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We are living during truly momentous times in history. People are awakening and speaking up for change everywhere. These winds of change have the power to affect our experience of life at every level.

For some, the passing of the old guard is welcomed and celebrated; for others, it is dreaded and change avoided at all costs. During the ensuing upheaval, it is helpful to remember that change is not the enemy: it is essential for renewal of life and growth. By choosing to participate in a proactive manner, we can navigate periods of change with more grace and ease.

Physical change can stir up a lot of dust and debris. Think spring cleaning – a good spring cleaning calls for deep scrubbing, putting away extra blankets that are no longer needed, and airing out our homes. During such a major cleaning project, we are often amazed at how many dust bunnies we find!

Proper energy hygiene refers to hygienic practices at all levels of your being: body, mind and spirit. When you do a physical detox or you experience some powerful bodywork, blockages in the body’s energy pathways are cleared and toxins released. The process can make you feel tired, moody and out of sorts for a day or more as debris is lifted from the cells and released through the various elimination systems. You know the feeling, right?

Practicing good energy hygiene also refers to the process of clearing ourselves spiritually from the debris we collect through our daily actions, choices, emotions and thoughts. Every spiritual tradition recognizes the need for spiritual cleansing. We may refer to it as purification, prayer, confession or meditation. Many of us have a deep desire for periodic inner cleansing and we use spiritually motivated practices to do so – including forgiveness, fasting, abstention, or personal service.

The important point is that we need to cleanse our energy fields and our souls even as we shower daily to cleanse our physical bodies, or else spiritual sludge and debris will collect.

Remember how blah the stirring up of physical toxins can make you feel? Now extrapolate that condition to include the sludge of emotional debris at the levels of the mind, emotions and the soul… pretty gross, right? Now expand the field to include the collective debris of co-workers, your community, fellow citizens and all humanity, and you can understand the intensity that seems palpable in the air these days!

As accelerated change sweeps across the planet, it stirs up debris from old traumas, pain and frozen emotions for everyone. When we are not conscious of the process, we drag along this old stuff wherever we go like a grey cloud. This dense energy is often referred to as miasma or memes – an unwholesome atmosphere consisting of negative thought forms, emotions and beliefs that clog our thinking, hanging over our lives like perpetual cloudy weather. According to homeopathy, untreated miasma eventually lead to disease and suffering.

Energetic debris can actually hinder our spiritual sense of connection to our Divine Source. At the mental level, we may find ourselves swept up in the urgency of life, unable to calm our thoughts or make clear decisions. At a physical level, we may experience the effects of this energetic sludge as feeling drained, heavy or exhausted. It can even lead to emotional outbursts as we subconsciously try to push back against it. And when we still don’t get help, it can lead to feelings of depression, apathy and hopelessness: nothing seems to matter, so why bother at all?

It’s time to focus on good energy hygiene to clean things up!

In his book Life Force: The Scientific Basis, physicist Claude Swanson offers a scientific basis for energy hygiene from experiments conducted by Dr. Joie Jones, professor of radiological sciences at the University of California. Dr. Jones studied the effects of healing energy and the residual environment on HeLa (human) cells exposed to cancer-causing doses of gamma rays adjusted to cause 50% cell death in 24 hours. In the process, he discovered the importance of energy hygiene for the healing process.

In one series of fifty experiments, cells were exposed to cancer-causing doses of gamma rays, and then placed in a lab environment where the space had not been energetically cleansed first. In this lab space, subtle energies and energetic debris from previous experiments still lingered. When healing energy was sent to these cells, healing effects were found in only 10% of the experiments.

In another series of fifty experiments in a lab space determined to be energetically ‘very dirty,’ he found no positive effect whatsoever (0%) from the energy healing sent to the cells. The energetically contaminated environment was capable of completely blocking the effectiveness of energy healing!

The same series of experiments conducted in a lab space that had been energetically cleared first, showed dramatically changed results. When healing energy was sent to HeLa cells exposed to the same dosage of radiation in an energetically cleansed lab, the survival rate jumped from 50-70%. Energy healing sent to the cells both before and after radiation increased the survival rate to 88%.

This healing energy also tended to linger on, offering residual effects. Mice that were simply placed in a location where healing happened earlier, derived benefit from that environment. This could be one of the reasons why we experience residual benefit of a sacred space even at a time when no ceremony is being conducted.

Let’s apply this to daily life: If you are living in a contaminated energy environment, your best efforts at health and well-being may be ineffective. Energy debris or contamination in your personal field or in your environment can block the effectiveness of Life Force in your life!

This discovery may be as important as the discovery of germs in Pasteur’s day, giving rise to new levels of physical hygiene in hospitals. Improved sterilization procedures killed existing germs in operating rooms before surgery was performed and led to vastly more positive outcomes.

Doing times of upheaval and change, it becomes more important than ever to practice good hygiene at all levels of being: body, mind and spirit. A regular cleansing practice can go a long way in keeping your energies clear at all levels.

As the Jones studies showed, you can also benefit from clearing your space at home or work from energetic debris so that your environment supports your health and well-being. And when faced with major changes such as surgery, trauma or health setbacks, you can further boost outcomes by supporting the intervention of skilled professionals with good energy hygiene.

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