Is your home office a spare room full of whatever doesn't fit anywhere else? Does your daily commute end with winding your way through a corporate maze to your own crowded cubicle? Do you sit down at your desk and push piles of papers aside to create a little workspace?If this sounds familiar, and you know that your productivity is suffering, maybe you want to try a little feng shui in your workspace.
Feng shui (pronounced "fung schway") is ancient art of placement and design that balances and enhances energy flow in an environment. This can be placement of a home on a piece of property, location of an office building on a city block, orientation of rooms in a house, arrangement of furniture in a room or objects on a desk.
For a complete feng shui evaluation, you need to consult with a professional. It's far too complex to address completely in an article. I'll just give you a few examples of techniques you can try so you can see if feng shui is for you.
In any situation, there will obviously be believers and non-believers, and this is true of co-workers as well as spouses. To effect change in corporate environment or at home, you have to start with yourself, and realistically this may be all you can accomplish.
At center of this belief system is a powerful reality that you need to be able to embrace: There is an energy flow that BRINGS abundance to all of life. Using feng shui to attract things to you means removing blockages and enhancing this natural flow. This doesn't mean you only need to move furniture around and then sit back and wait for money to arrive; it removes suffering and struggle and leaves you working from a place of peace at center of your being.
Clutter is stagnant energy that leaves no room for growth. The tendency to save things because "someday you might need them" indicates a lack of belief in energy flow that brings abundance to you. Your message to universe is that you don't trust that it will provide for you. The flow stops.
This energy flow, called ch'i ("chee"), enters through front door of any building or room and is then dispersed. It also enters through windows. It exits through doors and windows too. During day, it enters through windows, at night it exits, hence a reason to close curtains. Think of it as air or water flow; it's like that.
If you want more opportunity in your work environment, make sure path to door is as wide as door. This goes for paths, hallways and outer rooms. The easiest way to attract ch'i is to get rid of clutter; no toys scattered on paths to house, no shoes strewn in middle of hallway or piles of boxes between world and your desk.
If ch'i entering through your door immediately meets a wall, you can compensate with mirrors. If ch'i enters and there are windows directly opposite, it enters and leaves again quickly. A partition or some other object, or even curtains, can slow or diffuse flow.