In winter the working day gets shorter, and the fatigue hits harder. The light is gray, the radiator dries out the air, and your eyes are glued to a monitor. By five o’clock your head is foggy, and tomorrow it all repeats. More often than not, the culprit isn’t age or “it just piled up.” It’s how your desk is positioned.

Vastu approaches this through a few simple rules: where the light comes from, what is behind your back, and where you are looking. Some of these rules overlap with ordinary ergonomics, so they are easy to test on yourself. We covered the safe in the last post. This time it’s about the desk.

A caveat: Vastu is a tradition, not medicine. If your head hurts regularly, see a doctor. But rearranging furniture costs nothing and quickly shows what works for you.

Which Way Should Your Desk Face: North, East, and Everything Else

In Vastu, the classic advice for a workspace is to sit facing north or east. East is associated with freshness and a clear head, north with focus and business activity. In winter, morning light from the east is rare, so it’s worth using.

The rule is simple:

• East: for work that needs ideas and clarity.
• North: for routine tasks, accounting, negotiations, and finances.
• South and southwest: traditionally considered the heaviest directions to face, and these are exactly where desks usually end up “because that’s how it fit.”

Can’t turn the whole desk to face north or east? At least rotate your monitor. That’s much easier than moving furniture.

4 Mistakes That Make Your Head “Crash” by Evening

Mistake 1. Your Back to the Door

This is the most common mistake. You sit with your back to the entrance, and part of your attention constantly goes to “who’s behind me.” Vastu considers this position unstable. From an everyday point of view it’s the same: your brain watches the door in the background, and by evening you carry tension you don’t even notice.

What to do: turn the desk so you can see the entrance. If that’s impossible, put something solid behind you: a wall, a tall cabinet, or at least a high-backed chair.

Mistake 2. A Radiator Behind Your Back

In winter this is a hidden enemy. Dry heat hits the back of your head and neck, the air gets drier, and by evening your head feels heavy and your neck “boils.” Here Vastu agrees with plain common sense: heat at your back makes it hard to concentrate.

What to do: move your chair at least a meter away from the radiator. If you can’t, add a humidifier, or at least a bowl of water, and ventilate the room during breaks.

Mistake 3. Light Only from Above or Only from Behind

In winter there isn’t enough daylight, and many people switch on a single bright ceiling lamp. The result is glare on the screen and eyes working at their limit. Vastu recommends soft side light from the east or north rather than harsh overhead light.

What to do: sit sideways to the window (light from the left if you’re right-handed) and add a warm desk lamp. A bright lamp behind you or straight ahead of the monitor is a minus.

Mistake 4. A Mirror Opposite the Monitor

A mirror facing the screen, or behind it, doubles the motion: the picture is on the monitor, and your reflection and the screen’s reflection are in the mirror. Your gaze keeps jumping and your eyes tire faster. In Vastu, a mirror in the work zone is seen as a “multiplier” of bustle and fatigue.

What to do: remove the mirror from your line of sight, or turn it so it reflects neither you nor the monitor.

One Weekend Rearrangement

You don’t need to redo the whole office. One Saturday plan is enough:

1. Find north and east with the compass in your phone. Two minutes.
2. Turn the desk so you face one of those directions (or at least turn the monitor).
3. Check your back: behind you should be a wall or support, not a door or a radiator.
4. Remove the mirror from the screen area.
5. Put a lamp to the side and get rid of bright light shining at the screen.
6. Check on Monday: write down how you feel at 5 p.m. and compare with last week.

If you feel better after a week, keep it. If not, put everything back. You lose nothing.

Conclusion

In winter, your head “crashes” for more than one reason. But often it’s a combination: your back to the door, a radiator at the back of your head, glare on the monitor, and a mirror in your field of view. Fix the four points, make one rearrangement, and then look at the result.

How is your desk positioned, and which way do you face? Tell us in the comments and we’ll check it against this plan and see what can be adjusted.

Thank you for reading! Wishing you all a wonderful mood and an easy, productive week ahead. If you would like to learn how to live each day in harmony with the rhythms of the Universe, get in touch with us via the Gyana.org portal to book an individual session.