What is Clearing all about?
What is this thing we call ‘clearing’? Why do we do it? What’s it all about and how does it work?
Essentially it is to do with letting go of the beliefs, patterns, stories and other reference points that we have used to create our living, which are out of date, or no longer congruent with who we have become and that are interfering with the more authentic expression of who we are. Sometimes it is easy to drop them, and at other times we are very invested in maintaining them. Mostly, that reluctance to let them go is about being ‘right’.
Our societies have put a great deal of importance on ‘being right’ because if we are right then we are not wrong and being wrong, about anything, means that we have a problem. We find it easier to change, or correct, something that we deem to be wrong, so that we can get it right and once we have got it right, then we don’t need to change or correct it and we’ve ‘arrived’. And we then are subject to what we have decided is right, and not wrong, and that is how we are supposed to live our lives.
It’s exhausting, and mostly built on lies - our own and other peoples’ lies about what is right or wrong or good or bad … without truely referencing our individual integrity. It becomes an imprisonment of ourselves as well as others if we expect them to have the same values, and if they don’t, we generate conflict by proving our rightness to validate what we have chosen to live. And on it goes …
Clearing is not a new thing: we may just give it new names as we discover new expressions of who we are
Ancient traditions have used practices such as sweat lodges to purify bodies and energy fields. There are several traditions and practices that facilitate the shedding of old ‘stuff’ that holds us back from living with greater integrity. In other words, clearing is not a new thing: we may just give it new names as we discover new expressions of who we are. As our languaging and cultures change, we get to utilise words with greater contextual precision and clarity.
Why do we need to clear out old patterns? Well, to me, the bottom line is that if we are not evolving, changing, expressing ourselves in wider and wider parameters we are diminishing, decaying, stagnating and that can be one of the catalysts for disease or illness within the body. Can be … does not have to be the ‘cause’. I am careful, in my own tracking, to search for the moment, or point of creation, when I began a pattern that is not a true expression of me. When I find that point of creation I can undo it and then move on by making a choice for something else. If I hunt for causes and remedies I may be missing an important component of my world, which is the thing that we call ‘choice’.
When I recognise or acknowledge that choice … and make a different choice … I have essentially changed my present and my future
There was a moment when I did make a choice, either cognitive or not, that led to the situation, or situations, that I have been encountering. When I recognise or acknowledge that choice, without judgement or blame of myself or others, and make a different choice that leads in an alternate direction, I have essentially changed my present and my future. I will be living differently without that old pattern, or story, that has been taking me through the same old same old …
The challenge arises when I know that I need to make a different choice and I’m still stuck in the bog of the old one, seemingly unable to climb out because, because, because … and this is when a clearing session can be a great contribution to climbing out of the bog and moving on.
What happens in a Clearing session?
I ask lots of questions. It is important for the client to have some idea of what they need to clear, and … I ask questions to gather information and gain awareness as well as to empower them to trust their own knowing. As the client begins to acknowledge the choices that they have been making which no longer work, they can also begin to let them go. I use different skills and tools to facilitate the letting go and then their new choices are easier.
We are basically clearing out our wardrobe of old energies. If they were clothes they would be the ones that no longer fit, no longer feel comfortable, no longer bring the enjoyment that they once did. By releasing those energies from the patterns in which we have held them, they can return to neutral and be utilised again, by us or others, for different creations, and we free ourselves from the bog of ‘same old’ stuff that is not a true expression of our creativity.
Sometimes there are old contracts or agreements from other timelines that are no longer valid and we can release them with ease. Sometimes there are traumatic events that we have preferred to forget but which are still running through our psyche and distracting us from how we wish to live. Sometimes there are ancestral patterns that interfere with our own expression of life, and we can release those as well.
Whilst we mostly direct attention to clearing the energetics, there may be some requirement to follow through with physical changes, such as food, movement or other physical impulse, and it is important to honour that aspect of the process as well.
A clearing session can reach in many directions to release those rigid moments and allow more flow and possibilities.
There is also the aspect that we have to make the choice to change the old patterns. Knowing that we need to change them, and actually making the choice to change them are entirely different. Choice is active not passive: it’s an ignition of something other than what has been there. Choice is always greater than clearing. Choice, when we truely engage with that spark of creation, is capable of transmuting and transforming all the energetic patterns that were there.
And the choice to change ‘it’ and live differently is where it all begins. In the stickiness of old entanglements a clearing session can be the catalyst that allows a different vista to open up and create the space for a more authentic expression of you.
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