I'm mean the process of lighting dried herbs or wood chips and wafting the smoke around. Yeah, that native american thing. Only that native american thing is pretty damn awesome.
I've been a studying witch since I was 16 and a practicing since I was about 19-20. I've smudge with sage, sweet grass, etc etc.
Whether or not there is an actual scientific has been figured out for sure reason behind the smudge smoke being so effective at clearing out negative energy... I don't know. If you have a link, I would love to see it.
I've known it's effects for years, but it always amazes me when I smudge how much lighter a place feels afterwards. Smudging is great for when you're moving into a new place.
Though depending on where you live, you may to smudge more frequently... like the apartment building I live in. Most of the folks here are normal decent folks. However, shit still bleeds over. It's an apartment building. You can't have the number of people over a year that live here and not have stuff building up that is some nasty negative energy. Smudging weekly is a must in an apartment.
Bad energy builds up quicker in an apartment it seems. Mostly just because of all the people concentrated into one building I think. That's something I look forward to about Arizona: the possibility of having a house that I will only need to smudge once a month, and in emergencies. Not just every Wednesday.
I don't know that there is a scientific support for smudging. If there is, I've never seen it. Given the relative subjectivity of how a place "feels," there's probably a strong psychological component to it. And if it results in whatever negativity no longer affecting you, I suppose it works, whether it is psychological or metaphysical or physics or whatever.
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