Smudging by Jennifer Scelsi of CSI: Paranormal

Smudging is a Native American technique that has proven to be very effective for ridding homes of uninvited ghosts.

If you are a person of faith, it is perfectly acceptable for you to say prayers during the time you go through the smudging process.

To smudge your home, you can either purchase smudging sticks online, or find them in bundles at a new age sore, or you can use a mixture of dried sage and sweet grass. Sometimes sweet grass is hard to find, so you can also use incense instead of sweet grass and or sage with the same effect.

If you're using incense, place it in a small earthenware bowl of shell and light it. Blow out any flame so you have only smoke. If you're using a smudge stick or dried sage do the same thing. The important thing is that you have only smoke and no flame.

Crack open a window in each room. Starting at one end of your house, walk through every room making sure the smoke from the incense gets into all corners and nooks and crannies. You can use a large feather if you want (I do and it helps!) so you can direct the smoke into every corner of the room.

While you're doing each room, you can say a prayer or you can say something to the effect of, "This smoke is clearing out any negative energy or spirits. All negative energy or spirits are commanded to leave now through the open window and are never to return. I am clearing this house of any negative energy. You must leave."

Once you've smudged every room in the house, go back through and shut all the windows.
You may have to repeat the smudging process a few times at once a week intervals before the ghost gets the message and gets out. This method is not magic, Wicca or Witchcraft. It is simply a technique that can be effective in ridding a home of spirits.