House healing

House healings (also known as house blessings, house clearings, house cleansings and space clearing) are rituals intended to clear a physical place of negative energies or "evil spirits".cite web |url=http://www.acfnewsource.org/religion/house_blessing.html |title=House Blessing |accessdate=2007-01-11 |date=August 1 2003 |publisher=American Communications Foundation ] According to believers of parapsychology, a house healing entails a clairvoyant identifying energy patterns in a house or other physical structure and neutralizing them, allowing the energy of the house to align with present time vibrations.Fact|date=January 2007 Some believers say house healings ease transitions into a new home and can cleanse a haunted house of ghost activity. [cite web |url=http://www.care2.com/channels/solutions/home/1980 |title=House Clearing for Ghosts and Spirits |accessdate=2006-09-23 |publisher=Care2 ]

House healings are not only parapsychology related; they take place in Christian, American Indian, and Pagan religions. Wiccans use a many stepped ceremony calling for herbs and the elements in order to banish unwanted spirits. House blessings are as old as Christianity, and in Catholicism, the ritual takes the form of a prayer; [cite web |url=http://www.catholicculture.org/lit/Prayers/view.cfm?id=742 |title=Blessing of a New Home |accessdate=2007-01-11 |work=Liturgical Year |publisher=Catholic Culture ] the practice also has a history in Eastern Orthodox and Episcopal churches.

Several common superstitions in regards to house-cleaning include using a new broom for the first floor sweeping and bringing water from one's old house.Fact|date=January 2007

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