Clearing Ghosts From Your Home

Sometimes we become aware that we are sharing our home with those who have passed over. Most ‘ghosts’ do no real harm and there are people who get rather fond of the spirit inhabitant and enjoy their presence. Indeed some tourist attractions here positively thrive on their haunted reputations. However you may wish to help extra residents in your home to move on.

The less psychically aware you are, the less likely you’ll ever pick up on ghosts. Many people live alongside past residents of a dwelling & never really notice or are disturbed. However if you are sensitive you will probably become aware of a presence. If you have a stuck spirit in your house you may catch movement out of the corner of your eye, get a whiff of perfume, notice ‘cold spots’, maybe things move around or go missing, you hear footsteps, or 'things go bump in the night’. These can be signs of other types of activity too and sometimes have purely physical causes that can be rationalised away.

At the time of death the soul leaves the physical body, is greeted by loved ones that have passed over and travels back ‘home’ to the Light; well that is what happens in the vast majority of cases. For some the process goes awry. Maybe in life the person had a terror of ‘going to Hell or Purgatory’, especially if they were unkind or cruel in life, or maybe the loved ones didn’t manage to persuade the person to cross. Perhaps the death was sudden or violent and the soul was shocked & didn’t understand that the physical body had died.

For whatever reason it is clear that some spirits remain here in the physical realm and are in some way ‘stuck’. Please don’t get this mixed up with a reading from a spiritual medium and a message from Auntie Vera. Spirits are free to travel back & keep an eye on loved ones; they aren’t stuck, just popping in to see you!

If you feel fearful then it is advisable to call in someone else to help. There are mediums and healers like myself who can help to show spirits the way home. Alternatively many clergymen still have the skills to do this. I prefer not to think of these clearings as exorcism, which implies banishing a malicious presence. Although more forceful clearings may sometimes be needed, the majority of spirits are simply stuck, not evil, and are glad and thankful to be released. Try to think of them as people that are in need of help and you will realise that guiding them to the Light is an act of compassion.

Sit quietly in the room where you sense the spirit most. Ground your energy field & place a protective bubble around your aura. You may like to light a tea-light candle as a focal point. Call your angels and guides in to help you- you don’t need to know their names to do this- just make the clear request & they’ll be there. Now ask clearly for the relatives, guides and angels of the deceased to come and collect the spirit and take him or her to the Light. If you pray then say a prayer for them. Keep a clear intent and you may sense a shift in atmosphere. You may need to sit like this for a few minutes whilst the spirit makes the move, but as they leave you should feel the change. If not trust that the work has been done and thank all those who assisted anyway. You can leave the tea-light candle burning in a safe place until it goes out.

If this simple procedure appears not to have worked & the same phenomena continue then you may have had more than one presence and may need to repeat the clearing, or you may have a more stubborn spirit who really doesn’t want to go. In this case call in someone more experienced to help.

You may like to space clear your house afterwards as spirits sometimes are stuck because of unhappy events that leave a heavy psychic residue behind. One of my students kept saying how the house felt like a completely different house compared to when she’d been here three months earlier. “Of course you’ve decorated, but it feels so different.” Actually I hadn’t lifted a paintbrush, but I had released the spirits, space cleared several times & filled my house with lighter, loving & peaceful vibrations.

Copyright Lauren D’Silva 2006