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I really enjoyed the palo santos and actually burned it like incense.

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Smudging

The use of sage or another herb to cleanse a person or area by burning the sage and waving the smoke around.

A blessing done to the forehead with a smudge of oil and annotation. Smudging is the act of cleaning up the physical space of a person, place, thing or situation using some kind of cleansing tool, herb, oil or sound.
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This is an art which has been commonly practiced in the native American traditions as well as ancient European traditions. The theory behind it is that when practicing magic, or attempting to contact someone or something which is viewed as higher than ourselves, we must communicate in a cleansed and pure environment.

To do so, we have to quite literally clean up the space. Some of the more common ways of accomplishing this task is to waft sage throughout the home or whatever needs to be cleaned. One can also use salt in an absorptive function because it absorbs negative energy over time.

Some who have relatively bad allergies to smells will instead use the sound of a bell or a singing bowl to break up the negative energy, thus cleaning it in preparation for their sacred works.

I find that having a little area like a lodge or in my case a trailer you can smudge an really get absorbed in the breath an the elements fragrance.

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Steve! Is that you and Amma?  :D Really cool!


Ohhh, is it Yogananda?

Is that you as a poet
And hardly show it?
Or you as free
From this
Cosmic dream?

I have recently seen how much aroma and sound affect our
meditation. Whether it is the sound of the wind blowing through the trees. Or rain gently falling on our ⛺️ tents.
Whether it the smell of leaves or palo santos or just the cool smell of the breeze in autumn as incense drawing us closer to our breath and mantra.

I believe I was exposed to it decades ago UWE; I’ll give it a try again for memories’ sake.

Finally returned to using it UWE and glad I did!! I’m sincerely grateful for your including it here Uwe and its fragrance brings back to my memories…. Many years of attempts at spiritual discipline which have contributed so much meaning to this life🔑 like a key opening a door to the best past I’ve had this life.