| Smudging with smudge sticks is one of the best ways | | | | performed during the day, preferably on a sunny day. |
| to remove negativity, negative forces, and unwanted | | | | The sun and light will help you in this ritual to purge the |
| energies from your home.There are many different | | | | dark energies and negative forces out of the home. |
| ways you can perform a smudging ritual or ceremony | | | | When you have that all completed, the next step is to |
| on your home that is quick, safe, and effective, | | | | go to your front door and hold your smudge stick in |
| however this post will go into just one general ritual | | | | your dominate hand. Next, light the smudge stick and |
| that basically anyone can do and use as long as they | | | | let it smolder and smoke real good. The best way to |
| have the proper smudging materials needed to | | | | light a smudge stick is to use an enlongated lighter that |
| perform it. | | | | you would use to light candles or pilot lights in stoves. |
| Step 1 Gather Smudging Tools | | | | Once your smudge stick is smoldering and smoking |
| Smudge Sticks | | | | and really good, keep that lighter on you(and your |
| The most important thing you will need to begin a | | | | gemstone if you only have one, keep it in a pocket or |
| smudging ritual for your home will be a smudge stick. | | | | in your hand whichever you prefer as long as it is |
| Smudge sticks are normally hand made and rolled, and | | | | close to you) and begin to walk around the first room |
| tightly tied together by yarn or string. There many | | | | that your front door is in. As you walk through each |
| different variations, scents, and herbs that are used in | | | | room say a prayer and say it with POWER and |
| the making of a smudge stick, however, sage is the | | | | STRENGTH. One such prayer you can use is: |
| most common one used because sage is one of the | | | | "Negativity that invades my sacred placeI banish you |
| most potent negativity killers out there today and has | | | | away with the light of my grace You have no hold or |
| been for hundreds of years. | | | | power here For I stand and face you with no fearBe |
| Incense | | | | gone forever, for this I will say This is my sacred place |
| Another added benefit you can have while you are | | | | and you will obay" |
| performing your smudging ceremony would be to | | | | Again this is just an example, you can use your own |
| obtain some incense. Incense comes in many different | | | | or this one, whichever you prefer. Once you are done |
| scents and varieties like smudge sticks, including cones, | | | | with that room, go on to the next room, and the next, |
| sticks, and pure natural granular incense. Any of the | | | | until every room in your house is fully covered. Ensure |
| three will do, however we find that the more natural | | | | that you hit every corner of each room, and make |
| the better. Natural granular incense however will need | | | | sure the smudge stick is smoldering and smoking. If it |
| to be burned different then cone or sticks. If you are | | | | begins to die out then relight it with your lighter. You |
| going to use granular incense you will need some | | | | being the smudging ritual at the front door of your |
| charcoal and an incense burner. You light the charcoal | | | | home, and you end it at the back door. If you wish |
| first outside the incense burner holding the charcoal | | | | once you have finished going from front to back, you |
| with a pair of tongs so you don't get burned. Once the | | | | can go back through again starting at the back door |
| charcoal is lit make sure it is smoking regularly and then | | | | and then going to the front door. |
| place it into your incense burner. Next, place your | | | | Step 3 Closing Your Smudging Ritual |
| granular incense ontop of the charcoal and then if you | | | | This is important. Properly closing out your ritual can be |
| have some sand, or gravel, or small pebbles, you can | | | | vital to ensure the energy you put into it worked. For |
| place this over the charcoal and the incense in a | | | | this ritual the proper way to close would be to first put |
| mound shape but ensure the smoke can rise from it. | | | | out the smoldering smudge stick or you can let it burn |
| Some scents you can use along with your smudge | | | | itself out. One way of putting out a smoking smudge |
| stick for incense would be sage, cedar, banishing, | | | | stick would be to get an ash tray, or ceramic plate, or |
| purification, water(element incense), sweetgrass, copal, | | | | something similar and gently dab the lit end onto it like |
| dragon's blood, and lavender are some of the most | | | | putting out a cigarette. Another way would be to |
| effective. | | | | simply place it onto something where it won't fall and |
| Before you work with your smudge stick, it is best to | | | | let it burn out on its own(they usually do). |
| place whatever incense you are using into each room | | | | Once your smudge stick is out, let your incense burn |
| of the home and let it burn with the windows open if | | | | out on its own naturally. If you are using gemstones an |
| there are windows in that room. | | | | idea to close the ritual with even more positive energy |
| Gemstones | | | | would be to take an altar bell(or any bell if you have |
| Another tool you can use along side your incense and | | | | one) and gently ring it right above the stone. The ringing |
| smudge stick would be some gemstones. Gemstones | | | | of the bell will send vibrations into the stone and this will |
| are a powerful tool in cleansing. The energies within | | | | trigger the gemstone to release it's energies into the |
| the stones can be potent, and depending on the size | | | | room. If you do not have an altar bell, you can get a |
| of the gemstone(the larger the more energy it will | | | | glass and a fork and gently ding the glass with the fork |
| have) you can have an amazing purifying source in the | | | | over the gemstone as well. |
| gemstones. Some gemstones for purification and | | | | If you do not have gemstones in every room and only |
| cleansing purposes are quartz, citrine, amethyst, and | | | | have the one you were carrying around with you, take |
| malachite. If you happen to have enough stones place | | | | the gemstone and perform the above with the chiming |
| one into every room of your home along side the | | | | technique and then place the stone by your bed or |
| incense. If you only have one stone or only have the | | | | under your pillow. |
| means to have one, then you can carry it with you | | | | If you have performed everything mentioned within this |
| while you perform the smudging ritual. | | | | post you will have yourself one purified and blessed |
| Step 2 Begin your Smudging Ritual | | | | home for quite a while. You can re-do this ritual every |
| The first step with this ritual if you have incense in | | | | six months or as needed. The incense and stones are |
| every room would be to light all the incense and make | | | | just extra benefits to the ritual, however the smudge |
| sure they are burning with all the windows you have in | | | | stick is essential. If you cannot or do not want to use |
| your wide open, the curtains and blinds up. | | | | the incense or gemstones, ensure you walk through |
| The next step is to make sure your gemstones are in | | | | your home and say the prayer with your smudge stick |
| place next to your incense. | | | | as mentioned. |
| Whenever this particular ritual is performed, it is | | | | |