How to Clear Your Energy: Ancient Wisdom & Modern Practices for a Lighter, Brighter You
- Mar 18
- 11 min read
Have you ever walked into a room and immediately felt heavy, drained, or unsettled even when nothing was visibly wrong? Or have you ended a difficult day carrying tension in your body that just won't shift, no matter how much you rest? What you're sensing is energy and just like our homes collect dust, our energy fields collect residue from our emotions, interactions, environments, and even our own thoughts.
The good news is that clearing your energy is one of the most powerful and accessible forms of self-care available to us. Whether you're drawn to ancient spiritual traditions, modern somatic practices, or the healing power of nature, there is a method that will resonate with you. At Balance & Body, we believe in honouring all paths to wellness. Here is a guide to some of our favourite energy clearing practices from around the world.
What Is Energy Clearing — and Why Does It Matter?
Every living being has an energy field sometimes called an aura, a biofield, or simply your vibrational frequency. This field is affected by everything we experience: stress, grief, conflict, illness, environmental toxins, and even digital overload. Over time, stagnant or discordant energy can accumulate, leaving us feeling foggy, fatigued, anxious, emotionally flat, or disconnected from ourselves.
Energy clearing is the practice of consciously releasing this stagnant energy and restoring flow, lightness, and vitality. It is not about fixing what is wrong — it is about returning to your natural state of wholeness. Many ancient cultures around the world understood this intuitively, and their wisdom has been passed down through centuries of practice.
The Violet Flame & Saint Germain: Alchemy of the Soul
One of the most potent and mystical energy clearing practices comes from the spiritual teachings associated with the Ascended Master Saint Germain and the concept of the Violet Flame.
A Brief History
Saint Germain is one of the most enigmatic figures in spiritual history. Known in his earthly incarnations as a philosopher, alchemist, and statesman, he is said to have walked the courts of 18th-century Europe as an immortal appearing ageless, performing alchemical feats, and speaking multiple languages fluently. He was known as the 'Wonderman of Europe' captivating figures such as Voltaire and Casanova, both of whom wrote about him with a mixture of awe and bewilderment.
In these traditions, particularly those rooted in Theosophy and the 'I AM' movement founded by Guy and Edna Ballard in the 1930s, Saint Germain is regarded as an Ascended Master, a being who has completed the cycle of earthly incarnation and now works from higher dimensions to support humanity's spiritual evolution. He is known as the Chohan (lord) of the Seventh Ray, the ray of transmutation, freedom, and transformation, symbolised by the colour violet.
The Violet Flame
The Violet Flame is described as a high-frequency spiritual energy that has the power to transmute, or alchemically transform negative, dense, or discordant energy at the very root level. Unlike simply pushing negativity away, the Violet Flame is said to dissolve it, converting lower vibrations into light.
To work with the Violet Flame, sit quietly, close your eyes, and visualise a brilliant violet or purple flame rising up from the earth’s core, passing through and around their body, transmuting all that no longer serves you, set the intention to clear and transmute any energy that is not yours or energy you hold that is not for your highest good. Many combine this visualisation with affirmations or decrees such as: ‘st Germain’ 3 times 'I AM the violet flame, 3 times. I AM the purity codes.' The repetition of these affirmations is believed to amplify the energetic effect.
Whether you approach this as a spiritual practice, a meditation, or a visualisation technique, the Violet Flame is a beautiful and surprisingly powerful tool. Many people report a tangible sense of lightness, relief, or emotional release after working with it as if a weight has been lifted that they had not even fully noticed they were carrying.
Florida Water: The Cologne That Cleanses the Soul
Florida Water is a cologne-based spiritual cleanser that has been used for over two centuries across multiple traditions, from Latin American curanderismo to Afro-Caribbean Santería and Haitian Vodou. Despite its name, it originated in the United States in the early 1800s, drawing on European eau de cologne traditions, but it was quickly adopted and beloved throughout the Americas for its energetic as well as aromatic properties.
The original formula blends citrus, floral, and spice notes typically orange, lemon, bergamot, clove, cinnamon, and lavender in an alcohol base.
This combination is believed to carry a high vibration that uplifts, purifies, and protects.
The Peruvian Way: Agua de Florida in Ceremony
In Peru, Florida Water known locally as Agua de Florida holds a particularly sacred place in shamanic and healing traditions. Curanderos (traditional healers) and maestros who work with plant medicines such as ayahuasca use Florida Water as an integral part of their ceremonial practice.
Before ceremonies, healers will spray or splash Florida Water over participants to cleanse their energy field and prepare them for journeying. Florida Water is also used in Peruvian tradition to cleanse spaces, altars, and sacred objects; to cool and calm someone who is overwhelmed or in spiritual crisis; and as an offering to the spirits and plant teachers. Its fragrance is considered a bridge between the human and the spiritual realms.
You do not need to be in a ceremony to benefit from Florida Water, spray into the hands 3 times, place the hands together and clap for the world below, the earth plain and the world above, (also representing past, present and future) and place your hands over your mouth and nose and breath in the florida water and waft this scent around your body 3 times. Your home can benefit from a mist through your home to help to lift energy, clear the mind, and invite a sense of freshness and renewal.
Breathwork: The Most Powerful Tool You Already Have
There is nothing more immediate or intimate for energy clearing than your own breath. Breathwork the conscious, intentional use of the breath has roots in ancient yogic pranayama, Taoist breathing practices, and shamanic traditions, and has in recent decades found a powerful modern expression through many different breathing techniques.
The breath is the bridge between the conscious and unconscious mind, between the voluntary and involuntary nervous system. When we are stressed, anxious, or holding suppressed emotion, our breath becomes shallow and restricted and this in turn keeps us locked in the state we are trying to escape. By consciously changing the breath, we can shift our physiological state, release stored tension and emotion from the body, and move stagnant energy through and out of our system.
Even simple practices can be profoundly effective. Try box breathing (inhale for 4, hold for 4, exhale for 4, hold for 4) to regulate and centre, or extended exhale breathing (inhale for 4, hold for 7 and exhale for 8) to activate the parasympathetic nervous system and release. For deeper clearing, circular connected breathing where the inhale and exhale connect without a pause can unlock emotional releases and a profound sense of expansion.
Sage & Sacred Smoke: Smudging Your Space and Self
The burning of sacred herbs to cleanse energy is one of humanity's oldest practices, found across indigenous cultures on every continent. Sage particularly white sage (Salvia apiana) from North America has become the most widely known smudging herb in the modern wellness world, though rosemary, cedar, palo santo, mugwort, and frankincense are equally powerful and carry their own unique properties.
The smoke from these herbs has both energetic and scientifically documented antimicrobial properties.
From an energetic perspective, the act of smudging moving the smoke around the body, through a room, or over objects is believed to absorb and carry away negative, stagnant, or discordant energy. The intention you hold as you smudge is considered just as important as the herb itself.
To smudge your space, open a window or door (to give the released energy somewhere to go), light your herb bundle or resin, and move through your space in a clockwise direction, paying particular attention to corners, doorways, and areas where energy tends to feel heavy. To smudge yourself, move the smoke from your feet up through your body and over your head, setting a clear intention to release all that no longer serves your highest good. Cleanse and clear your body and field with intention.
If smoke is not suitable for you whether due to respiratory sensitivities, living in a smoke-free space, or simply personal preference herbal energy clearing sprays offer a beautiful alternative, and we will look at those shortly.
The Healing Power of Nature: Earth, Water, Wind & Sun
Some of the most profound energy clearing available to us is also the most simple and the most free. Time in nature is not merely pleasant it is physiologically and energetically restorative at a deep level.
Walking barefoot on grass, soil, or sand a practice known as earthing or grounding allows the body to absorb the Earth's natural negative electrical charge, which has been shown in research to reduce inflammation, improve sleep, and lower cortisol. Energetically, it draws accumulated electrical and emotional charge down and out of the body through the feet, replacing it with a stable, grounded frequency.
Water is one of nature's greatest cleansers. Swimming in the sea, a river, or a lake carries ions and natural minerals that literally wash away energetic residue. Even a shower or bath taken with clear intention can serve as a powerful clearing ritual visualise the water carrying away all tension, heaviness, and negativity as it flows from your body down the drain.
Wind moving through trees, sunlight on skin, the sound of rain all of these connect us to the natural rhythms that our nervous systems evolved within, and which our modern, indoor, screen-saturated lives often deprive us of. Even ten minutes sitting under a tree, or walking by a body of water, can dramatically shift your energy.
Energy Clearing Sprays: Ritual in a Bottle
Energy clearing sprays have become a beloved modern tool for those who want an accessible, portable, and beautifully sensory clearing practice and they are one of my absolute favourite things to create and share. If you cannot burn sage, prefer not to use smoke, or simply want something you can reach for at your desk, in your car, or while travelling, a well-crafted clearing spray is the perfect solution.
What makes a clearing spray truly effective rather than simply a pleasant room fragrance is the quality and intentionality of its ingredients. The most powerful sprays combine two distinct layers of healing: the aromatic and therapeutic properties of pure essential oils, and the vibrational intelligence of flower essences.
The Role of Essential Oils
Essential oils are the concentrated aromatic compounds of plants, and they carry potent energetic as well as physical properties. In an energy clearing spray, they work on both levels simultaneously their fragrance shifts the emotional atmosphere instantly, while their vibrational frequency interacts with and helps to clear the energy field. Frankincense is renowned for raising spiritual frequency and clearing heavy or discordant energy; lavender calms, soothes, and purifies; eucalyptus cuts through stagnation and brings mental and energetic clarity; cedarwood grounds and protects; and citrus oils such as lemon and bergamot uplift and refresh a space almost instantly.
The Role of Australian Bush Flower Essences
This is where our Balance & Body clearing spray goes a step beyond the ordinary. Infused with Australian Bush Flower Essences, our spray works not just on the surface energy of a space or aura, but at the deeper emotional and energetic roots of whatever is being held. Australian Bush Flower Essences developed by naturopath Ian White from the unique healing plants of the Australian bush are renowned for their potency, their clarity of action, and their particular affinity with the challenges of modern life. Unlike more generic clearing preparations, a spray containing these essences carries a specific vibrational intelligence: it is not simply freshening the air, it is actively supporting the release of the emotional and energetic patterns that create heaviness in the first place.
Our Balance & Body Energy Clearing Spray is handcrafted with this dual approach in mind, pure essential oils for immediate energetic impact, and Australian Bush Flower Essences for deeper, lasting shift. Every bottle is made with intention and care, and is designed to be a genuine tool for your wellbeing practice, not just a beautiful fragrance.
How to Use Your Clearing Spray
Mist around your body (avoiding eyes) and take a slow breath in to allow the essences and oils to work on your energy field. Spray through your home or workspace paying particular attention to corners and doorways where energy can stagnate. Use it before meditation to clear and prepare your space, after difficult conversations or interactions, when you return home from a busy day, or any time you feel the need to reset and refresh your energy. It can also be misted over your pillow before sleep to support a peaceful night, or over your hands after healing or caring work to cleanse any energy you may have picked up.
Sound & Vibration: Let the Frequency Do the Work
Everything is vibration including our bodies, our emotions, and our energy field. Sound has been used as a healing and clearing modality for thousands of years: from the didgeridoo of Australian Aboriginal tradition, to Tibetan singing bowls, to the sacred chanting of Sanskrit mantras and the bells of Buddhist temples. Modern sound healing draws on all of these traditions while also exploring the science of cymatics the visible effect of sound frequencies on matter.
Certain frequencies are particularly associated with clearing and healing. The Solfeggio frequencies a set of ancient tones believed to carry specific healing properties include 396 Hz (for releasing fear and guilt), 528 Hz (known as the 'love frequency,' associated with DNA repair and transformation), and 741 Hz (for clearing toxins and awakening intuition). These can be found readily on music streaming platforms and are wonderful to play during meditation, sleep, or any clearing practice.
Tibetan singing bowls, crystal bowls, tuning forks, gongs, and even the human voice in humming or toning can all create a field of coherent vibration around and within the body that disrupts and dissolves stagnant or discordant energy. If you have ever felt unexpectedly moved or had an emotional release during a sound bath, you have experienced this effect firsthand.
Shaking & Sighing: The Body's Innate Release Mechanisms
Two of the most underrated energy clearing tools are ones your body already knows how to do: shaking and sighing.
Shaking is a natural trauma discharge mechanism seen across the animal kingdom. When animals emerge from a threatening situation, they shake vigorously releasing the activation from their nervous system before returning to baseline. Humans have largely suppressed this reflex, but it remains available to us. Practices such as TRE (Trauma and Tension Release Exercises), developed by Dr David Berceli, work by deliberately inducing the body's natural shaking response to release deep muscular tension and stored stress. Even simply shaking your hands, arms, and whole body for a few minutes with permission and intention can shift your energy dramatically.
The physiological sigh a double inhale through the nose followed by a long, slow exhale is the fastest known way to reduce physiological arousal and stress in real time, as shown in research from Stanford University. Beyond its nervous system benefits, a deep, audible sigh carries an energetic quality of release and surrender. Try this: take a deep breath in, sniff in a little more at the top, and then let it all go with a long, slow, audible exhale. Notice what shifts.
Together, shaking and sighing remind us that we do not always need external tools for energy clearing our own bodies, when given permission and space, are exquisitely designed to return themselves to balance.
Ready to Begin Your Energy Clearing Journey?
At Balance & Body, we work with many of these modalities as part of our holistic approach to wellbeing. Whether you are new to energy clearing or deepening an existing practice, we are here to support you in finding the tools and rituals that resonate most deeply with your body, your spirit, and your life.
Explore our range of energy clearing sessions, workshops, and products or get in touch to discover how we can create a personalised clearing and healing plan just for you.
