Crystals

Most people who want to use crystals have a particular purpose in mind. Although some families of
minerals are more likely to yield the desired result, not all specimens from the same family have similar
properties, whether physical or metaphysical. Additionally, not everyone reacts the same way when
exposed to a crystal.

How To Find the Right Stone For You

One of the more important things when choosing a crystal is its vibrational match to your purpose.
Everything around us vibrates at a particular frequency. Even during the course of a day, your own
vibrational frequency will vary.
As you feel happy, successful and fulfilled, your vibrational frequency is quite high. But when you are
feeling down, your frequency goes down.

When you seek the help of a crystal, you are enlisting a powerful ally to "raise" your vibrational frequency.
No matter what the crystal is used for, its desired effect is always an increase in your vibrational
frequency. We often crave certain crystals because we have a great "vibrational match" with them. This
vibrational match means that proximity to this crystal raises our vibrational frequency, thus making us
feel "good."

Selecting a crystal for a particular purpose is a great way to help yourself without having to devote much
energy to it. The proximity of the crystal is constantly affecting your own frequency, guiding you upward
toward your goal. Similarly, a crystal that does not have a good match is constantly draining you by
lowering your vibrational frequency. Hence, selecting the right crystal is of crucial importance.

There are many books that describe crystals and their usage, yet most of them disagree on exact properties.
This makes perfect sense if you consider that different crystals of the same family have different properties,
and also that people will react to them differently. But this does make the selection of the right crystal
more challenging, if you don't know how to proceed.

Here is a simple process to identify which crystal will work best for your specific goal.

Clearly identify the purpose.

Look for a few crystal varieties that seem to support your goal (this information can be culled from
internet resources, friends or books).
Pick a specific specimen that offers vibrational match to your frequency.
That last part is best accomplished by holding the crystal in your hand or thinking about holding it. You
receive with your left hand, and give with your right. Hold the crystal in your left hand to feel its
vibrational energies. Affirmative sentences allow the flow of energy (which is what you want), while
negative sentences trigger resistances. Close your eyes while you state your purpose so you can focus
inward.

If you are more in-tuned with your body, you can use muscle testing: balance yourself upright and let
your body "hover" and let it fall in the direction it wants. If you fall forward, it means you have a good
match. If you fall backwards, you don't.
Once you have found the crystal, make a conscious decision to let yourself be open to its influence. In order
to interact with the physical world, we often need to shutdown our receptivity to outside influences. That
can lead to a generalized shutdown where all influences are blocked. You might find yourself inadvertenly
fighting the crystal's influence.

Crystals come in a wide variety of sizes, shapes and colors. All crystal and gemstones are living organisms.
Crystals have a life energy of their own. They are living in some manner of the word as they slowly grow
in clusters. They are part of the Mineral Kingdom. Most are grown in nature. Some that are synthetically
produced.
Crystals vibrate to their own frequency. The frequency they send out will determine which crystal you
will choose at a certain point in your life.

HEALING WITH CRYSTALS

Many crystals have healing properties that you can discover. Crystals vibrate to different frequencies to
enhance healing.

Quartz crystals have excellent healing properties. Quartz also has the ability to transform an imbalanced
energy field. When you are feeling stressed, this crystal can balance your energies and revitalize you.
Other minerals besides quartz crystals - display healing properties. You can use crystals yourself to heal or
find a qualified healer. Most crystal healing is guided to the healer by Spirit - who will tell the healer
which crystals will be most effective and the patterns the crystals should be placed on or around the
person's body. The length of time used with the crystals will vary with each client and healer. The healer
must determine the person's frequency and attune it to the crystals that will create healing and balance.
All healing is about placing the body in balance.
Treatments will vary in length and number of times required. They may not always work.
Owning a crystal that you carry with you - or keep in the area you spend most of your time - can enhance
the healing after you work with the healer.
It's always good to have a few quartz crystals around your home to balance the energies, even if you do
not need healing.

CRYSTAL HEALING AND CHAKRAS

Many people connect the color frequency of a specific chakra with that of the stone being used.
For example - if one were healing the throat chakra - one would use one or more blue stones placed on the
throat chakra alone - or in patterns.
The person needing the healing would lay down - the blue crystals being placed on the throat chakra.

Within this site you will find suggested books that will give you more information on crystals, their
properties and healing qualities. You will find that no two books will be alike in their comparison, review
or suggestions of crystals, their placement or healing properties. This is because all crystals are different for
each person. Do not get confused or think one resource is wrong and another is right. It is best to glean the
information from a multitude of resources and base your guidance on what feels right.

Top 10 Healing Gemstones

Crystals are Mother Nature's natural healers. Gifting someone with a crystal is the same as offering a
healing. There are literally hundreds of different types of stones to choose from. Listed here are ten popular
gemstones that you can't go wrong with. They each have wonderful healing energies.

1) Rose Quartz

This gemstone has a gentle energy and is a heart healer of physical heart ailments as well as emotional
heartbreaks. Rose quartz is a timely gift to offer someone who desires to learn self-love.

2) Fluorite

This crystal comes in a variety of colors. Fluorite is a beneficial stone to help guard one against picking up
negativity or negative energies from those nearby. Basically, the stone absorbs any negativity, keeping it at
bay. It is important to cleanse it at least once a week when you are using it as a protective helper.

3) Turquoise

Turquoise is a teaching stone can be used to help one learn spiritual lessons through meditation and/or
dream visions.

4) Kyanite

This blue colored stone is best worn near the throat chakra. It helps facilitate channeling and will open
communications centers to enable contact with your guides and angels. Kyanite is probably best known
for its balancing properites that align the chakras. There is no need to cleanse this stone, it clears itself
automatically of negative energies.

5) Clear Quartz

Clear quartz is the most widely used stone because of its properties. You can charge it to be any stone you
like, It’s a universal stone and you can’t go wrong with it. Its properties can range from clear to smoky to
citrine in color. When a stone is coupled with clear quartz, the healing properties are magnified. .

6) Lapis

Egyptian energy. Lapis is a stone that has been said to unlock mysteries as it helps one move through
confusion and emotional blocks and dig through fog/muck to the root of problematic issues.

7) Hematite

Hematite is a wonderful grounding stone. This silver-gray metallic gemstone is often used as a grounding
tool to aid those who tend to avoid worldly tasks/events by out-of-body flight.

8) Amethyst

This highly spiritual/healing stone is associated with The Christ Consciousness and the Violet Flame of
Transmutation. Amethyst helps one tune into a higher awareness of knowing.

9) Snowflake Obsidian

All varieties of obsidian are good utilized as grounding and potective agents - The snowflake in particular
helps us surrender or let go of negative habits or past pathways that no longer the present condition. It will
bring about opportunity for change, serenity, and clarity.

10) Jade

This stone teaches acceptance. Carries serene and calming energy. It helps a person become less critical of
self and others.

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