How to Cleanse your Home

HOW TO CLEANSE YOUR HOME

1. REMOVE TOXIC CLEANING PRODUCTS FROM YOUR HOME

If a product has words like "WARNING", "CAUTION", and "DANGER" on the label, or if it has a drawing of a skull with cross bones on it, it is highly toxic and you shouldn't bring it into your home.

How can we expect to be healthy if we are washing our clothes, our dishes, and even our bodies with products containing toxic chemicals???

You might be under the impression that it's "impossible" to live without things like deodorant, but I have found that even things like soap and shampoo become completely unnecessary when we embrace "clean living".

If you are taking "external showers" every day to keep the outside of your body clean, and you are also giving yourself "internal showers" by drinking plenty of water and eating lots of water-rich fruits and vegetables, you will be cleaning your body on the inside and on the outside.

And besides, the healthier you are, the more sensitive you will be around chemicals and the harder it will be for you to be around them anyway.

I personally can't even walk down the "cleaning aisle" at stores anymore without feeling dizzy and nauseous from the toxic fumes in the air, and an alarm will go off inside of me telling me that I have just entered a highly toxic area and that I need to get out of there.

2. BRING THE OUTDOORS INDOORS

Add Some Sunlight to Your Home

Sunlight can strengthen our immune systems and improve our moods, so instead of keeping your blinds closed all day and just using fluorescent lighting, it would be best to let natural sunlight be your source of lighting during the day, and to go to sleep at night when it gets dark.

Add Some Fresh Air to Your Home

The air in the average household is about 10 times more polluted than the air outside, so for a lot of people, the most effective and least expensive way to improve the air quality in their home would be to simply open a window. (If the air is cleaner outside than inside, then why settle for second best?)

Add Living Plants to Your Home

Many people have been able to reverse serious health problems by switching to a "plant-based diet", but did you know that even just looking at plants can help aid in the recovery process?

If a person is in a hospital bed, it would be far better for them to have a window that offers a view of a forest than a view of a paved parking lot.

Bringing living plants into your home will add oxygen to the air and beauty to your home, and both of these additions will help make your home a healthier environment.

3. DON'T INVITE NEGATIVITY INTO YOUR HOME

Some of the most toxic things that we can get in our bodies enter through our eyes and ears because unlike other toxins that can be removed through cleansing, memories aren't as easy to get rid of.

TVs, computers, cellphones, and other digital screens can literally become a "tap" that allows negative energy to come pouring into your home every time you turn them on.

Please try not to "consume" negative digital content, because if you do, more negativity will be recommended to you, and if you take the bait, your mental health and peace of mind will suffer greatly.

A lot of people have tried "fasting" from "social media" for an extended period of time and have reported feeling better, sleeping better, and getting a lot more done because of it, so try to limit "screen time" in general.

Your home should be a place where you can go to relax rather than a place where you just feel stressed out about everything going on outside of it.

4. LET GO OF THINGS THAT YOU DON'T NEED

After a solid year of eating a really clean diet, I decided to do a "deep cleaning" by going on a 7-day "water fast" where I only consumed water for 7 days, and on the last day of the fast, I felt so much lighter and cleaner on the inside that I suddenly felt a strong impulse to clean my house as well.

So I started cleaning my house, but after doing the usual tidying up, I started going around my house and looking at everything I owned while asking myself things like, "Do I really need that?" and "Why am I still holding on to this?" and "When was the last time I even used these?" and I round up a huge pile of stuff that I didn't really need, and I donated it all to the "thrift store".

And when I returned home from the thrift store to a much cleaner and emptier home, I wanted to keep it that way, and that was the day I became a "minimalist".

When the things that you own are no longer useful, they can become "clutter" and a source of stress rather than joy. So I would encourage you to gather up all the things that you own that you don't really need and to try to let go of as much of them as possible.

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