Paranormal Activity, Or Energy Residue?

Clients sometimes ask me to do an energy clearing in their homes or businesses. In have even been asked to do a cleansing in stables, where the horses had been inexplicably out of sorts and acting out of character. The energy clearing methods I use vary from the more typical Western techniques to traditional African methods that I learned while living there.

One of the most memorable clearings I ever did was for a long-standing client who struggled with a deep sense of guilt over the suicide of her late husband. She had asked me to do an energy clearing ritual in her home, to see what I could pick up.

Her husband had ended his life sitting in a large, plush wingback chair in their home, where they were bringing up their two young children. Apparently, they had argued a lot in the weeks leading up to his death, particularly after he’d discovered her affair with another man.

Guilt overwhelmed her, and her late husband’s family made their judgment of her very clear. They felt his passing was her fault.

In a mediumship reading I did for her, her late husband had come through with messages that proved he had crossed over to the Other Side, that he was at peace, and that she was never to blame for him choosing to depart from this life. Instead, he spoke of his own life-long battle with depression, and his personal failures in their broken marriage.

The mediumship validations were however not enough to ease my client’s haunting feelings of guilt. She was convinced that her husband’s troubled spirit was haunting their home, and she insisted on me doing an energy cleansing. She was, however, not keen on some of the more typical Western clearing methods, nor the shamanic African approaches I offered, so I suggested we simply use some sage incense and prayer, and she was satisfied for me to do so.

She also consented to me having free access to every nook and cranny of the house, because it is often surprising where energy disturbances can reside. She believed there was a heavy, dark cloud of negative energy around that wingback chair, but to my surprise, there was nothing! In fact, the whole room was clear of any negative vibrations.

Dark residual energy can indeed feel like a malevolent presence…It certainly took me a while to distinguish between the stain left by painful emotions and that of other phenomena ~ Diane Kathrine

I then proceeded to work my way through the entire house, going from room to room, exploring every possible area, including the garden and garage. The process took all of two and a half hours. When I was done, we sat down to discuss what I had encountered. I must admit, it didn’t make much sense to me, but I told her of the two main areas where I felt the atmosphere to be heavy. The moment I said this, all color immediately drained from her face!

Upstairs, off the hallway, there was a guest bathroom, and it had very small windows at the top. She said that often, when they argued, she locked herself in that bathroom and they would argue loudly through an open window. Well, this just shows how harsh words, angry thoughts and feelings can become an energy imprint in a space, and continue to linger there. This is why one can usually sense the unhappy vibes when you enter a troubled home.

The only other area where I found the energy to be dark and toxic, was around a dresser in her walk-in wardrobe. She was even more shocked when I told her this, and said she’d been carrying a lot of guilt about it, because this was the ‘secret place’ where she and her lover shared many a ‘passionate moment.’

Several days later, she messaged to tell me that the sage energy clearing had made a huge difference to the overall feeling in her home.

Imprints are often energetic memories of the events that created them, and you can sometimes feel the past events as being stuck, continuously playing out in the energetics of the location ~ Craig Maclennan

The method I used was very simple. I first called upon my guides, angels and spirit helpers for protection for the work I was about to do in her home. Then, with a lit incense stick in hand, I slowly moved from one area to another.

Incense will usually have a smoky hue if the energy is light and clear, but in the areas where there are ‘heavy vibes’, the smoke will turn very dark and murky. At these particular spots, I then prayed and asked that any residue of altercation or fear be shifted and transformed into light energy. I kept returning to the troublesome spots, until the smoke was the clearer color it should be, and I could also sense that a significant shift had taken place. I then finished by thanking my team of spirit helpers.

The energy clearing finally confirmed that her late husband was not haunting their home, but rather that powerful negative feelings and angry words from the past had created an unwanted energy residue in certain areas of the home. Sometimes a ‘bad vibe’ is simply just a vibe, and not necessarily an indication of the presence of paranormal activity.