Clearing Your Own Energy
Water is a good metaphor to use in understanding energy maintenance. Just like water, energy wants to flow. The freshest energy flows quickly and freely much like in a brisk mountain stream. On the other hand, lower energy tends to stagnate, collect detritus and become swampy. Often in our day to day life we encounter pockets of lower energy that can attach to us and temporarily reduce the rate of our own flow.
Because of the effect it has on us, our instinctual reaction to this energy is to block it off and keep it away. However, I personally have found that energy shields don't often last or work the way we hope because of their inherent nature. By raising a shield we are creating a stagnant energy body. Not only does other stagnant energy tend to "stick" to it but it also stifles our own flow and thus impedes us from dissipating the lower energy. Since energy can be neither created nor destroyed, only changed, the best way to deal with lower energy is to flush it out of our system and send it back into the universe where it can be transformed.
This is why I recommend daily energy hygiene in the same way we practice daily physical hygiene (i.e. brushing teeth, bathing, etc.). One method that I use to do this is an "energy vacuum" visualization:
First, briefly take a few minutes to bring yourself into a light, relaxed, meditative state, in whatever way you prefer. Deep breathing, gentle yogic stretching, reciting a mantra, using a singing bowl or listening to some calming music are a few ways to achieve this.
Next, ground yourself by sitting or lying on the floor and just becoming one with the earth. Feel the energy coming up from below and energizing your root chakra. You can also focus on the color red and on absorbing its energy.
Begin the energy clearing process by imagining the universe pulling all the lower energy from your body. I tend to picture the low energy as black dirt covering me from head to toe. I then picture a giant vacuum connected directly to the universe coming down to suck up all of that gunk, methodically beginning at the feet and slowly continuing all the way up to the head until it is all cleaned away. As you do this try to imagine not just what it looks like but also what it feels like to have the vacuum pulling on you.
Next, as the dirt is being vacuumed away, picture white light being pulled in to replace it. Continue to visualize the light flowing through you, energizing you, until you can picture your body positively glowing.
Depending on how heavy I feel or how much interaction I've had with the outside world that day, I may continue the visualization to clean and energize each chakra.
At this point, slowly end the clearing process by grounding and reconnecting with your body and the earth.
I like to do this either right before bed or first thing in the morning, depending on how I feel. It is also helpful after watching or reading the news or interacting with a lot of people
