5 Ways to Energetically Clear Your Home

Your home is not just a physical structure, it’s a living energetic environment that constantly interacts with your nervous system, emotions, and sense of safety.

Across cultures and spiritual traditions, there has long been an understanding that maintaining the energy of the home directly influences the wellbeing of its occupants.

From smoke rituals used by Indigenous cultures, to Vedic vastu, to Taoist Feng Shui, humans have always known that when the home feels clear, supported, and aligned, life tends to flow with more ease.

This post isn’t about doing everything “right” or creating pressure around your space. Instead, it’s an invitation to explore the many creative, intuitive ways you can influence the energy of your home — and to choose what feels supportive for you right now.

Below are four easy and accessible ways to gently clear and uplift home energy (plus a more complicated one for the advanced students).

1. Smoke Cleansing (and How to Do It Intentionally)

Smoke cleansing is one of the most widely shared energy-clearing practices across cultures, used to disperse stagnant or heavy energy and reset the energetic tone of a space.

Common tools include:

• Sage (often associated with deep clearing)

• Palo Santo (traditionally used to invite in supportive, uplifting energy)

• Incense or resins

  
  

How to work with smoke cleansing:

• Open a window or door first, this symbolically gives energy somewhere to move

• Call in the energy of the spirit of the plant you are working with, thank it and request its help in clearing your space

• Move slowly through the space, paying attention to corners, doorways, and transitional areas

• Set a clear intention (e.g. “I release stagnant energy and welcome clarity and ease”)

• Allow the smoke to do its work without force or urgency

  
  

The key here is presence, not perfection. Even a few mindful minutes can shift the felt sense of a room.

2. Intentionally Placed Crystals

Crystals act as energetic anchors, with the ability to shift, amplify, or stabilise particular frequencies within a space.

Some simple ways to work with them include:

• Placing crystals in the four corners of your home or a room to create energetic containment

• 4 is energetically connected to safety and stability. Protective crystals (anything black or red usually is), as well as crystals know for spiritual protection (like amethyst or selenite) all make great candidates for this "house hug" (although anything can be used-I've done this with Rose Quartz before and had magical enegy sprinkle through for days)

• Resting a crystal on a piece of paper with a written intention word or pairing a crystal with an oracle or tarot card that symbolises the energy you want to cultivate

• Creating a small crystal grid or placing crystal art in a meaningful location (bonus if the art is handmade like these pieces by my friend Janine-handmade items become energetically attuned by the creator)

  
  

Rather than focusing on “rules,” allow yourself to work intuitively:

• What energy do you want to feel more of here?

• Calm, creativity, protection, rest, vitality?

• Select crystals that reflect this energy

  
  

Let the placement feel intentional rather than decorative — even simple setups can be powerful.

3. Clearing Clutter (Why It Matters Energetically)

In Feng Shui, clutter is understood as a major disruptor of chi, the life force energy that needs to circulate freely through a space.

When clutter accumulates:

• Chi becomes stagnant

• Certain areas of the home become energetically “blocked”

• Old emotional or mental patterns can be reinforced simply by what’s being stored

  
  

This doesn’t mean your home needs to be minimalist. Rather, it invites you to notice:

• Where energy feels heavy or stuck

• What you’re holding onto that no longer reflects who you are now

  
  

Clearing clutter can be one of the most immediately noticeable ways to shift your home’s energy, often bringing a sense of relief, clarity, and lightness.

4. Playing Clearing Frequencies

Sound is one of the fastest ways to influence energy.

Playing clearing or harmonising frequencies can help:

• Break up stagnant energetic patterns

• Support emotional regulation

• Shift the overall vibration of a space with minimal effort

  
  

This can include:

• Singing bowls or sound baths

• Frequency-based music

• White noise or nature sounds

  
  

Here is a youtube clearing frequency I personally enjoy and recommend.

Try playing it while cleaning, resting, or make a ritual of your smoke cleansing. Notice how the space feels afterwards.

5. Going Deeper with Feng Shui (When You’re Ready)

If you feel called to explore home energy on a deeper level (or for the "everyday witches" who already have a sage stick strapped to their Roomba but are looking for something more), I definitely recommend looking into Flying Star Feng Shui as it offers a powerful, time-based system for understanding how energy moves through a home across years and cycles.

Flying Star is ancient and works with the metaphysics of the I Ching, the same system I often reference in my own energy work and the foundation for many powerful systems due to its profound understanding of the functional and esoteric laws of energy. In relation to Feng Shui, it goes much deeper than standardised maps and:

• Accounts for the age of a home

• Tracks shifting energetic influences over time

• Helps explain why certain rooms may feel supportive in one season and challenging in another

  
  

Feng Shui can help further guide the placement of symbolic elements like crystals throughout the home, but also goes alot deeper into elements such as colour, symbolic items like statues and energetic artwork, items as they relate to the elements and much more in order to perform "energetic acupuncture" on your home.

If of interest, I recommend searching a Flying Star Feng Shui practitioner in your area.

A Final Note

You don’t need to do all of these to make a difference.

Even choosing one small, intentional action can shift the relationship you have with your space, and by extension, with yourself.

Your home is a living partner in your healing and growth. When you care for its energy with curiosity and creativity, it often responds in kind.

Choose what feels aligned, leave the rest, and trust your intuition.