How to Fix Bad Office Feng Shui

Feng shui your office

Most of my clients work in an office whether at home or in a business building and often they tell me that they have a hard time focusing at work.  So I thought I’d tell you what I tell them when I give them classical feng shui advice.

First, make sure your space is as free of clutter as possible.  Clutter stops energy flow and also keeps new energy from coming in which creates stagnation around you. 

Think about a stagnant pond.  It gets murkey and makes it hard for fish, turtles and other things to thrive.  In other words it’s lifeless.  It’s hard to be creative and energetic in space that’s lifeless and void of new energy.

Next make sure you’re sitting facing one of your best directions.  In an office environment this usually means facing your personal Success or personal Relationship direction.  When you do this you’re able to gain more recognition for your work and communicate more easily with co-workers, your boss, your clients, vendors, etc.

A great example of what happens when you don’t face one of your four best directions happened to a lawyer client of mine.  I was doing a feng shui consultation for his home and he happened to mention he wanted to set up a home office. 

I explained how two of his best direction would suit him as well as the room he had chosen for his office and he began to tell me that in his office at work he had a hard time concentrating.  He said that he often had to get up and walk around to clear his head and within a few minutes of sitting down again he’d feel aggitated again.

It turns out that he had an L-shaped desk and the way the desk was positioned in his office his only choices were to face his Frustration direction and his Theft direction.  When I told him this he said, “That’s exactly how I feel!  I feel frustrated when I’m in there.”

No wonder!

You’ll also want to sit with your back to a solid wall to create support for yourself in the position you hold.  This also gives you the support you need from your boss and co-workers.

Your desk should also be out of the line of the doorway and you want to be able to clearly see the doorway from where you’re sitting.  If this isn’t possible then place a  mirror so that you can see people coming in and out when you look into it from your desk.

Energy is not mysterious.  In fact it’s affecting you all the time no matter whether you’re paying attention to it or not so the key is to get it to work  for you rather than against you, especially if you’re going to be affected by it 8 hours or more each day.

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