How to Clear the Energy in Your Home in 5 Simple Steps

Discover how clearing the energy in your home can lift your mood, relationships, and prosperity — in just 5 simple steps.

Have you ever walked into a room and immediately felt something was off — or, on the flip side, stepped into someone’s home and felt instantly at ease? That’s energy at work, and it’s more powerful than most people realize.

Space clearing (also called home energy clearing) is the practice of cleansing and fine-tuning the invisible energy of your home so that it feels genuinely good to be there. And while energy isn’t something you can see, almost everyone can feel it — whether it’s the staleness of a long-closed room, the lingering tension after an argument, or the warmth radiating from a household full of love.

When the energy in your home is bright and buoyant, everything else benefits too: your mood, your sleep, your relationships, even your sense of prosperity and possibility. The good news? You don’t need special training to clear it. Here are five simple steps to get started.

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Space Clearing Step 1: Clear Clutter

Nothing lifts the vibe in your home like getting rid of everything you don’t love, use or need.

If you’re overwhelmed by this prospect or don’t know where to start, this post has got you covered.

Space Clearing Step 2:  Clean

When you clean your house physically, you clean your house energetically too.

Especially when you set the intention to clear away negativity right along with the dust and grime.

And if you’re an essential oil person, this is a great opportunity to use up your essential oils before they expire: add a few drops of spearmint, peppermint, lavender, cedar, sage, or clary sage to your cleaning products or mop water to ramp up the energy clearing factor.

Or even better, make your own cleaning products.

Space Clearing Step 3: Clear with Sound

Do you have a drum, chime, bell, or rattle?

If not, no problem! You can use sound to clear the energy in your home by clapping your hands or bang a wooden spoon on a pan.

As you do so, move in a counterclockwise direction through each room and area of your space. (Counterclockwise is the direction that unwinds and unbinds.) But first, the intention to disperse and dissolve any and all stuck or heavy energy from your space.

Pay special attention to the corners, the dark areas, and anywhere else you might imagine energy could get stuck. Feel, imagine, and sense the sound unsticking formerly stagnant energy and replacing it with harmonious, flowing energy.

Space Clearing Step 4: Clear with Herbs

While a bundle of dried white sage is perhaps the best known smoke cleansing tool, there are plenty of other options, such as desert sage, frankincense, mugwort, or palo santo.

For fire safety, while cleansing with sage (or another botanical) be sure to carry a small dish or plate to catch any burning embers, and again move in a counterclockwise direction throughout each room or area.

Just to be clear: make sure the sage bundle is smoking like incense, not burning like a log on a fire.

For those with smoke sensitivities or an extra sensitive fire alarm, a smudge spray is a wonderful alternative to smoke. (Provided you don’t have pets running around.)

Or, make your own space clearing spray by placing a 8-10 drops of space clearing essential oil in a mister, shaking well, and misting the space. Space clearing essential oils you might choose include sage, eucalyptus, cedar, spearmint, lavender, palo santo, pine, and frankincense.

Space Clearing Step 5: Bless

Now that you’ve purified the space of the energy you don’t want, it’s time to call in the energy you do want.

One way to do this is to envision a sphere of very bright, golden-white light completely filling and encompassing your home. Mentally send any intentions you’d like into this light. You might sense and intend this light to be filled with vibrations of love, light, clarity, abundance, health, and peace.

Or, you can bless the space by misting with rose water. To seal in the energy, move in a clockwise direction this time. Roses are believed to have the purest and most positive vibration of any living thing, because they vibrate to the frequency of love.

Keep the energy in your space clear and fresh, and you will definitely notice a positive difference in your life.

Did you clear the space in your home? How did it go? Please share in the comments below.

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