Whether you are just moving into a new house or driving away bad energy, cleansing your home can be both therapeutic and beneficial to all those who live there.
Smudging, or using smoke made from lighting a bunch of dried white sage, is a Native American Shamanic practice that helps to cleanse and purify a space.
While this ritual stems from shamanism, many ancient cultures have also adopted a similar practice and the idea of using smoke to drive out negative energies can be traced back as far as Ancient Egypt.
The theory behind the practice is that the smoke attaches to the negative energy and as the smoke clears so does the negative energy. It is believed that the bad energy is then released into another dimension in order to shift and transform into something more positive.
In Shamanic practices, the smoke from sage is believed to drive out evil spirits, negative thoughts and feelings and can keep negative energies away. Sage can also be used to cleanse auras, cars, your workplace, clothes, jewellery and crystals.
Smudging is recommended when you have just moved into a new home, experienced a lot of emotional upset or arguing within the space, when you are feeling depressed or unwell and when you have unwelcomed spirits.