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When you create a zone of tranquility, be sure that it embraces you and your connection to nature. Given the size of the cubicle, why not place the zone within reach? The best locations would be on your desk or counter in the east, the northeast, or the north. You could place a picture of someone or something that you love next to an old wooden box or a shallow clay bowl filled with dried flower petals or sea glass or just sandanything that is natural and pleasing to the touch. In the course of a day, focus for a few minutes on your personal display until your mind is emptied of thoughts and you are reenergized.
Follow these vastu living guidelines and you will break up the sameness and monotony that so often defines the cubicle. You will create a space that is organic and personal. The ambience will boost your spirits, connect to your soul, and reduce your stress.
The Open Space
The open space obviously lacks privacy. Unless you are situated near a wall, your space also lacks any visible boundaries and feels undefined. All this is true, but vastu living can still be brought into the part of the open space that contains you and your aura. The lack of walls can also be viewed as an asset. Fewer walls mean that the positive energies that enter the company from the northeast quadrant are free to move through the open space. They are not blocked, so you become the recipient of lots of positive energy.
To draw your personality into an open space is a challenge. You probably don't want to be garishly eccentric and not fit in with your ''neighborhood." But you can still quietly personalize your space and introduce that necessary connection with nature. First, define your space on the vastu purusha mandala. Draw a quadrangle that extends beyond your desk and chair by one or two feet depending on the size of the empty area, if there is any, between you and the neighboring desks. Call this quadrangle your work area and make it your own space. Fence it in. If your work area receives good sun

 
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