Elemental Cleansing

First let’s briefly go over how to ground yourself so your mind is clear and ready to do what you need to do.

Grounding = Visualize roots extending from your feet into the earth

OR Feel, Understand, and Know that you are walking on a beach and your feet are sinking into the wet sand as the ocean waves hit your feet – Ideally the goal is to bring yourself into alignment with your mind body and soul… these are two methods, but bare feet in grass or just standing outside in the fresh air and just allow yourself to feel nature is another easy way to quickly ground

Why cleanse with different elements when I can just use incense? Honestly? Because sometimes you won’t have incense, and because all the elements are essential and necessary for us and for the planet to stay alive… so why only stick to one? Some people work better with the other elements, majority of people stick to smoke when it comes to cleansing and there are 3 other elements + spirit just sitting there like “…so are we chop liver or what?”

Fire Cleansing

Tools:

· Candle

· Lighter or Matches

· Intention

· Spirit Guides (which we all have)

How to:

· Ground and Centre yourself first, you want to make sure you and the candle have a connection so the candle knows what its role is.

· You can write on the candle with a toothpick or anything of that nature & say “Cleanse this space” OR you can use your own breath and intention (thinking or saying outloud what you want the outcome to be and use law of assumption that it WILL work & by the time the candle burns out the room/myself/this item/ ect ect will be cleansed and the energy will be transmuted – you are powerful and you got this)

· Light your candle

· Stay with your candle for as long as your attention span can withstand, and visualize, feel, or understand that the flame is kinda like a little magnet drawing in all the stagnant, low vibrational, or malicious energy, into its flame, devouring It whole, and leaving you with the warm fuzzies of transmutation, light, and love.

· Once you feel like you are solid in your intention you can just let the candle do its thing

· For safety reasons I have to add: PLEASE DO NOT LEAVE CANDLE UNATTENDED

Water Cleansing:

Tools:

· Water

· Optional: Bowl

Self-Cleansing:

Water absorbs and removes and transmutes the same as the other elements, but for those mental breakdown moments, just talk it out into the water. Mad at yourself or someone else? Tell the water. You basically want to “get it off your mind and chest” and get it into the water.

· Get a bowl of water & GIVE ALL YOUR EMOTIONS TO THE WATER. It can handle it.

· Flush or pour down the drain when you are done and imagine, feel, know or understand that water has taken your lower vibrational energy and left your with less heaviness. (kinda like you went from being at the bottom of the pool to just floating effortlessly to the top)

Item Cleansing:

****This is only for water safe items****

· Following the structure of the fire cleansing (intention and law of assumption) you can run items under tap water until you FEEL it is cleansed – visualizing, seeing, knowing, and feeling the negative energy being sucked in and drawn out by the water and transmuting into something beautiful as it goes down the drain

· Put out a bowl of moon water or any blessed water into a room that needs to be cleansed and follow the same rules as above just replacing fire with water

Air Cleansing:

Tools:

· Lighter

· Incense, wrapped herbs or loose herbs

· Optional: Charcoal Discs and heat safe bowl for herbs

How to:

· Ground yourself and light the incense while thinking about what your end goal is (being cleansed)

· Visualize, see, feel, or understand that the smoke is sucking up all the energy that is no longer serving you and as it gets intertwined with the smoke it is transmuting into energy that is good for the earth, or that you can use for self empowerment

· If you are cleansing your house and the energy is SUPER stagnant: walk from back of the house to front of house, open all drawers, cupboards, windows and doors (whichever ones you can, don’t need pets or kids escaping)

Earth Cleansing:

Tools:

· Salt

· Earth

How to:

There are two main ways to cleanse with earth.

Salt OR Rice Cleanse

· Add Salt or Rice into bowl (visualize, feel, sense, know, or understand that its going to cleanse your room or items the same way as all the other elements)

· IF you are cleansing items – bury item in the salt or rice bowl over night or for at least 30 mins, or 3 hours (or until you feel it is cleansed, I just love sticking to the number 3, use your intuition and discernment)

Dirt Cleanse:

· For Self-Cleansing, this would be similar to a mud bath, but not many are a fan of this, I just figured I would mention that it IS an option.

· For Crystals or items that are easy to clean (a.k.a no little nooks and cranny’s the dirt can get stuck in): bury them in the ground (MAKE SURE YOU MARK THE AREA lol) leave over night & retrieve next day for cleansed and charged items

Self-Cleansing using Spirit and unseen energy (part 1):

· Shake the energy off you and visualize, understand and know the energy is leaving you, ask your spirit guides of highest good (known and unknown) to transmute that energy as it leaves.

Or you can use incense smoke to cleanse you but for the purpose of this article, we will just stick to using your own energy to cleanse yourself.

· Dance to high vibe music (a.k.a Bruno Mars 24k Magic, Backstreets Back, Dubstep, that kind of energy)

· Singing

· Screaming into a pillow

· Punching a pillow

· Going for a walk or any activity that burns energy in some capacity

· Letting the sun cleanse and charge you

· Asking your guides to cleanse you while you just breathe and visualize, sense, know, feel, or understand that your guides will take care of you

I will be making articles on each individual element because there are so many more ways to use the power of the elements – so please be aware this is a very basic and brief explanation to how to cleanse using the elements.