You would definitely have heard of this term, be it from your parents, seniors, friends or from movies.
What is the common beliefs about Guan Cai Wei? How do you visualize it? Does it affects me?
What is Guan Cai Wei?
The concept of Guan Cai Wei is important when we look at the Fengshui of a house and mainly on the bed's position.
When a person's feet is facing the entrance of a room when sleeping on the bed, it is regarded as a Guan Cai Wei layout from a Fengshui's perspective. The common beliefs towards a Guan Cai Wei layout is that it will cause the soul or "灵魂" (líng hún) of the person sleeping within that position to leave the room every night, leading to rapid reduction in one's vitality and resulting in the person being "carried out" through this entrance soon (referring to the person's impending passing). There is both right and wrong in this belief.
It is reasonable to believe that a person's soul will leave the body along the direction of where one's feet is facing (when asleep). When we are asleep, both our soul and physical body are relaxed. Should there be external disturbance or factors, the soul will first be affected before the physical body. There have been numerous encounters by people from all walks of life who recounts how they experienced their soul leaving their body when they were asleep. Often in the recounts they described that they saw themselves standing at the foot of the bed and turning back to see their physical body still asleep on the bed. While there is no scientific ways to prove any of the "soul leaving the body during sleep" phenomenon, it is widely believed that it exists. Personally, I believe it exists and I hope that more comprehensive investigations should be conducted on these phenomena.
However, it is less justifiable to say that the soul of the person will leave the room every night just because his or her feet is facing the room's entrance. When our body sleeps, it is believed that our soul needs to recharge and there is no motivation for our soul to leave our body just because the feet is facing the room's entrance.
Has I clarified or at least appeased some of your worries yet?
In reality, a Guan Cai Wei layout, in addition to referring to the case where the person's feet is facing the room's entrance when asleep, also includes the case where the person's feet is facing a wardrobe or toilet's entrance.
A wardrobe? Yes, it is. A toilet's entrance? Yes, it is too. But why???
In Fengshui's perspective, as long as the person's feet (while asleep on the bed) is directly facing something that is big enough (in size) to accommodate his or her physical body size, is classified as a Guan Cai Wei layout. This includes the bedroom entrance, the entrance of the toilet in the bedroom and a wardrobe.
What if the feet faces the door? Does it constitute to a Guan Cai Wei?
Refer to the diagram on the below. The layout in Figure 1 constitutes a Guan Cai Wei layout. Whereas for the layout in Figure 2, it does not constitute a Guan Cai Wei layout.
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By itself, a Guan Cai Wei layout does not affect the person. It will only become "harmful" (i.e. able to negatively affect the person sleeping in that position) when something happens...
Read Guan Cai Wei 棺材位 (Part 2) to find out what can cause a Guan Cai Wei layout to become harmful to the person.
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