Protect Your Energy and Space: The Ultimate Guide to Cleansing, Protection, and Grounding

Energy protection is a multifaceted endeavor that you must be extremely vigilant about. You must keep your personal energy cleansed and protected as well as the space around you. For cleansing, you want to use either sage or palo santo, or a combination of both to perform smudging of both your person and your house/property.

Sage

Sage is considered to be the more powerful between it and palo santo when it comes to simply clearing energy. Sage will clear all energy negative or positive, and creates sort of a vacuum, which it is important to fill that vacuum with positive energy which can be achieved by meditation or blessing a room once it is cleared, or by using a positive scent such as rose or palo santo.

Palo Santo

This wood, also known as Holy Wood, is used to transmute darkness into light. Native tribes across the world have been using this wood to abolish negative energies for centuries. Palo santo does not just cleanse the negativity, but it transmutes it into positive energy, filling the void that is normally left when just smudging with sage.

Cleansing/Smudging

Light the smudging device of your choice and then blow it out until just a nice steady stream of smoke flows from the embers. Start on the easternmost point of your property and waft the smoke all around your body saying “transmute any energy that isn’t for my greatest and highest good into love”. Then walk your property line going clockwise continuing to waft the smoke while repeating the mantra.

Once you and your property line have been cleared, then move into your house, make sure that all windows are open so that negative energy can escape. Start in the easternmost point in your house and do every floor, including the basement, garage, and attic, going in a similar clockwise fashion. Make sure to smudge over all corners low and high, drains (sink or floor), toilets, doorways, windows, and around and under beds. Once you are finished light some incense, particularly rose or honeysuckle to fill the void. This will also help to seal in positive energy.

Everytime you go into public or come in contact with other humans who’ve been outside your house there is an opportunity for something to attach to your energy field, especially if you aren’t protecting yourself using the steps we will discuss next. When you come home from out in public or have new people in your house you should make an effort to smudge yourself and/or them and your house.

Protection

To protect yourself when you leave the house or are going to be around others, imagine yourself in a white ball of light. This light is divine white light that transmutes all energies that are not for your greatest and highest good into love. You can also imagine a golden shield that surrounds this white ball of light and that this shield only allows for divine energies to penetrate. Use this method as often as you feel called to and in combination with the other cleansing methods above.

Another way to protect your energy and your health is by blessing your food and drinks. In fact everything that you put into your body, whether it be pills, drugs, alcohol, water, etc. bless it and thank it for what it does. This is important for a few reasons, one being that some foods, drinks, etc. can be low vibration to begin with, such as processed foods, so blessing it will help to raise its vibration to make it more agreeable with your constitution. The other factor in this equation is the people who handle the product you are ingesting. If a chef was in a bad mood or the stocker at the store was angry, it can leave some unwanted energy on your products and you don’t want that to carry over to you.

Grounding

Take time, at least 10–15 minutes each day, or as often as you can to walk barefoot in the grass or sit directly on the ground (grass or dirt, not concrete). This is an effective way to balance your energy levels and “get out of your head”. It is also useful to get as much sun as possible during this time. There are also grounding mats that you can purchase that you can put on your mattress that are designed to give a similar effect when you sleep. Many people have probably experienced the sensation of “restless legs syndrome”, grounding can be an effective way of getting rid of this excess energy.

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