Sage Smudges/Palo Santo

How to Sage (smudge) or use Palo Santo for your space:

Open the windows in each room - This helps if the negative energy collected has somewhere to go.
Have a heat-proof container ready to catch the ashes of the sage bundle - Be careful, because the ashes will fall and can potentially set a fire.
Try to sage in the morning - If you sage another time during the day, the energy may be more dense.
Start in the lowest part of your home and work your way up - If two story start downstairs.
Set an intention before you sage your home, office, or yourself- The sage is going to do the cleansing, but set an intention for what you would like to get out of each session. Are you using sage to heal, to grow, to clear your mind, to invite in new experiences, or more abundance? Set the intention.
It's also good to create a mantra and to thank the Great Spirit for assisting you with clearing your space of old and negative energy. You can say something like, "Thank you Great Spirit for helping clear my space of negative energy, blocked energy, stuck energy, or negative feelings/thoughts. May this space be re-filled with feelings of joy, love, happiness, and harmony." It doesn't have to be that exact saying. Get creative, and come up with a mantra that resonates with you.
1. Light the thick end of the sage and blow out the fire once it produces smoke. The smoke is what does the clearing.
2. Start in one corner of the room and move the smoke up and down. Some people like to use a feather to fan the smoke. I use my hand and it works just fine.
3. Move to each of the other corners in the room.
4. Once you've saged the corners of the room, move to the center (and rest of the room) and move the smoke over any furniture (the bed, couches, pillows, dressers, toys, antiques, etc) and electronics that you have. Be sure to also move the smoke around the windowsills and lastly, the doorframe of the room that you're saging in.
5. Once you're done with each room, go ahead and sage each entrance to your home (front, back, and side doors). You can do that by just moving the smoke around the door frames.