“For the last several months, I have been dealing with a very troublesome noisy neighbor situation. I love my apartment, and in all the years I’ve lived here, I had never had a neighbor problem until last fall, when a couple of very social guys moved in next door. They immediately began to have noisy parties nearly every weekend. Their party space was a large deck, located about fifty feet from my bedroom (our houses are VERY close together).
I tried a variety of approaches over the months to help these guys understand my need for sleep…to no avail. Letters and calls to their landlord, letters and calls to them…nothing really worked. A few weeks ago, while reading your book, I read about “deflecting” the energy of (as you called them on page 218) “sucky neighbors.” I put a mirror in my bedroom window, facing outward. This mirror has special meaning for me: it’s from the home of an aunt whom I loved very much. Seeing the mirror reminds me of her house, a place where I always felt safe and happy.
Within a few days of putting the mirror in the window, I received an e-mail from a police lieutenant. This officer had been brought into the noisy neighbor situation after I wrote a letter to my neighborhood association. In his e-mail, the officer stated that he had met with my loud neighbors and “read them the riot act.” They have been quiet as MICE for the last two weeks. Not even a loud conversation out on the “party deck.” Wow.
Can’t wait to put some other cures in place and see what happens!”
Johanna
Remember, mirrors can do several things depending on your intention:
1. They can erase – like when you have a wall too close in front of a doorway you can add a mirror to “push that wall back.” Make sure your whole head is reflected in this one!
2. They can double things – like when you want to have eight burners instead of four for a prosperity boost – you add a mirror near the stove to reflect the burners. A little one will do here – perhaps 4 to 6 inches in diameter.
3. They draw in – like when you want to bring in a room that is “outside the bagua.” I’d say an average is about 8 to 12 inches in diameter for this one.
4. And they deflect – like when you have “sucky neighbors.” I usually try to deflect them away from the farthest point I can. If you have a yard around your house and you are trying to keep away the obnoxious neighbors, then put the mirror all the way out against your fence at the property line! If you can’t to that, just up against your interior wall facing out towards their house will do.
My neighbor is not noise. He is my abusive ex-husband!!!!!His apartment s windows are exactly in front of mine. Our apartments have exactly the same design.
I would love him to move. We avoid each other at the laundry, the garage and the garbage place and he always keeps his windows and shatters shut.
I will put the mirrors.Thanks
Hi Silvia, i can imagine the stress are you going to. Have you put the mirror – did it work? I have an ex too that is horribly abusive and interfering in my life and we live in very near. Thx Natasha
If you are confused by the house and can not get a professional to help, I’d suggest using the bagua over each room individually.
Hi Karen,
My ex is very verbally abusive and violently interfering in all manners of my house, although he has his own. Sometimes even scary, as he just shows up and checks and then criticizes or angrily comments on that i don’t know what i am doing and all my friends are idiots. Are there more powerful solutions than mirrors or maybe even something that magnifies mirrors that can keep him away from my house. Thank you
The saffron orange color that the Tibetan monks wear is a great color for creating boundaries…perhaps adding some of that in your home would help you create boundaries in life. Of course, unhooking yourself form the dance of negative energies is a good thing. Write a thank you note to the universe for handling this situation and then GRATEFULLY add it to your helpful people box (the metal box talked about in chapter 6 of my book Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life) and then ASSUME that they universe is handling it for you so there is no need for you to worry about it anymore – thus cutting off your energy from feeding the pattern.
Hi Karen
I am also having problems with my neighbor’s dogs that bark all day. They are not barking at anything. My neighbor is a hunter so he doesn’t feel the need to give the dogs any attention and just leaves them outside. What type of bagua mirror should I use?
Deflect them away from your property facing the neighbor and also place their names in a metal box saying “thank you for only being helpful in my life (or whatever you want to say)” and place that box in the front right-hand area of your home or a room.
What would be the best way to reflect neighbors who live directly above?
Most especially away from my bedroom – theirs is directly above mine…
Thank you so much!
BTW.. your books are wonderful
a mirror face up on top of a tall shelf or on top of a tall piece of furniture with intentions of deflecting the off your headspace will be a great solution…I joke about having a hat made with a mirror facing up for this situation, to give you an idea of the goal. A mirror higher than your head face up pushing them away.
Can you please tell me what to do about really bad neighbors? They’re really toxic, they fight all the time and they’re animal abusers. They killed one of the cats In the cat community I take care of. Animal control didn’t do anything, it’s as if they’re protected by something, I just wish they’d move away
I’m in a situation where the neighbors behind me (I see them from the back of my house) are always creating problems for me (harassment) and that the noise harassment in the front of my house is orchestrated by these people. Since the noise in the front of my house is extremely troublesome (and preventing sleep at times), I initially thought of putting a convex mirror on the front of my house. But since the source of it is due to the owners of the house I see from my back porch, should I also put a convex mirror there as well (a mirror on both the east side and west side – facing out)?
I’d say experiment and see. The deflecting mirror should be between your house and the noise. Also, you can hang a chime in the yard between the house and noisy neighbor as well for an alternative solution. 🙂
Hi, I am looking for larger feng shui mirrors, 6 or 12 inch.
Any Idea where to find and purchase some?
Thanks,
I have heard places that sell center pieces sometimes have mirrors to put center pieces on. or Amazon type sites or perhaps a new age store that has feng shui cures.
Hi! Is it necessary to hang a mirror high enough so it is above our fence? I would like to hang a mirror outside our house, facing the neighbors directly across the street from us. The place I would like to hang it is not higher than our fence. Would the energy reflect off our fence, right back at us? Or does it go through the fence and still work on the house across the street? If I had to, I could hang it higher. It’s just not ideal. Thank you so much.
hang it wherever WITH THE INTENTION of deflecting them away. Intention trumps placement in other words…You could even lean it up against teh fence facing them. 🙂
You could hang a mirror on the wall facing the neighbors in your house and hang a picture over it so no one else even knows it is there!
How/where should I put the mirror if my neighbors live upstairs from me in a condo?
Above your head somewhere like on a top shelp in the kitchen or on top of a big armoire faqcing up!
What about noisy and nosy downstairs neighbours? Does the mirror need to be above head height, but facing down?
The mirror should be placed between you and the noise – so in this case, under a piece of furniture on the floor facing down.