An office desk should have a good Feng Shui in order to support its owner’s career and business affairs. The higher person’s position is within the company, the more office desk Feng Shui influences professional life, career development, or business growth.
Locating an Office and an Office Desk
There are several major rules that should be followed in the first place in order for the general Feng Shui of the office and office desk to be positive:
- Don’t locate an office desk directly opposite to the door.
- Don’t have a window behind while sitting at the desk – the back should be ‘protected’ by a wall, or something solid. As an option, use a screen, for instance.
- The office and the office desk should not be located in the end of a long corridor or under a stairway. In these positions all the positive energy will be either not reaching the desk, or passing by.
Protecting the Desk from Negative Energy
- As it was already mentioned, the back should be in some way protected while sitting at the desk. In order to enhance the effect of a wall or a screen, hang a picture of a mountain, a landscape, or a photo of an authoritative leader on it.
- A high-back office chair is an excellent idea – the high back of the chair will be both protecting the owner’s back, and adding to his or her authoritativeness. An ideal variant is a high-back chair with armrests.
- Place bookshelves on the left and on the right of the desk. They will symbolically serve as guards that protect both sides of the workspace.
- Make sure there are no representations of water behind the back – water’s energy is too active, so its representations should be located only in front, not behind or above the sitter.
- Remove all the clocks from the office. Chinese emperors and grandees traditionally never kept clocks in their throne- and work-rooms. A clock in the workplace is considered bad Feng Shui because it "counts" the time of rule and success.
Being an integral part of any workplace, an office desk can greatly influence the owner’s professional life, career and business. Therefore, make sure the desk is located correctly, (ideally diagonally from the door), and the space behind, on the left, and on the right of it – properly protected from possible negative influences.
In addition, make sure to use Feng Shui principles for choosing an office desk, because size, shape, and color also matter. A correctly chosen and located desk can attract wealth and success, no matter whether you work in a corporate environment, or in a home office.
Alla Kondrat - Alla Kondrat+ is a Feng Shui topic editor at Suite101.com, as well as a full time freelance writer and translator (Russian and Ukrainian). ...
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