5 Herbs Used For Spiritual Cleansing (Part Two)

Yerba Santa

Smudging is one of the ways to energetically cleanse a space to invite positive energy. When smudging a space, you burn plant material. The smoke fills and purifies the environment. As the smoke ascends, our wishes and intentions rise and mingle into the universe, connecting us to the earth and humanity.

Yerba Santa leaves are viewed as sacred in Native American and Spanish societies. This ‘blessed herb’ emits a charming and inspiring aroma. These herb wands are utilized in customary smudging practice for assurance, purging, healing, spiritual quality, fortitude, clairvoyant capacities, and finding your deepest self. It is customarily utilized for security and defining limits. Yerba Santa has likewise been utilized for affection, refinement, development, strengthening and excellence, and the arrival of passionate agony put away in the heart chakra. Smudge the leaves to purify any spaces that feel heavy with negative energies from other people. You can even crush up the leaves and add them to other herbal smoking herbs to clear any unwanted mucus from your lungs.

Smudging yourself with yerba santa helps protect you from negative energy physical and nonphysical. Yerba Santa is a herb whose leaves are utilized to make herbal medicine. The medicinal advantages of this herb have been researched by various researchers with distributed papers on the web. In California, Yerba Santa is known as the Sacred Herb by the Cumash Indians. It’s otherwise called Bear’s weed, Gum Bush, Consumptive weed and Mountain Balm. The herb is in the waterleaf or Hydrophyllaceae, and it helps control the water in the body making it ideal for the spirit and spiritual blockage.

Yerba Santa can be used in numerous ways, however, the best-known way is by smudging it and breathing in the aroma. One wonderful thing about burning yerba Santa is that it tends to be useful for a horde of purposes. It may be utilized for its recuperating properties just as clearing negative vitality from your home and from your body as well. Yerba Santa is the steady smear you have to get over despondency, timidity or a completely broken heart. It’s known to sparkle a light on self-esteem and self-care. Its relieving and very relaxing smell is used to help with meditation or just burned for happiness.

Yerba Santa, the Holy and Sacred Herb, is known for its powerful healing powers and is mainly utilized as a smudge or incense for security and purification. Or it can be burned like incense. This wonderful herb is useful for dressing up spiritual alters or can be carried around in a purse or pocket for insurance. Burn yerba santa in a room where there have been sick people, its scent removes any negative spirits that may be engaged with the sickness, and it makes a pleasant filtering potpourri when joined with spearmint and cascara sagrada. Some make a decoction (to pour bubbling water over the herb and let soak) and bring to the burial ground to pour over the grave of somebody whose soul they wish to contact in dreams. Others add it to shower water for enchanted beautification. A yerba santa wand is burned just the same way as white sage.

The Practice of yerba santa smudging:

• Light the end of a yerba santa bundle with a match. Blow out quickly if it catches on fire.
• The tips of the leaves should smolder slowly, releasing thick smoke. Direct this smoke around your body and space with one hand while holding the bundle in the other.
• Allow the incense to linger on the areas of your body or surroundings you’d like to focus on. Using a fan or feather can also help direct the smoke, though this is optional but traditional.
• Allow the ash to collect in a ceramic bowl or shell.

If you haven’t read part one yet, here’s you’re chance! 6 Herbs Used For Spiritual Cleansing (Part One).

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