Having and maintaining focus, working with clarity and ease, and manifesting your intentions depend on clear energy and good flow. Therefore, you need to learn how to clear your energy.
Clearing Your Energy
Clear energy promotes a grounded, centered sense of spaciousness and ease. Additionally, clearing your energy can shift your mood, clarify your thinking, and facilitate flow. Unlike a drug’s temporary quick fix, maintaining clear energy requires some regular attention: some new self-care practices or behaviors.
Clearing your energy can happen on any or all levels: physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual. It depends on where it’s needed. And, that isn’t always so obvious at first.
For example, you may first perceive congested, blocked, or imbalanced energy as a shattered mind, lack of fulfillment, or an achy back. But, as an energy healing practitioner, I’ve noticed that these sensations can be merely symptoms of something else. Or to clear one of these issues, you have to clear others as well. That’s because the human body – your body – is a fully integrated whole.
In other words, healing is holistic. It takes attention and tweeting on all levels to keep clarity and balance on any level. Although modern culture doesn’t often see it this way, every individual is an integrated whole and, in some ways, part of everything else. No one – including you – lives in a vacuum.
In essence, being clear is based on adopting a healthier way of life, at least, in some manageable and comforting ways. But it doesn’t have to be burdensome. This blog will show you how to your energy in some very simple and quick ways.
10 Ways How to Clear Your Energy
The 10 ways to clear energy suggested here are diverse. If your time is constrained, consider a practice that requires little extra time (e.g., drinking adequate quantities of water). Or, consider the suggestions that can be practiced anywhere at any time (e.g., breathwork and meditation). Finally, you might choose practices that avoid any additional cost (e.g., bathing).
1. Move More
Dance, yoga, stretching, Qigong, Tai Chi, walking, running, and many invigorating sports awaken the body and encourage energy to move and clear. Clearing can result from physically and actively extending, stretching, pumping, etc. Walking, running, stretching, yoga, and dancing fall into this category.
Expansion and extension of the body create space. Of particular significance to energetic well-being, are spinal stretches, twists, and figure eights. These actions lengthen and strengthen the spine and cultivate flexibility. They activate the central nervous system and the central light column that runs along the spine and contains important energy centers called chakras. They shift the body into a more open and spacious shape that’s capable of more supple and sensuous movement. In other words, the body is primed to respond and adjust with ease and embrace change.
In contrast, the gentle forms and intention of Qigong and Tai Chi create energy movement and cleanse. Yoga and dance do both.
2. Practice breathwork
Breath, or prana, is life-force energy. The quality and pattern of your breath are shifting and readjusting all of the time. These changes signal to other parts of your body the presence of balance or imbalance. By altering your breath pattern you can deliberately alter your energy, balance, and well-being.
Several types of breath techniques have pronounced clearing effects. These typically include lengthening and deepening the breath, sending the breath to congested or blocked areas of the body, and toning the vagus nerve, which controls the parasympathetic (or relax and restore) response of the autonomic nervous system. For many people, just a few breaths or a few minutes of practice is all that’s needed.
For specific clearing breath work, see my FREE Relax, Ground, and Clear The Mind guided meditation and Build Stress Resilience With Breath Work Techniques virtual and in-person workshop.
3. Meditate
There are so many forms of meditation that it’s hard to generalize about their effects on the mind, body, and spirit. However, there are meditation methods that have been researched and found to have a pronounced effect on clearing the mind, facilitating focus, and creating flow. For me, Transcendental Meditation (TM) is exceptional.
That said there are many other self-directed and guided methods created specifically for clearing the mind. To get started, see my blog post on Finding The Right Meditation Practice For You.
4. Clear limiting thoughts and beliefs
Thoughts and beliefs often trap energy and limit your ability to make desired changes. This includes even those thoughts that say “change is not possible.” Furthermore, these thoughts and beliefs seem like immutable truths. As such, you can become completely stuck in these thought patterns and resistant to change. In other words, your mental energy is blocked.
If you can notice these constraining thoughts and gather plausible evidence in support of alternative narratives, you can create a crack in your fixed mindset. Moreover, you cultivate a capacity to convincingly question your personal perspectives, decisions, and actions. And, it’s this curiosity that generates a new perspective and helps you shift and move forward.
Several of my virtual and in-person Personal Growth, Natural Healing, and Wellness Workshops explain and illustrate energy-clearing practices. Integrated Energy Therapy (IET) and ThetaHealing are energy healing modalities specifically geared toward releasing emotional and mental patterns that are resistant to change. Journaling, a common practice, can be used to explore stuck patterns and rigid thinking.
5. Receive energy healing
Probably the most effective holistic approach to clearing is energy healing. Just briefly, energy healing encompasses a wide range of mind-body-spirit healing practices that work with the body’s energy systems and how they relate to the human body, health, and well-being. Energy healing works with a whole integrated being, unlike conventional medicine, which focuses on components of the body. (For more information see my page on energy healing)
Some more well-known energy healing modalities include Reiki, Integrated Energy Healing, ThetaHealing, Qigong, Tai Chi, Shamanism, and many more modalities. In fact, you could add all forms of vibrational healing such as singing bowls, tuning forks, and toning because they’re all capable of shifting and clearing energy as well.
6. Smudge with herbs, essential oils, or hydrosols
Smudging is one of the first things that pop into people’s heads when they hear the words “energy clearing.” For most people, smudging means cleansing energy with traditional dried-herb smudge sticks or smoldering resins.
Essential oils and hydrosols are smokeless alternatives. And, they can be derived from a wider range of plant species with many additional healing properties. Consequently, they offer you more diverse healing experiences than traditional smudges.
For more information, see my eBook on smudging and my blog post on smoke-free smudging methods for people with allergies and respiratory conditions.
Several effective non-plant-based methods utilize the vibrational quality of sound. These include humming, singing, tuning forks, and singing bowls.
7. Use crystals
Natural crystals are vibrational. They’re held together by highly energetic bonds. Each type of crystal has its unique chemical composition and crystalline structure, which offers special healing properties. Some are specifically good for clearing energy such as selenite and clear quartz. Salt lamps are actually chunks of selenite.
Place selenite or quartz in a space you use frequently. Slide either under the healing table. Use a single-point crystal wand made of either material. Place the rounded end on the area you want to clear. Energy will be drawn into the wand, out through the pointed end, and transmuted. (Good reference books on crystals.)
8. Drink Plenty of Water
Water makes up approximately 60 percent of an adult’s body weight. In fact, the brain and heart are as much as 75 percent. Incredibly, the lungs, which we associate with air, are 83 percent water (USGS). Therefore, it’s no surprise water is absolutely necessary to support life and proper biochemical and physical functioning.
It irrigates and flushes your body, ridding it of congestion, toxins, and negative energy. And, it distributes nutrients throughout your body. Lukewarm rather than ice water offers the best healing properties. In other words, water is essential to your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual state of being.
9. Bathe
Traditionally, people used water to cleanse themselves and clear energy. Ritual baths date back more than 2,500 years. In fact, these practices are still widely popular today in various parts of the world such as India and Nordic countries.
A soothing bath of salt or tap water also cleanses the skin. Add specific herbs, essential oils, and/or careers (e.g., milk or vegetable oils) and garner their healing and spiritual properties to support your personal bathing intention. Whether you choose to bathe or shower, water will enliven you and your senses like a balmy evening breeze that dances across freshly scrubbed skin.
10. Detox
The primary intention of any detox routine is to eliminate congestion and toxins, gain clarity, and enhance flow. For the purposes here, toxins include negative energy, unaddressed or suppressed emotions, and limiting beliefs.
A quick search of the Internet, reveals innumerable ways to detox including fasting, special diets, herbal remedies, oil massages (e.g, Ayurvedic abhyanga), colonics, baths (see my blog post on aromatherapy detox), exercise, saunas, and more. Another great resource is the book Staying Healthy With the Seasons. It doesn’t just offer a list of ways to naturally detox. Rather, it gives you the wisdom behind the practices as well.
Start Clearing Your Energy And Keep It Clean
Choose one or more of these practices that you could regularly incorporate into your lifestyle. For example, you can take just a simple step like switching from ice to lukewarm water, committing to 10 minutes of stretching every morning or taking regular breaks to practice a few minutes of breathwork. In fact, it doesn’t have to be burdensome at all.
But, of course, the more cleansing you do, the clearer you’ll be. In addition, if you attend to all aspects – physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual – you’ll be more apt to gain that spaciousness and ease that promotes clarity and flow.
For More Information On How To Clear Your Energy, See:
- My blog posts on:
- My FREE guided meditation Relax, Ground, and Clear The Mind. It’s just seven minutes long
- Virtual and in-person Personal Growth, Natural Healing, Wellness Workshops such as Releasing Limiting Beliefs and Stress Resilience Using Breath Techniques
- 60 Limiting Beliefs Examples
- Energy Healing and Spiritual Life Coaching session
