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Feng Shui Tips For A Hotel Room
A hotel is a business offering temporary lodging to a traveler. Today hotels are also a place to hold conferences, weddings, and many events. Feng Shui tips for a hotel room would showcase a good balance of the four elements in every hotel room. As hotels have rooms facing all directions, decorators have to make adjustments when required.
A hotel’s popularity is based on its ability to offer good choices of hotel rooms, and good services in their entertaining department. A smart hotel interior decorator usually uses subtle Feng Shui symbols to create a harmonious setting that makes the guest comfortable.
With limited space, the experienced Feng Shui decorator or consultant would use colors or shapes to symbolize the five elements. Sometimes drawings when the walls allow it. A skilled person can subtly create a balance within small space confines.
Good Hotel Feng Shui Tips
Element Fire
Red fabrics or warm-colored pictures. Having triangle shapes as wall decoration or chevron patterns on curtains or frames will be excellent.
Element Wood
Green or wooden items, or representations such as art that depict plants. A rectangle represents the wood element, symbolizing change and growth.
Element Earth
Shades of earth, or clay pots in the room. Square shapes symbolize the earth, and it helps balance the overall chi in the room.
Feng Shui Tips for a Hotel Room
Element Metal
Silver, gold, or any metallic color represents a metal element. For patterns for round or circular shapes, and usually not placed near the resting corner: it invites energy to create.
Element Water
Blue or wavy, pattern. Usually, the bed is dark blue to represent the calmness of the water element, suitable for resting.
Location of Bed
As Chi enters from the door, the bed is visible, but, not so that the occupant’s legs are pointing at the door. The flow of chi should be sideways, and the headboard should be made from firm material to represent good support.
Good Light
A good hotel room has lots of natural light streaming into the room. Mirrors are at strategic locations to bring in more light but do not reflect harsh light in the morning to wake up occupants.
Feng Shui Tips for a Hotel Room
Feng Shui Essential Tools
For travelers, aside from noticing minor details in your hotel room, you can further improve the energy of it. A small kit containing Feng Shui essentials is easy to carry around and use when required. The main component of the kit is a small compass, which will help you determine the location of your luck sectors. The first thing to do when booking a hotel room is to ask for one that has a pleasant view. If that is not possible, the room should be away from elevators, noisy traffic, or construction work. Noise and clutter are bad Feng Shui and should be avoided because a good night’s sleep is good for you.
Feng Shui For Live Energy In Hotel Rooms
For frequent flyers, candles, and incense can be a nuisance to bring. Consider treating yourself with small bouquets of fresh flowers, they smell good and they are of the wood element. They do not cost a lot and are easy to dispose of when you are leaving. If you are too lazy to keep fresh flowers, then a plastic version can do just as well. A portable Zen garden is more of an Earthly element and comes in a small box with sand for you to draw upon and meditate. Place the garden near the sunny side of the room.
Feng Shui Tips for a Hotel Room
Feng Shui Charms
Wu Lou
Charms like bottle gourd or Wu Lou can be placed next to your bed for good health. A small five-element pagoda for those who practice Flying Star Feng Shui to help lessen the affliction star’s power. Small pendants such as jewelry can help with work luck, such as mystic knot necklaces.
Jade
A jade pfive-elementa symbol of the dragon for protection, suitable for family trips as dragons are powerful beings. You can take a family photo with a dragon background, to hit two birds with one stone. That photo can travel with you, keeping you safe and making you feel at home.
Round Crystal
Many Feng Shui consultants recommend a round-faceted crystal to reflect light and positive energy into the room. Crystals are of earth element, and if you are looking for wealth luck, get them in green. You can get crystals in the color of the element that will help you, be careful not to upset the overall balance of the room.
Red Packet
A red packet or a red piece of ribbon to give a kick of fire element, or to improve good luck in some areas. In Chinese culture, red packets are a must as it is good luck to give and receive, and it is a ‘preferred’ gift in many practices.
Feng Shui Tips for a Hotel Room
Good Feng Shui Habits For Travelers
Boil a kettle of water after letting the pipes run for a minute, this is to generate live water energy for positive flow. Starting the kettle helps with starting the fire element, and this helps kickstart the flow of Feng Shui energy going.
Always keep the bathroom door closed, and keep an eye out for the direction of the toilet. This is to stop your wealth luck from being flushed down the toilet. A room with a good view or facing en gives you the perfect opportunity to crack the window open and let some fresh air in, this is for beneficial movement of chi.
If there is a mirror facing the bed, use a towel to cover it up while you are sleeping. Or if the mirror is movable, use it to reflect the toilet away from the bed. If not, find one big enough to do the job, or cover the toilet when it is not used to minimize the harm.
Peaceful Music
Working travelers usually have their laptops, and fill their playlists with nature’s songs or peaceful music to let the positive energy fill the air. Also have the laptop in your wealth or work sector, so that you can have better results at work. A compass will be helpful to find your wealth corner, or use the general area and set it up in the far left corner of the room, diagonally across from the door. Remember to sit with your back against the wall, this symbolizes firm support.
Even if you are staying for a night, unpacking moves chi around. You do not have to unpack a whole suitcase, but just enough to make you feel at home, this can prompt some rest time. Unpacking can also help you take stock of what you need to replace on the trip, and is a good habit to have. Even if for a night, the hassle of unpacking is worth the good energy it generates.
A good traveler knows the importance of good energy flow, good Feng Shui relaxes and helps you rest and unwind. The good flow also helps improve your concentration at work and improves the luck you need when doing business. Good energy can affect you mentally and spiritually, this reflects on your outlook, allowing you to feel more confident.
It might sound hard to remember the habits and keeping a Feng Shui kit at first, but as you travel more it will become second nature. Over time you will find which method works well, and find new ways to enhance your trip.
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