How Feng Shui Can Help You Attract More Abundance in Your Career

Guest User June 8, 2022

Wooden desk with laptop computer, mug, cell phone, and potted plant — Photo by Amanda Vick on Unsplash

If you want to bring in more prosperity and wealth through your career, it’s a good idea to look at your home office, and specifically your desk. Your desk represents your career and path in life, which affects how much abundance you can attract to you.

One of the most important things to pay attention to is the location of your desk. When you’re at your desk, what are you facing? Your view from your desk has a big impact on your energy, and is reflected in how much abundance you can invite in through your work. In feng shui, we recommend placing your desk in the commanding position. This means that you are facing the room, instead of a wall, and that you can see the door to the room without being directly in line with the door. Usually, you’ll be located diagonally from the room’s entrance. Being in this position represents being in control of your life and career.

If it’s not possible to put your desk in this position and you have to face a wall, you can improve the situation by putting a mirror on the wall in front of your desk. When you’re directly facing a wall at your desk, this can mean there is a block in your career or path in life, or that you’re not able to move forward. Placing a mirror here will expand your view and allow more forward motion.

Often, people will orient their desk towards a window. While this can give you a pleasant view while you’re working, it isn’t the best position for someone who wants to advance their career, because it means that your qi, or your life force energy, is going out the window instead of staying with you and your work. Instead, try placing your desk so that the window is at your side, so you can take breaks to enjoy the view without getting too distracted from your career and wealth goals.

Once you’ve found the best location for your desk, you can also activate the Wealth corner to invite more abundance and prosperity through your career. To find the Wealth corner of your desk, divide your desk’s surface into a three-by-three grid. When you’re sitting at your desk, the Wealth area will be in the far left corner. This area is connected to how much wealth you can attract, as well as your self-worth adnd how you value yourself.

To activate this area of your desk, you can place a potted plant or a vase of freshly cut branches or flowers here. A plant is ideal, because it is a way to invest in slow and steady growth when it comes to building wealth through your career. If you are using cut flowers or branches, be sure to change the water frequently and refresh the stems when they are starting to wilt.

by Anjie Cho

If you’d like to learn more about feng shui, check out Mindful Design Feng Shui School at: www.mindfuldesignschool.com

How to Feng Shui Your Work-From-Home Space

Guest User October 6, 2021

In feng shui, different parts of your home represent different parts of life. Your home office represents your career, and it can affect how successful you are in your career and how supported you feel.

The number one thing you want to do for your home office is to make sure you have a desk. I know a lot of people aren’t set up to have room for a desk in their work-from-home space, but it’s important to carve out an area as best you can. If you don’t have a stable, steady location where you can do your work, that reflects upon how stable and prosperous your career is, and how you show up in your career. If you can, have a dedicated desk. If this isn’t possible, create a dedicated space. If you have to do your work at your dining room table, for example, make it into a nice workspace while you are working there. When you’re done working at the end of the day, put your work things away and convert it back into a dining room table.

Whether it’s an actual desk or a workspace that you’ve carved out on your coffee table, you want to put yourself in command. That means that you want to be able to see the door to the space while you’re working. If your back is to the door, your stress levels are elevated and you can’t see what’s coming to you. The metaphor in your work life is that you can’t see opportunities or possible conflicts coming your way in your career.

You also want to have a solid, stable desk that is big enough for you to work on. A glass desk is not ideal, because things can fall through, and it’s also fragile. You also want to avoid a desk that is lopsided, unstable, or too small. A tiny desk space represents a tiny space to receive opportunities and support, so you want to have a desk that’s appropriately sized for what you want to achieve. It’s also practical to make sure that your desk can accommodate your needs, to avoid creating unnecessary obstacles for yourself. If you think you may need to buy a new desk, keep in mind that this is the foundation of your career!

In setting up your desk, make sure you also have a supportive chair. In feng shui, we like to suggest that you have enough room behind you. Generally, that means at least three feet, so that you can receive support, and also have perspective and a backup plan. When you’re looking at chairs themselves, a chair with a high back is more supportive.

Lastly, one of my favorite decorative items to suggest for a home office is a desk blotter. They are generally rectangular or square in shape, which represents the earth element. A desk blotter creates some stability, and it’s a great addition to your work-from-home space, whether you have a permanent desk or not. If you’re working at your dining room table or coffee table, it helps to define a space for your work, and you can also roll it up and put it away when you’re not working.

by Anjie Cho

If you’d like to learn more about feng shui, check out Mindful Design Feng Shui School at: www.mindfuldesignschool.com

Q&A Sunday: Feng Shui Plants for Attracting a New Job

Guest User September 26, 2021

I would like to get a feng shui plant to help me attract a job. Where can I buy one?

People often think that some plants are feng shui plants and some are not, but in fact, any plant can be a feng shui plant. You don’t even have to buy one. You can get a cutting from a plant, or you could receive a gifted plant from a friend, and it could be a feng shui plant. What makes a plant a feng shui plant is your intention. Are you putting this plant in a particular place for a specific feng shui reason? If so, then the plant can help to shift and provide more growth and healing in that situation. Not every plant in your home needs to have a feng shui purpose.

Similarly, it’s not necessarily the type of plant that is important, but rather where you put the plant. Since you are hoping to attract a job, you might find the fame area of your desk, since your desk represents your job. I would suggest putting a plant there to activate that area and invite recognition in your work. The fame area of your desk is the center back section.

Make sure you get a plant that’s well-groomed and healthy, and place it in this area with intention. The fame area, called Li in Chinese, is connected to the fire element. Because the wood element, represented by plants, feeds fire, a plant can be very supportive here. Your intention for your plant in this area can be to provide more growth and to feed the fire of your visibility so that you can attract a job.

I hope that helps! If you want to learn more about feng shui and plants, be sure to check out Plants & Feng Shui and Bad Feng Shui Plants on the Holistic Spaces Podcast.

by Anjie Cho