How to Use Salt to Cleanse Bad Energy
In traditional African spirituality, salt is used to repel evil spirits. As I’ve come more into my ancestral knowledge, salt comes up often as a way to absorb negative energy from a space (or even your own aura field).
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Last month I talked to LaOta Rassoull, a shaman, healer and the owner of Of the Sun, a Black-owned energetic clearing company (where I also got my Akashic Records reading done!), to learn how someone can easily clear their space of negative energy. LaOta teaches an expert-level class, but for those of us who are just starting out on our healing journey, I thought it was important to be able to know how to maintain your energetic space on a day-to-day basis.
As LaOta shares, salt helps to get rid of negative energy by collapsing the negative wave form. Below, LaOta shares how exactly we can use salt in spray bottles, baths, and more in order to keep your peace and restore balance back into your home and energy field.
AMIRAH: I know the property clearing class is expert level — but if someone sat down, got quiet and felt something’s off, what can they do immediately to shift the energy in the space?
LaOTA: Get some salt, some good salt. We have exorcism salt, it’s called DNA, but you can get sea salt and spray it in the room. Salt is nature’s way of cleaning, it’s like Ajax for nature. It is what the Prime Creator used to clean the ocean, isn’t it?
AMIRAH: Mmhm.
LaOTA: And not only that, but doesn’t salt grow in the shape of a cube? And the cube is one of the platonic solids. And it is one of the powers in the unseen aspects of our world. I encourage people to brush their teeth with baking soda, to help alkalinize their body. Or take a grain or two of our salt in their mouth in the morning. Or take salt baths on a regular basis to collapse the wave form of whatever negative [energy you’re experiencing].
If you have a conversation on the phone with somebody, and you feel bad afterwards, get in a salt bath or spray your area with salt from a spray bottle. This is a very simple way to be able to identify the difference, because you’ll feel different right away. What the salt does is it collapses the wave form. There’s a negative wave form pattern, and it really falls to the floor, and then you feel better. And then of course, you can alkalinize the body [with salt]. It’s natural, it belongs to us. If you live near the ocean, get in the ocean. If you feel like someone has done something to you or you feel negative energy on you, get in the ocean, or get in a salt bath — that’s so simple. And then there are degrees of the level of how much power there is in the salt. We sell a product for the lower area below the navel, for congested energy; we sell one for the heart; we sell a black Hawaiian volcanic for all the dark energies. And we have enhanced and layered within [them] frequencies to help move this level of darkness. But not table salt, any other salt but table salt, nothing iodine.
AMIRAH: What about epsom salts?
LaOTA: Epsom salts are great and this is the wonderful thing: we actually encourage everyone, whether you’re having an experience or not, but especially if you are, to take a bath with two cups of epsom salts, and if you have the better salts, you can use a tablespoon or two. Epsom salts is really, really excellent to give us the mineral salt from the Earth that will begin to strengthen the body. We’re not getting these salts from our foods anymore. This is part of the natural cleansing and hygiene process of the Earth itself. The magnesium that’s in epsom salts is best absorbed through the skin, so even though you go to the health food store and they say take magnesium, truly it can’t be digested through the stomach. It really needs to be on the skin. So it’s a wonderful way for you to get some magnesium, which almost all humans are deficient.
(Read my full interview with LaOta here!)
MORE SACRED WOMAN TEACHINGS ON SALT:
Spiritual House Cleansing — “Affirm: ‘My home is as pure as it can be. It is clear of all negativity.’ As you cleanse your home, over and over, place sea salt in the corners of your home for additional cleansing. Purification rituals with salt were practiced by our ancient Ancestors (Priestesses) before performing rituals or ceremonies.” — Queen Afua
Because some other traditional spiritualities deriving from Europe put salt on their altars as a way to attract spiritual energy, Luisah Teish, author of Jambalaya, shared with us that “salt repels spirits and should not be given to the ancestors. It should be used as a cleaner.” She recommends cleaning jars or candles that will be placed on your altar with salt water before use.
Some crystals can be cleansed with salt water, but do your research, because some will break down in water.