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Jan 12, 20227 min
How to clear spaces:
Your home might be filled with external energies that affect you and your loved ones (including plants, animals). There's many many ways to clear a space. You might know of incense, using smoke from burning dried plants or incense cones & sticks (in all safety), or having a glass of water collecting stagnant energies that you are going to dump without drinking it. You can also play mantras, music frequencies, clean physically the space, have black stones (obsidian, tourmaline) in corners, doors and windows, or use a selenite wand.
And you can sit still on the ground, and start channeling reiki and let it become bigger than you, bigger than your aura, and pervade the entire room. You can command energy with your voice and maintain the visualisation.
One of my favorite channeled guidance by my Highest Self is to visualize myself tapping with both my palms the walls, the windows, the doors and shake loose the energy stored in their structure. In those moments, in my mind's eye, I see the dust lift off, and get sent towards the Earth; in the roots; through all the layers of the Earth's crust until it is cleared and pulled all the way back.
Try it?
I highly recommend doing that a few days after each new moon, or when you come back from a trip, making your home connect with your being again, you are One after all.
Note: it's important to establish a connection and ask for consent. Renting or owning the place changes the contact & context between you and the energy of the space. You might witness some energy fields that belong to the owner or previous owners, and in that case, not touch or shift them, but draw better boundaries between you and the energy fields; we are not here to impose our will on things that are not of "us", and/or be a savior. Preserve your energy.
I also want to share a few pages from a book called Clearing: A Guide to Liberating Energies Trapped in Buildings and Lands by Jim Pathfinder Ewing (the author is mentioned in the Books Recommendations article):
The performance of release ceremonies is a useful means of transmuting energy for healthier and happier living. Living or working in places with negative or stale energy has a long-term destructive impact on one’s quality of life in general, as well as on creativity and productivity. Although the impact is often not well understood in our society due to lack of information about the power and forms of energy, it nevertheless plays an important role in people’s daily lives. Therefore, the advantages of learning techniques for clearing and cleansing places and land are significant. Use of these tools can result in a more inspired and joyful life.
Indoor Spaces
Any indoor space routinely used for a particular purpose will have organized patterns of thought forms within it. By performing release ceremonies to break up this energy with good intention, through rattling and smudging, it is possible to transmute it to a more positive form, raising its vibrational level.1 For optimal balance, abundance, and creativity, perform such ceremonies regularly, just as you would routinely clean your home.
Items Needed to Clear and Cleanse Indoor Spaces
Rattle. Any type of rattle will do, even an improvised one consisting of a few small crystals in a pill bottle or some pebbles in a plastic drink container, or in a pinch a bottle of aspirin.
Smudge stick. White sage, which is especially good for smudging, can be purchased at specialty bookstores or at powwows, or you can gather it yourself. If you decide to buy a smudge stick, read the label or inquire if the sage was gathered in a sacred manner. If it wasn’t, look elsewhere. The land in the western United States is being denuded of sage and other plants by people whose sole intent is profit, with little regard for the plants’ sacredness. When plants are gathered without respect, their power is impaired. Cedar, sweetgrass, and incense may also be used, especially if they have been consecrated.2 This can be done by holding your hands over the plants or incense, and invoking a pure intention, thereby empowering the substances to transmute any toxins that may be present.
Note: Some lands have fire restrictions, including even the lighting of a match. If for any reason smoke isn’t permitted in the space being cleared, energies may be transmuted through use of a palm-sized quartz crystal instead of a smudge stick. To “program” a crystal, place it in your left hand and declare your intent to transmute all negative energy. As you hold this thought in your mind and heart, its energy will go wherever the crystal is pointed. It helps to have a crystal that can beam a five- or six-foot swath from a distance of ten feet or less. Ask the crystal if it has this capacity, and it will tell you through sensations in your hand, which may soon be warm, tingly, or comfortable.
Procedure
To clear and cleanse most indoor spaces, only rattling and smudging may be necessary. First, light the smudge stick and then start rattling with one hand while moving the smudge stick so the smoke covers the area before you. The idea is to begin at the front door with the intent of keeping all the energy in front of you, making a clockwise circle throughout the entire building and returning to where you began.
While rattling and smudging, work as intently with the energy as if you were carefully sweeping a room of dust, concentrating on walls, ceiling, floor, crevices, behind doors, and under tables, making sure no area escapes your attention. Rattle out-of-the-way places with extra vigor to remove especially stubborn stale and negative energies that may have lodged there. Sing a power song if you have one; if not, hum or sing whatever sounds of healing and joy you may be given by your guides, spirit helpers, or intuition to help keep you focus enough to dissipate old energy. At times you may feel as if you are in the midst of a whirlwind, with energy activated and transforming all around you. You might also see energy breaking up, like glass shattering, or sometimes rising in sludgeline globs.
If distraction occurs, dislodged energy may attach itself to you, in which case it is important to stay grounded, centered, and shielded, and to ask your guides for protection. Overriding feelings of self-doubt, remember that the Creator’s love is unconditional and available to help you co-create the best possible outcome for your efforts, including the release of any energy attachment. Then re-establish your focus and pick up the rattling and smudging where you had left off.
When you are finished, thank the Creator for returning all misplaced energy to its destination. Finally, thank the Creator for transmuting the remaining energy into love, light, and creative forces.
Other Tools—Crystals, Wands, Feathers, and Water
When cleansing spaces, there may be occasions to use other tools, such as crystals, wands, feathers, or water. Different crystals work in distinctive ways to transmute energy. Crystals can be sprinkled in places to raise the vibrational rate of energy or left in stubborn spots for later maintenance from a distance. Laser crystals can be used to amplify the intent of any ceremony and are particularly effective for defining boundaries while clearing land tracts. A laser crystal is a naturally occurring quartz crystal that has grown into a flat, pointed shape capable of directing energy into a tightly focused beam. All crystals have the ability to channel energy projected onto them and to boost energy due to the piezoelectric effect. Because laser crystals amplify intent, their use requires vigilance.
A wand is a tool that both sends and receives energy and also breaks up energy at distances where a rattle cannot reach. It can be a simple object made of bone or wood, or even a twig. Bones or antlers make good wands and have the added advantage of invoking the spirit of the animal to which they belonged—for example, deer spirits generally help and heal, elk spirits have qualities of ruggedness and tenacity, and buffalo spirits have an energy of abundance and self-sufficiency. A wand may also be ornate, with feathers and beads tied to it, and perhaps a crystal inserted into a carved niche at the tip. A very large wand like a staff may be extremely ornate, such as those carried by many shamans, who attach feathers, fur, and sacred objects to them.
A feather makes for a versatile tool since it may be used to direct energy like a wand, waved to break up energy like a rattle, utilized as an antenna to receive guidance, or serve as a conductor to transmit prayers. A feather may be used to clear a space instead of smudging and rattling, although it requires practice to remain focused while doing so.
Water, another tool, is an excellent cleansing agent. For centuries medicine men have cleansed indoor spots by dipping sweetgrass in water and then slinging the water onto them.
When using water to cleanse, first consecrate it by holding your open hands over the container while thanking the Creator for blessing the water with healing love and light. Energy from the palm chakras in your hands, combined with the power of prayerful intent, can actually change the molecular structure of the water, making it a more effective agent for cleansing, especially for sprinkling on problem spots. Water, a token of life-giving replenishment, also makes a wonderful offering to the spirits of the land.
Sound Vibration
Raising its vibrational level through sound increases the positive energy of a place. The vibration caused by rattling breaks up energy, but sound vibration is powerful in other ways as well. For instance, playing sacred music of a high vibrational level will suffuse a place with positive energy. The chants of Tibetan monks, for example, have low tones that nonetheless exude an extremely high vibrational level.3
Drumming is another excellent way to raise the vibrational level of a space. It can transmute energies, increase the ability to perceive non-ordinary reality, and effect cures over vast distances.4 In the absence of a drum, a person could sing and chant to connect with and transmute energy. Chanting can include religious mantras, sacred sayings, prayers or other verses that have sacred meaning to the individual.
The most powerful means of using voice to activate energy is through a power song, or heart song, that expresses the person’s unique positive energies, traits, and intents. Native peoples have used this form of sound vibration for millennia, usually discovering their power songs through fasting and prayer. If you have found your power song, use it to suffuse a place with the energies in you that are being guided to do this work. If
you have not yet discovered your power song, consider singing hymns instead, or prayer songs, or joyful melodies from your heart that arise naturally in doing this work.
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