What is energy clearing?

What energy clearing actually is

Start with the idea that a human being is an energy system. It's a system of information that interacts in certain ways, holding different patterns from your past, different intentions, different habits. We carry a lot of complexity around every day — and a lot of us are still carrying patterns that were useful for maybe ten minutes at some point in our lives, and haven't been useful since. When we clear energy, what we're really doing is setting our energy up to become relevant and responsive to present time again.

That's a broad definition on purpose, because a lot of things clear energy. A mindfulness practice clears energy. Smudging clears energy. In Reiki, sweeping is a clearing tool. They're all doing the same basic job — helping something old finish and let go, instead of staying lodged where it's no longer useful.

The important part: the more energy you're carrying from the past, the more bogged down and heavy you feel. You understand yourself less. You get stuck.

A pattern I thought I'd already dealt with

This past spring and summer, I worked with a healer who helped me see that there were still a few places in my energy trapped in the past — still running patterns that weren't working for me, even after years of my own clearing work. It's a good reminder that this isn't a one-and-done thing, even for someone who does this work full time. There was still more to clear.

The specific pattern: repeating certain relationship patterns I'd developed quite young. Despite consciously having done a lot of work already, the pattern would still activate. It needed to be dismantled, not just understood.

Since then, my life has really taken another turn. Friendships, my relationship with my husband, my relationship with my parents — everything shifting in new ways, because of that clearing.

A tool you always have with you

You want to clear your energy regularly — not once, as a fix, but as a habit. My favorite tool is a psychological one — I can't teach the whole framework of it in one video, but the core of it is helping you let go, because energy clearing is letting go: of old energy, old patterns, old beliefs.

The direct version: ask yourself, could I let this go? If yes — would I let this go? If yes — when? If the answer is now, that creates the inner environment for you to actually let it go.

Could I let this go? Would I let this go? When?

Truthfully, there are going to be many times where your answer is no. Could I let this go? No. Then you want to drill into why, how come — and that shows you the resistance, the energy pattern that's still active, still fighting for its relevance in your system. Then you can come back to the first question again: could I let that go, would I let that go, when.

An example: stuck in traffic, getting irritated. Could I let this anger go? Yes. Would I let it go? Yes. When? Now. That's it — you got it.

If you're feeling bogged down

If you recognize yourself in feeling heavy, bogged down, still running old energy — I do encourage you to find someone to work with one on one who can help you with this. It's not a sign anything's gone especially wrong; it's a sign there's still more to clear, which is true for most of us most of the time. Life is lighter, and better, on the other side.