Crystals

As you move into more advanced crystal work you must be suitably prepared mentally, physically, and emotionally.  In a nutshell this means take good care of yourself.  Because crystals magnify everything they come in contact with you want that to be your positive qualities, rather than illnesses or emotional troubles.  If you are working on yourself that is not a big problem because in its magnification the crystal brings the issue to your attention.  It becomes a problem when you are using crystals on someone else and your own magnified issues get in the way.

 

Grounding is very important because crystals have a tendency to get us a little spaced out.  Getting regular exercise helps a lot.  Eating some protein every day will greatly help to keep you in your body.  In addition you may like to visualize roots from your root chakra going deep into the Earth.  Keeping your feet about 1' apart while you work is more grounding than with them close together.  An even wider stance making you into a pyramid shape is better.  Breathe deeply while you work.  Keeping your attention on your heart center helps.  In times of great stress we tend to move up and out of our body a little so walking on the Earth, hugging a large tree (Oak is best) or leaning your back against the tree all help.  Keeping plants around your home helps with grounding, as does smudging regularly, yoga, and drumming music.  A bath in Dragons Blood essence is excellent for clearing your energy thoroughly and grounding.

 

Clearing your home or working environment is vital to doing good work.  Clear out your space using your crystals, smudge, candles, flowing water, Clearing techniques, or any visualizations which you find effective.  This should always be done daily.

 

Communicating with your crystals is the best way to know them and how and what to do with them.  They are not merely beautiful baubles to sit around on your furniture.  They have a specific purpose and for you to find that out is the only way to work well with them.  To force a crystal designed for healing to do guard duty by your front entrance is not only unfair, but it won’t work.  All crystals have a consciousness, an aura, and even a chakra system.  Clusters are families of crystals and this is why they bring so much joy: they have not been split up to please the consumer.  Using soothing music, candles, incense, sage, and your own Divinely guided intuition, you can learn much from your crystals.

 

Self-Healing: Chakra balancing with crystals is quick but should not be done often or for long periods of time.  For this technique you need 7 smooth, polished crystals in each of the 7 chakra colors.  Large stones are best but use what you have.  Play soft music, light a candle and some incense, and wear a loose cotton garment.  Place the red crystal (garnet, ruby, jasper) over your root chakra, an orange crystal (carnelian) over your sacral/navel chakra, yellow (topaz, citrine, amber) over your solar plexus, green or pink (emerald, jade, aventurine, malachite) over heart, blue (lapis lazuli, turquoise, sodalite, blue topaz) over throat, violet over brow (amethyst), and a clear cluster near the top of your head.  Lie like this for no more than 20 minutes, perhaps in meditation or doing Reiki.  Once a week is plenty for this.  Too much and you won’t sleep.

 

Self-Healing: Star of David pattern requires 6 small or medium size crystals.  Place them on the floor or the Earth in a 6-pointed star layout.  Make it several feet in diameter so that there is room for you to sit or lie in the middle.  As always, music, candles and incense help.  Keep this to no more than 20 minutes.  This exercise helps to balance and rejuvenate.  It is also a powerful intuition builder.                                   

 

Self-Healing: Pentacle pattern requires 5 crystals and are placed in a 5-pointed star layout.  This works in a similar way as the Star of David but has a different energy flow.  Try it and feel the difference.  All are beneficial but sometimes we need one method over another.  You may also try using a square, circle, and triangle.  Squares tend to be more pragmatic and grounding, whereas the circle and triangle allow more flow of energy. 

 

Self-Healing: Circle of 13 crystals or even stones will move a great deal of energy.  This, in essence, is a very simple medicine wheel.  Thirteen is the number of lunar cycles we have in one year and so this number is sacred.  Sitting in the center will have a very different effect upon you than sitting in the south, the north, the east, or the west.  Each has its merits and each will allow you to grow in a different manner.  East represents new beginnings and sitting and meditating here will allow you to begin a project easier and with greater insight.  The south is about emotions so if you are dealing with a highly charged emotional state or issue sitting here will help you to understand it better, and to work it through.  The west is the place of death and rebirth, regeneration, and our dark side.  Its energy is strong and very suitable for dealing with our more challenging issues.  North is the place of the teacher, of wisdom, and education.  If you are teaching or wish to this is the place to be for your ideas to come in well.  If you are interested in knowing more about the directions please consult books on shamanism or Native spirituality.

 

Distant Healing with a crystal is effective, though not as much as Second Degree Reiki, nor is it quite as easy.  For this you will need a good sized amethyst, and the clearer the better.  Color should be a rich deep purple.  This is the color of our third eye chakra thus an affinity begins the moment you select your crystal.  Next, write the recipients name on a piece of paper, adding other pertinent details like address, phone number, birthday anything which serves to identify the individual.  Place the paper under or on top of the amethyst.  If its on top you will need a small quartz crystal on top to keep it in place.  Now you must energize the entire placement with a wand or crystal pendulum or small cluster.  All the while you are energizing you must keep firmly in mind your intention.  This can be continued for several days or even a month, energizing daily.  Results are good if maintained regularly.

 

Balancing of the emotional energy in ones body can be done easily with 2 large generators.  Your client can be lying down or standing or sitting for this.  Starting at their head, hold your generators, one in each hand, pointing inward at their temples.  You can be about 1" from their head, holding this position for about 2 minutes.  If you are feeling sensitive you may notice the energies in your crystal changing as you do this.  Once it calms down you are finished at that point.  Next move your crystals to the outside point of the shoulders.  Hold this in the same manner, until you feel calmness.  Last, place your crystals at the outer hip points where the joint will bend the leg outward.  Hold this in the same manner, until you feel calmness.  Note:  occasionally this last point can have a somewhat arousing effect on a man.  Its not common but can happen so be aware.  If it does, stop.  Overall this procedure works on the kidneys, the water in the body, and the emotions.  It can have an indirect effect on the bladder or any other hydraulic aspect of the body.

 

Medicine Bundles are a way to carry your own personal energy and your special items in a way which will be of benefit to you.  Native people often wear their medicine bundles for protection against enemies or for sacred ceremonies and personal power in times of testing.  The ingredients which go into your bundle should never be totally revealed to anyone because they are your essence, your protection.  A small leather or cloth pouch is needed for this.  The contents can be things like a crystal you love, a lock of hair, a finger nail, menstrual blood, a speck of cloth, a seed, herb, dried bumblebee, snake skin, feather, locket, tiny photo, holy medal, charm, etc.  The important thing is to have your own DNA in it as well as important personal items.  When it is composed you must smudge it well.  Keep it with you for 7 days and 7 nights to bond and imprint with your bundle.  After that it will have your energy.  NEVER give it to anyone and do not even let them hold it.  Never say what is in it.  You may go into it any time and replace items, re-smudge, and re-bond with it whenever you like.  We change so our bundle must sometimes change too. 

 

Aura Scan is a quick way to get relief from headache or stress or illness.  For this you need a small quartz cluster which you only use for this purpose.  Smudge it first.  Have the client stand in the middle of a room.  Hold your cluster in your dominant hand and walk clockwise around the client, holding your crystal up at the top of their head, points toward client.  Move your hand slowly around feeling any holes or blocks.  When you do it is sort of like a pull or tug on your crystal.  Stop there and, gripping your cluster tightly, rotate it counter-clockwise, turn.  Then, holding your breath, pull it straight out from their aura and shake it into sea salt or the 'emptiless void'.  Go back to your stopping point and continue.  You will need to pull out many times in the course of a scan.  This procedure will start the closing of holes or tears, though it takes about 3 scans to complete the job.  It will also pull of some intrusions causing illness or pain.  The client can experience some amazing things while this is going on so monitor them carefully (you can talk to them).  If they feel dizzy stop.  If they feel lots of energy that’s fine.  If they feel faint stop.  If they feel moving energy through their body that’s fine, too.  This will not do them any harm if done in this way, and it is capable of doing a lot of good.  When you are finished you must close up their aura so take your crystal at the feet and zip up the aura from foot to head.  Ask the client to sit for at least 15 minutes and bring them water.  The healing process may take another hour or more after you are finished.  Have them phone you if they need to talk about it.