CLEANSE - PURIFY - POSITIVITY

Smudging is a way of cleaning spaces from negative energy and inviting new positive energies. Burning aromatic herbs and resins was already practiced in antiquity and in ancient Egypt. Smudging has also been used by indigenous peoples of North and South America as well as by Shamans in rituals to cleanse, heal, protect and balance people.

Smudging can be advantageously performed to clean your space before yoga, meditation or when important decisions have to be made. You should also always carry out a cleansing before you move into a new home or if the home has been part of very negative energies, such as intense arguments, divorces, worry, depression, anxiety and depression. Smudging is an important part of cleansing rituals and ceremonies to make room for something new and fresh. There are many different plants and herbs that can be used in smudging, some of the ones I recommend are White Sage, Yerba Santa, Cinnamon, Cedar, Eucalyptus, Bay Leaf and Palo Santo.

The smoke that comes from burning sacred herbs and leaves is a solemn source of purity and protection. Always light it with a strong intention to clear out all negative energies, worries, sadness, impurities and negative thoughts. The purpose of smudging is to use the smoke to cleanse people, objects and places of unwanted and stagnant energies that have stuck.

GUIDE - SMUDGE RITUAL

• Start by ventilating your home properly. Please keep the windows open during cleaning.
• Allow the smoke to settle, avoid using directly under the smoke detector and always keep the smudge stick under supervision. The smoke is what releases and "opens up" the stagnant energies so they can let go.
• Light the smudge stick with a match, lighter or over an open flame.
• Put it in a fireproof container or hold it in your hand.
• Use circular gestures to move the smoke over the person, object or place you wish to purify and protect.
• If you want to purify a room, run the bundle of incense along the ceiling, walls and floor. Start from the top and work your way down. You can use your hand, a feather, or a seashell to direct the smoke. Work with your whole body and use sweeping gestures to work the smoke out through the open windows.
• Put a little extra love around mirrors, places that you yourself have identified as "heavy and dark" as well as the hall and entrance where energies from visitors often tend to get stuck and stay.
• If you wish to cleanse a person of low vibrations or overload of energies, you move the incense bundle along the contours of the body from head to feet. Don't forget to use smudge under the soles of the feet and the back of the body.
• Allow the smoke to envelop your entire energy body. You can also place the smudge stick lying on a dish on the floor and position yourself standing over the dish with the column of smoke directed between your legs so that the smoke goes up your entire spine to cleanse through your root chakra and the seven energy centers up through the crown chakra. Stay only as long as you feel comfortable and do not inhale too much of the smoke.
• Smudge sticks can be extinguished and re-ignited and burn out in about 2 hours. Always extinguish against a fireproof surface. Finish by thanking Mother Earth for her cleansing powers.