5 Fun & Creative Ways To Release Negative Energy Out In Nature

In the 4.5 billion years Planet Earth has been around, she's used powerful systems to flush out impurities and sustain her vitality. From ocean currents and plate tectonics to glacial movements and atmospheric phenomena, our powerful planet has tirelessly cleared out the old and generated new life. Despite the destruction she's gone through, she's persevered and will keep on doing so.

As a geologist and energy healer, I've studied the Earth's functions from both a scientific and spiritual perspective, looking for ways to bask in her protective qualities.

In my new book Protect Your Light, I define energy protection as the art of being energetically authentic. It's about ensuring that what's ours is ours, and what's theirs is theirs. It's about ensuring that the thoughts we think and the emotions we feel are truly ours and not the product of others' influence or conditioning.

Simply said, protecting our energy is about setting strong boundaries for the purpose of living life on our own terms.

The most important step to protecting our energy involves cleansing ourselves of the external, harmful energy attachments we pick up on a daily basis.

Our energy field, commonly known as our aura, has the ability to both send and receive energy. As we go through life, interacting with people and spaces, both online and offline, we inadvertently pick up other people's mental and emotional imprints. These clutter our aura and shape the way we think, feel, and behave.

There are many practices you can use to cleanse your energy. You can work with angels and other spirit guides, use tools such as bells and pendulums, and imagine surrounding yourself with cleansing bubbles of light.

Each flower has a unique vibrational frequency that clears emotional blocks and cultivates emotional intelligence. For this reason, working with flowers, especially those that grow out in nature, is a great way to navigate your emotions and relationships with yourself, others, and the world at large. 

Spiritually, the air element is associated with our mental functions—our thoughts and beliefs, including past-life beliefs. The wind's ability to move and transmute energy coupled with its association with mental functions makes it ideal for helping us release limiting thoughts.

Cultures all around the world use water to cleanse and purify. The ancient Greeks bathed in rivers and springs before participating in healing rituals; in the Islamic tradition, people wash their hands and face as a way to cleanse their body and soul before prayer, whereas Christians use baptism to purify and anoint newborn babies. 

Energetically, water's essence cleanses residual energy we may have picked up in our day-to-day activities. Residual energy includes emotional or mental imprints that other people have left in physical or digital spaces or energy we've previously left in a space that still lingers there.

Next time you find yourself near a body of water such as a river, lake, waterfall, or the ocean, take a mindful moment to breathe and connect with the water's cleansing qualities.

Although we can easily see how nature cleanses through ocean currents and atmospheric processes, we often overlook what happens below the ground. But the soil filters harsh chemicals out of groundwater, magma and plate tectonics tirelessly recycle old energy and give form to new life, and the Earth's core runs the whole system. Similarly, by connecting with the Earth's underground processes, we get to fully cleanse our body and totally reset our energy.