An important element of Feng Shui is to insure good sleep to the home’s occupants.  The Chinese discovered thousands of years ago that the body heals itself while sleeping at night when put in a supportive environment.  Thus, according to Feng Shui, each person has four specific bed directions in order to achieve good sleep.    When I consult on a home, I look for the house type; East or West Group, which is based on the sitting direction of the home, and the trigram element type of the person living in the home.  Ideally it would great if the house type was a match for the person's trigram type.  (this is covered in detail in my Professional Training Course and also in my Feng Shui Workbook).

The first step is to determine your personal element type.  You can do this for free on my website at www.fengshui4balance.com by clicking on “Free Profile”.  Next once you discover your personal element type, you will notice four directions listed according to your personal Trigram, for example: a wood, yang type would have the best sleep directions: East, Southeast, North, or South.  All four would be good for sleep, the first, East, being the very best for sound sleep for the wood yang type. 

In addition to placing your bed in its most supportive direction for you, there are several other things you can do to support your sleep. 

• First be sure to keep all electrical appliances; TV’s, clock radios, computers, at least 3 feet away from your body, especially your head.  By the way electric water beds are the worst because the electricity heating the water actually depletes the body and leaves you weaker upon awaking.  (If you want to test this, just stand on an electric cord and have someone test your muscle strength. As you extend your arm have them push down while you try to resist.  You can even do this when the cord has been unplugged from the wall.  If the body is weak your strength will be reduced.
   
• Second, select the color of sheets that support your element.  I have had lots of good testimonies from clients who improved their sleep, just by changing the color of their sheets! 
  
  First you must determine your element type.  Let’s use the wood type
  again from our previous example. According to the Productive cycle (which is displayed in detail in my workbook and on my website where you charted your personal element; and also illustrated here in this article), the color of the wood element is green.  Therefore, green would be a good color for bed sheets to support the wood type. 
  
  Referring to the Productive Cycle we see that water supports wood.  In nature, plants (wood) grow when care and proper water is added, therefore; a good color for the wood type would also be the colors representing water: blue and black.
  
  
  
  The colors for the wood type to avoid are the colors that reduce wood, which are the fire colors: red, burgundy, maroon, and purple, taken from the Reductive Cycle, and also the colors and elements that dominate wood, listed on the Dominate Cycle; which are gold, and white.  The Productive, Reductive, and Dominate Cycles show how different elements have different effects on each personal according to their personal trigram type. 
   
• The last thing to remember, keep the wall colors in a pastel tone.  Any intense colors in the bedroom may disrupt your sleep and even create challenges in your life.  After implementing the above suggestions, if you still wake up feeling tired, it could be due to the energy vibration of the room
  
  Without a Feng Shui consultation on your home to determine the energy in the bedroom captured when the home was built and the roof was closed in, you would not be able to determine the colors that best support the environment; in turn affecting your life.  If your bedroom is good for money, it would be supported by greens and reds, or if that area of your home has the potential for sickness, delays and/or struggles, this would be increased by reds and yellows on the walls.
  
  The information about the room's energy affecting your daily life, can only be determined with a compass reading, allowing us to see the room's energy potential which was set in place when your home was built. The wall colors have nothing to do with the colors that are supportive to the individual's personal trigram colors.