How to Cleanse and Bless Your Home or Space

You’ve been to yoga class and everyone talks about energy. Good energy, bad energy, clean energy, and so on. People prefer clean, clear energy, even if they are unconscious of the differences. Why is that? Clearing and blessing the energy of your home space aligns your energy with your home, making your life easier.

Bless Your Home for an Energetically Clean Space

An energetically clean and clear space feels light and refreshing, even if you’re not sure why, or it wouldn’t necessarily be something you’d comment on. Clean, clear energy in your home:

• Makes it easier for you and your guests to stay in a good mood, contented, relaxed and happy

• Makes it easier to stay more spiritually connected and remember your spiritual practices

• Helps you stay focused and clear-headed

• Helps you shift gears between work, play, and rest

• And makes chores go faster and easier (your house will help you keep it clean!)

• Helps you, your family and guests feel relaxed and grounded, yet also uplifted and balanced

Sounds great, right?  Luckily it’s pretty easy to tune up the energy in your space!

What’s the difference between a Space Cleansing and a Home Blessing?

Chances are, you’ve been to an event somewhere where they burned sage, maybe you’ve even burned it yourself. This is the cleansing part, and you can stop right there if you don’t have time for the second part, which is the blessing.

The blessing is how you can amp up the vibes of your space beyond just clean and clear. Good news about the blessing — it doesn’t need to be renewed as often as the cleansing.

What you’ll need: One or more of the sacred herbs below, a lighter, and a strand of bells or chimes. It’s great to have this toolkit on hand so you can quickly do these rituals whenever you feel called to it. Cleansing may take 20-30 minutes, depending on the size of your home, and blessing your home space takes about 15-20 minutes.

Different types of sacred smudging herbs:

• Sage. White sage is traditional for chasing out lower energies. It usually comes in the form of a bundle. Light only a bit of it until you get used to how much smoke is generated. Extinguish it thoroughly in sand or on the Earth.

• Lavender is used for protection and sweetness. I like to burn loose lavender together with loose sage in a shell or on a ceramic plate.

• Cedar is mainly used for protection.

• Sweetgrass is great for the blessing your home and calling in the sweetness of the Divine Feminine essence of Mother Earth. Have your lighter handy as it doesn’t stay lit for long.

• Copal is a resin you can burn on a charcoal. It is normally used to cleanse people’s energy – chakras and aura. It can also clear space and smells heavenly!

• Palo Santo (holy wood) is a sweet and thick smoke that is mainly used to prepare for meditation as it is quite grounding. Light the stick with a candle, and a little of this smoke goes a long way.

How to do a Space Cleansing

Clean your space every week or so, or after a lot of activity in the home. If you are sensitive to smoke, bells or chimes are a great substitute, and you need them for the blessing part anyway.

Here is the flow for a space cleansing:

• Prepare: Become present with what you’re doing here, chasing out lower energies. Use meditation techniques for grounding and centering, or take some deep breaths and imagine you are connected to the Earth. Feel strong and know your power.
• Start in the East and walk your home counter-clockwise. Imagine the smoke or chime cleaning the joints of the ceiling/wall and wall/floor, and a little just beyond (a feather or hand wave moves the smoke where needed). In your mind or out loud, say “Be gone!” as you imagine lower energies being whisked out. To be thorough, send the smoke or chime into every nook and cranny, drawer and closet.
• You can stop here if you’re not planning to do the blessing ritual today.
• If you’re going ahead with the blessing, when you return to the East, use some smudge on the bells to prepare them for the blessing.  (If you have any other magical or sacred tools such as crystals etc, you might as well give them a smudgy tune-up too while you’ve got it lit!)

How to do a Space Blessing

Do this vibe-amping ritual before events, starting major projects, or before important guests arrive. Or to give yourself a boost if you feel low energy.

• Prepare: Meditate in/near the center of your space with the bells in your hand and open your heart. Let your heart send out a call to the Divine (to any and every divine aspect you feel connected with).  Now ask the Divine to make the sound vibration of the bells a carrier for bringing Divine blessings into your home or space. Watch a 6-minute video to learn more.
• Starting again in the East, slowly and mindfully walk your home clockwise ringing the bells, using your will and imagination to “push” the chime of the bells (charged with divine blessings) into every part of your home’s structure. Keep your heart open and connected with the Divine, knowing that your prayer was heard and each chime infuses every corner of your space with divine blessings of joy and protection.

How to Maintain Clean Energy in your Space

A great way to maintain the clean energy in your home, you just created is to locate crystals in key places. Fluorite and smoky quartz keep energy clean, and amethyst and rose quartz bring in sweetness and peace.

Bless your crystals with your bells so they become infused with the Divine blessings you’re calling in.  They will hold the energy of the blessings along with their own good vibes.  If you are unsure where to place the crystals, go for corners, under the head of your bed and in the middle of long walls. They do not have to be visible to be lovely sentinels for you.

Not sure if you notice the difference after your house cleansing and blessing?

Go out on an errand and check again next time you enter the home. You’ll also notice you’re getting more done than you have in a long time.  Now, you’re ready to bring over guests and complete those projects!