spiritual cleansing
Ritual inner renewal
Spiritual cleansing is the practice of removing negative energy, evil influences, or impurities from a person, place, or object through ritual means.
Methods vary across traditions—burning sage, bathing in salt water, prayer, or ceremonies performed by healers or clergy.
The practice assumes invisible forces can attach to people or spaces and require deliberate removal: After the divorce, she did a spiritual cleansing of the house.
Also called energetic cleansing or purification.
- holy waterSacramental liquid for blessings
- smudgingMaking blurry marks
- meditationFocused attention practice
- sound bathMeditative immersion in tones
- sageWisdom keeper or seasoning
purity · shamanism · prayer · incense · negative energy · renewal · forgiveness · exorcism · lustration · baptism · aura cleansing · animism · crystals · sweat lodge · peacefulness · clarity · ritual · Buddhism
- forgivenessforgiveness of sins, redemption, absolve, mercy, grace
- RamadanRamadan, iftar, fasting, holy month, breaking fast
- confessionconfession, absolution, admission, acknowledgment, declaration
- exorcismexorcism, exorcist, demon, possession, possessed
- folk healingfaith healing, herbal remedies, incantations, plant medicine, herbal baths
- traditional healingherbalist, diviner, healing rituals, ancestral spirits
spiritual cleansingdefilement
Act of corrupting purity
demonic possession · cursing · hexing · spiritual attack · moral corruption
spiritual cleansingblack magic
Evil supernatural practice
dark ritual · hex · evil eye · necromancy · voodoo curse