What is Energy Clearance work?
“The unseen world shapes the seen. When we honour the energies around us, we restore balance to ourselves and our environments, across all space and time.”
DECEMBER 2025
Rebalancing the Seen and Unseen Spaces We Live Within
In every culture, throughout every age, human beings have sensed that the world around us is more than physical. Our homes hold memories, our land holds stories. Our bodies respond to subtle shifts that we might not consciously understand, yet we feel them deeply.
Energy clearance work – sometimes called space clearing, clearance work, spirit release or land healing – is the practice of restoring harmony where it has been disrupted. It supports the well-being of the beings living or working in a space, and honours the spirit of the land beneath us.
Let’s unpack the types of energy clearance work, how we detect energetic imbalances, and how ancient and Indigenous cultures have always tended to the unseen world.
What Is Energy? The Subtle Atmosphere Around and Within Us
Everything is energy. Your thoughts, emotions, environment, and the land itself carry energetic imprints. Some energies are light, flowing, and uplifting. Others can become stagnant, heavy, or tangled due to:
Past emotional events
Trauma or conflict in a space
Objects or land with a long history
Spirit activity, including ancestors or trapped souls
Environmental stress
Ongoing interpersonal tension
Clearance work helps return the natural flow, allowing the space, and the people within it, to breathe again.
Types of Clearance Work
1. House and Space Energies
Homes absorb it all: laughter, grief, arguments, illness, celebrations, stress, intention, and routine.
A house may need energetic recalibration when:
Someone new moves in or moves out
After illness, separation, or loss
Before and after gatherings
During renovations or upheaval
When the home feels off, stagnant, or unwelcoming
Clearing may include:
Re-harmonising the energy grid of the home
Resetting emotional residues
Blessing each room with intention and sound
Balancing masculine/feminine energetic polarities
Invoking protection and light
Reconnecting the home’s energy to the land beneath it
Many cultures performed house blessings before moving in, recognising the home as a living extension of the community.
2. Land Healing – Working With the Spirit of Place
Every piece of land carries its own consciousness and memory. Land can store the imprint of:
Past communities or civilisations
Cultural trauma
Battles or conflict
Environmental damage
Sacred sites
Ancestral presence
Land healing involves tuning into the land’s energetic grid and working collaboratively with its guardians, elementals, ancestors, and nature spirits to restore balance. My personal value is that I would only proceed with Land work with the blessings and approval of the owners of the land.
In many cultures, land is a living being:
Indigenous Australian communities maintain ancient relationships with Country, acknowledging its spirit and caretaking responsibilities.
Celtic tribes honoured land spirits and worked with wells, groves, and stone circles for cleansing and blessing.
Ancient Arabic cultures recognised Barakah—the blessing or sacred energy present in land and spaces—and performed recitations to cleanse or honour it.
Land healing brings remembrance to the relationship between people and place.
3. Clearing Trapped Souls and Wandering Spirits
There are times when a soul does not transition fully to the next plane. This can occur due to trauma, sudden death, confusion, emotional attachment, or unresolved ties to a location or person.
Signs may include:
Areas of coldness or density
A sense of being watched
Night-time disturbances
Repeated emotional heaviness
Pets avoiding certain rooms
Flickering lights or subtle movement
In clearance work, these souls are never viewed as negative, but as beings seeking resolution or safe passage. The process involves:
Compassionate communication
Prayer and intention
Opening pathways or portals to guide them onward
Calling on guides, ancestors, or angelic support
Honouring their story or last imprint
Many cultures traditionally held ceremonies for this purpose:
Ancient Greeks performed psychopomp rites to guide souls to the afterlife
Ancient Chinese and Japanese communities held ancestral festivals to support wandering spirits
Arabic and Mesopotamian cultures recognised jinn and spirits connected to locations, offering prayers to restore peace
4. Interference From Heavier Energies
Not all dense energies come from spirits; some arise from emotional residues, environmental build-up, or energetic attachments. These heavier energies can feel like:
Persistent fatigue
Drained motivation
Emotional volatility
Arguments that feel out of nowhere
A heavy, stagnant atmosphere
Heavier energies can attach to people, objects, or spaces. Clearing may involve:
Removing emotional imprints
Cutting cords or connections
Restoring energetic sovereignty
Rebalancing the field with sound, fragrance, plant allies, or frequency work
Bringing in Light Language or vibrational healing to shift the resonance
In ancient Greek temples, smoke cleansing with herbs such as bay leaves and frankincense was used to remove malign influences.
In Arabic and North African traditions, resins like myrrh, oud, and frankincense have been used for millennia to dispel dense energies and invite blessing.
How We Pick Up Energies
Humans are naturally intuitive and absorbent. Just as we can absorb someone’s positive energy, we can also absorb environments that are overwhelmed or unsettled. Energies can attach to us through:
Empathic sensitivity - feeling the emotions or atmosphere of others.
Environmental resonance - matching the tone of a space without realising it.
Auric blending - our fields naturally overlap with people and places.
Emotional mirroring - taking on moods that are not ours.
Psychic openness - being attuned to spirit, land, or ancestral communication.
Signs Your Energy Has Been Affected
Your energy body is always communicating with you. Some signs you may notice are:
Mood changes
Feeling heavy, irritated, or drained in certain places
Restlessness or disturbed sleep
A sense of “not being yourself”
Chronic procrastination or fogginess
Feeling watched or unsettled
Emotional responses that don’t make sense
Avoidance of certain rooms or locations
Unexplained anxiety or tension
Objects breaking or electronics glitching
Pets behaving strangely
How Ancient and Indigenous Cultures Worked with Energies
Across thousands of years and continents, people have always cleared, tended, and honoured the unseen world:
Ancient Greeks used water, salt, sound, and ritual smoke to purify temples and homes.
Arabic and Middle Eastern cultures incorporated recitations, incense, and sacred prayer to shift energies and dispel harmful influences.
Ancient Egyptians used oils, chants, and ritual ceremony to honour spirits and maintain harmony in tombs and temples.
Celtic Druids worked with fire festivals, herbs, and the elements to reset the land and home.
Indigenous Australians engage in smoking ceremonies and deep reverence for Country to cleanse, balance, and protect community spaces.
First Nations peoples globally used drums, rattles, songlines, chants, and plant medicine to maintain energetic integrity of place and people.
These traditions recognise that energy work is not new; it is ancient. Humanity has always known that the physical and spiritual realms are inseparable.
Why Energy Clearance Work Matters Today
In our modern world, filled with technology, constant stimulation, and emotional pressure — energetic imbalance can build quickly. Clearance work helps us:
Reconnect with our intuition
Feel more grounded and centred
Restore harmony to our homes and workplaces
Reset emotional patterns
Honour ancestors, land, and spirit
Create a peaceful, vibrant environment for healing
Bring clarity and sovereignty back into our lives
This is especially important for sensitives, empaths, practitioners, and those undergoing spiritual awakening.
Musing in Summary
Using Einstein’s famous quote: "Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.” Everything is comprised of energy. Clearance work is not about fear or superstition — it is about relationship, reciprocity, and honouring both the seen and unseen forces that shape our lives. The more consciously we care for our spaces, our land, and our spiritual connections, the more deeply we can grow into harmony, clarity, and inner peace. Whenever we bring light, intention, and compassion to a space, we transform it—not just for ourselves, but for all who pass through it.
December is a time for me to reflect on the past 12 months - not for accomplishments but an energy scan on what people, places, events that provided me with life force energy, what is stagnant, old and no longer of use and what I want to foster more of in the coming year. It helps me set intentions for what the Shaman calls ‘dreaming the world into existence’ and releasing the cords of what no longer serves. I recommend you try this for yourself as a private ceremony to move into the New Year with renewed clarity and excitement for your life.