I want to clean up with sage...
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I want to clean up with sage...
| Sun, 03-18-2007 - 7:46pm |
Both my house and myself...
I really don't want to smudge. For one, I have recently quit smoking cigarettes and all kinds of smoke bother me now. For two, my walls are thin and I don't want to sage the neighbor.
So how else to use it besides burning it? Details appreciated.
I am curious about what kind of sage, can I use essential oils? Dried from the spice aisle? Fresh from the produce aisle? I shouldn't have to buy this special stuff, should I?
Lots of negative energy in my life. I was hoping to send it packing.
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Thanks so much. I didn't know about the salt thing.
I did some more research on things and I realized that the blessing is in the doing and the believing. My house and my negativity are because my mother passed away in Dec I have been stumbling with all kinds of stuff since then...even before then. I was looking for a ritual to give me a fresh start. I don't put faith in objects or my own actions. I live by grace and faith in God through Jesus. But that doesn't mean that I can just sit on my ass. And there's no reason to deny that there is chemistry and other principles are at work even if I don't understand them.
You're doing a wonderful job of being creative and meeting your own needs!
Yes, I am trying to remember to celebrate the lives of both my parents. I haven't been doing this, nor have I been honoring their memory by allowing myself to treat their stuff irreverently. It's not that they care. It's just that their things have become a burden to me, rather than a blessing, or a positive memory. Getting rid of most of it, moving it out where it can be appreciated by someone else, and moving along in my life...is truly going to be a sign of respect for their memory. My recent thinking is that I have to change my attitude about their stuff, so I can be blessed by what is left.
I'm still having a very hard time but this is years in the making. My dad died in 1996 of a sudden stroke
Glad I could be of some help.
Meditation"calming the mind' Praying "attuning to spirit" Nothing a person sees is good or bad except how we judge it to be. Things just "are"
. But if you need a physical motivator taking a spiritual bath may work for you. Actually a friend of mind quit smoking and said burning sandlewood actually helped sooth his urges..In the bath you can mix sage from kitchen . VIsualize all negativity washing off you and down the drain. then send a prayer of loving kindness to yourself..someone you dont know and someone you know then someone who may have hurt you or made you angry. See that spark of God in all life.. no matter what there actions are.. We all come from Great Spirit