Space Clearing

Next time you stay in a hotel, take a look around the restaurant when you go for breakfast in the morning. How many of the people would you actually want to share a bed with?

In most cases the answer will be "none", but in fact you just did. Not with the exact same people sitting around you, but with people very similar to them who slept in your bed before you and left their imprints in it.

Over the last 30 years I’ve developed special techniques for reading the energy imprints in objects in people’s homes. I can go around a house and read the entire history of what’s happened there with my hands. Beds are especially interesting because most people spend a third or more of their lives sleeping, so their mattress becomes very imprinted with their energies.

One of the vital skills I teach the professional space clearers I train is a sliding scale of perception relating to the imprintability of various materials. The least imprintable materials 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 is not 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 are the most imprintable – mattresses, sofas, etc.

When it comes to beds in hotels, it’s grim news. It’s common to find layer upon layer of unsavoury energies embedded in hotel mattresses, sometimes dating back a decade or more, depending on how long the bed has been in use. It’s no wonder many people say they don’t sleep well in hotels, or wake up feeling out of sorts or not quite themselves. During sleep our energy opens and we absorb whatever is around us, including the frequencies that have been deposited in the mattress by people who slept there before us. It’s almost the same as sleeping with them in the same bed.

If you’re starting to feel nauseous, help is at hand. As well as being able to read these energies, I’ve developed efficient methods of clearing them that anyone can learn. It’s called ‘bed thwacking’ and it’s a modified Space Clearing technique, specially adapted for the modern traveller.

First, strip the bedding down to the bottom sheet and open a window. Then look around the hotel room for something you can use to do the thwacking. A wooden coat-hanger is a good choice, or a telescopic umbrella if you happen to have one with you. If you can’t find anything, then pummelling with your fists is good emergency measure, but not as effective as using a sturdy implement of some kind. Methodically thwack the whole mattress for a few minutes to dislodge the energy imprints from it (as well as quite a bit of dust, usually).

Here’s a very important tip: Don’t do this the first night you check in. When you do bed thwacking, all the energies go up in the air and take a few hours to come back down again. If you do this and then jump into bed, they will all land on you. Just put up with it all for the first night, do the thwacking in the morning, go out for the day, and by the time you get back housekeeping will have changed the bedding and vacuumed up all the energetic debris from the floor, leaving you with a sleeping space that is energetically much cleaner.

Before you all email me to ask what to do in a hotel room that has windows that don’t open, read my blog posting on the topic of Air conditioning. And to learn about thwacking beds in your own home, read the blog I posted recently about How to clear energy imprints from a mattress.

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I promised information about how to get the imprints out of a mattress, so here it is. It’s done using a technique called ‘bed thwacking’.

Everything that happens in a place is imprinted in the walls and furniture, and mattresses get more imprinting that just about everything else. Not only are they made of the most absorbent types of materials, but they also get the greatest degree of up-close-and–personal usage. Most people spend a third or more of their lives in bed, so they leave a deep imprint of themselves where they sleep.

Over the last 30 years I’ve developed the art of being able to read these imprints with my hands and can tell just about everything about the person who sleeps there by doing so. 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’. But don’t forget that while bed thwacking will remove much of the energetic debris and some of the dust, it won’t remove the deep layers of bacteria, viruses, fungi, mould, perspiration and flakes of dry skin that physically accumulate. You will still need to buy a new mattress at least every 10 years to get rid of that.

Parts of this blog were copied from an article I wrote a while ago called Why It Feels So Good To Sleep In Your Own Bed. To read more, click here ...

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New Year is not the only time when it’s good to do Space Clearing or clutter clearing to make a fresh start. Another important time is when you start a new relationship.

I’m talking here about a relationship that has some mileage, that you want to give the best possible chance of success. Suppose you have been going out together for a while and you decide you want to start living together. I always recommend moving to a new home that neither person has ever lived in before. This is so that each partner has the same degree of ownership of the space. But practically speaking, this is not always possible, and this is where Space Clearing and clutter clearing can really help.

A common request received by Space Clearing practitioners is to clear out the energy of a partner’s ‘ex’, meaning an ex-wife, ex-husband or ex-lover who lived in the place before they moved in. Energy sensing the walls and furniture, it is usually very easy to tell which rooms the ‘ex’ spent the most time in, which chairs they sat in, which objects they used the most, and so on. Mattresses are generally the most heavily imprinted. To the new person moving it, it can feel like there is no room for them until the energy of the previous partner has been cleared out.

Physically cleaning and clutter clearing the place from top to bottom can certainly help, and a fresh coat of paint will do wonders. But to remove the imprints, short of demolishing the place and rebuilding, the only technique I know that really does the job thoroughly is Space Clearing, using the specific ceremony I describe in detail in ‘Creating Sacred Space with Feng Shui’.

Every step of the ceremony plays its part but for this type of situation, the most important circuits are the clapping and belling ones. Clapping breaks up the lumps of energy that accumulate in all the corners and belling penetrates deep into the walls, furniture and other objects in the place, shattering imprints. Of course the preparatory steps to the ceremony have to be performed first for this to work properly, and I’m not talking about just any kind of clapping and belling. The techniques are very specific – a sharp, crisp circuit of clapping, beginning and ending at the front door, followed by a circuit using a high quality Balinese bell (they are the only bells I know of that shatter imprints so effectively when directed with intention).

Ideally the Space Clearing is best done by the new partner moving in, not the one who has lived there for a while, because their energy is already anchored in the place. Or better still, hire a professional space clearer who will be impartial, and can set the space equally for both partners. I’m not claiming that this will magically make it the ideal place to live in forever (nothing beats a completely new place), but it will certainly balance the situation out much more. Space Clearing can remove the energetic imprints; it can’t change the visual and territorial associations of the partner who lives there first.

Coming soon... an article about how to get the imprints out of a mattress that has been slept on by other people (including a partner’s ex-lover!).

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As the year draws to a close, the global focus on Old Year/New Year makes it a prime time for clutter clearing – out with the old and in with the new. Coming straight after Christmas, which for many people in the western world also means an influx of new material possessions in the form of gifts, it makes even more sense to spend the New Year period setting your aspirations for the coming year and letting go of concepts, behaviours and things that do not fit with where you’re heading.

First to go can be any unwanted gifts you receive this Christmas, before they even take root in your home. Make this the year you sincerely thank the giver for the thought and let the gift go. Recycle it in some way, such as giving it to someone else who will appreciate it more than you, rather than keeping it indefinitely and always feeling disappointed whenever you look at it.

Next to go can be any objects you no longer love or use. Donate them to charity or goodwill organizations, give them to friends who can use them, or if they are no longer useful to anyone, send them for recycling or dispose of them in the trash. By the end of the first week in January, aim to have around you only those things that truly reflect who you are and who you want to be in the coming year. Set the space for this to happen rather than just hoping it will.

Of course there is no better way to give yourself the best possible start to 2008 than by Space Clearing your home at this time, clearing out all the old energies that have accumulated and consecrating the space to new, higher frequencies. This is one of the most effective times of the year to do the ceremony because you can ride on the New Year wave that ripples through the world as the calendar changes from 2007 to 2008.

The ideal Space Clearing altar to use is the ‘New Beginnings’ one, pictured here. In the coming months I will be doing a series of articles about altar designs, explaining in detail how to create the best one for Space Clearing your home in any situation you may have in your life. The 'New Beginnings' altar is the first of these, and can be used in any situation where the main focus is a fresh start.

When creating the altar, choose the colourizers that represent the new frequencies you wish to bring into your life:

Red = To anchor the frequencies of Motivation, Action & Accomplishment
Pink = To anchor the frequencies of Passion & Love of Life
Orange = To anchor the frequencies of Creativity & Confidence
Yellow = To anchor the frequencies of Hope, Joy & Happiness
Green = To anchor the frequencies of Harmony, Healing & Vibrancy
Turquoise = To anchor the frequencies of Ancient Resonance & Inner Calm
Blue = To anchor the frequencies of Truth, Integrity & Purpose
Purple = To anchor the frequencies of Prosperity & Empowerment
White = To anchor the frequencies of Clarity, Simplicity & Purity

I didn't include information about altar design in the original version of my book, Creating Sacred Space with Feng Shui, because at that time I was only teaching the skills to professional practitioners, but I've discovered that setting up an altar like this increases the effectiveness of the Space Clearing ceremony so much that I will be including a large section on it in the new, revised version of my book which will be published in 2008. A range of altar cloths and colourizers in large, small and miniature sizes are available from Space Clearing online stores.

A very Happy and Transformational New Year to you all!

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