"Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless." - Eric Hoffer
Everyone is different, and experiences energy in their own unique way, but some of the most frequent indications that a clearing is taking place are yawning, tearing, and a runny nose. I frequently get goose bumps and raised hairs covering my arms when I find and clear a particularly heavy energy pattern.
Metaphysical stress and Emotional Residue
The memory of all thoughts, sensations, and emotions naturally accumulate in the environment. In particular, the places where people spend their time acquire layers of memories: the cumulative issues, dramas, and joys of all the current and previous occupants. If the energy left behind in a space or the land beneath is holding stressed thought patterns, emotions like fear and anger, or various kinds of physical and or mental trauma, a strong energetic pattern can be discovered through dowsing. These stressed energies can also be easily held in physical matter or artifacts such as furniture, clothing, photographs, artwork, or . . . in a space.
Oftentimes people hold attachments, (negative or positive) to other people, places, or things, and it's not uncommon to find these connections while clearing a space or person.
Stressed energy created by people's thoughts and emotions can often feel very uncomfortable, especially to naturally sensitive people. What seems to be happening it that Qi "energy or life force" is being drained out of the environments where they are found, and so this energy has a tendency to sap our personal energy when we come in contact with them. These patterns can easily get stuck in our personal energy fields too, mainly because it's so easy for us to identify with the emotions and feelings that may have created them in the first place.
According to recent research in neurobiology... and specifically the work of Dr. Candace Pert. Scientists know that when a random thought, feeling or emotion comes into someone's awareness and they assume it is theirs without discerning its source... they say to themselves “I am _______ or _______;” (angry, scared, depressed, or whatever). They may unintentionally personalized and intensify these thoughts, feelings or emotions. An electrical stimulation in the brain then tells the hypothalamus to manufacture and flood the bloodstream with certain chemicals that ultimately produce more of these feelings or emotions in the body. While we continue to think like this, we also project these patterns out into the world, and wind up attracting more of them in the future.
What we think, we become. — The Buddha
The more intense energies tend to result from very strong energy patterns like highly repressed emotion, physical trauma, or debilitating illness. Oftentimes people may mistake these patterns as a haunting or "ghosts", however this is usually only the case where we find intense icy cold creepy spots that seem to move around in certain rooms or areas.
Geopathic Stress

The natural geological processes in your local environment including stress fractures in the bedrock, naturally occuring magnetic Fields, and Underground Watercourses constantly generate frequencies unique to their situations, and to one degree or another (depending on intensity and how long we stay within their influence), can play a big part in how we feel.
When we unknowingly place our furniture, above areas where the earth is under intense stress, we may be subjecting ourselves to large quantities of energy that could be effecting our emotional, and mental states. With prolonged exposure our physical bodies may begin to manifest stress, pain, or disease.
Technological Stress

The industrial revolution has created countless forms of toxicity. We don't have to look far to see all manner of manufactured electrical and microwave appliances or equipment that are generating, broadcasting, or receiving fields of energy. These fields come in a wide range of frequencies that can be scientifically measured and documented in various wavelengths and intensities. According to scientists, the extent to which any of these energies are affecting people remains debatable. The scientific evidence for or against any technology usually proves what the scientist are trying to prove, as well as supporting the agenda of the group who paid for the study.
As the controversy over safety goes on, we reach our own conclusions based on how we feel. Dowsing can easily demonstrate an individual's sensitivity to any kind of technology, and then show when change has taken place after working with (clearing) any frequencies that were being perceived as disturbing.