Clearing your Reiki Space by Peggy Smudging is using smoke, usually from Sage or other fragrant herbs, with historic sacred associations to clear objects, people, houses, crystals, the room, etc. Open doors or windows if possible when doing a house cleansing to allow the smoke to carry negative energies away. The most common way this is done lately is based on Native American tradition. Sometimes a single person will smudge all the others rather than passing the bowl around. Incense, and even burning epsom salts is in the smudge category.
Some cultures throw the herbs into boiling water for steam or directly onto a fire.
Some form of incensing or smudging is an almost universal energy purification method, and in fact many of the traditionally used herbs have antibiotic or other healing properties. Sage, sweet grass, lavendar, thyme, and rosemary are some of the herbs most often used. From my friend Don Beckett - another way to send Reiki. . 3-dimensional gizmos of colored paper. I write the names of the people involved, and my intent, and any symbols I choose, in such a way that the writing is inside the finished crystal, out of sight.