Space clearing is the feng shui art of clearing and consecrating energies in buildings. It’s as essential to the energy maintenance of a place as physical cleaning is to the physical maintenance.
Some people never travel at all because they don’t like sleeping in any bed except their own. Others will forsake their bed for a while but are always glad to get back to it after a trip. The reason for this lies in understanding how energies are imprinted.
I once saw a photo of a microscopic view of a piece of a shirt collar. All the strands of cotton were neatly interwoven into an attractive criss-cross pattern. Next to it was another photo of the same shirt collar 24 hours later, after having been worn by someone. What a difference. The strands were now coated with thick, encrusted layers of gunk.
Someone once sent me a fascinating story that was published in a Finnish newspaper about an art student who decided to inventory every object in her 250 square meter home (that's about 2,700 square feet) and present it as her final thesis.
It was in February 1999 that the idea came to me to build a hotel in Bali. I had bought a piece of beachfront land the previous year, intending to keep it for a while as an investment, and suddenly realized what a perfect opportunity it would be to walk my talk and put all my feng shui and space clearing skills into practice.