Clearing Negative Energy

Someone suddenly feels anxious or scared, with no explanation. Someone feels as though they have a negative attachment. Someone feels that another person is sending negative energy at them. And a very common one: a visitor came over, sucked the energy out of everyone, and left something heavy behind in the house when they went.

All of these can be dealt with, and none of the methods are difficult. I will go through them as a room, a house and a body, because that is how people usually meet the problem, though most of the methods work across all three.

Why it builds up

Anyone learning and growing spiritually will come across negative energy at times, often without noticing it happening. It is especially true if you read for people, do healing, or sit with someone in a hard moment. You come home carrying something you did not leave with.

If it is never cleared, it accumulates. Accumulated energy does not sit quietly. It shows up as a run of strange days, a flat mood you cannot account for, erratic little things that seem to cluster for no reason. The more you carry, the more of that you get.

Places can hold it too. A visitor who drains everyone can leave something heavy in the house after they have gone.

A room

Start with the simplest thing there is. Open the doors and windows and let in sunshine and fresh air. It sounds too ordinary to work, and it is one of the best methods I know. Stale energy and stale air tend to leave by the same door.

Use sage. It is a well known way of helping to clear negative energy, and it is well known for a reason.

Burn incense, or a scented candle, or use a diffuser. Scent changes the feel of a room very quickly, which is why I suggest an oil burner with incense for deeper meditation too.

Play music that you love. Music raises the energy of a room, and it raises yours along with it. The Sound Energy page goes into why.

And laugh. Laughter is one of the fastest ways I know of raising energy, yours and the room's at the same time. A room where people have had a good belly laugh does not stay heavy for long.

A house

A house is a room many times over, so everything above applies, done through every room in turn. Open the whole house up. Walk through with the sage or the incense. Put the music on loud enough to reach the back bedroom.

Colour plays its part too. Colours affect mood and energy. White is the colour we associate with cleanliness and with spirit. Pink calms people down: angry and violent people have been shown to settle when they are put in a pink room, and it has been used in prisons. If a part of your house always feels tense, look at what colour it is.

Then think about what the house is soaking in day to day. Whatever you have an abundance of around you, you are bathing in. A house full of arguments is a bath of arguments, and no amount of sage will hold out against that for long. Sometimes clearing a house means changing what goes on in it.

A body

This is where most of the work is, because the body is where you carry it home.

Water is the great clearer. The Water Energy page covers it in full, so here is the short version.

Coil a garden hose on the lawn, with the end poking out in a line. Turn the tap on and step into the middle of the coil, then step into the running water. Do it with bare feet. You can do the same by walking through a stream or a river, if you are lucky enough to have one nearby, and most of us are not. Even crossing a bridge over water helps.

Have a salt bath. Sit in it until the water starts to cool, and let it drain away while you are still in the tub.

Get in the sea if you can. Salt water takes energy off you that nothing else will shift.

Stand in the shower and let the water run from the top of your head down to your feet, and see everything you picked up during the day running down the drain with it. The Grounding page has the full shower method, and grounding as a daily habit does more to stop the build up than any clearing after the fact.

Surround yourself with white light. Picture it all the way around you, above your head and under your feet. Pink works very well too.

Fasting can be very effective. Please get medical advice before you fast, and if you are under a doctor's care for anything at all, ask them first.

When it feels like a person

Sometimes the negative energy has a face. You can feel that a particular person means you harm, and the heaviness arrives whenever they come to mind.

There is a method for this. Write their name on a piece of paper. Fold it up and sticky tape it completely, then put it in the freezer. It effectively blocks that person from being able to see you or your energy.

Your intent matters here. The point is your own protection. You should never wish anything negative on the other person, and if you notice yourself doing so, stop and clear that first. The Protection page has more on this, and another method for blocking someone that works on the same principle.

When it feels like an attachment

If what you are feeling is a spirit attached to you, rather than leftover energy, treat it more seriously than everything else on this page.

The rule is simple. Never allow a spirit to attach to you. Never ask one to, and never do it to see what happens. A spirit that has your highest good at heart only ever wants to pass on information. It will never attach. One that wants to attach is never doing it for your good.

I have seen situations where lives were at risk because of an attachment. If you think you have one, do not try to live with it. Get help from someone experienced in breaking attachments. Grounding regularly, especially if you do mediumship, is the best way to stop one taking hold in the first place.

Energy healing beside medicine

Sudden anxiety with no explanation can have a medical cause as well as an energetic one. Clearing sits beside proper care, never in place of it. If something keeps coming back, see your doctor as well as opening the windows.

Doing it

Doing any or all of the above will help you move on from negative energy. You do not need every method. Find the two or three that your body answers to and use them often, the way you clean your teeth, rather than saving them for emergencies.

Then notice what changes. Which method lifts you fastest. Which room in the house always needs it first. Which visitors leave the most behind. That noticing is the real skill, and it will tell you more than I can.

If you would like this read against your own chart, my readings are here.

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