Home offices are an integral part in the modern world – working from your home business means that you most likely spend eight hours at your desk or work station. As a growing number of people are establishing home based businesses in order to create income, Feng Shui can be used to enhance your personal energies.
We all have our best supporting directions to work in. The concept of personal ‘lucky’ directions is also knows as the “East/West System” (The teachings of the “Eight Mansions”). This practice is very popular in Asia and adopted by many corporations, business owners and managers.The ancient Chinese developed this system based on the environment and on the knowledge about the importance of magnetic directional energies.It has been concluded that everyone has four un-supportive as well as four supportive compass directions.
Your home office has all directions within it, and by situating yourself in any of your four good supporting directions will impact your productivity, increase your energies and your overall well-being.In placing your desk in such way that you are facing the “magnetic energy” from any of your supportive directions you will quickly feel the difference.Avoid having the entry to your home office behind you when sitting at your desk.If it is at all possible for you to place your work station or desk in such a way that your back is supported by a solid wall.
The East/West System (Ba Zhai) is a particular ‘easy’ teaching as a part of Feng Shui, however it plays an integral part in “Classical Feng Shui”.The purpose is for you to receive your favorable ‘directional’ energies by also avoiding if at all possible un-supporting facing directions.
As the East/West system is based on simple mathematical calculations it does not require complicated mathematical calculations as it is needed in the advanced Feng Shui schools.
In order to calculate a Personal Trigram, and the favorable four directions of a person, it needs to be understood that the Chinese calendar does not run from January to December rather than from February to February, and a person born between January 1st and February 5th needs to go back to the previous year of his or her birth. (E.G: A person born on February 2nd 1985 needs to go back to 1984)
Again, it is important to understand that your home office is part of a Normal 0 0 1 7 45 1 1 55 11.773 0 0 0 Consultation – Please also take a look at yesterday’s article in which we focused on some easy “tips and tricks” how you can start creating a better home office environment by simply taking the first step of de-cluttering your office.