How to Feng Shui a Cubical

Feng shui is best defined as the interaction of life energy, or chi, between us and our immediate surroundings. In your daily life, one of the most important places to create perfect feng shui is in the workplace. While everyone wants to feel comfortable and relaxed in their place of work, it seems to be the intent of employers to place workers in teeny tiny cardboard boxes called cubicles. Cubicles have no door and barely 3 walls. Luckily, it takes just a few creative feng shui touches to add a positive flow of chi to even the smallest of spaces.

Instructions

1. Clear the clutter. First and foremost, look around your cubical for everything and anything irrelevant and toss it. This would include any old poems or pictures pinned to the partition wall, last month's post-it note reminders, the scribbled-on papers and torn envelopes in the desk tray, pens that do not work, old file folders you'll never use, all broken or forgotten knick-knacks, souvenir coffee cups, brochures you'll never look at, magazines from two months back, anything that has a phone number on it but no name, the bagel you'll never eat and the sweater you'll never wear on the stool you'll never sit on.

2. Create the "power" position. In an office, the perfect feng shui "power" position calls for the worker to be seated at a desk so that he or she faces the door or entrance opening. However, office cubicles are typically are so small that arranging furniture in this position is all but impossible. Sitting with your back to the door can create anxiety and cause the nagging feeling that someone or something may be "sneaking up" on you. If this is the case in your cubical, solve the problem by arranging a mirror somewhere in your space that allows you to view the reflection of the entrance behind you.

3. Decorate "feng shui" style. Now that you've eliminated the clutter in your cubicle and created your "power" position, add cubicle decorations for positive chi. To encourage positive chi, ensure that each and every decoration in your cubicle has harmonious meaning. Framed pictures of serene landscapes or similar artwork will soothe the soul. According to the nine life areas of the Feng Shui Ba-gua octagon, your Career Area is presented by where you sit at your desk or in your cubicle. From this starting point, your Wealth Area would be the far left corner of the top of your desk or workspace. Enhance your Wealth Area by adding even the smallest piece of ribbon or paper in the colors of purple, blue, green, or gold. If you have a beloved object or knick-knack that represents wealth to you, feel free to add it to this very important area.

4. Add green plants and soothing water. If you possibly can, add nine small green plants to your cubicle space. Situate plants so that they sprinkle positive chi throughout your workspace. The color of green is, of course, representative of wealth and will attract abundance and creativity into your cubicle. A soothing water fountain creates active, positive chi and encourages only abundance-building individuals and energy to enter through your cubicle opening.