“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

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I used to energetically clear my home when life felt heavy. I loved making my home feel lighter after a breakup or a tough week.

Now I do it because the world won’t stop breaking my heart.

I began noticing a deeper reason behind my Space Clearing ritual: a need not just to feel lighter, but to survive the weight of what I was witnessing.

We are living through terrifying times.

The rise of fascism isn’t a metaphor. It’s here. It’s in Europe. It’s in the United States. We are watching authoritarian governments strip away rights, silence dissent, and criminalise compassion.

ICE raids have returned in full force in the U.S. People, many of them refugees and asylum seekers, are being sent to offshore detention centres like “Alligator Alcatraz,” where reports of abuse and human rights violations have already begun surfacing.

Meanwhile, my feeds are flooded with Reels of starving babies in Gaza and Sudan. I scroll through the faces of children with distended bellies, of grieving mothers holding their dead. I see Palestinians begging for flour and water on my Threads account: pleas often met with silence or censorship.

We are not just witnessing a genocide. We are witnessing multiple genocides, endless wars, climate collapse, and global apathy playing out in real time.

Injustice is no longer a headline. It is a constant hum, a background scream we carry in our nervous systems. And for those of us who dare to speak out, to witness with open eyes and open hearts, we find ourselves carrying not just our own pain, but the moral injury of a world that has lost its way.

And still, we are expected to just carry on, to pay our taxes that fund the war apparatus, pay our bills while watching live-streamed war crimes, to meet deadlines while our neighbours are being dragged out of their homes or workplaces, to “manifest abundance” in a cost-of-living crisis where adequate housing becomes a luxury.

This is not normal. This is not okay.

And if you have been feeling off: foggy, exhausted, angry, grief-stricken, or overwhelmed, it’s not just personal. It’s collective. So many of us are feeling it, day in and day out.

We are feeling Weltschmerz, the German word for world-pain, and it is not meant to be carried alone. This is what some call moral injury: the psychic wound of living in a world out of sync with love.

So what do we do with that pain? How do we survive while remaining awake?

The answer begins in the place you return to every day. Your home.

Your home can be a sanctuary or a sponge. It can help you hold your ground, or it can drown you in energies that don’t even belong to you. With every scroll, every news update, every scream for help you read online, you are letting something in. Let’s learn how to release it again, so you feel empowered to stay up to date with the news while not absorbing all that energy into your home.

Taking care of myself, my energy, and my home is sacred to me. It’s an act of reclaiming peace in a world that offers none. A way to re-centre when everything outside is chaos. A ritual born from the ache to transmute what I’ve carried, such as grief, rage, or helplessness, into something that lets me breathe again.

Let me guide you through a ritual I do for myself.

Step One: Name What Hurts

“The body, not the thinking brain, is where we experience most of our pain, pleasure, and joy, and where we process most of what happens to us. It is also where we do most of our healing, including our emotional and psychological healing. And it is where we experience resilience and a sense of flow.” ~ Resmaa Menakem, trauma expert and author of My Grandmother’s Hands

Close your eyes. Take a moment. Ask your body:

Where am I holding this?

Before we clear our space, we must first clear the fog of our own bodies.

Where is the sorrow of what I am witnessing in my bones?
Where is the helplessness of watching tragedies in my cells?
Where is the rage at the military industrial complex in my breath?

Is it a tight jaw? A heavy chest? A sense of numbness so deep you can’t feel anything at all?

Don’t judge it. Just witness it.

Some of us are feeling this as frozen shoulders, migraines, gut issues, breathlessness. Others feel it as apathy or despair. This is not weakness. It’s evidence that you still care.

You can journal your sensations, name them, draw them, whatever helps you process.

Step Two: Sense What Your Space Is Holding

Still with eyes closed, imagine walking through your home in your mind’s eye.

Now imagine the collective energy you’ve absorbed: such as fear, grief, outrage, despair, as dark clouds or thick fog. Where is it lingering?

Maybe it’s hovering in your living room.
Maybe it’s pooled in your bed where you cried.
Maybe it’s in your child’s room: energies they absorb but don’t yet understand.

You don’t need to force a vision. You will sense it, feel it, or have an inner knowing.

This isn’t just your energy. It’s the residue of what you’ve witnessed.

Step Three: Call In the Vortex

Visualise a powerful vortex of light: golden, violet, white, blue, or any colour that intuitively comes to you.

Let it swirl through every room, every drawer, every corner, every object, the ceiling.

Let it pull out the pain from everywhere that doesn’t belong to you. Let it gather the grief, the dread, the energy of fascism, war, genocide, and forced starvation, ICE raids, fear, and helplessness.

Let it swirl through your body too. Let it spin through your aura and cleanse your field.

This vortex is your ally. It doesn’t just remove—it transmutes. It doesn’t deny what’s happening in the world. It simply says: you don’t have to carry it all alone, all the time.

Stay with this until your home feels clearer and lighter. Please note that sometimes this can cause an emotional reaction. I oftentimes cry while performing this space clearing, and that’s okay. I always feel lighter afterwards.

Step Four (Optional): Smudge or Spray

If it resonates, you can burn ethically sourced herbs, such as palo santo, lavender, or use a homemade space-clearing spray with essential oils.

If you prefer a tool-free approach, clap your hands, or play frequency music to shift the vibration.

Remember: Intention trumps tradition. You are the ritual.

Step Five: Infuse With Intention

Ask yourself: What energy do I want my home to hold?

Peace? Courage? Truth? Safety? Vision? Fierce compassion?

Speak it aloud. Affirm it. Create your own affirmations such as the ones below.

“This home is a sanctuary for truth-tellers.”

“This home is a sanctuary of peace and grounded action.”

“Only justice and love enter this space.”

“This is a haven for rest, revolution, and renewal.”

“I am rooted, I am radiant, I am resilient.”

You can call in ancestral support. You can ask your home to hold you like the world doesn’t. You can assign qualities to corners: Peace in your bed. Clarity in your office. Protection at your threshold.

There are no rules. Only resonance. Make it your own.

Your Ritual Is Your Rebellion

Space clearing, and this ritual in particular, is not about bypassing the world. It is about preparing yourself to keep showing up in it. To gather the strength, each day, to continue to show up, to speak up, and to be part of the much needed change we all need to co-create together.

As Angela Davis reminds us, “Anyone who’s interested in making change in the world also has to learn how to take care of herself, himself, theirself.”

You cannot dismantle systems of oppression from a collapsed body or an overburdened nervous system. So let your rituals be your rebellion. Let your home be a place where you come back to yourself. Let your grief have a room. Let your joy have one too.

Your home can be a lighthouse in the storm. Let it shine for you.

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