How to Feng Shui Your Office for More Wealth in Your Business
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What if making more in your business was just easy?
What if you didn't need to work more hours or change anything strategic or logical to build your wealth in your business?
A friend of mine, Patricia, believes that this can be achieved through the power of Feng Shui.
Now, if you're hoping for earning more to just flow easily, read this post all the way until the end because Patricia has some really amazing tips and an incredible offer for you too.
So Patricia, I'm a logical thinker. I love the idea of Feng Shui. So how does Feng Shui work?
And how is it that like rearranging my desk or adding a plant or like a water feature or something, how does that like affect what happens in my life?
Okay, so there's a lot of questions there. Could we start with the first one?
So what is Feng Shui?
So Feng Shui is an ancient practice. It's 5000 years old and it has been around obviously for a long time because people have been getting results from it. And it basically really connects back to the energy of things. So when we work with like absolutely everything in the universe is energy.
Like so we know that there's like the physical tangible things, but if you look at it in a microscope, there's like actually it's all just energy.
So when we start working with Feng Shui, it is we're working with the energy of a space and environment, a home.
So this practice 5000 years ago, when people like kind of the bigger concept is we're Feng Shuiing a home, not just like a desk. It's the same idea as a desk or a living room, a bedroom, but it's more so when I work with people, it's like we work on your home to balance your home.
And when people build houses in ancient times, they built houses very intentionally. Today it's just kind of like, oh, here's a big plot. I'm just going to plant the house anywhere.
But then they literally spent time going, this is going to be my home forever. And I'm going to really have a bit of intentionality.
So we put the house down, they find like where is there going to be most support? Where is it going to have the like in terms of mountain? Where is it not going to get flooded?
Like the real locational and thing. So there was a lot of intentionality.
And now fast forward to today where it's like, oh, here's a plot of land. We're just going to put like a bunch of houses here.
There's no plans. They’re just like, oh, let's strategically fit as many houses as possibly on this and this plot as opposed to what's the most kind of auspicious energetically supportive space.
And when we translate like feng shui into kind of English, like plain language, it means good health and good harvest.
So good harvest means good for money.
So when we feng shui houses people are going to be healthy, happy and wealthy.
So that's essentially what we want to do. It works on energy and the easiest way to kind of explain it is it's acupuncture for your home.
So essentially when if you ever visited an acupuncturist or an acupressure, you will go and sit down. They will not like tell you what to wear. But they are going to do is going to check the energy that's moving through your body.
And they'll be like, okay, that's off. This is off. That's okay. I need to put these needles in your body to rebalance your body, to bring it into flow essentially. So where's off, where's on, okay, let's bring this into harmony.
And now acupuncture is widely accepted as a method of helping people heal physically in their bodies. So feng shui is basically the exact same thing. We acupuncture people's homes.
And then think about that experience going to the acupuncturist. They're also maybe going to give you advice about your diet. They're going to say, okay, well, are you eating these specific foods? Like have you thought about your mindset? Have you thought about going and doing some exercise?
So when it comes to feng shui, the work that I do is literally the acupuncture for the home. So someone sends me in the information about their house and I can analyze it from a distance because acupuncture isn’t about the clothes the person's wearing, which is the same feng shui isn't about the design, the interior of your house. Like some aspects would be important, but it's not like, you know, wearing, you know, a red dress or a purple dress or a, you know, black pair of trousers, isn't going to like make a big difference to your health and well-being it's the same with, with the house, basically.
When the clients send the details to me we analyze the house and we're like, okay, well, this house, actually the energy is off in this area.
In feng shui, we've nine areas of your home and they represent different parts of your life. So your health, your career, your finances, you know, your fame and reputation, like how, like how you're getting on in your, your family and this propensity to kind of shine your light in the world. Also your travel, like, so there's so many different aspects.
And I like to actually mirror that back to those areas of your life are pretty much the same as the organs of your body. So like our heart has a job, our lungs have a job, our liver has a job. They're all kind of doing their jobs. One of them is off whack. It's going to send our body off whack and us off whack. It's the same happens in a certain area of your home.
If one area of your home is awful and basically not doing well. It's going to send all the other parts a bit off as well.
Like it's not going to be good for the other parts, but it's going to specifically be that one area, which is the same in feng shui.
Some parts of the home energetically could be absolutely amazing. And someone could be flourishing in their finances, but their health is really bad. But that's because the health area is not happy. Like it's just off balance. So that's kind of like how I like to say it.
Like very simply, essentially what we do is we acupuncture people's homes.
And actually this is where the misconceptions come about where you're like, how could putting a plant here or change in my desk reflect to my life? That is like the additional information.
So when we look at feng shui, it's almost like an, it's like an iceberg. So at the tip of the iceberg, there's the things I can say to you, okay, Paige, like in your office, we need to set up your office with these are the optimum ways to set your office up. And that's going to be helpful. So it'll be just like Paige, the accupucturist said, you know what, maybe some magnesium will be good for you to get some sleep. So it's like, here's a little thing you can do that's going to make you help. Obviously it may not fix it, but it will definitely be an additional benefit.
So the tips that we learn and we see online are the typical things that people don't read that kind of like they've heard, like keep the toilet seat down, like hygienically keeping the toilet seat down is a good thing. It is a good thing, but from a practical thing and from an energetic thing, think about your home, like the areas of your home that is releasing and letting go. So the toilet is releasing and letting go. But we don't want everything to go - we don’t want the good stuff to go too.
Feng Shui is the lineage comes from traditional Chinese medicine and they work with the five elements, fire, water, metal, earth and wood. They're the five elements that we want to use to harmonize a home.
So imagine, Paige, where's your favorite place in nature to go? Like where you just feel like, oh my God, I feel so good in nature.
Any countryside walk with a beautiful view.
Okay. So a countryside walk with a beautiful view. So you're like, oh, the grass, there's the trees, there's the earth beneath you, there's the flowers, there's the sun. And you just feel really good and everything is doing its own thing. Like the tree, the grass is growing, the flowers are blooming, the trees.
It's just in flow.
It's in the rhythm of nature and every flower gets to fully express itself perfectly.
And you feel good because the energy and the, of that place, of that nature is just so good and it helps harmonize you. It helps you feel good.
And the same goes for your house.
So your house has specific energies and when we, what we want to do, when we're bringing balance into people's homes and I'm looking at, okay, well, this area is out of whack because there's not enough fire element in this specific area and it's bespoke.
So every house is unique.
There's not a fire element in this area. Okay. So we'll just bring something right into that area or we need some more wood element. So we're going to bring something from nature into the house and it will like literally recreate that sense of harmony and balance.
So a lot of people would say to me, Tricia, my house is a big mess and they'd be like the clutter like, and they're like, how come to my house is a big mess?
And I'm like, to be honest, I bet you it's not as messy as you think it is. I am not a naturally tidy person and the clutter isn't necessarily like, that's sometimes it's called life. Like the dishes on the table on the, on the counter and the kids playroom full of court toys or the office that has some stuff around, like that's called life. You know, inevitably that's going to get tidied.
That's not fixing your feng shui because that's visible.
That's the aesthetic.
That's like, oh yeah, you know, you're in your grubby clothes one day because you're cleaning the house or something and then you get dressed up. Like you do feel a bit different when you get dressed up, but it's not going to like change the fundamental energy if you're inherently have an illness and it's the same with your house.
So the plan, the different things that we bring in are specific to your home and they're specific to what your house needs to balance it.
And essentially what I envision is that when someone comes into the house, it doesn't need to look different.
It feels different and everyone's life, everyone's living the house has more flow, more joy.
And they feel like they're in that place in nature. They're like, everything is just nice and perfect and easy.
You mentioned something interesting there. You said like there's these nine core aspects.Does that relate to like locations in the house or what is that?
Yeah. So there's different schools of feng shui. And this again is where when something comes from the East and comes to the West and it can get diluted and we're like, oh, make it super simple, whatever.
So there's different schools and the school that I practice is classical flying stars, which actually works with the compass. And we then figure out where the areas are based on the compass. And so there are nine areas and some houses that area might be missing.
So I've had instances of clients who've come to me going like, oh my God, like my financial situation is so bad or my family, like nobody's speaking to me.
This is an exact real life example.
We had a client who came to me and she actually was using the other school of Feng Shui before, and she had thought that her prosperity area was missing.
She came to me saying - my prosperity is missing.
And then I did her Feng Shui and I was like, no, no, no, it's not your prosperity area. It's your family area. And then she goes, oh my God, that makes so much sense!
So she had moved into that house and from the mid day she moved in, there was like a massive disagreement with her family overseas and she'd never spoken to them again.
They hadn’t spoken to her or them again in five years, nothing.
So the nice thing about feng shui though, is that there's always a remedy. There's always something that we can do to balance harmonize and fix it. So it's like no house is doomed.
There's, it's like every house, there's potential for every house to be even more harmonized and balanced.
So I was like, okay, here's what you have to do for your house, specific to her house.
And next thing she sends a message into our WhatsApp group and she's like, I can't believe it. My father has just rang me. He hasn't spoken to me for five years after putting the remedy in to balance that area that wasn't even there!
So like the, when people come for feng shui, they often think, money or career, but on a bigger level, it's like, it impacts every part of your life.
So for me, it's this amazing practice that is every part of your life is touched with it. And if there's some part of your life that's out of balance, what I see a lot with people is they come into our world and they're doing great, maybe great in some parts, but there's other parts that are like, they're working their asses off.
Like they're like logically thinking like, okay, this is a problem. I need to do this, this, this. I need to read these books to fix it.
And I'm like, yeah, you can do that and it will help.
But if your house is out of whack you might be feeling like I'm doing everything and nothing's happening or I’m doing all the PR and nobody's seeing me and you've paid a PR agency thousands and you've done all the funnels and all this stuff and it's like, what the hell is wrong? Like, why can't people see me?
It might be that you have an area missing or out of whack.
And then we put the remedies in and it balances it.
So let's talk about related to a business and related to building wealth in your business. What are the telltale signs that a place isn't working for you for money? Like if you move into somewhere and suddenly your business is just not doing well, or well, I don't know, like from the time you've started, it's not doing well. What do you do in that situation?
Okay, so there's a few things like first of all, I spoke to a client the other day and she moved into her new apartment and she lost her two biggest paying clients that day.
And the other thing is it was her dream apartment. Like it was stunning. It had a pool. It was like so aesthetically beautiful. She's like, oh my God, this is going to be the biggest upgrade in my life. And then it was like, what just happened?
So I would say the first thing is being conscious of the fact that it might not just be you is really important.
The second thing I would say is like setting yourself up, like in terms of from an office perspective, like have a dedicated workspace.
And people ask me like, where do I start when it's just like basic feng shui? I would start with your office and your bedroom, because they're the two areas we spent a lot of time, and especially your workspace, because you're going to be literally creating from that area.
So from a workspace perspective, like you can see me, I'm sitting here, back to the wall, I have a nice high office chair with a really good support. So it's like, energetically, like, I'm mindfully setting my space up so that I'm the boss of my business here in this space. I'm like, I've got a space, it's dedicated for me to work, got a nice desk, I can see the door.
So a lot of people, especially in business, when they started in online, they're like, Oh, I'm just going to take this corner of the spare room and squidge myself in here and just work and have my back to the door and feel totally stressed.
But if you're sitting with the back to the door, the energy is coming in landing on your shoulders, creating this sense of overwhelmed stress, like I've seen it with clients time and time again, like you need to turn around, you need to be able to see what's coming, you need to be prepared, you need to have support. So it's like a kind of a physical set up of your space.
From a financial perspective, like, it could be one of many things. And actually, I go through that in my mini course Feng Shui 101*, which like, and you can actually analyze, because it could be the house type, it could be the shape, it could be lots of different things. And there's different like remedies for all of those things, but they're more bespoke to your house as opposed to general.
So for me, there's a kind of list of things I would start doing.
The first would be the awareness, like check out the mini course Feng Shui 101*. So you kind of like, oh, maybe it's my house.
And the next is I would go through your house and like, look for areas where there is like stagnant energy. So what do I mean by stagnant energy? It's not the dishes on the counter. It's not the messy bed from this morning. It is the cupboard that you haven't looked at in six years or a few years. It's like literally clogged up with crap, because that is literally clogged up. It's going to be a mirror into your life. There's something that's blatantly blocked. You know, it's like you're being constipated, basically, a part of your house. So like the back to the body analogy.
So then I would then invite you to step into your house, like go around your house and start at the very front door and be like, I want to look at this place with fresh eyes. Like, does it feel like flowing? Like, can I get in easily? Like I love, I'm working with the front door and having that nice and easy to open. Welcome the chi in, welcome the energy in. And then just start to walk around your house and, you know, basically having broken things or things that are not working in your house will reflect broken things and things that are working in your life. So like get rid of them, you know, and go through your house just and see if there's things that are like that and work from there.
So they're the main things.
And then from a prosperity, it's like keep the toilet seat down is a good one and make sure there's no leaks. So if there's anything leaking or dripping, again, like broken, it's not working, but leaking, it's like, oh, a leak on your in your tap leak in your bank account, you know, they all mirror everything that's happening in your house is a mirror.
It's hard to get into your house, hard to get in. The money is hard to get in, you know, it's a struggle. It's a push.
So actually, I'm thinking about this for myself, specifically, we're moving into a new apartment. What should I be looking for when I go look for apartments?
Amazing. So the first thing I would like look at is like the research of like what, you know, the shape of the apartment is good, like you want a nice clear shape, if possible, like as simple as possible, like very simple plane.
And also the, the history like who lived there before, like just be like nosy, be curious. When you're driving up to the apartment, you're driving there like how does it feel? What are the other cars like, like, you know, I think, you know, since when you moved into your apartment in London, you're like in a real prosperous area, everyone's doing well, like, what's the energy of the area, you know, be mindful of that.
And then how do you feel when you get in there?
And then I would try and avoid having the front door facing like a big coming into a view or a big open window, because you don't want the energy coming in and leaving, they'd be the main things.
Oh, okay. Amazing. So a lot of how it feels really. So it's, and then basic shapes. That's interesting.
Next thing was, is it only our office that matters when it comes to like wealth building in a business? Do we just work on our office? Should we be working on others, the house?
From a prosperity area, or for prosperity's perspective, from just like practicality, I think the office is a really important space to do.
There's other areas in Feng Shui, it's like the southeast area of your home is the area associated with prosperity. But to be honest, I think that like that can get confusing for people to get started and be like, Oh my god, like, where's that area?
So I would like knuckle down on creating the most creative and aligned space for your business. And that's where you're going to produce and create from.
Are there any other tips you said, like a lot of the time, it's like remedies, like you're adding something in, it's not necessarily like people are always think like, Oh, she's going to throw it on my furniture or something. But it's oftentimes like repositioning things or adding bits in. Is there anything else that we could add into our office space or home that would be good for our prosperity?
I think that for me, when it comes to your office space, it's like having inspirational art or artwork, like being really mindful of the type of art you have.
So I have like one example of a lady's office, and we have looked at thousands of people's offices. And this one always stands into my mind because she had it perfectly set up. Like it was like a beautiful desk and table and furniture and everything was so like, wow, amazing. It's like, I don't know what to say to her.
Then I was like, tell me about that piece of art.
And she's like, Oh, that piece of art. That was my ex-husband's.
And I was like, Oh, okay.
And then we zoom in on it. And it was a picture of a winter scene.
Okay. So if we are in business, we want to think of harvest. We want to think of wealth. We want to think of abundance. We're thinking of growth. Winter is not necessarily associated with that. So it's like, be mindful of like what you have on your walls, you know, in your space.
And from a career business perspective, be really clear on where you’re going.
Like have your vision board in your office, have your inspirational books that inspire you, like create the space to be a place where you imagine that if you had clients coming that they could, they rang you today and they're like,
Hey, can we meet?
You're like, okay, no problem. Come.
And you would be so proud and so happy and so like inspired to have them come and meet with you.
You actually create a space that is ready for visitors.
And even if you never ever have someone come to your office, you’ve created a space that's energetically ready for that.
And you will totally make design decisions and create a different office space. And with that in mind.
You have something which is also incredible and extremely affordable to help people find out more if they’re interested. Can you tell me about what this thing is?
Yes. So we've created a mini, a feng shui mini course called Feng Shui 101* (that’s an affiliate link btw - my Margarita fund thanks you kindly in advance!), that basically dives into all the different aspects of like Feng Shui and explaining what it is, how it works and how to get started.
The Feng Shui 101* mini course is just an amazing tool for you to understand and get started with Feng Shui!
