Space Clearing
The feng shui art of Space Clearing - by Karen Kingston

Who's been sleeping in my bed?

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Written by Karen Kingston   
Sunday, 17 February 2008

Hotel bed 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.

Copyright © Karen Kingston, 2008


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Just read your article about clearing debris from hotel mattresses. In it, you mention that glass front doors are a no-no. The house we're moving into has a front door with a large glass panel, framed by about 8 inches of wood on all sides. Is there any cure aside from replacing the front door?
 
Karen Kingston's reply: My next blog answers this question.
 Written by Jill on 20-02-2008 22:15 [IP: 165.21.154.11]  

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