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Five Good Reasons To Remove the TV From Your Bedroom

Filed Under: Bedroom Feng Shui, Feng Shui No-No's Tagged With: Chi Energy, Feng Shui for Good Health, TV Feng Shui, Yin & Yang

Perhaps you’ve heard that according to Feng Shui, a television does not belong in your bedroom. 

“Why not?”, you (or your significant other) may well be asking.

There are at least five ways that having a TV in your bedroom creates bad Feng Shui, with a corresponding negative affect on your life, your relationships, and your health.

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  • A TV that’s Off, begs to be turned On. There’s almost a feeling of emptiness and suspense in the air until the television’s need to be On has been satisfied.
  • When the TV is on,  your relationship suffers.  Activity on the screen acts as a social distraction, preventing you from making an intimate connection — or even having a conversation — with your partner.
  • A TV opposite the bed acts as a mirror, reflecting your energy right back at you.
  • A television creates Yang energy in a room that needs to be Yin.  Its hard surface echoes light and noise, its sharp corners reduce the soft feeling in the room.
  • Even when you’re not watching it, a TV is always On.   The blinking red lights and glowing green ones disturb your rest and send harmful EMFs at you all through the night as you sleep.

The gorgeous bedroom in the photo above illustrates these points perfectly. Its beauty and serenity are completely ruined by the huge black rectangle facing the bed, don’t you agree?

For best Feng Shui results, eliminate your TV from your bedroom. 

If that solution feels too much like cold turkey, cover up the television whenever you’re not watching it to eliminate at least a few of the problems it creates for your life and health. 

As you get used to not having it in front of you all the time, it becomes easier to imagine not having it in the room at all.

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A little retouching for the “After” shot 🙂

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

See how much nicer this room looks without the TV front and center?  Try it and see!

P.S., When I stay in hotels nowadays I cover the TV with a towel or blanket before I go to sleep.  What a difference!

(photo courtesy of bhg.com)

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Comments

  1. Emily DeWan says

    July 24, 2012 at 9:01 pm

    I’ve never thought about covering the tv in a hotel room. How do you find that it helps your sleep?

    • AnnFengShui says

      July 25, 2012 at 1:57 pm

      Hi Emily, thanks for a good question! When I cover the TV in a hotel room, it blocks the little lights that stay on all night and interfere with my sleep. Covering the hard surface of the TV also creates a softer vibe in the room, much more conducive to sweet dreams, I find 🙂 I’ve also unplugged hotel TVs to reinforce the effect.

      • Lisa Zaslow says

        August 27, 2012 at 1:32 pm

        I’ve thought of travelling with black electrical tape to cover all the blinking lights in hotel rooms!

        • AnnFengShui says

          August 30, 2012 at 11:26 am

          I love it!!

  2. Daman Bahner says

    July 31, 2012 at 12:46 am

    Interesting perspective, especially the dedication to the process by covering the hotel room tv. I personally think the distraction factor is huge, but I never thought purely about the aesthetics when off. In the example above, you’re right, it’s almost like the monolith in 2001.

  3. Bryce says

    November 8, 2012 at 4:12 am

    Static EMFs are not linked to the health issues associated with AC lights and appliances. LEDs do not produce harmful UVs.

  4. T Gordon says

    September 28, 2016 at 3:37 pm

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  5. K says

    February 28, 2017 at 7:50 pm

    Hi Ann,

    Quick question regarding TV in the bedroom: If a bed is placed on a wall that is shared with another room in such a way that the bed headboard is positioned on the common wall that has a wall-mounted TV in the other room, would it affect the person sleeping in the room that doesn’t have the TV? I wonder if the electromagnetic energy coming from the TV would go beyond the actual wall that separates both rooms, being strong enough to affect the person sleeping in the other room or if it would just bother people who are sensitive to EMFs.

    Thanks!
    K

    • Ann says

      March 6, 2017 at 1:19 pm

      Hi K,
      Yes, this is definitely a valid concern, very similar to avoiding having your headboard on a wall that contains plumbing pipes.

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