Feng Shui Monsters Under Your Bed

"Excellent feng shui often calls for producing wise decisions based on your distinct circumstances, rather than blinding following an ideal rule. The feng shui rule for storing things under your bed is ""don't do it."" But for those who live in modest homes each inch of feasible storage space is precious. If you are faced with cluttering up some other region of your residence with stuff that otherwise might be put under the bed, how do you determine what to do?
My preference as a feng shui expert is to maintain the far more visible, regularly utilized locations of the property uncluttered. If that means storing some points under the bed, so be it, as lengthy as it is carried out thoughtfully and appropriately.
There are two factors why your bed is so important in feng shui. The first is the principle of proximity, which states that the closer something is to you the stronger its effect will be. The second is the principle of duration, which indicates that the longer you are exposed to a certain influence the stronger its impact will be.
If we had been finding our eight full hours of sleep every single night, we'd be spending a third of our lives in bed. Even with long days and not enough sleep, the average person probably spends 25% or a lot more of his or her time in bed. Keeping the aspects of proximity and duration in mind, this indicates that anything that is close to you whilst you sleep will have a strong effect on you, either physically or symbolically.
Because you are probably well protected from below by a nice thick mattress, whatever you've got stashed beneath your bed isn't likely to be directly harmful. Nonetheless, in feng shui the symbolic power of an object or image is just as important as whatever literal impact it could have. If you are making use of your underbed area for storage, take a moment to feel about the implications of whatever is down there, specifically if you haven't been sleeping well lately. If you do not remember what you've stashed under your bed, it is time to take one more look.
Here are some issues that you ought to uncover another place for:

Shoes under the bed can keep you ""running around"" all night even when you are sound asleep. No matter how numerous hours of sleep you get, you could never really feel nicely rested.
Exercise gear, workout clothes, and sports equipment are also much less than relaxing. Unless you want to feel like you're ""going nowhere fast"" in life, do not store your treadmill, rowing machine, aerobic step under the bed. Tennis rackets (or other gear for competitive sports) can bring a competitive, adversarial energy to your romantic relationships. It is best not to have any kind of physical exercise or sports equipment in the bedroom at all if you can locate an additional location for it.
Books and function or school papers can have an intellectually stimulating impact if you have trouble turning your mind-chatter off so you can fall asleep at night, make positive you are not sleeping on top of a lot of info. Plus, chances are great that if you're keeping that stuff under the bed it probably isn't at all current, so all that old info is also energetically holding you in the past.
Guns and knives. I genuinely hope you don't feel the require to have these in your home at all. All that possible violence is not conducive to a great night's sleep, no matter how ""safe"" it could make you feel. A feng shui friend when told me she'd consulted for a guy who collected knives, and who kept that collection under his bed. No wonder he complained of a lengthy string of failed relationships! Regardless of any other qualities he might or might not have had, that's a lot of cutting chi underlying what really should be a place for romantic connection.

These examples ought to give you an thought of the sort of potentially disruptive impact the stuff under your bed can have. If you should use the under-bed space for storage, reserve it for soft, cuddly items like additional bedding or your winter sweaters.
You may even find a excellent use for that space by placing one thing with positive symbolic meaning there, so you can take conscious benefit of the proximity and duration impact. For example, laying a mirror face up under the bed is a suggested feng shui certain for insomnia symbolically the mirror reflects the bed ""downward"" therefore drawing into a deep, restful sleep. For a child who is frightened of imaginary monsters under the bed, placing a super-tough-guy action figure under there could offer some critical protection and security.
A feng shui client recently asked if it was okay to maintain her empty suitcases under the bed. If you appreciate traveling and want to do far more of it, then having the luggage under the bed might support to encourage that. Inside the suitcases you can put guidebooks, pictures, travel accessories, and other items related to the locations where you'd like to go. For example, if you would really like to take a trip to Paris put a guidebook to the city, a French-English phrase book, and a photo of the Eiffel Tower in an empty suitcase under your very best mattress. Add some French currency or traveler's checks for the future trip. The suitcase and its contents is now a feng shui activation to help make your travel dreams come true.
On the other hand, if you've been traveling a lot lately and would