The true magic of Feng Shui isn't what you've been told

A bright magenta doormat should not be the thing that changes your week, and yet that is exactly why I had to tell this story. 

After a few busy weeks of family life and end-of-term chaos, I come back to the roots of feng shui with a practical reminder: your home’s energy does not need to be perfect to be powerful, but it does need attention, clarity, and the right remedy in the right place. 

I talk through how I look at my own front door area and the north west “helpful people” sector, why my home calls for a fire remedy there, and how something as simple as a doormat can become a clear energetic signal when it is placed with intention. 

I also share what happened when that remedy was removed for very real life reasons, then cleaned, replaced, and re-activated. The result is not a beach house fantasy. It is support, smoother progress, and the feeling that gates are opening rather than everything requiring brute force. 

We also touch on salt lamps and why grounding energy can sometimes feel too heavy depending on where you place it and what season of life you are in. If you are interested in modern feng shui, home energy, the Bagua map, and practical remedies that help you feel more supported in your everyday life, you will get a grounded framework and a few gentle prompts to test in your own space. 

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Lots of love,

Speak soon,

Rachael xx

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Transcript

Back After A Busy Stretch

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. Hello and welcome back to the Everyday Feng Shui podcast. It's been a few weeks since I recorded anything for this podcast. Life has just been busy. It's coming towards the end of the final term for my children at school. And as anybody with children knows, the final term, the final six weeks, we're over in the UK. So we have about six or seven weeks per half term. And the final one of the year, the final six-week block of the year, I swear that that is where all of the activities get put. So every single sports day, just all the things, all the things go into this final six weeks, and I've got three children. So it's just been absolutely wild. So I've always said, I've always, always said that obviously my my mothering is really, really important to me, making sure that I'm there for my children's things is an absolute blessing of being able to that I can do with working in the world that I work in and working in the way that I work. But beyond that, my client work will always come above any of the other bits. So if somebody hires me, that that their work for them will always come before you know all of the extra bits that I like to do. So that's why there's been a bit of a break. But here we are, here we are. It is not yet the end of term, and I'm caught up. So I wanted to share with you today a little bit more. I've been talking a lot about mindset recently, and I think it's really important, but today I'm dipping back into my roots, my feng shui, where everything begins. And as much as I am going to continue to talk about mindset and all of the other things that I feel are really, really vital when we are looking at feng shui, I do want to make sure that I am talking about the beautiful art itself.

The Front Door Helpful People Area

SPEAKER_00 2:13

So I'm gonna tell you a story about a dog mat. I mean, you can't make it up. So in my in my home, because obviously I have analysed my home and I know what energy sits within my home, I know that the area that is my front door and that is my northwest, which is our helpful people section, and I know that that space needs fire. So in my home, that area needs fire. Doesn't mean that that's what will be for your home. So my my home needs fire. And because we've got, so we live in a chalet or what used to be a chalet bungalow. So the front of our home still looks like a chalet bungalow, but the back no longer does. So the back is a two-story. But at the front, above my front door, is essentially a void that goes into the eaves and things, so it's not an area that I can remedy that I can put anything in. So downstairs at the front door, I kind of I don't quite double up, but I make sure that my remedy is really quite visible and really quite strong just to make up for the lack of remedy above it. Now, because it's a fire remedy, I have got one well, one of the things I have is a hot pink magenta doormat. And I remember when I went out to buy this doormat, my husband was seriously questioning whether or not I had, in fact, gone insane because our home is quite neutral. But obviously, I went and bought this doormat for a very specific reason. And when I placed the doormat in, I obviously did so with my intentions at the time, and that was that you know, I would be surrounded by amazing women who would help me to build my business and you know all of these beautiful intentions that I had around it. And I have to say, if there is any part of my business that is, I'm gonna say luckier than the other, I am unbelievably blessed to be surrounded by incredible, incredible, helpful women who are just truly incredible. So it's a really big thing for me, and I take that area of my home really seriously to the point where I did have, I've actually taken it out because it was a salt lamp, and we can get into that one if you want to. Let me know if you want me to go down the salt lamp because there's a lot of controversy about them at the moment. So I take it very seriously, my helpful people area, because with the life that I lead, neurodiverse children and running a business and all of the things that come with motherhood, helpful people for me are hugely important, as in my life does not operate really unless I have got helpful people around me. So I take it very seriously. I did have a helpful people lamp that I did used to turn on every morning, and I would say thank you so much for all the helpful people in my life. I haven't replaced it yet because I haven't found something that I like to go there, but I will replace it because that is how seriously I take it. Anyway, on to the doormat. So hopefully you're not too squeamish. My I obviously you may know, I have two dogs. Sometimes you listen to him snore if you've listened to this for quite some time. So I have two dogs, and one morning the dog was not very well on the doormat. So anyway, this was I don't know, maybe four weeks ago. So doormat goes out into the garden, I'll deal with it later. Sprayed it with the hose and just left it over the back of the chair in the garden. Life, as we know, has just been wildly busy. So I didn't get round to do anything, you know, didn't go in the washing machine or anything for quite some time. I just stayed outside, having been hosed off. And about two weeks ago, a week and a half ago, probably, I was like, no, I just write I need to get this done. I need to get this done. I need to get I need to get my door mat back in, which I know sounds absolutely bonkers, but hear me out. So I put said door mash mat through the wash, put it outside, let it dry, all those things. And then I placed it back at the front door. And as I placed it back in, I did it with intention to, you know, attract in some incredibly helpful people that would help me with the things, the specific things that I asked for help with at the time. And no word of a lie. Within a week, I had had a message from somebody amazing to say, shall we jump on a Zoom to talk about this thing? I'm not going to share who it is or what it's about because that gives too many things away. But that's very, it's very, very cool. And I don't take it lightly that this person has taken their time to essentially offer me their time, which is worth a lot of money. And so that some other things happened. I managed to secure a one-to-one session with a coach that I that I sometimes work with, and just yeah, just amazing, amazing things. And I know that's I know that from externally people would say, or people could say, it's just very coincidental. But what I feel is really important to say is that my in terms of my effort, so what I put into whether it be my business or you know, fighting the corner for my kids, or whatever it is, that doesn't waver. The effort that I put in doesn't change. What changes is whether or not it feels like I'm pushing uphill, or whether it feels like I'm opening gates. And let me explain what I mean by that. So

Opening Gates Instead Of Pushing

SPEAKER_00 8:16

I feel like when I don't have, or when my remedies are missing, or when when they need refreshing, for example, towards the end of the year, all of those sorts of things. I feel like things just get a bit more tricky, a bit not tricky, but slower. Things get slower. I need more effort from me to get the same outcome or the same result. And that for me is the key to Feng Shui is that when those energetic remedies are in my home, it feels like I say, Oh, this is what I need and why I need it, and this is what it would feel like if I had it, and then I that I open open a gate, this is what it feels like, and those things flow to me. And I am really vocal, really, really vocal on social media, on here, in my emails. I am really, really vocal about my existence within the feng shui world has got nothing to do with manifesting a beach house beach house in Bali. Like I have very little interest in that kind of manifesting power of Feng Shui. That is not what I'm here to do. And I feel really strongly that my place within this world of, you know, but some people think that it's magic. Like it, and there isn't an element that it's magic because you can't see what it's doing, and I suppose that's why people think of it as magic. But my my the the point of me within this world is to take people who live very ordinary lives and live in very ordinary homes with very ordinary families, with all of the constraints and things like that that we come up against and make the version of the life that we're already living better. Because 90% of the women that I work with, more than 90% of the women that I work with, they don't actually, if you were to say to them, Oh, what's the big dream? They might joke. They might joke and say, Oh, you know, beach house in Bali or whatever it is. But when you actually dig deeper and you say, Okay, so if you had to leave your kids behind, or if you had to take your kids out of school, or if it meant that they had to leave their friends, or you know, the list is endless, the answer is no. The answer is no. They don't actually want to burn down their life and start over most of the time. What they want is a life that they live now. So with their children having going to the same school and with their same husband and you know, with their same friends and with their same family, but they just want it to feel better. They want it to feel like there's more flow, they want it to feel like they don't have to work as hard to get the results that they get. They want to feel the freedom of having good finances, they want to feel the joy of having good friendships and great community and all of those things that make life joyful and beautiful to live. And that for me is what it what all of this is about, and my doormat, and I know what it sounds, I know that it sounds mad, I know that it sounds mad, but I so laughed when I had this message that said, should we jump on a Zoom call? I was like, I know what's done this, I know what's done this because every time, every time, every year, every every time that I put these remedies in, whenever there's been a break from them, whatever, every time I put them in, stuff like this happens and all the time. And it's not necessarily, you know, huge, big, extravagant things. It's a tiny thing that can lead to an extravagant thing. And, you know, again, if I'm gonna touch on the mindset, then that's that's kind of one of the things that that comes from this, isn't it? Is we have to stop looking always for the big win. Like, not everything, in fact, rarely is everything is our things gonna be the big win. You know, you're not necessarily going to win the lottery. Like that, that is beyond what Feng Shui is going to do. Feng Shui is not necessarily gonna make you win the lottery. What Feng Shui and Mindset Together do is align you energetically and allow you to be open and receptive to the downloads and the messages that help you, you know, attract wealth and all of those things. And for me, having that energetic balance in the base on the like the baseline of our home is so so important.

Salt Lamps And Real Life Wins

SPEAKER_00 13:04

And you know, my doormat proved it. Another thing that I have done recently, actually, is I took my helpful people lamp out, and that was a salt lamp. And the reason that I took that out is twofold, really. One, because I am very conscious that they are quite a heavy energy, and as I say, I was going through a period of time where I felt like I just needed to be surrounded by helpful people, and as much as salt lamps are beautifully grounding, depending on where you have them, it can be it can be a bit too much, a bit too heavy. So I wanted to trial taking that out, and again, it's coincided with this kind of influx of really helpful people in various capacities coming into our world. So the power of these remedies for me is enormous, and I've talked about it before. As I'm as I'm talking, I'm thinking about other things that happened in that period of time, and I'm, you know, and I hadn't even thought about this until I was talking to you just just now. My son, my neurodiverse son, he is off to well, meant to be starting high school in September. I say meant to be because we just don't know how that is going to go. However, we had made an application for him to go into a specific like nurture setting within our chosen high school, and of the intake of nearly 300 students in the year group, there are 20 spaces. So to get one of those spaces is tricky to say the least. And in that period of time where I'd put my doormat back in and ask for helpful people, he was given one of those spaces. So this is what I try and get across with my experience of Feng Shui all the time. You will be surrounded in the world of law of attraction, manifestation, feng shui with people who are telling you the stories of you know, million-pound houses or you know, cruises around the world, or whatever it is, whatever these huge grand shifts, these huge grand things. And you know, as beautiful and as wonderful as those things are, for me, they are not life-changing. That is not what is life-changing from my perspective. What is life-changing from my perspective is going through the life that you lead with more ease, going through the life that you already love, but just that you think, oh, I just wish that was just a bit easier. I just wish that was a bit easier. And that for me, that for me is where true life-changing comes from. So that's what I'm gonna leave you with today. I'm absolutely not gonna leave it so long until I speak with you again.

Listener Requests And Getting Support

SPEAKER_00 16:03

If you have got requests, I did have a request not so long ago about to talk more about the remedies themselves. So if you would like to know, or if you'd like me to talk about something in particular that is of interest to you, drop it into the comments section because I get to see those now. And I think I can even reply to them, which is pretty cool. Or you can DM me on Instagram, which I think the links are below. So, you know, I'm always open for you asking the topics that you want me to talk about because frankly, it could talk about it until I'm blue in the face because I absolutely love this stuff. So, yeah, let me know if there's anything specific that you are interested in. And if you are somebody who is looking at your own life and you're thinking, do you know what? I just wish people would show up for me like that, then maybe it is time to look at having your own home analyse so that you know what remedies and what energy is already sat in each of these areas. And if that is you, then just get in touch. I have had a huge overhaul of all of my offerings. So there it's all ready to go now. It's another thing I've been working on behind the scenes. Another thing for my helpful people, actually, because somebody has helped me navigate how I can set this all up so that I can help as many people as possible. So get in touch if you think that it is, you know, time for you to look at your own home. I can send you all of the details, no pressure, of course. I am not in the business of hard selling because it is icky, icky, icky, simply an invitation. So if you feel that it is for you, then just ping me a message either on here or my Instagram is fine. I think my email address might even be below. So just grab me in one of those ways and we can have a conversation. But until next time, I hope that wherever you are in the world you are happy, healthy, and well. And I'll speak to you really, really soon.