Why is cleansing important?

Cleansing your energy is one of the most essential ritual practices for anyone on a spiritual path.

Practice energy cleansing regularly for spiritual hygiene to maintain a clear high vibrational energy and a balanced mind, body and spirit. A regular cleansing ritual attunes your energy to a higher vibration, connecting you to the higher spiritual realms, your guides and higher consciousness. As above so below.

Energetic cleansing ensures you clear any energy that does not belong to you, and is not in alignment with your highest self. Energy debris, negative imprints, projections and any energies you may have picked up need to be cleared to prevent blocking alignment with your highest self.

How Often Do You Cleanse Your Energy?

I recommend energy cleansing on a daily basis, performing a small cleansing ritual each day for personal spiritual and energetic hygiene.

Cleanse after any stressful, tense or emotional situation.

Cleanse before any meditation, energy healing, ritual and spiritual practice.

ENERGY CLEANSING RITUALS:

Before you start cleansing take a moment to assess your emotional state and tune into your awareness. Take a few deep breaths to calm and regulate your nervous system.

While cleansing ensure your thoughts and emotions are positive, and you are consciously focusing on good intentions.

State your cleansing intention, prayer or mantra. Write your own or use one of the examples below.

“I banish, clear, and cleanse all negative energy and all energy that does not belong to me, it is not permitted in my energy field.”

“Cleanse, clear and transmute all energy to the purest highest good for all and so it is”

“I cleanse my body, my mind, my heart and my spirit. I am purified and aligned with my highest self.”

 

Energy cleansing methods working with the 5 elements, air, fire, water, earth and spirit:

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These energy cleansing methods have been used in spiritual practices and cultural traditions for thousands of years in many different cultures across the globe.

 

🜁 Air: Smoke Cleansing

Burn incense, herbs, resins and wash yourself in the smoke, from head to toe, hands and top of head.

Different herbs, woods, resins and incense can be burned based on your personal preference or for their spiritual properties.

Benzoin resin: purification, dispel negative emotions, prosperity, business success

Cedar: protection, healing, purification

Cinnamon: healing, protection, success, attracting, enhancing, increasing energy, prosperity, abundance, manifestation

Copal: cleansing, purification, love

Cypress: grief, pain, loss, death rites, divination

Dragon’s Blood resin: protection, purification, banishes negative influences, enhance energy of any working

Eucalyptus: protection, purification, healing, cleansing, clearing

Frankincense: cleansing, purification, protection, consecrating, manifestation, success

Juniper: protection, banishing evil, attracting success, health

Lavender: purification, peace, sleep, rest, protection

Mugwort: protection, clear blockages, clear negative emotions, dream work

Mullein: banish, protect, revitalize, clearing, remove blockages

Myrrh resin: peace, consecrating, powerful vibration, psychic energy

Palo Santo wood: cleanses the spirit, refreshes, renews the energy, purifies, sweetens brings in positivity 

Rosemary: banish, remove negativity, purification

Sage: cleansing, banishing, washing away negative energy debris 

Sandalwood: protection, clears negativity, healing, manifestation

Sweet Grass: cleanse, clear, calling in positive energy and spirits

Thyme: banish evil, protection, purification, strength, attracts positivity

 

🜁 Air: Sound Cleansing

You can use sound to cleanse your energy. If you need a quick energy cleanse after a negative interaction you can hum, vibrating your voice and this discharges the energy returning you to a regulated, clear and neutral state.

Instruments, singing and sound healing frequencies can also cleanse and recalibrate your energy field and vibration.

Bells, singing bowls, tuning forks, chimes, drums as well as binaural beats, are all powerful ways to cleanse your energy and retune your frequency through harmonic resonance, and entrainment, where your energy signature will naturally come back into harmony by resonating with the healing sound frequency.

🜂 Fire: Fire Cleansing

Light a candle, or a fire in a fireplace, wood stove, outdoor fire pit, ideally at night or in the dark.

Gaze into the flame, breathe deeply, and allow all negativity and anything you want to let go of be released into the fire. Visualize the flame burning off and engulfing all energy off of your field that doesn’t belong to you. Cleansing, clearing and purifying yourself by the sacred fire.

 

🜄 Water: Natural Water Cleansing Methods

Washing Your Hands and or Face:

If you need a quick energy cleanse, wash your hands and or face under cold running water to energetically cleanse off a negative interaction, insult, confrontation, conflict or evil eye. Taking a simple but intentional action to cleanse your energy immediately after a negative interaction will maintain your high vibration and prevent energy leaks.

Taking A Nature Dip, Dipping, Jumping in, Swimming, Soaking in a Creek, River, Lake, Ocean):

Emerge yourself in a natural body of water, or just your feet, hands, as you like, you do not have to fully emerge your whole body to cleanse in water, but if you can it provides an immediate energy reset. More importantly is your intention and mindset during the cleansing ritual. Visualize/imagine the water taking the negative unwanted energy from your mind, body and spirit and it all washing off you and being taken by the water. Your energy is cleansed, renewed, refreshed.

Herbal / Flower Essence Body Sprays:

Spray yourself with a natural herbal or flower essence water to cleanse and refresh your energy.

Rose: high vibration, self-love

Lavender: relaxation, stress relief, calm, serene

Orange Blossom: harmony, peace, attracting abundance and prosperity

Florida Water: banishes negativity, evil eye and hexes, clears, cleanses, protects energy

🜄 Water: Spiritual Baths Cleansing Method

Soak or shower in water as an intentional cleansing ritual. Stay in the water until it is all drained completely and visualize the negative energy being washed off and going down the drain.

🜃 Earth: Salt Cleansing Methods

Salt is a sacred and powerful alchemical mineral, used for centuries in spiritual and religious rituals for cleansing, purification, preservation and protection.

There are many ways to use salt in cleansing rituals, such as bath salts and scrubs, cast a sacred circle, fill a small dish with salt and leave it by your bed to absorb negative energies.

🜃 Earth: Grounding or Earthing

Go for a walk in nature, place your hands on a tree, your bare feet on the ground, make direct contact with the earth and connect with the Earth energy. Imagine/visualize a grounding cord from your Root Chakra at the base of your spine that connects down your body through your feet all the way down to the centre of the Earth. Feel the strong foundation of support the Earth provides you with this connection. Allow all negative unwanted energy you have been carrying to discharge and be cleared through this cord down into the Earth where it is then transmuted. Your energy is grounded, clear, stable, balanced and strong.

 

🜃 Earth: Energy Cleansing with Crystals

Hold the crystal in your hand like a wand, and slowly begin to sweep your energy field with the crystal, starting at your head, down one side of your body to your feet and then down the other side of you to your feet. Sweep down to banish, clear and cleanse. Sweep back up to energize, recharge your energy.

Bring in the element of Spirit and imagine/visualize a white, golden, or coloured light glowing from the crystal in all directions. (It can be the colour of the crystal you are holding, or any colour ray of your choice.)

With focused intention, sense the energy and light coming from the crystal is clearing and erasing the negative energies from your energy field as you sweep.

 

☆ Spirit: Bubble of Light Energy Cleansing Method

Visualize white, golden or coloured light descending from above and coming down washing over you, creating a bubble of light surrounding and imbuing you with love and positive energy.

Combining All 5 Elements In A Spiritual Bath/Shower Cleansing Ritual:

🜄 Water: Fill the tub with hot/warm water to your liking.

🜃 Earth: Add salt to the water. Any one or combination of sea salt, Himalayan salt, epsom salt/magnesium sulfate, dead sea salts

🜁 Air: Put on binaural beats, sound frequencies, meditative or classical music and/or burn incense and smoke cleanse the tub/shower, bathroom and yourself

🜂 Fire: Light candle(s) around the tub or bathroom

☆ Spirit: Visualize/imagine white or golden light descending down and filling the bathtub/shower with light, the light sweeping your energy field, cleansing all negative unwanted energy and energy not belonging to you

🜄 Water: Once the other elements are set up, immerse yourself in the water. If you are in a shower, scrub or pour the water over you. As you complete your cleansing bath ritual, stay in the tub while the water drains and visualize/imagine all the negative unwanted energy going down the drain.

 

If you don’t have a bathtub or prefer the shower, here are some other ways to do it.

1. Combine the ingredients with water in a large pot or container in your shower and use a cup to pour the spiritual bath over you.
2. Create a scrub with salts, crushed dried herbs and flowers and add a few drops off oil (olive, coconut, sweet almond, jojoba) and optional essential oils, then scrub your body head to toe with the salt mixture while in the shower.
3. Foot soak. Fill a tub/container with warm/hot water. Add salt. Optional to add herbs, flowers, essential oils of your choice. Soak for 5-15 min (or longer). Dump container down the toilet afterwards and as it flushes imagine/visualize all the negative unwanted energy going down the drain.

There are many more ways to cleanse energy. I encourage you to experiment and try some of these ways to see what you like and what works best for you. There are many herbs, plants, flowers, trees that are used in cleansing that I haven’t mentioned. To connect with your ancestors you can ask your family or research what herbs/plants/tools your cultural tradition used and incorporate them into your ritual practices. You can combine any of the methods mentioned above and alter them to personalize and create your own ritual.

~ As Above So Below ~