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Smudging a Sacred Ceremony

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Smudging a Sacred Ceremony


Smudging is a link with the creator and obtaining positive energy.

Always keep this in mind when smudging.Theres an energy field around everyone and the energy can be felt by hugging someone and it can be used to
balance the energy. Smudging purifys and cleanses the energy fields.

It is done before an opening Ceremony before Councils and during ritial times and Ceremonys. Smudging is the important beginning of all ceremonies, sweat lodges, meetings,and beginning all spiritual events.

When being smudged you visualize the positive energy in the smoke and you pull it towards yourself, and guide the smoke over your head, directing it over your body, legs and around it to the ground. It will cleanse your energy fields surrounding your body, and increase the positive energy around and in it, purifying it.

Draw the smoke around your heart,and over your head to recieve its blessings. You feel the energy surounding cleansing, and purifying yourself physically, and spiritially becoming with one with its positive energy centering yourself. In a Sacred way purify yourself completely with the energy and as you watch it ask the Creator to purify you and increase the positive energy around and within you.

Then you offer the smudge to the 4 directions in thanksgiving and offer it to Creator, and Earth . This is done by the person if one person is doing the smudging before smuddging everyone else if smuddging everyone before a meeting or ceremony.

Often with the use of feathers. Everyone should be in a circle while they are being smudged by the person smudging everyone .

If the shell is passed the shell is held in left hand and the right hand guides the smoke over your body. If you are being smudged by someone else use your hands to help guide the smoke over and around your body. Visualize where you want the smoke to go pulling extra smoke to where you feel you need healing or to be more balanced.

Items you need to smudge, abalone shell, sage and sweetgrass, cedar, tobacco, feather fan or a single feathers. You place the herbs into the shell and light them and then you blow out the flames and then you use the feather to draw the smoke towards you as you start to smudge.


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