Healing with Crystals, Colors, and Chakras - Part 1
Our lives are influenced by many different energies that we cannot see, and yet they can profoundly affect our state of mind and our health. These therapies have all been shown to balance, heal, soothe, and energize.
Crystal healing is airmed at attaining a level of wellbeing that is not simply freedom from illness, it also includes listening to ur feelings, emotions and thoughts, and nurturing our spiritual lives.
Color healing reverals the energetic reality of the world around us. What we perceive as color is simply the brain's way of recognizing the many different energy qualities of light. Every frequency of visible light and color creates changes in us at many levels - physical, mental and emotional. Learning to recognize and use color with awareness can bring positive and powerful changes into our lives.
Chakra healing maintains the natural balance of the body and the flow of energy. Our personal space is inhabited by invisible and powerful energies that, by their interactions, create and maintain our health. The major chakras, the 7 great energy vortices along the spinal colum, have been recognized by seers and healers for thousands of years as being essential to our wellbeing. With chakra healing we seek to understand the creative energies that each chakra center can bring into our lives and, by identifying imbalances, help to restore our health.
I'm posting in 4 parts, some brief descriptions of crystals used for grounding, protecting, healing the etheric body, releasing unwanted energy and easing pain. Plus a few simple techniques that can dramatically reduce levels of stress - one of the underlying causes of many diseases - and enable us to harness nature's vital energies to create balance and wellbeing of mind, body, and spirit.
Note: After using crystals for a healing session, they should always be cleaned. Place crystals in a bowl of fresh water and leave for 2 - 3 hours. You can research further online, at your local bookstore or library for more healing techniques with crystals, colors, and chakra balancing.
PART 1: BLACK TOURMALINE
Extremely useful for protecting and grounding personal energy, tourmaline quartz (or tourmalated quartz) commonly crystalizes alongside quartz and often interpenetrates it. Tourmaline combines the qualities of both stones, clearing and grounding, energizing and protecting.
As a grounding stone, black tourmaline can be used whenever energies are scattered and confused. It will very quickly bring the awareness back to the present moment. Because of this, the stone gives strong protection against negativity of all sorts. A negative influence is anything that imposes itself and overrides the individual's own energy field to create imbalance. A crystal that reinforces personal energy will help against these disruptive effects. Black tourmaline deflects negativity back into the earth, rather than absorbing the energy into itself, where it would accumulate and interfere with its efficiency. Tourmaline is thought to be able to help ease the symptoms of tinnitus, the continuous ringing of the ears. Wearing tourmaline earrings has been found to help this.
Tourmaline Circuit
Crystals that have parallel striations running along their lengths tend to be very good at moving energy from one place to another, releasing blocks and tensions in the body. Sometimes the same problems resurface many times because a hidden, underlying block prevents effective healing. A pattern of black tourmaline crystals can clear away these deep levels of imbalance. Use dark tourmaline crystals - either black or very dark green. You can also use smoky quartz. The number of crystals you have available will determine where they can be placed - some being on the torso and hips, others next to the head, shoulders, legs and feet.
1. Place the stones, all pointing in the same direction, in a figure 8 pattern - also representing the infinity symbol - over and around a person's body.
2. While holding another crystal, emphasize the flow by tracing over the pattern with your hand.
3. After a few minutes within the pattern, remove the stones. Use another grounding stone to settle the energies before ending the session.
Earth Net
A strong energy connection to the earth is a prerequisite for effective grounding and protective support. An energy net using 8 black tourmalines can be used to reinforce this support, and can be particularly useful after moving house or travelling. In fact, there have been reports that black tourmaline can reduce the effects of jetlag.
One of the effects of tourmaline emphasized in this layout is the ability to help the bones realign themselves. Tensions in bone and muscle are relaxed and physical balance improves.
1. Use a green cloth as a background to lie on, or a white sheet as a second choice. If possible, arrange it so that a person's head is facing north.
2. Put 4 tourmalines pointing in the pattern of a cross - 1 above the head, 1 between the feet, and the others at either side of the mid point of the body (the sacral chakra).
3. Place the remaining 4 tourmalines just to the right of the others at an angle of about 20 degrees, so that all are aligned to the same imaginary point in the center of the body.
4. Allow the person to remain in the energy net for 5 to 10 minutes, then spend at least 15 minutes resting after the crystals have been removed before returning to normal activity.
Crystal healing is airmed at attaining a level of wellbeing that is not simply freedom from illness, it also includes listening to ur feelings, emotions and thoughts, and nurturing our spiritual lives.
Color healing reverals the energetic reality of the world around us. What we perceive as color is simply the brain's way of recognizing the many different energy qualities of light. Every frequency of visible light and color creates changes in us at many levels - physical, mental and emotional. Learning to recognize and use color with awareness can bring positive and powerful changes into our lives.
Chakra healing maintains the natural balance of the body and the flow of energy. Our personal space is inhabited by invisible and powerful energies that, by their interactions, create and maintain our health. The major chakras, the 7 great energy vortices along the spinal colum, have been recognized by seers and healers for thousands of years as being essential to our wellbeing. With chakra healing we seek to understand the creative energies that each chakra center can bring into our lives and, by identifying imbalances, help to restore our health.
I'm posting in 4 parts, some brief descriptions of crystals used for grounding, protecting, healing the etheric body, releasing unwanted energy and easing pain. Plus a few simple techniques that can dramatically reduce levels of stress - one of the underlying causes of many diseases - and enable us to harness nature's vital energies to create balance and wellbeing of mind, body, and spirit.
Note: After using crystals for a healing session, they should always be cleaned. Place crystals in a bowl of fresh water and leave for 2 - 3 hours. You can research further online, at your local bookstore or library for more healing techniques with crystals, colors, and chakra balancing.
PART 1: BLACK TOURMALINE
Extremely useful for protecting and grounding personal energy, tourmaline quartz (or tourmalated quartz) commonly crystalizes alongside quartz and often interpenetrates it. Tourmaline combines the qualities of both stones, clearing and grounding, energizing and protecting.
As a grounding stone, black tourmaline can be used whenever energies are scattered and confused. It will very quickly bring the awareness back to the present moment. Because of this, the stone gives strong protection against negativity of all sorts. A negative influence is anything that imposes itself and overrides the individual's own energy field to create imbalance. A crystal that reinforces personal energy will help against these disruptive effects. Black tourmaline deflects negativity back into the earth, rather than absorbing the energy into itself, where it would accumulate and interfere with its efficiency. Tourmaline is thought to be able to help ease the symptoms of tinnitus, the continuous ringing of the ears. Wearing tourmaline earrings has been found to help this.
Tourmaline Circuit
Crystals that have parallel striations running along their lengths tend to be very good at moving energy from one place to another, releasing blocks and tensions in the body. Sometimes the same problems resurface many times because a hidden, underlying block prevents effective healing. A pattern of black tourmaline crystals can clear away these deep levels of imbalance. Use dark tourmaline crystals - either black or very dark green. You can also use smoky quartz. The number of crystals you have available will determine where they can be placed - some being on the torso and hips, others next to the head, shoulders, legs and feet.
1. Place the stones, all pointing in the same direction, in a figure 8 pattern - also representing the infinity symbol - over and around a person's body.
2. While holding another crystal, emphasize the flow by tracing over the pattern with your hand.
3. After a few minutes within the pattern, remove the stones. Use another grounding stone to settle the energies before ending the session.
Earth Net
A strong energy connection to the earth is a prerequisite for effective grounding and protective support. An energy net using 8 black tourmalines can be used to reinforce this support, and can be particularly useful after moving house or travelling. In fact, there have been reports that black tourmaline can reduce the effects of jetlag.
One of the effects of tourmaline emphasized in this layout is the ability to help the bones realign themselves. Tensions in bone and muscle are relaxed and physical balance improves.
1. Use a green cloth as a background to lie on, or a white sheet as a second choice. If possible, arrange it so that a person's head is facing north.
2. Put 4 tourmalines pointing in the pattern of a cross - 1 above the head, 1 between the feet, and the others at either side of the mid point of the body (the sacral chakra).
3. Place the remaining 4 tourmalines just to the right of the others at an angle of about 20 degrees, so that all are aligned to the same imaginary point in the center of the body.
4. Allow the person to remain in the energy net for 5 to 10 minutes, then spend at least 15 minutes resting after the crystals have been removed before returning to normal activity.