How to Smudge With Sage
Whenever you feel the need to cleanse or purify yourself, a room, an object or another person, you can perform a smudging ritual. Smudging is a Native American ritual used in purification ceremonies to cleanse and balance the aura or energies of people, places and objects. To smudge, light a smudge stick, or a densely packed bundle of dried sage herbs. The lit sage bundle produces a cloud of fragrant smoke that you can waft around a person or place that needs spiritual cleansing.
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Instructions
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Smudging a Room
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Physically clean the room that you wish to smudge and open a window or a door so that any negative energy can find a way out of the room.
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Focus your intention on cleansing the energy in the room.
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Light one end of your sage smudge stick with a match and place the smudge stick on a heat-resistant plate. The embers of the sage will produce smoke. If your sage is burning with an open flame, blow out the flame so that the embers remain.
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Walk slowly around the room with the plate, using your hands to wave the smoke from the sage throughout the room.
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Sense any areas of the room in which the energy feels stagnant and wave more sage smoke into these areas.
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Walk around the room a final time with your smudge stick. Attract positive energies into the room by focusing your intention on creating a purified and spiritual place.
Smudging a Person
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Light one end of your smudge stick with a match and use a smudge fan or feather to fan the sage smoke. If you do not have a feather or a fan, use your hands to wave the smoke around.
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Ask the recipient of the smudging ritual to stand tall with her arms slightly outspread from her body.
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Stand in front of the recipient and hold the smudge stick in one hand and the fan or feather in the other hand.
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Fan the smoke of the smudge stick around the recipient's head. Focus your mind on cleansing her aura, or invisible energy field.
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Fan the smoke from the smudge stick down the recipient's body, ending at her feet.
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Walk behind the recipient, and beginning at her head, fan the sage smoke down her body to her feet.
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End the smudging ritual by drawing a circle in the air with the fan or feather.
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Tips & Warnings
Use a smudge stick to cleanse and purify an entire house. If you are moving into a new house, cleanse the house of any residual energies of its previous owner by smudging the house before you move your furniture and belongings into it.
Obtain sage smudge sticks from a new age store. Smudge sticks are available with a mixture of herbs, such as sage, cedar and sweetgrass.
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Comments
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I have used sage for years to cleanse and love growing it in my herb garden. There is nothing wrong with using what God gave you , no matter which way you worship or who you pray to.There are many different ways to call upon the Great Spirit, God & Goddess or whatever you choose to call them. It is all the same Great "One". It depends where and how you grew up and were taught.
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bit concerned( silly question here).. can the smuding set off smoke alarms.. have bought some and am a bit worried in case it does.. lol
