Smudging has long been used to connect to the spiritual realm or enhance intuition. For healers and laypeople in traditional cultures, burning sage is used to achieve a healing state — or to solve or reflect upon spiritual dilemmas.
Grounding & Cleansing:
1.) Grounding - Close your eyes, take a deep breath and Ground to the Earth by imaging a cord from your tailbone connecting to the center of the Earth. Once connected, imagine a HUGE ball of light above your head that grows and covers your whole body. Imagine this ball of light entering the crown of your head and pushing everything that doesn’t belong (negative, worry, sickness, etc) through the cord attached to the Earth and releasing this from your body/ aura. While saying in your mind “I release you with Love and Light”
2.) Light the White Sage
3.) The tips of the leaves should smolder slowly, releasing thick smoke. ...
4.) Begin by cleaning your space using the White Sage.
- Allow the incense to linger on the areas of your body or surroundings you'd like to focus on. …
- If, for example, you are smudging your house because you recently moved there, and want to make sure it is cleansed for your family, you can say something like “I send all negative energies away and to the Light, and welcome positivity and love into my new home.
- 5.) Allow the ash to collect in a ceramic bowl or shell when finished.
Removal of Unwanted Spirits
Sage can be burned in your home to cleanse it of a haunting or unwanted spirit activity.
Physical and Emotional Advantages
Burning sage is useful in cleansing oneself from psychic and emotional trauma. Much like clearing a space, the smoke from sage can be fanned around your body with the intent to remove emotional blocks in the energy field.
Healing and Chakra Balancing
People who do Reiki and other forms of energy healing can fan the sage smoke around their client's body to balance the energy centers, otherwise known as Chakras.
Relaxation
The smell of burning sage can increase relaxation and aid in deeper meditation.