how to place your desk in Feng Shui?
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- a simple question with a very complicated answer, there is no satisfying single answer at the end of this video, but I hope it will help you understand the complexities behind how best to position yourself for one of the most important activities you'll be doing during your day, your work. by getting this right, you will improve your concentration and performance. while no two rooms are alike, try your best and take a moment to look around you, feel the energy and environment around, and be sure you're sat in the best possible spot in your office!
seeing feng shui as "if someone were to attack me, would I see them coming? do I feel safe here?" is brilliant!!
And it doesn't have to be a literal attack, could just be a surprise visit or even the subconscious feeling of could there be someone?
Feng Shui goes back thousands of years - it honors our most primal perceptions and feelings. It helped me turn a bedroom I never felt comfortable in to one that is like a warm hug. I'm a big fan!
the same instinctual mechanism that drives the defense or the prey response, the fight or flight reflex, is at the foundation of so many complex upper emotions and mental states.
many people dont realize that they are instinctually more or less stressed by such subtle things as your position in a room.
@@Taolan8472 So true!
@@teddyjlockwood That's so good to hear! The idea of the command position really resonated with me.
I love how having a cat coming and going is considered a force beyond your control because the door must stay open.
And cats are GREAT at moving the energy around!
Newton's Ninth Law. A cat in existence will FIND a way to be at rest, regardless of the forces placed against it.
I always felt vulnerable if my back isnt against a wall while working. feng shui helped me understand that i really am not a fan of being attacked😂
i feel the same way! i even double checked that my door is locked when im working just to rest my paranoid self 😂
Man open spaces are the bane of people like us
Me at work years before learning about Fen Shui: "Seriously, coworker, you picked that seat in the conference room?! Vinny can come in and wack you and you'll never see it coming. "
Some of us just have a better sense of what security looks like.
@@smgp2023 same! I used to have my back facing the door and always had to look back and check. Ever since I moved the desk to the side and can now see the door while I work , I feel so much more safe😂
I feel attacked.
*rearranges furniture*
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LMAOOO
I used to have a desk facing the wall and I put a little hand mirror on the desk so I could see behind me at all times. It made me feel safer.
I have a guard cat so I can ignore the risk of getting attacked from behind.
But what if your cat turns on you?
@@doyouguysnothavephones8967 lmao that's a valid argument
Your cat will attack you from behind
@@lizhutchinson697850x before any outside threats get near
*except from the cat
I feel like I always had this "in my blood". When I arrange furniture my brain goes like "this is safe, this is not". I always feel distracted when sitting on my desk. It's facing the window, which gives me great energy but the door is behind me (not directly) and it stresses me out. I still think it's the best possible position in my room though.
I feel like people in the comments misunderstand this whole "someone is going to attack you" thing... we as humans are just animals with basic instincts. The fear of getting attacked is still within us. Small things like this can make us feel relaxed and safe.
For the same reason many people can't sleep well the first night at a new hotel/place. You don't feel safe yet, it's an unknown place so your body is always ready to run or fight.
While speaking in front of other people or in other situations where some feel uncomfortable, they tend to move closer to the wall. With your back on the wall one direction is safe.
Small things like those are still part of our instincts
I felt like that the first time in a hotel but at this point my brain just internalized they are a safe checkpoint
GREAT video with all kinds of scenarios and considerations. I have a similar little square office like this. I placed the desk in command, for sure - but out my window is, yep, a BIG CONCRETE WINGWALL. Despite this, though, I can still see the sky and sunlight, so I added good energy outside to improve the view! The wall now has lattice work with green ivy covering it, there are bird feeders and a solar water fountain. The cats like to sit in the window, as well. So now I am in the command position, receiving opportunities or aware of attackers that come in from my door (usually my spouse, trying to steal my chocolate) and great energy from my window view.
Feng Shui is the most interesting topic I don't need at the moment, but I still want to learn about it. I'll need it in the future anyways
If you live anywhere - an apartment, a house, a trailer, a cave, etc. - you need to know about feng shui. It's not just for people who own the place they live or work in, it's for everyone who lives and/or works anywhere.
you ALWAYS need feng shui.
Feng shui is such an incredible system. The way you explain these principles makes it so easy to understand
In my office my window is on the bottom of this square with the door in the same spot as yours.
I couldn't put it in command position due to other things in the room.
I originally had it facing the window to enjoy the view but it felt so stressful with my back to the door... especially because my children just kept coming in.
I moved it to facing the door with the window to my left. I added plants to my desk and on a shelf next to the window, and it feels like a lovely sanctuary space... and no one can attack me from behind. 😅
In my office/studio, my desk faces the wall opposite the door, between two windows, so i get the best light for painting. This made me anxious though as i often would not hear husband or son if they came in.
I installed a wireless doorbell for the hard of hearing and taught them to use it. I see a bright rainbow of light and know someone is coming in. Worked like a charm
1:15 and 2:42
I'm facing a similar situation right now with figuring out how to place my desk, except I realized my new bedroom is more cramped and putting a bed and the closet in the middle heavily limits how I can place my desk and rearrange my space. This video came at a good time.
similar place here, the corridor going straight to my room is very similar to my room, and I had been considering putting the desk in the corner away from the door and this only proves that I should do it like that
I wish I could put my desk like this! I can really feel that this is so true, even without knowing anything about feng shui, it feels weird to not have something behind me to support / protect me, but I never had the words for it
But after seeing this video I realise my desk is still in the best position that’s possible :)
All of your videos are great and helpful, but for me this was the most great and helpful of all. The explanation of the energy considerations make so much sense now!! Thank you!
Next level: get a desk with round corners so chi flows nicely
Get one of those U shaped tables like in kindergartens so you can have joyous energy and feel like you're the commander of a space ship.
@@Kikkatar. Yeeesssssss
@@Kikkatar. Whoa! I need that! Never seen such a desk. /off to serch for it
Thank you!
My room is just like this, and I put my desk in the first position shown. Very proud of having learned a little bit of feng shui, and I could tell I guessed right as soon as I sat down.
My studio is also similar (except a bit longer and the window is in the "bottom right" rather than "top right") and I'm so proud to have chosen the "right" position for my desk!!
I was forced to choose one of the 4 options he explains at 5:26 because of other furniture in the room AND the roof of the room being lower on one side. When choosing where to place the desk I also felt like the best option imaginable was not possible, and tried to work with my gut feeling.
Unknowingly, I used Feng Shui principles! I knew turning my back to the door felt wrong for SOME reason, so I could only choose a few spots for the desk. Too close to the door wall would be too distracting, but I would also be distracted (thanks, ADHD) by the beautiful view out of the window if it were right in front of me. I'm right-handed so I imagined that the desk in the "command position" would make my hand and pen cast a shadow on the paper, so that was another no: the window had to be on my left side.
Seeing the corridor and being in direct acoustic line with it would distract me with every little sound coming from inside the rest of the house and push me to stand up more.... So, it has to be further from the door to "trap me" in study mode. So in the end I chose the farthest possible corner from the door, facing the wall, with the window to my left side but slightly mismatched so it would be difficult to look out and be comfortable for extended periods of time... so yeah 😂
Sorry, darn ADHD again - info dump is over!!
What about arranging a desk and a bed? Will the bed impact the optimal position of the desk and vice versa?
I will have that exact problem in a couple months. Very interested to see the answer so I can optimize my room.
Yes. Here it becomes about priorities. Is it more important to have the bed or the desk in the command position? Whatever is more important to you should go into the command position.
Yes!!!! I was going to ask this! I have to fit a wardrobe, bed and desk
@@LittlebellgirLau same!
Yes! I was just going to ask the same thing.
can someone explain to me why are we assuming that we're going to be attacked when the door is open like what is going on in this house??
in some of the other videos he mentions it's bad to have your back facing windows incase you get attacked by monkeys lol
its dark humor lol
It's humor. And/or he has a cat. My cat loves to run up to me and smack me out of nowhere when she wants to play. Literally I get attacked in my own home.
I believe it has to do with maintaining a tortoise position. I don't think it means attack, but more like being clotheslined by stray undirected energy flow.
I think it has to do with maintaining a tortoise position, where you are protected from being clotheslined by stray undirected energy flow.
Thank you for suggesting the mirror, it makes such a huge difference!
I was thinking I disagreed on the best spot because I was prioritizing keeping an eye on the door, but then realized I subconsciously agreed with you 😅 When I started my job, I got to pick between a desk facing the wall with a peripheral view of the door or the desk facing the window with my back to the door. I picked the window with the nice view and good energy. Feng Shui knows best 😂
This is great! We need your Feng Shui genius in our lives! Would love to see a few examples of real life spaces that you think have really good Feng Shui energy so we can see what it should look like when it is good.
0:06 bro why do you have a plan of my room?
It's a common room layout
@@hmyesmoment1683 😁
Haha its a joke @@hmyesmoment1683
I love the little Easter eggs in your videos. All the scrunched up paper and marker pens on the floor because it’s so complicated even you can’t get it right first time 😂
6:00 is basically exactly my office (which is in fact also my living room) and i just protect myself from attacks by having a large dog at my feet!
Feng sui helped me with the placement of my two desk, wardrobe and bed. The door and window is exactly like in the video.
I place the bed next to the window so I can catch the early sun, see the door and also because I don't want my electronics exposed under the sun (window to the East)
The desk go next to the wall, I can see the entrance, turn right to enjoy the sun from the window and have my back against a second desk so I can just turn my chair and have access to another work surface.
The wardrobe is placed between my bed and desk, giving me easy access to all my stuff such as documents and personal items.
I have a super tricky floorplan. Every room feels like a disaster. Wanna have a look?
I feel like whoever designed my building ripped every page out of his book and wiped their butt with it 😭😭
as soon as you placed the desk in the first example I thought whoa that's a powerful positioning,, aptly named the command position!!!!
Exactly how my rented bedroom floorplan looks like 😂 Glad I have the exact same position as 5:06
My ideal desk position for this room (which was not considered here at all) would be bottom left corner with the back towards the bottom wall (so facing up). That way I can see the door and also the window no matter how big or small it is and no direct energy from the door can hit me.
Cliff is always keeping an eye out to see if anyone is coming behind him.
This is why working in a cubicle can feel so exposing. Literally everyone is always approaching you from behind.
I agree that out of these four options this one is the best (05:56), but I would turn the desk 180 degrees to face the other way instead of the wall. You get more sunlight (which is necessary when you work/study), you get the nice views, and you also see who's coming through the door. Better for your eyes too as they get to relax a bit by focusing a little further sometimes instead of perpetually focusing at distances of maximum the width of the desk...
ok finally I have an answer to my stupid room layout. I will turn my desk 180 degrees now.
my home office is this exact shape, but the view out the small-ish window is a parking lot at the front of the house and a busy street, and it's a bit below ground level, so I do not want people to see me and my screens if they look into the room. I put my desk in the bottom right corner, that way I can look out the window on my left and see a tree and the sky but nobody will be able to see me play video games until 4 am except my cat.
My Living room is L shaped, has one wall of windows facing west, a door on the east to my kitchen which has a big window minimally obscured by my fridge freezer. The main door is on the same wall as the kitchen. All my power and Ariel sockets are on the same wall as my doors. They didn’t think it through in the 50s when it was built. ☺️
Wonder how you feel about L-shaped desks, considering they make the viewing angles aspect a bit more complicated.
Thats almost the exact space of my office andn its been feeling strange recently and this has inspired change. love this channel and its sugguestions
What I learned from this video:
Put your desk in the command position and buy a new house for your stuff
Feng shui once again being tactical interior design mixed with eastern mysticism. Love it.
Why not place the desk at an angle so you can see both the window and the door?
exactly.
Hmmmm this makes me want to re-arrange my old kid's bedroom that my dad now uses for home office. The door is on one side of the long wall like here, and the window right across it. His desk is against the window, so with the door in the back. And I always felt it was bad since people could come in, especially when in video calls, and they are immediately in frame.
But there is also a bed and a dresser in the room...
I think I would put the desk a bit further into the room at a 90° angle, the window now "after" the desk and the door to it's left (if I used the drawing in this video). But maybe it's too dark and there is the bed on the short wall behind it 🤔 the other option would be to push it against the short wall in the front, still door to the left and window to the right.
What wasn't proposed here, but might work, is turn it to look into the room, short wall in the back and door to the right side, window to the left. But then the back wall might be too close and you can't push the chair back a lot... Hmmm
Loving the longer videos. Great explanations 🎉😊
I have that exact room layout with the desk, door, and big window, slight difference is my bed is in the room as well and I have a small closet adjacent to my door (on the same wall).
I wonder what the best position would be, I have my desk facing the north wall, with the door on its left and the window on the right. My bed is on the opposite wall, laying across the south wall (feet facing the closet).
I hope that makes sense, I know you usually require people to pay for your advice so I’m happy to hear from the community whenever they are free :)
It sounds pretty good, honestly! If you have enough room you could try turning the desk 180 degrees so your back is to the wall but it might be more distracting to look at your comfy bed when trying to work (lol) and like Cliff said it depends what is just outside your door, too, what angles the energy flows in and what you can see. If you have a swivel chair I think you’ll be just fine ;)
The most important thing is that your BED is in the command position- you can see the door from the head of the bed and a little bit of the window, so no one will be surprising you when you’re asleep! Laying E-W vs. N-S is good too!
Thank you for this again, I removed an attachment to my desk so I could put it in the real command position as in the first example. Though the whole door and that wall is made of glass, I feel a lot less exposed and I don't have to turn around to check if someone is there. Fortunately it is a relatively calm corridor but there is some traffic happening sometimes.
hi cliff! could you do a short clip of let’s say if we have both a sofa + a study desk in the same room? which should we prioritise then? (i love sitting at the sofa to do work tho 🥲)
3:52 This is exactly what I use in my office. The setup of my computer + machine just doesn't warrant the command position or the door/window view. I'm in the middle of the hallway style room, I'm facing a wall, with the door and window each on my left and right side.
I work in a mental health clinic. For safety reasons we are encouraged to arrange our desks so that we can be the first out of the room if a client becomes belligerent (so that the client can't block our exit and trap us in the room). This eliminates placing the desk in the usual command position as a option. I was wondering what recommendations you might have for this scenario. Is there such a thing as "inverse command position"?
I would place the chair in the bottom left corner, so that I have support from the two walls and can see both the window and the entrance.
I love the part where you can see your attackers coming at you when you're working...
I have the alignment of small window directly in line with the doorway and a long hall and I have a cat so i dont want to close the door completely. So I bought a almost floor length noren curtain, the cat can come and go and my roommates cant see directly into the room (and to my desk, that is placed along the wall directly between the door and window). the room feels totally different, and way more exposed, when i pull it up!
I love all your videos!!! U are so nice and interesting
What if the room is the end of a long corridor, small window with sunlight, a single bed and long but thin closet (fits on all walls)- where would you place a small desk?
I placed my closet on the top wall, bed along the window wall and small desk on the bottom wall (facing the wall).
I don’t think it’s bad at all, but maybe mirrors can assist?
What about the desk position at 5:40 but turn it around? That is my preferred position in this layout, with the main consideration being my own comfort.
I think it sets a commanding enough position because it demonstrates what is MY area, it gives me a very wide open view of the entire window, and it leaves a whole lot of unbroken space from the door all the way into the room, making it still an inviting place for guests.
And whatbif you put it in the corner facing the window, corner behind your back so you see also the door? Then you get the view, the light, no attacking energy and you still get the energy from window and door. Or not?
I wish I could buy those little models
what about if the door is perpendicular to the window, with a closet along the wall opposite from the window?
This was helpful. I’m curious how closets play into everything. My window has a big window opposite the door and a closet. My desk faces the window on the left half with my back to the closet. My back is also to the door, but not directly. Better or nay? I wonder.
It’s better than being in the direct path of the energy from the door. While it may seem like closets have/are doors, they also have walls and are part of the room.
That white out refusing to blank out the wall at ~4 minutes in was a bit traumatic. Thank god it started working and didn’t ruin the take.
Why couldn’t the desk be placed on the left corner of the room? The back is to the wall, one can see the view from the window and it’s a like a semi-command position?
Thanks man, now I'm afraid even to place a table in my room :D.
3:13 omg thank you so much, my bedroom looks just like this and I'm trying to figure out how to fit a desk area in there and rearrange everything relatively comfortably. Its also so dark and ugly in most of the room, and even the window only provides a little light (though better than nothing). Well, I also have a small closet in the way that changes things a bit more, but idk I think that is the closest decent it can get. I still dont like the feeling of the desk facing the wall, but I think its likely it'll end up in that space so maybe gonna try out different layouts if I get the chance to see what the other ones are like. Cause I have some other ideas of how to angke the desk but, it just might make the space feel too small and cluttered though.
I’m still not sure where to put my desk! My door and window are just like you show, but I have a large cupboard taking up the entire wall that the door is on, and the other two walls (without door or window) have a sofa and a long cabinet on them (opposite one another). The desk is looking out the window, at a nice enough view but I am never quite comfortable with door behind me (the corridor is not too busy though). I just am uneasy this way but am not sure how to readjust and hoped this video would help.
Could the long cabinet go under the window or somewhere along the window wall, and the desk go on the wall opposite the couch?
my bedroom/office is very long, very long, and i have two corner windows but they're high up and small so i can't see much but trees, i have two doors in the opposite corner, one to the living room and one to the shared bathroom, it's difficult to arrange
Also, do you have an apartment tutorial where you could suggest a layout for a combined couch set up and desk set up in the living together 🥺💛
Sun Tzu once said "he who puts his desk in command will not be attacked from behind"
2:15 this is exactly the setup my boss had to switch to recently (no windows in the room and it's about half the size of that room. Split it in half vertically essentially) for the office/washroom (food service and the sinks are in the office...) I told her this exact same thing thanks to your tutelage :) Unfortunately her boss wants it that way so she's kind of screwed.
5:18 is basically my situation but there is also a window behind the desk on the back wall as well.
Unfortunately I have a bed too big for my room that tales up space behind my desk, that sits horizontally on the back wall.
I also have like 3 computer desks. I have a small room and I hate it. I also hate my bed for being too big. I actually thought about dismantling it and sleeping on the floor lol.
I'm currently setting up an office/bedroom combo. I'd love to send you a video when I'm all finished to hear your thoughts
What about in the corner of the room on the same wall as the door but facing the window and being able to look out the door? Would that be a good position?
My work-from-home desk is as shown at 2:00 as the guest bed sits against the opposite wall and fills half the room
This is such good timing cuz I’ve been re designing my study for two people! But nonetheless I can’t follow feng shui I cuz the space is too small for two people. So danger come at me!
This is what it feels like to play medic in tf2
Thank you very much for all the tips. Very helpful. 🙏
does feng shui say anything about rooms with no windows?
A curtain or divider?
My room is exactly like thst, with an in build wardrobe next to the door.... i have to fit a queensize bed, my desk, my self tape back drop, and a shelf.... how would you do it?
Bed goes in the bottom right corner in command position, shelf next to it. Desk along top wall with either a curtain or big plant or bookshelf and lamp shielding it from door energy
What if your office desk needs 2 monitors and there's a bunch of cables everywhere on the ground because it's in the middle of the room?
My bedroom door entrance and window are on adjacent walls with my closet on the opposite wall of the window. What to do, Cliff?? What to do?
THIS IS SO MY ROOOM but the problem is i have a queen bed where do i put it?
I would say put your bed in the bottom right corner in the command position. Desk along top wall with either a curtain or big plant or bookshelf and lamp shielding it from door energy :)
How do you place 2 desks in a room (married couple)?
Rectangle room about 157" x 113" . When you walk into doorway from long hall, there is a window in the center of room wall across from door, window in the center of the left room wall from the door. Closet on the same wall as the door. And nothing on the right wall from the door. On other side of nothing wall is unfinished basement. Otherside of sliding door closet is bathroom. Room is halfway underground (split level). Left wall window view is cement porch and street (front yard). Far wall window view is bushes/plants (side of house).
Please help.
this is the new ochem drawing molecules
What would be the best positions for this exact room but with two desks?
In some of these cases, I'm wondering if a rotated command position would make sense. Like facing the window, but alongside the bottom wall. He didn't mention that... Is that a dumb idea?
“People can you know, can come and attack you.” Family turns to me, “Bruhhh where’s your office?”
“I knew you were a secret agent!”
We almost got into a loop near the end 😂
what if we had the door and the window on the same wall, but you cannot float your desk? which one is "better"?
What effect do eraser shavings have on feng shui? Because I’m genuinely anxious.
Question: what makes you not take into account the direction you face (north east south west) doesnt that really matter?
I just moved into a small studio apartment and need help, can i send you photos of the space?
Was that LEGO at the end?? 😁
Watching this at 3:22am with this face 🧐📝
feng shui is not some voodoo stuff, it's actually advanced interior design
What if the wall space is open where the door is and you still have the window area open on the other side. Then where should I place my desk for maximum Feng shui?
I put my desk in the door wall but I also have a bed and 2 wall mounted tvs one monitor and one TV.
What if you have a standing desk, which is much taller, with computer monitors and means you can’t really see past it any way?
Why is there a difference, if I work with many monitors or with just one? How many monitors are "too much"?
Me realizing that I intuitively practice feng shui :)
Why can't we put the desk infront of the window so that we can see the door and have the window behind us
I HAVE A BIG PROBLEM, my room has 2 full windows, and the 1st window can be seen if you walk towards the door entrance instantly. Idk where to put my bed cause my desk is placed at the side of the wall. SHOW US THE WAY PLEASE! 🙏