Feng Shui Tips for the Bathroom

Use these feng shui tips to keep your bathroom from sucking away your health and prosperity!

When people ask me for feng shui tips, they're often worried about the bathroom. And well they should be: the bathroom is an incredibly difficult topic in modern feng shui. The ancient discipline never accounted for indoor plumbing, and so no allowances were made in centuries of studying chi for a room with this one's... well, particular uses.

Draining Away

The bathroom actually isn't so much a source of sha chi because it's dirty -- although that can definitely be a problem, and many Asian cultures actually have the bath and the toilet in separate rooms. Ask where the bathroom is in a Japanese home, and your confused host may think you want to interrupt your visit to take a bath!

No, the main reason the bathroom becomes problematic is because it has so many darn drains. Drains are never good for chi. Their only purpose is to suck things away as quickly as possible, and unfortunately, that includes chi. That's why it's so important to observe certain feng shui tips in the bathroom.

Fast Feng Shui Tips

There's no "good place" for a bathroom in feng shui, but some places are worse than others. If the bathroom is in any sector you're trying to emphasize, especially the wealth, love, or health areas, it can literally destroy your ambitions. If it's directly over your front door or kitchen, or just off either, that's a particularly inauspicious location.

However, there are some feng shui tips that will help you minimize the bathroom's impact on your chi:

• If the bathroom is in a particularly bad location, hang a full length mirror on the outside of the door (and always keep it closed). This helps to visually redirect chi away from the bathroom and prevent its loss.
  

• Use grounding items, such as earth-based cures, in the corners of the bathroom. Heavy ceramic vases, containers of any kind, and many types of crystals are effective examples of these tools.
  

• Hang a faceted crystal in the center of the bathroom to absorb and redeflect chi.
  

• Keep the toilet and bathroom door closed at all times, and try to cover the drains in the shower and sink as well (or at least close the shower curtain to create a physical barrier for any stray energy).
  

• Hang a 3 inch round mirror on the ceiling (use double sided tape) directly over the toilet. This will redeflect draining chi (and also makes an interesting conversation piece when you have guests!)
  

Following these feng shui tips is the quickest method I know of to undo any potential damage to the status of your home from draining bathroom chi!


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