This gentle, sweet smelling grass is a favorite of many people who use it for bringing about feelings of gentleness, positive thoughts and healing. Native North Americans have used sweetgrass and its essence for healing, gentle empowerment, beauty and harmony, and abundance in all its forms.

When it is growing outside, it grows in clumps very much like crab grass, although the strands are not flat but hollow. It is many times collected in clumps, braided and sold like that. Another way to get the sweetgrass energy is to buy it as an oil.

It is very easy to take a little sweetgrass either in herb or oil form in whatever works for you, and do a light meditation. Think about what it is you want in your life; ask for whatever beauty of blessings you want; and then relax as you smell the sweetgrass and let the gentle energy enter your body. Then start visualizing how you would feel and what you would do with the new blessings in your life. The more often you do this, the better you will feel.

Sweetgrass has been weaved into small pouches, baskets, or holders for items that Native Americans wanted protected. If you can find one of these it is a very special way to keep anything that is beloved to you and be able to enjoy the smell.

This article was originally printed in the February 6, 2007 edition of the Kalamazoo Weekly Newspaper which Pat writes for on a regular basis.

Pat Muste