(12) Palo Santo Sticks

Burn palo santo sticks or use the charcoal for ritual smudging that will welcome creativity, love, and good fortune into your space. The wood can help brighten energy and promote feelings of positivity and joy. The scent is also shown to reduce stress and anxiety, and enhance clarity and concentration

Cleanse Your Energy, Find Calm, Deepen Your Connection to the Earth with Palo Santo Wood

Palo Santo is one of the most fragrant woods in the world. Its sweet scent of pine, mint, and lemon has, for centuries, been a harbinger of healing and good fortune. Shamans, saints, and those seeking a stronger spiritual connection with the world use palo santo to protect, experience, and heal. Here are ten of the incredible benefits palo santo offers:

 

1. Spiritual purifying and energy cleansing.

For centuries the indigenous people of the Andes have been using palo santo for spiritual purification and energy cleansing. When the wood is burned it’s believed to clear negative energy and restore tranquility and calm.

Form: wood burning

2. Inspiring creativity and bringing love and good fortune.

Burn palo santo sticks or use the charcoal for ritual smudging that will welcome creativity, love, and good fortune into your space. The wood can help brighten energy and promote feelings of positivity and joy. The scent is also shown to reduce stress and anxiety, and enhance clarity and concentration.

Form: wood burning or smudging

3. Bringing a deeper connection to the divine source.

If meditation is the yin, palo santo is the yang. The uplifting scent is the perfect partner for your meditation practice. Raise your vibration, and discover peace and groundedness as you sink into a deeper connection to the Earth and your inner consciousness.

Form: wood burning or smudging

4. Physical healing.

Palo santo is used to treat a wide variety of physical ailments including colds, flus, anxiety, depression, asthma, bronchitis, headaches, and emotional trauma. Use the oil to provide pain relief for arthritis and joint pain with its anti-inflammatory properties.

Palo Santo Tea (made by simmering the wood in hot water) acts as a natural digestive aid. The oil can be added to soaps, scrubs, and lotions to cleanse and moisturize the skin. The wood also contains high concentrations of a compound called d-limonene, which is thought to aid in the prevention of a variety of cancers.

Form: simmer the wood to make tea or apply oil as a topical tincture

5. Energetic protection and the removal of negativity.

When used for smudging or burning, palo santo can eliminate negative energy, creating a calmer, more tranquil space. Set an intention about what you want to clear out of your space, then move from corner to corner, removing any bad energy, uplifting your spirit, and filling your home with good fortune.

Form: wood burning or smudging

 

6.  The enticing and clarifying palo santo scent.

Can we wax on a bit here about the remarkable, lasting scent of a palo santo smudge? For our kitchens and bedrooms, vehicles and workspaces, the brightness of citrus, marked with the ancient notes of its natural heritage, bring a uniquely clarifying scent to every space. The benefit of burning palo santo wood in a smudging practice is its lingering scent.

Form: wood burning or smudging 

7. Mobility of use while in travel modes.

Unlike a sage bundle, palo santo wood is graciously proportioned for spiritual seekers who spend ample time away from home. Palo santo sticks are well-paired with car rides, hikes and other travel experiences. People are known to cleanse their hotel rooms before sleep for a more peaceful, deepened rest.

Form: wood burning or smudging

8. Vibrational cleansing and renewal for crystals.

Crystals do much of the heavy lifting in the work of drawing out negative energy. Like humans, crystals benefit from a ritualistic cleansing to maintain their best qualities.  Integrating a smudging practice every 2-3 days for your rose quartz, amethyst, jasper, citrine, or other crystal types, is a lovely way to keep your crystals primed for their true power.

Form: smudging

 

9. Calming the mind and mental ailments.

The symptoms and causes of depression, anxiety and sleep disorders are complex. Palo santo wood does not boast a cure, but a smudging or essential oil practice integrated as part of a larger healing plan can provide some relief. Consider it aromatherapy; releasing a calming scent to the olfactory and limbic systems of the body and brain and in turn creating a sense of relaxation and calm.

Form: essential oil or smudging

 

10. Warding off unwelcome insects in the summer months.

Smudging in the summertime provides the additional benefit of warding off mosquitoes in a natural, non-harmful way. Palo santo features volatile oils and aromatic resins that communicate a warning sign to pesky bugs, but without the harsh chemicals of products such as DEET.

Powers: Love, protection, sleep, longevity, purification, happiness, peace

MAGICKAL USES FOR LAVENDER

Love: Men, in particular, are attracted to lavender. So much so that Lavender was once used by prostitutes to attract customers. Love is one of the more popular uses for lavender. Wear lavender or bathe with it & even place sachets of lavender in your clothing drawers to lure love to you. If you already have love, lavender is a great way to calm and diffuse marital discord to help keep love strong and happy.

Protection: To aid in protection in your home hang sachets of dried lavender or bunches of dried or fresh lavender at each of the 4 corners of your home. For good measure, you can opt to hang them in each room.

Includes (7) organic pink Himalayan salt chunks  just drop (1) chunk in your bath whenever you need a spiritual auric cleanse  

Many people believe that the detoxifying effect of the salt bath is equivalent to that of a 3-day fast. When you sit in a salt bath, the Himalayan salt detoxes your body and energy field, releasing toxins and negative energy into the bath water. At the same time, the beneficial minerals of the salt are absorbed through the skin. The salt contains over 84 minerals and elements to help reduce acidity and inflammation in your body. Using these Himalayan salt rocks helps to balance the pH level of your skin, increases blood circulation and improves the look and feel of your skin—your skin will be glowing after your bath! You would think that after bathing in salt, your skin would feel very dry, but it is actually quite the opposite. The salt promotes cell regeneration and moisture retention, helping to repair dry and irritated skin.

Himalayan salt bath benefits include energetically purifying and rejuvenating your personal energy field and aura, repairing any holes in the aura and removing any blockages. It promotes spiritual, mental and emotional balance by purifying your body of negativity. The Himalayan salt bath benefits can also help to regulate sleep and relieve stress, which will encourage an overall sense of harmony within your day to day life. When you find yourself feeling overwhelmed, stressed and energetically heavy, try a Himalayan salt bath! You will feel much lighter and calmer afterwards.

Since this is an energy cleansing bath, we recommend showering before so that you are not mixing any soap or shampoo in your bath. Fill your bathtub with 4-5 inches of water, and then add your Himalayan salt rocks. Stir the bath water around until the salt is mostly dissolved. Fill the tub up fully. When you get into your detox you want to submerge as much of your body as you can for around 20-30 minutes. Sip your water throughout your bath so you do not feel dehydrated afterwards. After your time is up, make sure that you do not rinse off; just allow your skin to dry naturally or gently pat dry. We also recommend that you rest for 20-30 minutes after your bath, as these baths are quite powerful!

Some people like to sync their salt baths with the lunar cycle, as they are said to be the most powerful during a Full Moon and New Moon. Bathing with Himalayan salt rocks during a full moon is very healing, as the healing potential is at its max and mineral absorption is optimized. During a new moon, the cleansing energy is at its peak, so your body has a higher potential of completely detoxifying itself. But salt baths are healing and detoxifying at anytime!

Himalayan Salt Metaphysical Properties

Himalayan Salt is also known as ‘Pink Halite’ and yes, it is a form of (edible) crystal. It has many metaphysical properties and benefits.

Himalayan Crystal Mineral Salt has very similar properties to Rose Quartz and is an excellent crystal for love especially self-love. It not only helps one to experience self-love, but also, to take action and do things that self-love implies, for example; finding sense of purpose, to live a healthier lifestyle, learning to say ‘no’, or to take time for personal recreation and enjoyment.

For centuries pure salt has been used for protection; protection from evil, especially protection in and around the home. Salt is also used for purification, cleansing and dispelling negativity in many magical and traditional rituals. Pure Salts are also used to release attachments, including emotional attachments. It is recommended that those who work in environments of negativity or indirect communication, keep a piece of Pink Halite (Himalayan Salt) on their desk or nearby – in the form of a lamp is best.

Himalayan crystal Mineral Salt has gentle, but strong grounding and centering energies and is said to bring abundance and prosperity into a home.

As a powerful crystal for both psychic protection and cleansing dark energy, Pink Himalayan Salt is an affordable and easy-to-use solution for getting rid of heavy energy that’s weighing you down. In this exercise with Pink Himalayan Salt, I demonstrate how you can use the magnetic qualities of this stone to draw harmful energy from within your heart chakra so you can relax and detox after a hard day.

Most of us aren’t even conscious to how much psychic waste we absorb from the atmosphere throughout the day, including the negative energy of our friends, family members, coworkers and everyone else we encounter. Carrying a piece of Pink Himalayan Salt is a simple and highly effective way to stay grounded and psychically shield yourself from taking on the energy of others, especially those who are negative! This stone’s soft rosy color is also excellent for restoring balance in the heart chakra and promoting a sense of inner calm and self-love.

Cinnamon, from the cassia family of trees, is one of the world’s oldest spices known for its sweet & spicy scent.  Its element is fire and is associated with the goddesses Venus and Aphrodite.

Magickal Uses: Burn to raise spiritual vibrations and promote healing.  Place in a mojo bag to draw money or upon your altar at Yule as it has strong associations with the season.  You can also store your runes or tarot cards with cinnamon to infuse your tools with strong clairvoyant energy.