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Energy Clearing Methods For Sensitive People

What Is Energy Clearing?

Energy clearing helps release unwanted energies that have attached to us after being out in the world, especially around other people. All things, not just people, have a unique vibration and an energy field. 

The energy fields of things and other people interact with our energy field, frequently leaving something behind. After time, we accumulate all manner of energies that don’t belong. 

Energy clearing helps clear away these energies, leaving us feeling lighter and more aligned when we truly are.

 

Why Do Energy Clearing?

Have you ever felt…different…after being with other people? Heavier, perhaps, or more angry or sad? This is a result of taking on energies that don’t belong to you. 

Our bodies accumulate all sorts of energies from many different sources over the course of our lives. You may be carrying energy from childhood traumas, difficult relationships, or limiting thought patterns or beliefs. We absorb energies from other people all the time.

 

Sensitive People Usually Have a Harder Time

If you’re energetically sensitive or an empath, you probably already feel like a human sponge. Being around friends, family, or especially amongst crowds can leave you feeling drained emotionally and psychically. Your sensitivity is a gift, yet you may feel you’re being bombarded by psychic noise all day long.

 

What You Need To Know Before Clearing Your Energy

What is your main primary mode of imagining things: seeing or feeling? Most of us primarily either visualize or feel things kinesthetically. Less common is using taste or hearing. 

 

Identify your primary mode of imagining, because you’ll use to do your clearing.

 

Intention Is A Powerful Tool

All of these methods require that you use the power of your intention to make them work. Strongly intend that your chosen method will clear away energies from your physical body that do not belong or are unwanted.

 

Clearing Techniques

 

Shower Cleanse 

Before you step under the spray, intend that the water will clear away any unwanted energies. As the water pours over your body from your crown to your toes, imagine/see/feel that it carries with it all energies that do not belong to you or are unwanted.

 

Waterfall of Light

Imagine your body is under a beautiful waterfall of white crystalline light that cascades over you, pouring through your crown and into every cell of your body. As it does, imagine/see/feel that the light carries with it any energies that do not belong to you or are unwanted.

 

Smudging 

Holding a lighted stick of sage, sweetgrass, or palo santo in your hand, slowly pass the stick around your entire body. Allow the smoke to waft around you for 2-3 minutes. While you do so, imagine/see/feel the smoke clearing away any energies that do not belong to you—anything that is unwanted.

 

Salt Bath

Fill your bathtub with warm water and add 1 cup salt, preferably pink Himalayan. Lie in the water and imagine/see/feel it removing any energies that do not belong to you or is unwanted.

 

Pendulum Cleanse

First you must “attune” the pendulum to you so you know how it behaves when you work with it. Experienced pendulums users may skip to section C.

 

A. To attune your pendulum, hold one end of the chain/string between your thumb and pointer finger. Silently ask the pendulum to show you a ”yes” answer. It will begin to move in one of these directions: clockwise circle, counterclockwise circle, back and forth horizontally, back and forth vertically. 

 

B. Once your pendulum has established a strong movement in one of these directions, ask it to show you a ”no” answer. It will change direction. Note which directions are your ”yes” and ”no”.

 

C. Now, ask your pendulum to clear your energy field. It will immediately begin to move in one of the four directions. As the pendulum spins, imagine/see/feel it clearing away any energies that do not belong to you or is unwanted. When the spinning slows or dies down, the pendulum is finished.

 

Energetic Protection Techniques

Now that your energy field is clearer, you’ll want to employ a technique to ensure you don’t accumulate more unwanted energies again. Use these techniques regularly (daily is good), especially when you’re heading out to crowded places or places you’ve felt unusually drained by in the past.

 

  1. If you have spirit guides that you work with, ask them for help with energetic protection. 

 

  1. Carry a piece of the gemstone obsidian to attract unwanted energies, but be sure to cleanse it frequently (generally on the full moon).

 

  1. Imagine your body is surrounded by crystalline white light that permeates every cell. This light has the power to keep unwanted energies from accumulating. 

I’ve spent the past ten days in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, far from my present home in the northeast but closer, much closer, to my true spiritual home, and during this time one of my specific goals was to immerse myself into a deeper connection with Nature.  Though my home is in a semi-rural area, affording me an opportunity to frequently bike through rolling hills amid cornfields and farmhouses, I really don’t feel all that connected with the nature element of it usually.  Perhaps it’s because I don’t connect energetically with the space, or resist a deeper connection; perhaps it’s the human element in a long-inhabited space that has overwritten the elements of nature, but in any case I felt a huge difference in my little cabin in the forest, a short walk from the beach, easily moving into a space of love and appreciation for Nature and my place within it.  I spent several hours roaming the trails through the forest, meandering along the beach, and standing in the rain under the trees at night.

 

And then I upped the ante considerably and spent some time in a different forest last night.  

 

I entered the forest under a nearly-full moon, bright on a cloudless night, and instantly I felt a different sort of welcoming, an embrace, an invitation.  Through connecting with the trees who are themselves all connected and always aware of that connection to one another, to the earth, and to All That Is, I could reach back into time and feel roots tapping into the dawning of human consciousness on the planet with such primordial innocence that it took my breath away. 

 

At the same time I was aware of every possibility that continues to stretch before us in time: possibilities for each one of us and all the myriad possibilities available at any given moment, every choice, every road taken and not taken, and I felt vast, knowing that I was a part of everything that ever has been and everything still yet to come.  I was as tall as the trees and as bright as the moon, and I turned my face toward her, accepting the spotlight, fully acknowledging my completeness and perfection.

 

To say this was a joyous and magical experience doesn’t quite do it justice.

 

But it served as a wonderful reminder, one that I will take back to my home with me and one that I offer you now, that our connection with Nature is an essential of simply being human.  It’s part of us, and to deny it is to deny part of Self.

 

Afterwards, I channeled this:

 

There is of course value in connecting with animals, trees, and other elements of what you consider to be “nature”. These elements, are of course, part of your home, part of your world, and are as such connected to you, to humans, in a very intimate way.  You share space.  You share air.  You share resources.  Not only that, but you share in the creation of your world, the global creation of the reality you know as life on the physical plane.  And because of that, there is an undying connection between you as a human and ALL of the so-called “natural” elements of Nature.

 

Some of you feel this connection more deeply, more emotionally, than others.  Some feel a return, when confronted with Nature, especially in her most raw state, to that innocent and childlike state of simply Being, existing, that lies dormant within all of you.  And as such, you feel it deeply when one of nature’s children, one element of the intricate tapestry that is constantly being woven and re-created, moves through natural transition into another state.  There is, for you, a deep sense of loss, as there is the recognition not only of the timelessness of transformation and the cycles of life on the planet, but also of the transference of human-type connection to an element of nature.  You can mostly only experience connection with nature by transferring those feelings to a more human perspective, and when loss of an element of nature, such as a pet or tree, occurs, there is transference to the human state of grief.

 

We have mentioned the energetic connections between you and your pets and we wish to elaborate.  Again, not only is there a very real symbolic connection here (discovery of Self, of Love, of perspective: these things were gained through and with your interaction), but also there HAVE in most cases indeed been some past-life associations.  Though most animals live lives in mainly hive-type soul arrangements, there is a constancy of energy that can flow generation after generation through one individual animal to another, and even of course crossing boundaries of species.  There has been for many of you, then, a common thread through many lifetimes of connection with various elements of nature, and it is this thread, now running through you and the pets you love, that has touched this present lifetime.

 

The lessons from connection to Nature are many and varied and often depend on the individual, but regardless of perspective there is ALWAYS growth opportunity through human connection with Nature.  After all, it is your home.  It is your LIFE.  To deny Nature is denying an aspect of Self, and to fully EMBRACE Nature, to ACCEPT it in all its splendor, ugliness, and beauty, is a HUGE step in actually accepting your Self.