Your home might feel cluttered after the holiday festivities and the influx of guests. It’s not just about cleaning up the physical mess. It is necessary to reset the spiritual atmosphere. Choosing to spiritually cleanse your space can help rid it of lingering negative energy, and restore balance and peace.
Your holiday gatherings imprint various positive and negative energies on the surroundings. While joyful celebrations contribute positive vibes, there might also be stress, disagreements or negative emotions left behind. Cleansing your home spiritually helps remove these lingering energies and create a fresh start.
One of the best ways to spiritually cleanse your home is by enlisting a Reiki Healer.
“Reiki can be used to remove and transmute the energy of an environment,” said Mel “Luminary Wings” D., the creator and owner of Luminary Wings of Love. “A reiki practitioner can perform this in person or at a distance for themselves or others.”
She is a reiki master and certified life coach who has been practicing since 2017 after her own healing journey. As a practitioner, she feels energetic blockages, emotional discomfort and physical pains. In a recent interview with 21Ninety, she describes the best ways to cleanse your home spiritually after your holiday guests leave.
Protect Your Space Before You Host
As fun as hosting for the holidays can be, hosting a multitude of guests can overwhelm your living space with diverse energies. This energetic overload may lead to feelings of fatigue, restlessness or discomfort.
“I recommend using preventive methods such as placing protections in place for your home and environment. Using protections before having guests in your space can help reduce the heavy lifting of aftercare,” she explains. “Some great protections to put in place before having company can be a reiki session for your home to protect and keep the vibrations high, placing crystals near entrances, having plants near high traffic areas, or a diffuser with essential oils.”
The key is to positively increase positive vibes, reduce negativity and anxiety and help interactions between guests.
How to Spiritually Cleanse
The Importance of Crystals
She recommends using crystals as one of the best ways to cleanse your body spiritually. Crystals are associated with spiritual purification. People use crystals to clear negative energy for various reasons.
“Crystals are great for protecting your space, elevating the frequency of the environment, and helping bring harmony,” she said. “The best crystals to use for your environment would be black tourmaline. Tourmaline is a transmutative crystal. Naturally occurring ions in the crystal help remove negative energy and turn it positive. It’s also self-cleansing due to its power of transmutation. Another excellent crystal to have near the entrances is selenite or white agate. White agate will be great to help reduce tensions in the home. This stone helps reduce anxiety guests may be personally feeling. It is known for helping people reach a more harmonious state, which makes it great to use alone or in combination with tourmaline.”
According to the reiki healer, the best way to use the crystals is by walking the home’s perimeter and each room, allowing the crystals to absorb and remove unwanted energy. She also suggests placing the stone in the middle of the room next to a tall glass of water for a few hours. Then, discarding the water, using hot water and bleach, and cleaning the crystals.
Symbols to Spiritually Cleanse Your Space
Symbols or mantras can serve as powerful tools for spiritually cleansing your space. Whether rooted in religious traditions, cultural practices or personal affirmations, these symbols and mantras carry intentional energy that can influence the atmosphere of your home.
“A great fun and empowering method with symbols is creating your own sigil for energy transmutation,” she said. “If you’re not into creating your own symbol, there are some great mantras and symbols to employ in the home. Access to reiki symbols as a practitioner helps clear energy in our spaces. Those who are not practitioners should invest in having a practitioner reiki infuse a symbol into an item they can use after having a gathering, such as an eagle or turkey feather, a crystal wand, or smudging tools.”
She explained that symbols that can help clear and rebalance the energy are the Yin Yang symbol, the Hamsha, Nazar, Praying Hands and Crosses.
Use Herbs to Restore The Balance
People often turn to herbs to restore balance after holiday guests leave, due to certain plants’ cleansing and purifying properties. Herbs have been used for centuries in various cultural and spiritual traditions for their aromatic, medicinal and energetic qualities.
“Herbs can help support and reinforce the benefits of reiki,” she said. “Reiki is a powerful source of energy that can be used alone to purify, protect and transmute. However, using herbs can amplify longevity, while helping reduce the need to do reiki as often due to the herb’s spiritual powers. It can make a very potent cleansing and protecting duo. Most people would jump to using sage or palo santos when cleansing after having company, due to its popularity, availability and repeated advice for cleansing.”
She reveals that the best herbs to use post-gathering are rosemary, dragon’s blood or cedar. Despite the popularity of sage, you want to search for herbs that purify your home, bring in positive energy and provide protection to your space.