Reset Your Bedroom, Wake Up With Answers

I keep a journal by my bed. Not for dreams - for the revelations that wake me at 3am with startling clarity. Last week it was understanding that I need to start drinking less coffee so that I can sleep better 🫠. Two nights ago, it was the understanding that there's a struggle between what I want and what I can handle right now. (What I can handle is winning).

These middle-of-the-night insights don't arrive when I'm trying to figure things out. They come in that liminal space between sleep and waking, when my mind has finally stopped managing and defending and optimizing. When I've made enough internal quiet for something true to land.

Your bedroom creates the conditions for these moments of clarity - but it can also block them entirely. Feng shui is about making space in our environments (and ourselves) for what wants to come through.

This week's Torah portion, Yitro (Exodus 18:1-20:23), tells of revelation at Mount Sinai - God's voice thundering from a mountain that was neither the highest peak nor the lowest valley, but something humble in between.

The midrash asks: if humility is the ideal, why wasn't Torah given at the Dead Sea, the lowest place on earth? Because we need some elevation - enough self-worth to actually receive what wants to come through. Not the highest mountain of ego and control. Not the lowest valley of collapse. Somewhere in the middle, where we're awake enough to hear but humble enough to listen.

EARTH ENERGY IN YOUR BEDROOM: CREATING CONDITIONS TO RECEIVE

Making space for revelation is fundamentally an earth energy practice - and your bedroom needs earth energy regardless of where it falls in your home's bagua.

Earth energy in a bedroom feels like being held. You enter and your shoulders drop. You sink into the bed rather than perch on its edge. The space does the work of supporting you instead of you holding yourself together.

You can recognize earth energy through:

• Square shapes, flat surfaces, horizontal lines

• Ceramics, pottery, smooth stones, woven baskets

• Colors: Beige, warm skin tones, golden yellow, ochre, mustard, muted brick red, olive green, deep brown

• The quality of solidity - things that won't tip over, surfaces that feel stable

  
  
  

  

  

  

  

  

  
  
  
  
  

Too little earth: Your bedroom feels unstable, restless. You can't settle. Nothing feels grounded enough to hold you.

Too much earth: Your bedroom becomes immobile, resistant to change. You're stuck in comfort, choosing familiar over necessary growth.

Want to understand your personal energy? Calculate your 9-star ki number. If you're a 2, 5, or 8, balancing earth energy in your bedroom is especially critical for you.

THE 7-DAY EXPERIMENT

This week focuses on building all three expressions of earth energy in your bedroom - still mountain (yang earth), receptive soil (yin earth), and balanced center (unified earth) - while also bringing in the other four elements for optimal harmony.

Sunday (Yang Earth - Still Mountain): 

OBSERVE your bedroom for signs of mountain-like stability. What in this room feels immovable, grounded, solid? ADD one substantial earth element - a hand-thrown ceramic piece, a smooth stone with real weight. Place it somewhere you can see from your bed. Notice: Does having something with mountain-like presence change how stable the room feels?

Monday (Yin Earth - Receptive Soil): 

CREATE maximum receptivity in your bed - add soft linen in warm beige, a chunky knit throw in earthy colors, fluff pillows, smooth the sheets, maybe add one more pillow than you think you need. Make it so inviting you want to sink into it. Notice: Does your body relax differently when your bed is actively receptive to you rather than just... there?

Tuesday (Fire/Joy): 

REMOVE all screens from your bedroom for one night - phone charging elsewhere, no TV, no laptop. If you can't move the TV, cover it for the night. Notice: Does your mind settle differently when technology's demanding voice goes quiet?

Wednesday (Water/Flow): 

CLEAR everything from under your bed completely. Water needs unobstructed flow beneath where you rest. If you must use the space under your bed for storage, choose something soft. Notice: Does sleep feel different with nothing stored underneath catching your subconscious?

Thursday (Wood/Growth): 

ADD something alive and growing - a plant that thrives in low light, fresh flowers in water, even herbs you can smell. Wood energy is about upward movement and vitality. Notice: Does having something that's actively growing nearby change how the room feels? Does it make you want to grow too, or does it feel like one more thing demanding care?

Friday (Metal/Structure): 

ORGANIZE your nightstand with precision - only what truly supports rest stays. Metal's clarity asks: what actually serves revelation versus what clutters it? Notice: Can you reach for your journal in the dark without knocking things over?

Saturday (Earth Unity - Balanced Center): 

REST in your bedroom for 10 minutes in the middle of the day, not sleeping, just being. Bring your journal. Notice how all the elements you've added this week come together - the stability of mountain earth, the receptivity of soil earth, the clarity of metal, the flow of water, the growth of wood, the transformation of removing fire (screens). Notice: What wants to come through when you're awake but not doing? Does anything land that couldn't arrive in the busy-ness?

CLOSING INSIGHT

P.S. When you make space for clarity, what comes through may not be immediately nice or feel good. That's okay. The point is to stay open.