As said earlier, placing mirrors as per rules and regulations of vastu shastra ensures that you receive positive and progressive energy.
Below are vastu tips that you must follow while placing a mirror.
What You MUST FOLLOW:
Square or rectangular shape mirrors are best.
Place mirrors, wall clocks, glass showpieces and decorative items (that may reflect light) on North or East walls only.
Ensure that all the mirrors are at least 4 to 5 feet above the floor.
If you have a fish aquarium at home, then make sure that you keep it in the North or East direction. A fish aquarium is another beautiful and powerful tool in vastu shastra. If used as per rules and guidelines of vastu, it attracts wealth and happiness; otherwise, it becomes a major source of negative energy. Read vastu tips and guidelines to use fish aquarium for attracting success and harmony in your life.
Keep the television in South-East portion of room. Make sure to cover the TV screen whenever the TV is off.
Keep a dressing table with a big mirror by the side of bed as it’s considered auspicious.
If your home has a cut in any corner (a significant vastu defect) then placing mirrors in that direction eliminates that defect. Place two mirrors in apposite arrangement, touching the floor.
If there is a beautiful landscape outside your window, then place a mirror opposite to that window such that the landscape is reflected in the mirror. This ensures that the positive energy and the beauty of the landscape are replicated inside your home which brings in more positive energy and bliss.
Placing a mirror reflecting a dining table symbolizes doubling of food and attracts wealth.
Placing a mirror in front of cash locker attracts more and more wealth. Aha, and talking of attracting wealth, you must read 21 vastu tips that you MUST FOLLOW to attract wealth and money (Specially Selected).
A common vastu defect is having a wall at the center of a home, to eliminate this defect you can place a mirror to correct that defect.
If you have mirrors in bathroom then make sure they are never in dark.
If you have something in your home which has negative energy in it, then place a mirror in front of that thing. The mirror will suck all the negative energy from that “thing”.
What You MUST AVOID:
Avoid oval and round shaped mirrors.
Never place a mirror, glass object or any shining thing in front of the main gate – keeping anything that reflects light, at the main entrance, sends all the positive energy away from home. You must make sure that the main entrance of your home complies with the rules and regulations of vastu shastra; read the article – auspicious vastu tips and guidelines for main entrance door to make the main door or entrance of your home a vastu compliant one.
If a mirror is in the bedroom with/without dressing table then make sure than none of the body part is visible in the mirror while sleeping on the bed, else the same body part will develop serious medical problems.
If the window panes and doors of a home are made of glass, then make sure they are not transparent.
Avoid hanging a mirror near the study table in children’s bedroom as it makes them to lose concentration in studies.
Avoid hanging mirror in West wall especially in children’s bedroom else they will be busy in impressing people of opposite gender.
Avoid hanging mirror in narrow passages as they attract negative energy.
Never place mirrors opposite to one another as it causes impatience and increases restless energy.
Avoid mirror near a staircase. Staircases have very high importance in vastu shastra and you must make sure that stairs in your home is a vastu compliant one. Read the article to know the importance of staircase vastu and how you can make the staircase in your home vastu compliant, if you have one in your home.