What is Smudging?
Smudging is a peaceful ancient practice performed as an act of purification through the utilization of sacred smoke from hand selected sacred plants and herbs. Each Life Of Gaia’s kit is filled with blessings bundled with love, healing, positive energy, and light. Created with the intention to sacred smudge, and consequently, purify the home, heart, and soul. As the bundles of sacred plants and herbs are burned, the sacred smoke is dispersed around yourself and your environment. As a result, energies clear away and healing occurs throughout the body, mind, and soul.
At Life of Gaia, we understand the scientific and spiritual benefits we are providing to humanity. We strongly believe in promoting wellness as well as spreading kindness and compassion. It is our intention to help you manifest your next best self through the art of smudging.
The peaceful ancient sacred art of smudging is renowned for gently healing the body, mind, and soul while purifying and clearing your space, surroundings, and environment. It is to be performed with absolute reverence and gratitude towards nature. You will experience cleansing, inspiration, and positive energy through the intriguing fragrances found on each bundle of sacred plants and herbs available at Life of Gaia.
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The History, Facts, and Renowned Benefits
For thousands of years, cultures all over the world have utilized incense and smoke in a variety of spiritual, ceremonial, and medicinal settings clearing negative energy and restoring harmony. Through research, science has demonstrated smudging’s cleansing antiviral, antiseptic, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, and antibacterial properties. Renowned benefits include cleansing, positive energy, balance, peace, harmony, protection, and purification.
When and Where to Sacred Smudge
The beauty of sacred smudging is that it is a ritual that can be performed anywhere and at any time. Our suggestion, at Life Of Gaia is to be mindful and present of your current circumstances while setting specific pure and focused intentions. Examples of intentions: to leave behind any stress, distractions, and clear negative energy away from yourself and your environment. In other words, your intentions can include to manifest the next best version of yourself!
Sacred smudging can be a part of your daily, weekly or as needed routine.
- Before the beginning of your day
- As you meditate, chant, and/or pray.
- When experiencing feelings of stress, depression, anger, resentment or negativity.
- During moments of much needed support and positive energy.
- During big life events, such as: birth, death, moving into or out of a home or office.
- Throughout changes in seasons: Spring, Summer, Fall / Autumn, and Winter.
- Challenges in relationships such as: arguments, separation or divorce.
- When you simply want to cleanse and purify yourself or your space
- At the beginning of a project, a new job or new position at work.
- At the end of the day to destress and unwind.
What is most important is that you find the best day, time, and place for you!
What to Use - Hand Selected, Sacred Herbs and Plants by Life Of Gaia
As you carefully open this gift of love, you are embraced by gentle scents that evoke images of sacred journeys, including:
4” White Sage and Rose Petals
A must have to clear space, body, mind, and soul.
- A sacred herb believed to promote healing, wisdom, longevity, and peace.
- The earthy aroma offers clarity, vision, strength, and wisdom.
- Perfect for everyday use thanks to its universal purification benefits, which are believed to neutralize energies.
4” White Sage and Lavender
A magical combination believed to restore emotional balance.
- This blend is known for its healing cleansing benefits, which create an anxiety-reducing effect, adding a deeper sense of calm, peace, and harmony.
- A serene bundle of fragrant earthy tones of the White Sage combined with the floral scent of Lavender; the two are perfectly tailored for serenity.
- This ideal combination has the ability to clear out negative energy from people, objects, and their surroundings.
4” Cedar
Best known for its power to purify energies, places, objects, and people.
- A fresh evergreen and citrus smell, distinctively utilized for deep cleansing, spiritual healing, and protection.
- Cedar heightens positive energy and uplifts the spirit within.
- Celebrated for promoting inner strength, self-confidence, courage, and bravery.
- Known to create energy movement, whether it is moving towards or away from you.
- Facilitates purification and returns a soothing and nurturing balance to people and their daily environments.
4” Yerba Santa
Known around the world as the “Sacred Herb” – recognized as a natural tonic.
- Traditionally, Yerba Santa alleviates respiratory symptoms thanks to its leaves with anti-inflammatory properties that are utilized to make medicine.
- Known for promoting high energy levels and boosting mental alertness. Its uplifting scent is traditionally bestowed for protection and boundary setting.
- Yerba Santa represents love, purification, growth, empowerment, beauty, and the release of emotional pain.
- Savor the cyclic process of spiritual awakening, embodiment and connectedness; key to soul integration and ascension.
4” Palo Santo
Renowned “holy wood or holy stick” from South America
- Considered holy and sacred due to its high therapeutic benefits and healing properties.
- Accredited for purification, protection, and the ability to assist with raising vibrations and shifting to higher levels.
- Used by ancient tribes to banish negative energy and misfortunes while lightening and brightening energies.
- Enjoy the light, sweet, and earthy scent of Palo Santo on a daily basis.
- You and your surroundings will be filled with pleasant scents while creating a positive and soothing atmosphere.
5” to 6” Majestic Natural Abalone Shell
Perfect for home decor.
- Possessing an iridescent and sparkling beauty with a pearlescent natural effect. A symbol of strength, beauty, resilience, and independence because of its ability to manifest eternal beauty despite extreme and harsh circumstances and processes it experienced.
- Most popularly utilized for sacred smudging rituals due to its heat proof properties.
- Renowned for strengthening intuition, heightening abilities, and enhancing memory and creativity as well as inspiration. Promotes good luck, harmony, peace, and healthy communication benefits.
- Known for enhancing the power of sacred herbs and plants as well as for protection of negative forces, vibrations, and energies.
4” Hand Carved Foldable Tripod Wood Stand
- Beautiful intricately hand carved base holds the Abalone shell.
- Interlocking legs easily fold for easy storage and transportation.
A Wonderful New Beginning
Always sacred smudge in a respectful, reverent, and grateful manner with the variety of sacred plants and herbs offered by Life of Gaia.
Remember it is a tool to support you in your journey. You will experience a connection like none you have before… In return, you will be capable of manifesting your next best version of yourself.
Keep in mind that although destination is important, you go through a process to reach it.
Therefore, feel free to enjoy the process!
Provide yourself and loved ones with this precious gift of love, harmonious balance,
and positive energy today!
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Wonderful idea, concept, and beautifully done. I spend a lot of time outdoors with my grandson, and we pick a leaf or two from a shrub, bush or tree and crumble it between our thumb and pointing finger and breath in the scent of the tree. It can be so exhilarating, and mood changing, connecting with the plants, and knowing them more intimately. The same goes for identifying the leaves of plants and smelling the bark of different trees. My grandmother also used to use a lot of potpourri. We also burn a lot of incents. And use candles to evaporate essential oils into the air. Plants definitely can transform your energy and mood. We know the vast healing capabilities of plants. My favorite practices are looking up to the luminous yellow-green of the uppermost baby leaves of the trees; especially when the sun shines on them, after a rainstorm. And greeting and talking to the trees. Some might say I am crazy but they don’t know the true magic of life.