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hi my love's welcome back to my channel
I'm Jess from Behati life thank you so
much for tuning in today we are talking
about smudging what is it and why you
would want to use it and how to smudge
your space this question was actually
submitted in one of my YouTube comments
from one of my followers on Instagram
and on the YouTube channel I don't
remember your name right now but I will
link you and give you the shout out down
below thank you so much for submitting
your question it's questions like you
like these that help me to be able to
better serve you guys to know what
questions you have because I wouldn't
even think to talk about smudging on
here because I thought it was something
that you know a lot of people knew but
now that I'm thinking about it there's
so many different ways to smudge and to
smudge your space and people probably
have a lot of questions even if you are
an advanced spiritual practitioner so
what is smudging smudging is using a
ingredient or an item or a substance in
order to energetically hit the reset
button of your space so it cleanses the
space and purifies it of any type of
negative energy or old vibrations and
sometimes it's not even negative energy
but sometimes you just need to cleanse
your space completely this is perfect
for you guys if you have a meditation
room or if you're a tarot reader or a
healer or an energy worker of some sort
you nine times out of ten you're really
going to want to smudge and to cleanse
your space because those people and all
things come with energy and over time
that energy can kind of build up within
a space and it starts to feel congested
or god forbid you're working with
someone who has you know negative vibes
cannot can't connect it to them so let's
say someone's going through a breakup
and you're doing a tarot reading for
them and they're just so heartbroken
they're so emotional and when they're
when you're working with them they're
emotionally releasing will that energy
within that space and they're not doing
anything wrong they don't have bad
intention and in fact you invited them
into your space in order to work with
them and to pull some cards but that
energy kind of leaves a lingering
vibration and it can it can have an
effect on you and you can feel it even
though you're not intentionally trying
to absorb that energy especially if
you're an empath or a sensitive or an
energy worker and in general it just
kind of sticks with us so what you want
to do is you want to take an item
whether it be sage or Palo Santo and
burn it in order to cleanse a space
maybe and like I'll describe in the in
the future of this video like you know
moving forward in this video that it
doesn't always have to be something that
you have to burn that creates a smoke
there's other alternatives which we can
talk about another example of why you
would want to use smudging is let's say
you are visited by spirits or let's say
someone passes on in your space or let's
say you're moving into a new home
environment or you have a new office
setting or whatever the case may be you
really want to take some time out to
smudge the space in order to cleanse it
and to refresh in that space with your
own personal intention with your own
personal vibration in your energy so
you're not having this lingering
presence of the people or the things
that were there before you another great
idea for smudging another great way of
our time to smudge is you know the
beginning and end of a new year so or
the old year so it right now as I'm
filming this is like December 18th or
December 17th I can't remember but it's
we're finalizing the the energy of the
year of 2017 as you move on to 2018 so
you better believe as I'm moving into
this new year I'm going to smudge and
cleanse my space my workspace my
apartment my kitchen my boyfriend's
apartment my family's apartment I'm
gonna smudge all those spaces because we
are releasing the old and making way for
them for the new so all that being said
what is smudging and what are some tools
that you can use in order to sits smudge
your space and maybe some alternatives
if you can't work with a smoke and I'll
tell you my favorites so the most
obvious and the most widely used is sage
now this is my personal sage bundle that
how you use obviously because it is
completely charcoal over and you know
I've used it so many times
relatively small I normally have thicker
ones within my shop that are available
for my clients and also for myself to
use I just you know take them from the
stock and burn them for myself in the
event that I use it but this one I've
had for a good amount of time you can
you know light the tip of it it you know
goes on fire you wait for the smoke to
catch let's see if I have a lighter
around here so I could show you guys but
you wait for this the stage to catch
fire at the very tip and it will burn
you want to wait until there's a thick
white smoke that's coming from it when
you have that thick white smoke you blow
it out and you use that smoke in order
to cleanse and sage the space and smudge
the space smudging it within with sage
particularly sage is so powerful if you
smell it I mean it's eat you it has a
smell and an energy to it that is you
know you just can't mistake it you know
that it's sage when it's burning it's so
thick it's so strong and it's awesome
for that because it completely removes
any energy within a space positive and
negative and that's a good thing and a
bad thing because sometimes you don't
want to remove positive energy sometimes
you just want to you know remove the
negative stuff and just recharge it hit
the reset button
um the other thing about sage is that
like I said before at the scent of it
and the smell of it well this the scent
and the thickness of it is something
that is unmistakable so this could be
really difficult let's say for my
closeted witches or people who live in
environments where they can't you know
have smoke in in their room or within an
apartment space or they want to keep it
a secret now you're not doing anything
wrong but some people really do stay
within the closet where they're just
like I don't want people to know that
I'm saging my my room because it you
know provokes questions that people are
asking me about it or people get weird
about it
or no the case may be so this would not
be what you want if you're trying to
hide the fact that you're smudging
within your within your space simply
because the smoke scent that is
left after you burn it kind of lingers
for a while so this would not be a good
alternative again if you are trying to
keep a secret or trying to keep it on
the DL not letting people know that you
are smudging as often as you are or that
you even smudge at all because maybe it
makes people uncomfortable
so um an example of that is I had a
friend who was living with their partner
and their partner um they were going
through some difficult times and after a
fight he would want to go through and
smudge and sage the space and cleanse a
space now he felt that energetically it
was going to help to move them through
these fights that they were having this
complicate this opposition this
difficult time that they were going
through their relationship so after he
got in a fight with his partner he would
want to smudge and and energetically
cleanse the space but he didn't want his
partner to know this because he's like
you know his partner's like like why
like why like why are you doing this um
so I recommended something else and I
will recommend that later and talk about
that but so it for example like I'm
saying all this to say that you don't um
you know there's just like stigma
sometimes with like okay well why are
you hiding the smudge or why are you
smudging and for some people it's just a
sacred thing like smudging in general -
is a sacred exercise and the sacred
activity so it's not something that you
really want to broadcast all the time so
if that truly is the case and you don't
want to UM broadcast the fact that
you're smudging then using a sage bundle
like this is not going to be the one for
you because this will leave a
fingerprint it will leave a mark in the
scent but in the sense that someone a
day or two later can walk into your
apartment or your space and be like
what's that smell why does it smell like
that you smoking weed in here what's
going on so this will leave a lasting
impression but it's very powerful for
completely cleansing a space let's say
you want to quit cleanse yourself there
are many times growing up where I would
go to drum circles with my mom full moon
circles and we would be out there just
on at the full moon just dancing on the
beach
almost like you know it's in Florida and
whatnot so we weren't wearing which
clothes is a huge fire many people are
gathered around totally different types
of people all you know in this one space
there would be spirits there would be
different energies and we would just
work with all of it and then when we
would leave of course my mom would like
a smudge stick a sage bundle and smudge
our energy starting from the very bottom
from our feet but you know around our
legs between our legs up around our body
just up over our head and just
completely you know smudge and cleanse
our space before we got into the car
because she did not want us to bring any
type of energies from that full moon
circle into the car and into our home
environment now that's not to say again
that anybody that was there had negative
vibrations or anything like that but
it's just a preventative measure that
you'd really don't know the type of
energy that people are working with
let's say someone is sick and let's say
you had the flu or let's say a virus
goes sweeping through your your home
environment and your kids are sick your
husband's sick you're sick
using a smudge bundle at the very end it
doesn't work to remove bacteria it works
to remove energy so again that's a great
tool for this now you're you're saying
you're probably thinking like Jess if
you're talking about you know this
removes all energy I don't want to
remove all energy I just want to remove
negative energy I just want to remove
bad vibes
then Palo Santo sticks are amazing for
you this is what Palo Santo stick looks
like this is freaking smells so good
it's one of my favorite things to burn
all the time I burn this more than I
earn the sage I feel like I burn sage
when I am having like a super strong
emotional release during my meditation
practice I will burn the sage and I will
you know swirl it around me during that
time because so much has been purged so
that's when I use this sage to
completely release simply because the
emotion was so strong Palo Santo is
something that I like to use for like
lightly after every single reading that
I do a burn the Palo Santo and I'll
cleanse my deck with my tarot deck with
the smoke of the Palo Santo stick I'll
cleanse my space I'll cleanse my
apartment I'll cleanse me I'll cleanse
wherever it is that I'm doing
my reading that's because Palo Santo is
amazing at purifying and cleansing a
space and smudging a space but it
doesn't have that thickness it doesn't
have that ability to completely wipe out
all vibes it's only wiping out and
resetting kind of like negative vibes
and lifting the mood and shifting the
energy of the room or the person or the
tarot cards a trivet case maybe Palo
Santo is not for incredible emotional
release because it's not going to work
strong like that that's not to say that
this wood isn't highly spiritual it is
but if you are going through a lot of
emotional cleansing sage is your best
friend with that Palo Santo is for your
everyday feelings and emotions that
aren't too heavy and aren't too intense
if you do have a feeling where and I've
done this for myself to where it's like
okay I've had this emotional emotionally
intense release or I'm working with a
client who just completely emotionally
vomits and emotionally explodes and it's
just so much they've been building up
for years for years for years and I work
with them one on one on the reading they
have a breakthrough and it's just the
energy of it is just in my room it's in
my space I will sage first in order to
remove it and then Palo Santo second in
order to get that really good sweetness
vibes back into my energy space Sage has
this natural tendency to kind of leave
this like barren empty void afterwards
which is what it's there for is to
completely remove so Palo Santo is I
will follow up with Palo Santo with a
blessing with a mantra with an intent
that I say for the room in order to
reset the energy and get it back to this
like my normal my normal good vibes my
normal positive you know space and the
way that I like it to feel like my space
if you ever walk into it my apothecary
my reading space the best thing that I
can use to describe it is it just feels
like rose quartz vibes like just really
sweet very nurturing very loving
very pink the space itself is green but
the energy is very pink it's like pink
aura around it and Palo Santo brings
that sweetness to it that I just love to
have in my space it's the reset button
and just gets me right back to square
one the other way to stage or to smudge
your space is by using sweet crossbreeds
I don't have those on me right now but I
will in the future have them available
in my shop just like I have the Palo
Santo bundles and the sage bundles in my
shop but sweet cross is so amazing it's
literally like a it looks like regular
grass long grass that's braided and um
and you burn it and it has this really
sweet um
cupcake it smells like a cupcake it
smells like you're burning a cupcake or
you're cooking a cupcake or cake in your
in your space and basically sweet grass
works very similar in alignment with how
Palo Santo works so you can use those
interchangeably sweet grass is another
thing that's highly spiritual sometimes
it's hard to get ahold of Palo Santo is
one of those things that's currently
trending and sage is currently trending
so they're easier to find over sweet
grass but you can use them
interchangeably for the same reason and
for the same purpose so let's say you're
tired of Palo Santo let's say you don't
like the smell of Palo Santo then you
can switch it out for sweet grass and
get the same benefit also sweet grass
has this natural tendency to attract
these sweet vibes in your life this good
energy afterwards just like Palo Santo
does but I feel sweet grass is in a more
ability to attract to work as a positive
magnet of attraction within your space
and within your own personal life so
let's talk about alternatives let's say
you can't use sage or let's say you hate
the smell of sage let's say you've
overdone the smell of sage let's say you
can't have smoke within your space but
let's say you rent out your apartment or
and you have smokes really sensitive
smoke alarms let's say you have a
roommate who's just like not into
hearing about you saging let's say you
want to keep it a secret
I recommend getting sage essential oil
make sure it's pure organic the best
sage essential oil that you can find
because there are so many duplicates out
there that our fragrances and just
shitty I'm not gonna lie to you but yeah
so get some really pure sage essential
oil some orange blossom water or some
rose water or distilled water it's up to
you I personally love orange blossom
water that's why I use my own personal
sage sprays a cleansing spray that I use
within my shop I also have a Palo Santo
spray that's available within my shop
but basically what you do is you take 90
percent of it should be orange blossom
or distilled water and a few drops of
the sage essential oil I personally like
a stronger sage blend and I love a
stronger Palo Santo energy spray I like
them to be strongly scented so you can
put that in a spray bottle similar to
what I have here this like blue bottle
the reason why I choose the blue bottle
to put this as in is because you're just
I it's something that I find that I
would be traveling with let's say I'm on
the airport and I keep it in like a two
ounce bottle I just cleanse and sage and
spray myself and my environment see it
smells good and I just it works to help
to reset it's not as obvious it's not
obnoxious but it helps just the same as
far as cleansing the space and you can
travel with it the bottle is blue in
order to protect the essential oils on
the inside because you're traveling with
it so it tends to you know be more
exposed to light you guys already know
that the majority of my bottles
currently are in clear bottles simply
because even though there's essential
oils and oils on the inside I think it's
beautiful to be able to see it this is
the Gemini full moon oil that or new
moon oil that actually dealt with a full
moon oil that's going out to everyone
hairs one of the breathe oils sorry you
guys I'm working out orders and I just
stopped to film this video because I got
the question um so I just think that
it's really pretty to see them and you
you want to see the magic within the
bottle so these and most lunar intention
oils are bottles like this that I'm
creating like the love spell bottle
you're not travelling with them if you
are you know just put them in a sleeve
like a velvet sleeve or something like
that in order to protect the bottle um
but for these type of you know energy
sprays you're traveling with them and
you know they're more apt to be exposed
to the elements so I put them in a
darker bottle to protect them but either
way you can make your own sage blends um
and just sprint spritz the area all
corners of your room your you know
corners of you set the intention that
you're releasing set the intention that
instated clearly stated you know I
release anything that is no longer here
for my highest and greatest good I am
removing any type of negative energies
I'm cleansing the space but with love
and light I'm replacing it with loving
energy and blessings for everyone that
come in you know in contact with me um
for my highest and greatest good
whatever it is that you want to say
whatever blessing that it is that you
want to say I always follow from the
heart there isn't one mantra that I
repeat over and over I just say a prayer
from the heart whatever my intention is
for that moment um and you know spritz
myself spritz my environment spritz
around my pets around the people that I
love whatever before you get on an
airplane the person that you're sitting
next to I'm scanning don't do that
you'll probably get arrested but yeah
basically you can use that mist in order
to cleanse your space and it settles I
mean you must smell it for an hour two
hours
I just smells really good when another
person comes in so they're like did you
clean it smells really good in here so
it's just using that type of energy
spray these type of bottles of like
cleansing room sprays are available
within my shop
the sage spray will be available in 2018
the Palo Santo mist cleansing spray is
currently in my shop now I sell out of
those really fast so if you're
interested in them make sure you pick
them up
I personally again I use orange blossom
water but you can use distilled water if
you choose it's up to you alright so
that's pretty much it if you have any
other questions about smudging please
leave them down in the comments below
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