Take a small metal key and place it before you on your alter, and either write the name of the person you wish to benefit on a piece of paper that is beneath the key or concentrate upon the image of them in your mind while you say the incantation necessary.

Here are two sample incantations that I had written in one of my notebooks.

To find work:

Key, key, you are the power through the Lord and of the Lady, here in me, and here I say,
Give this [man/woman] [name] the employment he/she desires.
Open the door of good for them
Open the door of their desire
Open the door,
Let it beopen,
Let them enter on that work which satisfies their need and will,
Fulfill and bless all of their days
This is your message; this is your aim,
This is your power which now begins.

To find housing:

Key, key, you are the power through the Lord and of the Lady, here in me, and here I say,
Give this [man/woman] [name] the dwelling place of their desire,
A place of blessing, comfort, ease and safety, warm with human good,
And make this place in all ways home to all their needs
This is your message; this is your aim,
This is your power which now begins

You may chose to light a candle and leave the key before it until the candle burns down, select whichever sort you feel is best. The aim of the burning candle is to channel and reinforce the message and potency of the talisman.
To also amplify the energies you can place the key on a reflective surface to reflect the light back through from the other side. The key should be worn by the person it was enchanted for as a pendant either on a thong or a silver colored chain underneath their clothing.
Provided the subject is constantly seeking that which the key was enchanted for things should start to come together in 3-5 weeks, according to my notes.

Be confused. All is well. Now you are blessed.
You have life to nurture and nurture you.
Be calm. Be easy. Be comforted. You are blessed.

Alternately if you can identify the cause of the imprint as a previous resident speak directly to them in the most affected room.

It is time to leave here. All is well.
There is nothing here for you. You must be gone.
Go now go. Complete your passing.
Go and with our blessing and farewell.
Farewell!

Make sure nothing has been left behind that carries the energy field of the previous resident, in particular old writings and photographs. If they’re causing issue.

If you wish to keep something of theirs that is imprinted with a previous energy field purify it with salt; if you suspect furniture use incense to purify it.

With this I purify you of the past.
Of hurts and memories, keeping only love.

What I do when I’m starting with things like this is get a black candle and get in the closest to the center of the house that I can, and ask that all the negative energy in the house be absorbed into the candle. I visualize the candle acting like a black hole sucking in the negativity, and light it. After the candle has burned long enough for me to feel a strong difference in the energy I take the candle outside and bury it in the yard asking that the Earth will absorb and heal the negative energy and convert it into something useful.

Then I come back inside lighting the smudge stick (bundled sage) and take that into each room of the house swinging the bundle so that the smoke from it goes around the whole house from top to bottom. In each room I will say something along the lines of:

From North, to East, to South, to West, bless and cleanse this room so that all who are in her will have peace

I might change it up a little, like in the dining room I’d say “make sure everyone who eats here is always satisfied” and in the bedrooms that “everyone will rest peacefully and comfortably and be re-energized” different things like that whichever I feel is necessary.

Then once that is done I let the house rest for the night before the next day lighting the candles in the protection totem in sequence, and calling each of the guardians to protect the house and the family who live there, and to keep us safe from outside invaders and the like.

Mother Earth, this salt is purification
We return it to the ground, your ground
With this ring we set the boundaries
Walls to keep this house hold safe

We thank you for the bountiful garden
Which surrounds this home, our keep
We thank you for your guidance always
And your protection while we sleep.

Now protection crystals are great for spreading positive energy and light throughout the house, from guarding against psychic attacks and things of that nature. They’re not however going to prevent other issues, if there’s asbestos in your house you really need to get something done about that rather than just putting out the crystal, that way you can hopefully get by without a mesothelioma lawyer in the future.

Bringing positive energy, and good spirits and helping hold sway against negativity those things crystals are good for.

My crystal is a regular quartz crystal that I picked up from the local gem shop. Normally I keep it in front of the protection totem, but right now it’s in a ziploc box buried in a good two cups (if not more) of salt so that it can be leeched of any build up of negative energy and all the tune to this apartment and be used at the new place.

After it’s been in the salt. I’ll pour the salt out into the yard and wash it, then it will be ready to recharge, which I’ll do by placing it in the kitchen window at the new house so that it will get the sun every morning until we move in. It’s actually working out perfectly on that score because it will have Wednesday, Thursday and Friday morning, three days, and we get the key Friday afternoon.