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Getting a Healthy
Night's Sleep

By Ralph & Lahni DeAmicis

When we're out as Feng Shui consultants, our clients give us their wish list. After the obvious improvements in love and money the next thing on their list is often good health. The reason they want good health is obvious… so they can be more lovable and earn more money! But for us, granting a Feng Shui wish requires making sure that all of the necessary components are in place.

When it comes to health, the first thing we ask is "How are you sleeping?" If a person doesn't have a good, restorative nights sleep maintaining good health is nearly impossible. Through thousands of consultations one of the common threads that we've found seriously ruins a good night's sleep is so simple to fix that anyone can do it. If you're having a hard time sleeping, or if you're not waking up rested, here's what you do.

Go into your bedroom, open a window, go to your nightstand, unplug that clock radio that sits next to your head and throw it out the window! Try not to hit anybody. Now close the window and replace that nasty with a battery-powered clock. Not only will you sleep much better and lower your stress levels, but also you will have just reduced your tendency towards brain tumors and gray hair. You decide which one you dread more. The whole thing takes less than five minutes.

In case you're thinking, "What does this have to do with Feng Shui?" consider that Feng Shui is the manipulation of energy. Having a continuously running, alternating current, electric motor just scant inches from your pineal gland definitely qualifies as an energy source. The reason it so challenges your ability to sleep has to do with the type of electricity it uses. Your body, just like a battery, uses Direct Current (DC) electricity.

It runs smoothly (on our good days) in one direction along our nervous system. The electricity that runs our homes, including those nefarious clock radios, is Alternating Current (AC). It changes directions sixty times a second. To give you an idea of how your body doesn't like Alternating Current, one of the only places we find it in nature is lightning! Generally our bodies like to keep lightning far away from us.

That's also where our sleeping bodies like to keep the rest of those AC gadgets. Which is why the idea of pitching those clock radios out the window is so appealing. Take action, all you have to lose is your insomnia. Consider that tests have shown that the sleeping body can be as many as 10,000 times more sensitive to electromagnetic and chemical pollutants as the waking body. During the day, when you're up and running, you're electrical system is running at full capacity and your aura is powered up. At night your body goes into repair mode, pulling in energy from the Earth, fully receptive and vulnerable.

This is why toxic smells that didn't bother you during the day, like fresh paint or new carpeting, become so obvious to you when drifting off to sleep or waking up. While any electronic device near the head of the bed is a problem (it's amazing what we've seen on nightstands), among televisions, computers, fax machines, stereos and cordless phones, clock radios are the most prevalent offenders.

First of all, they're very cheaply made, with a minimum of insulation so the detectable electromagnetic field normally extends several feet from where they're placed. Secondly, they have illuminated dials that completely confuse the brain that depends upon complete darkness to set our pineal 'clock'. Thirdly, unlike a lamp where the size and toxicity of the field is dramatically reduced when you turn off the switch, clock radios run constantly. Think about how much better people slept when they were using wind up clocks and there wasn't any alternating current in the bedrooms at all.

Usually, at this point, people ask if they can just put it across the room. Our answer is "What's the matter, you don't have any windows?" As long as the clock is plugged in, electricity is moving through the walls and it might be the wall by your head. When electricity moves through a wire it creates an electromagnetic field and that means trouble for your sleeping nervous system. When the electricity is stopped and waiting, like when a lamp is turned off, it creates a much smaller electrical field.

While this simple electrical field is not great for you, it doesn't have the disruptive power of the electromagnetic. If you want to use your clock radio anyway, put it in a room down the hall. In this way, the illuminated dial won't bother you and you'll actually have to get up to turn it off, which is the reason you bought it in the first place! Personally we prefer to toss them out the window and replace them with a battery operated travel clock. It gives us healthier sleep and nicer dreams and here's wishing the same for you.

Drs. Ralph and Lahni DeAmicis were directors of one of America's largest and most modern professional Feng Shui practitioner programs, based in Philadelphia. Their books Feng Shui and the Tango, Happiness Lessons and Prosperity Lessons, from the Feng Shui Fuzion Series are transforming the practical applications of environmental design in America. For a complete directory of their articles and a catalog of their books and other products, visit www.SpaceAndTime.com. Copyright 2002 Ralph and Lahni DeAmicis

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