How to Cleanse Your Space of Negative / Stagnate Energy

By Christina Scalise, Certified Reiki Master & Teacher

LightSourceWithin.com

Keeping the energy clean and positive in any space can be very beneficial to anyone who enters it. Think about it this way… you walk into any home or workplace and instantly FEEL comfortable …or do not comfortable. How you feel, usually depends on how clean the energy is in that space. If it’s full of negative, stagnate energy you will not feel good or comfortable in that space. If it’s filled with clean, positive energy, you will not only feel comfortable, you will also feel really good!

For instructions on how to cleanse your space of negative, stagnate energy, let’s start with the most commonly known way… smudging.

Smudge using either...

California White Sage (also helps clear bacteria in the air). Please Note: Burning sage can irritate allergies and may also be harmful to small animals and pet birds. Please be sure to open windows and remove them from the property while burning.
Palo Santo/Holy Wood (medicinal tree that grows in South America, harvested from dead trees).

*Tip: A little bit of smoke is all you need. It is NOT necessary to completely fill your home with smoke. Smudging your home is more about the intention than it is about the smoke itself.

How to smudge a home...

Open some windows and/or doors to let the good energy in and the negative energy out.
Start at the front door and smudge yourself, swirling smoke around your entire body.
Walk through every area of your home, waving the smoke into the air as you go. The general rule is to walk counterclockwise throughout the home to remove negative energy and clockwise to bring in good energy. However, if you FEEL you need to move in a different direction, please do so! *Tip: Think of yourself as gathering up all the negative energy as you go and sending it out through the front door.
Be sure to wave the smoke into all areas of your home, in every room; the corners, closets, doors, vents and any dark/shadowed area. Don’t forget to do the basements, garages and attics as well.
When you are finished in each room, walk through the door and as you pass through it, ask your guides and angels to seal and protect the room from this point forward and smudge the outline of the doorway with smoke as you say it.
Repeat a positive mantra as you smudge your home. Examples... “This home is happy and bright.”, “This home is protected and full of light.”, “In the name of God, all negative energies must go.”
Ask your Spirit Guides, Angels and protectors to help cleanse your home and remove any negative energies and/or unwanted spirits by sending them to the light.
Imagine the trail of smudging/smoke behind you is now filled with white healing light and cleansing the home as you walk through every area.
Finish at the front door. Seal the front door of the home and ask that it be completely safeguarded from this point forward.
Smudge yourself once more, swirling smoke around your entire body.

Other things you can do to cleanse your home of negative energies...

Place Crystals such as Selenite, Black Tourmaline, Black Obsidian, Rose Quartz and/or Amethyst in areas where it feels especially dense, all four corners of your home, at each door, window or entranceway and/or outside on all the corners of your property once the inside of your home has been cleansed.
Use any natural form of salt (sea salt or Himalayan salt) the same way as described above for the crystals. When using salt inside your home, after two weeks remove the salt (vacuum or empty the bowl) and toss it into the outside garbage. Salt can also be sprinkled in a line around your entire property but only AFTER you have cleansed your entire property including the inside of your home.
Clean and organize your home of any clutter or unwanted items. This will help remove any stagnate energy.
Open some windows for fresh air, and curtains for sunlight. Let Mother Nature share her amazing healing energy with your home!
Imagine a white bubble of protective light surrounding your entire home, protecting it from negative energy. *Tip: Doing this during meditation, can be especially helpful.
Walk throughout your home playing meditation music, a singing bowl or ringing bells.
Cleanse your home with Reiki healing energy. If you are not Reiki certified, call in someone who is.