33 Bedroom Feng Shui Tips to Improve Your Sleep

Have you ever slept a full eight-hours and still woke up feeling tired?

Feeling rested has a lot to do with the quality and quantity of your sleep.Aside from stress and other emotional factors that cause sleepless nights, there are many external factors, such as your bedroom feng shui, that can be interrupting how well you sleep and how fast you fall asleep.

In this post, you will find out how your bedroom feng shui is affecting your sleep. Meanwhile, you will get 33 bedroom feng shui tips that can help you fall asleep easier and stay asleep through the night.

Because sleeping habits differ from individuals, some of these tips may work wonders for some but not the others. Also,when you get to bed placement rules, you might find that your unique situation wont allow you to implement all those tips. In that case, refer to this article to learn which bed placement rules takes priority.

By back-end of the house, I mean the sections of the home thats close to the backyard (or at the opposite end from the street).

The main reason is that bedrooms at the back-end are usually much more quiet. Your sleep is less likely to be disrupted from the sound and movement of anything that roams in front of the house, which includes both human and automobile traffic. Because of this, you will also enjoy higher levels of privacy.

The back-end of the house is usually the area right next to the backyard.

When your bedroom is on top of a garage, you sleep can be disrupted by a variety of factors, including the smell of car exhaust, noise from garage door movements, insects that creeps into your bedroom, and warmer bedroom temperatures. If these four factors are non-existent, your bedrooms feng shui location should be fine. I wrote a full article about it, and you can read it here.

Active areas can include restrooms, entertainment rooms, or other areas where humans are active instead of sleeping peacefully. This usually does not apply to apartments and high-rises, because the bedroom is likely below another bedroom, and the flooring is usually thick and sound-proof.

However, single family homes are a different story. If your bedroom is right under a restroom, your sleep can be interrupted whenever someone flushes the toilet. Or, if you live right under a room of a teenager who has a different sleep schedule, their movements, music, or other activities can keep you awake all night.

Some say that sleeping above the kitchen stove brings bad energy that disturbs sleep and creates health issues. Though I do not disagree with them, what I do know is that your bedrooms temperature may be higher than normal, caused by the cooking activities and the heat given off from the back of the refrigerator. Because the optimal temperature for sleep is around 65 degrees Fahrenheit, you may be losing on some quality sleep.

Heres another potential issue: Do you know where the grease and smoke goes? The kitchen ventilation and exhaust hood use a tube to take the grease smoke out. The tube is filled with filth, and any sort of leaks or malfunction can definitely bring negative health consequences when youre sleeping right next to it.

If your bedroom is too large, you may wake up tired even if you get a full eight hours of sleep. From the people that Ive talked to, Ive learned that some people feel find it hard to fully relax in extremely large bedrooms.

You may find it harder to relax in large bedrooms.

This could be our survival instincts at play. We are most vulnerable when were sleeping, and with a larger space, we may feel less in control of our surroundings, causing us to sleep on high alert rather than fully relaxed.

Imagine yourself on a plane, seated in a window seat. If you had all the window seats to yourself, would you sleep with your head on the side of the walkway?

If you could lie down sleeping on a plane, would you sleep with your head on the side of the walkway? [image credit: businessinsider.com]

This is especially true if you live with someone else, like a significant other, family members, or even disrespectful roommates that have a different sleeping schedule than you.

Whenever the door opens while youre asleep, youre more likely to wake up on high alert, mainly because the sound and movement of the opening door is loud and sudden. Also, you will have to rise from your bed to see whos behind that door, instead of just raising your head if your bed is placed on the opposite side of the door.

The window is the gateway between your bedroom and the outside world. When you sleep with your head directly under a window, your sleep is more easily disrupted by the Qi coming from the outside, which includes wind, scent, noise, light, shadows, and movements of insects and animals.

Pigeons lurking by the bedroom window can disturb your sleep if your head is right next to that window.

When the sound, movement, or scent is unfamiliar, they will alert your survival instincts and completely wake you up, sometimes making it hard for you to fall asleep again.

Placing your bed this way gives you higher levels of comfort, security, and control.

As mentioned earlier, even when the door opens while youre asleep, all you have to do is to raise your head to see whos coming in from that door. You will feel less alarmed, making it easier for you to return to sleep. Just remember to avoid placing the bed directly in front of the door.

This is a little similar to having your bedroom right under a toilet. If your bed shares a wall with the toilet, you will be able to hear the flushing of the toilet and the water moving through the pipes. These water pipes are usually not limited for toilet use, as water faucets and showers may very well use the same water pipe.

An easy solution is to use a thick headboard for your bed, which can minimize these unwanted noises that disturbs your sleep. Here are some other useful tips from Dana Claudat.

This is a little similar to having your bedroom right above a kitchen stove. Some say the fire energy from the kitchen stove can cause insomnia and other health problems arising from lack of sleep. A more scientific explanation is that the wall transfers heat from the kitchen, which in turn reduces your sleep quality. Also, the sound of the refrigerator and water moving to the kitchen can all bring noise to your bedroom.

Further, kitchen is an area with high amounts of human activities. If you live with someone with a different sleep schedule, your sleep will be disrupted by the clinking sound of dishes, ovens, pots, as well as all other activities conducted in the kitchen.

How comfortable are you when youre in a room with very low-ceiling?

Low ceilings give an invisible pressure that makes most people feel uneasy.

The same is true with slanted or sloped ceilings. Though the feeling is very subtle, it does give you some sort of unease or feelings of being compressed (worse for claustrophobics), and those feelingscarry over whenever you go to bed. This is especially true if you sleep on the side with the lower ceiling. An easy solution is to use a canopy bed. The four pillars that surround you while you sleep have the tendency to make you feel more supported from the downward pressure of the ceiling.

Just like the sloped or slanted ceilings, sleeping under a beam can also give you a subtle feeling of unease. Beams give you discomfort because it is similar to having a sharp object pointed at you. Also, they can give you a feeling that your space is being chopped up, which can be highly distracting.

The size and shape of the beam, as well as the height of the ceiling, can all play a role on how much discomfort you feel. The easy cure to this is to use a canopy bed.

How do you feel when you stand right under a low-hanging chandelier thats the size of you?

Hanging furnitures can also give you subtle discomfort.

If you have anything hanging right above your bed, such as a chandelier, you will get that same feeling of discomfort because you may not feel 100% safe, and the effects are worse if it is hanging right above your head. The cure is to remove that furniture and place it somewhere else, like right above a dining table, where people will not reside right under it.

Some people like putting large bookshelves right by the bed. It provides easy access to books for those who enjoy reading right before going to sleep.

Small bookshelves are fine. However, if you have bookshelves that are more than six feet (180 cm) tall, then you are better off without the bookshelf. The reason is that the large furniture can give you that invisible pressure that makes you feel oppressed. Its similar to the feeling you get when you drive right next to a truck or when youre standing right under a monumental structure.

Work and sleep dont mix, so avoid work-related furniture and feng shui in the bedroom, such as a desk. If you have a desk in your bedroom, you may go to sleep thinking about work instead of relaxing. Worse, it may invoke work-related stress, which can significantly impact your sleep quality.

This applies mostly to adults and not students, because the adults are the ones who get more pressure from work due to the need to support the family and the kids. The easy cure to this is to remove the desk or other furnitures that remind you of work. Heres a tip I got from Hipster Feng Shui. If you live in a small space, you can trydividing your work area and your bed with a curtain.

Some modern furniture designs are very slick and appealing. Heres a bed frame that I think looks absolutely amazing.

This floating bed looks very appealing, but it lacks the feeling of support.

Though I love how it looks, Im not sure how comfortable I will be when sleeping on that frame. Having experienced wood cracking and furnitures breaking, I would feel anxious and scared of breaking that bed when I move or adjust on the bed to find a comfortable sleeping position. I suggest that you choose comfortability over design. And as for bed frames, choose the ones with proper support so that you can feel more relaxed.

Bright lights keep us awake and can disrupt our sleep pattern. It is true even with artificial lights and especially true for LED lights, which is known to create light pollution that causes sleepless nights(this is also the reason why its bad feng shui to sleep with your head under a window). Try to use dim lights with a soothing color, as it can provide the atmosphere and environment as you are getting ready for bed.

Even a little bit of lighting can disrupt your sleep, simply because light can penetrate our eyelids and influence our biological clock.

You are in complete control of the lights in your bedroom. However, you have little or no control of the lights outside of your home. That is why you need blinds and curtains that can completely block out the light from the outside. If your current blinds or curtains have light shining through the cracks at night, it may be worthy to invest in double layered curtains to improve your sleep sleep.

People today are so attached to their electronics and smartphones (I am guilty of it too).

Just looking at your phone before you go to sleep at night can be wrecking your sleep.

Electronics, such as your smartphone or alarm clock, are great human inventions. It tells you the current time and give you your friends Facebook status updates. However, most of us are addicted to our smartphones, and staring at this artificial light before bed is wrecking your sleep. Remove them from easy-access, and you can find your sleep quality improve.

We humans have survival instincts. Part of our evolutionary trait and how we survived till today is our ability to identify threats through our vision. Put another way, our eyes are very sensitive to movements.

If you have a mirror facing the bed, any type of movement reflected by the mirror will alarm you. Sometimes, you couldnt help noticing your own movements in the mirror, even from the corner of your eyes. Remove the mirror thats facing the bed to prevent it from distracting your sleep.

Plants have an evening complex where they grow taller at night. The vibrant growth energy gives off quite the opposite energy you want when youre asleep.

Contrary to popular belief, most plants release more carbon dioxide than oxygen at night. Carbon dioxide has the ability to affect your sleep quality, and is one of the reasons why plants should not be in your bedroom. Heres a post that talks exclusively about how plants affect our sleep, backed by scientific research.

Waters are great, but only when were awake. At night, we should be sleeping in as much serenity as possible.

Science has indicated that sound as minor as whispers have the ability to disrupt the quality of our sleep. The same goes to any other sound, including the water features in your bedroom. Though some find the sound of water flow soothing, it is likely that you will experience moments where it irritates you.

Avoid vibrant colors as the main theme of your bedroom. These colors include bright orange, pink, and yellow, and they are not suitable for your bed linens, curtains, and your bedroom walls.

Brighter colors tend to shout out at you, which can amplify your emotions and give you more energy. They also reflect more light, which is known to disrupt your biological clock and keep you awake. If you desire to use bright colors, you may need to dim down the bedroom lights to balance out the brightness. Another method is to use the bright colors as accents rather than the main theme.

Ive slept in a room with ancient masks from African tribes hanging on the wall. What ended up happening was that I just stared at them almost all night. On occasions, it felt like they were staring back at me too.

How would you feel if you have these masks as your bedrooms wall dcor?

Humans have an amazing ability to recognize faces and familiar patterns. It is suggested that you remove animal heads (hunting trophies), pictures of faces, and other odd decors from the bedroom, because they can keep you distracted and awake.

Being surrounded with unpleasant images, such as pictures depicting violence or sorrow, can invoke strong emotions that can keep you awake at night. Worse, these emotions can carry over to your dream, making you wake up tired the next day.

If you have any pictures that invokes strong emotions, remove them. Pictures that soothe and relax you are more suitable for the bedroom.

Also, closing the window can block unwanted scent from the outside. For instance, if you can smell cigarette smoke from your next door neighbor when they smoke on their balcony, you may want to keep your windows closed.

How would you feel if you have smokers right outside your bedroom window?

Closing the window also cancels out the noise from the outside, which is especially important if you live in the cities where you can hear the rumbles of automobile or noise from human chatter. As previously mentioned, the slightest noise can disrupt the quality of your sleep. If you happen to live in a noisy neighborhood or close to main streets, you might want to invest in double-paned windows.

Bathrooms are notorious for its bad feng shui because of its humidity and filth. For those that live in master bedrooms, you might want to keep those bad feng shui within the bathroom.

Leaving the bathroom door open will affect the air quality of your bedroom. For instance, if you just finished taking care of business, and you left the bathroom door open, the smell can easily travel to your bedroom, which can significantly affect how fast you fall asleep. Worse, if you have mold in your bathroom, your may be suffering from health problems such as muscle and joint pain, headaches, shortness of breathe, sinus problems, and more.

Closing the bedroom door increases your sense of privacy, especially if you live with family members. It can also provide you with a feeling of security, which can further relax your survival instincts to assist you with your sleep.

Closing the bedroom door also cancels out the noise from within your home. These sounds include the humming of the refrigerator or other home electronics, and the noise from your family members or roommates living with you.

Speaking from personal experience back inmy college days, there are many ways to hurt yourself if your bedroom is filled with clutter. You can trip on something. You can step on your own clutter. Worse, you can stub your toe. The pain associated with that can wake you fully and can completely disrupt your sleeping cycle. Maybe you can relate to thisfunny Vine video that shows how it really feels when you stub your pinky toe:

Imagine if that happens to you in the middle of the night. How would you feel? Though sometimes your kids or your pet may have created the clutter by your bed, make it a habit to keep your bedroom free of clutter. Further, a clean and organized bedroom is more visually relaxing and less likely to invoke frustration and agitation that lower your sleep quality.

Some say that TV has a similar effect as a mirror, which is mentioned earlier in #20. However, most of us use LCDs now, and I can hardly see any reflections from that. So I dont think the mirror-effect applies anymore.

Though some claim that TV helps them sleep, the light and sound from the TV are actually causing us to stay awake longer than needed. The light from the TV is a form of artificial light that has the tendency to keep us awake by delaying the release of sleep-inducing hormone, melatonin. Further, whatever show or movie that youre watching can also invoke strong emotions thatll keep you awake longer than usual.

Some experts also mentioned that electronics in the bedroom, such as TV,brings electromagnetic field that can potentially harm us. Im not sure how it affects our sleep, but I do know that strong electric currents creates strong electromagnetic fields that can cause many health consequences, which is why you shouldnt live close to power lines.

Even if you dont have a work desk in your bedroom, you need to keep your laptop, smartphone, and emails away as you prepare to sleep. Any of these can remind you of the work that needs to be done, which can easily increase your stress levels that will prevent you from relaxing.

For others, it can keep you awake because it stimulates your mind to work-mode. Even if youre already tucked in, you may be thinking about how to solve a certain problem at work or how to perform better. Sometimes, you may be more inclined to grab your nearby laptop or smartphone to write an idea down where you should be going to sleep instead.

After a full nights sleep, your bedroom is filled with your own carbon dioxide. To refresh the air quality in your bedroom, make it a habit to open the window right after you wake up. This way, your bedroom will feel more nurturing during the night.

Carbon dioxide is known to adversely affect the quality of your sleep. So even if you live in a region with extreme cold or hot weather, try to keep your window fully open for at least a couple of hours during the day to recycle your bedrooms air.

The feng shui of your bedroom is very important. It determines how well you sleep and how much energy you have during the day, all of whichdirectlyaffect your work performance, mood, and how you interact socially.

Further, chronic sleeplessness can cause inability to learn, headaches, weight gain, colds, depleted sex drive, depression, and many more horrible things. Maybe thats why feng shui places a special emphasis on the bedroom. After all, we spend about a third of our lives in our bedroom sleeping.

If you want feng shui to help you with other aspects of life, feng shui bedroom is not enough. But if youre only looking to better your sleep,these tips will helpyou feel rested and energetic to prepareyou fortomorrows challenges.

Do you have other bedroom feng shui tips that has helped you with your sleep? Has any of these worked for you in the past?

Let me know in the comments below. Im eager to hear your experiences!

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