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Daily Energy Hygiene Practices for Healing and Prevention
Our energy systems, our energy bodies, need regular attention just like our teeth, eyes, skin, and all the rest of our physicality. Our energy bodies are porous. Other energies can easily overlap ours, and this affects us. Think of the olden days of radio and broadcast TV: if a signal was too close in frequency to our desired channel, we’d get a snowy picture, or a staticky radio station. It’s the same for us and for our energy bodies, and for our physical bodies, too.
Enjoy the simple and potent techniques that follow. I use these every day.
Begin these practices now and start using them twice a day, morning and evening.
Foundational Psychic Protection and Energy Hygiene Practices For You
1) Create Sacredness around you with an invocation of sacred space.
Use your voice to narrate, out loud, the conditions you desire in your space and the conditions you want to exclude from your space. This sets the tone for what you will and will not allow in your immediate environment.
If you are unsure of how to do this, here is a link to my teacher Betsy Bergstrom’s invocation of Sacred Space
2) Ground Yourself: Clear and Rejuvenate your Energies.
Grounding is a simple energy hygiene practice we can do anywhere, anytime. This simple exercise is based on real indigenous practices.
Envision energetic ‘roots’ extending from the soles of your feet and from your tailbone deep into Mother Earth, or Pachamama. Energy follows mind: what we think is what happens. Our thoughts mobilize energy. Envision your roots connecting to the primordial waters deep in the earth.
Imagine a line of connection extending from your crown chakra into the heavens, connecting with your personal star. Imagine bringing that celestial starlight into your body, rejuvenating it as it comes, clearing out any debris and waste through the roots from your feet and from your spine.
Do this for a few minutes until you feel clearer.
3) Meet your True Self, your first and most important ally.
Your True Self holds the cosmic blueprint of who you are in this incarnation. This refreshes and enlivens your energies, and keeps you power-filled. Michael Harner, founder of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, said that the best psychic protection was to always be power-filled.
Here is a recorded guided imagery meditation to help you meet your True Self.
4) Salt Soaks
For simple, accessible energy hygiene, take a Sea Salt or Epsom Salt soak.
Add a good double-handful of Epsom salt to your bath and dissolve into the warm running bathwater.
Soak until relaxed. You can also use Sea Salt, or mix the two.
Salt soaks and salt scrubs help harmonize and integrate your body energies.
If you don't have a tub, mix the salts with hair conditioner or body wash, and scrub all over in the shower, rinsing thoroughly.
5) Clear your energy with a Sphere of Divine Light
This is another quick and easy exercise adapted from Vajrasattva Buddhist practice that you can do anywhere. It is quite refreshing. This helps clear and harmonize your energies, washing away negativity. It also helps keep you power-filled.
Imagine a sphere of liquid divine light forming over your head.
Ask your crown chakra to open and invite the liquid divine light to flow into your interior spaces. Some people sense this light water running down a window pane.
After a few moments, and when your interior spaces feel 'full' to you, imagine your hand and feet chakras opening. Let this liquid light flow out of your hands and feet, and offer a blessing for the land.