The steps to space clearing is simple. All you need is the right tools and have positive intentions for what you see for your home. Start out with a prayer or vision of how you see your ideal home, the smell, the feeling of the floor underneath your feet, even how you feel when you enter and leave your home. These visions are great to keep in mind while cleaning out unnecessary things in your life.
Many reasons why people choose to do space clearing is too to clear out predecessor chi; negative energy that was present either before or during entering a space. Also space clearing can be done to clear unwanted entities that have made themselves comfortable in your home such as ghosts or other paranormal activities that are present which may cause negativity in the form of sleep paralysis, for example.
Another reason why people do space clearing is because our homes are a reflection of our inner thoughts, and to have clarity in mind we must first look at our surroundings because it is our environment which shape our thoughts. So, to have a clean and sacred home is to honor the divine within us as well. Space clearing, to me is giving appreciation for our homes, which house our bodies that house our souls. When we space clear our physical surroundings we also space clear our emotional and spiritual bodies.
Space clearing is usually followed after one has done a full cleaning of a space using salt, sound clearing such as clapping, drumming or singing and then finally smudging, which is the use of burning a sage plant, incense or scented smoke of your choice. The procedure is as follows:
1. It is a good habit to clean our bodies before we do a space clearing so that we can approach our home with fresh energy. Also, being barefoot is encouraged, so that we can feel the floor underneath us and measure the level of cleaning to be done, but if you are lifting and moving heavy pieces of furniture use your best judgement, wearing shoes is okay of course.
2. Then, start by getting rid of unused clutter, either by recycling or donating.
3. Free space behind all doors for good flow, making sure even underneath the beds are clean, and if they happen to have storage, make sure that it is well kept and organized. Go through cabinets and drawers and sort out what you do not need. Always check in with yourself, if you are having a hard time to let go of something, see if you have used it within the last year, if not, then chuck it and if it is sentimental would it be special enough for you to display every day or to place in an alter? If not, you can probably do without it.
4. Make sure that the entrance to any doors have good clearance, minimize overly stuffed coats on the coat hangers as well as shoes by the door, to a neat and welcoming landing.
5. Start at the entrance of you door, then in a clock wise motion, start by wiping the walls, then the floor with water and sea salt. Sea salt is a great element for drawing out stagnant energy and purifying it.
6. Then, use sound to awaken and free any other stagnant energy hidden in corners of walls. You start again at the front door and go around your house in a clockwise motion using sound. When you approach a corner, start by sending sound from the bottom of the floor all the way up towards the corners of the ceiling, then when finished continue around the room.
7. Once this is done use a scented smoke of your choice and first smudge around your entire body, then walk around your space starting at the front door and circling in a clockwise motion. Remember to keep a window or door cracked for ventilation. I prefer to use white sage because of its clean burning smell, also frankincense and myrrh rocks heated over coal is another very powerful tool I recommend.
8. After your done, I always like to take a bath and wash up afterwards as well.
As far as gracefully letting go of things, a friend told me a story of the time she had to move and had to face all her stuff from her past hidden in old boxes and stuffed back behind closets. She found an old bracelet her father gave to her for her birthday before he passed away on her fifth birthday. There was a feeling of obligation due to sentiment to keep it, but she did not want to display it on an alter, or keep it hidden in a drawer collecting dust and forgetting about it. Instead of hiding it away, she did a little ceremony of burying the bracelet in her garden sending a prayer for her father and any feelings of sadness, mourning or guilt to the earth to be purified. In that way, she let go of an item gracefully and with honor for her father. If you ever find it hard to let go of things with deep sentimental value, but know it is not serving you in the present, don’t feel guilty about it, instead do what you feel is best to gracefully let go of material belongings into the earth, and celebrate the feeling of being lighter.
Its also important to note, to go easy on yourself, don’t push yourself to hard to get it all cleaned at once. Start room by room, day by day until its done. I tend to prefer doing space clearings during the new moon
I hope these steps make a difference in your home. I have been doing space clearing to help me with insomnia as well as help in organizing my life. I have followed these very steps for over 5 years, and have even done space clearings several times a week in my room. Since doing so, I feel so much more comfortable in my home, while creating a sacred space for myself and my family. There really is no limit for how many times you can do it, but I do feel that if you have never done a space clearing before, it is a wonderful way to bless your home and establish your presence there and with our environment.
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