Who here uses cleaning as a meditational exercise and simultaneously as they physically clean up and organize a space they purify it on the etheric and astral levels as well?
The room you are in effects your mind greatly. How you arrange everything in your room changes the energy flow and matters in other ways too.
When I go through my room, I make an effort to imagine each object in the room, and I organize everything carefully. I know exactly where everything in my room is and I have at least a hundred or more objects in here. This is a good practice to develop your higher imaginal/astral senses and your memory.
As you clean you should really feel and think about what you're doing. The touching of things, rubbing them down, etc. is you imagine it as you do it, uses and increases your capacity for storing Earth-energy (which lets you do psyhokinesis and various other things, it's the touch-energy that has to do with space and pressure and gravity and stuff). While you clean everything as well, you can force some of your energy into the surroundings and into the things you clean, and purge them.
I burn incense and I get all the dust out and I open the windows to get everything aired out on a day where the weather permits it.
It is good to have everything organized and stored away. Your room should have as little distractions as possible that you have to constantly filter out. If you've ever been in a really messy, noisy, busy place a lot where there's constant shit you have to strain yourself to block out and then spent awhile in simple surroundings in a very quiet place, you will notice you feel way less stressed and energy deprived, as less energy is wasted constantly trying to block stuff out. I for one keep a boxfan going all the time producing white noise to block out the noises of mundanes below and also keep the air well circulated in my room; under more ideal conditions I wish I could turn it off more from time to time and actually get complete silence but I can't.
A good clean, tidy, room is good for studying in. It is also important to make space for spirits to come visit you, to do your magickal operations, etc.
When you burn incense in a room, there is a meditation you should do. Set up your incense, burn it, then in the mind follow it through the whole room using the sense of smell and the visual faculty as well. Become very aware of it filling up the room. With your awareness focused on the incense, you can repeat mantras or make a suggestion or simply intend that it purifies the room on the higher planes and various other effects should work.
You may also want to create thoughtformed shielding for your room, do the gnostic pulse banishing ritual, and change the temperature and humidity via IIH-style imbuing of the room. Anyone who enters my room always, immediately, notices it has a very different feeling from the rest of the house. I have also magickally protected my room to make mundanes want to leave whenever they might try to enter so I am not bothered.
