{"product_id":"braided-sweetgrass-20-to-23-inch-loose-with-header-new922","title":"BRAIDED SWEETGRASS  20 to 23 inch LOOSE WITH HEADER - NEW922","description":"Fragrant Canadian Braided Sweetgrass from Manitoba. Multiple sizes available from 7-28 inch. Langley Smudge Supplies Vancouver Sacred Smoke Smudge Sticks Supplies BC Sweetgrass Braids Smudge Supplies Canada - \nWhen we burn sweetgrass, remember these things:\nIts a kindness medicine...with a sweet gentle aroma when we light it.\nIts symbolic...\nThere are 21 strands used to make a braid...\nThe first 7 strands represent those 7 generations behind us~\nOur parents\nOur grandparents\nOur great grandparents and so on for\n7 generations behind us - who we are and what we are is because of them... they've brushed and made the trails we have been walking up until now...but the trails have been destroyed, we have lost our connection.\nThe time has come to heal and reconnect with our ancestors. \nThe next 7 represent the 7 sacred teachings...\nLove, Respect, Honesty, Courage, Wisdom, Truth and Humility.\nThe elders tell us how simple, powerful and beautiful the teaching are:\n1 Love: unconditional affection with no limits or conditions that starts with loving yourself.\n2 Respect:  due regard for the feelings, wishes, rights or traditions of other, with consideration, thoughtfulness, attentiveness, politeness, courtesy, civility, deference.\n3 Honestly:  have a character of integrity, and honor be free from fraud or deception, legitimate truthful.\n4 Courage:  bravery, permitting one to face extreme dangers with boldness withstanding danger, fear or difficulty \n5 Wisdom:  the quality of having experience, knowledge and good judgment the quality of being wise.\n6 Truth:  the face of the matter, veracity, sincere, candor and genuineness \na determined in principle entirely by how it relates to things\n7 Humility:  freedom from pride or arrogance, being humble, when we truly understand the teaching of humility, that we are not any better then anyone else and you are not any better then me. that at the end of the day we are simply human beings, this is what makes this teaching powerful and beautiful.\nThe last 7 strands are those of the 7 generations in front of us~\nOur children .....\nOur grandchildren .....\nOur great grandchildren .....\nas well as those children yet to be born.\nIt is important because everything we do to Mother earth will one day effect them... We have lost our way, Mother Earth gives us everything we need to heal ourselves and the earth.  We must go back to our roots and bloom.\nBy  Marty Stompingelk","brand":"BambooBlinds.ca","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42487318478999,"sku":"HERB-50B","price":20.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0425\/3391\/2727\/products\/ca49b4c0-c73f-4162-88fe-15af4d716cce.jpg?v=1676267291","url":"https:\/\/bambooblinds.ca\/fr\/products\/braided-sweetgrass-20-to-23-inch-loose-with-header-new922","provider":"BambooBlinds.ca","version":"1.0","type":"link"}