Energy clearing is the removal of something sitting on you that does not belong to you: the heaviness, fog or drain that arrived with no cause you can point at. A session runs 45 minutes. It is the right tool when something feels attached rather than generated, and the wrong one when the cause is medical, chemical or situational.
Somebody came to me carrying a childhood that had never finished with them. Old energy, stuck, holding them to a life they had already walked out of.
It did not read as a mood. It looked like chains.
Is energy even the right word?
People ask whether it is a metaphor, and whether there is a more respectable word available. There is not, and it is not a metaphor. Energy is the word. Everything, and I mean everything, is energy.
The thing people are describing
Almost everyone who books this uses one of about four sentences. I feel heavy. I feel foggy. I feel drained after being around certain people. Something has been sitting on me since I moved into this place. The words vary. The shape of the complaint does not.
What they have in common is that it feels like something arrived, rather than something they are generating themselves. That distinction is the entire reason this is a separate offering.
What the work is
In shamanic terms this is extraction. Finding what has attached itself, and taking it off. It is one of the oldest categories in the practice and it is deliberately unglamorous. There is no confrontation and nothing dramatic to watch.
Most people arrive with no idea what to expect, and that is fine. It is better than arriving certain. What they notice comes afterwards, and it tends to be immediate and physical rather than gradual and mental. Lighter. Clearer. Able to think.
When it is the wrong tool
Often, and this gets oversold, so it is worth being blunt about the cases where it will do nothing for you.
- When there is a medical cause. Persistent fatigue is a symptom with a long list of ordinary explanations, several of them serious. Get the blood test first.
- When it is situational. If the drain is a job, a relationship or a living arrangement, clearing will buy you a fortnight and then it comes back, because the cause is still there every morning.
- When what is actually needed is grief, and the heaviness is the appropriate weight of something real. Clearing that would be taking away the wrong thing.
A practitioner who never tells you it is the wrong tool is selling sessions rather than doing the work. That is most of what I would want you to watch for.
Does it work?
Nobody can hand you a controlled trial on this and anyone claiming one is overstating. What I can tell you is what comes off, and what people report afterwards. Whether you want to call that the removal of something, or the effect of an hour of undivided attention on a problem nobody else took seriously, is a question worth sitting with. It does not change whether it helped.
Written by Nomad