Is your cellphone charging nearby when you sleep? Is your electrical or digital clock close to your bed? Is the location of your bedroom near your wireless router, or is your computer in your bedroom and on 24/7?
If so, no matter how optimally your furniture is placed, or how elementally balanced your feng shui is, you have not considered an important environmental factor that can adversely affect you – EMFs, or electromagnetic fields.
What are EMFs? EMFs are physical fields produced by moving electrically charged particles. EMFs are a combination of electrical fields and magnetic fields. You will find these fields in your house wiring, televisions, radios, cell phones, hair dryers, microwaves and even digital and electric clocks.
Because of the proliferation of electronics in recent years, EMFs of various frequencies fill our homes, workplaces and public spaces. They are considered by many to be harmful to our bodies, and almost every new invention adds to the electromagnetic pollution that already exists. That is why so many people are trying to find the right EMF protection for their home and family.
Why do we want to avoid them?
For more than 40 years, electrobiologists have studied the effects of EMF exposure on the human body. Although we are electrical beings, and our bodies are made up of various electromagnetic frequencies, the external EMFs are far from being harmonious with the frequencies in our bodies.
Although earth’s electromagnetic field is beneficial to our body and supports optimal functioning, most of us do not get outdoors enough to counter balance the constant exposure we have to other electromagnetic frequencies.
How much is too much?
Virtually all scientists agree that 2.5 Mg (milligauss) is the generally accepted limit of EMF exposure. To give you an idea of what that means, an electric clock generates an electromagnetic field of about 5 to 10 Mg, and the average hair dryer or vacuum cleaner generates 300 Mg or more. If you have ever experienced fatigue after a long session on the computer or had a sensation of heat or buzzing in your ear after using your cell phone, you may have experienced strong EMF exposure.
Our bodies are sensitive to high external EMF emissions. Our skin, DNA, blood vessels, vital organs and even our cell membranes are affected. Plus, the effect of exposure is cumulative, so the sooner you can reduce your exposure the better.
Tips to reduce your EMF exposure:
• If a television, refrigerator, computer or office equipment is on the other side of the bedroom wall behind your head, consider moving your bed, as EMFs penetrate all building materials.
• Place electrical equipment as far away from your bed as possible, especially cell phones and computers. The further away you are from the item, the less impact it has on your body.
• Switch to a wind up clock or use a battery operated one.
• Turn your television off manually, instead of with the remote.
• Replace your wireless with a corded home phone, or at the very least, use the speakerphone function when using cordless phones.
• Avoid prolonged fluorescent light exposure.
• If you are not ready to get rid of your microwave, move far away from it when it is on.
• Turn off your wireless routers at night, especially if your home office is near your bedroom.
EMFs were not an issue even 50 years ago, but today addressing them is essential to feng shui practice. You cannot fully control your exposure to EMFs while you are away from home, but you can control your family’s exposure while you are at home, especially at night when your body needs its rest.