Home offices are an integral part in the modern world – working from your home office means that you most likely spend eight hours at your desk or work station. As an increasing number of people are establishing home based businesses and are working from their home to create income, Feng Shui can be used to enhance your personal energies.
Every person has supportive and un-supportive personal directions to work in. The East / West system is also referred to as the school of the Eight Mansions.. This practice is very popular in Asia and adopted by many managers, corporations and business owners.The East / West system is not only based on the environment but also on the science of magnetic directional energies.It is 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 improve 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 placing your desk in your home office in a way that you have the entry to your office behind you.If it is at all possible for you to place your desk or work station 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 for you is to receive your favorable ‘directional’ energies by also avoiding if at all possible un-supporting directions.
As the East/West system is based on simple mathematical calculations it does not require complicated mathematical calculations as 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 Audit – 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.
