It often happens that you are a responsible employee and work as hard as you can, but there is no recognition in the team, and your colleague is an outright slacker - in good standing with the boss. One of the reasons for this state of affairs may be... an unsuccessful workplace and office environment from the point of view of Feng Shui.
A person should never place a table on another person's table. This can also lead to many arguments and complications. This is especially important for people who share an office. If they want to get along better, they need to remember that their desks don't bump into each other.
Lighting in the office
Keep it clean and always allow it to move easily in any direction. The chair should be adjusted so that your feet can rest firmly on the floor. Bring lively energy into the space by prominently placing a tree, plant, fresh flowers or even a bowl of fruit. “Some plants—like peace lilies—actually purify the air.” Opening a window, turning on a fan, or using an air purifier can also help as it helps maintain air and energy flow.
So let's try to neutralize the unfavorable energetic effects of people, objects or interiors, and also enhance the influence of positive flows of qi energy. After all, when everything around is harmonious, work goes much better!
Feng Shui workplace
So that things go well at work,
According to Feng Shui, the workplace should be located in the Career and Success zone - in the north. It's even better to sit, looking in this direction, with your back to the wall.
To make your home office more attractive, hang or display photos of your family and friends. You will be calmed by seeing familiar faces and remembering fun memories. Use a variety of wood and metal frames to incorporate the two elements.
Play soothing music throughout the day to relieve stress, calm your nerves, and calm you down. Take advantage of all the natural light available to your office through windows. Also choose blinds made from natural materials. All clutter must be cleared from the office area. Clutter brings bad feng shui to the office. Clutter creates confusion and chaos. It also creates unnecessary and unwanted stress. Everything needs to be presented and organized to help make the business successful. It also helps a person to remain stress-free in the work environment.
A window behind your back has an adverse effect on your career:
in this case, all your energy “flies” into the sky. An even more unfortunate position is to have your back to the door. In Feng Shui it is called a “knife in the back” (an employee can be set up, betrayed, or withdraw from the team; he gradually begins to lose energy and confidence in his abilities).
Freedom from clutter also helps a person stay on top of his products and business. Choose colors that suit your career needs. Green symbolizes new opportunity and growth, and is a great color if you're starting a new business. You can introduce red as an accent color in your office to motivate and enhance your activities. Yellow and orange hues can bring vitality and cheerfulness to your work environment. Blue and lavender can calm your stress.
Earthy brown creates a feeling of stability. Bamboo has always been a lucky feng shui symbol for offices. You can bring some lucky bamboo into your office workspace. It is best to have the bamboo near the computer as this will enhance the peaceful energy of the office and reduce the negativity or distraction surrounding the computer. Bamboo should be stored on the side that faces the entrance to your room or your cubicle. It would be helpful if you put stones and crystals in the pot of the bamboo plant.
It is better not to sit with your back to an open cabinet or shelves:
horizontal surfaces also symbolize “knives” (which invade your energy field and deteriorate your health). Is your workspace in the corner? According to Feng Shui, it is better to place the table diagonally: in this case, you neutralize the negative impact of both windows and doors.
In Russian offices they like to arrange desks so that employees are opposite each other,
which leads to subconscious confrontation between colleagues. This is also an unfavorable feng shui that should be avoided.
Being a workplace coordinator would be a good idea. This place may be where the most powerful feng shui symbol is kept in your workplace. This will help in focusing energy and it will definitely help improve a person's focus when they are working.
Feng Shui your home office in quadrants. Increase abundance and prosperity by decorating the wealth, fame and career quadrants of your home office. The wealth area is located in the upper left corner of the room. To activate the wealth quadrant, hang a crystal from the ceiling or arrange a crystal bowl or thriving plant.
What if an unfortunate location cannot be avoided?
If you are sitting with your back to the window, you can use this technique: curtain the window with thick curtains and place clear cut crystals on the table to give space to your thoughts).
Selection and arrangement of furniture
If the office is a large room in which several employees work, you should delimit the zones with partitions. As a last resort, it is allowed to divide the space with work tables.
They should be positioned so that employees can see the front door and do not sit with their backs to it. In the Feng Shui tradition, a desktop should be wooden, massive, symmetrical in shape and always in light colors.
The positive energy emanating from it increases productivity and helps to creatively solve any problems. Square and rectangular chairs and tables have an advantage. Oval and round shapes should be avoided.
Feng Shui: table and chair in the office
Dimensions of table and office chair
also matter, subconsciously signaling to others about your status and promising opportunities. Do you want to climb the corporate ladder? Use a table for work that is at least one and a half meters long and a meter wide, and a chair with a back so long that it is slightly higher than your head when sitting.
The back center portion is the glory quadrant and is represented by the fire element. To stimulate financial success and movement in your career, place a candle or bright light in this area. A red object, such as red flowers or a pyramid, is also an effective feng shui tool.
The career area is located in the center of your office and is enhanced by the water element. Decorate with black or midnight blue flowers in this area of your home office to boost your career. Pictures of water or ocean or fountain in this place are also easy to decorate solutions to help your career flourish.
Feng Shui desk
Now let’s talk about what should be on the table and what items should be avoided.
The table is intended for work only,
and therefore only what may be needed in its process should be placed on it. Ruthlessly part with unnecessary papers and other things. It’s better to put unnecessary items in closets and bedside tables, putting them in folders of bright, rich colors.
Bagua Map - What to put on the table
Career: The space directly in front of you is the center, front square of the tattoo and tissue box representing your career.
This is a specific section to keep things clutter free. The element is water and the color is black. If you have a glass cover, try sliding an inspirational picture, quote, or affirmation that means what you want in your career. You can always just stick it underneath so it's out of sight. As long as you know this is true, it all matters. Wisdom: front, left corner - area of wisdom. Useful feng shui items to place here are books, anything you study and learn, or anything that represents higher knowledge or smart people. Blue is the appropriate color for this area. Any boxes in this area are also included.
It is better to place a green indoor plant in the right corner,
which will take on all the negative energy emanating from other parts of the room. And in the far left corner - a table lamp or a shiny metal object - to attract financial success.
In the working sector, a small fountain will also serve well.
- at least as a screensaver on your PC desktop (water dispels negative energy). In this case, the size of the accessories does not matter. A tiny flower and an impressive fountain will work equally well.
Family: The left side of the center of the table is for family. This is a great place to display family photos. Wood is a related element, so wooden frames would be great. And green for this area if you have something green on your desk.
A well-functioning computer works well in this area, or you can use something that reminds you of wealth and wealth. This is also a great place for a healthy plant, perhaps a bamboo plant. If you have one "in the box" you can place it here to represent money. Purple is a great color for this area if you have something lying around.
And don’t forget to put photos of your favorite people on your desktop
- they will inspire you to even greater career success.
How to arrange a separate office in an apartment
More recently, the concept of an “office” in an apartment or residential building has firmly entered our consciousness. Previously, due to the lack of living space in the country, the office was combined with both the bedroom and the living room, very often even the kitchen acted as an office. So talking about using Feng Shui methods to decorate an office was simply ridiculous. And why was this necessary, if for the bulk of the population the ceiling for material success was expressed in the amount of 300 rubles. It's a different matter now. Any more or less successful person considers it necessary to have a separate office in the apartment, because, properly equipped from the point of view of Feng Shui, it is the key to the material success of its owner.
Signs associated with doors
The door, according to Slavic signs, is a kind of portal to the other world. This is a special boundary that divides the world of spirits and reality that is familiar to us. Our ancestors believed that passing some objects through doors, such as bread or money, was not good. Even if a person could not leave the house, in order to pick up something, he had to step outside the threshold with at least one foot. Also, don’t say goodbye and shake your hand over the threshold.
It is believed that if you stand at an open door for a long time, a person’s luck may run out. Young girls were not allowed to leave the door ajar at all. According to popular beliefs, in this case there was a risk that her future husband would walk to the left.
Aligning the table with the window
Placing your desk facing a window is a convenient solution if you like to view the outdoors while working. However, even indirect sunlight can affect you, increasing fatigue while working. It's good to look into the distance from time to time.
Many experts advise that the table should be at right angles to the window. This, however, will not completely protect you from intense daylight, especially if the sun's rays enter the room directly through the glass. Then the only solution will be to cover the window, for example with blinds, which will reflect the sharp rays, but still let in some light. We recommend models of blinds and curtains that are adjustable both at the top and bottom, allowing them to cover only that part of the window through which the greatest amount of light passes at a given time.
An additional advantage of the window is the ability to ventilate the room. Bringing fresh air into the room helps you stay focused and recharged. You can also outfit your home office with an air purifier.
Office layout
A good office layout seriously influences a person’s financial success, maintains a good mood, and stimulates labor productivity. For an office to bring good luck, it must have the correct shape. A perfect rectangle or square guarantees that you will be successful in the material sphere. When there is a missing corner in the office, the luck represented by that corner will be sorely lacking. For example, if the northern corner is missing, then the owner of the office will face the problem of career growth; if the southeastern corner is missing, then luck in the field of material enrichment will leave you; if the eastern corner is missing, then the owner of the office will be haunted by chronic illnesses.
Feng Shui masters give recommendations on almost all missing corners and recommend avoiding rooms with irregular and strange shapes. Cabinets shaped like the letters “T” and “U” are especially dangerous. The owner of such an office will never be rich and healthy; he will be haunted by failures in his family life. A large number of sharp corners in the office also adversely affects luck in the material sphere.
The most effective method of protection is good, even very bright lighting. Illuminating unusually shaped corners with bright light eliminates the negative energy of sha qi and creates an excess of “yang energy,” which is very beneficial for the work space. You can use furniture and partitions to shape oddly shaped corners and protruding corners. Missing corners can be filled with some pieces of furniture.
Feng Shui masters do not recommend setting up an office in a room where there are sharp protruding cornices or ceiling beams. The simpler and more regular geometric shapes are present in the office, the better for its owner.
