How can you do a spiritual cleanse?
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To do a spiritual cleanse, you first want to have an idea of what you are personally trying to cleanse. Then, in almost every tradition throughout history, every spiritual and religious tradition has some form of fasting ritual to cleanse the spirit, whether that's for three days or seven days or 40 days, but how long you fast and what you fast from is generally up to you.
Personally, when I fast, it's three days of a juice fast—a fast from solids—to re-stabilize and realign my awareness with how genuinely lucky we are to have the most basic things, like solid food. Hunger is the most basic need. In the evolutionary sense, we were filling our stomachs before we were building homes, and if you can bring yourself back to that awareness, that's going to be a fantastic spiritual cleanse because it's going to shed a lot of all of the immediate things that your awareness is bothered with, like what your ex said, what your friend said, what happened yesterday, what you did or didn't do, whether or not you're cool, your toxic relationship, or whatever it is that you're trying to cleanse away.
A ritual is another way that you can think of spiritual cleanses, by setting an intention and really bringing your willpower to execute that intention. But I don't think that we are necessarily ever dirty in spirit or that we need cleansing, and actually, we don't allow our spiritual life to be alive. Many of us, if not most of us or all of us, are very sensitive, very tender souls who just want to connect and live good lives and love and be loved. And we do so much every day all of the time to avoid letting that part of ourselves exist and express itself. You cleanse spiritually when you let yourself choose love, when you would rather choose dismissal or avoidance, when you let yourself have compassion for someone who you disagree with or who you don't like, and so on and so forth. And the more that you practice and embody your compassionate, loving, and love-thirsting humanity, the more you cleanse, really.
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Personally, when I fast, it's three days of a juice fast—a fast from solids—to re-stabilize and realign my awareness with how genuinely lucky we are to have the most basic things, like solid food. Hunger is the most basic need. In the evolutionary sense, we were filling our stomachs before we were building homes, and if you can bring yourself back to that awareness, that's going to be a fantastic spiritual cleanse because it's going to shed a lot of all of the immediate things that your awareness is bothered with, like what your ex said, what your friend said, what happened yesterday, what you did or didn't do, whether or not you're cool, your toxic relationship, or whatever it is that you're trying to cleanse away.
A ritual is another way that you can think of spiritual cleanses, by setting an intention and really bringing your willpower to execute that intention. But I don't think that we are necessarily ever dirty in spirit or that we need cleansing, and actually, we don't allow our spiritual life to be alive. Many of us, if not most of us or all of us, are very sensitive, very tender souls who just want to connect and live good lives and love and be loved. And we do so much every day all of the time to avoid letting that part of ourselves exist and express itself. You cleanse spiritually when you let yourself choose love, when you would rather choose dismissal or avoidance, when you let yourself have compassion for someone who you disagree with or who you don't like, and so on and so forth. And the more that you practice and embody your compassionate, loving, and love-thirsting humanity, the more you cleanse, really.
When I think of spiritual cleanses, I ask, how would you cleanse your energy as opposed to your spirit? To me, spirit is kind of our soul. Yes, you can meditate, you can pray, you can smudge. But one of the best things that you can do is start to be aware of yourself in the present moment, because if you don't know how you feel right now, you don't know if you need to shift something.
So the first part is paying attention to how you feel and noticing whether or not your energy needs to change. A question people can ask right away is, “Does this energy belong to me?” because what if you're picking up energy from someone else? You shouldn't even be holding it. I don't walk around trying to read everybody. Why? Most people's energy is pretty dense and heavy. I'm not interested. If I'm picking up someone's energy, I want to feel good. First, we have to pay attention to ourselves, make sure our energy is good, and monitor our energy and be ready to make some shifts when we notice energy is coming in that doesn't belong to us. Once we notice that there's energy in us that doesn't belong, we can shift that energy and cleanse it by meditating, by praying, by smudging.
You can also simply stand in your energy, surround yourself with a white light and say, “I call back any energy I have given away or left behind. Return to me now.” And then visually watch the energies come in, or feel the energies come in, or feel the mercury rising and the love filling your body right up. Don't make any space in your body for energies that don't match love. Call your power back. I think it’s really important that we take energetic authority. You're not some victim here. Claim your power. Call it back. Get yourself back on track. We don't pray for it. We don't beg for it. We command it.
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So the first part is paying attention to how you feel and noticing whether or not your energy needs to change. A question people can ask right away is, “Does this energy belong to me?” because what if you're picking up energy from someone else? You shouldn't even be holding it. I don't walk around trying to read everybody. Why? Most people's energy is pretty dense and heavy. I'm not interested. If I'm picking up someone's energy, I want to feel good. First, we have to pay attention to ourselves, make sure our energy is good, and monitor our energy and be ready to make some shifts when we notice energy is coming in that doesn't belong to us. Once we notice that there's energy in us that doesn't belong, we can shift that energy and cleanse it by meditating, by praying, by smudging.
You can also simply stand in your energy, surround yourself with a white light and say, “I call back any energy I have given away or left behind. Return to me now.” And then visually watch the energies come in, or feel the energies come in, or feel the mercury rising and the love filling your body right up. Don't make any space in your body for energies that don't match love. Call your power back. I think it’s really important that we take energetic authority. You're not some victim here. Claim your power. Call it back. Get yourself back on track. We don't pray for it. We don't beg for it. We command it.
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