How to smudge: Burning sage

[Music] I learned a lot from her I've learned how this much from her how to sing from her how to play drums how to pick medicine how to walk in a good way as we like first sake we rolled it into a ball we use a match to light it up at the bottom and you never want to blow on it because that's blowing your spirit away so you always just want to fine on it or you could get a find like this I usually they're in a gopher they find it my understanding is the teaching is that that I should be using a match one night one creator I like that this sage what the match I don't blow on this age I clean my hands I prepare myself like I'm washing don't smudge my my being so that I walk through life in a good ways and when you smudge you want to make sure you're thinking good thoughts and that you're praying so much your mouth to speak good things your eyes to see good things your ears to hear good things in your heart to feel good things you say me quit or thank you we take the time to smudge to clean the air around us we take the time to smudge ourselves we smudge ourselves daily every morning if I'm having a if I'm having any kind of issues having a difficulties or I'm not feeling quite centered I'll take the time to smudge myself what it does is it allows for me to be able to get rid of anything negative that I may have picked up and then it replaces that with that positive energy we have been given as indigenous First Nations people medicines to be able to carry us those those are those four main medicines which is sage sweet grass cedar and of course the first medicine which is that tobacco I myself will pick my own medicine right and and or with somebody that that I trust right when you take the time to go there's a there's a preparation that happens with this medicines you don't just go and pick without giving something back you take the time to take your tobacco you speak to to the creator you talk to that medicine that's my that's my understanding on it and I don't know if if you were in a bad mood when you picked the medicine or what you were thinking I'm not going to say that somebody else is where is a wrong way but this is the way that I was taught right and and so no I I myself wouldn't be going to the store to get it

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Keywords: How to smudge, Burning sage, smudging, smudge, Indigenous, elder, Indigenous elder, Debra Courchene, CBC, CBC News

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Length: 3min 20sec (200 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 09 2019