Bathrooms are a problem in feng shui. They are very heavy on the water element, which can lead to stagnation and dampness. The best way to handle bathrooms is to first block the flow of chi into them, and then to balance out whatever chi does get in with either wood or metal energy. Here are some basic tips to improve your bathroom's feng shui.
1) Keep the bathroom door closed
It is good feng shui to keep bathroom doors closed as often as possible. It is also good to keep the toilet cover on as often as possible, especially when the toilet is flushing.
2) Put a mirror on the outside door of the bathroom
This will further block energy from getting into the bathroom. You want a big, full-length mirror to really make any difference here. A tiny little six inch square mirror is not going to cut it.
3) Conceal the toilet
Because the toilet is the largest drain, and because the water does not just drain from it, but is forcefully sucked down all at once, it creates a pretty powerful energy vacuum that is very bad. To help reduce the damage it can do, try to block the view of the toilet as much as possible. Put up a physical barrier, like a silk curtain or a bookshelf, to block the view of the toilet from the bathroom door. And definitely do not put a mirror inside the bathroom in such a way that it reflects the toilet. You will just be doubling the damage.
4) Add light
Natural light is best. Sometimes there are no exterior walls for windows, so the best path for natural light is a skylight. The light will help a lot to energize the dampness of a bathroom, and it will generally just enliven the chi and get it moving. Bathrooms tend toward stagnation, so even if you have to put in an artificial light, do it to get that chi moving.
5) Add tree energy
This is particularly effective if the bathroom is to the East, South-East or the South of the center of the house. Tree energy can take the form of tall, upward growing plants (skip the vines in bathrooms), or it can be wood itself, whether that's a wooden floor, a wooden toilet seat or a wooden bathroom vanity. Even books, as wood, boost tree energy.
Another way to add tree energy is with colors and patterns. Tree energy is fundamentally any upward moving energy, so stripes are good, as are floral patterns that seem to grow up. The primary color is green. Frequently the shower curtain is a great opportunity for a big splash of green, upwardly mobile tree energy pattern.
6) Add metal energy
Metal energy balances out water-heavy bathrooms when the bathrooms are to the North, North-West, North-East, West and South-West. Metal energy can, of course, be anything metal, but anything white or round will also lend some metal power.
7) Keep the drains clear
Even though it sounds like the drains are bad, a blocked up or slow drain is even worse than a clear one. Blockages have big meaning in feng shui, whether it is a blocked toilet or a blocked front door. So get out the Draino or whatever will work on those clogs and get them clear.
8) Keep the surfaces ying and clean
By ying, I mean hard and impermeable surfaces like stone and tile. And they should be clean. Again, because bathrooms tend to have stagnant, damp energy, it is all the more important that the surfaces be as clean as possible so that chi does not get stuck in dust bunnies.
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