How to Remove Negative Energy From Your Life For Good

Want to know how to remove negative energy from your life for good? You’re in the right place.

You know that feeling when you walk into a room and just know something feels off? Or when you’re around certain people and suddenly feel drained, even though nothing particularly dramatic happened?

That’s negative energy at work.

And here’s the thing—it’s not just some woo-woo concept your yoga instructor talks about. Negative energy is real, it’s affecting you right now, and if you don’t deal with it, it’ll keep dragging you down like an anchor you didn’t even know you were carrying.

I’ve been there. We all have. Those seasons where everything feels heavy, where your mood tanks for no obvious reason, where you wake up already exhausted even though you slept eight hours.

The good news? You can absolutely remove negative energy from your life for good—and I’m going to show you exactly how to do it.

In this guide, I’ll walk you through proven strategies to remove negative energy from your life for good, so you can feel lighter, happier, and more like yourself again.

What Negative Energy Actually Feels Like (And Why You Need to Pay Attention)

Before we dive into solutions, let’s get real about what we’re dealing with here.

Negative energy isn’t just “feeling a little down.” It’s that persistent, nagging sensation that something’s wrong with your life, even when everything on paper looks fine. It shows up in ways you might not immediately connect:

Your body tells you first. You might notice constant tension in your shoulders, headaches that won’t quit, digestive issues that come out of nowhere, or this bone-deep fatigue that no amount of coffee can fix.

If this constant tired-but-wired feeling is your normal, my guide to fatigue fighting habits goes deeper into daily changes that restore your energy from the inside out.

Your emotions go haywire. You’re snapping at people you love, feeling anxious about things that never used to bother you, or experiencing mood swings that make you feel like you’re not even in control of your own feelings anymore.

Your sleep becomes a battlefield. Either you can’t fall asleep because your mind won’t shut up, or you’re sleeping too much and still waking up exhausted. Your dreams might even feel heavy or disturbing.

Your thoughts turn dark. You catch yourself stuck in negative loops—replaying past mistakes, catastrophizing about the future, or being unnecessarily critical of yourself and others.

Your energy flatlines. Things you used to enjoy feel like chores. Your motivation disappears. Even simple tasks feel overwhelming.

If any of this sounds familiar, you’re not imagining it. Negative energy has attached itself to your life, and it’s time to kick it out.

The Real Sources of Negative Energy (It’s Not What You Think)

Here’s where most articles get it wrong—they blame everything on “bad vibes” without explaining where this stuff actually comes from.

Negative energy doesn’t just materialize out of thin air. It comes from specific, identifiable sources:

The people you surround yourself with. Energy is contagious. Spend enough time around complainers, critics, drama-seekers, or emotional vampires, and you’ll start absorbing their negativity like a sponge. This isn’t mean—it’s just physics.

Unprocessed emotions living in your body. That anger you never expressed, the grief you pushed down, the disappointment you told yourself to “get over”—it all stays in your system, creating pockets of stagnant, negative energy.

Your physical environment. Clutter isn’t just messy—it’s energetically draining. Same goes for spaces that are dark, dirty, or filled with items connected to bad memories.

Your own thought patterns. If you’ve trained your brain to expect the worst, criticize constantly, or replay painful memories, you’re literally generating negative energy from the inside out.

Unresolved situations. That conversation you need to have but keep avoiding? The job you hate but won’t leave? The boundary you know you should set? All of that unfinished business creates a fog of negative energy around your life.

Now that we know what we’re dealing with, let’s get into how to remove negative energy from your life for good—permanently.

1. Start With Your Breath (Seriously, This Changes Everything)

I know, I know—everyone talks about breathing. But stay with me because most people are doing it wrong.

When negative energy takes hold, your breathing becomes shallow and chaotic. You’re taking quick, chest-level breaths that keep your nervous system in fight-or-flight mode. This literally locks the negativity into your body.

Here’s what actually works:

Set a timer for five minutes. Sit comfortably, close your eyes, and breathe in slowly through your nose for a count of four. Hold for four. Breathe out through your mouth for a count of six (the longer exhale is key). Hold for two. Repeat.

Do this twice a day—once in the morning to set your energy for the day, once in the evening to release what you’ve accumulated.

What’s happening here isn’t mystical—you’re literally regulating your nervous system, telling your brain it’s safe to relax, and creating space for stagnant energy to move out of your body.

After a week of this, you’ll notice you’re less reactive, more centered, and that heavy feeling starts to lift.

2. Cut the Energetic Cords to Toxic People (No Guilt Required)

This is the one nobody wants to hear, but it’s also the most important: some people in your life are energetic black holes, and you need to create distance.

I’m not saying you have to dramatically cut everyone off (though sometimes that’s necessary). But you absolutely need to get honest about who’s draining you.

Ask yourself: After spending time with this person, do I feel energized or exhausted? Uplifted or deflated? Inspired or irritated?

Your body knows the answer immediately.

The friend who only calls when she needs something. The family member who criticizes every choice you make. The coworker who complains nonstop but never does anything to change their situation. The partner who makes you feel small instead of celebrated.

These relationships are costing you your peace, and peace is too valuable to trade for obligation or guilt.

Start creating boundaries. Limit your time with energy-drainers. Stop being available 24/7. Let some calls go to voicemail. Say no without elaborate explanations.

And if someone is truly toxic—abusive, manipulative, or consistently disrespectful—give yourself permission to walk away completely. You don’t owe anyone access to your energy, ever.

Yes, it’ll feel uncomfortable at first. People might get upset. They might call you selfish. But here’s what I’ve learned: the people who get mad when you set boundaries are usually the ones who were benefiting from you having none.

Protect your energy like your life depends on it—because in many ways, it does.

3. Create a Daily Energy-Clearing Ritual (And Actually Stick to It)

One-time fixes don’t work with negative energy. You need a daily practice to keep your energy field clean, just like you shower to keep your body clean.

Here’s a simple ritual that takes less than ten minutes:

Morning: Before you check your phone or talk to anyone, take three deep breaths and set an intention for your energy. Something like, “Today I release what doesn’t serve me and invite in peace and clarity.” Say it out loud.

Throughout the day: When you feel negativity creeping in—stress, frustration, anxiety—pause and take three conscious breaths. Imagine breathing in white light and breathing out grey smoke.

Evening: Before bed, do a quick body scan. Starting at your head, mentally scan down through your entire body. Notice where you’re holding tension or heaviness. Breathe into those spots and imagine the negative energy dissolving and draining out through your feet into the earth.

This might sound simple, but consistency is magic. When you do this daily, you stop accumulating negative energy in the first place.

4. Move Your Body to Move the Energy

Negative energy gets stuck in your body, creating blockages that manifest as tension, pain, or illness. The fastest way to shift it? Movement.

You don’t need to become a gym rat. You just need to move with intention.

Dance around your living room to your favorite song. Go for a walk and really swing your arms. Do some yoga stretches. Shake your entire body for two minutes like you’re trying to fling water off yourself. Jump up and down. Have sex. Cry. Laugh hard.

Any movement that feels good and gets your blood pumping will help move stagnant energy out of your system.

I’m personally a fan of the “shake it off” method—literally standing in place and shaking your whole body for a few minutes. It feels ridiculous, but it works. You’re physically shaking loose whatever’s stuck.

Make it a point to move intentionally every single day, even for just ten minutes. Your body is smart—it knows how to release what it’s holding when you give it permission to move.

5. Clean Your Space, Clear Your Energy

Your environment is a mirror of your internal state, and it’s also a contributor to it. If you’re surrounded by clutter, dirt, broken items, or things connected to painful memories, you’re literally marinating in negative energy every day.

If you want a practical starting point, my spring declutter checklist walks you through exactly how to clear physical and energetic heaviness from your home step by step.

Start with one room—usually the bedroom, since that’s where you sleep and recharge.

Get rid of anything that makes you feel heavy when you look at it. That includes gifts from exes, clothes that don’t fit and make you feel bad about your body, photos from painful times, broken items you keep meaning to fix, and anything you’re keeping out of guilt or obligation.

If it doesn’t make you feel neutral-to-positive, it’s got to go.

Then deep clean. I mean really clean—dust in the corners, under the bed, inside drawers. Stagnant dust equals stagnant energy.

Open your windows and let fresh air move through. Air that’s been circulating in a closed space for too long gets energetically stale.

Add living things—plants are incredible for absorbing negative energy and producing fresh, vibrant energy. Even a single potted plant makes a difference.

Keep your space cleaner than you think necessary. A clean, organized, intentional environment supports clear, positive energy. It’s that simple.

6. Use Salt Like Your Grandmother Did

Salt has been used for energetic cleansing across cultures for thousands of years, and there’s a reason—it works.

For your space: Put a small bowl of sea salt or Himalayan salt in the corners of rooms that feel heavy. Leave it for 48 hours to absorb negative energy, then throw it away (don’t reuse it).

For your body: Add a cup or two of Epsom salt to a warm bath and soak for at least 20 minutes. While you’re in there, set the intention that you’re releasing everything that’s not yours to carry. Imagine it dissolving into the water. When you drain the tub, visualize all that negative energy going down the drain with it.

Do this weekly, or any time you feel particularly drained or heavy.

Some people think this is superstitious nonsense, but I’ve seen too many people (including myself) experience immediate shifts to dismiss it. Try it and see what happens.

7. Get Ruthlessly Honest About Your Thought Patterns

Here’s an uncomfortable truth: you might be the biggest source of negative energy in your own life.

If you’re constantly thinking negative thoughts—criticizing yourself, expecting the worst, replaying painful memories, worrying about things that haven’t happened—you’re generating negative energy from within.

Your thoughts aren’t just passive observations—they’re energy generators. Think negative thoughts consistently enough, and you create a negative energetic field around yourself.

Start paying attention to your inner dialogue. What’s the running commentary in your head throughout the day?

When you catch yourself in a negative thought spiral, interrupt it. Out loud if possible. Say “stop” or “not helpful” or “I don’t need to think this right now.”

Then deliberately choose a different thought. Not some fake positive affirmation you don’t believe, but a genuinely neutral or slightly better thought.

Instead of “I’m such a failure,” try “I’m learning and growing.” Instead of “Everything always goes wrong,” try “Sometimes things work out, and I’m open to that possibility.”

This isn’t about toxic positivity or pretending everything’s great when it’s not. It’s about not actively making things worse with destructive thought patterns.

Over time, you can literally rewire your brain to generate more positive energy by default. But it takes conscious effort at first.

Once you start catching those old fear and scarcity stories, you can gently swap them for more supportive beliefs—my money mindset guide is a great example of how shifting your inner narrative changes your outer reality.

8. Spend Time in Nature (The Ultimate Energy Reset)

Nature is the most powerful energy cleanser available, and it’s free.

When everything feels heavy and nothing else is working, go outside. Touch grass. Put your bare feet on the earth. Sit under a tree. Watch water move. Look at the sky.

Nature operates at a higher, cleaner frequency than most human environments. When you spend time in natural settings, your energy naturally recalibrates to match it.

You don’t need to go on some big hiking adventure (though that’s great if you want to). Even 15 minutes in a park, sitting on your porch, or tending to a garden makes a difference.

Make this non-negotiable. Get outside every single day, even if it’s just for a few minutes. Your energy will thank you.

9. Protect Your Energy Going Forward

Once you’ve cleared negative energy, you need to protect yourself so it doesn’t just come flooding back in.

Learn to say no. Set boundaries. Limit your exposure to negative news and social media. Choose carefully who and what you give your attention to.

Start your day intentionally instead of reactively. Don’t grab your phone first thing—give yourself even ten minutes to set your own energy before you let the world in.

End your day with release. Before bed, mentally let go of the day. You don’t need to carry it into tomorrow.

Check in with yourself regularly. How’s your energy right now? If it’s getting heavy, address it immediately instead of letting it build.

Think of yourself as having an energetic immune system. The stronger it is, the less negative energy can affect you.

The Truth About How to Remove Negative Energy From Your Life For Good

Here’s what I need you to understand: learning how to remove negative energy from your life for good doesn’t mean you’ll never experience negativity again. Life happens. Challenges come. People disappoint us. Things go wrong.

But what changes is how much that negativity sticks to you.

When you practice these habits consistently, you become like a smooth stone in a river—things flow around you instead of getting lodged in you. The negative energy comes, and it also goes, without making a permanent home in your body, mind, or life.

You become more resilient. More peaceful. More yourself.

The version of you that isn’t weighed down by accumulated negativity is lighter, clearer, more joyful, and more alive. That person is still in there, underneath all the heavy energy you’ve been carrying.

Start today. Pick one thing from this list and do it. Then tomorrow, do it again. Then add another practice. Build momentum slowly.

You don’t have to do everything at once. But you do have to start.

Your life is waiting for you on the other side of this heaviness. And trust me—it’s so much better over there.

You’ve got this.