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Spiritual Hygiene and Energy Clearing with Rev. SJ Burns

A spiritual hygiene bath setup with herbs, sea salt, and baking soda for energy clearing and healing

Spiritual Hygiene and Energy Clearing

Certain emotional energies carry a vibration that lingers—and if not cleared, they can build up in your home, your healing space, and even around your body. These vibrations can impede—and even block—your progress when you’re trying to improve your life spiritually, or physically.

You may find yourself repeating the same thoughts over and over again, not realizing how they’re affecting your life.

They linger. And over time, they settle into our homes, our healing spaces, and even the fields around our bodies. These vibrations will even transfer into the things you touch, cook, drink. That’s why it’s so important to think good thoughts when you’re cooking. No one wants the energy of anger, fear, infused into their food or drinks.

Emotional Vibrations That Can Affect Your Healing

    • Feeling sick or unwell
    • Chronic stress
    • Deep grief
    • Long-term unhappiness
    • Feelings of abandonment
    • Loneliness
    • Anger or resentment
    • Fear
    • Helplessness
    • Rejection

These aren’t just emotions—they’re frequencies. They become part of the energetic environment around us. And over time, that stagnant energy can make it harder to heal, harder to focus, harder to feel spiritually aligned.

When You Know Something Isn’t Right

I had sent a ring to be resized. When I got the ring back, it was infused with some offensive vibrations. I couldn’t even wear it out of the store. I took it off in the car and smudged it with sage—yes, back then I kept some in my car. I visualized clearing it. I put it in a bag with concentrated salt, and I finally tried something I remembered from my childhood, when it was used for medical purposes.

I’ll tell you in my book what I used.

I’m sharing this to let you know—as in other stories—you have to search until you find what will work. And after a while, you’ll know what works for you. All solutions, like with medicine, may not work for everyone.

Don’t assume they do, especially if you have no way to gauge it.

Those who are able to discern if something worked or not can only validate it for themselves. They can never say, “This will work for you.” This is why I’m so apprehensive when I see people selling spiritual products like they are a sure thing—when in fact, they are often just a placebo.

When you find what works for you, you may never share it—because that was from Spirit to you. And when Spirit wants you to share those resources, you will be notified.

So I can’t give you my go-to solution.
But I can give you the ones I received along my journey, tried, and evolved—just as the inner teacher teaches.

Basic Spiritual Hygiene: How to Clear Stagnant Energy

I’m not going to go into a deep-dive cleansing ritual. This is about spiritual hygiene—a simple yet powerful energy clearing process that anyone can use.

✦ Sea Salt & Baking Soda Bath

This was the first spiritual cleaning solution I tried back in 1998.  A warm bath with equal amounts of sea salt and baking soda.  Great way to remove stagnant energy. You can also add herbs to the water, but only if you know their purpose. The herbs must correspond with your cleansing or healing intentions.

  • Think rosemary, rue, or agrimony.

  • Add a prayer to empower it, set your intention, and breathe deeply throughout the bath, affirming what you’re removing.

✦ Cleansing Basin (if a full bath isn’t possible)

Use a basin with warm water, a pinch of sea salt, and baking soda.

Dip your hands in the water and toss it on your face and body. If there are herbs in the water, be careful they aren’t concentrated or toxic. So use ingredients in small amounts.  Too much baking soda and sea salt can stain and appear blotchy when dried.

For now, stick with sea salt and baking soda in equal parts. If you are inclined to soak your feet with intention, do that.

As you do, breathe and release. Let your breath carry away the vibration.  When you pour the water out say a clearing affirmation aloud or silently.

✦ Space Clearing Spray

Steep dry herbs (like rue or agrimony) in boiling hot water. One herb will do. Let the mixture cool, then strain. Pray over your mixture and herbs.

Add the herbal water to a spray bottle.  Traditionally the mixture cures for 30 days before use.  But if you need to use it immediately, do so.

Spray corners of the room, around your altar, your bed, yourself, your car, or near doorways, everywhere.

Use it after arguments, illness, or when the space feels “off.” This mixture will not keep unless you add 50–100% Everclear alcohol.

You can use just one herb or a combination—simplicity is powerful.
I use only one herb with Everclear alcohol.

These are simple ways to keep your spiritual hygiene in check, especially when illness, grief, or stagnant emotional energy fills the space. As a spiritual healer, I’ve learned that what lingers in the field must be released. And what builds in the body can also block the goals.

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 Disclaimer: The information shared here is for spiritual and educational use only. Formulas and ingredients should be prepared safely and with awareness. Adjust, substitute, or omit as your own practice and intuition guide. The author assumes no responsibility for individual results or misuse.

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Thought Forms: Part 2 – The Ones We Build Ourselves

When We’re the Ones Feeding the Thought Forms

Not all thought forms come from outside attacks.
Some of the most persistent ones are the ones we build—unknowingly—through our own emotional loops.

When we replay an experience over and over again—especially rejection, betrayal, or deep disappointment—we build vibrational imprints that don’t just live in the mind. They take form. They linger in the emotional and etheric body. They cling to the solar plexus, the heart, even the throat.

It starts as a simple memory.
Then we rehash it.
Then we talk about it.
Then we dream about it.
Then we relive it.

And now it’s no longer just a passing thought—it’s an energetic structure.
A thought form.

Fueled by repetition. Reinforced by emotion. Anchored by belief.

Illustration of thought forms as dense energy creating structure in your mind

How We Create Our Own Attachments

You may feel it as a heaviness in your chest when you think about that person.
Or a tightness in the gut when you’re about to speak your truth.
Sometimes it comes as a flash of sadness or anger when you least expect it.

These are signs that your own thought forms are still active.
Still charged.
Still drawing energy.

And even worse—still shaping your present moment.

How to Begin Releasing What You Created

You’re not cursed. You’re not stuck. But you are entangled.

Here’s how I’ve seen it cleared in spiritual healing work:

  • Step one is recognition. Naming what’s there gives it form—and what has form can be cleared.

  • Step two is responsibility. You may not have deserved the pain, but the looping is yours.

  • Step three is reset. That may be visualization, prayer, breathwork, or even forgiveness—but it must be intentional and repetitive to dissolve what was built the same way.

Sometimes I’ve had to say:
“I forgive the moment, not the action.”
“I release the replay, not the lesson.”
“I dissolve the loop, not the truth of what I felt.”

Because what you felt was real. But what you built doesn’t have to stay.

From Metaphysics to Real Life

Leadbeater and Besant wrote about how thought forms look: color, motion, hooks.

Alice Bailey said thought alone doesn’t create disease—but thought fused with belief weakens the etheric field.

I’ve experienced that firsthand.

The more I replayed my hurt, the more tangled my field became.
The more I told the story, the more “real” that version of myself became—until I realized I had built a vibrational echo of the event that was louder than my healing voice.

That’s when the real work began: burning the blueprint.

Here’s what I’ve learned:

  • Your thoughts are seeds.

  • Your repetition is water.

  • Your emotions are sunlight.

What you grow depends on what you tend.

You are not just a thinker.
You are a builder.
And what you build, you can dismantle.

🌿 If you recognize yourself in this post and feel ready to clear what’s been lingering, I invite you to explore distant spiritual healing through Free Healing USA.

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Thought Forms & Vibrations Today

When Thought Forms Linger

When someone focuses on you with intense hate, envy, or obsession—and repeats those thoughts over and over—they’re not just thinking. They’re building a thought form.

It’s not the idea alone that causes harm—it’s the charge behind it.
Uncharged thoughts—even negative ones—often dissolve on their own. But charged thoughts? They vibrate. And they linger.

Thought forms carry vibratory energy—sometimes dense, sometimes suffocating—and for the spiritually sensitive, they can be felt like a fog in the room or a weight on the chest. And yes, they can cling.

But not all thought forms are easily felt. Some are subtle, almost imperceptible. Others are sharp, hostile, or invasive—especially when fueled by jealousy or obsession. Their vibration may tangle in the aura, settle in the space, or go unnoticed until symptoms appear.

Sensitivity to these vibrations varies. What feels like a slap to one person might not even register to another. That’s why awareness is so important—not just spiritual sensitivity, but the wisdom to interpret what you’re sensing.

Over time, thought forms can evolve into what some traditions call elementals—energetic constructs sustained by repetition and emotion. These forms imprint into objects, linger in spaces, and attach to the human field.

For example, someone once held a book returned to them by a person holding unresolved animosity. The vibration around the object was still active—dense, bitter, malevolent. That’s the power of a charged thought.

In another instance, the energy in a workplace shifted dramatically when someone silently projected rejection or resentment. The energy was so intense it followed the recipient home—even their normally affectionate pet reacted with fear and aggression.

Why wasn’t the energy cleared? Because typical methods like smudging, visualizing, or aura raking aren’t always enough. Sometimes, it takes more: water, salt, herb, prayer—and strong intention—to fully cleanse the field.

Energetic visualization of thought forms and vibrations affecting the human aura and spiritual field

Where Classic Metaphysics Meets Lived Experience

In Thought-Forms (1901), Charles Leadbeater and Annie Besant described how thoughts produce visible forms in the astral body—shapes, colors, movements, and even hooks that latch onto people. They recorded thought forms that shot like arrows, clung like fog, or swirled with aggression.

That made sense to me. But what I experience is even more direct:
I don’t see shapes—I feel the weight. I call it vibrational density.

Some thought forms feel like a whisper in the air. Others feel like a wet blanket from head to toe. Some feel like a plastic bag pulled over my head—cutting off clarity, breath, and energy.

In Esoteric Healing, Alice Bailey offered another critical insight: thought alone does not create illness—and I agree. But here’s how I take that further:

When thought is fused with belief and obsession, it weakens the field. It doesn’t directly cause disease—but it opens the door.
It destabilizes the etheric body, making the system more vulnerable to deeper spiritual or physical breakdown.

A thought form isn’t just a thought.

It’s a construct—built through repetition, intent, and emotional force. Once fully formed, it feeds on energy and keeps returning to the source—or its target—until it’s cleared.

Honoring the Legacy of Living Spiritual Science

We’re not just studying theory.
We’re living the truth.

Thought forms and vibrations aren’t a thing of the past—they’re with us today. And it’s our responsibility to clear what clings, protect what’s sacred, and rise in alignment with divine law.

 

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Living Spiritual Science – Part 2

Spiritual Senses and Discernment

Understanding the Spiritual and Physical Connection Spiritual Scientists recognize that human beings have five physical senses and equivalent spiritual senses. Not all spiritual senses are active at once; they emerge as needed—offering insight, guidance, and sometimes challenge, depending on the situation or spiritual need. What I share here is not something I learned from books—this is based solely on my own personal experience. My sense of touch is constantly active—I can feel vibrations, both near and far. This would fall under clairsentience, the ability to feel spiritual impressions.

I went many years without having a word for what I experienced. In my study of Alice Bailey’s Esoteric Healing, vibrations were studied, but I kept using the phrase “feeling energy,” which led people to label me as an empath. That label didn’t match my experience—I wasn’t feeling others’ emotions; I was picking up on vibrations and thought patterns. Over time, I had to reframe how I described my sensitivity, because the common understanding of “feeling energy” pointed to emotional empathy, not the tactile experience I was actually having. It has always been about the direct awareness of vibrations.

a spiritual woman feeling vibrations and surrounded by energy—symbolizing clairsentience and spiritual awareness.Unbeknownst to me, the first time I felt vibrations was during a phone conversation with an aunt in 1987 or 1988. That was a sign of my gift that day, despite the conversation. Vibrations come in a range of densities—from suffocating, tingling, gentle, to light and airy. I can feel the energy in an aura, objects, thoughts (anger, hate, etc), or even places—it’s not emotional empathy; it’s vibrational sensitivity.

My sense of smell activates when required. This is often referred to as clairsalience—spiritual smell. I may smell fragrances, smoke, or other scents that are not physically present but carry spiritual meaning or connection to someone who has passed. When necessary, I also hear or see spirit. Hearing spirit is known as clairaudience, and spiritual sight is referred to as clairvoyance—both are forms of receiving messages beyond the physical senses. But I prefer to keep certain senses, like sight and hearing, dormant unless they’re truly needed.

One sense I’ve yet to experience is taste—and honestly, I don’t think I would want that gift, especially when it first bursts forth. Taste, like smell, is a physical sense. Spiritually, it is known as clairgustance—the ability to perceive taste without a physical source. If clairgustance ever activates for someone, the experience might include tasting something comforting, like peach pie their grandmother used to make, or something unpleasant or down right gross. Each taste represents something Spirit is communicating, and the individual must learn the meaning of each flavor. It’s not vibration or energy—it’s direct symbolic communication. And for now, that’s not a door I feel called to open.

What Happens When Emotions Take the Driver’s Seat

In the next part of this series, we’ll explore how emotional turbulence can lead to the creation of thought forms, how those forms attach, and what it takes to release what isn’t yours. This includes the subtle (and not-so-subtle) emotional patterns that can turn into energetic residue—and what a Spiritual Scientist must know to stay clear, grounded, and in alignment with truth.

 

 

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Living Spiritual Science

A Journey of Transformation

Introduction

Living Spiritual Science means fully integrating spiritual principles into every aspect of daily life. It’s not just a belief system or a set of practices with rituals; it is a way of being, grounded in wisdom, personal growth, and the pursuit of higher truths. For me, it’s a lifelong commitment to embodying spiritual knowledge through consistent practice and inner reflection.

A Way of Life

Spiritual Science has also shaped how I perceive the world, interact with others, and maintain my personal boundaries—both spiritually and physically—for my spiritual well-being. As a lifelong student of spiritual growth, I practice what I have been taught, whether through foundational studies, personal experiences, inner teachers, the teachings of others, or life’s many spiritual surprises. Spiritual Science is not something I study to become a spiritual leader; it is how I choose to live my life, grow, and consistently align with higher truths and practices.

Rev. Starlene Joyner Burns sharing insights on living a Spiritual Science lifestyle and personal growth.Practicing Spiritual Science requires balance, discipline, and consistency. It’s not about constantly seeking higher spiritual experiences but about maintaining awareness, care, and growth through every phase of life’s lessons. Whether life feels aligned or chaotic, staying grounded in spiritual principles helps navigate challenges and stay true to one’s path.

Final Thoughts

This is just the beginning of exploring living Spiritual Science. In Part 2, we will dive deeper into the practical aspects of daily integration—how to maintain balance, practice awareness, and stay spiritually grounded. Stay tuned for more insights into living a Spiritual Science lifestyle.

Honoring the legacy of Living Spiritual Science.

A Spiritual Science Reflection by Rev. Starlene Joyner Burns — President & Founder, National Spiritual Science Center Historical Society

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Spiritual Science Stories & Teachings

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This is the official blog of the National Spiritual Science Center Historical Society, dedicated to sharing real-life spiritual experiences, metaphysical insights, and hidden histories connected to the legacy of Spiritual Science.

From haunted hotels and divine dreams to miraculous healings and ancestral visitations, these stories are shared to enlighten, empower, and preserve the wisdom passed down through generations of spiritual practitioners.

🕊️ For seekers, sensitives, and ministers alike—these aren’t just stories. They’re teachings.

 

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The Hotel with a History

A True Story of Spiritual Discernment and Boundaries

Flooded hotel hallway with spiritual presence sensed beyond the water

In 2014, I received an unusual request from a hotel in Washington, D.C. Management had tried everything—renovations, repairs, new ownership—and yet the problems persisted. Flooding. Electrical failures. Constant malfunctions. It was as if the building itself was resisting.

They wanted me to do a spiritual clearing.
I walked the space. I listened.
And I said I would consider it.

That night, Spirit spoke clearly—in a dream.

I was shown the weight of the energy within that structure. Not just one spirit, but many. The message came swiftly and strongly:
You do not have the authority here.

The dream wasn’t just symbolic. It was a warning. I saw unrest, sorrow, and resistance. I was shown what would happen if I tried to intervene where I had no spiritual jurisdiction. The burden wouldn’t just be mine—it would ripple outward. I woke up knowing what I had to do.

I respectfully declined the job.

Later, I learned that the hotel had been constructed during the Civil Rights Movement—an era thick with struggle and injustice, especially in D.C. I can’t prove what’s beneath that foundation, but I trust what Spirit revealed: some pain is embedded too deeply for ritual alone to resolve. Some places don’t need a ceremony—they need acknowledgment, truth, and time.

The hotel has changed names. But the reviews?
They still mention flooding. Strange electrical failures. An unexplainable energy.

 

Spiritual Takeaway

This isn’t a ghost story. It’s a spiritual science story—one about discernment, respect, and knowing when to walk away. Not every haunting is your calling. Not every space is yours to heal.

Sometimes, the most sacred act of service is to listen—and step aside.

 

 

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National Spiritual Science Center Anniversary Medallion

The Medallion of Metaphysical Legacy

Like the 60th Anniversary Catalogue, this image speaks volumes about the educational influence of the National Spiritual Science Center’s curriculum.

The writings of occult pioneers like Rudolph Steiner, Helena Blavatsky, and Alice Bailey—all mediums, psychics, and healers—were studied by spiritual science students seeking deeper truths. These authors helped shape the metaphysical framework that NSSC built its teachings upon.

Below is a National Spiritual Science Center medallion, created to commemorate its 40th anniversary of metaphysical education and service.

This piece, shared with us by Rev. Dorita Dixon, is more than a keepsake. It is a sacred artifact—reminding us of the knowledge, the journey, and the unseen world that continues to guide us.

 

nssc 40th anniversary medallion

 

 

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