Detoxify Your Home

By Jessica Hoelzel

In January we hear a lot about detoxing our bodies. After the consumption of the holidays, and with spring vacations around the corner, it’s natural to want to “clear out”, “cleanse” and “shed the weight”. Well I’m here to tell you that detoxing your home is as important as detoxing your body.

Just as toxins can build up in the body and make you feel sluggish and slow, so can clutter in your home bog you down energetically. The reason for this is that your home is an extension of you.

Clutter in your home – that is, things you don’t use or love, things that have negative associations for you, or things that you need to do something about that have been neglected – stagnate the energy. They hold you back in the past and make you feel stuck.

Removing clutter by doing a clear-out can help create new opportunities for you. Look at it this way – everything you own is tied to you with strands of energy. When you purge things, you release them into the universe, cut their energetic ties and free yourself of their burden.

Doing so regularly is important. It opens you up, and allows for new space, both literally – in your home, and figuratively – as in a space within your self. Not only will this new space make you feel lighter and more energetic, but it will provide an opening for more blessings to come to you. And these, in turn, provide you with new, vital energy as well.

So when you’re thinking about getting an energetic boost this time of year, don’t forget to honor your space with a clear-out. And therefore you honor and restore your self as well.