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What is Space Clearing?

By on January 5, 2015
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Written by Dana Claudat

Space Clearing in feng shui refers to the things you can do to create a more peaceful environment in a subtle, energetic sense.

There’s a whole lot of confusion about what this is. There’s a lot of mystery, secrets and intrigue. There’s a sense that some people hold a magic power to clear space in ways that are enchanted. And that’s not necessary.

danaToday I want to break down the mystery surrounding Space Clearing in my way and shine a light on the benefits of clearing space in a way that is pragmatic and personal. These 10 benefits of clearing space can open your eyes to a world of awesome already waiting for you in your home!

First I want to be sure you know where I stand on the idea of gurus who know much more than you about you, gurus who can do something akin to magic to unlock the potential of your space…mystically.

We tread on dangerous waters of total woo-woo when we talk about Space Clearing, nearing the very precarious cliff known as House Blessings. Apparently you can hire people to bless your home. I mention this not to be a hater, but, rather, to be helpful. I want you to be empowered. I want you to have room in your life to grow, No one knows more about what brings you great energy than you. Unless that person doing the home blessing is a holy person and you subscribe to their faith and feel that their presence will enhance your home, house blessings are a leap of faith that I don’t promote. Yes, I even have friends who do this. They know where I stand on the subject. Given the fact that the spiritualized transcendental sects of feng shui practice a form of Buddhism associated more closely with dark magic than enlightenment, I’m not a fan of these services of house blessing unless they are meaningful to you in a personal way.

You are your own guru. You can clear your own space. And when you learn some tools to do space clearing in a way that makes sense to you, you can clear space in ways that are powerful. I’m going to get you started today, but first, some basics.

What is Space Clearing?

Space Clearing in my way is a way of shaking up the stuck and stagnant energy in a space. Those spaces include your body, your home, your office, your thoughts, your relationships, your digital life and even the story of your past.

Space Clearing is literally “clearing away junk”.

If you can imagine that there are things that hang in the air between people (you can feel the tension), stuff that occludes your mind when you are trying to focus (like worry, etc) and much more, you know that there’s more to clutter than just junk that piles up in your home.

If you can sweep away or transform some of that stuck junk, you will flow much more through life.

Sneak-Peek! This is me doing some on-camera teaching of space clearing in a way you’ve never seen before unless you’ve worked with me one-on-one. I’m devoting the first part of the New Year to this enormous topic, and a wildly awesome free video series!!! It’s coming soon so make sure you’re signed up HERE to start the Life Detox Jump Start and be in the loop to watch and learn to clear space in a way that’s super-fun!

In making these videos I was reminded of the wildly powerful ways that clearing space can change life dramatically.

Clearing space can help you:

1. Get through life transitions. We get stuck in transitions between things (jobs, moving to new places, life changes, relationship changes) when there’s not a lot of room to adjust. It’s like trying to make new friends in a new city when you work 18 hour days. There’s not a lot of free space to connect and grow. All life transitions flow much better with clear space.

2. Worry less and live more. The biggest form of self-sabotaging energy I see around me is worry and worry seems to grow like weeds in chaos and disorder and clutter.

3. Save time! Do you know how much more time you will have if you can focus on what you want to do rather than all the things in around you that are not organized and feel stifled? In my case, it’s about 10 more hours a week on average that are not wasted. Notice when you fall into overwhelm and procrastinate. It may be more often that you imagined.

4. Sleep better. When the air around you is relaxed and buzzing with peace, it’s a whole lot easier to sleep.

5. Risk much bigger. Yep, you can take much bigger risks when you have less stagnant and negative stuff in your way.

6. Find your focus. The key to focus in feng shui is metal energy and metal elemental energy is borne of clear space.

7. Open your life up to more compassion. The less you have stuff standing in your way, the more you can see beyond yourself and help others.

8. Have more of what you want. When you have space for the new, the new can arrive. You can’t have houseguests without a space for them to sleep. Same goes for the space for money, love, inspiration and all the things you may be wanting.

9. Create far more brilliantly. Creativity is a massive subject but all experts agree that creativity is a state of being where there is synergy happening in your mind. Whether its hemispheres of your brain lighting up and working together or a process of opening up to the mysterious energy challel of making art, when you have clear space, so much more can happen.

10. Break your own “glass ceiling” and excel far beyond where you originally thought you could. When you stop standing in your own way, even inadvertently, so many possibilities and opportunities flow to you!

 

danaDana Claudat is a designer, Pyramid School feng shui master and founder of the holistic & artistic lifestyle blog The Tao of Dana (www.fengshuidana.com).    A Stanford-educated Art Historian with nearly a decade of experience in design, feng shui, research and writing about the ways that changing spaces can change lives, Dana has fused art, science and feng shui into her own style of expansive design.

In addition to Mind Body Green as an expert for many years, Dana has been a Guest Curator for Saatchi Online and her work has been featured in Glamour, Lonny, Huffington Post, Blake Lively’s Preserve and many more global media outlets.

Based in Los Angeles, her design and feng shui clients include Hollywood A-List creators and vibrant entrepreneurs, as well as artists and creatives around the world seeking more creativity, clarity, love and empowerment in their homes- and their lives.

You can learn more about working with Dana on your own expansive design-  from anywhere you are in the world- here (http://www.fengshuidana.com/online-consultations/) .

For more art, design & lifestyle inspiration you can follow Dana on Pinterest (http://www.pinterest.com/thetaoofdana/) & Facebook   (https://www.facebook.com/TheTaoofDana)

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