Raise Your Vibration

Smudging is another way to clear negative energy and raise vibrations. 

Burning sage with the intent of clearing old energy is a wonderful way to cleanse and move the stagnant energy out of our homes. 

As a result, we raise our personal vibrations and the vibration of our home.

1) Nature’s Antidepressant

Negative ions, a topic scientific circles are talking about.

It looks like negative ions have a profound and positive effect on the physiology of every human being. Ions are atoms or molecules with a net electric charge due to the loss or gain of one or more electrons. Negative ions are produced in natural settings (such as in nature) while positive ions are produced in more contemporary places such as in the house. Electronics, in particular, give off lots of positive ions.

It appears that the negative ions produced from smudging offer effective antidepressant effects.

Dr. Clarence Hansell, a research engineer who studied the effects of negative ions on humans in the 1930s, noticed that the mood of one of his colleagues changed when ions were being generated by nearby equipment. He noticed his colleague was more joyful when the machine created negative ions and more sullen when it produced positive ions. 

In a controlled study focused on Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD (an extension of Hansell’s work), researchers found fresh air charged with negative ions was an effective treatment for depression. 

This is in large part due to its effects on serotonin levels, similar to the way antidepressant drugs work.

2) Clearing Negative Energy

Because smudging actually destroys bacteria in the air, it also has a psychologically clearing effect. 

This can allow us to relax in environments that may be a little harder settle in. 

Thankfully smudging gives off plenty of negative ions!

3) Clearing the Air

Surprisingly, smudging can help clear the air of all kinds of bacteria and improve allergy symptoms. 

This was a study that corroborated this ancient practice. Here is the researcher’s take:

“We have observed that 1 hour treatment of medicinal smoke emanated by burning wood and a mixture of odoriferous and medicinal herbs (havan sámagri=material used in oblation to fire all over India), on aerial bacterial population caused over 94% reduction of bacterial counts by 60 min and the ability of the smoke to purify or disinfect the air and to make the environment cleaner was maintained up to 24 hour in the closed room.

4) Relaxing Effects

Just like incense, smudging can offer calming, relaxing effects that are known to help lower blood pressure, relieve stress and tension and normalize breathing rates, as the negative ions produced are absorbed directly into your bloodstream.

5) Increased Energy

Negative ions have the effect of helping to normalize serotonin (the feel-good hormone), boosting the mood and overall energy. This is great for depression.

6) Improved Sleep

So if we know that negative ions are more of a ‘natural’ thing, it would make sense we’d not only feel better but sleep better too, right? Absolutely! 

And in fact, studies show people do sleep better in negative ion environments.

Learn To Ignore And Find Peace

The world is full of difficult people and learning how to ignore them will bring you peace of mind.

Give yourself the gift of inner peace.

Protect your energy from negative people no matter who they are. You don’t need to hesitate detaching from anyone who is negative and destructive. Detach, Detach, Detach,,,

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The Ancients had Knowledge of The Power of Crystals

Crystals are millions of years old, forged during the earliest parts of earth’s formation. 

Crystals are structured in such a way that they respond to the different energies around them, leading them to emit specific vibratory frequencies. 

Here's a couple of short informative videos:

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Crystal Energy

Because crystals are so balanced the energy they emits is consistent, a harmonic energy. 

The ancients understood crystals could bring about healing and enhance physical, emotional and spiritual balance. 

The ancients must have somehow known that the energies of crystals could and do interact with the human electromagnetic field to bring about subtle energetic changes.

Royalty have always worn crystals in their jewelry, crowns, thrones and swords, and the placement of crystals on the crown on a royal’s head was located right next to the crown chakra, and the same goes for a necklace over the heart chakra, rings on fingers for energy meridians, and earrings to stimulate reflex points. 

* The Ancient Egyptians: 
Used crystals for protection and health, and buried the dead with a piece of quartz on their forehead to help guide them to the afterlife. 
 


Perhaps the most interesting is the account of pharaohs who carried a copper cylinder and zinc cylinder each filled with quartz, to balance the Ka and Ba energies of the body (equivalent of Ying & Yang today).
 


*Ancient Greeks: 
Rubbed themselves with crushed hematite before going into battle thinking that it would make them invincible. 
 


The name for Amethyst is derived from the words for "not drunken" in Greek, because Amethyst was worn as an amulet to protect against drunkenness and hangovers.
 
Even the word "crystal" is derived from the Greek word for ice, because quartz crystal looked like water that was frozen and would never melt.
 

* Romans:  
The use of crystals as amulets and talismans was very common amongst the Romans. 

They were used in medical treatment and to attract desirable things, enhance health and provide protection in battle.
 

* India:  
The Hindu Vedas, the sacred 5000 year old religious texts, discuss the use of different crystals to treat certain medical ailments, as well as the specific properties of different crystals.  

Aryuvedic medicine has also recognized the healing powers of crystals for hundreds of years.


* Mayans, Aztecs and Incans: 
All three of these societies understood the power of using crystals for balance and healing on physical, emotions and spiritual levels. 
 


Crystals were used to diagnose and treat disease, well as to see the future through divination. 

According to some accounts, the Incans considered certain stones (such as emeralds) to be so powerful, they chose to die before giving the conquerors the location of their emerald mines. 
 

* Indigenous Tribes: 
American Indians and indigenous tribes of Australia have used, and continue to use, crystals to diagnose and heal illness. 

Many of the stones used in their traditional jewelry are thought to contain healing powers, including Agate, Turquoise, Onyx and more.
 

* Ancient Chinese: 
the 5,000 year old practice of Chinese Medicine often incorporates crystals for their healing powers, including the use of crystal needles in modern day Chinese acupuncture and Pranic Healing. 
 


* Ancient Japanese: 
The ancient Japanese were skilled at the art of scrying, using transparent crystal balls to produce visions. Quartz crystal spheres were thought to represent the hearts of dragons, which symbolized power and wisdom.
 

* Tibetan Buddhists,
...have considered quartz crystal spheres to be objects of great holy, spiritual power, believing their properties could even assist with enlightenment.
 


In Buddhism, the Medicine Buddha is called "Healing Master of Lapis Lazuli Radiance," and its rituals include meditating on lapis lazuli.
 

* Neolithic Man: 
The use of talismans and amulets dates back to the times of prehistoric man, with the oldest crystal amulet, made from Baltic Amber, dating back over 30,000 years. 
 


Prehistoric humans also constructed stone tribal burial chambers, or ‘Megaliths‘ that were designed according to the texture, weight, color and vibration.