What Are You Chasing?

What if the thing you are chasing is not the thing you actually want, well not entirely anyway? 

I have money come up in almost every Feng Shui Home Energy Reading that I do, and it has pushed me to ask a sharper question: what does money represent to you at a deep level and what feeling do you think it will finally give you?

Today, I talk about why the Everyday Feng Shui podcast is shifting slightly towards a wider lens of energetics, manifestation, and the science of frequency, while staying rooted in practical Feng Shui. 

Yes, changing your home’s energy can make life feel more supportive, but I want to be honest about the part we play too. When we focus only on the external, we miss the internal patterns that keep repeating. When we focus only on mindset, we miss the power of an environment that reinforces who we are becoming.

We go into the childlike practice of asking “why” until the real desire appears, then we flip the usual script: instead of waiting for the thing to arrive so you can feel better, you practise the feeling first. Not by pretending or overspending, but by embodying the version of you who already feels freer, steadier, and more open. 

Finally, I share a simple metaphor for how Feng Shui fits into this: your home as the aerial that helps transmit and amplify your personal energy.

If you want a grounded way to connect home energy, personal energy, and intentional living, press play, then subscribe, share with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find the show.

Lots of love,

Speak soon,

Rachael xx

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Transcript

Welcome To Everyday Feng Shui

SPEAKER_00 0:05

Welcome to the Everyday Feng Shui podcast. I'm Rachel and I'm a modern day Feng Shui consultant, and I'm here to show you how to use the energy of your home and your own personal energy to create a life that you absolutely love. So let's jump right in.

A New Direction For The Podcast

SPEAKER_00 0:24

Hello and welcome back to the Everyday Feng Shui podcast. For the eagle-eared amongst you, you may have realized that there is a brand new intro to this podcast that kind of represents a little shift in direction. So you have been listening to me maybe for some time, and you will know that the direction that I'm moving in is changing ever so slightly to more towards more of a feng shui alongside wider energetics because the deeper that I study and the more that I learn, the more important it is to me to share how our own personal energy and the energy of our homes are so intertwined. And what I want to do is, or should I say, it's really important to me to make sure that you know I'm coming to you from a place of complete authenticity, no other changes, and everything will improve. Because, yes, to a degree, that can happen, and it and it would happen because the energy of your home would become more supportive of you, and then there's this sort of compound effect that happens. So, yes, you could, in theory, do absolutely nothing else and just change the energy of your home, like turn that dial and and and make that shift, and things would get better. However, I think it's really important, it's certainly important for me that I sit here and be truthful and honest about the role that we play in that as well. And the more that I study and the deeper I go, and the more that I'm sort of turning my studies into more of a rounded energetics, looking at you know the science of manifestation and all of those things, quantum physics and all of these things that you know make me excited and and that I love to talk about, it wouldn't be right for me not to share the power of all of those things with you as well. So that's kind of where certainly this sort of next season, if that's what you want to call it, of the podcast is going to lean into. So it's that kind of hybrid between the power of our home and the power of ourselves in unison and working together.

What Are You Chasing Really

SPEAKER_00 2:40

So the first thing that I kind of want to speak about this week is the concept of what is it that you are chasing? So I am contacted regularly, regularly. In fact, every single analysis I would say of a home that I have done, there has been a mention of money. Money comes up all the time, and sometimes it is I need more money, and sometimes it is, you know, somebody just wants support to make sure that the money that they do have doesn't that sticks around a little bit longer. Now, the thing with money is it it gets my goat a little bit, and the reason it gets my goat is because often, and I'm and and I and I say this very, very aware, very, very aware because I have been there and I have been wildly financially desperate. But money itself doesn't actually give you anything, and what's been coming up a lot lately is when people have come to me and said, I need help with this and that, and I need help with money, my question about money is always what does that money afford you? What is it that you want money for? You know, if I said to you, okay, here is £50,000, but you need to live by yourself, not go anywhere, not do anything, and just have the money in the bank, would you take it? No, you probably wouldn't. So that shows that the thing that you think that you want, the money that you think that you want, isn't actually necessarily what you want. The money is what affords you the thing that you really, really want. So

The Childlike Habit Of Why

SPEAKER_00 4:32

something that I have been sharing a lot in my newsletter, something that I'm sharing increasingly on social media, and something that I am talking about a lot at the minute is go into that child state of the incessant why. Why, why, why, why, why. So if you were to, if you're listening to this, you know, maybe you're listening to this in the car, maybe you're listening to this on a walk, who knows. But whilst you're doing, whilst you're going about your business today, think about what it is that you want. Because we all go through life, you know, with with a list of ones, don't we? And what I want you to do is think why, what what is it that I want, but why do I want it? Now, the why is the important bit. So, for example, I'm sitting here recording this in the UK, and it is the middle of April, and it is grey outside. Now, I spend a lot of my time thinking, oh, I just wish it was sunny. I want it to be sunny, I want it to be warm. And with that, I know you're probably thinking, how does this relate to money, Rachel? But you know, why do I want it to be sunny and warm? What does the sunny and the warm bring to me? Well, it allows me to be outside more because it's because I would get cold, it's more joyful, it's inviting to go out and have freedom and be able to do things. And I always imagine myself as living somewhere where the weather is infinitely better than it is here in the UK, and I feel like I would live a completely different version of life. Now, what I am leaning into myself with that is why can I not lean into that version of life even if the sky is grey? So, with when we come back to what is it that you are chasing, if it is that you are chasing money, what is it that you are chasing that money for? Is it for to be able to buy things? Is it because you want to feel like you're keeping up with people? Is it because you want to be able to feel lightness and freedom and not having to feel the heaviness of money? Now, there are there are situations, absolutely there are situations whereby you want money or you need money to be able to pay for the very basic things in life, and that is not about a feeling, that is about an absolute necessity, and we are talking about shelter and we are talking about food. I'm not talking about this, isn't it going out for dinner level of food, this is about putting meals on the table. Now, that is a very different driving factor to that want, but the likelihood is that if you are listening to this, the likelihood is that that probably isn't what you want money for. You probably want money for all of the extra things that help us enjoy our lives. So, my invitation to you is to get curious and to have some self-awareness, and again, this is something that I'm going to be talking a lot more about. And for a lot of people, this isn't something that they want to go into. A lot, you know, a lot of the time, we as human beings want to spend our time putting blame onto other things, and you know, nothing is our fault, right? Nothing is our fault. But what I want you to lean into is what is it that that money would afford me that I truly want? It's not that it's not the money, it's not the money necessarily, it's the feeling, it's the feeling that the that having that money brings you, whether that is because you can travel and therefore you'll feel free and less stressed, or maybe it's so that you can have a nice car, so that you'll feel worthful, and all of those amazing, you know, like keeping up with the Joneses kind of feelings. You want to feel better than. Now that's where I want you to sit, and I want you to go into that feeling of what is it that all of these wants bring to me? But truly, what do they bring? Because I would go so far as to say that 99.9% of our wants in life actually have nothing really to do with the thing that we think that we want. I would go so far as to say that 90% more than that of the things that we say that we want actually invoke a feeling rather than anything to do with the thing itself.

Create The Feeling Before The Thing

SPEAKER_00 8:52

And then with that, there's a level of curiosity. But so how can I create that feeling without having the thing yet? Because when we look at energetics and when we look at how energy works together, frequency responds to frequency, right? So if we are going through our life saying, Oh, really, me with the sun, I don't want the sun. If if we go through our life thinking, you know, from a place of lack, so I really need money, I really want money, I can't do this without money, I can't do that without money, or whatever it is it that you want. Money's just an easy one to reference and it's one that people come to me all the time with, you know, how can you create the feeling that it is that you are looking for before you have the thing? Because that is where you set your energetic frequency. And then when you actually look at energetics, those two those two frequencies become a match and they become sort of magnetic to each other. So it's going to that concept of it's it's almost like faking it before you make it, right? It's it's being the version of you that has the thing before you have the thing. And that is when it, you know, we're not talking about going and putting this is not about going and putting stuff on credit to have a lifestyle that you want before you have the money to do it. It's not that, it's deeper than that, it's deeper than that. It's going to the version, the feeling behind that. So, what does it, what, what is it that you want to feel? And how can you create that feeling before you have the thing? So, for example, again, we're talking about money because it's easy to talk about, you know, what is it that money creates for you? Is it a feeling of freedom? Or is it a feeling of abundance? Or is it a feeling, you know, what is it that you want to feel like? And then, I mean, I cannot sit here and tell you how to how you can create that feeling in your life already without having extra money, but there are so many ways that we can live a free and happy life that don't involve having cash and don't involve having money. So today I'm leaving you with this concept of being the version that you want to be before you have any of the things that you think that you're gonna need. So, quite often in life we think, well, we need to have the thing, have the money to be able to do the thing that is gonna make us feel whatever it is. But actually, we need to reverse engineer it. So we need to be the version of us that we want to be in order to be able to actually attract the thing that it is that we want. So a lot of the time, what we're taught in all of these kind of you know, schools of energetics is that you can manifest what you want by thinking about what you want, but actually that puts you into an a frequency of lack. You know, the more that you think about what it is that you want, the more it highlights that you don't have the thing that you want. So actually, what you need to do is reverse engineer and work out the version of you that you want to be, that you think this thing is gonna give you, and then embody that version as much as you can, and then then the frequency attracts what it is that you want into your life, and that is the secret, and that is the key, and that is one of the one of the many themes that I'm gonna be digging into much more deeply over the course of this kind of next series of podcasts, and how I'm going to weave in the feng shui there is to show you how your home becomes like the aerial.

Your Home As The Energetic Aerial

SPEAKER_00 12:44

So if you imagine that you are a radio frequency or you are a radio, and out in the universe, there are all of these different frequencies, your home is the aerial, so you might be vibrating on a certain frequency, and those matching frequencies might be out there somewhere in the world, but what we need is the aerial because that is the transmitter between the two realities. So that's where for me our home and the feng shui comes in because it's basically the link between our own personal energy and what we're putting out into or what we're trying to get out of this universe. So, my final question for you today is what is it that you are chasing? What is it that you are truly deep level chasing? And hopefully, what you can see here from from what I've spoken about is how everything has to work together. So if we only work on our home, we have the antennae, we have the transmitter, but we have we're not transmitting anything that we're not we're not linking anything that we want. And if we only work on ourselves, then we don't have the transmitter to be able to, or the aerial to be able to connect those energies. So, you know, what I hope you come out of of today's musings with, I suppose, is an understanding of how the two things, our own personal energy and the energy of our home, are so intertwined and why working on both of them together are so important, and obviously working on them in different ways. It looks it looks very different. So, yeah, that's where we're going to be leaning into over the coming weeks. A lot of you have expressed some serious interest in sort of on how you work these things together because you know there's there's many people that talk about feng shui, and there's many people that talk about personal energy, law of attraction, manifestation, but there aren't very many people who talk deeply about how those two things work together, and I feel like I feel like that's that's that's what I'm meant to be doing. So that's where we're gonna go with it.

Final Question And What Comes Next

SPEAKER_00 14:59

So, yeah, if that interests you, tune in over the next few weeks because that's what we'll be talking about. Um, but wherever you are in the world, then I hope you are happy, healthy, well, and all of those wonderful wonderful, wonderful things. Um, and I'll speak to you really, really, really soon.