More About Mirrors In Bedrooms

The questions keep pouring in about how mirrors affect you in your bedroom, and why Feng Shui advises against them.

Here’s an extreme example of the problem.

This bedroom has other Feng Shui challenges — no bedside lighting, for example — but the big (I mean BIG) issue is that giant mirror, reflecting everything that goes on in the bed.

On top of that, the cold, hard energy of the mirror spoils the Yin atmosphere that’s ideal in a bedroom by reflecting and magnifying any light in the room, and echoing sounds, besides.

Here’s another example — can you guess what makes this one just slightly better? (See if you can figure it out before you scroll down.)

Yes — it’s the curtains on the bed, which can be drawn to protect sleepers from the mirror’s hard energy during the night.

If your bedroom includes mirrors that can’t be removed — mirrored closet doors, for instance — install a curtain over them that you can close at night.

You’ll sleep better, I guarantee it.

Q. of the Week: What if the Command Position is Impossible In My Office?

This week’s question comes from Lisa, who asks about what to do about her office, where the desk has to face a wall, or cubicles where her co-worker’s back is to the entry.

This is a fairly common situation in offices with limited space or built-in furniture.

Facing away from the door as you work puts you in a vulnerable position; you may feel a distracting urge to keep turning around to check behind you, interrupting your flow and negatively affecting the quality of your work.

Feng Shui puts you back in Command with a feeling of safety and security, and the solution is both simple and effective: place a mirror on the wall or desk in front of you, making sure it reflects the doorway behind you.

In the photo above you may be able to see the small mirror mounted on my bulletin board. When I sit here working the mirror gives me a clear view of anyone entering the room behind me.

Please let me know if you have any other questions about this!

Q. of the Week: Mirror in the Bedroom?

Here’s a question that arrived today in my inbox:

“There is a huge round mirror above the headboard. It reflects light from the window that is on the wall directly across the room. Bad?”

Mirrors get a lot of use in Feng Shui, but in the bedroom mirrors disturb and stir up the energy in a negative way.

The presence of a mirror in the bedroom interferes with your ability to get a good night’s sleep and reduces the feeling of sanctuary that’s necessary in your bedroom for all kinds of reasons, romance and health being perhaps the most important!

To have good Feng Shui in your bedroom, move mirrors out of the room and into other spaces in your home — hallways, living rooms and dining rooms, for instance.

Bad Feng Shui in the Bedroom: What Not To Do

Part of the fun of being a Feng Shui expert is spotting pictures of truly-terrible Feng Shui in popular design magazines and using them as examples of “What Not to Do.” They crop up so often that I plan to devote this whole week to them.

Today let’s focus on bedrooms, where good Feng Shui is key.

This is one of my all-time favorites. How would you like to be sleeping under this aggressive-looking lamp? It feels like it could eat the sleeper alive, making this bedroom seem unsafe, the number one requirement for good bedroom Feng Shui.

Or how about this one:

The last thing we want is to feel like we’re being watched as we sleep! I know I’d feel really uncomfortable with this spooky set of eyes hovering over me all night. What about you?

Or this:

From a Feng Shui perspective two things are wrong with this setup : the words “I know” seem ambiguous for a bedroom — does one member of this couple feel that he or she “knows” better than the other?

Besides that, having such powerful electromagnetic energy near their heads is downright harmful. Really a Feng Shui no-no.

Do you have examples you’d like to share? By all means please send them in!!

Cooking Up Wealth in Your Kitchen

Here’s a wonderful example of good Feng Shui in the kitchen:

There might be a few other things I’d do differently here, but the mirror above the stove is a perfect way to bring good Feng Shui into a small apartment kitchen.

To begin with it gives the cook a view of the scene behind him or her, putting them in the Command Position and providing them with a sense of safety.

The mirror also reflects the burners on the stove, multiplying those important sources of wealth.

And finally, such an attractive mirror adds a wonderful sense of liveliness and warm vitality to this small kitchen.

What do you think of it?