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What You Must Know About Feng Shui For Your Office Cubicle

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By Alyssa Davis

While you may be well-versed in Feng Shui for your home, chances are good that you have given little thought to applying the principles of Feng Shui to your office cubicle. But after all, don’t you work in this tiny little corner of the world for hours on end each day? Most people spend more time at work than they do at home, so it is only natural that you should want to do everything that you can to bring good fortune and positive energy to your work environment. Let’s look at how the ancient principles of Feng Shui can be put to work for you and your cubicle.

De-Clutter

Clutter inhibits the movement of chi, or positive energy. The first step in bringing Feng Shui to your office cubicle is to de-clutter your cubicle. Give the entire cubicle a good cleaning in the process. Clean out your drawers, cabinets – everything. Clean your computer equipment with pressurized air and wipe down your desk and other office furniture. Get rid of anything that you no longer need or use in the cubicle. This gives you a good starting point, a clean slate for arranging your cubicle in a fashion that is more harmonious for the conduction of chi.

Placement of Furnishings

When possible, you should arrange your desk and your computer so that it faces the entrance to the cubicle. This places you in the position of power where you are welcoming good energy instead of blocking it with your back. This also eliminates the stress of having your back in a position that faces the door. If there is no way that you can arrange things differently, then you will need to hang a mirror on the wall that is opposite of your cubicle. This not only attracts positive chi, but it also gives you a view of who is entering your cubicle so that you are not startled.

“Windows” for Your Cubicle

Unfortunately, there are no windows in cubicles. But you can hang prints or photos of landscapes in your cubicle to create the illusion of a window. Choose landscapes that feature flowing water. This will help you to create a peaceful ambience, and although these “windows” aren’t the type through which positive chi can enter, they will still bring harmony and comfort to the space.

Living Things

No cubicle should be without green plants; they are useful for removing negative energy from the space. Choose plants like bamboo, which represents money, to help your career prosper. Position a bamboo plant near your cubicle’s entrance. Moving water is also a great way to overcome negative chi, and it is symbolic of abundance and prosperity. Bring a small water fountain into your work space to bring these things into your life and your work; you’ll also enjoy the calming sounds and relaxing vibe created by the fountain.

Inviting Wealth

The wealth area of your cubicle space is located in the upper left hand corner of the cubicle when you are standing at the cubicle’s entrance. Position a picture in this corner, or place your water fountain in the location. Anything that is located in this particular corner should represent wealth, so perhaps placing a shelf with business or wealth creation books in this spot is ideal.

Once the cubicle has been optimally laid out with Feng Shui in mind, you will begin to feel more comfortable in your work space, and your focus should increase. You may also feel an elevated sense of motivation, power, and efficiency.

About the Author: Home design expert, Alyssa Davis of Metal-Wall-Art.com, is particularly skilled in designing with seabirds metal wall art and moose metal wall art.

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Exploring Mindfulness And Meditation

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By Roy Thomsitt

In our every day lives, we are all guilty of neglecting our minds, allowing our brains to be lulled into a lazy, neglected, and unaware state. It is as if we are allowing ourselves to be sculpted by bland and repetitive consumerism, our individuality being chiselled away by a tedium we cannot even be bothered to challenge with any will.

Life need not be like that. We are each blessed with a powerful mind; but normally people have forgotten or, most likely, never even knew how, to use it. It is such a waste of our own greatest resource.

One way to start to extricate ourselves from the mindless quicksand is to gently exercise our minds, using mindfulness and meditation as a way of bringing ourselves more emphatically into the real world, and start the process of exercising control over our minds and our lives.

Creating a mindfulness meditation is a gentle but powerful exercise. But how do you go about it?

A Simple Mindfulness Meditation Exercise

As with any meditation session, you need to get into a relaxed and comfortable position, eyes closed, and then commence with deep nasal breathing, focusing your thoughts on the breathing to ease yourself into a meditative state.

Once you feel that you are calmed by your breathing and that your breath is under your rhythmic control, then you can move on to focusing on your own body, a part at a time. I was first taught this at yoga class, where we were taught to concentrate first of all on the left foot, focusing on it from a position above ourselves. Then move up the body slowly, left ankle, knee, thigh and so on. When reaching your head, you then do the same in reverse on the other side of the body: right shoulder, right elbow, right hand and so on.

Once you have completed your tour of your own body, as if you were someone else examining it, then it is time to open your eyes and increase your mindfulness of your surroundings.

To do this, focus on any object in the room; it does not have to be anything special: a cup on the coffee table, a vase, a plastic flower, anything. Try to maintain that focus for half a minute, and then move on to any other object. You can repeat this several times, always maintaining a focus on your own body and your own breathing, creating a triple harmony with each object on which you focus.

By using this simple mindfulness meditation you are increasing awareness both of yourself and your surroundings, in a very gentle and easy way. It can serve as a prelude to some mental task, as well as being part of an ongoing mindfulness campaign to strengthen and expand the use of your own mind.

For example, most days I write, but sometimes I just do not seem able to concentrate on what I am supposed to be writing about. I find this type of exercise, even just for 10 minutes, will snap me out of that inexplicable malaise, and I can get right on and write what I should have written earlier.

About the Author: This meditation and mindfulness article was written by Roy Thomsitt, owner and part author of the Routes To Self Improvement website.