Our resident reiki master Tessa Darbourne visits our centres yearly to offer energy clearing and alignment. Here she explains some of the ways she brings a sense of balance to our centres…
We are all sensitive to other people’s energies and can ‘pick up’ energy, particularly negative energy, from other people and from your surroundings - (think of sensing the presence of someone when they walk into a room behind you, or the feeling you get from a house or specific location). Equally you can pick up positive energy from people, such as when someone ‘infects’ you with their positive and happy vibes or laughter, which in turn, can make you feel joyful.
In the same way, buildings can also pick up energy of both kinds, and often hold onto it.
As centres that offer safe space for people to offload their negative energy, it is imperative that we regularly cleanse our rooms and indeed the entire building. This is beneficial to members and their clients alike, allowing space for release and healing. It also benefits the plants!
As a trained reiki master, I am qualified to cleanse any building, and I do just that for all The Practice Rooms centres.
When visiting, I simply enter each building and room sensing what I feel about the energy in that space to start with. I then cleanse the space using sound, vibration and smudging to dislodge any stuck or dense energy. This dense energy can often attach itself to furniture, mirrors and is found particularly low to the floor and in corners. Cleansing the space first, I then prepare a reiki energy grid to continuously flow reiki into each room including communal spaces, kitchens - and even cellars.
Aside from this work that I do, we also ask our practice managers to give their centres a general energetic sweep every so often.
Cleansing your environment
If you wish to cleanse the space you use each day, then know that negative energy tends to be quite dense and heavy so it makes sense that it collects mainly at floor level and in corners. You can use a number of different ways to clear a room. These are the simplest and most effective…
1. Sound - this can be anything from Tibetan singing bowls, a bell, bang a drum, repeating the ‘OM’ sound, stamping your feet or even clapping. Just make sure you have the intention of cleansing the room energetically in your mind at the time. Music tuned to 432hz is physically beneficial to the human body.
2. Smudging – This is the use of burning sage, cedar, sweetgrass or Palo Santo. You would then waft the smoke around the room, intending it to go into every corner to move and clean the negative energy that might have collected in the space.
3. Fresh air – open the windows!
4. Keep the space clean – clear dust off surfaces and hoover right into every corner and under furniture.
Tessa Darbourne is a reiki master and also a practice manager at our Richmond centre
