5 Spring Cleaning Alternatives

GUEST BLOGGER: Jonathan McBride has done extensive research in the powers of the mind and energies. He enjoys putting his insights to good use by writing about how one can improve one’s environment.

It’s springtime, and time to haul out the garbage you’ve collected over the past year. But,what about the negative energies that have accumulated? Most people don’t think about it, but negative energies can mess up your feng shui and make your life miserable. Even if it only gives you an occasional bad hair day, it’s worth the effort to clean out those energies. Here’s how.

1. Open The Windows

Opening the windows allows fresh air in, and it can also let bad energies that are trapped in the house, out. This is perhaps the easiest way to cleanse your home. Leave the windows open all day if you can. if not, then open them for at least one hour or two. You can enhance the effect by clapping your hands, playing positive sounds, or ringing a bell periodically.

2. Plant Some Plants

You may have a psychic cleanse your life for you, (haha) but another more realistic option to try first is to remove negative energy with plants. Specifically, spider plants, or any other plant that’s proven to cleanse the air, like Peace Lilies, Bamboo Palm, and Golden Pothos or Devil’s Ivy.

These plants remove negative energy and allow positive energy to be released. Place them in the corners of your home, near the entrance, or exit.

You may also use crystals like Amethyst, clear quartz, back obsidian, citrine, and carnelian to transmute and repel negative energy. Salt is another earth material that can clear energetic debris – use rock salt, sea salt, or regular old table salt.

Put some of it in a small dish and place in an inconspicuous corner of every room. You may leave it there indefinitely. You can also sprinkle some of it on the floor. Let it sit there for a few hours and then vacuum it up.

3. Light a Candle

Lighting a candle purifies your house through fire. Before you light the candle, say a prayer or give an invocation to clear the negativity from the room and the entire house. To clear a house, walk from room to room with your candle lit, meditating, or saying a prayer.

4. Use Holy Water

The use of holy water is an ancient practice for clearing evil and negative energies from a home. Water is a universal solvent and will dissolve chemical compounds. If you’re looking for spiritual effectiveness, use holy water.

5. Smudge The Home

Smudging is an ancient practice for clearing a home. You’ll need a smudge stick, a candle, and matches, and a fireproof container with sand in it. Place the candle, the fireproof container, and the smudge stick on a table, desk or an alter.

Do this ritual when you know you will not be disturbed. Light the candle and say a prayer. Lighting the tip of the stick, wave it around until it begins to smolder.

Move clockwise around the house, starting at the front door, and gently wave the smoke into the air. Spend a lot of time smudging the room corners as they tend to accumulate stagnant and negative energy.

After you’ve moved throughout the whole house (it should take you about an hour), it’s time to extinguish the stick by dipping it into the sand in your fireproof container. Congratulations – your house is clear.