Give Work Relationships a Makeover with Feng Shui

By Ken Lauher

If you hold a job or run a company, chances are very good that you work with other people. And, for better or worse, your relationships with those people can make or break your success. This is true even if you own the business, or if you work from home … you still have clients, vendors or distributors you need to deal with in a positive way to achieve the results you want.

Fortunately, there are Feng Shui principles you can follow to improve your work relationships and enhance your career success.

Use the Feng Shui Ba Gua to Your Advantage Three Feng Shui Ba gua trigrams can relate directly to career success: the wealth trigram, in the back left corner of your office when you’re standing at the front door looking in; the career trigram, which is the center front wall (most frequently, the place where the door is located); and the helpful people trigram, which is in the front right section of the room if you’re standing at the door looking in.

 Use one of the nine most common Feng Shui solutions http://www.kenlauher.com/feng-shui-tips/bid/38832/9-Feng-Shui-Cures-to-Change-Your-Life to empower these areas of the room.

Plants, water elements, wind chimes or photographs are the most common Feng Shui cures for an office space, since we’re limited in what we can do in most offices. You might also add a light to the wealth trigram or a beautiful lighted fountain with running water. This will create a sense of calm and peace in your office that can help your co-workers and superiors feel at ease when they enter your office and speak to you, making it easier to get things done.

You can also lay the Feng Shui Ba Gua over your desk and activate those trigrams in similar ways. Consider fresh cut flowers on your desk to make the area inviting and empower specific areas of the Feng Shui Ba Gua, but make sure to replace the flowers as they begin to wilt.

Use Color to Create Smooth Relationships

If your office space is painted yellow, orange or red, any of the colors representing the fire element in Feng Shui, this can lead to adversarial relationships at work. If you don’t have a choice in the color scheme, hang art work in soothing colors, perhaps waterscapes, to create more peaceful, cooperative relationships.

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