Spiritual wellness is often the first thing to suffer when life gets busy. You’re not alone! If you find yourself feeling spiritually disconnected or a bit emotionally sluggish, you may want to consider a spiritual cleanse or grounding session.
Spiritual cleansing is the act of restoring your spirit’s balance by releasing heavy or negative energy. Spiritual cleansing and grounding practices are ways to restore your weary soul.
The pressures of everyday life tend to build up on the energetic level. When not consistently released, experiences like internal stress and worry, or being surrounded by gossip, drama, and pessimism can weigh you down, causing you to feel heavy both mentally and physically.
Many people choose to take part in spiritual cleanses on the New Moon to clear out negative energy and create a pathway for new beginnings. However, like with most healing practices, spiritual cleansing can happen in many ways!
Any of these spiritual cleansing and grounding techniques can help you clear stagnant energy and create a pathway for free-flowing energy and spiritual alignment!
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I. Spiritual Cleansing Practices
Spiritual cleansing practices can include prayer, meditation, and mindfulness, just to name a few. Incorporating supplements into your routine can also support this process by nourishing the body and mind from within. The Peace of Mind supplement, in particular, is beneficial for spiritual cleansing and grounding, helping to release negative energy and promote inner tranquility.
Meditation
Meditation is a simple yet powerful practice. Even ten minutes of meditation a day can have transformative effects.
Mantras
Choosing a mantra to include in your daily routine can improve your emotional, mental, and spiritual health. Whether you write it down or say it out loud, getting into a space of gratefulness first thing will shift your energy and your mind into a place of love and a receiving.
Crystals
Crystals can connect you to the Earth’s natural healing features. They can absorb negative energy and replenish positive energy. Some of my favorite crystals for spiritual cleansing include amethyst, rose quartz, and fluorite.
When you meditate with these stones, you can cultivate positive vibes. Focus on the moment and visualize positive energy and healing filling your chakras. Use crystals that are believed to have a calming or neutralizing power. Crystals, like rose quartz, can awaken your crown chakra. It helps with manifesting and enlightenment.
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You may also want to cleanse your crystals after a detox since they are believed to store energy. Place the crystals in direct sunlight or moonlight.
Grounding
The Earth’s energy is nourishing and soothing for the body, mind, and spirit. Also known as earthing, grounding reconnects you to this energy through physical contact. Grounding has numerous proven health benefits, including helping to relieve stress, inflammation, and pain, to name a few.
Walking outdoors on your bare feet is a simple way to connect to the soothing energy of the Earth. Lying on the ground can help you feel supported by Earth’s nurturing energy. You can also practice grounding underwater. Dip your toes in a natural body of water- like an ocean, lake, or river. If safe to do so, you can carefully wade out further.
If you can’t go outside, you can still experience the benefits of grounding. Even listening to nature sounds or watching nature videos can calm the nervous system and bring benefits that soothe your mind, body, and soul.
Auric Sprays
While a bath can cleanse your energy and body, an auric spray can detox your home. You can fit the spray to your own needs and personal preferences. Be bold and play around with the combinations.
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To make an auric spray, you'll need:
- Spray bottle: You’ll need a spray bottle to hold the ingredients.
- Witch hazel: Add about 40% of unscented witch hazel or pure alcohol.
- Essential oils: Pick the essential oils you want to use. Lavender, eucalyptus, and lemon are all helpful choices, but feel free to make it your own.
Another spray you can make is a moon-water spray. You take a glass spray bottle filled with spring or distilled water and leave it where it can get direct light from a full moon.
How to Create Your Own Auric Spray - For Energy Cleansing/Self Care Protection/DIY Witchcrafts!
II. Spiritual Detox Techniques
A spiritual detox can help when you feel like the weight of the world is on your shoulders. Over time, life takes a toll - and a spiritual detox can be just the fresh start you need. Cleansing your body can help you recharge and eliminate toxic energy, but where should you start?
Don’t worry: A detox doesn’t have to be completed in one go. A spiritual detox is all about getting rid of old patterns and negative energy. When performing a spiritual cleansing, you focus on various mindfulness practices, like meditation, yoga, journaling, and other holistic therapies.
Spiritual Detox Bath
A bath can be the perfect way to unwind and rejuvenate your energy. It's an easy step to take toward your spiritual detox, but it can be a powerful experience.
Here’s how to prepare and enjoy a spiritual detox bath:
- Prepare the room. You'll want a clean and relaxing space, so make sure everything is in its place.
- Curate the atmosphere. Light candles and put out your essential oil diffuser to create a relaxing and peaceful atmosphere. Essential oils can help you get rid of negative energy and enter into a relaxed state. Some popular oils for a spiritual detox bath include lavender, rose, and frankincense.
- Fill the tub with warm water and add your nourishing products to the water. You can add a few drops of essential oil, Epsom salts, sea salt, or anything that will help detoxify your body.
- Climb into your detox bath and soak in the water. Take the time to focus on your breath and meditate.
- Cleanse your body with Spongellé's Spiritual Detox Buffer in Mystic Ginger. Mystic Ginger is the best way to begin a spiritual journey and focus on your intentions. It combines ginger and ashwagandha root extract with the power of chakra stones.
- After your bath, reflect on the time you spent meditating. Pay attention to any insights or messages that may have come through.
Visualization Meditation
Visualization meditation can be an excellent practice during a spiritual detox. This type of meditation is similar to others. You want to keep a straight spine, whether standing, sitting, or lying down. The most important step is keeping positive imagery in your mind while controlling your breath.
You can also visualize areas of your body where you may be holding stress. Focus on releasing the tension and welcoming calmness and serenity. If you struggle to think of positive thoughts, there are guided visualization programs that can help you focus. They will give you the imagery to focus on and help you through the meditation process.
Journaling
Writing can be a therapeutic way to work through emotions and express yourself. You may realize there are feelings you've been avoiding or blocked that you need to feel. Repressing emotions can take a mental and physical toll on your body. They can lead to depression and anxiety and cause other health problems.
You can start a daily journal or write a letter to someone that has caused you pain. You don't have to send the letter to this person if you don't want to, but it can help you let go of resentment and negative feelings. Read over your journal or letters and seek understanding.
Digital Detox
Consider making a digital detox a part of your spiritual detox. It can be hard in this day and age to step away from your devices. One survey in 2017 found that almost one-fifth of people feel stressed out by technology. You can feel the physical effects when constantly looking at a screen. Try limiting your screen time and only use it when necessary.
Avoid scrolling mindlessly for hours, wasting the day away, or staying up too late. Use that time to reflect and unwind. A spiritual detox can help you cleanse your body and mind. The time you spend on yourself and your space will leave you feeling reinvigorated and ready to take on whatever comes at you.
III. The Heartfulness Cleaning Practice
In the third episode of the series, DAAJI answers some of the most common questions he receives about the Heartfulness practice of Cleaning.
"We are programmed based upon our past impressions such that all kinds of things can cause us to open and close. If you pay attention, you will see it happen regularly throughout each day.”- Michael Singer
Since then, a large body of research has shown that we see the world through our own filters. Our attitudes, beliefs, and biases define our perception. All of us have this kind of conditioning. We have many blind spots, which stem from our likes and dislikes. They may seem harmless, but our likes and dislikes hijack our awareness. Most of the chatter going on in our minds is because of the constant stream of likes and dislikes.
With the Cleaning practice, we can move from judgment to acceptance to compassion to love. For that journey to be successful, we need to remove the conditioned patterns within us.
What is being removed in the Heartfulness Cleaning practice?
The life that many of us lead is governed by those habits and patterns unfolding in front of us. The life we wish to lead will emerge once the impressions are cleaned.
So Heartfulness Cleaning is the way to remove the impressions-the impurities and complexities we accumulate on a daily basis. They are the emotional “charge” of our experiences, and the emotional residue that lingers from our past and our memories. Over time, impressions become fixed as tendencies, causing us to become habitual in our reactions and behavior. They prevent us from being free.
With the daily Cleaning practice, we become lighter day by day. When we clean the impressions, we remove the filters that distort our perception. These impressions settle in all the layers of the subconscious, where they cover the soul. They separate us from the center of our being. As this network becomes denser, it resembles layers like geological sedimentation. And like archaeology, they become a record of our past. The Cleaning process removes the layers, so we are free to design our own destiny.
The deeper result is that the practice of Cleaning creates space inside the heart, and this space automatically attracts Transmission. This is one of the reasons for the three introductory sessions with a trainer on commencing the Heartfulness practices. In those initial sessions, the trainer removes impurities and complexities from your system, creating more lightness within. Over time, you will experience greater vacuity and lightness, which will in turn direct the flow of divine energy toward you to a greater extent.
Do I need to recall all the happenings of the day before throwing them out?
A unique aspect of Cleaning is that we don’t focus on what is being removed. Recalling daily events will only deepen their impact. We don’t need to relive the past by bringing it into our awareness. Instead, we offer a non-judgmental affirmation that all impurities and complexities are being removed. It’s a refreshing dip in the waters of purity and love, and we emerge rejuvenated.
When should I practice Cleaning?
As Cleaning removes the accumulated impressions of the day, it is best done in the evening, after you have finished the majority of the day’s work. It is like taking a shower to wash off the day’s dirt, but this time for the mind.
Cleaning requires alertness, so it is best not to put it off until bedtime, when you are too sleepy to clean properly. Another reason not to postpone Cleaning is that it creates such freshness in us that if you do it too close to bedtime you may be too alert to sleep. Also, with the better state acquired after cleaning, your interactions with family members will witness many refined changes.
You can also do “spot” Cleaning at any time during the day, as needed. If you spill ketchup on your shirt in the morning, do you wait till the evening to clean it? Similarly, if something destabilizes you during the day, take a few minutes and wash away its effect right then and there. Spot Cleaning may be done sitting, standing, or walking, with eyes open or closed, depending on circumstances. Make the subtle suggestion to yourself that the impression is leaving from the back, restoring the heart and mind to its normal balanced condition. Then you will not have to carry around the heavy burden of that stain on your consciousness for the entire day.
The Cleaning process removes the layers, so we are free to design our own destiny.
Suppose I miss the Cleaning routine in the evening, what can I do?
If you miss the chance to complete the Cleaning in the evening, you can do it just before going to bed. If you are too tired then, do the Cleaning before your Meditation in the morning.
Is it possible to clean away certain ailments?
For ailments, it is recommended that you try the Heartfulness Relaxation. At the end of the process, revisit the affected organ and allow the energy from Mother Earth to flow there.
IV. Maintaining a Clean Heart: A Christian Perspective
Comparing spiritual heart cleansing with fall cleaning in your house, we can see that it takes work, but in the spiritual realm, it is actually giving our heart to God, and He does the work of cleansing us. Consistently cleanse your heart spiritually.
As you think of this analogy between deep cleaning your house and deep cleaning your heart, realize that you don’t do a one-time cleaning, and it’s done forever! It’s something we have to do repeatedly, isn’t it? We consistently clean and declutter if we’re going to keep a clean house. We must think about it all year long and have an intentional plan to prioritize cleaning and organizing.
We can’t ignore the dirt. If we do, it only gets worse.
Today, related to the heart, we’ll talk about two areas to keep it clean and some analogies I see, but I’m sure you could come up with many more!
1. Guarding Against Worldliness
It’s amazingly simple for a person’s heart to backslide into worldliness. To hear the Lord speaking to you about sin and be too busy, tired, or stressed (translation: anxious) to want to deal with it and ignore the Holy Spirit’s voice.
Let’s call this heart attitude what it is: Sin! Disobedience! One problem that is common for all is catering to our emotions.
Now, I’m not saying these activities are always wrong. There’s a fine line; we need wisdom and discernment to know where it is. God doesn’t want us to go to other things to feed us, fill us, and be our strength or help us in times of need. That would be an idol. If you are tempted to do that, you need to resist. This is how Satan gets a foot in the door. He wants us to develop an addiction.
You need to train your habits to turn to the Lord, His Word, and prayer for real help. Consistency is key to establishing habits that build up our spiritual life and rid our hearts of sin.