Eight Keys to the Ultimately Prosperous Business Class 7 Theme: Optimizing Your Office for Ease and Flow Tools: 1. Create a welcoming entrance 2. Place your desk in the command position. 3. Remove all clutter. 4. Energize your office: Bagua and Enhancements. 5. The Three Secrets Reinforcements. 6. Move 27 items 7. Place a wealth cure. Today s main points are: Your environment affects you. Your home, business, property, etc is a reflection of what is happening within your Self. Your environment is like a mirror, reflecting back your energetic state. Your immediate environment has a more significant impact than things that are further away. Your bedroom, house and office have a stronger energetic imprint than your neighborhood, city, state, country and so forth. 8 Keys Class 7 Study Guide 3/4/2011 Page 1 of 11
Three fundamental principles of feng shui are: o Everything is alive. o Everything is connected. o Everything is always changing. Our environment is a mirror of our inner selves Three things I love about my office or work environment: 1. 2. 3. Three things I would like to change about my office or work environment: 1. 2. 3. 8 Keys Class 7 Study Guide 3/4/2011 Page 2 of 11
Top actions you can take to optimize ease and flow in your office: 1. Create a clear and welcoming entrance. 2. Place your desk in a command position. 3. Use the Bagua to energize and enhance your office. 4. Make sure your plumbing and electrical systems are in top order. 1. Create a clear and welcoming entrance. Your door is the mouth of chi. Welcome chi in and encourage it to meander throughout your space. 2. Best desk placement: put your desk in the power position by having the widest view of the room as well as a view of the door (but not in line with the door). You want to face the world to maximize opportunities and minimize surprises. 8 Keys Class 7 Study Guide 3/4/2011 Page 3 of 11
Favorable Desk Placement Example A Example B Example C Unfavorable Desk Placement Example D Example E Example F Examples of favorable and unfavorable desk placement are shown above. You ll notice that in each favorable position you can see the door and you are not sitting in front of the door. Walls provide you strength and support. Sitting with your desk to the diagonal provides added support from the 2 walls behind you. In addition, in each favorable example you have a lot of space in front of you. Space in front allows chi the time to gather bringing opportunities with it. 8 Keys Class 7 Study Guide 3/4/2011 Page 4 of 11
In the unfavorable examples, either your back is to the door (D), you are up against the wall with no space in front of you (E) or you are sitting directly in front of the door (F). In example D you can place a mirror to provide a view of the door while seated at the desk. This helps to prevent surprises. In example E you can place a mirror on the wall in front of the desk to energetically expand the space. In example F you should move the desk out of the path of the door or place plants or a low bookcase in front of the desk to provide protection. 3. Use the Bagua to energize and enhance your office. The Bagua is a symbolic map that we place over your space that represents all life issues. Ba means 8 and gua is section so the bagua represents 8 life areas that circle around the center, the 9 th box. The 9 areas cover all aspects of your life. The bagua can be placed on all properties and areas going from large to small. For instance, you can place the bagua on your land, your house, every room in your house, your office, desktop and tabletops, and even on your car. Overlaying the Bagua on your office: Begin by drawing the shape of your office and overlaying a tic tac toe board or a grid of nine area on top. Alternately, just look at your office and visually overlay a grid of nine areas over your office. Align the bagua so that your door is along the bottom row, falling into the Knowledge & Self-Cultivation, Life Path/Career or Helpful People and Travel guas or it falls across 2 guas. 8 Keys Class 7 Study Guide 3/4/2011 Page 5 of 11
The Bagua Prosperity Fame & Reputation Partnership Family & Ancestors Center/Health Children & Joy Knowledge Life Path/Career Helpful People & Travel Align with main door along this side. Bagua Enhancements the Prosperity sector is the back left corner of your space, your land, your house, every room in your house, the back left corner of your office and your desk, etc. Clear this area of all clutter. Clutter is anything you don t use or love. Next you can enhance this area with things such as: fresh flowers, a green plant, anything wooden, a mirror, a crystal, a treasure. 8 Keys Class 7 Study Guide 3/4/2011 Page 6 of 11
Prosperity Bagua Enhancements Fame & Reputation Partnership Flowers, plants Purple, blue, green Wooden things, water feature Things reminding you of prosperity Things for which you are grateful Rectangle shapes Free Flowing, wavy shapes Stripes, columns A Crystal Family & Ancestors Flowers, plants Blues, greens Wooden things Water feature Happy family, ancestors Things reminding you of good health Rectangle shapes Free flowing, wavy shapes Stripes, columns Knowledge Yellows, earthtones, red, pink Pottery, earthenware Shells, natural things Squares, triangles Low, heavy rectangles close to the ground Lights, candles People, animals Mountain pictures Reds, greens, blues Lights, candles Electrical items People, animals Triangles, pyramids, cones Plants, Flowers Things that represent how you would like to be known Center/Health Yellows, earth tones, red, pink Pottery, earthenware Shells, natural things Adobe, brick, tile Squares, triangles Low, heavy rectangles close to the ground Lights, candles People, animals Life Path/Career Black, all dark tones, midnight blue, dark greens, whites, pastels, grays Free form, wavy, symmetrical shapes, circles, ovals, arches Water features, bird baths Glass, mirrors, reflective surfaces, cut crystal Pictures of lakes, harbors, ocean views Reds, pinks, yellows, earth tones Pairs of things Pottery, earthenware Shells, natural things Squares, triangles Low, heavy rectangles close to the ground Lights, candles People animals Children & Joy White, pastels, earthtones Gold, silver, brass, aluminum, all metals Marble, granite, flagstone Natural crystals Circles, ovals, arches, squares Earthenware, natural things Stones, gemstones Pictures of children Pictures of Joy Creative art Helpful People & Travel Gray, white, pastels Gold, silver, brass aluminum, all metals Marble, granite, flagstone Natural crystals Circles, ovals, arches, squares Earthenware, natural things Stones, gemstones Pictures of teachers, mentors, spiritual guides, angels What are some steps you can take to make your office special to make it your personal paradise? 8 Keys Class 7 Study Guide 3/4/2011 Page 7 of 11
Categories of feng shui adjustments: Lights: Sound: Living Things: Water: Color: Dynamic Movement: Weight: Bamboo: Power: Fragrance/Scent: Texture/Touch: 4) The fourth principle to optimize ease and flow in your office is to make sure your plumbing and electrical systems are in top order. Plumbing and electric represent money and health. Leaky plumbing is symbolic of money flowing away from you. Clogged plumbing is representative of financial blockages in your life. Health wise water is associated with your kidneys and 8 Keys Class 7 Study Guide 3/4/2011 Page 8 of 11
reproductive system. Problems with your electrical system can be reflected as short circuits in your business, your life and your health. Setting Intentions in your office space: the Three Secrets Reinforcement Whenever you make changes to your environment, your changes will be strengthened when you clearly set your intentions for the results you would like to see and you reinforce your changes using the Three Secrets Reinforcement. There are 3 parts to the Three Secrets: Mind, Body and Speech. As you make your adjustment or change, clearly envision the change you wish to see as a result. This is the mind secret. Then you add a hand mudra and a prayer, for the body and speech parts. The mudra is any spiritual hand gesture of your choice. The one used in Black Sect feng: take your right hand (women) or left hand (men), place your thumb over your middle finger and ring finger. Then perform a flicking motion. The intention is to disperse any negative energy. As you do this, say a prayer of your choosing, 9 times. A common one used is the 6 true words: Om Ma Ni Pad Me Hum. Visualize your change, do the ousting mudra (hand gesture) and say your prayer or blessing (Om Ma Ni Pad Me Hum or prayer of your choice). Remember: As you make each change or adjustment, reinforce your intentions using the Three Secrets Reinforcement. 8 Keys Class 7 Study Guide 3/4/2011 Page 9 of 11
TOOLS: 1. Create a welcoming entrance. The door opens fully. The space is free and clear. 2. Place your desk in the command position. This is where you face the largest part of the room, you can see the door but you are not aligned with the door. 3. Remove all clutter. Anything you don t use or you don t love. Clutter creates stagnant energy and holds you in place. Removing clutter opens your space and creates new opportunity for your intentions to manifest. 4. Energize your office using the Bagua and Bagua enhancements. Pay attention to the Prosperity and Career Guas. 5. Set intention and strengthen all adjustments using the Three Secrets Reinforcements. 6. Move 27 items that haven t been moved in a year or more. Moving things around will create flow and increase energy. Things become stagnant when they sit without movement. 7. Consciously place a wealth cure in the back left corner of your office or on the back left corner of your desk. Suggestions: a green plant, a treasure box, something gold, a crystal, something that moves such as a wind chime or even a mirror to expand opportunities. To learn more Polaris sells CDs of a few feng shui classes Peg has done: Feng Shui Simplified is a one hour class. If you are new to feng shui, this is an excellent resource for learning more about it. 8 Keys Class 7 Study Guide 3/4/2011 Page 10 of 11
Feng Shui for the Office is a 4 hour program. This longer program goes into much more detail and is ideal if you would like to learn more. If you would like an assessment of the feng shui of your home or office or you would like specific suggestions about what to do in your space, send Peg an email or give her a call. She offers phone consultations beginning at $45.00 per half hour. Contact: Peg Donahue www.fengshuiconnections.com peg@fengshuiconnections.com 603 537-9954 End of Class Quote: The Feng Shui of Abundance, Suzan Hilton, Broadway Books, 2001 p. 21 More money is about more flow --- economic flow. Wealth and abundance are about accumulating part of that flow. feng shui reveals what and how you think about money, and the flow of economic energy in your life changing your environment eases the path to changing your thoughts and actions and experiencing more abundance in your life. What and how you think about money, the thoughts you hear yourself say and those that just flow out of your stream of consciousness show up in your physical environment. What you truly believe about yourself and your relationship to abundance is reflected in the setup of your physical environment We literally mirror our environments. Like attracts like and vibrates in harmony. Book Recommendations: 1) The Western Guide to Feng Shui by Terah Kathryn Collins 2) The Western Guide to Feng Shui Room by Room, by Terah Kathryn Collins 3) The Feng Shui of Abundance, Suzan Hilton 4) Feng Shui for Dummies, Daniel David Kennedy 8 Keys Class 7 Study Guide 3/4/2011 Page 11 of 11