Most of us spend a lot of time in office for work. Regardless of whether it is in your employer’s office or your home office, the office environment can at times be very challenging. Relationship with your colleagues or business partners is a very important factor to unpleasant office politics.

While you are working hard and smart to be a better employee and making yourself more valued at the workplace you should enlist the help of Feng Shui to enhance your career success. Feng shui is about balancing the chi or energy around your surroundings. By balancing the energy in your environment, your own energy will be in harmony, and you will draw to you, people and opportunities that reflect this balance.

Here are 10 great feng shui tips to help create harmony at the workplace and to make your career advancement smooth sailing:

1. Good Support Behind The Back Of Your Sitting Position

The most important feng shui tips in the office is to make sure that you are seated with a good support behind your back. It is extremely important that your back faces a wall or some solid surface. You must never sit with your back facing a door or windows as this makes you vulnerable to “backstabbing” and “betrayals” in the office. If the back of your sitting position is a window, it is very inauspicious as it represents a lack of support. Close the windows behind you or hang a painting of mountains behind your back to provide you with good support.

2. Clearing The Clutter In Your Office

Clutter like unfinished projects, unused papers, unresolved works, disorganized office stationery and files are extremely bad feng shui to you. Your career will become a mess and you stand no chance of any career advancements. Clutter is like emotional constipation – it bogs you down. By clearing your clutter and arranging your office desk nicely, you create space for new things and your energy and creativity will increase.

3. Choose Your Office Desk In Your Success Position

Place your desk in your success position. Your success position will bring you great success and awesome career advancement in your career. You can know your success position by calculating your KUA number (or Star Number). Our feng shui website teaches you on how to calculate your person KUA number and how to apply feng shui in your work and career to bring great income luck and success. In addition, the ideal placement for your computer and desk is in a position that allows you to see the door of your office. If this is not possible, you can restore good Feng Shui by placing a small mirror on your desk that gives you a clear view of the door.

4. Place A Healthy Small Potted Plant On Your Desk

A plant will bring life into your workspace and will also absorb toxins in the air. My recommendation is to place a Money Plant on your office desk to attract career luck and income luck. The money plant can also help you ward off office politics and unpleasant things in your working environment. A plant on your table is also able to boost you creativity. Research has shown that you will be happier when there is greenery on your table.

5. Avoid Sitting Directly Facing Someone Else

Do try to avoid sitting at a work desk that is directly facing someone else at your opposite. This is bad feng shui as if you are seated in a position where you constantly face another person, there will certainly be accumulation of bad and confrontational Chi enery between the both of you. Consequently, this will definitely lead to conflicts and unpleasant arguments.

6. Do Not Sit Under A Strong Exposed Beam

You will be working under great pressure if there is a structural beam or bright light above where you are working. The bright beam or light will make you irritable and do your work impulsively. One good way to overcome the situation is to renovate the ceiling so that it is flat.

7. Separate Your Workspace In Your Bedroom

Feng shui do not recommend having a workspace in your bedroom as the bedroom is a place of rest. If you must have your workspace in your bedroom, try to partition it off with a screen. You can place a curtain or a screen to separate your work desk with your bed. In feng shui, work and sleep are two conflicting energies: Work is very yang and sleep is very yin, hence both must not mix together. In addition, a relaxing sleep will enhance your work productivity.

8. Display Crystals At Your Work Desk

In feng shui, crystals are great tool to absorb negative energies at work. If you want to avoid office politics and to make sure your career is smooth-sailing, you should display small crystal balls on your desk to ensure that everything goes smoothly at work.

9. Use Only One Door In Your Office

Do use only one door in your office, if there are more, keep them closed. This is because you only want your wealth and money luck to come to you in the only door and will not escape from other doors. Use only one door in your office if you don’t want your money to escape.

10. Carry A Jade Cicada With You

If you want to block off any office politics in the office, buy a jade cicada and carry it in your bags or hide it under your files and documents so that it would not be seen. Jade Cicada is a powerful feng shui tool to help you avoid confrontations and conflicts in the office. It is also able to bring good luck to your working environment.

Swanton Mah is a freelance writer and an avid enthusiast on Feng Shui who uses the wisdom of Feng Shui to bring great health, wealth and love to anyone who wants to improve their lives. By tapping on the wisdom of Feng Shui cures and remedies, we hope that you can have the unlimited power to receive and give love and create the happiness and joy that most of us wish to pursue. For more information on Feng Shui tips and guide on home living and arrangements and how to learn and apply Feng Shui yourself, go to => http://www.101fengshuitips.com.

Feng Shui isn’t just about your stuff or how you place your stuff in your environment. Feng Shui begins with an awareness of what energizes and uplifts you and what depletes you. If it feels good, it’s good Feng Shui. If it feels bad, it’s bad Feng Shui. Sounds pretty simple doesn’t it? It’s always better to be around or focus on what feels good or energizes you than it is to be around something that drains and depletes you.

We are profoundly affected by the environments we inhabit. Our home is literally a reflection of who we are – symbolically, our inner world is mirrored and reflected in our outer world. And if we change our thoughts, and our surroundings we can improve the quality of our lives!

Take a look around you; what does your home say about you – the person that lives there? Does your home reflect how you see yourself? Does it reflect care, comfort, confidence, and success?

Feng Shui is about connecting to your inner awareness by aligning your thoughts, your actions and your environment with your intention. The first steps in this part of the process are; gaining an awareness of what your intention is, what your intention will achieve and what you really want.

1. What is your intention? This is a critical first step. To achieve it, you have to define it. To give thought to what you want to do, what you enjoy doing, what nurtures you, is a powerful process. When we know what we want, and we set our intention, it is far easier to achieve our desires. When we don’t take the time to consider what we truly want, we can find ourselves unhappy, unfulfilled and unmotivated.
2. Why do you want this? This question is tougher than it sounds. When you reflect on your answer, step into the benefit you’ll receive; what you get from your intention. This step will help you clarify and refine your intention so that it resonates with who you are at the core of your being. When you start this step, it’s easy to keep your answer on the surface; for example, you may think: I want more money, or I want to make enough to do what I want to do. These aren’t bad answers, but they aren’t the full answer. If you take the time to look deeper, I think you’ll find that money isn’t the goal, it’s the vehicle to the goal. Ask yourself what the money provides or gets you. You might find that your answer changes to something like: freedom or creative opportunity. Each of these moves past a focus on money alone to the personal benefit you get from money.
3. If you could do anything you wanted, what would it be? If there was nothing holding you back, what would you want to do? Once you determine this, ask yourself what you need to change and do in order to achieve it. I believe that we can achieve whatever we desire, if we believe we can and if we’re willing to do the necessary work. To see it, you have to believe it. Does your answer to this question support your intention? If not, review your earlier answers and refine them if needed. The answer to this question captures the heart of who you are – being in alignment with who you are ensures that you’re not only successful, you’re also satisfied.

When we begin to ask ourselves questions like this, we begin to change the way we think about ourselves and what’s important to us. When we’re clear about our intention and what we desire, it becomes much easier to recognize opportunities when they present themselves to us.

“Every experience you have is a good experience…You just have to look for it.”

In the next article we’ll explore 3 powerful ways to change your environment to support your new way of thinking. When our living spaces support our desires, we can create change that not only lasts, we also achieve a sense of balance and harmony in our lives.

Feng Shui Teacher and Entrepreneur Laurie Bornstein, “The Feng Shui Marketing Queen” is the author and creator of ‘Simple Feng Shui Series’, her FREE monthly ezine filled with articles and tips on how to live and work in balance, visit http://www.fengshuimarketingqueen.com to learn more.

If you live in an apartment, or ever have in the past, then you likely already know that you really are limited when it comes to being able to decorate or make changes to your space. For those trying to design and decorate their space using the Feng Shui method, this can prove a difficult hurdle to overcome, but it can be done.

One problem that many apartments have is that the doorways are often larger than standard, or too small. This can negatively affect your chi, and is one of the first areas you will need to focus your attention on. If you have overly large doorways, counteract their negative affect by placing chimes near the doors. For unusually small doorways, strategically placed mirrors can be a quick, effective fix.

Clutter is also a major problem that detracts from your chi, especially if it is centered on the main entryway of your home. If you are in the habit of leaving your shoes, hats, or coats by the door, you need to break the habit, because to maximize your chi, this area needs to remain open and clutter-free.

Water fountains and fish tanks can be a great way to boost your chi, but they have to be placed properly. Putting these items in the wrong places in your home can negatively impact several areas of your life, so this is a crucial step. Take the time to do your homework as to where these items should be positioned for maximum Feng Shui benefit in your apartment.

Natural elements are also a critical part of the Feng Shui decorating scheme, so wooden furniture, especially dining sets, are best. If you have a glass, marble, or metal dining suite, consider selling or trading for a more traditional wooden suite.

Also, it is important that the dining room have adequate space for the table and chairs, so that you can move freely around all sides of the table. You especially want to make certain your entryways and doors are not blocked by dining room furniture!

Your entryway is an important area in your home or apartment, and it is important that it is light and airy. If you do not have any windows in this space, try to add some light sconces on the walls, and enhance the space with mirrors or some other soothing elements.

These are just a few of the ways you can boost your chi, even if you do have limited space to work with. Decorating your home or apartment in the Feng Shui method can really enhance your life, so take the time to look into other small changes that you can make around your home!

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