Have you ever tried to heal yourself or someone else using smudging?
Indigenous smudging is an incredible way to heal and cleanse yourself and others.
Watch this video to find out how to heal yourself and how to help heal others using smudging.
I'm Mallory Graham, [inaudible 00:00:19] from tribaltradeco.com.
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Maybe you're trying to heal yourself, boost your own wellbeing from pain or trauma of
some kind or maybe you want to try help heal someone else.
At Tribal Trade Co, we've helped thousands of people find sacred medicines that can help
to heal themselves, as well as overcome any feelings of self-doubt.
We've been asked this question so many times, how do you help to heal someone using smudging
and sacred medicines?
So we've put together five tips for how you can heal through smudging.
Watch this video to the end so that you can learn everything you need to know on how to
heal yourself or help someone else heal from pain or negativity using the amazing power
of smudging.
Smudging has been used by first nations and indigenous people from all over the world
for centuries as a way of healing and cleansing their mind, body and spirit.
Smudging can be a very powerful tool when used correctly.
It can help you move beyond trauma and toward a more peaceful, self-confident future.
Your past can help you grow.
And when you smudge with the intention of healing, you will find yourself feeling renewed
and restrengthened for the path ahead.
So here are five tips for how you can heal through smudging.
The first tip for how you can heal through smudging is to develop awareness.
When you smudge with the intention of overcoming some kind of trauma, the first step is to
allow yourself to be aware of the pain that you feel.
Being in touch with the trauma that you want to heal from will help your smudging be more
targeted and this will allow you to quickly access the emotions that you want to work
on.
It's not always comfortable to revisit and rethink of the pain or the trauma that you're
trying to heal from, but this step is very important to face those fears and those hard
feelings front and center so that you are dealing with the truth and with your true
self.
The second tip for how to heal yourself using smudging is to accept the past.
As you think of your past while you smudge, it's really important to fully acknowledge
and accept the things that you have experienced and that they really did happen.
I'm not saying this is supposed to be easy.
It can be really difficult to fully engage with uncomfortable emotions.
But if you can't accept what happened, you won't be able to move past it.
An important point here is that acceptance doesn't mean that you are happy about what
has occurred, but what it does mean is that you are allowing yourself to put those events
behind you so that you can begin the healing process.
Some things to help you accept the past are just thinking of them and allowing yourself
to feel those feelings that it made you feel and really recognizing that it is the truth.
Sometimes that involves a grieving and feeling a lot of negative emotions about it, but that's
all part of the healing process.
Do you guys have any tips for self healing?
If you do, please share with us in the comments below.
Now, let's move on to the third tip for how to heal yourself using smudging.
The third tip for how to help heal yourself and heal others using smudging is to be compassionate.
While you're smudging and thinking about your past, be compassionate and gentle with yourself.
Try to avoid any self-criticism or contemplation on what ifs and focus instead on allowing
yourself to process your emotions.
For a lot of times, the healing process involves allowing yourself compassion for yourself
and allowing yourself to forgive yourself.
Compassion is a very important strength to be able to begin your healing process and
to be gentle and patient with yourself while you are experiencing those emotions and the
feelings of hurt that is involved with the first three steps.
Now, the fourth tip for how to heal yourself or others using smudging is to forgive yourself
and to forgive others.
Now, whether you feel it consciously or not, it can be really easy to harbor resentment
or negative feelings towards yourself or maybe someone who has hurt you.
We are after all our own worst critics.
While you burn your sacred medicines, think of releasing all of that pain that you have
been bottling up and holding inside of you.
Release the pain from the past and forgive not only yourself, but maybe others who have
hurt you.
Sometimes we can't allow ourselves to forgive ourselves for being put in a situation to
be hurt or to have experienced harm or a traumatic experience.
When you're smudging, it's really helpful to forgive yourself and allow yourself to
let that pain go that you've experienced and not blame yourself for being hurt in the first
place.
This can be sometimes really hard to do, but having compassion for another individual who
may have hurt you can allow the healing process to go a little more smoothly.
Because after all, we are all human beings and understanding and having love and good
feelings for someone who may have hurt you or put you in the situation where you need
to heal, it can really be uplifting and allow your spirit to feel all kinds of positivity
and love just by giving them love and giving them compassion even though they hurt you.
Now, the fifth tip for how to heal yourself using smudging is to carry positivity with
you.
If you think about the love and the good things that you have in your life that can make you
feel positive and thankful for all of the gifts and the amazing things that you have
in your life, those feelings when you're smudging will be carried on after you've smudged because
you will have that aroma from the sacred medicines around you and touching your body and touching
your space that will continuously remind you of those positive healed feelings that you
felt from your smudge ceremony.
Now, when you've completed your smudge, it's very important to let your medicines burnout
on their own.
You don't need to interfere with the smoke at all, just let the smudge finish when it
has meant to.
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