Monday, May 11, 2009

Office & Home Office Feng Shui Part 2

Office Feng Shui and Bagua

A Bagua Map can help you to make your office a “Feng Shui-friendly” environment. Bagua can help you in placing objects or placement of furniture in your office in areas which in Feng Shui are said to stimulate your discipline, prosperity and creativity. Once you determine the connections between various spaces in your office and 8 different guas of the bagua map, you start to develop a much stronger sense of purpose and focus about the changes you would like to implement in your life. You can make use of Feng Shui Elements
(available at our store) for creating a balance between yin and yang energies.According to Feng Shui for offices you can have:

1) Your desk and computer in the “career” area


2) Reference books in the “knowledge” & “self-cultivation” areas

3) A crystal bowl/wealth pot/Bai Cai for “wealth and prosperity”

4) A reception, phone/communication system in area marked for “benefactors”

5) You can have a picture of your father or other relatives in the family area if you have inherited a business.

Feng Shui & Home Office

The above mentioned office Feng Shui pracitces can be used in any office environment, even home offices. For example if your home office is full of creative and dream-inducing objects, get rid of some of them and introduce more logical, work-oriented elements that will help you get right down to business.

To provide energy in your office, try adding curtains (see Feng Shui colors) or something as simple as a tall red vase on the floor, table, or windows. It’ll help you have more yin energy. Other Feng Shui tips for home offices may be to add a painting, light a scented candle or change up the décor. Check with us on the Feng Shui items that you may enhance your office environment.

Adding a sturdy brown desk (wood element) home office where bills are paid promotes practicality in a person who used to be a spendthrift. There can be some other simple Feng Shui for office practices that can helps you to enhance your work place or the home office.
Bottom line, your environment affects you, how you feel and the energy of your environment. A few small changes based on Feng Shui design ideas presented and you will start to sense a better energy of your work environment.