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

Why It's a Good Idea to Declutter Your Closets in Feng Shui

Guest User May 25, 2022

Have you ever wondered what your closets mean in feng shui? One way to look at this is to see where your closets fall in the feng shui bagua. The bagua is a mandala that we overlay on a space, with different areas that represent different parts of your life. If you lay the bagua on your home, take note of where your closets are. Pay extra attention to any closets that are the most cluttered or the most neglected, since these can represent issues that you may be hidden.

Depending on where your closet is located in the bagua, this can symbolize different things. For example, a cluttered closet in the Helpful People area might mean that there are helpful people in your life that you haven’t been aware of. A cluttered closet in your Abundance area could signify your wealth being hidden behind blocks. In your Partnership area, a neglected closet might mean that it’s been hard to find a relationship.

If you do have a closet that is cluttered or unused, it can be as simple as going through it and looking at what’s inside. If there are any areas you’re especially hesitant to go through, pay special attention to that. This can be an indication that there’s a block there that you could uncover. I invite you to look a little deeper at any neglected closets, and be curious about what it might represent. What area of the bagua does it relate to? Feng shui principles encourage us to look at areas in our homes that we normally neglect. Are you open to looking into the dark closets and starting to shift the energy in your home?

It’s also interesting to note how our modern society is so full. When we can let go of the things in our closets that we don’t need, our hearts and minds can also open and release unwanted things in our lives, like stress and harmful people. Clearing out your closet is one way to create space to invite in new energy. In feng shui, our goal is to let go of stagnant qi (life force energy) and let in fresh, healthy qi. If your closet is full, you will not have room for anything new. This applies both literally and metaphorically — you may have decluttered your closet and then noticed that you quickly fill it up with new things. A full closet may also mean that you have no room to grow and no space to accept new opportunities, friendships, or partnerships.

As you’re going through your closets, I would suggest setting aside a box for items that haven’t been worn in the last three years. You can donate these to organizations that collect used textiles and shoes. Even items that are no longer wearable can be recycled and made into something else.

I encourage you to open up your closets, let go of what you don’t need, and create space for the universe to bring something new and wonderful into your life!

by Anjie Cho

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

What Does Your Home Want to Tell You?

Guest User May 11, 2022

Living room with grey cough, black reclining chair, circular table, windows, and large abstract art. — Photo and design by Anjie Cho Architect PLLC

Something that we teach our feng shui students at the Mindful Design School is the importance of deep listening. How often during a conversation do you find yourself thinking ahead to what you want to share, instead of really listening to what the other person is saying?

I also invite you to think about listening when it comes to your home. It’s possible that you haven’t ever taken the time to listen to your home before. Your home is a place that has been there for you — it may have changed locations, outfits, or colors many times throughout your life, but your home has always been there to support you in some way. You’ve been in a relationship with this entity, your home, for many years. Maybe your home has been something you’ve relied on, or even something you’ve resented, but have you ever stopped to listen to it?

If you haven’t taken the time to listen to your home, I invite you to give it a try and see what your home has to say. If you keep doing the same thing over and over again, there may be a lot of messages that you are missing. When you instead stop and pay attention to the world around you, you can start to receive messages that you never would have known otherwise.

In case this has encouraged you to start listening to your home, I want to share a few practical ways you can do this. First, I would recommend taking some time to sit in your favorite part of your home. You could set a timer for nine minutes, and just sit there in silence and listen. See what arises, and allow a voice that may have been forgotten for a long time to come forward.

You could also do the same thing with the part of your home that feels the most difficult or challenging. Go to that place in your home, spend nine minutes there in silence, and receive whatever messages your home would like to share with you.

Listening to your home and acknowledging it can be a practice. In this way, you can start to be grateful to your home not only by relying on it, but also by stopping and allowing yourself to receive something from your home. Your home has always been there for you, so how can you now be there for your home? What wisdom can you receive from it?

by Anjie Cho