Try playing with these interior design and Feng Shui ideas to bring more awareness to your Valleys Workspace.

Some spaces are better for Valleys People than others, but considering what’s available to you in the space around you can go a long way.

Below, you’ll find a list of ideas to consider and experiment with in your Home Office as a Valleys Human Design Environment.

These ideas are to get you thinking about your Environment more expansively; they are not hard-and-fast rules, but considerations that will impact how good you feel in your body and in your workspace.

Take what feels fun and expansive and leave the rest!

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Prioritize Connection

How can you prioritize your connection spaces, whether that’s your computer or technology, your playlists and speakers, or seating for you and/or guests? How do you “connect” in your Home Office? Depending on your workspace, how can you build the space around your connection sites, taking great care in ensuring these areas are high-functioning, feel-good, and comfortable? How might you prioritize these facets of the room depending on how you make a living?

Be Mindful of Your Rituals

How do you like to start your workday? Is it a fresh coffee in the morning using your favourite accessories and flavours? Is it that delicious Nespresso or that rhythmic matcha moment? How might you build that ritual into your workspace? Are you able to have a high-vibe coffee station/bar in your Home Office? Or, if you like a mid-day ritual, such as a meditation break, do you have a quiet corner set out and prioritized? How do you like to end the workday? Do you shut off all the equipment, open the windows, call your friend, turn off the lights — how do you disconnect from work? (DO you disconnect?) Consider your unique rituals and how they can take up a small (or large!) volume of space in your work areas.

Balance Your Decor

You’re sensitive to spaces that can feel too loud or too quiet; too yin or too yang. Home Office space’s generally need to feel more yang, but it’s also important to bring balance to the space and not have anything feel extreme. Do you need to bring in some colour, or more energy somewhere, or do you need to tone things down? Consider taking in the entire space as is and assessing where certain levels need to be adjusted. Certain brightnesses or contrasts in colour, feel, or mood or textures may need to be shifted to better suit the vibe you like. What type of mood do you like to work in, and how can you bring more of that energy into your space?

Create Quiet Zones

Quiet zones might be areas where silencing headphones are accessible, soundproof rooms are available, places with low colours and tones and “quiet moods” fill the space, or another equivalent. They can also be blocks of time where you are not plugged in to technology, people, or anything at all. Consider how often you like to plug in to work; creating a designated workspace is more beneficial for Valleys People than some of the other Human Design Environments because these people need to be reminded to unplug, disconnect, discharge, and ground. It’s not sustainable to be constantly plugged in, so having rituals, limits and boundaries in place around your work can be very helpful. Consider how you can imbue this into your workspace creatively.

Vibey Workplace Connections

Are your work connections healthy and prosperous? Does it feel good to connect with your clients or customers? Do you have a way of contacting or staying in touch with the people you want to be plugged into? Consider evaluating and reviewing any email subscriptions you have on a regular basis (I suggest seasonally/quarterly), or how regularly you are contacting existing clients or relationships in your line of work. How frequently do you want to reach out, send emails, post content, strategize with your mentor or collaborate with peers? Valleys People are sensitive to the frequencies in their life; how things feel and how frequently they connect to those things. Strong connections are important to your vitality, and regularly reviewing if you feel good in your space or if you need to shift something may depend on what you have going on season to season.

Develop Weekly, Monthly, and Seasonal Rituals

This can be times where you go through your emails or check in with your finances or goals. Have regular check-in routines or self-care rituals lined up on a rhythmic basis. Yes you can build self-care into your work! Work/Life balance is something that is very important for Valleys People. This helps move you into a deep life flow and rhythm, with connection to sources that feed and nourish you. Consider how things like massages, or facials, or walks, or marathons, etc could be a nourishing cadence to move into, but also consider how regularly filing your taxes, checking in with your mentor, coach, or assistant, or having friendly masterminds with coworkers can benefit your work life.

Get Low — Get on the Floor

Where can you set out an area to be low to the ground? Are there carpets available to spread out on, or bolsters on the floor to plop onto? Many Valleys people are drawn to keeping their ears to the ground with info they like, and may often feel pulled to the earth in some way. When you need to connect or ground, you may feel pulled lower, physically down to the ground. Go with it! Lay on the floor! Your brainstorms may have you sitting on the floor anyway. Don’t be afraid to sprawl out on the floor, ground or carpet in your space — in fact how can you encourage that?

Use Heavy-Bottomed Furniture

You want your furniture to feel anchored to the floor. It’s OK if it’s modular or moveable, but the design lays flat on the floor or looks weighted and heavy. Imagine the flow of energy moving around these objects rather than flowing beneath them, raised off the floor like the Mountains Environment; the Valleys environment has ripples of flowing energy that moves auspiciously through the space. You don’t want clutter or mess or too many things elevated up off the floor. How can you bring in furniture that sits flat, or is designed low to the ground?

Don’t Overlook Your Sound System

Your a music girly. Your a podcast guy. Whatever your fix is, have the right music set up for your needs. Music is one of the best ways to fill the space with the kind of energy you like. You can manipulate the atmosphere with jazz, classical or the Telepathy Tapes. You may like to work to specific sounds or silence, but ensure your sensitive ears have what they like.

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