when use.
San Yuan Na Qi for Bed position & Window
The position of the bed relative to the bedroom door and window is equal in importance relative to the luopan auspicious headboard orientations. Given the size Singapore apartments there are certain structural constraints that one cannot solely rely on your Ming Gua Number. One can consider using San Yuan Na Qi 三元纳气 or Bazi or Qi Men Dun Jia Ming pan.
You cannot place the bed beside your door. If the door is on the left, the best position is the diagonally far right corner of the room; if the door is on the right, the best bed location is the far left of the room; The farther your bed located away from the door, the greater sense of security.
The sleeper’s scope of vision feng shui perspective
Bed position should allow the sleeper the widest possible perspective of the room.
An anemic range of sight within the room can restrict the sleeper’s qi and his or her life vision. The larger the space in front of your bed, the more your life expands, breathes, and improves. For this reason, feng shui advise against placing the foot of the bed against a wall, which can block your career and cause foot and ankle problems.
In addition, placing your bed directly against a side wall (with no space between the side of your bed and the wall) can make you feel cramped, stifled, and less flexible in life.
The visibility of the feng shui bedroom door
Ability to clearly see the bedroom door from the bed. This concept means that when lying on your back in bed you are able to have an obstructed view of the door way.
Not seeing who’s approaching can keep you uncertain and on edge. Even if you think that you’re accustomed to not seeing the door, you still likely experience ongoing subconscious stress, which can create imbalance and frustration. The possibility of always being startled can keep you on edge, and over time, the continual tension and unrest can cause an imbalance in the nervous system.
Results can include nervous problems, arrhythmia, and heart palpitations. In addition, repeatedly twisting the body to see whether someone’s coming can cause neck and spinal problems in the long run.
The direct line of path from the door to your bed feng shui
Last major principle is the bed should not sit in the direct line of the path of the doorway. If your bed does sit in the direct line of the door, the qi from the door can be overwhelming.
The further you sleep from the door and the more of the room you see while in bed, the more you can feel in control of your environment and, therefore, your life. Seeing the door to your bedroom symbolizes that you know what life is bringing and feel prepared to deal with whatever comes. You’re in command, and the results manifest positively in many areas of your life.
Most of these principles of bedroom feng shui are common sense.
Master Chan 曾
Feng Shui Master Singapore
