Being trapped in an office all day can be depressing, especially since most offices, whether they house the SEM Toronto firm or a bank, are designed to be as bland and ubiquitous as possible. This same aesthetic can drain the life out of you if you let it. One of the ways you can fight back is to feng shui your workspace to harness the positive energies rather than the negative ones. If you're a newbie to feng shui, we'll give you a start on how it works and how to use it in your office setting.
What is fungi shui? Feng shui is the ancient Chinese art of using aesthetics to obey the laws of heaven and earth and bring positive energy. It translates literally as "wind water" in English, and its practices involve things as large as which direction to orient the building holding a heat shrink tubing factory to which side of the room you'll want to set up your desk in your office. Chinese feng shui dates back thousands of years, but its popularity in North America only dates back a decade or two.
In China there are many different schools and disciplines of feng shui, but in North America practitioners usually keep to a few basic principles to as not to become to confusing. Even still there's a long list of directions and elements that correspond to different energies to memorize. If you want to learn, probably the best thing to do is have your entire car dealer supply take a feng shui seminar or class. If you don't have the time, you can always hire someone to come in and arrange things for you.
For those of you out there who don't make enough money at their Toronto catering job to pay for a professional to come in and give the office a proper going over, there are a few basics you can learn for yourself. For instance, if you sit in line with the door to your office, you will be exposing yourself to the negative energy coming in through the door. The proper placement of your computer will depend on what you want to do with it. Creative energies are maximized in the North and West areas of the room, while the Southeast is best for making money.
To balance the yin and yang energies in your office, you'll want to have a mixture of different decor elements in your office. This doesn't just mean light or dark colors (such as light wall colors and dark furniture) but also rough and smooth textures (for instance, rug vs hardwood floor), and soft and hard surfaces (couch vs countertop). Mirrors aren't a good idea unless you need them to inspect the new Samuel strapping head and having cords and wires all over the place will impede the flow of energy.
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