Your Home Is Your Vision Board

In today’s episode, I sit down with Marie Diamond, world renowned Feng Shui master, bestselling author, and transformational teacher featured in The Secret, to discuss how our surroundings influence our mindset, focus, and success. Marie shares the philosophy behind her book Your Home Is Your Vision Board, explaining how furniture placement, colors, and visual reminders can help align our environments with our goals. We discuss the connection between personal energy and physical spaces, the importance of creating balance, and how small changes at home or work can influence confidence and performance. Marie also shares her vision for helping people dream bigger. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

• 0:00Speaker 00

  Welcome to Office Hours. I'm David Meltzer. We're here at the Sirius XM Studios, live in Las Vegas. Blessed to be here with my extraordinary friends and extraordinary guest, the amazing Marie Diamond. If you haven't seen her, from one of my most transformational movies of all time, The Secret, and the input that she gave to change my perspective, to change my life. Now, not only is she a transformational leader, she's a world-renowned master teacher of Feng Shui, as we all know, and the law of attraction, multi-tim bestselling author with her newest book, The Amazing Your Home Is Your Vision Board. Welcome back to Office Hours, Marie Diamond.

• 0:41Speaker 01

  Thank you so much for having me here.

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  Everything's expanding, everything's evolving, you as well. And it's been years since the movie The Secret, Beyond the Secret on Netflix now, Beyond Feng Shui, which used to be so woo-woo, and now it's commonplace. Everybody's looking at different colors and different spatial relationships. What does it actually mean that your actual home now is a place where the laws of attraction, the laws of intention, your actual home is your vision board?

• 1:15Speaker 01

  Well, you know, for many centuries, people have focused on their mindset to really create focus. And, you know, a lot of people become aware that also the people that you surround yourself with will impact your mindset, will impact your focus and your success. And I would say the next level is to really focus on your environment. And this is something that the Asian cultures know for thousands of years, that it's not just the people that surround you, but also the space that you're in is going to affect you on a subconscious level. And so many people know that intuitively. They go to a certain place and like, oh, I

• 1:56Speaker 01

  love it here. And they thrive there. And then go to another place and like, oh, I don't like it. And like, they feel like bad luck is happening. But it's not about bad luck or good luck. It's just that, are you in resonance field with the space around you? And most people focus on then the people in that space, but they don't always understand that it's the space itself that can affect them. And that is actually what Feng Shui, it's an Asian energy system, really talks about, is that the manifestation is not only the mindset, but also the space that you live in, you're sleeping, you're working, is going to affect you nonstop.

• 2:33Speaker 02

  Well, I'm really excited about your new book. I mean, Your Home Is A Vision Board. Vision boards are something that have always amazed me. I remember an athlete who said his whole goal was to buy a home for his mom. And when he got his bonus and everything, he bought this home. And he came to locker room one day crying, and he says, look what I found. I found this vision board. I created, I was 12 years old, and I put a picture of a home there. Amazingly, the home he bought his mom, right, you know, 10 years later, looked exactly the same. And so there was this incredible moment. I hear that over and over again with vision boards. How does that relate to the home? And what can you expect from actually creating your home as a vision board?

• 3:17Speaker 01

  Well, it was on my vision board to be in a movie seen by millions of people in 2001. As a total unknown person, I got into The Secret. So I know everything about making a vision board. What a vision board is really is, is to help you focus on a subconscious level, the visual of what you want to manifest, not just an idea that you have in your mind, but you see something visual. And some people are more visual than auditory. So that helps them. So in the same thing, you can expand that to your home. Everything you see constantly surrounding you is actually going to affect your mindset. So I work with a lot of athletes. And so the first question I always ask, where are your awards? Yeah, where are all these

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  symbols that represent your team or represent yourself? And they're like, oh, they're in the cellars or they're like, I've seen some of them in the bathroom. So I'm like, you know, that's not where you really are consciously living. So make sure you put them in your workspace or in your living room. And there's specific areas that we want to then focus on based on your personal birthday. People can find that out on the Marie Diamond app. So to really understand, like, there's a success area. And I've worked for the last 30 years with athletes from all over, different, you know, sport fields. And they each time

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  felt that they were more focused on really what they wanted to accomplish, because there was a visual aspect in their environment representing what they really want to accomplish. And so in that way, I say your home is a vision board. It's not just a 2D thing that you put on a paper and put some goals and pictures up, but everything around you is constantly a reminder. It's almost like you're reflecting constantly in the outside world what you want in the inside of you.

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• 5:43Speaker 04

  So seriously, that was the best. I just learned what a vision board is. That was the best. I'm not kidding. That was the best definition I've ever heard. Up until now, I thought it was like a high school girl putting like Prada shoes from a magazine on a Post-it note. But no, thank you for that. So my question would be like, and it's great, like the segue from the vision board becoming the home. How does Feng Shui play into that? Like, I know, like, it sounds silly, but I know I had my bed one way and I was like, oh, I don't like this. I had my bed another way. I was like, oh, I feel better to come home. What, what is that? Like, what are the principles and how does it work?

• 6:16Speaker 01

  So Feng Shui is an Asian energy system that is based on the flow of wind and water, because that's actually what Feng Shui really means. So I would say if you go in nature, right, and there's too much wind, you will stay home, right? But if it's like an amazing breeze, you go out. You would stand under a waterfall, you will not stay there for long. But if it's like next to a nice, beautiful river, you'll sit there for hours fishing. So it's all about the right flow. And so Feng Shui is really about finding that right flow in your environment. Now, that can be done by several things. First of all, positioning of your, the furniture. And that's kind of what you explained. You were sitting or you're sleeping in a certain area, like, oh, my God, I feel good here. It's like your body

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  energy aligns with that space. Now, from a Feng Shui perspective, we look at directions, compass directions. So it could be that your brain was pointing, you know, you lay down, was actually sleeping towards a good direction. Now, we have seen that your brainwaves will actually change. So we have beta brainwaves, where people are more chaotic, more living in the past, or you have alpha brainwaves. And alpha brain is where you're focused, you're more creative, you're more optimistic, you're more future decision-making focused. So it's possible that as you're laying down, that your brain is like, oh, I'm much more happier here. And you focus another direction and your brain is like, no, I don't like it here.

• 7:42Speaker 01

  So you're literally the furniture, the way you sit like in a room, you sleep in a space will actually affect you. The second thing is that literally the, the colors that are around you, right? So colors can really affect you. Like, for example, when people have a lot of blue, for example, here in an office, that's amazing. For Office Hours, that's a great color. Why? Because it stands for water and water stands for wealth. So people always will be more focus driven with blue. So great colors for here. But if you want to do that in a bedroom, people, when you have too much blue in the bedroom, people feel much more

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  emotional, they create more conflict. So that's the first thing we always take out of a bedroom is too much blue. So, or people stay longer single in a bedroom with a lot of blue. So we work with certain colors to activate the area. And then it's also beyond that. We, everything is based on five elements. So it's the element of water. The element of earth, wood, fire and metal. So this, everything around us is made out of one of these five elements. And so if you have too much wood around you, too much plants, it's possible you're out of balance. You need some more metal or you need to have perhaps a fireplace on. So it's all about finding that harmony in your space.

• 9:09Speaker 01

  And then we can look also at the images, literally. So what are the images around you? So if I was talking recently to a baseball player and everything around him were images of deserts. Yeah, like he loves images of deserts. Now I asked him, how is your business going right now? I said, oh, I feel like I'm a little bit stuck. Says, well, you're surrounding yourself with a desert. I don't think people play baseball in the desert. So let's bring in the green energy, right? And so he just had to change the images around him. And then he felt like he could focus again on what he want to accomplish.

• 9:50Speaker 04

  All right, thank, thank you for that. But you didn't tell us, what's the bedroom color? Optimum bedroom color?

• 9:55Speaker 01

  Yes.

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  And does it, not to get too weird, but is it depending on what I want to do in the bedroom?

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  Yes, it is.

• 10:01Speaker 01

  Yeah, of course.

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  Go to Marie Diamond.

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  So first of all, I would say work with earth colors. So the beiges, rounds, yellows, pinks even, right? And if you want more passion, you add a little bit of red, but not too much red either, because then you don't sleep.

• 10:16Speaker 00

  Well, that's right, teepee happens. All right.

• 10:19Speaker 05

  Marie, I want to ask sort of piggybacking on this topic. Is this universal? Is this true of everyone that blue is this way for everyone? Or is it more customizable? And if it is.

• 10:30Speaker 00

  Birthday specific, maybe.

• 10:32Speaker 05

  Well, yeah, how do we find out, right? How do we find our specific sort of orientation, colors, things we should be using?

• 10:39Speaker 01

  Well, there are some general principles, like too much blue in the, in the bedroom is not good for anyone, right? But it doesn't mean that perhaps you like really blue or connected with your energy number, what we call, and you can find through the app and through the book, your home as a vision board. You can actually see what are the colors that work better for you. Like for me, it's actually pink and white.

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  Surprise.

• 11:01Speaker 01

  Yeah.

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  Right, so I would say that is definitely working for me, right? Now, it means that for somebody else, it's not their best color combination. Most people are very intuitive with that. And they will actually tap into intuitively what are the colors? When they wear them, they feel great with it. Yeah. Now, if you would ask me to wear all the time green, I will probably say I don't like it personally. Now, that doesn't mean once in a while, green is fine for me. But there's like you have a tendency intuitively, energetically to connect with certain colors. Yeah. But there's also a system behind it that you can find that out based on your birthday. But also where your front door is located can actually change all the color combinations of your home.

• 11:49Speaker 01

  So it's a quite advanced system, but I kind of brought it to the, the basic steps in your home as a vision board.

• 11:57Speaker 00

  But the app is birthday specific is the first thing you do when you come into the app?

• 12:01Speaker 01

  Yes, so it's really works together, the app and the book.

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  I've been using it since almost its inception and it's so much fun, especially on what to wear for the purpose of different shows that I'm on or different meetings. And it does make a difference. I think the biggest difference is the idea of flow, right? When we're in the flow, we're comfortable and confident. There's no doubt in athletics and in business, the most comfortable and confident people do the best. They perform the best. And that's what Marie Diamond has been doing for several athletes of ours, but multiple people around the world for years, millions of people follow her and subscribe to understanding all the benefits of colors and spatial relationships. Your home is actually your vision board. Check out the book, check out the app. And we have a new movie coming out.

• 12:48Speaker 00

  Just real quickly, can you touch on it? The movie that you have coming out as well?

• 12:54Speaker 01

  Yeah, so I've been in more than 20 transformation documentaries, starting with The Secret. But I always felt there was one aspect that people didn't focus on is like, you know, living in your life beyond your wildest dreams. And I do believe that's my life. I do believe each one of us live, have already lived a life beyond their wildest dreams. Your younger self was probably never thinking where you would be now, right now, here in the, in the studio or whatever you did. So I actually want to help people dream again bigger. And that's why the book is, and the movie will be about, and David is part of it.

• 13:28Speaker 00

  I appreciate the opportunity to give a Dave Meltzer insight and an amazing documentary. We'll see that on a major network soon. We are blessed to have a diamond, not in the rough, but an actual diamond, not a DNA fake either. The real Marie Diamond. Thank you for joining us. We appreciate you always.

• 13:47Speaker 01

  Thank you so much, gentlemen.

• 13:49Speaker 00

  We are blessed to have many diamonds here on Office Hours.