| Find out about energy clearing | | | | want to burn the client!!! The healer |
| After a healing, it is vital that the | | | | simply wafts the smoke into the client's |
| healer clears the healing room of any | | | | aura using the hand or the feather. |
| residual negative energy left from the | | | | energy clearing |
| healing. During a healing, the healer | | | | Some healers - especially those who |
| may remove blockages from the clients | | | | follow the shaman way, like to smudge |
| etheric and/or physical body which have | | | | their client both before and after a |
| hindered the natural flow of energy. | | | | healing. This means negative energy that |
| These blockages should not be present in | | | | the client comes in with is immediately |
| the body and therefore should be | | | | removed leaving the auric field clean |
| removed. If the client has an illness | | | | without going into a healing with a |
| that has manifested on the physical | | | | build up already present. For the same |
| level, there will be energy given off | | | | effect, some healers like to feather |
| that may be heavy, sticky or negative - | | | | their clients before and after. The more |
| we call it 'spiritual slime'. | | | | you work with the healing energy, the |
| This tends to stick not only to the | | | | more you will become aware of its |
| healer, but must also be removed from | | | | differing nature. Just as you walk into |
| the client's aura and the healing area | | | | a room of people and sense that you can |
| itself. During the healing, it is not | | | | cut the air with a knife, you will sense |
| uncommon for the healer to become aware | | | | if a person is carrying negative energy |
| of this negative energy clinging to | | | | about their person or if there is |
| their hands and arms, and they may even | | | | negative energy in an empty room. You |
| have to stop and clean it off with their | | | | will feel it clinging to the walls and |
| other hand or a feather. It may feel | | | | in corners. To cleanse the healing area |
| uncomfortable and perhaps may make the | | | | before the start of your healing and |
| healer ache a little. This is why it is | | | | afterwards, you may use several methods. |
| absolutely vital for the healer to wash | | | | Make sure that you air the room |
| their hands right up to their elbows | | | | thoroughly by opening the doors and |
| after a healing. They must make sure | | | | windows. Allow the breeze to blow |
| that they clean off this energy so that | | | | through. Light a white candle to burn up |
| it does not remain in their aura and | | | | unwanted energy - and always have a |
| create problems with their own personal | | | | candle burning during a healing for the |
| energy flows. | | | | same reason. A white candle will help |
| At times it may be necessary to have a | | | | burn off negative energy during the |
| shower to cleanse your auric field if | | | | healing and therefore helps to make the |
| the healing has brought up a lot of | | | | cleansing afterwards easier. |
| negative energy or you have done many | | | | Crystals in a healing area also help to |
| healings in one day. If you have done | | | | soak up unwanted energy. Clear quartz, |
| several healings, there tends to be a | | | | rose quartz, agate etc....will all do |
| build up which needs to be cleansed and | | | | the same job and it is vitally important |
| cleared both from the healing area and | | | | that you remember to cleanse your |
| your own energy field. Of course | | | | crystals thoroughly at least once a |
| 'oceanic cleansing' or a dip in the sea | | | | week. You can do this several ways. If |
| is a powerful way to cleanse yourself. | | | | you have reiki, you may reiki the |
| The ocean has a powerful energy all of | | | | crystal until you feel that it is clean. |
| its own and is a magnificent way to wash | | | | Giving your crystals a salt bath using |
| away any unwanted energy that you are | | | | preferably sea salt, or adding |
| carrying. So too is a 'bath in the sun' | | | | eucalyptus oil (which is a natural |
| - a stroll in the rays of Father Sun can | | | | disinfectant) to the water is another |
| also burn off negative energy. We all | | | | method. Other healers like to give them |
| know how good we feel when the sun | | | | a 'bath' in beach sand. Yet another |
| smiles in spring and how we can often | | | | method is to put your crystals outside |
| feel a bit down and depressed in winter. | | | | at night during the full moon for her |
| So these two are a magnificent way to | | | | cleansing moon rays, or burying them in |
| remove negative energy build up in your | | | | Mother Earth for a few days to clean |
| auric field. | | | | them. Putting on some boppy music up |
| This energy clearing must be thorough, | | | | loud(if that is your preference) helps |
| otherwise pockets of negative energy | | | | to blow away the cobwebs - spiritually |
| will remain and eventually create | | | | speaking that is!! |
| unpleasant vibrations. This cleansing | | | | The loud vibrations from your favourite |
| process is very important in making sure | | | | music creates positive energy which |
| that you do not take on the negativity | | | | fills the room to the corners Some |
| of others....their problems, their | | | | healers like to place plants in a |
| heartaches or their illnesses. To remove | | | | healing area to suck up unwanted energy. |
| the 'slime' from the clients aura, there | | | | I would be very protective of living |
| are several methods which you can employ | | | | creatures - both plant and animal life. |
| depending on which you prefer. To make | | | | If using plants, they must be removed |
| sure that you remove unpleasant energy | | | | and put outside for a good breeze and |
| which your client has released from | | | | cleansing water bath. Plants and animals |
| their physical body into their auric | | | | can be attuned to Reiki energy and this |
| field, you may 'feather' them. This | | | | gives them a certain amount of |
| means that you take a feather - usually | | | | protection but they must also be |
| an eagle feather although it can be any | | | | cleansed properly - just as we have a |
| feather large enough - and sweep it | | | | bath or cleansing method for us - the |
| through their aura. Some healers I know | | | | healer - so must they be cleansed or you |
| have also used swan or geese feathers. | | | | run the risk of them becoming unwell. |
| The feather gathers the unwanted energy | | | | This is something that other healers may |
| and it can then be flicked away from the | | | | not agree with but in my experience I |
| body. Healers using shamanic healing | | | | have found this to be true. It is also |
| energy use this method and also use the | | | | important to wipe the healing table over |
| feather for other related aspects of | | | | between healings and to change pillow |
| healing. The hands may also be used for | | | | cases and the sheet - if you use one. So |
| the same thing. Smudging is another | | | | in conclusion, remember that cleansing |
| method to help cleanse the aura and | | | | of the healing area and you, the healer, |
| healing area of unwanted energy. This | | | | is just as vital as cleansing the aura |
| requires the healer to burn sacred herbs | | | | of your client. Therefore there will be |
| such as white sage, lavender, rosemary, | | | | no transference of negative energy from |
| perhaps even eucalyptus, and then blow | | | | one client to another, or client to the |
| out the flame and use the smoke to | | | | healer, or plant or animal. Just as |
| cleanse. A small bowl often ceramic in | | | | modern medicine disinfects on the |
| nature, (although any vessel which is | | | | physical level, so we must disinfect and |
| fire proof and doesn't get too hot will | | | | clean on the spiritual or etheric level. |
| do)is used in order to avoid any cinders | | | | It is just as important! |
| escaping. Needless to say, you do not | | | | |