Environment

Haven't posted for awhile, mostly due to travel and to changes at my workplace. However, I am presented with a large challenge in that area and should probably talk it out. Here's the situation:

Moving from one group to another at work, I am having to move my desk into a room that is an energetic nightmare. Going from a wide open space with windows and cubicles where I was very comfortable energetically to an interior closed space with no windows and no real desks that also contains metal grids loaded with hundreds of old cables along the ceiling and phone system tie down racks along the walls that cannot be removed. The new room (used to house a PBX system previously) makes me feel jumpy, antagonistic, depressed and confused. Although I am still doing the same work that I've been doing for the last few months, since moving to the new room I have encountered much confusion and stress that is really unnecessary to what I am doing.

Since my basic personality has not changed, nor has my work responsibility, I am sure that the unease that I am feeling is due to the change in environment. My options are to quit the job, ask for reassignment to another group, or make this change work. The best choice is to somehow adjust the environment. Therefore, I started reading up on Feng Shui to find a way to make that room more balanced and able to support human endeavor. (humans being different from phone system components)

One very interesting perspective that I have encountered is the view that the stuff of the environment is energetically alive - that it is composed of the same stuff that we are, and thus resonates with us or provides dissonance that works against us. If all matter is part of the same unified field, then it makes sense that balancing the environment can benefit life. Being the awareness or intelligence in the area, one can theoretically arrange the environmental factors to be most helpful to the activity or life that will inhabit the area.

So, to keep my sanity as well as my job, I'm analyzing the room and getting some ideas of how to mask some of the confusion generated by the wall wires, how to make a work space out of a table edge, how to create a drawer where there are no drawers, how to arrange the tables and switches needed for our work in the most beneficial pattern and how to keep all the work getting done in this currently negative environment, while I try to improve the room.

Wish me luck.

How to Use Television as an Analgesic

Step One: Seek out stimulation.

Engage in some lively discourse about soulful topics. Begin early in the day to allow time for Passion to brew. Talk of life, love; immerse yourself in current events. Visit a book store and discover what the young adults are reading these days. Cultivate ideas and opinions if they are readily available and let sit in a separate bowl.

Step Two: Isolate Yourself

Mix the ingredients together in the area between your heart and your stomach and set to simmer. Stir continuously for 30 minutes to 3 hours. Longer is not necessarily better. Use your internal thermometer to gauge whether or not the temperature is right. You want your mixture to be on the verge but not yet boiling.

Step Three: Remove and Cool

Once heated to the right temperature, remove from the burner and let sit in front of the television to cool. This could take as little as a few minutes or as long as an hour. I find it best to choose a channel requiring no thought whatsoever. The Food Network and Crime Dramas are my standards. Allow time for mouth to gape and eyes to glaze over. Once this is achieved your passion should be ready to serve as a cold reminder of freedom of speech.

Enjoy!

Note: Television can be substituted with Facebook, to taste.