I’ve been practicing energy work and teaching Reiki for over 20 years now, and I see keeping on top of my energy hygiene as being as important as brushing my teeth and showering every day. 🚿 🪥
WHAT IS ENERGY HYGIENE?
It’s the regular practices you use to keep your energy, mood, nervous system, physical and mental health and emotional state clear, grounded, and not bogged down by everyone else’s shite.
If I hadn’t kept on top of my energy hygiene, my 18 years spent as a Parole Officer would have been VERY different! 😂
There were many times I had to clear bad juju from myself immediately after prison visits or dealing with people who had a bunch of negative crap latched on to them – if I hadn’t known these practices, I’d have walked around with everyone else’s energy latched onto me all the time and brought that shit energy home with me. 🤮
Most people walk around energetically leaking all their bad juju and unresolved trauma like a busted shopping bag, ready for other people to slip on their trail of goop.
At the crux of it, we all absorb things (good and not so good) from the people around us and the environments we’re in; the stress of this builds up, we eventually feel like we’re on a not-that-fun rollercoaster and red flags start waving in your body and mind. 🚩
If you never clear it, you end up burnt out, exhausted, reactive, foggy-headed, anxious, cranky-pants, overwhelmed and emotionally constipated, wanting to crawl into your bed and not come out for a week or 10.
Been there?
But when you keep on top of your energy hygiene, life looks a lot different. 🤗
Yep, you can still get bogged down, but you’re more self-aware and don’t let it last as long as you continually use whatever processes and tools work for you.
This can include things like:
✋🏼 Boundaries
💤 Rest and recovery
🏖️ Grounding
🫁 Breathwork
🧘🏼♀️ Meditation
🙌🏻 Energy work like Reiki, sound healing or kinesiology
🌅 Time in nature
🛀 Salt baths or swims in the ocean
🏃 Movement/exercise
🚮 Decluttering – your environment, brain, phone, laptop, wallet – whatever it is helps
✂️ Cutting the energy vampires out of your life
📱 Reducing social media overload and doom-scrolling
🌀 Processing your emotions instead of suppressing them
🧐 Being more selective about who you spend your time with
For some people it’s a deeply spiritual practice; for others, it’s just nervous system regulation and emotional self-awareness.
It doesn’t matter how you view it, the end result is the same: you feel lighter, calmer, clearer, more focused and less reactive even if the shit is hitting the fan around you.
SIGNS YOU NEED TO FOCUS ON YOUR ENERGY HYGIENE
You feel drained – especially after being around certain people
🤯 You struggle to switch off
😵 You’re constantly overstimulated
🥴 You absorb everyone’s moods
😵💫 You feel emotionally heavy
🫠 You and your house feel chaotic
🫨 You’re tired but wired
😪 You’re people-pleasing your way into burnout
Highly empathic people are especially in need of spiritual hygiene practices and could do with learning tools like Reiki to support them.
SIMPLE DAILY ENERGY HYGIENE ROUTINE
MORNING
🌞 Get sunlight – I like to go for a walk first thing when the sun is coming up before I hit the gym
💦 Hydrate – you’ve spent the last 6-10 hours horizontal in bed, you need to hydrate your body
🏃 Move/stretch – your lymphatic system will thank you
✍🏻 Set your intentions and boundaries for the day
📱 Avoid the temptation to get on your phone immediately
DURING THE DAY
🧐 Check in with your body and mind; how are you feeling and what do you need?
🧘🏼♀️ Move/stretch
🌴 Get outside
Notice what drains you vs lifts you up
EVENING
🏝️ Shower, bath, sauna, walk at the beach – whatever you can do to intentionally “wash off the day”
📝 Journaling is great for emotionally processing what happened that day
🕯️ Keep your lighting low when the sun sets – I use fairy lights, candles and salt lamps
📱 Limit stimulation before bed – yes that means put your frikkin phone down
🧘🏼♀️ Meditation/Reiki/breathwork/yin yoga
📖 Reading in bed before lights out
😌 Ensure you have a good, calming hour or two before bed to ensure a good quality sleep
You don’t have to believe in energy work to benefit from energy hygiene.
Give some of the things in the list above a nudge and see how it impacts you.
And if you need help getting rid of that bad juju – you know where to find me.
Drop me a message and let’s chat about how an energy treatment can help or check the link in my bio for freebies and ways to work with me.
Much love,
