The three most important areas of your home in Feng Shui are your Bedroom, Your Front Door and your stove. If you make changes to these areas of your home, Feng Shui will tell you that it is almost impossible that you won’t see some serious changes in your life. Here are some tips to get you started.
#1 Make a Few Changes to Your Bedroom
Your Bedroom in Feng Shui is symbolic of your romantic life and restful sleep. Your Bedroom is also likely where you spend more time than anywhere else — in the whole wide world. For this reason, it should be your number one Feng Shui priority. Here are a few changes you can make to seriously improve its energy — and your life. NOTE: Do not feel like you have to do all or even most of these. You can do only one. Do what feels best.
- To the extent possible, get rid of anything that brings up bad memories
- Remove anything related to work or exercise
- Remove any photos of people who are not your partner. (The Bedroom is just for you and your person. If you don’t want anyone else in your love life — keep them out of your Bedroom. This includes pictures of the kiddos. Put family and friend pictures in the Living Room instead.)
- Sleep on good quality sheets and blankets (I recently bought these sheets. They are both cozy and reasonably priced.)
- Have two identical nightstands
- Remove anything from prior relationships
- Sleep against a solid wall
- Remove clutter. Anything that you do not love dearly or use yearly should not be in your bedroom. (Unless it is special occasion clothes that you absolutely love.)
- Take a good look at your closet. Remove any clothes or belongings you don’t feel fantastic wearing.
- Clean your Bedroom thoroughly
- Don’t have mirrors facing the bed. (Avoid mirrors as decorative pieces to the extent possible in your Bedroom.) More about mirrors in your Bedroom here.
- Have equal access to both sides of the bed
- Don’t store anything under the bed
- Don’t have anything heavy hanging over you (especially over your head) while you sleep
- If possible, remove or turn off all computers and cell phones at night
- Don’t have a WiFi router or modem in your bedroom
More Bedroom Feng Shui Tips Here
#2 Spruce Up Your Front Door
Your Front Door in Feng Shui is symbolic of the overall vibe of energy throughout your home and your Career / life path. I have NEVER heard of someone cleaning up this area and not seeing a somewhat sudden improvement in their career. Here are a few changes you can make to your Front Door to seriously improve its energy — your life.
A Few Tips to Know First
- The Front Door in Feng Shui is the door the architect of the home would consider the Main Entrance.
- These tips include the area immediately outside of and inside your Front Door.
- If you live in an apartment or in a place where you can’t put anything outside of your Front Door, just work on the entrance inside your home.
- Do not feel like you have to do all or even most of these. You can do only one. Do what feels best.
Front Door Feng Shui Tips
- Make sure the door is working properly. It shouldn’t stick, be difficult to open, be broken, etc.
- Make this area look very welcoming. If it doesn’t put a smile on your face when you see this area – keep working on it until it does.
- Make sure there are not any bushes or landscaping that prevent people from seeing the door
- Remove any shoes, coats or outerwear that has not been worn for the last 12 months
- Get a very welcoming welcome mat
- Do not store rakes, shovels, etc in this area
- Do not store unopened mail here
- Do not store anything behind the door
- In general, do not use this area as storage
- Do not hang anything on the back of the door
- Put welcoming art or sculptures. (Ditch the gargoyles and lions)
- Do not have a mirror that points out the door
- Clean sweep, clean, dust and mop this area thoroughly
More Front Door Feng Shui Tips Here
#3 Clean Your Stove
Your stove is what provides you and your family’s nourishment. It is critically important to the good energy (and health) of your family. Keep it clean. Wipe it off regularly. Most oven’s these days have a self-cleaning option. It typically takes three to four hours to clean. Make sure you will be home the entire time it is cleaning. And make sure you take out any pots, pans, etc. you might have stored prior to starting.
#3.5 Put A Bowl of Change in Your Money Corner
This is a Feng Shui tip I never see not work. Go to the room you use the most. Stand in the doorway and face into the room. Look at the farthest left corner of the room. This corner is your Money corner. (If you have more than one entrance to the room, stand in the entrance you would most likely use if you came into the room from the Front Door of your home). In this corner take a bowl or a box, and in it put spare change, partially used gift cards, money from other countries, money from games, jewelry you no longer use (or a remaining earring if you lost one) and/or checks that you deposited via your cell phone. You can then go do the same thing in the room you use second most, then third most and so on. As a bit of extra encouragement to do this, I have seen this work countless times in bringing unexpected money to people in as little as a few hours to a few days. NOTE: Your change bowl does not have to be seen to work. Feel free to put it in a drawer, behind a piece of furniture, etc.
More Money Corner Feng Shui Tips Here
