Clearing Your Energy Field: The Power of Reflection & Letting Go

An important step in a curandera's training is reflecting on one’s life. However, you don't have to be a curandera or healer to engage in this essential spiritual practice. I invite you to set aside an hour to reflect mindfully and honestly on what has transpired over the past months or year.

Reflection Prompts

• Did you take loving care of your body, mind, and spirit?

• Were you kind to yourself?

• How did you express gratitude and reciprocity for your life?

• What are you still holding onto that needs to be released?

• Are you holding onto grudges and unforgiveness towards yourself and others?

• Have you been holding onto the idea that you are not good enough?

• Are you willing to open your heart to give and receive love?

• What are you willing to do to heal from the effects of family and historical trauma?

• Did you accept loving and appropriate support from others?

• What do you need to surrender to dream a new dream into existence?

Energy Exchange: List

Once you have delved deeply into introspection and feel complete, make a list using a pencil of the names of people you've ever exchanged energy with. This includes interactions with parents, siblings, family, friends, lovers, and those you see as not-friends. This encompasses both long-term sexual relationships and casual ones.

Compassionate heart

Next, focus on your heart area to evoke a deep sense of care. Picture the faces of each person on your list. With intentionality, kindness, and compassion, return to them any energy you may have taken, intentionally or unintentionally, that you may still be holding onto. Feel and "see" this energy leave your body and travel back to whom it truly belongs.

When you are complete, burn the list, blessing it with prayer and dried sacred herbs. Doing this with profound care and respect for yourself and others, you reset your emotions and spirit to a neutral state. This allows you to act and react with clarity and purpose, freed from the weight of others' thoughts and energies.

Herbal Cleansing Bath

Cleanse your body, mind, and spirit with an herbal bath. On the full moon or during its waning phase, cook your plantitas with prayer. Fill your bath with water that you have prayed over. Immerse yourself in the medicinal bath to wash away thoughts, ideas, and energies you have collected this year that need to be released from your mind and auric field.

Give permission, mentally or out loud, to your own beautiful, wise spirit and your high holy guardians to help you let go of what is weighing you down and holding you back. This will create spaciousness in your body, mind, and spirit for new ways of being, giving, and receiving. As always, ask for the seeds of new dreams to manifest with ease and grace, and for clear guidance to be provided in a way that you will understand.

If you have a trusted cultural practitioner (curandera/o/x), this is a perfect time to schedule a Plática and Limpia to enter the Gregorian New Year with a lighter spirit.

Con bendiciones de amor, luz, y aprecio,

Maestra Grace

Links:

In English: Herbal Purification bath, https://www.curanderismo.org/post/full-moon-herbal-bath-limpia

En español: Limpia Espiritual de Luna Llena, https://www.curanderismo.org/post/baño-espiritual-de-luna-llena