New year, new you right? Or are you like I was? Feeling like you say this every January and then end up in the exact same place the next year as you were at the beginning of the last? I remember one day reading my goals that I had written an entire year prior and I hadn’t achieved one of them. NOT ONE!! So if this is you, I hear ya Sista! Loud and clear. It took me years, but I finally figured it out. In order to bring in something new, you first have to release the old and make space for the new!! #truth Then, and only then, can you remove that stuck energy and finally welcome in what you want.

So in this post, I am going to give you my favourite, and most effective ways to clear space in your home so you can free yourself from that stuck energy and finally welcome in all those amazing things that you have wanted…maybe for a very long time! Is it finally losing those last pounds? Maybe making more money? Or finding your soulmate? Whatever it is, let’s get rid of the old, clear your space, and get you welcoming in what you want. Once and for all!

Now clearing space in your home is a three-step process, but each step itself will make a massive difference in how you feel and will create dramatic shifts in your life. So here we go.

“When you say goodbye to what you don’t want, you begin to create what you do want.“

Conquer the Clutter

First, yes you guessed it – get rid of the clutter! But did you know that decluttering is actually one of the fastest ways to crank up your manifesting mojo and clear space for some serious amazingness to show up in your life? Here’s why. The Universe LOVES order (and this itself is a huge part of a feng shui practice). So if you get rid of the clutter and keep your home clean (we’ll get to that in the next section) then you can’t even help but attract good things into your life because you are creating the space you need for them to appear. Clutter literally acts as an energetic barrier that stops you from flowing with the magic of the Universe.

Now depending on how much you are holding onto, this may feel like a huge task for you. But don’t get overwhelmed. You can do 10 to 20 minutes of decluttering every day and before you know it, you will be feeling the shift in your home and in your mind. This seriously can be life-changing. You will literally feel the difference. Your days will start to flow. You’ll sleep better. Your anxiety will start to reduce in dramatic ways. I promise you.

Now I’m not going to leave you alone here. I have created a checklist of things to declutter in your home in only 10 minutes a day. You can grab it here. Print it off and then make a game of it – put it on your fridge or where you can see it throughout the day and check one item off every day. Be sure to come back to this post and let me know the difference it is making in your life!

But before you start, here are my favourite clutter clearing tips (this works with all kinds of things, including your thoughts – but that’s for a future blog post).

The first step is to become aware of your clutter. Look around you and really SEE the clutter. We can get to a point in our lives where we become so busy and disconnected we literally stop seeing the clutter around us. It just becomes a part of the canvas of our everyday lives. But we feel it. Trust me. So the first step is to become aware of it. Walk through your home and really see the clutter. Just take note of it. You don’t have to do anything with it yet.

When you decide it is time to finally get rid of that clutter, with each item ask yourself three questions and then make a decision. Don’t hold off. Don’t decide to decide later. Make a decision for every single item. Here are the three questions I want you to ask yourself:

1. Is it serving me?
2. Do I really want it?
3. Is it current or outdated?

Get real here. Your brain is going to want to trick you into keeping everything. Don’t let it. You need two yes’s and a no here in order to keep something. And yes, you can add the ever-so-popular “Do I love it?” question – but be careful with this one. It can be easy to convince yourself that you love things that you really don’t. Our objects can create a lot of emotional attachment that can easily get misconstrued as love when in actuality it is just triggering a fear of lack. Remember the key takeaway here – when you say goodbye to what you don’t want, you begin to create what you do want. And aren’t you ready for that?

Magical House Cleaning

Second, do some magical house cleaning. Now house cleaning doesn’t need to be boring or a lot of work. When you add your intention to it, it really can be magical!

When it comes to your health, cleaning is actually great exercise on a very basic level, and with some energy, it helps produce endorphins – the feel-good hormones that elevate your mood. So it actually makes you feel better on so many levels! Cleaning regularly with natural products helps to keep your air more free of allergens that amp up your immune system and stress out your body.

Now from a Feng Shui perspective, cleaning your house can really generate Chi energy or life energy, which can be blocked by dust, dirt, and clutter around your house. Cleaning is an antidote to stagnation! When you clean you keep the energy moving. Cleaning is the ultimate form of space clearing. When you are cleaning you are literally clearing the space of everything that doesn’t belong in your home.

Since your home reflects your personality, make sure you keep it clean, clutter-free, and sparkling to let that positive energy in.

Cleaning literally connects you energetically to your home. The more Tao connection you have to your space, the more powerful you will be in the space. So that connection will be stronger when you actually clean your home.

Here are a few of my cleaning tips that make it extra space clearing:

• First, when you are cleaning your home and want to open up to more vibrant energy, and really harness more love and joy in your life, use vinegar in your cleaning solution. The vinegar has a very symbolic meaning. It is thought to detach negative energies from your stuff and is a purifier of things. It really raises the vibe in your home.
• The other thing you can do in terms of magical house cleaning if you have carpets take some baking soda, sprinkle it on the carpets as baking soda is very high vibe. I like to add some high vibe essential oils to the baking soda as well. And if you can, add some very fine sea salt and toss that on the carpets as well. Leave it on for at least 15 minutes. A couple of hours is better if that is possible. And then come back and vacuum it all up to create an energetic fresh start.
• Also, be sure to focus on your corners. Make sure they aren’t dark. Sweep them. Clean them. Activate them. Your corners need to be active. Energy gets stuck in the corners. Once they are cleaned, sprinkle a drop of essential oil, like sweet orange or lavender, in each to brighten them.
• Now sweep and mop your floors. Sweeping is cathartic and it clears a path. Not only is it symbolic (sweeping away what’s not wanted) it is physical and gets energy in motion.
• And as a final step in your cleaning process, I want you to light a candle in each room after you do some house cleaning in that room. You can use the same candle and just move it from room to room as you are finished cleaning each one. White candles are perfect for setting an intention and when you infuse a space with more energy while setting an intention, you can create even greater results. And house cleaning is one of the greatest ways to create space to grow.

There you have it. Now onto the final step in our powerful space clearing process.

Powerful Space Cleaning

Now that your home is clutter-free and sparkling clean, it is time to remove the things from your space that you can’t see. What is that you ask? The negative and stagnant energy that is lingering in your home and blocking you from those things you want.

Space clearing feels amazing and results in so many positive things. Not only does it open your space up to creating more of what you want, but it also frees you from stuck energy, helps you to focus, sleep better, and frees up time for what and who you love. Totally worth it.

Are you ready to clear some space so something new can arrive in your life? Here are some of my favorite space clearing techniques. If you love these and want more, you can grab my Ultimate Guide to Space Clearing here.

A simple but powerful way to do some space clearing is to burn some ceremonial smoke. Most people use sage wands but you aren’t limited to that. You can burn rosemary, lavender, cedar, or palo santo. The options are endless. If you love incense, burning it every day (I love the effect of sandalwood incense) is a super effective way to clear your space of those low vibes. Just be really careful when you are burning anything.

The next one is so easy and you can do it any time and that is to clap in the corners. When you clap in the corners the sound truly clears the stuckness in the space. You can hear the difference in the tone of your clapping as you clap in different corners. So go through your house and clap in all of the corners and keep clapping until you feel they are all lighter.

This one is my fave. Use sea salt to clear space. You can burn it, throw a pinch in the water you are using to clean your house, or put it in bowls and let it absorb the negative energy.

Salt is an incredibly grounding, purifying agent and I like to think of it as a vacuum of space that sucks up all the negative energy we do not need. It’s like the ultimate space lightener. You can take about a cup of normal sea salt in a bowl – use your intuition for how much you think you need in your space. I like to put these where the energy feels stuck or there are lots of arguments that have happened, that’s a big one. You could put bowls of salt anywhere in your home where you feel like it is heavy, where you feel like there’s been trouble, chaos and it feels like you need a fresh start.

I like to leave these bowls of salt for a day, sometimes three days, then dump them in the trash and immediately take the trash out. Don’t let this salt linger in your home once you dump it.

Another one that is so simple is to always have fresh flowers in your space. They are an incredible way to add so much energy to a space without doing much of anything but honouring mother nature. They are completely game-changing. They literally change the feeling in your space. Add some fresh flowers to your space after your house cleaning or space clearing as this is an extra dose of energy that is magnificently powerful and so uplifting for every single area of your home.

So there you have it, a few ways that I use regularly to clear space that has given me some amazing rewards. So if you are ready to free yourself from all that stuck energy and welcome in more of what you want, you have all you need to get started!

For a deeper dive into ways to create space in your home, grab my Ultimate Guide to Space Clearing where I show you the most effective ways that I use to clear space in my home. Plus you’ll be added to my email list where I share weekly powerful ways to create more of what you want in your life.

If you really want to experience the power of space clearing, sign up for a one-hour space clearing consultation with me. I will work with you one-on-one to create a monthly, weekly, and daily space clearing practice specific to you, your space, and the intention of what you want to create.