For bed Feng Shui, here are the positions that cause lack of sleep and poor health:

1.The end of your bed should not face the door. This position is negative because the flow of chi energy will disrupt your sleep.

2.Your bed should not be placed on the same wall as your door because that will also disrupt your sleep because of the chi energy.

3.Your bed should not be placed under the window because different energies will not give you a peaceful rest.

4.If your door is facing the window, this creates a wind tunnel. If the bed is placed in the wind tunnel, you will be unable to sleep deeply.

Although not shown in these  pictures, you should also avoid positioning your bed on an angle. You should have a solid support of a wall if you want to get a restful sleep.

If you want to get a good sleep, you should sleep under a solid ceiling rather than the one with beams.

Favourable positions of your bed

Here is the ideal position for your bed:

The bed should be placed in a way that it would be accessible on both sides. Also, it should not be placed near the same wall where your door or window is. The wall your bed’s front is against should be as plain as possible (without shelves or too many paintings).

Feng Shui furniture placement should start from selecting the right furniture for each corner. Firstly you should choose the furniture and decorations that correspond to the particular element of the direction. After that, you can place the furniture in a way which will be described further on.

If you don’t know the directions of your home, you can find it out by following instructions in this article under the second step.

Here are the colors, elements, symbols and meanings of each direction:

• In the southern corner of your home you should place fire element. This could be candles, fireplace, red color, light and other symbols of this element. This corner represents fame. You can place the statues of horses here to bring more fame to you.

• In the southwestern corner of your home you should place earth element. This can be clay vases, brown, yellow and beige color, flat, square and rectangle-shaped items. This corner represents marriage and here you can place the figurines of elephants to bring loyalty and strong relationships. The painting of peonies is also a great enhancement for this corner if you want to get married.

• In the western corner of your home should be the symbols of metal element or metal itself. The color of this corner should mainly be white. This corner represents children.

• In the northwestern corner of your home should be the symbol of metal too. This corner represents travel and helpful people and the colors that are best suited here are white, grey and black. Here you can place foreign items and items representing travel to you.

• In the northern corner of your home you should place the water element. The color of water element is black and it symbolises career. Place fountains, fish tanks and other items representing or including water.

• In the northeastern corner of your home should be the symbols of earth and this corner represents knowledge. The colors of this corner are black, blue and green. You can place the picture of some wise person to enhance this corner.

• The eastern corner of your home should have the wood element. Therefore flowers, trees and wooden furniture are excellent for this direction. This corner of your home represents family and health. Green color is the best color for this corner.

• The southeastern corner of your home should also have wood element. It represents wealth and the colors that are most suitable for this corner are blue, purple and red. You can place potted plants, coins, dragon, frog, turtle or phoenix statues to bring wealth into your home.

Feng Shui Furniture Placement

Now as you know what each corner represents and what colors and symbols are best fitted here, it is time to find out how the furniture should be placed. Feng Shui furniture placement affects your well-being and relationships you have with other people.

For your desk placement, read this article. For the bed placement, read this article.

The purpose of Feng Shui furniture placement is to let the chi flow freely and neutralise the bad chi. Bad chi is created when you have sharp corners in your home. You should neutralise the effect of sharp corners by placing plants in such places to block the poison chi that such corners create. Crystals also neutralise negative chi emanating from corners so as the mirrors attached to such corners.

Also, keep in mind the balance between yin and yang. If some corner of your house is very dark, it is considered to be yin. Place a Yang object to create harmony in such area. Yang object is, for example, a large red armchair.

If the room is very light, place dark furniture to introduce yin and create harmony.

You should make sure that none of your chairs or sofas have their backs to the doors or entrances. They should not be too close to the tables or other furniture because that would create imbalance.

If the furniture is not placed against a corner in your room, you should by no means place the furniture to shape the letter L. This is considered a very bad arrangement that could cause trouble, because it shapes poison arrow which creates very negative chi.

You should not block the chi entering your home with furniture, therefore make sure that the opening of your door is not obstructed with any kind of furniture.

In general, try getting furniture with rounded corners for smoother chi flow and chairs and sofas with high backs for better protection. The backs of the chairs should be solid and without any gaps or strips. The armrests of chairs and sofas should be substantial to provide rest.

If the stairs of your home are opposite the front entrance, this symbolises money leaving your home. To stop wealth drainage, place something near the end of the stairs, such as a plant.

   By far the most important Feng Shui principle is the theory of yin and yang. Yin and yang basically means the polarity of the opposites – you cannot have one without the other.

Every downside has an upside as every upside has the downside; There are two sides of every coin; Every problem has a solution; Every material thing started with an idea. As you see, there are two sides of everything and these polarities in Feng Shui are called yin and yang.

Everything also has its cycle – night replaces day and winter replaces summer, happiness replaces sadness and winnings replace losses. There is the birth and then death follows. This shows that yin and yang are separate, but they are still connected to each other. One could not exist without the other.

Yang represents one side of a coin and yin – another. Yang represents male, yin – female. Yang represents birth, yin – death. Yang is active, yin – passive.

The philosophy behind The Book of Changes is the first known attempt to formulate a systematized understanding about the interaction of the opposites (yin and yang). This book was used to predict future and it also showed what changes you need to make to avoid the unwanted future.
Yin and yang in your home

The fundamental Feng Shui principles of yin and yang can help you harmonize your environment.

When your environment is balanced, you will notice that your health and well-being in general will improve.

To harmonize your environment using this principle you should check for any imbalances in your home.

Imbalances occur when one or two elements dominate your home. There are five Feng Shui elements in total, which are: water, wood, fire, earth and metal. Check this article for a detailed explanation of these elements.

These five elements have certain colors associated with them. You can find each element’s color(s) on the link to the article above. For example, the colors of the water element are black and blue. So if you have a lot of black items and containers with water in one room or in the whole house, you should balance that by introducing the neutralising symbol, which in this case would be the wood element.

There can be other imbalances in your home too, for example, your home may have too many items in one place and almost none in another. In this case you should distribute the items proportionately and that will create harmony.

When your home is too much yin or yang, you will start feeling negative or your health may worsen. For example, if you have too much yang energy in your home, you may feel aggressive or wanting to do many things at the same time. If your home has more yin energy, you may feel sleepy and you may have the habit of daydreaming.

Click here to read a more detailed article explaining the qualities of yin and yang.

If you want to use Feng Shui to attract love, the first thing you need to do is to clearly identify what you want from your (future) partner.

Clear intention is the key to attracting the person you want to be with.

Therefore you should clearly know what kind of character features you want your partner to have, what kind of behaviour you want him to possess and what kind of physical features you want your partner to have.

The more specific you are, the better chances you have of attracting your dream partner.

If you are in a relationship and want to make it better, decide exactly what you want in a relationship to change or improve. Maybe you want to have more time for your spouse or you want your partner to be more attentive. Identify exactly what you want from the relationship.

Once you clearly identified what you want, you are now ready to move on to the second step in the process of using Feng Shui to attract love.

Now you need to adjust the environment to accommodate your desire. Here are the steps to take to do exactly that.

How To Use Feng Shui To Attract Love: Identify The Obstacles

1. Messy environment and old items

There could be a number of ways the environment is hindering you from attracting love. The usual culprits are messy environment and inability to let go of the old love.

Maybe the furniture or items of your previous loved one is scattered all over the place. Don’t expect to attract someone new in your life if you are not prepared to let go of the old.

Get rid of all the items that have the energy of your ex-partner. Be completely ready for a new love to enter your life.

Also eliminate the mess completely from your home, especially from your bedroom. If you stuff all the mess into drawers and boxes, it will not do any good for you. You should completely eliminate the clutter and the best way to do that is to throw away things you don’t use and to put things you use in an organised manner away from your sight.

2.Artwork

It is very usual for a lonely person to have artwork which represents loneliness and therefore repels love. Such artwork could be a single tree or a flower, a single figurine of a person or animal and everything else that comes as a single unit rather than in pairs.

Look around your home carefully for these and either remove them or introduce a very similar artwork to make a pair. Place two similar figurines together, put two flowers in a vase and place two stuffed animals in your bedroom. Invite love by getting your home ready for it.

If you have a partner but your relationship is weak, here’s what you should do. Only leave the pictures of two of you visible and remove the pictures where you are together with your family or relatives. This will help you improve your relationship and make more time for each other.

3.Bedroom

The Bedroom is one of the most important places to search for reasons why you are lonely or suffering from bad marriage/relationship. Take a closer look at it. If you have a partner, do you have a picture of your partner in the bedroom? If not, you should definitely place it there.

Does your bedroom feel warm, relaxing and romantic? Does it feel as though it attracts love or repels it?

If you keep in your bedroom distractions such as TV, exercise equipment or other electrical equipment, get rid of them because that’s not the place for such things. Your bedroom should be relaxing and warm, inviting love and romance.

If you are seeking for a new relationship, your bedroom should be favourable for the new love. So make it romantic and intimate. If one side of the bed is against the wall, no wonder you are lonely! It symbolises the room for only one person in your bed. By moving your bed away from the wall you are indicating that there is enough space for two.

Don’t over-clutter your bedroom with decorative items symbolising love. It is much better to keep it spacious indicating that there is a space for two people.

If your bed has a dividing line in the middle, this could cause separation. Fix this by placing a large red sheet over the bed and you can place even more layers if you want. This will make the separation invisible.

Your bedroom should have relaxing tones of cream, cocoa, pink or taupe. You can use red color too to create intimate environment. Avoid cool colors in your bedroom. If you cannot redecorate your bedroom and you have to keep cool color walls, then place accessories and furniture of warm colors to balance it.

Avoid pictures of family members in your bedroom. Your bedroom should only be about you and your partner, so only keep the pictures with the two of you. If you have children, remove their toys from the bedroom because it may indicate that children are dominating your life, leaving no space for romance.

Make sure that there is nothing under your bed as any clutter there creates quarrels and distractions. Also, don’t keep books you don’t read in the bedroom as it also causes distraction and creates stress.

In general, if you want to use Feng Shui to attract love, you should keep the atmosphere of your bedroom warm, relaxing and intimate. Place pairs of things and avoid single items if you want to properly use Feng Shui to attract love. And don’t forget that the most important thing you should do is to have a clear intention as to what kind of love you want to attract and what you expect from your (future) partner.

Feng Shui is the art and science of being in harmony with your living space. It helps you use nature’s forces to avoid negative energy and improve your health, wealth and relationships.

Chinese came to the conclusion that everything is energy and that energy is interconnected. Now the science has also come to the same conclusion – many thousands of years after the Chinese discovery.

Feng Shui developed around 6,000 years ago from the observations of Chinese of the nature’s cyclic movements. Chinese understood that certain energies of nature can affect their well-being and that it is possible to direct nature’s forces to improve all the areas of life.

Feng Shui not only helps you improve your living space, but it also helps you understand yourself better.

There are two classical methods of Feng Shui: Eight House and Flying Star. These methods can be used to find the best place for your furniture and even find the house that is in harmony with your chi energy.

By changing the placement of your furniture and making other minor adjustments, you will get in harmony with your living space. This will bring you better health and more positive emotions.

Numbers play an important role in Feng Shui. The importance of numbers in Feng Shui originated from the fact that the workings of nature are very exact. For example, there are 5 steep and 8 gradual spirals on pinecones and artichokes, there are 8 and 13 gradual and 21 steep spirals on a pineapple and there are many more examples of exact numbers in nature.

The masters of feng shui believe that each tragic event, such as the World Trace Center attack, could have been avoided by applying Feng Shui. Each event has a number associated with it and each number has its own meaning.

Hopefully now you can answer the question “What is Feng Shui?”. Here are some more interesting facts about this art.

Many people are confused about the pronunciation of Feng Shui. It is pronounced “Fung Schway”.

The most important tool of Feng Shui is a compass. Although there is a proper Feng Shui compass, called luopan, a basic traditional compass is also great for Feng Shui.

Feng Shui involves the understanding and use of the five elements, called the phases of chi (fire, earth, metal, water and wood). If properly used, these elements will transform any house into a harmonious one, bringing better relationships and more wealth.

Feng Shui can only be used to improve situations. It cannot do harm to anyone because this art only involves working with positive energies. If a person with negative attitude tries to use Feng Shui, it will never work. Therefore if you are angry or hate others, you should firstly change your emotions and only then use Feng Shui.

Feng Shui is not a superstition, philosophy or religion.

According to Chinese, each house has it’s own personality. The purpose of Feng Shui is to use the nature’s forces to harmonize the relationship between you and your house.
Some words translated from Chinese are spelled in different ways. This confuses some of the Feng Shui learners. Here is the different spelling of some of the words:

Snakes are wise and very intuitive. They think a great deal of time. They are philosophical and are great listeners.

They learn very fast and never repeat the same mistakes. They don’t like to talk much and they are extremely sceptical.

You will never know what snake really wants and snakes highly value privacy. They hardly trust anyone and can easily become paranoid. They find it hard to forgive and they usually take revenge on those who hurt them.

Snakes are beautiful and powerful. They find it easy to seduce the opposite sex. They can find solutions to even the most complicated problems.

In business they are excellent deal makers and intuitively know when to close the deal. This quality makes them able to easily become financially independent.

Snakes emanate calmness and they understand other people but they sometimes are hard to predict. They find it easy to attain success and fame. They are selfish and would not mind using other people to get what they want.

Once snakes make a decision, they stick to it. But they make decisions slowly, calculating every possible factor. No matter what situation they are faced with, snakes always appear to be at ease. Their self-discipline is highly respected by others and snakes can easily achieve great heights in any career.

Snakes like to exaggerate everything and find it hard to part with their money, therefore they are poor lenders. If snakes help someone, they will usually become very possessive of that person, so make sure that if you ask snake for help, it is worth it!

Snakes are extremely attractive and seductive people. They have good dress sense and others notice how good they look. They trust only themselves and have great desire for money, power and fame.

Famous people born in the Snake Zodiac:

• John F Kennedy
• Bob Dylan
• Martha Stewart
• Oprah Winfrey

Roosters like to show off and they are very proud creatures. They say exactly what’s on their minds and they will always give you their honest opinion no matter what you ask them.

Roosters don’t have any diplomatic skills therefore they tell their opinions whenever they feel like to and they honestly tell what they think.

They are detail-oriented and like to accomplish every task in a perfect manner. They can focus for long periods of time and they are excellent at organising any kind of event.

Roosters work hard, they are talented and courageous. They are very powerful personalities and they like to dominate.

Usually roosters are very popular in groups but they often like to boast and can be vain and egoistical. They have the need to be the centre of attention and they are excellent socializers.

Roosters like to talk much and express their opinions. However, sometimes their opinions hurt others. Roosters would do well as journalists, writers, economists and administrators.

Roosters are excellent money managers so any occupation to do with finances will suit them. They will account for every penny and their personal finances will always be in order.

They like to work in neat environments and they like to have clear schedules. Roosters make decisions slowly, thinking about all possible choices available.

When in conflicts, roosters can be very aggressive and can push the opponent to the point of breakdown, but they know when to flee – just when the opponent is about to break down.

Rooster men like to be surrounded by females to show off their talents and abilities. Rooster females also like to be around females for conversations.

In their lifetime, roosters will experience highs and lows but their old age will be happy.

Famous people born in the Rooster Zodiac:

• Catherine The Great
• Paris Hilton
• Peter Ustinov

People born in monkey zodiac are very curious and try almost everything at least once in their lives. They love to learn new skills and don’t give up until they’ve mastered them. Monkeys are very competitive and want to be better than anyone else in their chosen fields.

Monkeys don’t submit to failure and they are very intelligent. However, they are difficult to trust because of their selfishness. They care about themselves and not so much about others.

They like to socialise and are liked by others. They have many friends and they are always on the search for something amusing. They get bored very easily and always believe that they are missing out on something.

Monkeys naturally know human psychology but use it mainly to their selfish needs. They can easily manipulate people and play games in relationships. It seems on the outside that monkeys get along with people very well, but deep inside monkeys use their rapport for selfish purposes.

Monkeys can sometimes be lazy and lose themselves in small things whilst paying no attention to important issues. Monkeys look playful and friendly, but inside they hide their poor opinion of other people.

Monkeys can easily fool everyone because they are very clever. They can easily adapt to any situation and are very enthusiastic people. They like to read and learn about art and they like to live in luxury. Monkeys are excellent problem solvers therefore they are great assets for businesses.

Monkeys can succeed in all areas of business, especially niche areas. They will quickly learn new skills in any niche and therefore make the business successful. Monkeys are very adaptable, therefore any career will be suitable for them. However, most monkeys will lean towards the show business because of their need to be noticed.

Monkeys don’t particularly care if they leave good or bad impression, they just strive for more publicity. That makes them feel happy. The older monkeys become, the more they start enjoying simple life.

Famous people born in the Monkey Zodiac:

• Julius Caesar
• Diana Ross
• Harry S Truman
• Elizabeth Taylor

Sheep are very sensitive and gentle. They are compliant and are great listeners, but poor problem solvers.

Sheep can easily get stressed or depressed. They like to live in quiet environments.

Sheep can be pessimistic and lazy when they feel down. They are sensitive to other people’s criticism and can be down because of the criticism they received for a very long time.

Sheep are poor money managers. They like to overspend because of their generous nature. They are mostly followers.

Sheep will rarely draw attention to themselves and they like to follow established laws and rules. They are fortunate people who are liked by others. Because of this, some of them become very popular.

Sheep’s life is not hard. They seem to attract success and money with little effort. They are intelligent and artistic.

They may not be successful in family matters because of their lack of discipline. Although sheep are very good-natured people, if they are threatened, they can become quite aggressive.

Sheep like to leave decision-making to other people and some people cannot put up with sheep’s habit of delaying things.

Sometimes sheep take advantage of others, for example, sheep may live with someone at the expense of that person.

Sheep are usually religious people and are interested in horoscopes and mysticism. They are very talented and they are happy when surrounded by beauty.

Environment means a lot of sheep. If the environment is pleasant, sheep are happy. However, if the environment is not to their liking, they can become moody or even depressed.

Famous people born in the Sheep Zodiac:

• Jamie Foxx
• Mel Gibson
• Mark Twain
• Barbara Walters

The most important thing to people born under horse zodiac is always freedom. Horses hate being tied into routines and they do not like being told what to do. In marriage, horses require a lot of space, otherwise they may end the relationship or may even start being disloyal.

Horses are very hard-working and they have trust in themselves. They love challenge and they like to be the centre of attention. They are most happy when they receive compliments.

Creativity is the gift that horses were born with. They are very strong people and make decisions quickly. However, they do not wait for those who cannot keep up with them. They are multi-taskers and cannot stand doing nothing.

Horses sometimes have trouble in finances because of their poor savings skills. They are happily spending everything they have without thinking about the future. However, through their skilfulness horses acquire power and respect of others.

Horses have many followers and are very likeable characters. They get along with the majority of people and their personality is considered charming by many. However, they can be too self-obsessed and not considering the needs of others. Because of that they may appear selfish and concerned only about their own good.

Although it may seem that horses are very assured of themselves, in reality they are lacking self-confidence.

Horses mostly succeed in politics because of their ability to attract many followers. They are capable of thinking very quickly and are able to predict what the person will say as soon as the person starts talking. This allows horses to distinguish any rising arguments.

Horses get bored very easily and they like to act on impulse which makes them unpredictable. They are enthusiastic and full of energy. They are victims of mood swings but they rarely lose temper. Horses are capable of making quick and accurate decisions. They have a well-developed sense of intuition which helps them in all kinds of undertakings.

Horses’ moods change fast therefore they quickly lose interest in whatever new activity they start, be it a business venture or a love affair. Horses will be most successful in careers that require to deal with people, because horses love being noticed and respected.

Famous people born in the Horse Zodiac:

• James Dean
• Mike Tyson
• Clint Eastwood
• Teddy Roosevelt