Turn Your Office Into a Lively Space For Creative Flow
Using Japanese architect Takeshi Hosaka’s Outside In concept
My subconscious mind peers deep from one reality to the next.
As I gaze into the cloudless powder blue sky, I see flickers of white molecules colliding together. An empty mind drifts into imagination. Unexplored corners of my creative mind are released from their locked-up prison of a million thoughts per second like a wild cat from its cage.
Sitting still in the center of my garden, bumblebees the size of ripe plumbs hum as they pollinate deep pink flowers blooming off a crystalized tree, free from the decay of time.
Flouro blue, royal orange, bright white, and paradise yellow butterflies spiral together like young teenagers playing tag.
A trail of a thousand ants creates a path that any person would need intricate tools to emulate.
Lizards teleport from one pebble to another in a sequence to mask their presence as they hunt wasps embedded in the smell of lavender.
My mind drifts further.
The Karman line defining the edge of our atmosphere and space starts to solidify. Random cracks like ones on a dropped Chinese porcelain vase begin to appear, not knowing where one piece of our atmosphere starts or the other begins.
Earth’s veiled outer rim fades instantaneously like a summer’s tryst.
As if the Karman line hid our true field of vision into the vacuum of outer space to create a false sense of loneliness.
Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus are no longer specs that glitter in the moon’s light as the Milky Way’s planets now spiral in plain sight, brighter, closer, like the butterflies that chase each other for untethered jubilation.
The gateway from my subconscious mind to my conscious mind is traversed by glass-hinged doors that extend my garden into my office space.
Following the Japanese architect Takeshi Hosaka’s technique, I have bridged nature’s wonderment from the outside to the inside. Takeshi’s concept of Outside In extends nature’s flow of unfathomable creation into your home to bring life into otherwise lifeless spaces.
This technique of Outside In keeps my mind free from meaningless witchcraft; dishes in the sink, clothes in the hamper, socks, and running shoes littered on the floor. Useless, infinite tasks that keep us in a hamster wheel.
After I exit my garden, I walk seamlessly into my office.
Seeds break through the soil to grow upward next to my desk as my ivy plant intertwines towards the stars.
My internal office space teams with plant life scattered all over.
Steeped on cabinets like roman pillars, ferns spread outward like an embracing hug from a family member, and dragon trees stand tall in every corner to open up my otherwise dull inner space.
I use Takeshi’s Outside In to keep my creative power flowing.
As my tired mind becomes reluctant to keep focus, the sun starts to set.
Without force, I head back outside to my garden. Fireflies start to ping at one another, giving me the feeling that the stars have been brought down to earth from the heavens for a fleeting moment. I set my intentions for a new day as the night sky fills with more light than we sometimes care to notice.
All minds are free
Translucent veils can harbor our creative minds. Thoughts of being enclosed or locked down can sink into our subconscious. In reality, all minds are free. Nature can help expand our minds through its kaleidoscope of creation like a beach umbrella modeled from the shape of a daisy.
To take a walk or sit silently in nature fuels our feeling of freedom. You can clutter your office space with inanimate objects fit for purpose, but plants can bring you an unparalleled sense of clarity to your mind.
- Studies show that interactions with indoor plants can reduce stress by calming our sympathetic nervous system.
- Research from the Norwegian University of Life Science has shown plants make us feel happier.
- Scientists have shown that nature has positive effects on people’s energy levels and can provide stress relief, even boost your mental health.
- The Royal College of Agriculture in Cirencester, England, found that students demonstrate 70% greater focus when in rooms containing plants.
Nature is a force with infinite energy. Even a dead plant can reimmerse from its dried roots with a few drops of rain.
An inner space that transforms day by day through your plants can enhance your mindfulness.
Plants can give the sense of an ever-changing horizon: a new leaf, a new day, a new beginning, a living and breathing space.
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Thank you for reading,
Rick Govic
