Sage burning (aka smudging) is a 2,000-year-old indigenous American practice also common throughout Native American & Neo-Pagan traditions which include the burning of herbs to bless, protect, and cleanse negative energy.
Smudging cleanses and rejuvenates your energy and even your crystals. Sage smoke changes the ionic composition of the air and can have a direct effect on reducing your stress levels.
Common herbs in a smudge stick include: Sage, white sage, lavender, sweet grass, cedar, and Palo Santo. Palo Santo wood “holy wood” is from a mystical tree found in South America. Sweetgrass wands call forth the energy of peace & love.
How often can I smudge?
You can’t over-smudge! Anytime you’re feeling a funk coming on or need to detox from drama, bust out your smudge stick and get to cleansing!
Ideal times to do a smudging ritual:
o Moving into a new living space
o Starting a new job
o Starting your own business
o Before & after a guest enters your home
o Before & after yoga or energy healing session
o Before & after meditation
o After an argument or illness
o Upon returning home from crowded situations
o Following an illness
o After a breakup
o Blessing a room
o To create a protective shield around your home
o After purchasing antique furniture or 2nd hand clothing
Use a fresh bundle per cleansing. When you finish, either let it burn out or gently press it out. There are various ways to do a smudging ritual such as on yourself, in a room, or around an object.
Smudging can add new depths to meditation, yoga, and create sacred space. Mindfully incorporate it into your spiritual practice and daily life to feel more connected to Source.
Simple 3-Step Smudge Ritual
Step 1 – Use dried sage that’s bound by a thin string. You can find dried sage at a local herb shop, Whole Foods, or holistic market. My favorite organic herb source is Mountain Rose Herbs.
Step 2 – Light the bundle by holding a flame to it until it begins to smoke. If a flame appears, gently blow it out.
Step 3 – Once you have a nice smoke… Direct the smoke with your hand or feather over your body from feet up to head & back down. Visualize the smoke taking away with it any negative energy from your life. Repeat this mantra until you intuitively feel like you’ve finished.
Say: “I now release and send all negative energy to the light.”
3 Steps to Purifying Yourself and Your Space
Purify yourself.For increased or balanced energy or for lifting your mood, follow this procedure
Start here: Stand tall with your legs wide and your arms out to your sides. Have a friend light and blow out your smudge stick until it’s smoldering like charcoal. Using a large feather or several feathers held together to form a fan, waft the smoke from the smudge stick in circles around your body. Don’t forget to circle your head and your feet with the smoke.
Symbolically “wash” your hands in it. Either start from the head and work your way down to the ground, “stomping” out the energy with your feet, or start from the feet and work up, letting the smoke dissolve into the air above you.
Say:“Goddess, cleanse my aura of all negative energy. Let my actions and even my thoughts be for the benefit of all beings.”
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Hello, I have Ben looking for a good source about White sage smudging online and I found your page. I wonder if you could help me with one thing. I recently bought beautifull Vintage ring which clearly choosed me 😉 beacuse I’ve been chosing between few and this one even the not the most glamours one speaked to me. It was a gify to myself for my 30th birthday later I found out that opal stone used in this ring helps with dealing with your past etc which spoke to me even more on closing 3rd decade of my life…Anyways I flet good energy from it but I didn’t know it’s past so I decide to smuge it with white sage. First I’ve cleaned it with Water and then smuge over it. When I was finished I looked at it and felt totally different energy. I even got scared of it for a white. Then I did it again, and put it on. It felt better tho, but not as good as I first saw it. Do you thing I might do something wrong. Could I bring bądź energy by cleaning it with sage and water? IS there anything I could do to reverese it???? I would appreciate your insight! Lots of love !
Kasia! First of all, happy belated 30th, and I LOVE that this ring chose you… that’s exactly how the magic works. 💍✨
Now take a deep breath, because here’s the truth: you did nothing wrong. Sage and water don’t add negative energy, they clear energy. What you felt afterward wasn’t bad juju… it was a blank slate. Vintage pieces carry decades of stories, and some of that old energy is what “spoke” to you in the shop. When you cleansed it, all of that got wiped clean, so the ring suddenly felt like a stranger. That difference can feel scary, but empty isn’t evil!
So there’s nothing to reverse, only something to fill. Now YOU get to be the one who gives this ring its energy. Hold it in your hands, set an intention for this new decade (opal is perfect for releasing the past, you nailed that AND I even have an opal wedding ring), and wear it while you’re doing things that light you up. Leave it in the light of the full moon to charge if you feel called. Within a few weeks it will feel more “yours” than it ever did in the shop.
Remember: the most powerful tool in any ritual isn’t the sage, the water, or even the stone… it’s YOU. Trust your intuition, it clearly already knows what it’s doing. 😉
Brittney, Hello my name is Barb Yard and i cant tell you how HAPPY AN EXCITED I am for finding you. I am from Pittsburgh, Pa. I want to jpin the Shine Tribe and im hoping i did it right!! GOD BLESS YOU AND THANK YOU FOR SAVING MY LIFE!!!
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Hello, I have Ben looking for a good source about White sage smudging online and I found your page. I wonder if you could help me with one thing. I recently bought beautifull Vintage ring which clearly choosed me 😉 beacuse I’ve been chosing between few and this one even the not the most glamours one speaked to me. It was a gify to myself for my 30th birthday later I found out that opal stone used in this ring helps with dealing with your past etc which spoke to me even more on closing 3rd decade of my life…Anyways I flet good energy from it but I didn’t know it’s past so I decide to smuge it with white sage. First I’ve cleaned it with Water and then smuge over it. When I was finished I looked at it and felt totally different energy. I even got scared of it for a white. Then I did it again, and put it on. It felt better tho, but not as good as I first saw it. Do you thing I might do something wrong. Could I bring bądź energy by cleaning it with sage and water? IS there anything I could do to reverese it???? I would appreciate your insight! Lots of love !
Kasia! First of all, happy belated 30th, and I LOVE that this ring chose you… that’s exactly how the magic works. 💍✨
Now take a deep breath, because here’s the truth: you did nothing wrong. Sage and water don’t add negative energy, they clear energy. What you felt afterward wasn’t bad juju… it was a blank slate. Vintage pieces carry decades of stories, and some of that old energy is what “spoke” to you in the shop. When you cleansed it, all of that got wiped clean, so the ring suddenly felt like a stranger. That difference can feel scary, but empty isn’t evil!
So there’s nothing to reverse, only something to fill. Now YOU get to be the one who gives this ring its energy. Hold it in your hands, set an intention for this new decade (opal is perfect for releasing the past, you nailed that AND I even have an opal wedding ring), and wear it while you’re doing things that light you up. Leave it in the light of the full moon to charge if you feel called. Within a few weeks it will feel more “yours” than it ever did in the shop.
Remember: the most powerful tool in any ritual isn’t the sage, the water, or even the stone… it’s YOU. Trust your intuition, it clearly already knows what it’s doing. 😉
Lots of love right back! ✨
Brittney, Hello my name is Barb Yard and i cant tell you how HAPPY AN EXCITED I am for finding you. I am from Pittsburgh, Pa. I want to jpin the Shine Tribe and im hoping i did it right!! GOD BLESS YOU AND THANK YOU FOR SAVING MY LIFE!!!
Soooo glad we’ve connected sister and can’t wait to see your sparkle magic inside the #SHINETRIBE Sisterhood!
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