We don't always realize it, but sometimes our interior can be filled with stagnant, even bad energies! In this case, it is advisable to carry out a purification of the premises, in order to renew energies and feel better at home.
Moreover, purification can also be beneficial to help you relax and concentrate more easily, especially during meditation or yoga sessions, for example!
We often talk about fumigation, but it is not the only method for cleaning energies, far from it! Whether through smoke, salt or even the mind, there are different processes for purifying your home, depending on your tastes and preferences!
In this article, we reveal 6 ways to clean your living space. Here we go!
1. Purify your house with fumigation sticks
Fumigation consists of inhaling/using the smoke (or steam) that escapes after the combustion of a plant. Depending on the plant you choose, this method can help relieve physical discomforts such as coughs, for example, or even stress. However, it is also useful for cleaning out bad energies that can stagnate in our home. There are several ways to do this, including fumigation sticks.
White Sage Fumigation Stick
White sage is a plant native to North America used for hundreds of years by indigenous tribes for therapeutic and energetic purposes. It is thus attributed not only to multiple virtues for health, but it is especially recognized for its very powerful purifying virtues. For example, it can be used to clean lithotherapy stones.
In general, the dried plant is found in the form of a stick to be lit a few seconds before extinguishing it to enjoy its smoke with numerous properties. To learn more about it, we invite you to read our complete presentation of white sage!
"If you're interested, know that at La Bougie Herbivore, we offer our own white sage smudging sticks!"
Palo Santo fumigation baton
In the same principle as white sage, palo santo originates from South America and has also been used for hundreds of years for therapeutic and especially spiritual purposes by local peoples. It is considered sacred by its users, its name literally meaning "holy wood." Its little peculiarity is that it comes from a tree and not from a plant. To learn more, we invite you to read our article on the presentation of palo santo.
Like white sage, palo santo has powerful properties for health, but also for purifying and helping to let go and relax, particularly for meditation or yoga sessions. We find it, always like white sage, in the form of a stick to burn, in order to use its precious smoke full of virtues. You can therefore completely use it to clean your house of harmful energies found there.
If you wish, we offer you our palo santo fumigation sticks on our e-shop!
Homemade fumigation stick
If you prefer to make your own fumigation sticks yourself, know that this is entirely possible! All you need to do is dry your own plants, taking a close look at their properties. Once this is done, all you have to do is gather them into a bundle, tie them securely with cotton string, then possibly cut off what is excess so that combustion can be done more easily.
Among the plants that purify the air, you have for example sage (a cousin of white sage), bay leaf, rosemary and thyme, among others.
2. Purify your home with incense
Like white sage and palo santo sticks, incense is a method of fumigation. Very well known, it is found in the form of cones, long thin sticks, or even in the form of mixtures of dried plants to burn on charcoal pellets. It is often used to scent the home or to help relax and unwind. However, it can also be used like fumigation sticks by diffusing its smoke in order to dissipate bad energies. You simply need to choose a plant or vegetable incense with purifying properties.
3. Purify your home with plant-scented fondants
As said above, fumigation consists of using the smoke of a plant, but also its steam! It is therefore possible to use plant melts or essential oils in a perfume burner, in order to diffuse their properties throughout your home. This allows you to simply purify your home, while pleasantly scenting your rooms!
We recently created sage-scented wax melts with dried white sage inclusions. Not only does the plant and fresh scent bring a clean aroma to your home, but additionally, the added plants can help you cleanse the negative energies present!
4. Purify your home through visualization
One of the most economical and simple techniques to use to purify your home is to visualize. How does it work? It's very simple: you just need to find the visualization method that suits you to imagine the bad energies dispersing. To make it easier to understand, we will give you an example.
While cleaning, for example, you can imagine that you are purifying your home. If you use a broom, you can visualize yourself removing harmful energies from the place where you are. Then (or otherwise), you can ventilate the rooms by opening the windows, in order to complete the work of purifying the premises. This method is particularly useful, since it allows you to take advantage of cleaning your home to also purify it!
Of course, this visualization technique is an example, you can find or create the one that suits you best!
5. Purify your home with a Tibetan bowl
The Tibetan bowl is an object used for millennia in the well-being sector. To use it, simply rub gently around the bowl with a mallet to release its edge. It's a bit like the same technique that we use to produce a crystal clear sound by touching the contour of a crystal glass with a wet finger. Depending on the material the bowl is made of, it produces a more or less high-pitched sound, which helps to relieve certain pain, to relax and to immerse yourself in a meditative state more easily.
If we put it in this list, it is obviously because it can also be used to purify, notably lithotherapy stones, for example. It is indeed considered that the vibrations produced by its singing release bad energies. You can therefore use it in the rooms of your choice and see all the negative dissipate into the air thanks to the characteristic sounds it gives off.
6. Purify your house with coarse salt
As we mentioned in our article on purifying and recharging lithotherapy stones, coarse salt is an excellent way to cleanse the energies of your home! The trick is to place it on the floor in the corners of your rooms, leaving it to act for several days, or even weeks, depending on your feelings. If you have pets, you can place some on a dish, out of their reach, to prevent them from touching it.
For even more effectiveness, you can then sweep the salt out of the house, visualizing that you are removing all bad energies from your home. Otherwise, you can bury it in the ground in your garden for example, or simply throw it in your toilet to make it disappear.
You now have 6 ideas to help you purify your home, with your resources and preferences. Don’t hesitate to share your favorite methods with us in the comments!
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