Feng Shui Articles – The Bedroom According to Feng Shui Architecture

BY ARCHITECT PIERFRANCESCO ROS

Decalogue for healthy sleeping through the Feng Shui Architecture approach
Doing a Feng Shui Architecture consultation you need to have a lot of acquired knowledge and sensitivity.

In the following we analyze only the bedroom in a specific decalogue suitable for understanding what a consuelnza approach means.
According to the Feng Shui principles of the “School of Shape and Compass” one should:

* Observe that the headboard is protected by a solid wall without windows and is outside the axis of the door (the bed should not give the “feet” to the door).

* Observe that the bed is not “cut off” by the line joining the door with the window.

Remedy: If you cannot move the bed to favorable positions at least put it so that the door-window line runs along the foot end and not the head end.

* Observe the room and its proportions in relation to the bed: if we are in the attic see about putting the bed in the least oppressive parts.

Remedy: best with the headboard placed toward the wall with greater height so that the sleeper has a “breathing” space above the head.

* Observe that the exposed beams are not too low and do not “cut” the bed horizontally

Remedy: Stand outside the rafters, put a canopy bed, put a sheet over the bed attached to the rafters in question.

* Watch for poorly lit spots: avoid the bed in spaces without natural light or in cramped, enclosed areas or in blind, low lofts.

Remedy: put lights colors, curtains, camps so as to widen or elevate the space

* Observe rooms that are too high or too bright: avoid rooms that are too high as they give the sense of instability or too bright (in the south or with strong artificial lights).

Remedy: create a false ceiling, color the ceiling so as to “lower” it, use lights in a way that decreases the space.

* Observe rooms that are too brightly lit: south or with strong artificial lights.

Remedy: use warm lights (rice paper lamps, etc.) with soft shapes.

* Observe the orientation of the room: better to the North, or see, with respect to the lot and the contingent situation, to put the bedroom in a cool, shaded room, not facing a street or square but toward the inner court at points of less social activity.

Remedy: insulate the walls both thermally and acoustically with green building materials.

Observe the orientation of the bed: if after observing these points you can put the bed with the headboard to the north all the better (German medical research has revealed that resting in the right position increases the rem phase of sleep, which is the one deputed to true rest, by 7%).

* Observe the room and the adjacency to other rooms: better not to have the bathroom door annexing the bedroom (“energy” decrease of the sleeping room), or above a garage (metal masses).

Remedy: move large metal masses out of the garage, color the bathroom door the color of the wall.

* Observe the bed and the adjacency of the headboard to other rooms: best to avoid having the head on the wall adjacent to the toilet flush, or adjacent to a TV or computer (the cone behind the TV passes the wall disturbing sleep).

Remedy: Soundproof the bathroom wall with green building materials (cork, wood fiber materials, etc.).

* Observe furniture and its proportions: no tall or looming furniture in front of or to the side of the bed.

* Observe whether you have “exciting” elements such as mirrors or reflective objects.

Remedy: try covering them with a sheet.

* Observe if you have furnishings with soft, curvilinear shapes, without edges especially at the transition points.

* Observe whether you have colors that are “restful” (pastel, delicate colors) and not exciting (colors that are too “bright”). Avoid putting too much black or red or colors that are too bright.

According to the principles of Inner Feng Shui one should:

* Observe how we experience the sleeping area: the sleeping area is experienced as a den, cave (wraparound or corner room beds), or as a nest (loft bunk beds) to better understand one’s psychological attitude.

* To observe how the symbolic world is more “alive” in this room due to the fact that we experience a more unconscious and defenseless state in this place.

* From which to observe how we “perceive” objects and their symbolic referent: each object is chosen and therefore has a conscious or unconscious referent, of our inner world, each object is a mirror of how we are of what we desire, from which there are objects that are linked to a past, sometimes suffering or now resolved that however on a symbolic level continue to interact with our unconscious world disturbing it. So one should identify these objects and move them out of the sleeping area. This simple act done consciously can greatly change the state of rest.

* Observe how sometimes objects are given to us, but with what thought? And how did the person live with these objects? (It can be said that each object records a “memory”).

* Observe whether the room has multiple functions: best not to have (except with proper arrangements) the study area in the room (they do not marry well work with rest) or activity area (a bicycle or gym bench in the room) precisely because of a continuous unconscious reminder to work.

* Observe cleanliness: to let in we must remove …. the house or room “breathes” this thought by projecting it onto us who feed it. We fill ourselves with unnecessary things that prevent on a symbolic level a turnover of life sometimes making it stagnant. A cleansing of the room space (remove, give away or throw away) is the quickest way to bring new occasions into life; the house has an “osmotic” relationship with us and our lives.

* Observing order: tidying up is making mental clarity, and allowing “space” for new thoughts and new situations (seeing how the closet is, how many clothes we no longer use, how many items, seeing the adjoining closet how many things are to be removed, etc.).

* Observe the premises and their unconscious referent: the cluttered and abandoned attic will have repercussions with our creative and future relationship, a constipated basement will hold the past still.

According to the principles of harmonization of the body with respect to rest one should:

* One cannot speak of deep sleep if one does not first empty the body of tension, proper relaxation comes from proper tension, one should strive to create a proper relationship of breathing that becomes diaphragmatic, thus increasing the depth of the breath by taking it from short and high to deep and long.

* Sometimes one arrives home “tired,” but in reality one is only mentally stressed but not physically tired, so a targeted psychophysical activity that “lengthens the breath” and thus increases an internal condition of stability and calm is essential, I say targeted because it is not enough to simply do sports without a component of conscious listening to one’s moods (every sporting activity then is often unbalanced and affects the body and psyche depending on the imbalance or the environment one is in).

* Airing out rooms before sleeping: replacement and purification.

* “Feeding” oneself well before sleep: television until a certain time (give oneself an hour of silence or mental calm before falling asleep).

* Don’t work late (with thoughts that you fall asleep so you get up).

* Don’t eat heavy in the evening.

According to Geobiology one should:

* Remove objects that emit the technical fields: television set, wired clock radio, cell phone, computer, etc.

* Check the geopathic state of the room: aquifers, (underground) faults and lattices (Hartmann, Curry) that put radiation into the room greatly impairing health and sleep (these fields are detected mainly by means of biophysical radioesthetic checks).

According to Green Building one should:

* Pay attention to the type of materials used in the room and furnishings: paints, woven adhesives, insulation, hollow tiles, mortar, reinforced concrete: biedilization suggests a set of non-polluting, non-toxic materials is more health and environmentally friendly

 

* Mettere attenzione al tipo di materiali usati nella camera e negli arredi: vernici, collanti tessuti, isolanti, forati, malte, cemento armato: la biedilizia suggerisce un’insieme di materiali non inquinanti, non tossici è più rispettosi della salute e dell’ambiente