Norma Lehmeier Hartie – The main reason to clear a space—your home, your car or your office—is to remove negative energies. Negative energies occur for a number of reasons. They include:

Metaphysical

• Negative thoughts from current or previous owners or occupants
• Disturbed emotional energy of current or previous owners or occupants
• Disturbed environmental energy
• Dimensional beings

Earth Energies

• Faulting pressure (Faults are breaks in the Earth’s crust where chunks of land on each side move in different directions. Land suddenly shifting along fault lines is the primary cause of earthquakes.)
• Negative magnetic fields
• Disturbances from naturally occurring underground water

Technology

• Electrical appliances such as cell phones, computers, microwave ovens and hair dryers

Objects

• Antiques
• Used or new furniture
• Second-hand jewelry
• Works of art
• Crafts
• Anything made by hand, including such possessions as rugs

Every time you clean your home you are removing negative energy. Cleaning your home or workspace will make it lighter and more positive. This is a result of organizing, of ridding yourself of things you no longer need and removing toxic products from your environment. Just opening windows brings in fresh, positive energy.

Other space clearing techniques include dowsing; smudging with herbs or incense; clearing with bells, cymbals and singing bowls; and clearing with chanting. Continue reading →