ver walked into a room and immediately felt a weird, heavy vibe? If so, it might need smudging. After an argument, a stressful day, or even for no obvious reason, stagnant energy can build up — and just like dust, it needs clearing out.
Smudging 101 is one of the quickest and most powerful ways to cleanse a space and refresh its energy. This sacred practice uses burning sage, sweetgrass, palo santo, or incense to help remove stagnant energy and raise the vibration of your surroundings. Think of it as a spiritual deep clean, inviting in light, peace, and positive energy.
But there’s an art to smudging — especially if you want to call in divine support from angels, ascended masters, and spirit guides to amplify the process. Let’s begin.
Before You Start: Prepping for a Powerful Smudging Ritual
Before starting smudging and lighting up that sage stick, take a moment to prepare your space and mindset. Energy is attracted to your thoughts and emotions, so approaching smudging with fear or doubt can bring in more of the energy you’re trying to remove. Instead, embrace the process with a sense of gratitude, love, and empowerment.
How To Prepare Your Home For Smudging
Open Doors & Windows – Energy Needs an Exit Route! Open a door or window so negativity (and any unwanted spirits) have an easy way out.
Set Your Intention – What do you want this cleansing to accomplish? Say something like:
“I cleanse this space of all negativity and invite in only love, light, and protection.”
Invite Spirits to Leave – If you feel any stagnant or unwelcome energies, politely tell them:
“The doors and windows are open—it’s time for you to go now.”
Call in Divine Help – Ask angels, ascended masters, or your guides to join in and amplify your cleansing:
“I invite divine light, angels, and spirit guides to help clear and bless this space.”
Once you’re feeling centered, calm, and ready, it’s time to light up!
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While You’re Smudging
Remember to keep doors and windows open until you have finished smudging, so any negative energy or unwanted Spirits have an avenue of escape. Invite them to leave first and say something like, “The doors and windows are open, so you must leave now. This home welcomes in loving energies, angels, and light beings only. Loving thoughts while smudging will attract more loving energies to you, and if you’re frightened, it will have the opposite effect and attract more negative energy. Keep positive, and invite a friend to help you!
Smudging 101: The Step-by-Step Guide
1. Choose Your Smudging Tool
You can cleanse your space using White Sage, a traditional tool for clearing heavy, stagnant energy. Sweetgrass is used to bring in positive, uplifting energy. Palo Santo is a fragrant wood that purifies and raises vibrations. Incense sticks such as palo santo, frankincense, and sage are suitable for general smudging, cleansing, and spiritual connection.
2. What You Do With the Smoke
When you light the sage stick, keep it at arm’s length so you don’t get burned and rub your hands in the smoke. Hold your smudging stick of sage, sweetgrass, or palo santo at a slight angle and light it with a candle or match. Let it catch fire for a few seconds, then gently blow it out—allowing the embers to release a steady stream of smoke. Gently wave the stick around your energy field, or ask someone else to do so. It’s easier if someone else smudges you and vice versa.
Smudging 101: Wave The Smoke Around
Next, wave the smudging stick into every corner and along every wall, doorway, and window; smudge chairs, furniture, and other objects. Work your way from left to right as you move around the space, ensuring you don’t miss anything. You can use the feather to wave the smoke into the corners; if you don’t have a feather, use the back of your other hand. Try to get the smoke from the incense or sage into every nook and cranny in every room.
3. Smudge Yourself First!
Before smudging and cleansing your home, cleanse your own energy by wafting the smoke around your body:
✔ Start at your feet and move upward, envisioning negative energy dissolving.
✔ Wave the smoke over your hands, heart, and head, setting the intention to cleanse your mind and spirit.
4. Smudging Your Space
You can move through each room, waving the smoke into corners, doorways, and windows while repeating your cleansing intention. You can say:
“I clear this space of all negativity and invite in love, light, and divine protection.”
“Only positive, high-vibrational energy may remain here.”
5. Focus on High-Energy Areas
Pay extra attention to:
✔ Doorways & Windows – Entry points for energy.
✔ Corners of Rooms – Energy collects in stagnant spaces.
✔ Beds & Workspaces – Places where emotional energy lingers.
Keep the Good Energy Flowing!
Smudging isn’t just a one-time fix—it’s a powerful practice for maintaining high-vibe energy in your home and life. Regular cleansing (especially after stressful events or low moods) keeps your space feeling light, fresh, and aligned.
Pro Tip: Want to supercharge your smudging ritual? Play uplifting music, light candles, or visualize your home glowing with golden light as you cleanse!
So, go ahead—clear out the old, invite in the new, and let your space radiate with positive energy. The more love you put into your ritual, the more love your home will reflect back to you.
Other People’s Negative Energy
We’re happy when people visit; if they are growing through a negative phase, we might be over the moon when they leave. Some leave all their worries and troubles behind them and go home feeling much better, taking all their negative energy with them. Here’s what you can do about it! Open the windows, get your smudging stick, sage, sweetgrass, or palo santo out, call in the angels, and ask them to help you clear the stagnant negative energy with sage!
What If You Can’t Smudge
If you’re at work or for some reason can’t smudge with sage, and you sense any negativity, consider that the energy might be someone else’s negative thoughts & feelings. People sometimes leave unpleasant, stagnant energy in a room.
Have you ever entered a room after people have been arguing? The negative energy is so thick you could cut it with a knife! Open the windows and let the natural light from the sun in, which will help transform the energy into lighter, brighter energy. If you can’t say affirmations or prayers out loud, say them silently but with enthusiasm! Tell jokes, and turn a fan on to help circulate the stagnant air so it leaves out of the window or the door.
Prayers and Affirmations
I recommend taking a moment to say a prayer before you begin. I usually say something like, ‘I call upon Archangel Michael to be with us while we cleanse our space of negative influences and energies.’ Archangel Michael, thank you for bringing your angels to protect and cleanse my home. Please use your mighty sword and chase away all and any negative energy.
Next, I ask the Ascended Masters and the Archangels to assist us with today’s smudging and cleansing. I’d like to request that any negative thoughts or feelings directed at us or our environment be transmuted into love and light and returned to the sender.
What You Say During The Process
Repeat something like this over and over again until every room’s front door and your back door have been smudged. The purpose of smudging and cleansing today is to bring love and light to areas where darkness prevails. All spirits that prefer a negative, fearful environment MUST leave now by open doors or windows.
We will raise the energy vibrations so they are only welcome if they become one with the light. I affirm that darkness is just the absence of light. I welcome all light beings to be with us for as long as they want. This space is now claimed exclusively for all who live in love and light. Angels, Ancestors, and our lost loved ones fill this space with love and light; the energy here is of the highest vibration.
The Hiding Places Of Negative Energy
Look in your home for portals that spirits might use as gateways between worlds and close them. Mirrors, religious ornaments, statues, scenic paintings, and more can all be portals between worlds. Draw a Celtic knot on the bottom of statues, on the backs of mirrors, etc, similar to those shown below, or get our free protection knot stickers from us and seal those portals.
It May Be Hiding In Plain Sight
Go through your home room by room and look at everything carefully. Clear any clutter, as negative energy tends to accumulate around items you no longer use. Ask your spirit guides and angels to show you any objects that need to be sealed or removed. If in doubt, throw it out! If you’re undecided, it is more likely an object that needs to be removed or carries negative energy. Consider burying it upside down in the garden to neutralize the attached energy.
Seal Those Portals: How to Close Energy Gateways in Your Home
Have you ever felt an unsettling energy in your home—like someone (or something) was watching you, but no one was there? Maybe a certain mirror gives you the creeps, or you’ve noticed weird disturbances around an old picture or statue. If so, you might be dealing with an open spiritual portal—an energetic gateway that spirits can use to move between realms.
The good news? You can close it after smudging ! Just like locking your doors at night keeps out unwanted visitors, sealing a spiritual portal ensures that only positive, high-vibrational energies can flow into your space. One of the simplest and most powerful ways to do this is by using sacred Celtic knot symbols—designed to confuse spirits and prevent them from slipping through the veil.
Let’s explore into how you can seal portals, protect your energy, and reclaim your space with this simple but potent technique!
Why Do Portals Open in the First Place?
A portal is like an energetic doorway between the physical and spiritual realms. While some portals are naturally occurring (like those found in high-energy locations), others can be accidentally created through mirrors, antique objects, or even intense emotional energy.
Common reasons portals open:
Mirrors facing each other – Create an infinite energy loop, acting as a gateway.
Antique pictures or statues – Objects with strong history or sentimental energy can hold spiritual imprints.
Negative energy buildup – Fear, anger, or grief can attract entities looking for a way in.
Unintentional invitations – Certain rituals, séances, or paranormal curiosity can leave portals open.
If you’re noticing strange energy shifts, odd sounds, unexplained cold spots, or a general feeling of unease in certain areas of your home, it’s time to seal those portals and restore balance after smudging!
How to Close a Spiritual Portal with a Celtic Knot
Step 1: Identify the Portal
✔ Pay attention to objects, mirrors, or areas where energy feels off.
✔ Trust your intuition—if something gives you weird vibes, there’s probably a reason.
✔ Mirrors, old paintings, and heirloom statues are common portal locations.
Step 2: Draw a Celtic Knot
A Celtic knot is a sacred symbol with interwoven lines that have no beginning or end. This endless design is said to confuse spirits and prevent them from using the object as a gateway.
What to draw?
✔ A simple infinity symbol (a sideways figure 8) works just as well!
✔ Any Celtic knot pattern with continuous loops.
✔ Use chalk, pencil, or even essential oils (like rosemary or frankincense) to trace it on the back of the object.
Step 3: Place Symbols Around Your Home
While sealing a specific object is effective, why stop there? You can strengthen the protective energy in your home by placing these symbols in key areas:
✔ Above doorways – Blocks negative energy from entering.
✔ Around windows – Seals out unwanted spiritual interference.
✔ On mirrors – Prevents energy leaks and closes potential gateways.
If you’re feeling extra mystical, you can even carve, paint, or print these symbols onto wooden plaques or stones and place them around your home for added energetic security.
Boosting the Portal-Sealing Power
To make your portal-closing ritual even stronger, consider adding these extra layers of protection:
Light a candle – White (for purity), black (for banishing), or blue (for peace).
Burn protective herbs – Sage, rosemary, or palo santo help clear lingering energies.
Use crystals – Black tourmaline, obsidian, or selenite near sealed areas add a spiritual security system.
Say a closing affirmation – Try:
“I seal this portal with love, light, and protection. No energy may pass unless for my highest good.”
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Frequently Asked Questions: Smudging 101
Below are common questions about smudging, how it works, and how to use it safely and effectively for energy cleansing.
What is smudging and how does it work?
Smudging is a spiritual cleansing practice that uses smoke from sacred herbs to clear stagnant or negative energy from a person, space, or object.
What herbs are traditionally used for smudging?
White sage, palo santo, cedar, and sweetgrass are commonly used for smudging, each offering different cleansing and grounding properties.
How do I smudge my home properly?
To smudge your home, light your chosen herb, let it smoulder, and gently guide the smoke through each room while setting a clear intention to cleanse the space.
How often should I smudge my space?
You can smudge whenever your space feels heavy or unsettled, or regularly as part of your spiritual or self-care routine.
Can smudging remove negative energy?
Smudging is believed to help clear negative or stagnant energy by shifting the energetic atmosphere and reinforcing positive intention.
Is smudging safe to do indoors?
Yes, when done mindfully. Always ensure good ventilation, use fire-safe containers, and never leave burning herbs unattended.
Do I need to say a prayer or intention when smudging?
Setting an intention or prayer strengthens the practice, helping focus your energy and clarify what you wish to release or invite in.
Final Thoughts: Keep Your Space Sacred & Sealed
Sealing portals isn’t just about keeping out unwanted spirits—it’s about taking control of your energy, home, and spiritual well-being, and smudging help you do that. Just like you wouldn’t leave your front door wide open all night, you don’t want to leave energetic doorways unprotected either!
By using Celtic knots, sacred symbols, and mindful intention, you can confidently close portals, shield your space, and maintain a harmonious environment where only positive, loving energies are welcome.
So, grab that chalk, light that candle, and lock those cosmic doors!
There you have it how to cleanse your home’s energy with smudging sticks and sage. The key points are to stay strong in the power of love and avoid any fearful thoughts and feelings. Be firm with your prayers, intentions, and affirmations. If you’ve enjoyed reading this article, please leave me a comment and consider subscribing to our newsletter!
