Harmonize and Balance Your Home: Space Clearing Techniques to Remove Negative Energy

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Your home should be a sanctuary, the space where you can escape the stresses of everyday life and feel happy, relaxed, and at peace. But if negative energy is lingering from recent arguments, illness, or even a recent breakup, your home can become toxic and dysfunctional and can impact every aspect of your life. 

Space clearing is a technique for clearing energy to harmonize and balance your home. Whether you’re looking to cleanse your new home in Boise, ID, or have been living in your Orlando, FL condo for years but are feeling uninspired and drained, now is a good time to get rid of negative energy using space clearing techniques. 

So what’s the proper space clearing technique? The truth is, there’s no tried and true method for space clearing. From sound healing and crystals to smudging and other daily practices, we asked experts to share what space clearing techniques are their go-to’s. Check out what they had to say. 

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Purify your space with tingsha bells

One of my favorite space clearing techniques to banish negative energy from a home is with sound. I love using tingsha bells to send high-frequency sound waves that purify the environment. When you do this, you also clear your aura and your crystals at the same time. It’s always best to work with intention asking to restore the space with the highest vibrations of love and light. Crystals offer a beautiful way to raise the vibration in your home and also to get rid of bad energy. For high traffic areas like doorways, I love to place a selenite stick above the door and set the intention that those entering through this door be cleansed of negative energy before coming into the room. To harmonize the energy in any room of the house, amethyst, rose quartz and citrine are all wonderful choices for imparting more peace, tranquility, and joy. – Sarah Belle

Smudge your home with palo santo or sage

Anytime is a great time to clear the energy in your home but especially after illness, arguments, death, etc. My favorite way is to physically clean the house and then invite in my divine team of helpers, God, angels, guides, and archangel Michael to help me as I palo santo or sage the house. I open the windows and doors to allow fresh air in. I may say a prayer and then so it is. It really is that easy. Namaste. – Giuliana Giuliano-Melo

Cleanse the energy of your new home

If you have recently purchased a home you may be asking yourself questions like, what do I do next? And how can I perform an energy cleanse for the new space? Three of my favorite gemstones for energy cleansing are clear quartz, rose quartz, and citrine. Use clear quartz to move out past energies and toxins, and to bring clear, clean energy into your new home. Utilize rose quartz to invite self-love and compassion into your space. Use citrine to bring luck and abundance into your world. You can also incorporate my secret weapon, a bowlful of Himalayan sea salt chunks that absorb negative energy and welcome calm to your doorway. – Carol Custom Design

Light some copal, palo santo, or sage

A space clearing technique for removing negative energy from a space and bringing in light energy is to simply light some copal, palo santo or sage proceed around the home counterclockwise with the intent to clear out anything that’s heavy. Use a rattle, drum, or clapping paying special attention to the corners. Make sure the windows and doors are open with the intent that the negative or heavy energy moves out. After clearing, it’s time to bring in light energy by proceeding around the space clockwise with bells, whistles, songs, or your own prayer and intention to bring love, joy, and harmony to your space. – Luminosity Healing Arts

Space clearing involves smudging the home

It’s important to set a clear goal

No matter the space clearing technique you use to cleanse lingering energy (emotions, unresolved situations, reoccurring thoughts of past residents), the first step is to set intent. A clear and held intent is always the first step and the first intent should always be to stay detached from anything within the space. For most, the usual goal is to remove anything not wanted but one can also add an intent of blessing, of protection, of prosperity. Methods of cleansing energy vary but they all start with one thing: the desire to create a personal and comfortable haven. – Fate Telling

Create peace with selenite and desert rose

Your home is a sacred sanctuary that exhibits safety, love, and comfort. With an increase of work-from-home, the stress and static from work can weave into the comfort of your home. Cleansing the energy of your space to enhance and optimize creativity and productivity is essential. Placing selenite or desert rose on your mantle, your desk, or near the entrance of your home helps clear negative or static energy and creates a sense of peace while delivering beauty. Alike, lighting white votives in the evening cleanses and inspires gratitude and calmness as you begin unwinding for the night. – Native Palms Nutrition

Absorb negative energy with this mixture

One space clearing technique is to take an 8oz glass add 3 tablespoons of salt and water and mix well. Place it in the room you feel there is heavy energy overnight. If the saltwater is cloudy the following morning, then this is an indication of negative energy. Repeat the process (3 days or longer) until the salt water is no longer cloudy, this indicates that the negative energy has been absorbed by the saltwater. – Kiran Kaur

Infuse cleaning products with lavender, peppermint, or eucalyptus

Just as you would clean your home of dust and debris, the vibrational energy should be cleansed periodically to ensure a harmonious home. Infusing your cleaning products or laundry with essential oils like lavender, peppermint or eucalyptus will act as a repellent to ward off negative energy and leave a beautiful natural scent. Crystals like selenite and black tourmaline placed near the front door or throughout the home will promote peace and calm while simultaneously cleansing and protecting your home’s energy. When burned, Sacred Herbs like palo santo and white sage can help cleanse our home from energies that don’t serve us, our crystals, and lift our intentions to the cosmos. – The Gangster Hippie

Clap with intention, use bells, rattles, and chimes to move energy

Sound is not just beneficial for meditation, therapy, and healing, but can also be used to clear energetic imprints and low vibrations in your environment. Clapping with intention is an easy way to break up stagnant energy and can be helpful to do in the corners of your rooms where energy tends to get stuck, as well as bells, rattles, and chimes for moving energy. I also quite often play mantras in the background to raise the vibration in my environment and being. – Barney + Flo(w)

Connect with Mother Earth

  • Take in a deep breath, deep into your belly, ground yourself deeply with the heart of Mother Earth, bring up that gorgeous nurturing energy through your roots and the roots of your home into your feet and floor of your home and up your body and your rooms, until it fills your whole body and home. 
  • Now connect to the Universe and bring down the magnificent white energy, clear the top of your homes and your head, let it enter your rooms and your body, filling up your whole body and home with the beautiful white light. 
  • Now imagine opening all 4 sides of your home and letting a fresh breeze come in and wipe away all the stuck energy, from left to right, from right to left, from front to back, and from the back to the front. 
  • Come back to your heart, and the center of your home, bring in the love and breathe out love and fill your home with love. That’s how I clear my home and the places I work in. – Caroline Palmy

Discover which crystals will neutralize your home

Placing black tourmaline stones in the corners of your room helps to not only remove negative energy but also places a barrier against those negative energies, including EMF signals. Add selenite crystals to balance and neutralize erratic energies, fostering peaceful communication. Learn more in my book, “Crystal Healing for Your Chakras.” – Liam Adair, HHP, Wholesome Healing

Space clearing can be done with the power of crystals

Each crystal has its place

  • Black tourmaline by the entrance of your home that’s visible as you walk in. With its strong healing vibrations and grounding abilities, it’ll clear any negativity from your living space and cleanse your aura from unwanted energies as you walk into your home.
  • Amethyst in the center of your living space or high traffic areas. Its deeply peaceful energies add a relaxing vibe to your home while diffusing tension or stress from its surroundings. 
  • Large piece of shungite near your entertainment area (TV, consoles, WiFi routers). Its purifying abilities will remove toxic radiation or harmful electromagnetic pollution coming from electrical devices.

Smudging your space with the sacred smoke of palo santo or sage is thought to cleanse any negativity or evil spirits. Light your chosen herb and move from room to room allowing the smoke to fill the space. Be sure to cover dark corners, behind doors, and inside cupboards where stagnant energies like to hide. Keep a window open to allow the old energy to be carried out. – The Crystal Van

Scoop up and push out negative energy

A space clearing technique I like to use to remove negative energy from the home is to start by burning some sage or palo santo and going through each room and then opening a window or door and scooping up and pushing out the stale energy. Then, adding a beautiful essential oil to a diffuser is a great way to add energy or calm, whatever you need at the moment. – Badass + Healthy

Recalibrate your energy by meditating

It’s important to have discernment with who you allow in your space and to set boundaries around that. If someone constantly sucks your energy or is an energy “vampire”, they’ll benefit from being in your home. But how will you feel when they leave? Differentiate and recognize who has earned that right versus who hasn’t. Energy is so contagious and it’s easy to confuse your energy with others around you. 

In order to recalibrate your energy, it’s important to understand your own versus others. I recommend meditating for 15 minutes per day, focusing on how your body feels and your mental thoughts. Once you do that repeatedly and get more in tune with yourself, you’ll be able to easily recognize what energy belongs to you and what you picked up from other people. – Simoon Wellness

Energy clearing is an ongoing process

You may be tapping into stagnant, blocked, or negative energy within your home or office and not even know it. Energy clearing, much like doing your laundry, or physically cleaning your house, is an ongoing process. There are numerous ways to clear and cleanse your workspace or home and self, but for the sake of keeping things simple, my favorite way to clear my energy is to cut cords from anyone I’ve encountered throughout the day. You’ll want to say the following out loud:

“I cut and dissolve all cords of attachment to and from me now, in all directions of time, space, and dimensions, and send them back to the light from whence they came. I call upon golden Creator substance to heal and seal the spaces where these cords were connected. I do this with an open and grateful heart. So it is. So it is done. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.” Lauren Dragon

Apply Reiki energy to your space

Did you know that negative or harmful energy can seep into our spaces all the time? If you had a recent break up in a long-time relationship, were fired from a job, or are sick, these situations can cause us to move into heavy emotions like depression, sadness, anxiety, or stress. So, whatever the reason for it entering, regularly clearing negative energy from your space can restore balance and harmony. With a Reiki Energy Healing session for a house and land, the non-beneficial energies can be transmuted to positive earth templates or beneficial energies very quickly. Many times, when clients have homes, they want to sell yet they aren’t selling, we do a Reiki Clearing. Usually, within weeks, the homes sell. – Inspiring You

Julia is a part of the content marketing team and enjoys writing about real estate and design trends. Her dream home be a charming beachside home with lots of light.
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