Clearing a Space after a Person Dies

I was invited to clear an apartment recently belonging to woman who had suffered and died of ovarian cancer. The two women handling her estate called me in because they felt that the space did not feel good to them and they hoped to be able to sell it quickly and easily. One of them felt ill every time she entered the space.

Symptoms of unease or illness resulting from time spent in a “sick house” is something I can relate to.  Years ago, before I knew there was such a thing as space clearing, I too would feel the effects of an stressed environment. I’d feel something resembling the flu every time I’d visit my uncle’s house in Texas, for example, unaware that there was something intensely funky (i.e. unloved and unhealed) going on in his house.

Now I know that “unhappy” spaces can make people feel uncomfortable, or worse, feel sick. Why and how they get that way is another story [to which I’ve devoted an entire series of posts beginning here*].

Spaces are not unlike people. They get stressed and gummed up.

But back to the apartment. What I loved about this particular space-clearing session was the love and compassion that my clients showed for their friend. Their intentions for our session were so beautiful that I asked if I could share them here.

Here’s what they wrote as their intentions for the space clearing:

• That [our friend] be set free and cleared of past attachments that may be binding her psyche.  May she be fully released into her divine Self.
• That this Space be fully cleared of any psychic debris left by her and her past associations – may this space be released into its natural divine radiance.
• May this Space sell at an excellent price, quickly, and in a seemless and harmonious fashion.
• May the new inhabitants experience health, peace and a bright future.
• May each and every person who has done any work in this Space be fully released and cleared of anything they may have picked up or brought into this Space that is other than perfect radiance and Love.

The space clearing ended up – as always – being way more than the “job” of preparing a space for the next people.

It was a beautiful honoring of a home. It was an honoring of one person’s life and the time she spent there. It was an honoring of the lives of the occupants who came before her, and an honoring of lives of the people who will follow.

I call it a win-win-win times infinity. The beneficial ripple effect of bringing love and awareness into a space, no matter how stressed and unhappy it is, is unfathomable.

And here’s the other thing:  we don’t have to die to honor a home and our place in it.