How to clear your energy: 7 simple ways to settle your mood and refresh the atmosphere at home

How do you clear the atmosphere in your home, and how do you clear your own? This article walks through the ways people go about clearing themselves and their rooms, why it matters to them, what they get out of it and when to do it, and finishes with a few products worth a look if you want to lift the feel of a space and let your mind unwind.

1. Why clear at all? The reasons, the benefits and the right moment

Why do people and spaces need clearing? A tense environment or a run of difficult months can leave energy that feels uncomfortable to be around, and clearing is how people bring the balance back between themselves and the room, which in turn helps them feel emotionally steadier. If you simply want a space where you feel more at ease and more content, the same practices apply.

The point of it is to make a space more comfortable to be in, so it is easier to quiet down and pay attention to yourself, and easier to notice what you actually want from your life. People describe clearer thinking, better focus at work, less of that low hum of worry, and an easier time settling at night. So how do you know when it is time? A few signs to look for:

• When a space needs clearing: when the people or pets who live there often feel uncomfortable, irritable, restless or tired in it, or when you find you would rather not go home, it is time to clear the space.

• When you need clearing: if you notice you are more easily unsettled than usual, low on drive, edgy or fed up, or you sense you are simply not yourself lately, it is time to clear yourself.

Below are seven ways to go about it, so that if any of the above sounds familiar you can pick whichever one appeals to you.

2. How to clear the atmosphere at home, and how to clear yourself

7 ways to clear the atmosphere in a room

1. Clear out the space and what is in it

If you often don't want to go home, if home never quite feels restful, or if you are simply sensitive to your surroundings, start here. Take everything out and look at it piece by piece, keep only what you genuinely need and genuinely like, and pass the rest on to someone who will use it. What is left is a simpler room with a simpler feel.

While you are at it, check whether the space gets enough daylight and fresh air, and look over the place regularly to keep it clean and tidy.

2. Clearing with salt

Sea salt is widely regarded as a natural way to neutralize the feel of a space. Before you use it, work through the step above so the room is tidy and clean. Then pour a modest amount of sea salt into a clean, unchipped bowl and set one in every room. After three or four days, dissolve the salt in water and use that water for cleaning the house — wiping down furniture, mopping floors and so on.

3. Clearing with fire

Fire is a powerful natural element, long associated with clearing and protection, and with getting stuck energy moving again in a house. You can work with a lit candle or with sage, and evening is the traditional time for it, when warm firelight is at its most soothing.

If you are using candles, pick the material, shape and scent that appeal to you most, and favor natural, handmade ones over synthetic fragrance, which is harsher on the air as it burns. Set the burning candle in whichever room most needs attention, and before you put it out, carry it into each of the other rooms and walk it once around each one.

If you are using incense or white sage, light it and carry it clockwise from room to room, walking slowly so every corner gets its turn. Then set it in a heatproof container and let it burn down on its own, and finally open the doors and windows to air the place out.

4. Clearing with water

Water is the gentlest and most familiar of the elements to work with. An ordinary shower or bath is already a form of clearing with water. Beyond that, you can clean with diluted vinegar, or steep cinnamon, daisy, lavender, chamomile or citrus leaves in pure water to make a floral water and use it around the house.

5. Clearing with herbs

If burning things is not for you, tie sage, mint, lavender, bay and thyme into a bundle and set it in the living room, the bedroom or even the bathroom. Replace it before it dries out — roughly once a month is enough.

6. Clearing with essential oils

If scent is your way in, place diffusers around the house, and carry a small essential oil spray with you. A light spritz on your wrists or behind your ears before you walk into a crowded or unfamiliar place is how many people give themselves a steadier footing.

7. Clearing with crystals

Crystals are minerals formed naturally in the earth, and clear quartz and amethyst are the ones most commonly associated with balancing the energy of a space. Place them around the house and clear them periodically as part of looking after them.

If you would rather not spend the time maintaining crystals, some people use Aqive torsion field products in much the same way, either left in the house or carried with them.

How to clear yourself

Once the room feels right, it becomes an easier place to sort out your thoughts and rest. From there, a practice such as meditation or sitting meditation gives you a way to work with your own energy, sharpen your awareness, and get a clearer read on where you are right now and what you are aiming at — which is where the real clearing happens.

The other good way to clear yourself is simply to spend time in that space doing something you love, not for anyone else, only for you.

3. Products worth a look: let Aqive help you settle

That is the ground covered. If you would like a hand with the feel of your space and your own sense of ease, here is what Aqive makes.

Aqive is one of the first brands to bring torsion field research into everyday products, exploring the possibilities of body, mind and spirit with an open and accepting outlook, working from scientific theory and offering attentive service to help people find a sense of steadiness in body and mind. Integrity sits at the center of how the company runs, as the foundation for building something sustainable.

Aqive designs everyday energy tools meant to help you unwind and feel settled as part of ordinary life. Four of them stand out:

Qi Ease Vita: Qi Ease Vita is built around torsion field technology, using a specially designed coil to gather the torsion field, with a 369 Hz frequency added to steady the mood. Many users keep one in their own space as part of making somewhere calmer to land in the middle of a busy life.

It is light, portable and easy to look after. Clip it to a bag, wear it around your neck, or leave it on your desk or bedside table. The clean, modern shape looks good in a room, too. It suits office workers, travelers and personal spaces at home.

Qi Box: Qi Box brings together clear quartz and sacred words such as Buddha and Guanyin, set inside the box so that qi oscillates within it, with a copper plate that can rest against the skin. Many users hold it in the palm or place it over an acupoint while sitting in meditation, and describe a settled, unhurried quality to the time they spend with it.

Qiramid: Aqive combines the structure of the Great Pyramid of Giza, sacred words and crystal. People who are under pressure or sensitive to their surroundings often keep one in the bedroom or the studio, as a way of holding the mood of a space steady and giving themselves somewhere calmer to come back to.

Qi Wristband: the Qi Wristband holds an amethyst qi plate with sacred words arranged inside it in a particular structure, along with a built-in microcurrent circuit board. Wearers often describe feeling steadier with it on, and finding it easier to hold their attention.

It is about the size of an ordinary watch, easy to carry with you, and needs no power at all to work. Following the idea that qi leaves on the left and enters on the right, some people wear it on the left wrist to feel settled and on the right to guard their space. Switch between the two however you like.