Traditional Room Smudge

This is an old traditional way to cleanse and bless a room for this time of year, using a smoking stick of incense or bundle of herbs. You can use a number of different actual materials for smudging, such as:

 

    A bundle of dried white sage or rosemary, lavender, sage sprigs

    A stick of sandalwood, cedar or rosemary incense

 

All you have to do is light your smudge of choice, and blow out the flame so that it's smoking nicely. Walk around the room, letting the smoke flow to each of the corners of the space. If you want to bless a whole house, then just walk to each room and do the same thing.

 

Visualize the smoke pushing out the negative energy and leaving a clean energy behind. With each room, repeat:

 

By this smoke, I bless this space,

By my words, I clean this place.

 

When you've added smoke to the area to be blessed, stub out the incense or smudge stick.

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