Energy clearing your space (and desk!) is so important for every single one of us.
I don’t think you have to be highly sensitive to feel the thoughts and emotions of a space, but if you are highly sensitive you’ll definitely be more aware of it.
Even if we aren’t aware of it, most of us can walk into a restaurant that feels low vibe and not want to eat there. Or avoid a certain chair at the movie theatre. Or find yourself avoiding certain parts of your home… well, you get the point.
Energetic imprints are everywhere. If you pay your bills at your computer and you worry every time you do it, you leave worry in that space.
If there’s a certain room in the house where you argue with your significant other, it can be caused by an energetic imprint there too.
In the book, Clear Home, Clear Heart, Jean Haner talks about how if you move into a house where a couple argued all the time, you might actually find yourself arguing!
This is why it’s so important to clear your space regularly to avoid energetic build-ups.
And this is especially true if you are writing or doing ANY kind of creating.
You don’t want other people’s energy, or feelings, in your magical creations, no! You want your purest and highest self coming through.
If you CAN open a window, THIS post will help you cleanse your space.
But if you can’t open a window, don’t want to use smoke, or it’s just not possible all the time – here are some ways to clear the energy of your space that work just as well.
What is “smudging” and why wouldn’t you just do that?
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You may have heard the term “smudging” synonymous with clearing your space.
Smudging has its roots in Native American ceremonies and over the years we have an increased awareness about whether or not this is Cultural Appropriation. (This article explains it though I don’t align with their belief not to burn sage).
It seems to me the appropriation lies in the ceremony, more than the use of white sage, but I highly encourage you to do your own research and decide how you feel about using the term “energy cleansing” and finding your own way to do it over the term “smudging” as a ceremonial act if you haven’t researched it or been trained.
Since smudging is the most commonly used term, I used it here to explain that I’m talking about energy clearing and cleansing your space, but not in a specific ceremony for which I do not have the cultural origin.
Many energy healers and energy-sensitive folk find clearing your space with white sage to feel very cleansing.
White sage also has antibacterial properties and can eliminate germs! It is said to kill up to 94% of germs (see: THIS post for more on that). I use this quite a bit if someone is sick in our household or if we had someone in our home who was showing symptoms.
So burning white sage can come with some controversy both over whether or not we are overusing white sage and depleting the supply, and also the question of whether or not it’s cultural appropriation to smudge. (I personally do burn white sage on occasion and have my own ritual that I’ve adapted from my spiritual teachers over time.)
But the good news is that you don’t have to use only sage to clear your space. It can be Palo Santo or my favorite pure resin Frankincense and Myrrh incense (I love this stuff!).
In any case, for the purposes of this post, you may not want to use sage, or smoke, for any given reason and there are other perfectly good ways to clear your space that I’m excited to share.
The goal is for you to have a way to keep your space feeling high vibe, cleansed and with reduced interference so you can be productive and creative at your desk.
Here are 6 ways to energetically clear your space before you write or create.
Play high vibe music to energetically clear your desk and surrounding space.
YouTube, Pandora, Spotify – they are all full of high vibe music that will lift the energy of your space.
These are a few that I like to play at my desk (even when I’m not sitting there) to give it an energetic sound bath:
9 HOURS Tibetan Healing Sounds
417 Hz REMOVE ALL THE NEGATIVE ENERGY
I also had a Kundalini yoga teacher once who swore that if you played Kundalini music in your home it would be energetically clear and also protect your home! I haven’t found Kundalini music online that I connected to, but if you have it, why not try it?
The great thing about music is that you can also play energy cleansing tones while you write. I have found that it keeps me in a flow state and I can write more in less time when I have this type of music on. Music with words distracts me so I save that for graphics and publishing, but writing and editing are greatly enhanced with energy clearing choices.
Use sound tools for energy clearing your desk.
Sound, in the form of sound bowls, gongs, and other options like tuning forks is a great way to clear the energy from your space. It makes it feel like spring cleaning but for energy!
You can hit a gong, tuning forks, or a sound bowl over your desk and around your room to lift the vibe.
Here are a few of my favorite ways to use sound to clear the energy before you write:
Gongs
If you’d like to hit a gong, I use this desk gong: Woodstock Chimes WDG The Original Guaranteed Musically Tuned Chime Desk Gong, which even my kids love to hit. It’s been easy and durable.
I do this for my desk and the surrounding area, but it also feels good to walk around and hit the gong throughout the whole house! It breaks up the stagnant energy and leaves a higher vibration in its place.
Sound Bowls
I also use this sound bowl that I bought in a metaphysical store but it’s a little tricky to find online: Tibetan Singing Bowl Gift Set: Purple (Crown)
If you can’t find that one, this one looks so appealing! I’m thinking of adding another to my collection: Tibetan Singing Bowl Set, Meditation Sound Bowl Handcrafted in Nepal for Healing.
Tuning Forks
Tuning forks are another great option to clear your physical space and can also clear mental clutter while you’re at it.
This is my favorite tuning fork – 128 Hz – that I use for any physical pains, to relax my jaw, or even if my sons have a stomachache… but that’s for a different post! This is about clearing your space and tuning forks are an easy option to keep it clear.
My most used tuning fork: Biosonics 128 Hz Otto Tuning Fork (Weighted)
It is important to make sure you buy a quality tuning fork as some say they are 128 Hz but measure differently when you get them home! You can experiment with a less expensive option to see if you like it, see if you feel a difference in your space, and then upgrade to Biosonics later because they are a high-quality brand.
I was introduced to this one from a yoga teacher who used it on us at the end of class and it felt amazing! Finding out it cleared my desk of energetic clutter was such a wonderful bonus.
Let me know which way you like to use sound for clearing in the comments. I’m curious what other ways you’ve found.
Pendulums can clear negative energy from your desk.
Pendulums are more than just for “yes” and “no” answers. You can also clear space with them. I simply hold the pendulum over different areas of my computer, keyboard, and desk to clear the energy and create a nice, blank slate for writing.
I have programmed my pendulum to clear space by asking it “Show me what movement is for clearing”. Mine goes in a circle for clearing. I hold it over the spot, ask it to clear it and let it circle until it stops circling.
(I am a channel through Automatic Intuitive Writing so I like to be in an energetically clear space so I tune into the appropriate frequency.)
The pendulum takes more time so I generally use the gong or tuning forks for larger areas of my desk and home office and then the pendulum for smaller spaces like the keyboard and laptop.
Jean Haner also explains how to use dowsing rods for clearing in her book Clear Home, Clear Heart.
However, she recommends clearing your whole house much less frequently than I clear my desk space (once a year is her recommendation!). So that would be for the big jobs, and you can use the other methods for your daily clearings.
Visualization can clear negative energy from your space.
No tools on hand? No problem. You can use visualization to clear your space.
It’s important to see the lower vibration energy LEAVE your space when you do this.
Simply imagine light coming from above into your space. See it gently pour all over you, your desk, space, room and watch it wash the lower vibrational energy out of your windows, doors, out of your home, down the street until it is absorbed by Mother Earth – transmuted into something healing and beneficial.
You can also imagine it floating out of your window and turning into sparkling gold flecks and dissolving.
If you struggle with visualization or want something else, I LOVE this energy cleansing prayer by Melanie Beckler. I say this at every hotel we stay in and I feel the difference! In fact, my boys will now ask “Mom, can you do that prayer ‘thing’ for this room?” when we get there (they are both energy sensitive too!).
Keep plants around your desk to filter negative energy.
Plants are such a wonderful addition to your creative space! Any plants that make you feel happy are good but I prefer leafy plants over succulents for energy clearing.
I have one plant in my space from when I left my corporate job over 10 years ago! It had been in my office with me so long I decided to take him with me.
It brightens things up and plants are said to help purify the air.
Here is a great post on “11 Indoor Plants That Will Absorb All The Negative Energy And Increase Your Happiness”.
High vibe spray to lift and clear the energy of your desk.
Last, but certainly not least, there are many high vibe (or “smudge”) sprays you can use. These are great but if you are clearing a shared workspace, you may want to make sure your co-workers don’t have any issues with essential oils or scents. They should love them but I think I read somewhere that Canada was banning oils from the workplace. Maybe they had too many oils going on?
Otherwise, simply set the intention to invite the sacred into your space, take a deep and calming breath, and spray your space.
You may want to avoid spraying your keyboard, computer, or any other electronics. Instead, spray the space around them and perhaps use the pendulum for the final step.
This is my favorite spray: White Sage Smudge Spray
Many energy healers sell their own energy clearing sprays if you want to support a local business.
Bonus: Reiki for energy clearing.
If you are Reiki attuned, you can also use Reiki to clear your space, and yourself.
I put my hands on my desk and say “Reiki on. This space is cleansed and cleared for the highest and greatest good, with ease and grace.”
Then I put my hands on my legs and say “Reiki on. I am cleansed and cleared for my highest and greatest good, with ease and grace”. I do the desk and myself for a minute each (unless I have more time because it feels yummy).
Bottom line: we all leave energy in our spaces and after a while it can build up and feel heavy.
If you are writing or doing anything creative, starting with an energetically pure, clean slate every time is so beneficial.
It can be the difference between sitting down to finish something and finding yourself procrastinating, tongue-tied, fumbling with your words OR being in a complete flow.
These easy ways to clear your space can turn things around in an instant! Banging a gong takes just a minute. Turning on high vibe music is super easy and can be done anywhere. Saying a cleansing prayer or imaging your space being cleared… it’s all doable and is worth the effort.
You can choose one method or use many at a time!
For example, I clear my space with sound before I start writing and then play high vibe music while I write to keep focused and clear.
When I forget to do this before and after I write, I start to feel it. I also notice more interruptions and interference (no one needs that!).
XOXO,
P.S. Let me know if you have other favorite ways to clear your space that don’t involve smoke. I’d love to hear it in the comments!
