Clearing Clutter for Energy Healing and Soulful Space
✨ What if clearing clutter isn’t about what you lose… but about making room for your soul to breathe and for unexpected magic to find you?
Clutter isn’t just about messy counters or overflowing closets. It carries energy: stories, memories, and emotions that can keep us stuck. Clearing clutter is more than tidying up. It’s energy healing, a sacred act of soul tending, and an invitation to create space for new life to flourish.
In episode 12 of the Magical Soulutions Podcast, we explore the connection between clutter, energy, and your inner vitality. Let’s look at why clutter weighs so heavily on us and how to transform the act of letting go into a ritual of renewal.
Why Clutter Is More Than “Stuff”
Clutter is the visible shape of unmade decisions, unprocessed emotions, and forgotten dreams. Research shows cluttered environments increase stress hormones, crowd the mind, and strain relationships. It’s not just about aesthetics. It’s about energy.
Clutter shows up in many forms:
When clutter accumulates, it blocks the natural flow of energy in your home and within your soul. Just like hardened soil can’t grow new seeds, stagnant spaces stifle creativity, vitality, and joy.
Clutter Clearing as Energy Healing
Ancient healing practices remind us that energy must flow for life to thrive:
Decluttering works the same way. It’s not just tidying; it’s energy work. By releasing what no longer serves, you create flow, spaciousness, and alignment between your inner and outer worlds.
Spiritual teacher Denise Linn calls clutter clearing, “a kind of alchemy that can transform every aspect of life.” When you clear your space with intention, you transform it from storage into sanctuary.
The Joy of Letting Go: Marie Kondo’s Wisdom
Before clutter clearing became part of my spiritual practice, I found inspiration in Marie Kondo’s approach to tidying. Her simple but powerful question: “Does it spark joy?” is a compass for release.
Holding each item and asking whether it lights up your spirit reframes decluttering. It’s not about guilt, perfection, or obligation. It’s about surrounding yourself with what supports your energy and letting go of what no longer does.
When paired with practices like Reiki, chakra work, or intentional clutter clearing rituals, Kondo’s method becomes more than tidying. It becomes a way of choosing joy and alignment, moment by moment, object by object.
A Simple Clutter Clearing Ritual
Decluttering doesn’t have to be overwhelming. Start small, perhaps a drawer, a shelf, or even your bag. When approached with intention, even the smallest act of clearing becomes sacred.
Here’s a step-by-step clutter clearing ritual you can try:
- Set an Intention. Before you begin, take a breath and declare what you’re inviting in, perhaps choose one word. It could be peace, clarity, abundance, or simply more breathing room. Say it out loud or whisper it to yourself: “I clear this space to invite in…” and fill in your word.
- Mindful Clearing. As you hold each item, notice how your body reacts. How does it make you feel? Does this object feel light, joyful, or useful? Or does it feel heavy, draining, or tied to a past version of yourself? Do you love it? Do you need it? Is it something you want to release? Notice your body’s response, honoring whatever surfaces.
- Release with Gratitude. If it’s time to let something go, thank it for its service and, with gratitude, place it into a bag or box for donation, recycling, or gifting. Label it to seal its destiny, and let go with loving confidence. Gratitude transforms the act of discarding into a sacred release.
- Close with Blessing. When your chosen space is clear, stand back and bless it. Place your hands over your heart, or light a candle, inviting new energy to flow in. Breathe deeply, feeling the shift not only in your room, but in your spirit. If you wish, bring in fresh flowers, burn incense, or open a window letting the transformation ripple outward.
This practice is less about perfection and more about presence. It transforms clutter clearing from a chore into a ritual of healing.
Your Soul Invitation
Your home mirrors your soul. When you clear clutter, you’re not just making space on a shelf, you’re creating space in your heart, mind, and spirit.
✨ This Week’s Invitation: Choose one small space and clear it as though you are tending sacred soil. Release with gratitude, and notice what new energy flows in.
Because every act of letting go is also an act of receiving: receiving breath, receiving spaciousness, receiving the magic of what’s waiting to arrive.
✨ Which objects or spaces in your life anchor you to peace and which might be ready for release?
Listen to the Full Episode
Tune in to Episode 12 of the Magical Soulutions Podcast: “Clearing Clutter for Energy Healing and Soulful Space” for more insights, soulful stories, and cosmic wisdom to support your own clutter clearing journey.

Magical Soulutions™ is the podcast for soulful seekers, sacred misfits, and quietly bold humans walking the in-between. Host Meghan Mitchell weaves story, soul wisdom, and practical magic to help you come home to yourself — one soul beat and sacred remembering at a time. Whether you’re exploring intuition, grief, purpose, or your own spiritual messiness, this space offers grounded, soulful guidance for living a life aligned with your inner truth.
✨ What if clearing clutter isn’t about what you lose… but about making room for your soul to breathe and for unexpected magic to find you?
In this week’s episode of the Magical Soulutions Podcast, Rev. MK Mitchell invites you to see clutter clearing not as a chore, but as an act of energy healing and soul tending. Drawing on research, ancient wisdom, and her own story of living with ADHD and “doom piles,” Rev. MK reframes decluttering and you’ll want to hear how she transforms it.
From Marie Kondo to Denise Linn and more, this episode blends psychology, spirituality, and energy work to reveal how your space mirrors your soul. You’ll discover:
- Why clutter isn’t just physical stuff—it’s emotional, mental, and spiritual stagnation.
- How clearing even one drawer or shelf can shift your energy field.
- The connection between clutter, stress, and blocked life force energy.
- Ritual steps to turn tidying into sacred practice: set intention, clear mindfully, release with gratitude, and close with blessing.
- How ancient practices mirror the same principles of restoring flow and harmony.
Journal Prompts
- Which objects or spaces anchor you to peace?
- Which belongings feel heavy, stagnant, or ready to release?
- What new energy or story are you inviting into your home and your soul?
Soul Invitation
This week, choose one small space be it a drawer, a shelf, or a bag and clear it with sacred intention. Release what no longer serves, give thanks, and bless the space as you welcome in light and renewal. Remember: letting go is also an act of receiving.
Resources & Mentions
- Denise Linn, Soul Coaching® and teachings on clutter clearing as alchemy
- Marie Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up and “Does it spark joy?” practice
- Talker Research Study on clutter in American homes (2024)
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