Home Office?

When you have to work at home, sometimes it makes it difficult to stay focused on your work or on what you would like to do with your family.
What is really helpful is to have space dedicated to your work and just your work or you end up with all the paper work on the dining table to clean up rigth before dinner! (it happened to all of us at least once!).
Try to find a space that could be separated from the rest. The separation doesn't have to be a wall or a separated room (even if it's always better and easier that way!).
You can create an easy private space adding screens or curtains or anything that will create that path from "home to office and office to home".
If you have the space to have actually a separated room... enjoy it and make it just for work! Open the door when you want to achieve something for the work part and enter that space AND close the door when you're done and leaving the space to go back to your family space.
Choose the right area for you and the right colour for your area. The separation from the rest of your "home life" can actually be done by changing colours as well. Painting an area is always fun and create a geat change in the energy!

Free the Qi (chi)

One of the goals of using Feng Shui in your house or office is to make sure that the energy flows freely and in harmony, not too fast, not too slow and that the energy is not stcuk somewhere. Sometimes it is hard to feel where the energy can be stuck and how we can make the changes to have the energy flowing freely. The best way to know where you need to bring some changes is to imagine water entering your space. You can easily visualize the water coming from the front door and going through your space and you can actually "see" where the water stays stagnant, goes too fast or slows down. These are the indications that you will use to change funriture, decor, and anything else that seems to be in the way to reach harmony.

Use of mirrors

If you are familiar with Feng Shui and you've read Feng Shui books, one of the "cures" suggested is the use of mirrors. You can use them to expand an area that you would like to improve, you can also place them for a missing area, recreating energetically this area, you can also use them to "push away" an energy that is not yours. It is an easy and still powerful cure.
BUT, really pay attention on what your mirror is going to reflect... common sense, if the mirror, the way you placed it, reflects an area with clutter... it will create more clutter!, if it reflects nothing... more of nothing.. and so on. Mirrors are an easy cure and an easy way to "fix" an area IF it is the appropriate cure for that particular area that you would like to enhance.

Clear your space

Most people think that we need to perform a space clearing when something really negative happened. That is right of course but there is many other situations where a space clearing can help us in our life. It doesn't have to be negative. You can do a space clearing when you want to change the energy in your home or office.
We obviously clean "physically" our house at least once a week... we can do a space clearing right after. It doesn't mean that you had a particular bad week, it just means that you're done with that week, some aspects of it were positive, some aspects of it were probably challenging and so you write down your intentions for the next week clearing the past one.
If you had a big party at your house, you loved it, but maybe you don't really want to still have this "party energy" around you which could be too much for the rest of the week or the week end, clear your space from that evening. To clear is not "let's get rid of that bad energy"! To clear is looking for something new, positive, that can support and bring new opportunities for your next step in your life.

Add Colors!

So many times I told a client to add colors to her or his space!, so many times I told my students to add colors as a less expensive way to bring changes in their space... and I sometimes forgot about it for myself, for my own space... and when you do it, it feels sooooo much better! I just did it ... with turquoise! I love it!
Of course you can check the bagua map to check the color that would be the best for this particular area you want to change but mostly, as I would often say, follow your intuition and your own taste... If you do not like red, don't paint your front door red! Choose the color that makes you feel good, full of energy, happy! That is what I just did and it already feels different and really good! And I have to say that it is fun to do... of course if you like to paint... if not... call a friend to do it with you!

Don't sell your house for a "missing corner"

One of my students shared with me that she called a practitioner to come to her house that she just had bought. She was of course very excited to show her new space and home and wanted to know how to improve everything in her space...
As soon as the consultant got out of the car, the reaction was NOT the one this student would have excepted at all. The consultant right away told her that she needed to sell the house right away because she had a missing corner!!! That was thoughtful!!! even if I'm sure that this consultant's intention was good ... BUT, you really don't have to sell your house even if you have a "missing corner". First check if you have challenges in this particular area represented by this missing corner, and then, even if you have some issues, there is plenty of Feng Shui cures to balance the space and the area ... so, really, don't sell your house... particularly if you just bought it and you're happy with your move!

Only Good Feng Shui

That is right, there is not such thing as good Feng Shui and bad Feng shui. The most important thing is that the changes you bring in your space (home or office) should be meaningful to you. It will be good feng shui if you love what you did, if you enter the space thinking "that is just beautiful"... the same decors could be "bad feng shui" for someone else that doesn't like it. When you look at your space, the question is always the same, how do you feel when you enter that particular room, that particular space. If you enter your office and at each time you feel that you are not as creative as you should be, make a change, check what is going on in the space... and because your life changes and we all change over the years, after different experiences, we need to change our spaces on a regular basis as well. A space that could work for you 10 years ago, won't work right now, maybe you need to add colours, maybe you need to change your desk, add a mirror, hang an inspiring painting right in front of your desk....