As a content creator, I have a few followers who communicate with me about the claims they read by other Feng Shui specialists. They ask for my opinion and I almost always give it.

I don’t want to be disrespectful to other consultants, their training or especially their own personal experiences. However, I often notice that feng shui fans can obsess about minor details which don’t matter much in the scheme of things. And worse, they focus on the minutiae while ignoring the more important features to their surroundings. Choosing to write about these kinds of topics, such as where to place medication, can be a disservice to people who might benefit from more relevant information.

The latest question came from someone who found several articles about where to place your medications.  To be fair, feng shui philosophy does maintain that we are all effected by inanimate objects, materials and colors.  We believe these objects can influence us in a variety of ways and speculate that perhaps nothing is really “inanimate.”  We believe that everything has some kind of Qi or energy coding which can affect us in both objective and subjective ways.

With Feng Shui having been dubbed decades ago “the Art of Placement” by westerners, it is not far-fetched for someone to wonder if it matters where they keep their medications.   If the energy of the room is sub-par, will that lower the effectiveness of the medication?  If medications are in full view of guests to your home, will they insert their own projections onto your physical condition?  I would say right off the bat that if you have to worry about guests in your home projecting negatively or judging you, they shouldn’t be allowed in your personal space to begin with.

One article claimed that medication will absorb good Qi if placed in the East sector of the home. Why would anyone prefer one direction over another?  If the author’s reasoning was that East is associated with spring-time, youth, and new beginnings, I’m only concerned that anyone who cannot place their medications in the East will feel like they are at some tangible disadvantage, which is too general to be meaningful.

A colleague of mine once asked me about one of her clients, who stored both open and closed case files of the criminals she represented as an attorney.  Would the negative energy associated with those cases somehow filter into her own personal space?

Back in the 1990’s I made fun of a popular feng shui personality who claimed that “dull knives” in your kitchen signal a “dull mind.”   The level of psychobabble inserted into Feng Shui books was a big embarrassment for me professionally and I exhausted a lot of my own personal life force energy trying to counter the superstitions and New Age interpretations.

If where you sit and sleep matters, and if where you prepare your food matters, then where you place your medications might be a consideration. How about the clothes you wear? Are they absorbing energy from your home and then shedding energy like spike protein wherever you go? These are questions I can’t answer because I have not run voluminous tests on these specific circumstances.

I can only hope that if someone claims it matters where you store your medication, where you pay your bills, or which room you conceive in, that the expert suggesting you change your routine can back up their recommendation with convincing case study research.

Author: Kartar Diamond

Company: Feng Shui Solutions ®

From the Feng Shui Theory Blog Series