You know when you go into a place & it's got that certain vibe? It's scrubbed clean, everything is polished & it has a sublime atmosphere that you just have to take a big inhalation & exhalation & you just feel amazing? It might be a monastery, a cathedral, a temple, an ashram, an historical house... I try to replicate that feeling in my home. This is how I do it.
Spiritual cleansing is a detailed procedure that involves, intially, quite a bit of planning. When you are finished, your home will look & feel sparkly.
Begin with a regular clean of your home (including windows). If you haven't already Kon Maried your home, that's an excellent place to start. Hop over to nourishing minimalism for some inspiration & over here for the sublime Kon Marie. After your total clear out which is conducive to good energy flow, then a thorough clean (use home-made green cleaning products), you are ready to begin. With conscious awareness, work your ritual & magic & spark all of the elements that will bring the transformation of the subtle energies of your home.
The following cleanse is called The Elemental Purification. This rite calls on the powers of all five elements (Earth, Air, Ether, Fire & Water).
Wear some clean clothes (preferably white) to perform the house cleansing ritual. Create or prepare a sankalpa (a positive affirmation) for your home. Example of a home sankalpa might be, "My home is safe & protects us all," "My home offers protection & love to all who reside & visit here," "My home is a space of joy, laughter, happiness & nurtures all," "This cleanse of my home will bring light & peace," "I give thanks to my beautiful home that provides warmth, shelter & safety." If your house doesn't have a name, you might like to consider that too. My house is called Halfrida (place of peace).
You will also need;
* salt water or essential oil water (see below for suggestions) in a bowl
* a bundle of herbs or a single flower
* bell, tuning fork or prayer bowl
* a new indoor plant/fresh flowers
* spritzer/mister with essential oils
* diffusers or glass bowls
* herb bundle or sage smudging bundle
* a bees wax candle (new if possible, read here on why not to purchase scented candles)
* music, mantra
Begin the spiritual house cleansing process by opening all of the windows & doors, allow the element Brother Wind in to bless your home. Then turn on your diffusers, if you don't have any & you would like to diffuse all around your house, simply fill glass bowls with hot water & add your choice of 3 - 6 drops (depending on the room size) of essential oils. Obviously you want the real stuff, the most pure, the most potent & the most trusted, doterra.
Start at the front door, the threshold of power, this is where energy comes in & out & you want that energy to be pure. The front door is your gateway to other worlds & to your sanctum. Many spells & rituals here are to engage the protective forces (spray with a spritzer of On Guard essential oil), for more information visit here The Magical Household. You may also wish to grow specific protective herbs here; ferns, marigolds, juniper, sage, native violet, rose geranium or tansy.
Mentally, or out loud, repeat your sankalpa, your prayer for the house, three times. Systematically go around every room of your house. If you want, say your sankalpa in each room, clap your hands very loudly, or sound your prayer bowl with the striker into every corner of the room. This rids negative vibrations. The sound creates the energy up & moving. So make it as loud as you like!
An ancient old method is to now go through each room again with the bowl of salt water, you can add cleansing essential oils into this bowl too. Dip the bundle of herbs or simply a single flower into the water & flick the water in all directions being careful not to damage certain fabrics & furniture. If burning your Herb Bundle is your thing, do that now. The tuning fork can be used now or turn up your music.
To protect every corner of your property, take your bowl of salt water to the boundary, or simply stand in the middle of your house & visualise yourself purifying the boundary. I like to do my letterbox also! Of course you can extend your love beyond the boundary, so to speak, to your neighbourhood, suburb, country & embrace the entire world.
Finally, in your bathroom, put on some tranquil music (A Joyful Life Cleansing Bath playlist), light a candle & have a cleansing bath.
This ritual can be done whenever you like, once a week, once a month, at the full or new moon, seasonal solstices & equinoxes, birthdays. Most of all, have fun creating & performing this ritual. Your home will love the extra love & your heart will sing with fresh, new gratitude for the beautiful place you live.
Cleansing Blends for Diffusers, Herb Bundles, Misters & Water Bowls
3 drops Purify
2 drops Pink Pepper oil
1 drop Green Mandarin oil
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3 drops Frankincense
2 drops Wild Orange
1 drop Myrrh
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3 drops Lemon
2 drops Wild Orange
1 drop Grapefruit
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3 drops Clove
2 drops Black Pepper
1 drop Cinnamon
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2 drops Spikenard
2 drops Ginger
1 drop Vetiver
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2 drops Lemon Eucalyptus
2 drops Siberian Fir
1 drop Cypress
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2 drops Sage
2 drops Cedarwood
1 drop Juniper
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2 drops Eucalyptus oil
2 drops Lemon oil
1 drop Thyme oil
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2 drops Tea Tree oil
2 drops Arborvitae oil
1 drop Marjoram oil
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3 drops Lemon oil
3 drops Green Mandarin oil
2 drops Juniper Berry oil
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2 drops Lime oil
2 drops Marjoram oil
2 drops Douglas Fir oil
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3 drops Siberian Fir oil
3 drops Lemon oil
1 drops Cypress oil
