Smudging

What is smudging?

According to author and interior designer, Nicholas Cappele, in his book, Altared Space: Harnessing Healing Energy Using Feng Shui Principals,smudging is a powerful cleansing technique from Native American traditions with “smudging” being the common name given to the burning of sacred grasses. The three plants most used are sage, cedar and sweet grass. The theory behind the ritual is that the smoke attaches itself to the negative energy present in the space and as the smoke clears it takes the negative energy with it releasing it the ethers to be regenerated into positive energy.

On the website Sage and Wisdom – Alternative Healing and Thinking, smudging can be useful when you’re feeling depressed, angry, resentful, unwell or after you have had an argument with someone. It is common to smudge yourself, the space and all the guests or participants before a ritual or ceremony or celebration. You can smudge your home or work space as part of a general spiritual housecleaning, and you can cleanse crystals or other objects of any negative or lingering energy with a smudging ritual.

I use it after every single person I see for the past 13 years for these two reasons:
(1) natural odor neutralizer
(2) to clear the energy