Sage To Cleanse

Today, I lit a sage incense stick :

"Please cleanse this space for the highest good of all who come in contact with my beautiful home. I release into this smoke all energies that do not serve me, all negativities that surround me, and fear that limits me. On Heaven as It is on Earth."

Do you have to believe it will work in order for it to work??  I've always been highly intuitive.  And strange things happen to me, and around me.  

Every now and then, I will catch the scent of a man's cologne.  (No men have been in my house in a long time!)  And sometimes I catch a whiff of cigarette smoke - the kind that lingers on the clothing of a smoker.  

Two days ago, it was the sound of a pencil or stick striking a glass bowl, that leaves a lingering sound, the key of C or E.  Or the sound of a rubber ball being bounced.  I open the door and can't hear it, but I still hear it indoors.  

There's a photo of my mom that gets pushed over every few days, and I have two sock monkeys that sit on a toy sized park bench that gets tipped.  

Most of the time, I take it all in stride.  Its been happening off and on for a few years.  But the bottle tossed off the vanity in the night has freaked me out.  Mostly because of the distance, it wasn't just bumped.

So we'll see if the sage makes a difference.  The little things make me smile, but I don't want to be scared out of my house!