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.

Energy Imprinting

Over a period of time you imprint your own energy into your mattress so when you lie on it, it feels like ‘coming home’ to yourself. There really is no feeling like snuggling into your own bed, especially after you’ve been away travelling for a while.

Actually you leave a trail of energy behind you wherever you go in much the same way as you leave a trail of human skin flakes in your wake (80% of household dust is human skin). You leave energy imprints in the places you visit and especially in the things you touch. The more time you spend in a place and the more often you touch an object, the more imprinted it becomes.

In the 30 years that I’ve been conducting Space Clearing consultations around the world I’ve had the opportunity to energy sense hundreds of homes and read many kinds of imprints that people leave in walls, furniture and personal belongings. But it’s beds that are the most absorbent and most revealing of all. By energy sensing with my hands, I can read just about everything there is to know about a person from their bed. Physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, sexually – whatever is happening in their lives, it’s all imprinted there. It’s not just that mattresses are very absorbent, it’s also that this is usually the place a person spends the most time in any 24-hour period in the stillest and most energetically open state.

One of my students who was having difficulty learning this skill hit upon a brilliant way of developing it. She had her young son lie down next to his bed and alternately energy sensed him from head to foot and then energy sensed his bed from head to foot until gradually she was able to feel the similarity with her hands. If you try this yourself, note that you don’t actually touch the person or the bed – you run your hands a few centimeters above them, reading the etheric field.

There is a sliding scale of imprintability I’ve developed in Space Clearing relating to household materials. The least imprintable in their solid state are metal and glass which, incidentally, is one of the main reasons why a front door made from either of these materials is a feng shui no-no – it isn’t able to anchor the energies that a front door is supposed to (wood is a much better choice). At the other end of the scale, porous materials such as soft furnishings (mattreses, sofas, etc) are the most imprintable. As a simple guide, if you were to pour a glass of water over a substance, the more saturated it would become, the more receptive to energy imprinting it is too.

First The Good News…

Some energy imprints are very desirable. A large part of what makes a home a home is imprinting it with your own energy. This also explains why a place with soft furnishings feels more homely – it’s partly the comfort factor but also the degree of imprinting that is possible.  Homes with steel or glass furnishings may look sleek and elegant, but these materials are hard to imprint so the place never feels very welcoming or nurturing. Similarly, a bed made from soft materials allows for much more intimate experiences with a partner than a bed made of brass or wrought iron.

Now The Not So Good News

Imprinting also brings with it a number of problems that most people are not aware of. All energy imprints gradually lose their vitality and stagnate, and if you don’t do something about it, your life starts to stagnate too. Imagine what your home would look like if you never physically cleaned it. There would be layers of grime and cobwebs everywhere. Well, that’s what most homes are like on an energetic level. As Jane Alexander put it in an article about my work published in the Daily Mail in the UK: “Most of us are probably living in the psychic equivalent of a rubbish dump.”

Another problem is that everything that happens in a space is recorded in the imprints so if you want to move on from the past you first need to clear out the old imprints. Otherwise history just repeats itself and you never move forward in your life. Take the example of a bed belonging to a couple in which one of them has previously had a relationship with someone else. There are three distinct energies to be felt – the couple and the previous lover. Essentially there are three people in the bed, not two, and because of this, the current relationship is very likely to end the same way the previous one did. It’s a disaster waiting to happen.

How To Clear Energy Imprints

Space Clearing is designed to clear out energies from people’s homes and workplaces and get their lives moving. It’s the most effective remedy for stuckness that I know.

Often I’m called in when someone has remarried and they are living in the same place their partner lived with his or her 'ex'. The focus of the consultation is always getting the old partner’s energies out so the new relationship can really begin. But the one area where more than Space Clearing is needed is when it comes to clearing out energies embedded in the mattress, simply because so much stuff accumulates there. My advice is to get yourself a new mattress every 10 years, and sooner if you start a new relationship that you are serious about and want to succeed. The basic rule is: New relationship, new mattress.

So what do you do if you can’t afford a new bed just yet or have a fairly new one but it’s imprinted with history you want to move on from? Well, you can practice a technique I’ve developed called ‘bed thwacking’. For this you’ll need an object such as a cricket bat, baseball bat, or even a rolled up umbrella will do. Drag the mattress outside the house if you can, but if this isn’t possible just open a window, peel back the bedcovers, and start thwacking it with the bat, or other hard object, vibrating the energies out. When you’ve done one side, flip the mattress and do the other side.

Now, be warned. Loads of stuff will come out. You’ll probably see dust flying around and there will also be energies you can’t see. So if you do this indoors, don’t stay in the room afterwards. Leave the window open so there is some circulation of air, and come back a few hours later after the dust and other energies have settled. Do a quick once-round with a vacuum cleaner and that’s it. If you do this every few months it will keep your bed feeling fresh and clear. It’s obviously not as good as buying a completely new mattress but it’s the next best thing, and because it’s not a complete solution it means that some of your energies will still be embedded there, so it will still feel like ‘your bed’. 

Energy Imprinting Tips

Some couples like to keep to their own sides of the bed and they always sleep this way. I find it very easy to discover this when energy sensing because the individual imprints are very clearly defined. So here’s a wonderful tip if you sleep like this and your partner goes travelling and you miss them: Just snuggle into their side of the bed and wrap yourself in their energy imprint. You’ll be amazed how good it feels.

Supposing you’re in the kind of relationship where you and your partner often swap sides of the bed. You won’t be able to experience the ‘snuggling into their energy imprint’ effect when they’re not there, but on the other hand, your energies will be more interwoven so you’re likely to be a lot more open to each other at deep emotional levels than couples who stick to their own sides. Not that this is always desirable – at some stages of a relationship a phase of each partner maintaining their own individuality may be needed.

Another important tip for creating and maintaining a happy relationship is: Never discuss your problems in bed. Why? Because that’s what gets imprinted, and then you go to sleep in that space, with your problems swirling around you all night long. If you must discuss issues with your partner before sleep then move to another place, preferably not in the bedroom at all. Keep your bed as a clear space for sleep and intimacy. And NEVER sleep in the same bed with unresolved arguments between you. You’ll be engaged in astral wars all night long that do long-term damage to a relationship. If you can’t resolve an issue between you before the end of the day then it’s best for one of you to sleep somewhere else in the home that night and work through the problem in the fresh light of the next day.

For more information about clearing energy imprints, read Creating Sacred Space with Feng Shui by Karen Kingston. 

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