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The Mindful Way to Clear Negative Energy

Nov 14, 2025
Ever felt drained after entering a space? Discover how mindfulness can help clear negative energy and create healthy boundaries. Dora shares insights on recognizing emotional residue and offers practical techniques, like hand-washing visualizations and doorway breaths, to reset your energy. Learn to protect your peace and choose what energy to carry with you. It's a path to feeling lighter and more centered every day.
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ANECDOTE

Carrying Emotional Residue From a Coffee Shop

  • Dora describes feeling a heavy, anxious energy after entering a coffee shop that wasn't hers.
  • She realized she was carrying emotional residue from others and compared it to physical dirt on clothes.
INSIGHT

Energy Picks Up Like Physical Dirt

  • Dora notes we routinely clean our physical bodies but rarely our energetic selves despite picking up emotional residue daily.
  • Recognizing energetic pickup explains unexplained tiredness or anxiety and normalizes sensitivity.
ANECDOTE

Nursing School Taught Energetic Scrubbing

  • Dora recounts her third year of psychiatric nursing school absorbing patients' pain and going home exhausted each day.
  • Her supervisor taught a simple ritual that stopped her from bringing others' emotions home.
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