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Feng shui your way to health

Date updated: February 22, 2007
By Victoria L. Freeman, PhD
Content provided by Revolution Health Group

Can your home's layout influence your well-being? Definitely, says Brooklyn-based chakracologist™ and feng shui expert Nancy SantoPietro. In vivid contrast to conventional interior design with concepts based on function, form and aesthetics, feng shui, with its 4,000-year-old metaphor-rich design system, reaches deeper to embrace the flow of energy or chi through your home and environment. With feng shui the goal is to create surroundings energetically aligned with the healing forces of nature because this environment will, in turn, nurture you.  


Energy or chi flows internally through you and externally through your surroundings, according to feng shui philosophy. Depending on how this energy moves, these two energetic patterns can support harmony or disharmony, health or disease. Everyday life patterns emanate from your internal energy field, explains SantoPietro, and are mirrored and anchored in place by the environmental energy field known as your feng shui. Reciprocally, the feng shui of your environment impacts your internal energy. It is this interplay between the two energetic systems that either supports illness or enhances health. When implemented well, she says, feng shui principles positively influence the chi in your body by disarming aspects of illness supported by unhealthy energy patterns and design layouts.

Begin in the Bedroom

Feng shui cannot replace conventional or other alternative healing modalities. It can, however, augment them. A thorough feng shui assessment of your home and modifications implemented by a qualified expert yields the greatest benefits, yet you can make some core changes on your own.

Different areas of your home exert influence over different aspects of your life (such as family, career and finances) and ultimately they all affect your well-being (see SantoPietro's book Feng Shui and Health: The Anatomy of a Home, Three Rivers Press, 2002 for more). But the aspect of your abode most aligned with overall health (thus the one that will make the most significant impact) is your bedroom. Our lives are full of energetically draining encounters so there must be somewhere to reconnect and refuel, says SantoPietro. Your bedroom should be that place for rejuvenation and intimacy — no more, no less. Yet how many of us take daytime energy into the bedroom by typing away on a laptop, talking on the phone or watching television ? No wonder we struggle to get a good night's sleep, and then start each day exhausted.


You can change that, though. Here are SantoPietro's top suggestions for transforming your bedroom into a restorative sanctuary:

  • Place your bed so it faces the doorway but is not directly aligned. Ch'i force enters rooms via doorways (known as the mouths of ch'i) and you want to face and welcome that life energy. Yet ch'i is powerful and too taxing for the body when encountered directly.   
  • Remove all telephones, televisions, computers and clock radios, which emit powerful electromagnetic fields that interfere with sleep and depress immunity.
  • Clear away clutter of any kind, including under your bed and in the closet. Even if they're not in plain view, areas of clutter block energy flow like cholesterol clogs arteries.
  • Hang a 40 to 50-millimeter round and faceted Swarovski or other manmade crystal from a 9-inch red string in the center of your bedroom (the center of any room is the health area). Crystals amplify ch'i, but natural gems like amethyst, garnet or quartz come with their own energetic frequency so choose a synthetic stone that you can program with your healing intention.



Reviewed by: Joseph Scherger, M.D.
Date reviewed: February 15, 2007

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