Making Your Home A Sanctuary

By: Anja Lavigne

Our home reflects our inner self. Living in a spiritually high vibrating home is key to having positive energy levels, higher physical frequencies and inner peace. Comfort and renewal, clear from all outside stresses and busyness are essential to that high vibration. Believing that a home is only made up of brick and mortar, walls, floors and furniture, will most certainly lower your home’s vibration as you will remain unconscious to the effects of the potential lower energies in your life overall. Our homes have a soul, a spirit just like you and it requires your attention.

Revitalizing your home from time to time with energetic cleansing is a ritual that has been around for centuries throughout many cultures. Earth is not fixed and static; it is constantly in flux and moving and its energy shifts and

changes, just like yours. You experience a variety of emotions throughout the rooms within your home and when you do, these energies absorb into and then emanate from your walls and floors. Think about times when you have walked into a room and felt unwell, uneasy or uncomfortable and were ready to leave immediately. Or the opposite - you felt so at ease and welcomed into the room that you wanted to stay all day. Emotions occur all the time: sadness, fear, anger, joy, excitement and love. The components of the rooms in your home hear arguments or experience the emotions connected to your thoughts of selfsabotage, judgment, gratitude or joy. To return your home to a place of balance and harmony, here are a few suggestions that you can practice.

The Art of Cleaning Cleaning your home can be done through a very soulful experience. Start by opening up your windows, clearing out old energy and bringing in new freshness. Take a Swiffer, begin at the inside of your front entrance, walk clockwise and remove all the dust, beginning from the top and then down to the bottom. You can even chant a Mantra such as “Remove everything that does not serve this home. Remove all negative feelings and thoughts.” You can be natural and say what comes naturally to you. Also take the Swiffer and glide the corners of each room and baseboards, as negative energy can sit there. Use household cleaners that have a low VOC. Be aware of cleaning chemicals as they can contribute to the toxicity of your home. Buy products with natural ingredients whenever possible or use vinegar, baking soda, lemon and essential oils to keep your home toxin-free. When sweeping/vacuuming, be conscious and connect with the room. This brings a heightened awareness. This allows you to stay fully present when becoming one with your home.

Art & Decor Objects around us affect our energy fields. Choose and keep art that inspires you. Remove anything hanging on your walls that feels uncomfortable. This will reflect on your mood and you will feel uncomfortable in your own home. Discard or fix anything that is broken. Take a closer look and see if anything in your space ‘triggers you’ in a negative way and if so, get rid of it. Avoid keeping decor that you no longer love, or you feel you ‘should’ keep for reasons such as ‘it was a gift from someone special’ or ‘I paid a lot of money for it back in the day.’ These items will bring down your energy. Selling and donating allows another person to experience joy with that item and opens space for you.

Crystals Placing crystals throughout your home provides natural healing powers and attracts positive energy into the home. Amethyst and Quartz crystals are great for balancing and energizing any space in your home. These crystals make you feel relaxed and are ideal to place in communal rooms such as your living room. Rose quartz radiates and attracts love. It’s a great idea to keep it closest to your bed. Moonstone highlights a “Happy Home” making the entryway a good place to keep it.

Write out a Letter of Intention A journaling practice specifically for your home can fast track your manifesting results. It’s simple to do and can be a life changing practice. When you hold a pen, the connection from brain to hand onto the paper energetically begins a shifting of pathways. Your statements are creating action with goals and desires. Start by asking yourself, “What do I desire for myself and my home?” (An example could be, “I love how my family and I sit around the kitchen table at meal time. We really enjoy each other’s company. There is laughter and we all give space for each of us to speak with no interruptions.) Schedule a time, find a quiet place, meditate first, light a candle, have your crystals around and begin writing. When writing, have clear intentions, using descriptive action verbs and descriptive adjectives. Write in the present tense like it already exists. You are aligning yourself to your goals and the Universe is listening. Now fold the paper and place it somewhere in that room, like under the carpet or in a drawer and watch the Universe do its magic.

Connecting with the spirit of your home allows a strong connection to your environment. Just like having healthy relationships with people based on respect and mutual love, your home requires the same. The benefits will shine in your day-today life in remarkable ways and you will have fun as you get connected to your home and your own intuition.