In my experience, the journey to overcoming insomnia is not necessarily quick, but it is doable. Here are 21 Feng Shui tips to help your insomnia as well as all the non-Feng Shui things I did to overcome it.
#1 Get Your Bed in the Right Place
Bed position is the most important aspect of your Bedroom. Ideally, it should be in a place where you can easily see the door while sleeping. Your bed should be across from the door versus having your head be on the same wall as the door. Also, your bed should not be in a place where if you were to walk into your bedroom, you would immediately walk into your bed.
#2 Remove or Cover Mirrors
Mirrors double the size of a room and cause energy to bounce around it. Think of mirrors as an energy scattering disco ball. Remove or cover any mirrors in your Bedroom. Avoid having mirrors directly opposite the bed. If you have this situation, move the bed, remove the mirror or cover it at night. If you must have a mirror in your room it is better to have it to the side of your bed rather than immediately in front of it or above your head. (People who sleep with mirrors above them often live too much of their lives in the past.)
#3 Sleep in the Smallest Possible Room
Contrary to what modern architecture tells you, it is not best to sleep in the biggest bedroom in the house. What is cozier and better for sleep – a little quaint room or a monster-sized mega room? When you think of a cozy room is that room smallish or ginormous? Big rooms with lots of space for energy to dance around dancing is better for a party or an office than it is for sleep. If you really struggle with sleep, try another Bedroom.
#4 Remove Objects that Remind You of Your Worries
We have enough to worry about without those concerns sleeping next to us every night. Remove reminders of people, tasks, issues or work that “keep you up at night”.
#5 Remove Exercise Equipment, Reminders of Work and Electronics to the Fullest Extent Possible
To sleep you need soothing calm energy. High-energy belongings such as exercise equipment, sports equipmentr, work and electronics should be removed from your Bedroom.
#6 Put the Flower of Life Under Your Bed
Print off or purchase the Flower of Life and place it under the side of the bed where you sleep.
#7 Keep Doors and Drawers Closed
Feng Shui aims to create a quiet Bedroom environment to help you sleep. Keeping energy out and making the room as small as possible is critical to this. Close all doors and drawers at night.
#8 Bed Against a Solid Wall
Much of good Bedroom Feng Shui is dependent upon what your head is up against. For the best night’s sleep, have your head against a solid wall. Good Feng Shui and feeling safe go hand-in-hand. We, whether we think about it or not, feel safer when our head is against a solid wall, and the safer we feel, the better we will sleep.
#9 Put Up a Feng Shui Mirror if Your Bed Shares a Wall with a Bathroom, a Kitchen or Another Apartment Etc.
If your head rests against a wall that is shared with a Bathroom, a Living Room, a Kitchen, another apartment etc. put a Feng Shui mirror up (with the mirror portion facing the other room). You can put it under your bed facing the other room or unit if that is easiest and best aesthetically.
#10 Balance Both Sides of the Bed
You want balance between your sleep-time and awake-time, so make sure there is equilibrium around your bed. This means two identical night stands, an even number of pillows and identical lamps. (If lamps are on your nightstands.)
#11 Clear the Clutter
Clutter in the room causes stagnation and stuckness in your romantic life and sleep problems. Everything in your Bedroom should be contextually appropriate. Meaning only sleep and love belongings should be in the room. (Of course, clothes in your closet are fine.) Work, animal things, exercise equipment, family responsibilities (even pictures of family), bills, camping equipment, hunting equipment, etc. etc. do not belong there. Further, everything in your Bedroom related to sleep and love should be something you love dearly or use yearly. If something does not fall into one of those two categories – move it out, sell it, donate it, give it away or throw it away.
#12 Don’t Store Things Under the Bed
Storage under the bed means you are literally sleeping on top of your “stuff”. That doesn’t sound like a very comfortable good night’s sleep does it? Take a look at what you have under there and ask yourself two questions 1) is this related to a good night’s sleep or my romantic life and 2) do I love this dearly or use this yearly? If the answer is no, get rid of it. By looking at your things with those eyes you might just be able to sleep with nothing under your bed after all.
#13 Take a Good Look at Your Artwork
Imagery may seem subtle but its impact can be powerful. Is the artwork in your room of calming, soothing, happy things, or is it high, negative or stressful energy? All objects in the Bedroom should be soothing and peaceful.
#14 Select Soothing Colors
If you have a hard time falling asleep or staying asleep, I would not suggest having a bedroom with bright energetic colors such as reds, yellows, greens or purples. I would also not recommend wallpaper that is high energy (even stripes can have a lot of shazam to it). Instead go with calmer colors such as earth tones (browns, terracota, off-white or gender-neutral light pastel colors, etc.)
#15 Avoid Sleeping Near Sharp Edges
Take a look at your night stand, the walls of your room, the corners of your room, etc. Are there sharp or pointy corners sticking out towards you while you sleep? If so, put red tape under the frame of your bed where this object points. For good added measure, if it is aesthetically ok, add a crystal from the ceiling between the sharp area and your bed.
#16 Avoid Having Your Bedroom in the Front of the House
Rooms in the front of the house are for higher energy activities such as socializing, crafting, cooking, exercising or working. Rooms at the back of the house are for quieter activities especially sleep. Often people who sleep at the front of the house have sleep issues because they are exposed to all of the seen and unseen energy coming from the street. People at the back of the house inherently feel more protected and safe and as such are better set up for a good night’s sleep.
#17 Avoid Having a Bedroom that Sticks Out Beyond the Front Door of the House
Some homes have rooms that jut out in front of the Front Door. These are perfect rooms for doing things you don’t want necessarily associated with home energy such as a home office. These are not good rooms for you Bedroom. Your Bedroom is the most important room in the house because it is the room you spend the most time in. As such, it is important that it is actually “within” the house. If possible, move your Bedroom to a room that is “behind” the Front Door.
#18 Avoid Having Sharp Objects in Your Nightstand
My guess is this – if you have sharp objects such as knives near your bed or in your nightstand you have shoulder problems. Am I correct? Let’s put the knives somewhere else, ok?
#19 Add a Crystal to Anything Hanging Above the Bed (if Possible)
A good general health measure for your Bedroom is to hang a crystal on the ceiling around the middle of your bed. This is especially important if you have a ceiling fan above your bed, a large light or any other heavy, bigger feature above you while you sleep.
#20 “Block Out” the Bathroom if You Have One in Your Bedroom
If you have a Bathroom in your Bedroom, keep the toilet seat down and the door closed. You can also add a crystal on the ceiling between your Bedroom and the Bathroom and/or a piece of red tape under your bed frame between the Bathroom and your bed or above the door frame of the Bathroom.
#21 Know that You Do Not Have to Do All of These or Even a Few of Them
You can start with one thing, see how it does and go from there. No one has all of these things right in their Bedroom. Choose what you can start with and go from there.
Other Non-Feng Shui Things that Help (and Helped) Me I suffered from insomnia for probably about 6 – 8 months and still on and off on occasion. These are things that helped me.
- I went to a naturopath in Denver – Dr. Caitlin O’Connor. She specializes in women’s health. I highly recommend her. I think she might do telemedicine if you are not in the Denver area.
- I went to acupuncture weekly at Denver Community Acupuncture. This is also the office Dr. O’Connor works out of. Everyone I saw there is great. I see Darcy the most. I would highly recommend her.
- After I did blood work and based on Dr. O’Connor’s recommendation of my specific situation, I started taking Sunflower Lecithin (less-a-thin), Vitamin D, Vitamin B, Iron (I was also getting these random shooting pains in my feet which apparently is a sign of iron deficiency), NAC and Chaste Tree Berry (a recommendation from Darcy because my period was coming every two weeks – joy – and the pain associated with it was unbearable). For a while, I was also taking Magnesium at night. Additionally I take Vitamin C but because my “traditional” doctor suggested taking it and Vitamin D to help keep my body strong against Coronavirus. There were some other things I was taking along the way which I am forgetting now. Yes, my friends, this has been a journey. Please talk to a medical professional before you take anything. A plan should be made specific for you.
- I turned off my cell phone and all electronics near my bed at night. I should also turn off my WiFi entirely but I never quite get around to that.
- I eat protein at every meal. (I think this helped tremendously. I didn’t eat a lot of protein Dr. O’Connor helped me realize.) To do this for breakfast I would make a smoothie which amounted to whatever random frozen fruit I felt like throwing in, non-cow milk (I avoid almond milk because of the large amount of water required to produce it) and chocolate protein powder. I mix it up in my Cuisinart because the thing is a tank and blenders crap out on me too quickly.
- I chilled way out on bread and gluten. There seems to be a pretty strong correlation between how much bread and pasta I eat and how well I sleep.
- I only have two drinks when I drink, and I stay away from liquor. I mostly drink red wine. White wine and liquor, especially brown liquor, seems to inhibit my sleep.
- I drink Bedtime Time. Sometimes I drink it all day. It doesn’t make you sleepy. It just helps you sleep.
- I try to spend at least a little time outside every day. I find the more time I spend outside the better I sleep. I realized this when I went camping. Even though camping’s comfort level on a scale of 1 – 10 is a -13, I sleep pretty well while doing so my hypothesis is because being outdoors is just a good healthy idea.
- I talked to Leanne Holitza (Energy Healer). Oh, I love Leanne. I would recommend her to anyone. She told me that my guides were waking me up in the middle of the night to give me messages. She also helped me realize that this all started, literally the instant I moved back from Spain. My husband and I spent the winter there prior to this happening. Our time in Spain was the happiest of my entire life and one of her thoughts was my body, my guides and my entire energy field was like why the giant F are we doing back here?? Good damn question.
- I did this breathing exercise that would help me fall back to sleep. I would breath in for the count of 1 and out for the count of 3. Then in for the count of 3 and out for the count of 5. Then in for 5 and out for 7 and so on. I would go up as high as I could, and then start over. That would pretty religiously put me back to sleep.
- I drink zero caffeine. Besides caffeine making me desperately jittery and horribly uncomfortable, it religiously wakes me up in the middle of the night.
- I took CBD (without THC) for sleep. I don’t take this anymore, but I believe it helped.
- When all else failed, I got up and watched Schitt’s Creek which is really better than sleeping anyway.
