Home offices are an integral part in the modern world – working from your home business means that you most likely spend eight hours at your desk or work station. As an increasing number of people are establishing home based businesses and are working from their homes to create income, Feng Shui is used to enhance your personal energies.

Every human being has un-supportive and supportive personal directions to work in. The concept of personal ‘lucky’ directions is referred to as the “East/West System” (The school of the “Eight Mansions”).  This practice is very popular in Asia and adopted by many business owners.  The East/West system is based on the environment and the science of ‘magnetic directional energies’.  It is the conclusion that everyone has four supportive or un-supportive directions.

Your home office has all directions within it, and by situating yourself in any of your four good supporting compass directions will improve your productivity, increase your energies and your overall well-being.In placing your desk in such way that you are facing the “magnetic energy” from your supportive direction you will quickly feel a difference.Avoid having the entry to your home office behind you when sitting at your desk.If it is at all possible for you to place your desk in such a way that your back is supported by a solid wall.

The East/West System (Ba Zhai) is a particular ‘easy’ teaching as a part of Feng Shui, however it plays an integral part in “Classical Feng Shui”.The purpose is for you to receive your favorable supportive ‘directional’ energies by also avoiding if at all possible un-supporting directions.

As the East/West system is based on simple mathematical calculations it does not require complicated calculations as it is needed in the advanced Feng Shui schools.

In order to calculate a Personal Trigram, and the favorable four directions of a person, it needs to be understood that the Chinese calendar does not run from January to December rather than from February to February, and a person born between January 1^st and February 5^th needs to go back to the previous year of his or her birth.  (E.G: A person born on February 2^nd 1985 needs to go back to 1984)

Again, it is important to understand that your home office is part of a Feng Shui Consultation – Please also take a look at yesterday’s article in which we focused on some easy “tips and tricks” how you can start creating a better home office environment by simply taking the first step of de-cluttering your office.