Working from Home and the Rhythm of the Moon — How to Make Concentration and Breaks

What Tends to Break down in Working from Home Is the Breaks

The difficulty of working from home is not in concentration itself, but in how to make breaks. Because the break of commuting disappears, you need to place yourself the boundary between the beginning and end of work, and between a period to advance and a period to check. If days accumulate without placing boundaries, it becomes a feeling that work is always continuing, and tiredness becomes hard to leave.

The pillar of this article is the judgment of placing breaks. The rhythm of the Moon is used as a guide for placing those breaks. Please read it not as a way of reading where mood or physical condition is decided by the Moon, but as a framework for deciding how to place work.

The Moon's Waxing and Waning Become Breaks for Work of About 29.5 Days

The Moon goes around its waxing and waning in about 29.5 days. The period heading from new moon to full moon and the period heading from full moon to new moon can be used as a guide for changing how work is placed.

In general, in this site's way of reading, a period when the Moon is waxing is read as a period for placing work to start anew and work to advance forward. A period when the Moon is waning is read as a period for placing work to check content that has been advanced, organize it, and prepare it in a form to hand to the next. This does not mean that the Moon's waxing and waning decide the results of work. It is a guide for placing, divided, a section to advance and a section to prepare within a flow of work of about one month.

In working from home, with weekly breaks alone, it can be hard to make waves in work. If you layer the Moon's break of about 29.5 days, stages can be given to how monthly work is placed.

The Speed at Which the Moon Moves through Signs Becomes a Guide for Daily Breaks

The Moon is a fast-moving celestial body, and moves one sign in about 2 to 2.5 days. This speed can be used as a guide for thinking about breaks in work in units of a few days.

For example, place work to advance with concentration in a lump of about 2 days, and insert checking and organizing on the third day. Such a way of making small breaks can be read layered with the Moon's movements. What is important is not applying detailed meanings by sign, but having a rhythm of switching the kind of work in units of a few days. In working from home, the longer you continue the same work, the more vague the breaks become. Placing small switches in advance becomes a practical device for keeping concentration.

Breaks within a Day Are Decided by the Clock, Not the Stars

The rhythm of the Moon can be used for monthly and few-day breaks, but breaks within a day are, as a premise, decided by the clock, not the stars. The times for starting and finishing work, the position where you take breaks, the time band where you place meetings. These are basic to fix by time, whether working from home or in the office.

On top of that, for example, a division of a day where the morning is given to work to advance with concentration and the evening is made a time for checking and communication can be layered, such as thickening the checking side in a waning Moon period. This is the concrete work example placed in this article. Fix the form of a day by the clock, and use the Moon's rhythm as material for adjusting the distribution of that form within the month. Keeping this order is the condition for using a rhythm reading realistically.

As for health, it is not handled in this article. We do not use a way of reading that connects the Moon's rhythm with judgments about sleep or physical condition. Please use it strictly within the scope of how work is placed and how breaks are made.

Breaks Are Not Made and Finished; They Are Used While Being Reviewed

How breaks are placed is not something fixed once decided. What breaks fit changes depending on the amount of work and how meetings come in. If, every about 29.5 days as the Moon's waxing and waning go around once, you take a form of reviewing whether how breaks were placed could actually be kept, and where strain appeared, the rhythm gradually approaches a form that fits your own work.

What is important in making rhythm for working from home is not a special method. It is dividing a section to advance from a section to prepare, switching in units of a few days, and breaking a day by the clock. Continuing these three, while using the Moon's cycle as a guide. If breaks are decided in words, even working from home, you can make the beginning and end of work on your own side.