Feng Shui for the Workplace
Feng Shui in the workplace is gaining more and more attention as employees and employers are striving to do just about anything to survive the current economy. Although Feng Shui should be applied as a first resort instead of a last resort, it is at least getting some well-deserved consideration nonetheless.
The most important consideration for any office is desk placement. When sitting at your desk, you should be in “Command Position”. Simply put, this is the position that makes you most ‘in command.’
The Command Position emerges from our instinctive need to have visible control of our environment. We humans are most comfortable when no one can sneak up on us or surprise us. The most obvious example of this is choosing a seat in a restaurant. Most people prefer sitting where they can see the door. This is the case in your office as well.
Being in the Command Position allows you to see the entry to your office so that you are sitting in the best location to deal with whatever comes through the door. While we are hardly fighting off tigers and bears as perhaps our old brain thinks, it nonetheless provides an important energetic message for yourself and to others that you are in control of your world.
The ideal Command Position would be a direct or peripheral view of the door from your chair, a view out a window, and a solid wall behind you. This may mean moving your desk into the room away from the wall. If this is absolutely not possible, then place a mirror to where you can see the entrance in the mirror.
Properly placing your desk in the Command Position is the simplest, quickest, and most powerful way to shift energy in your job. Notice the offices of successful people in your building. You will notice that their desk will always be facing the door. Move your desk and take command of your job.
And, yes, desk placement is just as important for home offices. Even if you don’t have co-workers, bosses, or employees come by your office, it’s just as important to feel ‘in command.’ It is a state of mind and therefore what you project out to the world and to yourself.
For more articles on Feng Shui in the workplace, check out:
A Writer’s Guide to Feng Shui Your Desk
AND my iPhone App… Feng Shui Bagua Map!
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Matthew and I both have home office areas. He chose the placement of his standing desk so that he can look out a window and mine was built in with thought for where it would fit rather than the best position but while at the desks, we do both feel in command. Good to read this and be reinforced rather than to start thinking one or both of us could use an overhaul of our office spaces!