What is smudging?

Smudging calls on the spirits of sacred plants to drive away negative energies and restore balance.
It is the art of cleansing yourself, others and places.
Cleansing a space or our bodies with techniques such as smudging clears away all the emotional and psychic garbage that may have gathered over the years or even hundreds of years.
 It's like spiritual spring cleaning. Helps you banish stress, sooth you, or give you energy....

The herbs most often used in smudge sticks are sage and sweet grass. Sage drives out negative thoughts, energies, spirits, and all influences.
 Sweet grass is used to attract positive energy after all the negative energies have been banished by sage.

How is it done?

It's your choice on what you want to use. I use the smudge wand or stick most often.  Placing a choice of sage and other things in a container or abalone shell is also used.
Any small, flat, heat-proof container will do.

Light the sage and let it flame for a minute or so. Extinguish the flame so the sage is smoldering and smoking.

Take the smudge container and using circular clockwise movements, encircle yourself with the smoke, asking that all negative energies be cleansed away.

You can do this for the whole room and even the whole house. Let the smoke from the sage permeate throughout.
Try and finish off the smudging process by ending up at an open door.

I use this on everything and everybody. Yes, my pet too...
I use it on an as needed basis yet I suggest you do what feels best for you.
Things I've used it for:
People
Homes (my own and others. Using to clear a house that is up for sale is done quite often)
Businesses
Cars, and other transportation means
Pets
Anything I use for my work (computer, cards, calendar, business cards, phones, etc)
My land
Pictures
The list can be endless

Some of the most popular herbs used  include desert sage, white broad leaf sage, juniper, pinon,

sweetgrass, copal (in resin form), mugwort, lavender and sacred tobacco.

There are no limits...use your imagination!
~N2itive1~