The Power Of Feng Shui And How It Can Help You Find Joy With Marie Diamond REPLAY

I love podcasts. It's something I'm just kind of discovering, and I'm a bit of a neophyte at it. So vulnerably, I say I've done a lot of interviews over the years, having been running a transformational training company for many, many years and training, gosh, more than 100,000 students. We spent a lot of time with other people that are really committed to service, to serving And so I've had lots of interviews and introductions and things, but this podcast thing is new and different, and I'm enjoying it. It's a lot of fun, and I recommend it to everybody who's listening. Go ahead and learn about how to get a podcast out there and share your wisdom with the world. This is a really amazing time. I think if anything, we could all agree on the fact that more collective wisdom, sharing more of our consciousness across the globe, is something that we can all do, participate in. So it's just magical. Thanks for joining me and joining us. I've written this book called Pivot. I speak on the subject of pivoting, which is code for reinvention, but the word has really been unpacked in a number of different ways for me over the last few months. To me, this word pivoting is really synonymous with not just reinventing, whether it's your career or your life in some way, But it's about evolution. It's about transformation. How is it that we're just continuing to manifest change, which is the cosmic law, right? Nothing can remain the same. Things that are stagnant end up dying. And it's that process of decay, I think, that really steals the joy from people's lives. I know that was the case for me when I was practicing law for more than 15 years, and waking up unenthusiastic about the day, and feeling actually some dread about what I was going to be doing. I could just feel something dying on the inside, and I didn't have any languaging for it at the time, but now I get it, that it was like my soul was shriveling up. And I know you do a lot of work with people to help to regenerate their energy in their bodies, and in their minds, and their spirits, their souls. And you even do work with them sort of on the physical side of things to help them to regenerate energy and find greater connection with source. Yeah. I would love it if just at the beginning, anything else you want to say about your experience, but really what is it that has driven you since the time you were 15 years old to want to be a healer and want to help people to make great changes in their life for the better?

Well, I think we are on a journey. So my journey was definitely to connecting with the world in a very positive way. But before I could do that, I had to go myself through a pivot moment, of course, and always is this way. So for me, I was I was run over by a truck at 15. I had a near-death experience. I went to what you call the other side. I was in a higher dimension. There were all beautiful beings of light and they gave me the message that I was here to enlighten more than 500 million people and I had to go back to do this. Right now I'm 15, I'm a high school student. So this is before the internet, right? So you have no idea, you cannot check out what is all this word like enlightenment. So for me, I really felt it was being of service and to try to make a difference in people's life. So I tried to do it where I was. Now, that was at high school, of course, but I already was connected in with meditation since I was 7. I had a spiritual teacher that came on my path. So I was already really like, okay, I need to get focused on getting higher frequencies, higher energy. And I felt like there were 3 aspects I needed to work on, and it was connecting with the inner and really connecting with my higher self. And I needed to contemplate and really observe and look at during my day what I could improve for the next day and for the next week and the next year. I also knew it was service was the 3rd aspect, so I just try to make a difference. But one of the things I felt was I was also a little bit disappointed at that time when this happened to me, because I had tried to really already practice meditation and prayer and trying to be a role model. And interestingly enough, and I went back to my spiritual master, he said, you know, when I told him I'm very disappointed in myself that I attracted something like this, like a truck accident. And he said, well, you just had bad feng shui, Marie. And I was like, what is that? And so he said, well, there are 3 aspects to the law of attraction, to connecting in with your higher self. First of all, it's meditation and prayer and trying to release your karma, any lessons you have come to redo in this lifetime. But he said, it's also how you, of course, as a human being, how you are setting your mindset, how you have your emotional behavior, how you do things in the world, you know, to be positive and take action for the good of all. But there's also a third aspect, and that's the environment. And so that was really, really new to me. And he said, like, where you are sleeping right now. I said, yeah, I hate that place, right? And he said, yes, because it's not aligned for you. So he gave me my first steps in Feng Shui, and I didn't even really know that many people could know that, or I had no idea. So he told me my directions, he told me the colors that would work for me. And so I went into another room, I changed things around, and my life shifted. My life shifted spiritually, energetically, but also I was very bullied at school, and suddenly these bullies became my friends. And like, a lot of things shifted from being very alone, I didn't have the friends, to being with a very popular guy, some of my first boyfriends. And it was like, all happened literally in like 2 weeks. It was like this big shift. And I knew it was because I have changed my environment, because I hadn't changed anything else. So, I started practicing all this information and When I was 18, I had to make a choice. So for me, it was thinking, I want to reach 500 million people. How can I be of service to so many people? And I thought like, well, perhaps if I go into politics or I'm going to diplomacy. And so that's why I actually became a lawyer, because in my country, becoming a lawyer was like a necessary step to become Prime Minister of Belgium or to be a representative for the United Nations. I mean, I was thinking that level. And I really understood that I had to open up my mind and create a space for me to do this. But after 5 years practicing and working for the Belgian and the European government, I also saw that I could not reach— I couldn't help the others to reach a conscious level. And the politicians I was working with and the managers, they started asking me already, why are you always so joyful? And You're so positive, and what do you do? You shine always. And I was starting to share with them, like, I was doing meditation, I did this feng shui. And so I actually decided to set up a consulting company, and my first clients were actually politicians and top managers from the government to help them to go to that next level. And there is where I saw that, that was my pivot moment to really go from the corporate world. I don't really feel I was corporate because I was like, it was just part of my service. I was really very focused on that, into reaching more people. But then I already found that there was another way I could do it. I could become a teacher. So I started teaching meditation and how to reach enlightenment, that experience I had when I was about 26. So I knew where it could lead to, where people could be full of compassion and love and Reaching out to people to be of higher service. So I was very focused at a very early age to do this. But after 6, 7 years, I was thinking, I'm still in Belgium, right? There's just 10 million people in Belgium. You cannot really reach 500 million. So I started going to America.

I want to pause you right there for just a second. So for the folks that are listening, I think Marie is describing what I think we can all identify with is a pivotal time. pivotal moment where you discovered on some level that you had a higher purpose and you started to pursue that, that you knew deep inside that you really wanted to have a major impact. And initially you thought, maybe I'll do it in politics, right? I've become a lawyer. So you studied to become a lawyer and you worked in, in the political arena for 5, 6 years. And then you realize, well, no, not quite. So I'm going to pivot yet again, right? And become a consultant, create a consultancy. And were successful doing that, pursuing it. But then again, you reached a point where you realize, even though this is good and it's successful and I could continue down this path because that's safe, would be a safe path now, that on top of that, you still were not feeling that you were really kind of hitting on all cylinders. And so yet you pivoted again, or that's what you're about to describe, because now you're going to go beyond Belgium, right?

That is a really good way to explain it, is I was pivoting ongoing. And so then I was in America and then I really just got, okay, move in 3 weeks. So I just jumped. I called my husband and said, let's move, we're coming here. And I was just in time to connect in with one of our colleagues, Marci Shimoff, that then connected me with Jack Canfield. I was doing then some consulting for him and supporting his company and his family to go to reach a higher level of frequencies. And that's where he invited me to be part of TLC, the Transformation Leadership Council, where then I started having these dreams about this woman, half blonde hair, like half long hair. And she said in my dreams, I'm from Australia, pay attention when I come in your life. And already a lot of visionary dreams in the past. So when I came to TLC, that was actually Rhonda Byrne that came to sit next to me and said, hi, I'm Rhonda from Australia. And I said, okay, whatever you do, I need to do this. And she's like, I'm doing this movie called The Secret, but not a lot of people want to be interviewed. I said, oh, I'm in. I need to do this. You're going to reach millions of people. And she's like, wow, you're the first that is so enthusiastic. And I said, well, I know it. So I was interviewed and she was very surprised about my take on the law of attraction and quantum physics from the environmental perspective. And she said, oh, you're going to be in the movie? And I said, of course I'm going to be in the movie. It's on my vision board. I actually put on my vision board, I'm going to be in a movie seen by millions of people that will transform the world. Because I knew coming to America, I thought, I'm close to Hollywood, at least I can become part of a movie or something. But, In that opening up, I had to learn to say yes. So that's one of the things I have learned is a total surrender and total trust when these ideas come up. Like, okay, move to America. I'm going. Like, this woman comes. Yes, I'm ready. To all the time go in that feeling of I am ready and not going to resistance. Because we all have these dreams and these things we want to manifest. But then when it's brought in front of you, we start going a little bit into finding our excuses and to thinking, well, is that possible or is that not possible? I mean, I always say I'm just a girl from Belgium that just kept saying yes. When my teacher said, when I got this dream, yes, I just kept saying yes to the opportunities that came in my life. But of course I had directed them. I directed them By my meditation, by my way of thinking, by my environment. My home, my office is aligned with what I exactly want based on what I share in Diamond Feng Shui. So it's all about aligning. And if you're then aligned and it comes in front of you, just say yes. That's the whole point, I think, right?

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I am ready. We're in the business of sharing concepts and words with people, and languages, you know, because of Facebook Live and so many other things like that, the technology's made it possible for people to be broadcasters everywhere. Everybody is like— has the capability right now to have a media company in some way, right? So words are everywhere. But I think that those are very powerful words that I don't hear every day. I am ready. I am ready. And what I heard you say was, you said, I am ready, and then you said yes. And that's incredible. And then you also mentioned surrender, total surrender. And I know recently in the last 6 months, I read a book by Michael Singer called The Surrender Experiment, which I highly recommend. Love the book. The Untethered Soul, I've recommended to thousands and thousands of people. But The Surrender Experiment is a very interesting and fascinating and powerful book in some respects on the subject of what you're talking about, which is that when you can be in a conducive— if I can use that word— a conducive environment, both internally and externally, so that the internal environment that comes from me, from meditation and prayer and being— creating some stillness, which is not an easy thing to do,

Very important part.

Yes. And the external environment, which is much of, I think, what Feng Shui is about, is the physical environment that you find yourself living and working in. And when those 2 things create a conduciveness, a receptivity—

Yeah, almost a conduit, actually.

That's a beautiful word, a conduit. Then you can receive information and guidance And access to something infinite, intelligence even. I know that's what has happened for me, and you've been training people to be able to access that greater wisdom for many, many years so that you can actually say with authenticity that I am ready and I can say yes, because you trust the source where the information is coming from. Is that about right?

That is a very clear explanation. And I think it's something every day. And I've been— all my students and clients worldwide, they always go first, and I teach them a very simple meditation called the Tubes of Light, where I always say to people, the first thing you do, you switch all these machines on. Click, click, your computer, you're always on. But the only thing that is not on is you, right?

Mm-hmm.

So you don't put yourself on, you don't connect in with the source. And you make sure that all your phones and your iPads and your computers are turned on and have battery, right? But you yourself are not connecting with the highest battery there is, and that's the universe. And so when you connect with that, and at the same time any system you have has what we call a firewall, has a protection shield. And so the second step is I always do a little protection moment where you say, look, other frequencies that are not the greatest energy, I don't allow them to really disturb me anymore. I have my firewall up, but all the good energy can come to me. And also very important is to connect in with that higher source, what we call the quantum point, is the connection with the quantum physical, where all these things that look impossible are totally possible. And when I look at my life, the stories that can be told, and everyone has these stories, Where if you go beyond the personality aspects of fear and doubt, I think these are the 2 greatest, I would say, stop signs for us to move forward. Because we are in fear of many things. And we're in doubt that if we set the step to move forward, that we will regret it. And, you know, you see a lot of people and they're asking, do you have regrets? And say, no, I don't have regrets. Because they didn't follow the doubts. They just, they said, well, I'm in surrender. I'm going to see where this path leads me. And if you're on the wrong path, just get off the path and turn around and try something else. I mean—

Isn't it just that simple too, Marie? I mean, because that's what the book Pivot is really about and what the podcast is, that we can consciously choose or to accept or surrender to a path, to trust that the path that we're being led to is actually for our greater good and the greater good of others. And if it's wrong, if it doesn't feel right, if it doesn't turn out right, we can still pivot yet again or change our paths yet again.

Of course. I mean, you have to imagine this is myriads of changes in the universe, so you can go all directions. And it's just that we are still thinking from this one-dimensional field where we're saying we have to go step by step by step. And I said, it doesn't work like this. It goes up and down and to the side and then steps up. And it is so much possibilities, more than you can imagine. When I was thinking about being of service, I could only think in the level of United Nations or politics. But at that moment, I couldn't even imagine doing a podcast with you right now, Adam, right? So to be of service to humanity. I mean, the only thing I saw many, many years ago was when I asked my spiritual teacher, how will it happen? And he showed me like millions of people and seeing my face on their little television screen. And he said, one day millions of people will see you on a television screen. Now, I had no idea what that meant. Now, if you think about it, this is Facebook Live, this is a podcast, this is a television movie called The Secret. I mean, it's just like, that's the only thing I had as a glimpse that that would be of service. Or when I do my video webinars with my students, it's all through the same system that you're using. So people worldwide, or we do live streaming when we do an event, I mean, people all look at this little screen and they see us. And that was the only thing I saw, and it was like the image that was shown to me when I was 18. But you have to imagine there was just no way to comprehend at that time yet the evolution of technology. So right now it is so much easier to be of difference to the world because you can blog, you can vlog, you can write a book, you can do a podcast, you can just do these amazing changes just close by and far away at the same time. from your home. So everyone that says it's so hard to make a difference, I said there has never been a time that it's easier to make a difference with your wisdom and your words and your heart than right now. So all these excuses that I had and you had perhaps when we started this journey, they are gone because it's become so easy and effortless But you just have a line to align yourself and say, yes, I'm ready and I'm going to do this. And the how, I did not know the how. I'm sure you had no idea how to do the how. The how unfolds when you say, I'm ready.

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I am ready. So this is the declaration, right? I am ready. So, Marie, in the short In the time we have left, I wanted to draw on something else you just said a moment ago. You said that you work through a process where you turn on, you turn on sort of that battery to connect to the universe, and you also put up a firewall to protect yourself. It sounded to me like that in the form of a meditation is something of a ritual. And so I've got another book that I'm working on that's really about the power of rituals in business and everyday life. So I'm actually quite excited about that as well. And I wanted, if you could, to either share a little bit more to unpack that meditation ritual, or if you wanted to even sort of lead us through it a little bit, you could do that too, if you care to. Or any other ritual that you wanted to share is fine as well.

Well, there's 2 aspects that I would share with you. There's a meditation aspect, and there's also how you connect with your environment, which is actually also a ritual to make sure you're in the right directions. And actually, everything can be found on the Marie Diamond app. able to be downloaded for a little amount, where they have that ritual, that tubes of light meditation. And also which direction you are meditating is a really important piece, because everybody has, based on their birthday, 4 directions that really work well for you to reach a higher frequency. So if you're sitting facing in meditation towards a good direction, you actually go easier into what we call alpha brainwaves, theta, and delta brainwaves. And if you're facing the wrong direction, you actually go and stay in beta brainwaves that make it more difficult for you to reach a certain point of lightness and enlightenment. So you have to also face the right direction. So that is one of the things I— as part of the ritual that my students have, they go to the app and they check always if they're in the right area, the right direction. But the meditation itself is like 4 steps and I can lead you in it if you feel like it.

That would be great. And before we do that, because probably when the meditation is over, we'll probably kind of bring things to a nice slow end, which would be beautiful. So in advance of that, I'll say that please go on the App Store and check out— Randy and I downloaded this beautiful app, Marie Diamond, and you can find the app there, and it's a very nominal fee, and it has all these things laid out. So I think it really is powerful to know, for example, in what direction should you be facing when you're meditating. Well, not should, but you have this option to change your direction. So before we go into the meditation, so if you're meditating on the subject of, let's say, success, then you want to face the direction where your greater success lies, right? If you're looking to draw in some wisdom from the universe or spirit, you'd face maybe in a different direction. Relationships, maybe in another direction. Am I accurate to say that?

So there are 4 directions. One is for success and abundance. You will see if you look at the app, that is the direction that is indicated in blue. I just want to quickly open it up so you would see it. And so you'll see there is a blue section here. Yeah? Yes. So that is your direction. Then there's health and well-being. There's wisdom and connecting in with your teachers or God, and there is rows for relationships. Yeah?

Yes.

So people would hold the compass and it kind of, as you're holding it on your hand, you are then realigning yourself to look at the direction that you want to really connect and receive insights from. And this is for the rest of your life, that these are your directions based on your birthday. And then you will see also there's like a golden step every 5 days That you're getting to what to do to activate these directions to have even a stronger return on your focus. It's not return on investment, return on your focus.

Return on focus, yeah.

Yeah. But one of the things that people do is they try to always make sure they are— when you're sitting, you are facing that direction. But some people love to lay down when they meditate, then their head has to be pointed towards that direction. Yeah, but when you are sitting, you look at that direction.

Beautiful.

So there's really 2 important pieces. So I would invite you to close your eyes and sit in a relaxed position. Make sure your spine is straight and your shoulders are relaxed. And take a deep breath in, take a deep breath out. As you keep breathing in and out in a relaxed way, Just imagine you're in a beautiful space in nature and the sun is shining. And the sun has this crystal white light that fills your whole body from your head till your feet. And from your skin till deep into every cell of your body and the space between your cells. You're creating this sacred space in your body, and then you visualize also this sparkling white light to fill up your aura fields. That's like an arm length all around you and above you. And just imagine this light is coming in and showers down all the heaviness and gives it to Mother Earth. that returns it into beautiful energy for you to be grounded. Take a deep breath in and just let go of anything that is no longer serving you. Around this tube of light you just created, we are visualizing now the color royal blue. It's this warm blue color that comes around this tube of white light and also under your feet and goes up like an arm length above your head. Royal blue stands for the power of the universe. I am the power of the universe within me and around me. And it works as a filter. So all the positive frequencies that are outside of you can come through the filter, but all the less positive that are no longer serving you remaining outside your royal blue firewall. And also any negative frequencies you want to bring to the universe is returning back to you for you to contemplate about. And now we're connecting with the color rose that stands for love and support of the universe. And imagine this, this rose firewall coming all around this royal blue and under your feet, connecting with the love and support of the planet we are living on. And as we are surrounding ourselves with this love and support of the universe, We even imagine goes into the center of the universe, calling in all your spiritual teachers, your guidance, God, the angels, masters, anyone that for you has been supportive on your journey. And even this is a moment to be in gratitude to your friends and family, And your loved ones that have always surrounded you with love. I am the love and support of the universe within me and around me. Take a deep breath in to accept now this love and support in and around you. Now imagine from under your feet the color violet as a violet fire going clockwise through your body, through your aura field, spinning clockwise till above your head into the universe. The color violet stands for forgiveness, letting go. It's time to let go of your conscious and subconscious limited beliefs and programs. They are no longer serving you, so just feel that you're ready to let them go and let this violet fire just do gently the work of clearing them and giving back to the universe. Take a deep breath in and let them go. Now imagine that an arm length above your head, you have this bright white light, and when you focus on it, it's like a magical hat that unfolds and connects your left and right brain in perfect harmony. And as you focus to that point on top of your magical hat, You have access to the quantum field of all your possibilities. And as you're now the top of that magical hat, radiate now your light out to the world, as this is already your start of making a difference from your soul. You're sending out your light, connecting in With your family and friends and colleagues, your community, and keep expanding that light to your country and to the world. As you are now enlightening from your soul light everyone on your path. And knowing that you're doing this right now, connect back with the top of the magical hat and stay there focused for the rest of the day. Then bring your hands together, move your hands, bring your warm hands in front of your eyes, open your eyes, let go of your hands. And you're ready to be of service.

Beautiful.

Thank you.

Marie, thank you so much.

You're so welcome. Thank you for doing your work in the world, as it makes a huge difference for many, many thousands, and I'm sure millions of people.

Namaste.

Namaste.

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