Space Clearing-Feng Shui, purify your environment
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Extract from
CREATING SACRED SPACE WITH FENG SHUI
by Karen
Kingston
Why Space Clearing is
Necessary
Every religion in the world offers its devotees ceremonies or
rituals to elevate them temporarily to levels of the astral light
they cannot easily attain by themselves so that they can
experience enhanced states of being. To facilitate this, temples
are constantly purified to maintain their atmospheres at high
levels, especially at times of high ceremonies.
All Space Clearing is designed to raise the
level of the astral light of the atmospheres in our own personal
spaces and, in so doing, raise the quality of life that it
is possible for us to experience. In other words, depending
on your knowledge and skill, you can use these techniques to
cleanse the astral light and create sacred space wherever you
are. If you want your life to be more meaningful and
purposeful than the general level it is being lived at today by
so many people, learning how to purify your atmospheres will be
of great benefit.
Energy in Buildings
Energetically, everything that ever happens in a building goes
out in ripples like the effect of a stone being dropped in a pond
and is recorded in the walls, the floor, the ceiling, the
furniture, objects, plants, animals and people in that space. It
gets imprinted in the very fabric of the structure. Repetitive
patterns get deeply imprinted, as do moods and atmospheres.
Any events accompanied by strong emotions or trauma are recorded more intensely. If you have ever had the experience of walking into a room after there has just been an argument, you know that you can literally feel it hanging in the air. People sometimes say, 'You could have cut the air with a knife!', meaning that the atmosphere was so dense it was as if the argument were physically tangible.
The residue of these energy ripples accumulates around the edges of the room, and builds up, particularly in corners, and nooks and crannies. It is an interesting fact that some native cultures will not live in buildings with corners. The Zulus and the native American Indians, as an example, live in round buildings. They say that 'evil' dwells in corners, and mostly what they are describing is the way low energy sticks in those areas.
In our western culture, children are usually more sensitive to this than adults. They will tell you they don't like spooky corners, spaces under beds or sleeping with wardrobe doors open. This is a perfectly natural human response, even for grown ups!
If you are reading this inside a building, stop for a minute, look up, and imagine what the place you are in would look like if it had never physically been cleaned since the time it was built. Imagine the build-up of dust, cobwebs, and so on. The worst areas would be in the corners and any nooks and crannies.
Well, of course no-one would ever want to live
or work in such a space, but on an energetic level, that is
exactly how a building looks and feels if it has never been space
cleared. Hot, sticky, electrical cobwebs and congealed clumps of
static energy accumulate in all the corners and nooks and
crannies.
Who Needs Space
Clearing?
Everyone. We all create a certain amount of psychic gunge on a
daily basis, which leaves a residue in our homes in the same way
as everyday living creates cleaning and tidying which needs to be
done on a physical level. As Jane Alexander so succinctly put
it in her article about Space Clearing in the English Daily Mail
in 1994, 'Most of us are probably living in the psychic
equivalent of a rubbish dump'.
Very few western homes are so well designed that there are no areas where energy gets stuck. Most buildings are designed without any thought being given to the way energy can flow around them, and awkwardly positioned furniture can then add to the problems. How much stuck energy builds up depends on the Feng Shui of a place (how well energy flows around it) and the activities of the people who are living in the place.
***If you are living or working in a building that has been occupied by other people before you, you will have not just your own psychic residue to contend with but theirs too. In some cases, the higher levels of this residue can be beneficial. Supposing you are newly married and you move into a home where the previous occupants were very happy together. This can greatly enhance your relationship.
But supposing you are not so fortunate, and the couple who lived there before you argued a lot or even got divorced. Think about a previously idyllic marriage that has run into difficulties after moving to a new house, and the cause is discovered to be the energy left by the departing occupants. Or a business has moved to new premises and runs into financial trouble, just as the previous owner did. Or a whole family inexplicably starts to put on or lose weight like the family who lived there before.
The variations are endless. Space Clearing clears out these lower levels of stuck energy which hinder our progress, whilst leaving the beneficial higher levels intact.
Karen has space cleared ancestral homes centuries old where the build-up of stuck energy stood three feet thick off the walls and felt like psychic treacle or molasses. She has also space cleared 20-year old buildings that felt nearly as dense, simply due to the amount of mental and emotional traffic in that space in such a short period of time.
She very, very rarely come across buildings
that do not need any Space Clearing at all. Even in brand new
buildings there is much which needs to be done - the Space
Clearing ceremony can be adapted to create a powerful
consecration ceremony, to bring in the most beneficial
frequencies for the new occupants right from the start.
Feng
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