Spring Break
Spritual healer gives cleansing tips
Katie Uhlan
Issue date: 3/18/05 Section: Focus
Sometimes cleaning out your closet just isn't enough.
Last night, Dawna Martin, an expert in transformational healing, taught the ways to control and manipulate your surroundings in order to create a sacred space for yourself, during "Space Clearing" a hands-on lecture in the "Discovering the Intuitive You" series.Martin believes that all things have energy and it is up to people to channel that energy, whether cleansing a space of its negative energy or filling a space with energy they wish to obtain.
Martin discussed one way of clearing a space simply by changing its smell. Burning incense of certain herbs can help to achieve whatever sensation one would like. For those living in a dorm room she also gave alternatives. Essential oils can be mixed with water and sprayed or sprinkled throughout your space. Aromatherapy baths can cleanse people's energy and that of their rooms.
"Different scents help you react in a different way," Martin said.
Sage can be used for protection, health and wisdom; lavender can be used for purification, peace and love. By changing the way a space smells you change the space.
Another way to cleanse a room is through sound. Striking a tuning fork changes the vibrations of the room, and the sound remains for some time.
"Walk around the perimeter of the house making a certain noise," Martin said.
The simplest way to change a room, according to Martin, is to light a candle. While lighting the candle channel intentions for the space. The light energy will disperse and bring those intentions to the room.
Martin also gave the recipe for making your own holy water. She said to take water, preferably from the rain or a spring, add salt and put in your intentions. She said another way to use holy water is to sprinkle it in front of all doors, windows and entryways to a house. By focusing your intention on good this will allow only good energy to pass into your home.
Martin acquired many tools and methods from the Native Americans, for example, the use of a dream catcher, which is shaped like a spider web with a hole in the center, designed to trap bad dreams and thoughts in the web and allow only good dreams to pass through the center. Dream catchers are used often for infants, over their cribs.
Last night, Dawna Martin, an expert in transformational healing, taught the ways to control and manipulate your surroundings in order to create a sacred space for yourself, during "Space Clearing" a hands-on lecture in the "Discovering the Intuitive You" series.Martin believes that all things have energy and it is up to people to channel that energy, whether cleansing a space of its negative energy or filling a space with energy they wish to obtain.
Martin discussed one way of clearing a space simply by changing its smell. Burning incense of certain herbs can help to achieve whatever sensation one would like. For those living in a dorm room she also gave alternatives. Essential oils can be mixed with water and sprayed or sprinkled throughout your space. Aromatherapy baths can cleanse people's energy and that of their rooms.
"Different scents help you react in a different way," Martin said.
Sage can be used for protection, health and wisdom; lavender can be used for purification, peace and love. By changing the way a space smells you change the space.
Another way to cleanse a room is through sound. Striking a tuning fork changes the vibrations of the room, and the sound remains for some time.
"Walk around the perimeter of the house making a certain noise," Martin said.
The simplest way to change a room, according to Martin, is to light a candle. While lighting the candle channel intentions for the space. The light energy will disperse and bring those intentions to the room.
Martin also gave the recipe for making your own holy water. She said to take water, preferably from the rain or a spring, add salt and put in your intentions. She said another way to use holy water is to sprinkle it in front of all doors, windows and entryways to a house. By focusing your intention on good this will allow only good energy to pass into your home.
Martin acquired many tools and methods from the Native Americans, for example, the use of a dream catcher, which is shaped like a spider web with a hole in the center, designed to trap bad dreams and thoughts in the web and allow only good dreams to pass through the center. Dream catchers are used often for infants, over their cribs.