Smudging has long been used to connect to the spiritual realm or enhance intuition.
Burning sage or smudge can lift one’s mood it could also be a great ally against stress. The practice of burning smudging is fairly simple, a seashell or bowl of ceramic, clay dishes, or glass to hold burning sage or capture ash, optional you can use feather or fan for fanning smoke.
Smudging has gained popularity as a way to cleanse your space of negative energy (among other things). Put simply, smudging is the act of burning sacred herbs for cleansing and purification. smudging, or other rites involving the burning of sacred herbs or resins, is a ceremony practiced by some Indigenous peoples of the Americas. While it bears some resemblance to other ceremonies and rituals involving smoke from other world cultures, notably those that use smoke for spiritual cleansing or blessing, the purposes and particulars of the ceremonies, and the substances used, can vary widely among tribes, bands, and nations, and even more so among different world cultures. In traditional communities, Elders maintain the protocols around these ceremonies and provide culturally specific guidance. The smudging ceremony, by various names, has been appropriated by others outside of the Indigenous communities as part of New Age or commercial practices, which has also led to the over-harvesting of some of the plants used in ceremonies. The appropriation and the over-harvesting have both been protested by Indigenous people in the US and Canada.
