Energetic Hygiene
A pink and yellow rose.
Many of us were taught physical hygiene as children. Brush your teeth twice daily, wash your face before you go to bed, shower X amount of times a week. Most of us were not taught energetic hygiene which is the purifying and charging of our auric field and the immediate environment around us. Energetic hygiene is critical for all people, but many do not have regular practices out of lack of knowledge on how to do so or lack of belief of its importance.
Every day we encounter so many different energies. Talking to a very depressed friend, navigating the frenetic energy of people at a grocery store, your own repetitive, worrying thoughts. Low vibrational energies can stick themselves to you and drag you down unknowingly. You are a body in an aura, your aura radiates out from your corporeal self, and not only does it make contact with entities in the physical realm it makes contact with entities in the spirit realm as well. Just like you need to wash your face daily you need to practice energetic hygiene daily (sometimes multiple times daily), so you are not carrying your own or other’s low vibrational energy.
Luckily there are infinite ways to purify and charge our auric fields. Purifying is cleansing ourselves of all stagnant or low vibrational energy. Charging is imbuing ourselves with positive, intentional and generative energy. Below is a list of ways to practice energetic hygiene. Take what works for you and feel free to alter these practices to meet your needs. The only limit to how to energetically cleanse or charge is your imagination.
-Spray yourself with Florida Water, Holy Water or some kind of blessed water/herbal mix.
-Burn incense or cedar or the like in your bedroom and wave it over your body as you imagine breathing out black smoke and breathing in multi-color light.
-Play an instrument or use tuning forks.
-Practice the Lesser Banishing Act of the Pentagram.
-Simply pray to your Divine Benevolent Guidance to cleanse and charge your aura.
-Raise your hands over your head and send all of your negative energy to space on a rainbow and absorb all of the beautiful green light of the Earth below you.
-Sing to yourself, be silly and loud, sing till you feel a noticeable shift in your mood or aura.
-Use a selenite wand to scan your entire body and imagine white light filling your body from the top of your head to toes.
-Carry around selenite, kyanite and black obsidian or black tourmaline cleanse yourself with the black stones, charge yourself with the selenite or kyanite.
-Wear crystals in your necklaces or jewelry think of it as your spiritual armor.
-Brew a witchy herbal concoction with herbs that protect and bring in luck and dump it over your head in the shower imagining and verbally naming all of the good vibes you will attract.
-Throw a pinch of salt over yourself.
-Go to the ocean if accessible (a pond or river works too). Put your foot in or hand. If you are very daring immerse yourself. Imagine black smoke leaving your body and being replaced by the healing energy of the water.
-Lay in the grass imagine the Earth absorbing your negative energy as black smoke and absorb the healing energy of the Earth.
-Write down on a piece of paper what you want to let go of “Anxiety, fear, pain”. Burn the paper in a cauldron or sink. As it burns imagine releasing those energies.
-Imagine calling to yourself higher vibrational energy “Confidence, happiness, security”. Write it on a post it and put it somewhere you will see every day.
-Garden, work with the Earth.