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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