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Incense blend for cleansing houses and flats
Step 2: Setting an intention for smudging the home
Step 3: Carrying out the energetic cleansing
Step 4: Manifesting a positive vibrational field
Do you want to finally turn your home into a place of peace and tranquillity where you can recharge your batteries?
Then don’t hesitate: with a ritual smudging, you can transform your home into an oasis of regeneration with very little effort.
In this blog post, you’ll find step-by-step instructions for an optimal and powerful smudging and clearing of your flat or house. We’ll also show you how to create a lasting positive atmosphere in your home.
Every house tells a story
Every house and every plot of land, every flat, holds a story within it. This story leaves behind energetic traces and imprints that shape the atmosphere of the place. An intensive smudging ritual helps to clear away old energetic traces.
All you need are two things: the right incense blends and a little time to carry out the incense ritual.
Incense blend for cleansing houses and flats
For the incense ritual, prepare two incense blends:
Part 1 of the ritual – energetic cleansing
In equal parts:
- Angelica root
- Frankincense
- Rosemary
- Mugwort
Part 2 of the ritual – manifesting a positive atmosphere
In equal parts:
- Angelica root
- Juniper tips
- Frankincense
This blend offers protection and lends your rooms a relaxed atmosphere and vitality.
The incense blends listed should be regarded as recommendations – you can replace them with incense of your own choice if necessary.
Step 1: Physical cleansing
Physical cleansing is an important part of the purification process and, at the same time, an essential step in preparing for the ritual. To do this, follow the tips and steps below:
- Keep all window sills and the areas in front of the doors clear of any objects that might get in the way when you’re airing the room.
- Switch off any smoke or fire alarms before the ritual.
- Take precautions and keep a fire extinguisher or a bucket of water to hand if you are working with incense charcoal or incense sticks.
- About a day before the ritual, thoroughly clean the rooms you wish to clear. Dusting, mopping, cleaning windows and carrying out a general, thorough clean of the living area will enhance the ritual’s effectiveness.
- Have the desired incense blends and all materials (incense tools, candle, lighter, writing materials and paper) ready for the ritual.
- Prepare yourself for your ritual and for connecting with the space by formulating a clear intention. The following exercise will help you with this step.
Step 2: Setting an intention for smudging the home
Preparation
Sit down in a relaxed manner in the room you wish to clear. If you want to clear an entire flat or house, sit in the room where you feel most at ease. Light a candle. Place both hands on your stomach, just below your navel, and breathe in and out calmly and evenly whilst watching the candle’s flame. Imagine yourself breathing in the light of the flame. Feel how you are taking in the warmth and light of the candle. Simply let your thoughts flow and find peace.
Implementation
Feel your body and try to experience the moment with all five senses.
What sounds can you hear?
What smells do you notice?
What inner images are with you at this very moment?
Try to sharpen your perception with the help of these questions. Then personify your living spaces – give them an inner form and a soul. In this way, symbolically invite ‘the guardian’ of these spaces. He or she should move into the rooms and accompany the ritual protectively.
As soon as you feel connected to the space, ask yourself what qualities this place needs and what it should let go of:
Which characteristics would you like to let go of in this room/house?
What sort of positive mood or atmosphere would you like to create in this place?
Freedom, peace, clarity, strength, vitality, joy or serenity?
What do you hope to achieve with the cleansing ritual in your living spaces?
Once you have answered these questions for yourself, you will feel grateful that you were able to perform this ritual and that the soul of your living space has revealed itself to you. Imagine how the personified representation, the ‘good spirit’ of your flat or house, stands by your side as you continue with the ritual.
Step 3: Carrying out the energetic cleansing
Preparation
Before the cleansing ritual, air the room for a few minutes and then close the windows again. Now light the tea light and place it in the tea light holder.
Stand in the centre of the room you wish to clear. Place one hand on your stomach, just below your navel, and one hand on your solar plexus. Take three deep breaths in and out, relaxing your shoulders as you do so. Then consciously take in the space around you. Now visualise a radiant sun above your head, hovering above you and illuminating the room.
Implementation
Hold the incense bowl containing the smouldering incense mixture (No. 1) with both hands and consciously breathe in the scent and aroma of the mixture. Ask that everything weighing upon these rooms (this plot of land or this house) may now be cleansed.
Then, starting from the centre of the room, move your incense bowl anti-clockwise through the room, forming a spiral that extends into every corner of the room.
Repeat this process three times. Then carry out the cleansing ritual in the other rooms as well. Once you have finished this part of the ritual, open all the windows and doors and air the rooms for 10 to 15 minutes. Then prepare for the second part of the ritual.
Note
To clear a plot of land, you should also carry out the ritual as described above. If you wish to ritually cleanse a house, it is advisable to smudge every single area and to begin the ritual in the cellar.
Step 4: Manifesting a positive vibrational field
Preparation
Now try to create a positive atmosphere in your rooms.
Think again about what you want for your living space (your plot of land or house) and how you would like to feel. Write down all the qualities and characteristics you wish to invite into your living spaces – or your ‘kingdom’ – in a focused manner and using clear words on a sheet of paper.
Implementation
Next, take an incense bowl and begin to walk through the room in a spiral pattern, moving from the outside in. As you do so, move the incense bowl in a spiral motion with your hand, moving clockwise from top to bottom, paying particular attention to the corners of the room. This movement symbolises the anchoring of the desired atmosphere within the premises.
Imagine that the rising smoke stores within this environment all the qualities you wish to invite into your living spaces, your flat or your house. Once the ritual is complete, air out the whole house thoroughly for at least half an hour.
Conclusion
Afterwards, or the following day, burn your notes or the letter (e.g. in a clay bowl lined with aluminium foil) and keep the ashes of the letter for four weeks in a wooden bowl in the part of your flat or house where you spend most of your time. Then scatter the ashes symbolically at the roots of a tree. With this gesture, you invite the desired qualities to grow and manifest themselves.
Note
If you live in a house, begin the ritual in the cellar and then go through every room, including the loft.
So? Did you enjoy this article, and have you tried the smudging ritual yet? Then please leave a comment – we’d love to hear about your experiences and thoughts on smudging. Please feel free to share the article with your friends, family and acquaintances so that they too can transform their homes into centres of strength and joy.
Thank you for your time, and see you soon!
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