Smudging by Noah Nicholls

Step 1: Gather Materials and Resources

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There are many different medicines used for the process of smudging. Some of these include sage, sweet grass, cedar and tobacco. You will also need a container of sort to smudge, this could be a bowl, shell or pan.

Step 2: Place the Medicine

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Once you have gathered all the materials, and you have a bowl, shell or pan set for smudging, you place your medicine in.

Part 3: Lighting it

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The medicine is lit with a match. Once the medicine is lit, there will be smoke used for the smudging. The person who lit the medicine is the first to smudge.

Part 4: Directing the Smoke

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After lighting the medicine, the smoke will be used to smudge different parts of your body. You guide the smoke to the different parts of the body, usually with the use of an eagle feather. Each part of your body has a different scared meaning.

Part 5: Smudging Senses

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The smudging process involves smudging five of your senses for different meaning. Start by smudging your eyes so that you see things in a positive way and view the beautiful world around us. Then you will smudge your ears, and so on.

Part 6: Smudging Ears

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Once you have finished smudging your eyes, you move onto smudging your ears. You smudge your ears as they hear for us, and so that we only listen to good things.

Part 7: Smudging Hair

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The next step after smudging the five senses, is to smudge your hair. Your hair represents a large part of your identity. It holds memories and experiences with it.

Part 8: Smudging Chest

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Smudging your chest and body is the next step after you have smudged your hair. This gets smoke onto your body, cleansing you.

Part 9: Smudging Feet

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Then, you smudge your feet. You smudge your feet as they are used to walk. You use your feet to walk over Earth, Wsitkamu.

Part 10: Prayer

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After you have successfully smudged everything you would, you make a small prayer to the creator to give thanks and reconnect with your spirit, finalizing the smudging. An example of a prayer could be as follows: "We smudge with these sacred medicines to cleanse all of the spiritual energy that is occupying this house. We are very grateful to be able to use them to purify the space and communicate with you."