For some reason I love staying in hotels. They are my safe havens, places where I can enter my inner world easily and feel completely at peace. I watch series and movies, I sometimes order some room service, and I simply enjoy the design of the room. Normally I would sleep like a baby as well. And in a way that’s strange – or at least surprising – once you realize how many people stay in such a room.

6-Star Hotel

Some weeks ago I read a story in a newspaper about a new hotel in Amsterdam: The Rosewood. A so called “6-Star Hotel” – according to the braggers – because of its luxury, design and service. So my first impression was: no way I would ever stay there. And the reason? Because in the past the monumental building had served both as the ‘Palace of Justice’ and as an orphanage for the poorest kids in the country. And when I continued reading, my ideas about such a building were immediately confirmed: they had to clean up the building energetically as well, because of the energies that were present.

Struggle

The management told the newspaper that they had been excited to build their (franchise) hotel in that monumental building. But it had also been a struggle: it took them many years to renovate the building and to decorate it. For many reasons they considered it a real fight. And one of the reasons was the energy of the building. So they even hired a person who could cleanse the building spiritually, energetically. And it was quite something, the things that this spiritual cleaning person had to deal with: strong fear was felt in the building, and feelings of isolation and loneliness were detected by the spiritual cleaner, as if they were knocking on her door of awareness. “And it was as if the building was fighting against us”, so the management told the newspaper.

So my assumptions were confirmed. And I thought: how would people feel in that hotel when they stayed the night over? But apparently everything is energetically cleaned up by now. And I know from first and second hand how the atmosphere can change for the good when house or building cleanses have taken place.

The Hague

The story reminded me of my apartment in The Hague. It also looked a bit like a hotel. Hallways with entrances of studios would welcome you, and it even had a big lounge downstairs with comfortable sofas, a long table with magazines, and a kitchen top, where you could make coffee or tea. And if you had any trouble with your apartment – which you could rent temporarily – you could ask the janitor to replace or fix things. Quite pleasant.

But I also remember my first night at it. Accompanied by just some suitcases I moved in, and spent my first night over there. I had the weirdest dream about the Middle East. I saw women with shrouds and long robes, and as mentioned in some other blogs: sometimes dreams feel different, like very lucid or vivid. And this was one of those dreams. Like I got into someone else’s energy field.

Accident

So I started googling – since I figured: it could have been some entity’s energy – and I stumbled upon an accident: some person drowned some years ago in the canal next to my building. Well, not the most convincing lead, but it could have been related to my experience: maybe his spirit was still wandering around.

Anyways, as I regularly visited one of my friends for some healing sessions, I asked her some days later to cleanse my energy field. And if something came up that had to do with the Middle East, even better. So she did. I can’t remember the exact content of the session, but I do remember she was referring to some Arabian looking guy. And more importantly, she cleansed my energy field in general, which made me feel good – also in general, not particularly because I felt something bad that had to do with some Arabian guy.

Huge Shop Window

Then again, she said that something “felt off”, and she was a bit worried that something would happen on my way to the train station, so she offered me a lift to the station. And off we went – safe and sound. But two weird, a bit eerie things happened after her lift. First I saw a huge shop window of a fashion store, exactly where my friend dropped me off, with nothing but an Arabian guy wearing a turban. Of all people.

Secondly, when I arrived in The Hague, some fire fighters or paramedics, and police officers, were busy in and near the canal next to the train station. Like they were looking for something or somebody. Couldn’t figure out what they were actually looking for, or doing, but I decided to go home – by bike – straight away. Odd, I thought, and too much of a coincidence, if you asked me.

So just to make sure I would sleep better in my studio – my ‘hotel room’ – I bought a matrass of my own, and I cleansed the space energetically myself. And I had a way better night’s sleep after some nights and onwards.

Boutique Hotels

Brings me to the last part of my story. When I was living in Madrid I met this girl who started off as ‘my intercambio’: she would teach me Spanish, and I would teach her English. Simply by having conversations. And since we both liked the fancy places, we often went to the in-house restaurants of boutique hotels to enjoy some food or drinks, while practising our Spanish and English – and in particular to the one of a 4-star hotel near the train station Atocha. At some point we even became friends, and she would confide me very private things. Things that she would only tell me about – and not even her boyfriend or her close (female) friends.

Because of the latter I felt in my turn comfortable enough to share things about my energy readings – back then I wasn’t doing them much, it was a time before I started doing them more regularly. So she got interested, and I proposed doing one session for her. And she gladly accepted it. As far as I can remember, I guess I also got triggered to do so, because she was often telling me how frustrated she felt about her boss – she was his P.A. actually. So I wanted to help.

Elderly People & Countryside

I did the energy reading some days later or so, and I texted her that I would discuss it with her personally once we would meet again at ‘our hotel’. And that was totally fine with her. In fact, she was curious to hear more about it. To give you an idea: some things came up, but I will only share something that might have been connected to her relationship with her boss.

At some point in the energy reading I saw these elderly people. But they were not living in Madrid at all. In fact, it looked like a rural place, some countryside, with a house that you easily could picture at such a place. On one hand it looked inviting, but on the other hand it felt like there was some emotional distance.

When I told my friend about it, she immediately brought something up I didn’t know: her dad had a bad relationship with her grandparents, and someday it totally escalated. To such an extent that he decided to break contact with his parents. As in: fully. And he forbade his parents to see their grandchildren. She also told me that she had a bad relationship with her own parents, something I kinda knew from before. She never felt supported by them, and she felt frustrated by it obviously.

Lineage

It wasn’t difficult to see the connection with her boss. He didn’t show his appreciation, she never felt supported by him. And even though she sometimes felt ‘tortured’ by him, she couldn’t find the strength to leave the place. Apparently it was something that went all the way back to her (parental) lineage.

She couldn’t remember her grandparents super well, but she did remember that she used to visit them in their rural house when she was little. It seemed like that it wasn’t her grandparents’ fault – they just wanted to connect with their grandchildren. Yet the connection was clearly blocked. Maybe with the ‘only people’ who would give my friend some support and affection the way she wanted to receive from relatives. But no idea, though.

The Outcome

I know the last part of my story wasn’t about staying over or sleeping in a hotel. But I did share the outcome of the energy reading in that hotel to her. Also, in hindsight I could tell something interesting about the hotel. The hotel was called ‘Only YOU’. And in a way we shared things that ‘only you’ would know. Because we are sometimes careful about the things we would share. And with whom. Or we would know things only at a subconscious level.

Not sure if other people, other hotel guests, would resonate with that. No idea if they would feel our energy if they sat in the same room, or even on our chairs in that hotel. But I guess it’s way more likely, since they only cleanse energetically in 6-stars hotel – so they would say at the Rosewood in Amsterdam.