Spiritual Cleansing Bath Rituals for Healing Your Aura

Spiritual Cleansing Bath Rituals for Healing Your Aura

Regularly cleansing your aura and personal energy is an essential act. Whether or not you know it, you come into contact with various people and environments, all of which have their own energy vibrations. Not all of these frequencies are high and positive.

Thus, your energy field is constantly taking in and sending out vibrations. Some energy vibrations within your thoughts and external influences are low and will bring you down if left unchecked. While our energy body is constantly readjusting itself to bring our energy back into harmony, the negative energies can linger and build up over time. A monthly salt water bath is an easy and relaxing way to cleanse your aura of negative energy.

We’ve mentioned other methods before, so why a bath? It’s because it’s a great ritual that ties together the physical body with the inner spirit. When you immerse yourself in a ritual bath, you are participating in an initiation to open yourself up spiritually. 

Ritual bathing cleanses you from physical and spiritual grime, thus purifying both your body and your aura. It signifies that you are willing to listen to your higher self and begin to trust something outside of your rational mind. It indicates that you are open to asking the universe to transform what you believe needs to be changed within yourself.

What Is a Spiritual Cleansing Bath Ritual?

A spiritual cleansing bath ritual is a sacred, intentional practice for releasing negativity, stress, and emotional heaviness while inviting balance, healing, and renewal. Unlike an ordinary bath, this ritual taps into the energy of natural elements—purifying salts, soothing essential oils, and gentle herbs or flowers like lavender or rose petals—chosen for their nurturing and cleansing properties. As you immerse yourself, you set intentions to let go of what no longer serves you, creating space for peace and clarity. Adding meditative touches, like mindful breathing or visualization, deepens the experience, allowing you to feel the water’s gentle energy carrying away worries. It’s a moment to honor yourself, cleanse from within, and step out feeling lighter, refreshed, and energetically renewed.

How to Perform a Cleansing Bath

A cleansing bath is a sacred, rejuvenating practice to clear your aura, release negative energy, and invite inner peace and well-being. Here’s how to get started:

  1. Choose the Right Time: Pick a bath time when you can be alone without interruptions. This powerful bath is best done once a month, ideally on a Friday close to a full moon for enhanced effects. Energy therapist Lidia Frederico advises against taking it around certain hours: avoid 6 am, 12 noon, 6 pm, or 12 midnight, as well as 30 minutes before and after these times.
  2. Prepare the Bath: Draw a warm bath and add unrefined salt. For an extra touch, add essential oils (like lavender or sage) and herbs such as rosemary or chamomile, known for their cleansing properties.
  3. Set Your Intention: As the tub fills, think about what you want to release or bring into your life. Light white candles and play soft music to create a peaceful environment.
  4. Immerse Mindfully: Step into the water slowly, immersing yourself fully. Visualize negative energy dissolving, replaced by a flow of positive energy. Deep breathing, meditation, or repeating affirmations can help deepen this experience.
  5. Conclude the Ritual: When you finish, let yourself air-dry if possible, or use a towel just for your head. Drain the bathwater, imagining it carrying away any residual negativity. Embrace the clarity and positive energy you’ve invited into your space.

Allow yourself to carry this renewed energy forward, feeling grounded, uplifted, and aligned with your highest self.

Physical Benefits 

A spiritual cleansing bath ritual can benefit not only your spirit but also your physical well-being. Here are a few key benefits:

  • Saltwater soaks help remove toxins.
  • Minerals support overall health.
  • Skin feels refreshed as impurities clear.
  • Relieves aches and sore joints.
  • Boosts circulation for a body refresh.

This ritual offers a harmonious way to nurture both body and soul, inviting healing and renewal from within.

3 Spiritual Cleansing Bath Rituals

To begin, bathers should carefully clean the tub. Take a shower before starting the ritual bath, then wash thoroughly with positive energy in the following ways:

Salt Water Bath

There’s nothing more relaxing than a warm, soothing bath. Adding salt water can provide even more benefits for your skin. There’s a reason why floating in the Dead Sea is renowned for skin health—the high salt content helps repair damaged cells, stimulates blood flow, and promotes detoxification. Bath salts like Epsom salts are another option, as they contain additional minerals beneficial for the skin, such as magnesium and potassium.

  1. Prepare for Relaxation: Ensure you won’t be disturbed for at least an hour. Optional additions: light candles or incense, play relaxing music, and set an atmosphere that lightens your aura.
  2. Fill Your Bath: Use warm water, adjusting the level to your preference, but avoid making it too hot.
  3. Add Salt: Add 2-3 generous handfuls of high-quality, unprocessed salt, such as unrefined sea salt or Himalayan salt. Avoid regular table salt or drugstore Epsom salt, as these are often refined and may contain anti-caking agents that remove beneficial minerals.
  4. Add Essential Oils (Optional): For aromatherapy, add a few drops of pure essential oils. Lavender is an excellent choice for relaxation and is generally safe. Peppermint is another effective scent to help unwind and soothe the body.
  5. Soak and Set Your Intention: Soak for about 20-30 minutes, using this time to release negativity. You can pray or set an intention to let go of any energy you no longer wish to carry. You may also seek spiritual support to raise your vibration.
  6. Air Dry for Best Results: When you finish, air dry if possible. You may use a towel for your head and put on a robe, but avoid fully toweling off. Try not to take another shower or bath for at least 24 hours.
  7. Frequency: Limit saltwater baths to once a week. Once a month may be the ideal frequency for many.

By following these seven steps, you’ll be able not only to remove negative energy spiritually but also to give yourself a physical detox from any buildup of toxins your skin may have accumulated.

Baking Soda Bath

A baking soda bath can be an excellent way to cleanse your aura and leave your skin feeling smooth and soft. Simply follow the same steps as for the saltwater bath above, but instead of salt, add 1-2 cups of baking soda to the warm water. This will enhance the bath’s detoxifying effects while gently exfoliating and softening your skin.

All Natural Ocean Bath

If you live near the ocean, taking a dip in natural saltwater can be an incredibly refreshing and healing experience. The timeless ocean offers powerful healing properties that can cleanse your aura and rejuvenate your body. Here’s how to get the most out of your ocean bath:

  1. Prepare for Your Visit: Choose a quiet time and location to minimize distractions and maximize relaxation. Early mornings or evenings can be ideal times for solitude and a peaceful environment.
  2. Set an Intention: Before entering the water, take a moment to focus on your intention. Whether it’s releasing negativity, inviting peace, or simply grounding yourself, a mindful approach will enhance the experience.
  3. Enter the Ocean Mindfully: Walk slowly into the water, feeling the sand, waves, and saltwater connecting you to nature. Take a few deep breaths, inhaling the fresh sea air, and allow yourself to feel immersed in the ocean’s energy.
  4. Immerse Yourself Completely: For the full cleansing effect, immerse your entire body in the water, including your head, if comfortable. This will allow the seawater to cleanse your aura from head to toe.
  5. Spend 10-15 Minutes in the Water: Relax in the water for at least 10-15 minutes. Swim, float, or simply stand and let the waves wash over you, allowing the saltwater to cleanse your energy and refresh your skin.
  6. Practice Gratitude: As you leave the water, take a moment to thank the ocean for its healing properties. Expressing gratitude can enhance the spiritual benefits of this experience.
  7. Air Dry for Best Results: Let the saltwater dry naturally on your skin if possible, as this can extend the ocean’s healing effects. Avoid rinsing off immediately to allow your body to absorb the beneficial minerals from the seawater.

By following these steps, you can enjoy the cleansing and energizing effects of a natural ocean bath. Although it requires more effort and planning, it’s well worth it if you prefer to connect deeply with nature.

Other Cleansing Rituals

There are several other cleansing spiritual practices you can combine with your bath or hold separately that can clear blockages or negative energy while boosting positivity, good luck, and good vibes.

Smudging Your Home

Before you begin your spiritual bath, smudge your bathroom—not only will it clear the space, but it will leave a pleasant, lingering aroma for you to enjoy while in the tub.

Smoke, in general, will kill bacteria and purify any space in which it is allowed to waft, which is why you should smudge. Typically, sage is used in a smudging ceremony, but you can also use palo santo, essential oils, or any other cleansing herb to hold a purifying smudging ceremony. If this feels a little witchy, that’s because it is, especially if you decide to do it during a new moon. But don’t worry, we’re not putting a hex on anyone, just creating a sacred space.

Using Crystals

Crystals such as amethyst, clear quartz, rose quartz, and selenite are great purifiers for any household. While some may be skeptical of crystals for anything other than aesthetics, crystals do have electromagnetic properties that can attract certain energies. Embody your inner hippie and encircle your tub with healing crystals to draw out that negative energy and transmute it into something positive.

Balancing Chakras

The Solar Plexus chakra, located just above the navel, is the chakra of personal power, influencing motivation, self-esteem, and emotional balance. An imbalance in this chakra can lead to both physical (e.g., stomach ulcers and weight issues) and emotional problems, affecting internal organs like the kidneys and pancreas. An underactive Solar Plexus may cause negative thoughts or feelings of anxiety and depression, impacting overall health. Conversely, an overactive Solar Plexus can result in harsh judgment, anger, and aggression, disrupting the body’s natural balance. Balancing this chakra is essential for holistic well-being.

There are many ways to purify your aura, with or without spiritual baths. Remember, this process should focus on self-care, self-love, and honoring your higher spirit. By taking the time to clear any trapped negative energy in your life, you’ll notice immediate improvements in your soul’s eternal glow.



Crystal Healing and the Root Chakra

There are seven chakra points on the body where the energy flows and intersects, bringing peace, harmony, and balance to our lives. Yet, like everything else chakras tend to become blocked over time, and we can feel the physical effect of this blockage within our bodies. Removing these blockages is simple and may require some practice, but in the long run it’s worth it. While crystals are a popular method of clearings, this article includes items you may wish to use along with crystals. All work well together and will enhance your connection to this energy point.

You cannot balance the other chakras without first tending to the root chakra.

What the Root Chakra Does

The root or base chakra keeps us grounded and is our connection point to the earth. When this chakra is balanced, we are confident, trusting, and independent. We learn to grow in all aspects of our lives ‒ spiritually, physically, and mentally. When it is blocked, we become anxious and stressed and can lose interest in our most basic of needs.

Crystals Are Connected to the Chakras

Many crystals emanate vibrations that parallel the chakras, and each chakra has a corresponding crystal companion. While all work to balance them out, I have found some crystals work better than others. I suggest you work with a few to see which one is a good fit for you. The root chakra has two color associations, so stones of both colors will do, but not all stones of these particular colors are adequate, or may be more suited for something else. There is also the price. Some crystals are rare to come by and expensive. I suggest doing some research to make sure the stone you use – or wish to use – is both accommodating in price and healing. It doesn’t have to be expensive to help.

Crystals for the Root Chakra

The colors associated with the root chakra are red and black ‒ fire and earth elements. Some, like hematite and onyx, have more than one use. Most black or brown stones have an affinity with the earth and are already widely used as grounding stones. For added measure, you can wear a clear quartz stone to amplify the vibration.

Black/Brown Crystals

  • Hematite
  • Obsidian
  • Onyx
  • Tiger’s Eye
  • Black Tourmaline

Red crystals

  • Red Jasper
  • Red Calcite
  • Bloodstone
  • Garnet

Note – garnet comes in green as well. If you wish to use a garnet, make sure it is the proper stone.

Meditating with Crystal Energy

After purchasing and cleansing your desired crystal (crystal cleansing is very important), lay on your stomach. Pick a place to lay where you will be comfortable and there are no worries about someone disturbing you. Place the stone on your tailbone, making sure it won’t fall off. Alternately, if you can’t lie on your stomach it’s fine to lay on your back. You can either hold the stone in your hand near the chakra point, or place it on your body so that it won’t fall off. If sitting, hold the crystal in your cupped palm near your root chakra as you meditate. Take some deep breaths. Feel the vibration of the stone.

Play meditative music designed to stimulate the root chakra. I feel strongly that sound waves increase the vibration of the crystal. There are many wonderful videos on Gaiam TV about sound waves, such as Cymatics: Bringing Matter to Life with Sound and Fractal Meditation, and [Astral Traveler](/video/astral-traveler}. Like crystals, you need to choose a video that works for you.

The root chakra is connected to the sense of smell. Burning incense or essential oils is a great way to enhance your balancing and cleansing. I burn patchouli and use it solely for this purpose. Other scents you can use are nutmeg, cedar, ginger, vetiver, myrrh, and cinnamon; or, try a combination of your choice or another associated with the root chakra.

Eating root chakra foods and exercise are good tools as well. Go for a walk or sit cross-legged on the ground. If you practice yoga, you can incorporate standing forward bend into your routine.

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