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Make Room for Peace and Serenity
Try to create an area for calm and reflection: a zone of tranquility. Even if you work in the tiniest cubicle or office, you can dedicate a small space to a shallow vase with flower petals floating on water or a glass jar filled with glistening pebbles, or a terra cotta dish filled with sand and seashells that are soothing to touch, or whatever pleases you, including your pet rock. Your zone of tranquility should evoke for you the beauty of creation and the eternal presence of spiritual power. What could be better for defusing stress in the middle of a tense day?
Your zone of tranquility should be so appealing that you can look at it and clear your head whenever you are frustrated. Help yourself to a tranquility break, perhaps instead of a coffee break. You can recharge by focusing on nothing but your breathing for five minutes, which is superior to a recharge on caffeine. It works. You'll return to work with positive energy, not just coffee jitters.
Honor the Divine Essence
Once you create a space dedicated to tranquility, work cannot overcome you. During the course of your moments of reflection, you will probably discover or remember, sooner or later, that your work or your career does not define you. Work is an important part of us all, but it is not all of us. What matters most is you: your unique being, a divine part of the Supreme Creator.
Orientation and Shape
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PLEASE NOTE: If you live in the southern hemisphere, you will need to shift everything on the vastu purusha mandala 90 degrees to the right. For example, any advice that suggests the northeast would mean the southeast in the southern hemisphere.

 
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