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Sometimes, negative energy is obvious. It shows up as conflict, stress, emotional exhaustion, or a person whose presence seems to pull you out of yourself.
Other times, it is quieter. A space feels unsettled. Your mood shifts for no clear reason. You feel drained, irritable, anxious, or like something around you is just… off.
When people ask, “How do I get rid of negative energy around me?” they are often asking something deeper, too.
How do I stop absorbing what is not mine? How do I feel peaceful in my own space again? How do I protect my energy without closing my heart?
The truth is, clearing negative energy does not have to be dramatic or complicated. You do not need to fear what you are feeling, and you do not need to perform a perfect ritual to shift it.
Sometimes the most powerful clearing begins with simply noticing what feels heavy, what feels draining, and what is asking for your attention.
Here are 10 gentle ways to get rid of negative energy around you and come back to your own centre.
#1 Open the Windows and Let Fresh Air Move Through
One of the simplest ways to shift the energy around you is to bring fresh air into the space.
When a room feels heavy, tense, or stagnant, opening the windows can create an immediate sense of movement. It is a physical change, but it can feel energetic too. The air moves. The room breathes. Something that felt stuck begins to loosen.
This can be especially helpful after an argument, a stressful workday, having guests over, spending too much time inside, or moving through a season where your home has started to feel more like a container for stress than a place where you can rest.
You do not need to turn it into a big ritual. Just open the window, let the air move through, and notice what changes in your body.
Sometimes the first step to clearing negative energy is simply letting the space feel alive again.
#2 Declutter One Small Area
Clutter can hold more energy than we realise.
A messy desk, a crowded bedside table, a pile of things you keep meaning to deal with, or a corner of your home that feels forgotten can quietly add to the heaviness around you. Not because clutter is “bad,” but because unfinished things can take up emotional space too.
You do not have to clean your entire home to feel a shift. In fact, trying to do everything at once can make you feel even more overwhelmed.
Start with one small area.
Clear your nightstand. Fold the blanket on the sofa. Put away the dishes. Remove the items that no longer belong in the room. Throw out what feels old, stale, or unnecessary.
As you clear the physical space, you may notice that something inside you starts to feel clearer too.
The goal is not perfection. The goal is relief.
#3 Use Sound to Break Up Stagnant Energy
Sound can change the feeling of a space quickly.
You might play calming music, use bells or singing bowls, clap your hands in the corners of a room, hum softly, chant, or put on a song that helps your body relax. Even your own voice can bring life back into a space that feels too quiet, heavy, or still.
Sound creates movement. It interrupts the feeling of stagnation.
If a room feels dense or uncomfortable, try walking through it while playing music or gently making sound. Notice where the space feels lighter. Notice where your body softens.
Again, this does not have to be perfect. You do not need the “right” tool or the “right” method. Let sound be something that helps the energy move instead of something you have to perform correctly.
#4 Clean With Intention
Cleaning can be more than a chore. Sometimes, it becomes a quiet way of reclaiming your space.
Wiping down surfaces, changing your sheets, sweeping the floor, washing dishes, or clearing old items from a room can help you feel like the space belongs to you again.
This is especially helpful when your environment feels emotionally heavy. Maybe you have been stressed. Maybe someone brought tension into your home. Maybe you have been moving through a difficult time and the room seems to be holding the weight of it.
As you clean, imagine that you are not only removing dust or mess. You are creating room for calm. You are telling your body, “This space can support me again.”
It does not need to be elaborate. Even one simple action can shift the energy.
#5 Take a Shower or Bath to Reset Your Energy
Water has a way of helping us feel new again.
After a long day, a difficult conversation, or time spent around heavy emotions, a shower or bath can help you release what you have been carrying. It gives your body a clear transition from one energy into another.
Spiritually, water is often connected to the elementals - the living, healing intelligence of nature that helps cleanse, move, soften, and restore. Water does not hold energy in the same way we do. It flows. It changes form. It moves through what has become stuck.
You can also think of water as crystalline in nature, responding to intention, emotion, and presence. So when you step into a shower or bath with the intention to release heavy energy, you are not forcing anything. You are allowing the water to support what your body already wants to do: let go.
You might imagine the stress of the day rinsing away. You might simply stand under the water and take one real breath. You might let yourself feel the warmth, the quiet, and the reminder that you are here, in your own body, in this present moment.
This does not have to become a formal ritual. It can be beautifully simple.
Let the water help you return to yourself.
#6 Step Away From Draining Conversations
Sometimes the negative energy around you is not coming from the room.
It is coming from the dynamic.
A conversation can feel draining when you leave it feeling smaller, tense, defensive, guilty, responsible, or emotionally exhausted. You might notice that certain people pull you into explaining yourself, managing their mood, absorbing their complaints, or abandoning what you feel in order to keep the peace.
Protecting your energy does not mean becoming cold. It does not mean shutting your heart down. It means noticing when access to you needs to change.
You are allowed to pause before responding. You are allowed to leave a conversation that is going in circles. You are allowed to say less. You are allowed to choose peace over proving your point.
Sometimes, the most powerful way to get rid of negative energy around you is to stop standing in the places where it keeps being handed to you.
#7 Ask, “Is This Mine to Carry?”
This simple question can create a lot of clarity.
When you feel heavy after being around someone, scrolling online, entering a certain space, or having a difficult interaction, pause and ask:
Is this mine to carry?
Sometimes you are not upset because something is wrong with your energy. You may be feeling someone else’s stress, anger, fear, sadness, or expectation. You may have absorbed the mood of a room. You may have taken responsibility for something that was never yours to hold.
This question gently separates your energy from everything around you.
You do not need to reject other people’s feelings. You do not need to judge them. You can have compassion without carrying what belongs to someone else.
You can care and still return the energy to where it belongs.
#8 Spend Time Somewhere That Feels Peaceful
One of the easiest ways to clear negative energy is to place yourself in an environment that helps your body remember what peace feels like.
That might be nature. Sunlight. The ocean. A quiet room. Your car. A favourite café. A walk around the block. A place where you do not have to explain, perform, fix, or hold anything together.
When you are around heavy energy for too long, it can start to feel normal. You may forget what it feels like to be calm, spacious, or connected to yourself.
Peaceful places help reset your inner rhythm.
You do not always need a big escape. Sometimes ten minutes outside, a few moments in silence, or sitting somewhere that feels safe can help your energy soften and return to balance.
#9 Use Smoke, Herbs, Crystals, or Spiritual Tools If They Resonate
For some people, spiritual tools can be a beautiful support for cleansing negative energy around them.
You might use sage, palo santo, incense, herbs, candles, crystals, or any object that helps you feel grounded, clear, and connected. These tools can create a sense of intention. They can help mark a transition. They can turn a simple moment into a deeper act of presence.
But the tool itself is not the entire point.
What matters most is the energy you bring to it.
If using smoke or crystals makes you feel calm, supported, and more connected to yourself, let it be part of your process. If it feels forced, complicated, or fear-based, you do not have to use it.
Choose what feels true for you.
#10. Journal Out What Feels Heavy
Sometimes energy stays stuck because it has nowhere to go.
Journaling can help you name what you are feeling instead of carrying it silently. It gives your thoughts, emotions, and intuitive nudges a place to land.
You might not know exactly why something feels heavy until you begin writing. Then slowly, a pattern appears. A truth rises. A feeling you have been avoiding finally has enough space to be heard.
You do not have to write beautifully. You do not have to make sense. Let the page hold what your body has been holding.
That alone can be a form of clearing.
Coming Back to Your Own Energy
Getting rid of negative energy around you is not about becoming afraid of the world, other people, or your own sensitivity.
It is about learning to notice what affects you. It is about clearing what feels heavy, releasing what is not yours, and returning to the part of you that already knows what peace feels like.
You do not have to carry every mood. You do not have to absorb every room. You do not have to make yourself available to every person, every expectation, or every emotional undercurrent around you.
You are allowed to protect your peace.
You are allowed to make your space feel lighter.
You are allowed to come back to yourself as often as you need.
And if you keep feeling surrounded by heavy energy but cannot quite understand where it is coming from, an Akashic Records reading can help you explore the deeper patterns beneath what you are feeling and reconnect with the clarity already within you.
