The Modern Guide to Crystal Healing E-Book

Philip Permutt

• Herausgeber: CICO Books
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Beschreibung

In this comprehensive guide, best-selling author and crystal expert Philip Permutt reveals the amazing ability of crystals to heal and energise, with details of over 400 crystals and how they can help a huge range of common ailments and enhance every part of your life. With crystal remedies for more than 250 common ailments and a directory of over 400 crystals, as well as detailed explanations of the most effective healing methods, this book is the ultimate guide to healing with crystals. By drawing on the unique qualities of crystals, you can balance the energy fields around your body and home to bring wellbeing and gain health benefits. Crystals can help soothe emotional problems such as anxiety, mood swings and shyness, as well as physical symptoms such as migraines and allergies. Illustrated with colour photographs, and supplemented with exercises to try, The Modern Guide to Crystal Healing is the ultimate practical reference from a highly respected healer and teacher.

Leseprobe

the modern guide to

Crystal

Healing

the modern guide to

Crystal

Healing

includes over 400 crystals to transform your life

philip permutt

Published in 2021 by CICO Books

An imprint of Ryland Peters & Small Ltd

20–21 Jockey’s Fields

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Text © Philip Permutt 2021

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Text in this book has previously appeared in The Crystal Healer: Volume 1 and The Crystal Healer: Volume 2.

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ISBN: 978-1-80065-009-1

E-ISBN: 978-1-80065-045-9

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Photographers: Roy Palmer and Geoff Dann

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Publisher: Cindy Richards

SAFETY NOTE

Please note that while the descriptions of the properties of crystals refer to healing benefits, they are not intended to replace diagnosis of illness or ailments, or healing or medicine. Always consult your doctor or other health professional in the case of illness.

CONTENTS

Introduction

CHAPTER 1

preparing for crystal work

Choosing crystals

Working with a pendulum

Cleansing crystals

Preparing your space

CHAPTER 2

working with crystals

Meditating with crystals

Crystal elixirs

Working on your chakras

CHAPTER 3

The Crystal Finder

Quartz, amethyst, red, orange, yellow, green, pink, rainbow, blue, violet, white/clear, black, gray, brown

CHAPTER 4

Crystal Remedies

Remedies for physical ailments

Remedies for emotional issues

Crystals for spiritual enhancement

Crystals for lifestyle enhancement

Glossary

Index

INTRODUCTION

Crystals have been worked with by medicine people and shamen around the world for thousands of years. Their recorded use dates back over 5,000 years in Chinese texts on traditional medicine, Ayurvedic texts from India, and the Bible, which has over 200 references to crystals and their powers and associations. Crystals have been found around the world in prehistoric graves of different cultures, from the Olmec civilization in Central America to the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt. The Greek philosopher Theophrastus (372–287 BCE) wrote a text titled Peri Lithon (On Stones), which is the basis of today’s modern scientific classification of gemstones. Theophrastus presented a taxonomy of known gems, including their origin, physical properties, and magical and healing powers.

Today, people across the world have a natural affinity for and knowledge of crystals and their healing powers. Many of my students say that crystal work “feels such a natural way of working,” or they say “I feel like I have always done it.” The healing properties of crystals are universal.

What are crystals?

Crystals are natural solids made from minerals. They are formed in the earth’s surface. Although there are many different shapes, colors, and sizes of crystal, each type of crystal has a precise atomic arrangement.

Crystals can be identified by their color (although there may be significant variation within one type of crystal), mineral composition, crystal habit, and degree of hardness. The degree of hardness of a crystal is described by the Mohs Scale of Mineral Hardness. This scale is named after its developer, the German scientist Friedrich Mohs, and it indicates how hard minerals are in relation to each other.

How crystals work

There are many explanations—mystical, magical, scientific, and pseudo-scientific—for the healing effects of crystals. It is now understood that crystals work through the human energy system—that is the chakras (see page 18) and aura—and not through the physical body. By their influence on the energy system, crystals can effect healing within the physical body. The results of using crystals are reported throughout history and science and their healing abilities are attested to by an ever-growing bank of anecdotal evidence.

Scientific evidence

To date, although science has failed to prove a direct effect of crystals on any disease or condition, it has shown that crystals do indeed vibrate and they exhibit both piezoelectric and pyroelectric effects. Crystals have also been shown to hold both heat and electricity and to focus light energy. These special properties of crystals have numerous practical applications, from the use of quartz crystals in watches to the development of lasers—and crystals can even store data, seen in five-dimensional quartz crystal computer chips.

What else happens? Well, we know that crystals enhance the placebo effect (where something has a healing effect because it changes chemicals in the brain which make us feel better). This always occurs in any type of healing process, including the prescribing of pharmaceutical drugs. Finally, the explanation that crystals work by magic also has some validity, if magic is defined as “that which is beyond our understanding at this point in time.”

The scientific research into the properties of crystals is ongoing. Recent research into quartz crystals has shown that crystals increase the frequency of light passed through them. New scientific studies into dark matter and dark energy (scientific fields of study which are just being opened up), along with quantum mechanics (a branch of physics that looks at the motion and interaction of sub-atomic particles), will contribute to our understanding of how crystals work.

CHAPTER 1

Preparing for crystal Work

To begin to work with crystals, you’ll need to choose those that are right for you. Learn to attune to their varied energies—developing your intuitive abilities through pendulum dowsing can help you gain confidence with this (see pages 10–11). Discover, here, how to cleanse your crystals and prepare your space, ready to begin healing work.

Choosing crystals

You may choose a crystal on the basis that it will help you with a specific problem or ailment (see the directory of ailments on pages 139–170), or you can choose a crystal simply on the basis that you are drawn to it.

Crystals that you are drawn to

When you look at an array of crystals there will be some that attract you. They may be pretty, sparkly, or interesting, or ones you find you keep going back to. These will always help you, sometimes in strange and wonderful ways. Having selected the crystals that you are drawn to, you may discover that they were the most fitting choice in terms of how they can help you or someone close to you.

Sometimes crystals may be predictive in that they can help you with a future problem or issue. The first time I observed this I was dowsing crystals in my shop for a customer. Citrine came up for him, and I intuitively knew it was related to his digestion. He strenuously denied that there was anything wrong now, or had been in the past. I insisted, and so did he. He took the crystal. He telephoned me a few days later to say that he had unexpectedly gone out for dinner the previous night and everyone except him had got food poisoning. He had been carrying his citrine!

Whatever the purpose of the crystals you have chosen, this will be revealed to you when it is needed. I’ve been drawn to specific quartz crystals without knowing why. I have many of them and they will sometimes sit around for days or weeks—or even on one occasion, two years—but their purpose has always become clear. In hindsight, each was the right crystal for something or someone very specific. So when you’re attracted to a crystal, don’t worry about why—just trust yourself. After you have made your choice you can discover what the crystal does by looking it up in the Crystal Finder (see pages 22–138).

Crystals for other people

If you are choosing a crystal for another person, think about that person or its purpose as you make your selection. Also, you can look at a photograph of the person, hold a personal object of theirs, repeat their name as a mantra, or write their name on a piece of paper. Be open. Crystals will choose you—they’ll appear to shout, sing, dance, and jump off a shelf to get your attention.

Crystals you aren’t drawn to

You may notice crystals that you don’t like, yet they can also be very helpful. You don’t like them because they’re touching something very uncomfortable and deep inside you that you thought you’d locked away. I’ve seen people burst into tears or be physically repulsed by a crystal.

You may notice that you avoid certain situations in life and you don’t know why. When you work with crystals you don’t like, they help buried issues to surface. As a result you may cry, get angry, or otherwise release trapped emotion. This process can be rough, but stay with it—it won’t last long. Afterwards you’ll feel better, even transformed. You will never again have to avoid something because of trapped or buried issues. Clients and friends are drawn to you because of who you are and your energy; so don’t be surprised if the same or similar crystals and issues keep coming up.

NATURAL MAGNETISM

Pyrite (left) and titanium quartz (right) may be beautiful to look at, but they have unique healing abilities to which you may also be subconsciously attracted.

working with a pendulum

A pendulum can also help you to select the crystals that are right for you. You simply hold the pendulum over a crystal, ask the pendulum whether it is the right choice, and then observe the pendulum’s movement. This is known as dowsing, and it is a natural and ancient human ability—possibly the oldest form of divination. People have been dowsing since before recorded time. We can safely say this as the earliest writings refer to dowsing in a matter-of-fact way.

Today, dowsing is used by people in many fields. A pendulum or other dowsing tool can be used to answer any question you wish to ask; anything from whether a person is ill to whether there is a hidden source of water or oil nearby. Dowsing is used by water and oil companies throughout the world.

Dowsing equipment

You can use a pendulum, rods, or a forked twig to dowse. A pendulum is the most convenient and the easiest to carry around with you. Pendulums are simply pieces of metal or crystal suspended on a chain or some string. If you are just starting to dowse, crystal pendulums are easier to work with because they magnify energy.

CRYSTAL PENDULUMS

Popular crystal pendulums include those made from rose quartz, amethyst (above), and clear quartz.

Choosing the right pendulum

Simply stand in front of a selection of pendulums and select the first one that you notice. Don’t think too much about the choice you are making. Now ask your pendulum whether it is a good one for you to work with. (Find out below how to ask your pendulum a question.) Keep doing this until you find the pendulum that answers “yes.”

Asking your pendulum a question

To use a pendulum, hold it in your hand and ask a simple question to which you know the answer is “yes.” For example, if you are a woman, you could ask: “Am I a woman?”. The pendulum will make a movement. Ask the opposite question and the pendulum should make a different movement. You have now identified the way in which your pendulum answers “yes” and “no,” and you can ask any question you wish. To ask your pendulum which crystal is right for you, hold it over one crystal at a time and ask: “Do I need this crystal?” and watch how your pendulum responds. It’s that simple.

As with all spiritual tools, pendulums respond to how they are treated. If you are serious, your pendulum will always give you the correct answer (however, be aware of how you phrase your questions). If you treat your questions as a game or you continually ask the same question over again, your pendulum will respond in an accordingly insincere way. Pendulums only work in the present and the more people’s energy involved in a situation the shorter the period of time the answer will appear correct. For example, if you hold your pendulum over one crystal and ask “do I need this crystal?” the answer will be correct 100 percent of the time; you will need that crystal at that moment. If, however, you ask what you and twenty friends will do in a year’s time, your pendulum will tell you what you and twenty friends intend now to do in a year’s time.

pendulum responses

A “YES” RESPONSE

Some people find that their pendulum moves in a clockwise direction (see right) to indicate “yes” as an answer to a question.

A “NO” RESPONSE

A “no” answer to a question can be indicated when your crystal moves backwards and forwards (see left)—but how your crystal responds is unique to you.

How do pendulums work?

Inside you is a deep inner space. Some people call it the soul or spirit, which is connected to everything. This inner space knows everything—it really does. It knows if it will rain or the sun will shine. It knows if, when you meet someone new, they are trustworthy; and it knows which crystals you need. When you ask a pendulum a question, it moves. So does your arm. But you don’t consciously move it; you couldn’t stop it if you tried. Watch an experienced pendulum dowser at work; their arm moves, too. This is because that very clever space inside you is telling you the answer and expressing it through the muscles in your arm. In this way, a pendulum gives you a external physical representation of your natural inner knowing.

Cleansing crystals

Crystals need to be cleansed for several reasons. When you work with crystals, either by yourself or with others, they absorb energy from you, other people, and their environments. Visibly, they can also become dusty and lackluster. You can see when your crystals need cleansing—they lose their sparkle, brightness, and even color. Crystals in need of cleansing may also feel sticky to the touch.

Good energy versus bad energy

Crystals naturally pick up energy from the environments they live in. Any traditional crystal cleansing method, from sunlight to running water (see opposite) removes surplus energy that they have absorbed, and which is no longer needed at this moment. We may often seek to define this absorbed energy as good or bad, but there really is no difference between the two; energy is simply energy, without judgment. Native American peoples used obisidian to fashion arrowheads just as healers recommend holding the stone to the belly to ease stomach ache. The ancient Greeks used beautiful quartz crystal globes to cauterize wounds, but leave one in direct sunlight and the same energy may burn your house down. So do not be concerned that your crystals somehow possess innate good or bad energy; they have only energy, and cleansing them helps release energy build-up, preparing them for healing work.

GEODE CLEANSING

You can cleanse a small crystal by placing it inside a crystal geode.

Removing dust

Crystals do become dusty. Dust sticks with an electrostatic charge that affects the special electricity-generating properties of crystals. Dusty crystals will not work as effectively as crystals that have been cleansed, and dust also blocks light, which reduces the quantity of photons a crystal can focus. To remove dust, lightly brush your crystals with a soft brush—a make-up brush or small paint brush is ideal. Do this regularly to avoid dust build-up.

Cleansing methods

You can cleanse your crystals by placing them in a bowl and immersing in a solution of water and a little mild detergent. Afterwards, rinse them thoroughly with water to make them sparkle. Leave your crystals to dry naturally or pat them gently with a soft cloth.

Here are some of the other traditional ways of cleansing crystals. If your crystals are water-soluble, however, don’t use a cleansing technique that involves water.

• Running water: Hold your crystal under running water for a few minutes. It may need longer if it’s been working hard or hasn’t been cleansed for a long time.

• Sunlight: Leave your crystal in sunlight. You can also dry your crystals in the sun after washing them. Beware—quartz crystals, especially crystal balls, will focus the sun’s rays and can be a fire risk. Take appropriate precautions by not leaving quartz unattended in sunlight for any length of time, and do not place on or near any flammable objects.

• Moonlight: Leave your crystal in moonlight, especially the light of a full or new moon.

• Incense: Let frankincense, sandalwood, and sage smoke waft over your crystal. You can use a smudge stick to do this (a smudge stick is a small bundle of herbs that is burned during cleansing rituals).

• Earth: Bury your crystal in the earth and leave it there for one to two weeks or moon cycles. Bury it when the moon is full and unearth it at the time of a new moon.

• Crystal cleansing: Place your crystal on an amethyst bed or quartz cluster, or inside a geode.

• Sound: Clear your crystal of unwanted vibrations by chanting or drumming or using Tibetan bells or symbols (tingsha).

• Breath or light: Exposing your crystal to your breath or light is cleansing. You can also practice Reiki (a type of energy channeling) on your crystal.

CLEANSING METHODS

Methods include cleansing with fresh running water (above), with smudge smoke (left) and by placing a crystal in natural sunlight (below).

Preparing your space

Creating the ideal space in which to work with crystals is both beneficial and fun. To make a sanctuary or sacred space in your house can help to give your crystal work a special, meaningful, or ceremonial feel. If you have a spare room or an area in a large room, your crystal space can be permanent. Otherwise you can set it up and take it down when you’re finished.

Crystal placing

Take time preparing your space. Start by clearing the room or area of everything in it that you don’t need, then clean the space thoroughly. Make a list of all the things that are important to you and select crystals to represent them. You will naturally find that you will need larger crystals for some things and smaller ones for others. Place the crystals about the room as you see fit—remember it’s your space! Choose some relaxing music. Light some candles and sit quietly for a while in this special space that is just for you.

Crystals for your special space

Here are some ideas for crystals to put in your special space:

• Amethyst: Relaxing and calming, but spiritually energizing.

• Citrine: Encourages fun, happiness, and joy.

• Peridot: Clears emotional blockages leading to a release of unwanted things and situations in your life. It’s a great crystal to work with for space clearing, or to give you the impetus you need to begin clearing out old, unwanted possessions.

• Quartz: Brings energy into a room.

• Rose quartz: Allows love to flow.

• Zincite: Great to display in any therapy room as it creates a healing environment.

The more you work with the same crystal to achieve a result, the better you both do it. It’s just like learning anything—the more you practice, the better you get. Some crystals do a bit of everything, while others are best at performing a specific task or meeting a particular need (like being a Jack of all trades or a brain surgeon). Both types of crystal can be very helpful at different times.

Programming a crystal

If you select a crystal and intend to work with it for a single purpose, programming that crystal can speed its effects.

Once you have chosen your crystal and identified what you want it to help you with, spend some time connecting with it. Look at it—notice its shapes, colors, and plays of light. Hold it in your hands, close your eyes and notice exactly how it feels. Become aware of its smooth, flat, sharp, and pointed parts. Take in any feelings that your crystal creates in you—these may be physical sensations in your hands or arise as more subtle feelings from deep within you. Hold your crystal very close to your ear and listen to it. Most people can hear the physical vibration of a crystal. If your crystal has no elixir warning (see page 17), then taste it with the tip of your tongue. Finally, use your sense of smell to further explore your crystal—many people can sense the difference between crystals in this way.

Focus on the purpose of the crystal

Now hold your crystal in your hand and focus your mind on whatever it is you want your crystal to do. Sit quietly and imagine (or pretend—it works just as well) that the thought in your mind is going deep into your crystal. Keep doing this for 5–10 minutes.

Repeat the programming

Ideally, repeat this programming process daily for two weeks. You will find it will take you less time each day to connect to the same crystal. Ask your crystal to help you with whatever you have programmed it for. Between programming sessions you can carry your crystal with you, give it to someone to look after, or leave it somewhere it won’t be disturbed.

CONNECTIVE TOUCH

Holding a crystal in your hands is one of the simplest ways to connect with your crystal’s energy.

CHAPTER 2

Working with Crystals

You can experience the beneficial effects of crystals simply by placing them near you, holding them in your hands, or wearing them against your skin. Try carrying a small pouch of crystals with you all the time, in your bag or pocket—they are working to benefit you during every moment. Hold or play with whichever crystals you are drawn to.

You may also like to derive the benefits of crystals by meditating upon them, as a way to help still your mind, or drinking them, in the form of crystal elixirs made by immersing crystals in water. Discover, too, crystal healing with the body’s chakras, by placing specific stones upon the seven principal chakra points.

Of course, you may simply choose to enjoy having beautiful crystals in your environment while harnessing the special energies that they bring into your home—from helping your garden grow to selling a property, softening hard water to harmonizing all your important relationships.

meditating with crystals

Plan some time for yourself when you won’t be disturbed. Now find a quiet space—in time, this quiet space can be inside you, but to start with it is easier to find a physical space. Switch off any devices that can make a noise or distract you. Play some gentle music, place some crystals around you, and light a candle if you wish.

Allow yourself to breathe in a relaxed way, and feel centered. Calm yourself. Now choose a crystal to focus upon and allow yourself to explore it with all of your senses. Connect with the crystal and be aware of any sensations and feelings that arise in you: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. Stay with this process for a minimum of 10 minutes, but keep going for an hour if you have the time. The important thing is to repeat this meditation daily, no matter how little or how much time you have to spare.

You will find that this meditation feels different on some days to others and also varies according to which crystal you work with. This variation is normal. You may feel happy, calm, and peaceful or edgy, agitated, and sad. All these feelings are perfectly acceptable—go with them and don’t block the unpleasant ones. They will pass.

crystal elixirs

The healing effects of crystals can be experienced by drinking water in which a crystal has been immersed—this is known as a crystal elixir. Elixirs can be effective in the treatment of certain conditions, but always check that your chosen crystal’s elixir is safe to drink using the Crystal Finder on pages 22–138.

ELIXIR BENEFITS

Crystal elixirs are simply prepared, as portable as a bottle of water, and a powerful addition to the crystal healer’s tool box.

Making an elixir

Take the crystal you will be using and cleanse it (see page 13). Place the crystal in a glass or other container of water. It is preferable to use distilled or mineral water from a pure source, but tap water will do. Cover the container and/or place it in the refrigerator and leave overnight. Throughout this process, focus your intention on what you want the elixir to do. Some people like to enhance elixirs by placing them in the light of the sun or the moon or surrounding them with quartz crystals. The next morning, the elixir will be ready. It can be drunk or applied topically over the next 24 hours. Try preparing some quick elixirs to see what effect they have on you. Take three different crystals, for example, quartz, amethyst, and rose quartz, and place each in its own glass of water. Also have a glass of plain water as a control. Leave the glasses of water to stand for 20–30 minutes and then taste each one. Usually, quartz tastes fresher than the plain water, amethyst tastes noticeably metallic, and rose quartz is slightly bland.

The effects of elixirs

Working from the inside out, elixirs are effective healers. Shattuckite elixir is a general tonic for the body and is helpful in the treatment of most minor illnesses. Amber elixir is one of the gentlest, most effective remedies for constipation, and after a hard day drinking an aragonite elixir can soothe aching muscles. Some are applied topically directly to the affected external area of the body. For example, an amber elixir can act as an antiseptic for cuts and grazes or you can soak your feet in a warmed marcasite elixir to treat corns.

SHATTUCKITE

Shattuckite elixir promotes overall good health.

working on your chakras

As well as the physical body we also have a subtle body that consists of channels of energy (known as meridians or nadis). When the flow of energy through these channels slows down or gets blocked, we become ill. When energy flows freely, we live in a state of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health. A huge range of therapies, from acupuncture to Reiki, heal people through enhancing the free flow of energy through the subtle body. Crystal healing works on the subtle body too; in particular on the chakras.

CHAKRA CRYSTALS

Each of the seven major chakras, or energy vortexes, has an associated crystal that relates to that chakra’s color (see page 20).

What is a chakra?

“Chakra” is a Sanskrit word that means “wheel.” Where two or more channels of energy cross in the body, a chakra exists. Chakras are energy centers and are the easiest places to exchange energy with the outside world. To people who can see energy, the chakras appear as balls or as wheels—hence their name.

Most Eastern traditions describe seven major chakras that are positioned along the midline of the body from the base of the spine to the crown of the head. Each chakra correlates to a part of the body; an organ or a gland. As well as the seven major chakras, there are also many minor chakras (some people say up to 440), but it is fine to focus on the seven major ones.

Chakras go in and out of balance and alignment—this happens naturally all the time. A healthy chakra is flexible, vibrating, and moving slightly in and out of balance. However, sometimes chakras go so far out of balance and alignment that they take a long time to come back, and this is when a chakra needs to be healed.

Finding the chakras

It’s easy to find the chakras on yourself. They feel “different” to the rest of the body. Place one or both hands on the site of each chakra (see the illustration below) and allow yourself to focus your mind. Notice areas that feel different. This could mean hot, cold, or tingly. You may have a feeling that resembles pins and needles or you may have an “odd” sensation; it doesn’t matter how you describe the feelings of energy—there is no right or wrong. Energy can be felt on both the front or back of the body. You can also find the chakras on another person using a pendulum (see pages 10–11).

Locating the seven major chakras

Crown chakra—on the top of the head.

Brow chakra (also known as the third eye chakra)—in the center of the forehead, above the eyebrows.

Throat chakra—in the center of the throat.

Heart chakra—in the center of the chest.

Solar plexus chakra—behind the soft cartilage at the bottom of the breast bone.

Sacral chakra—just below your belly button. Try placing your thumb on your belly button with your palm on your belly—your sacral chakra will be under the palm of your hand.

Base chakra—at the coccyx at the base of the spine.

Crystals for the seven chakras

Each chakra enhances specific qualities on physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual levels. When all the chakras are balanced and aligned, many positive benefits can be felt. The chakras are associated with these concepts.

You can place crystals directly on or around the chakra points to facilitate healing. You can also place crystals on specific areas of pain and discomfort. Crystals help to focus energy directly to the body so that it reaches the areas where it is most needed. Using crystals on the chakras can both prevent and heal dis-ease.

the crystal Chakra set

Chakra

Associated concepts

Associated crystal

Crown

Spirituality, connection to universe, imagination, awareness, optimism

Amethyst

Brow

Mind, ideas, thoughts, dreams, psychic abilities

Lapis lazuli

Throat

Communication, expression, responsibility, freedom, leadership

Blue lace agate

Heart

Love, safety, trust, adventure, relationships

Malachite

Solar plexus

Physical center, personal power, emotions

Citrine

Sacral

Connection to other people, creativity, energy, confidence

Carnelian

Base

Survival, health, abundance, connection to Earth, moving forward in life

Red jasper

How to place crystals

Create a special space (see page 14) in which you can relax and focus. Place the appropriate crystal (see opposite) on each chakra point and lie still, resting and relaxing for 30 minutes. Ideally, repeat this exercise daily.

Try to be aware of your responses during the healing treatment. You may notice one or some of the individual crystals, or experience an overall feeling. Each crystal may feel hot or cold, heavy or light as if it’s not even there and you may have tingles, like electrical sensations, either where the crystal is placed or in other areas of your body. You will often feel very calm and relaxed. Sometimes you can experience a feeling of heaviness as if you are rooted to the floor or bed. Accept whatever sensations or thoughts come to you.

PLACING CRYSTALS

Crystals are placed on the seven principal chakra points as the recipient relaxes deeply. You can practice this healing exercise on yourself or someone else.

CRYSTAL POINTS

Add four quartz crystals around each chakra crystal to intensify the effect.

Using crystal points

If you want to try a more powerful version of the chakra healing exercise above, use the crystal points technique. This involves adding four quartz crystal points and placing them on your body or the recipient’s so that they point in toward the central chakra crystal (see right). This has the effect of focusing energy into the chosen chakra, greatly empowering the healing experience.

CHAPTER 3

THE CRYSTAL FINDER

This chapter will help and inspire you to identify any crystals that you may already have, and to choose the crystals you want to work with to heal yourself and others (see also pages 8–9 on choosing crystals).

How to use the crystal finder

To help you identify your own crystals, they are listed by color, although the chapter begins with quartz and amethyst because they are two of the most powerful healing crystals. Many crystals naturally occur in several colors so they are recorded here in their most common varieties, with descriptions, color references, and photographs to aid recognition. (See also the glossary on pages 170–173, which explains some of the terms used to describe the form these crystals take.)

The common sources are for those stones you are likely to find in your local crystal store. Except where the listing is for the “only source,” most minerals have many sources around the world and local sources may vary significantly. Alternative names are provided if applicable, and if a crystal in the description is highlighted in bold, this means that it has a separate entry in this book.

For each crystal, its astrological and chakra associations are listed, followed by its healing qualities, with details of how it can help physical healing and emotional/spiritual healing. (Again, the glossary explains acronyms for conditions and other terms related to healing that you may not be familiar with.)

QUARTZ

AMETHYST

Red

Orange

Yellow

Green

Pink

Rainbow

Blue

Violet

White/clear

Black

Gray

Brown

Quartz

Quartz is the most abundant mineral on Earth and comes in a mind-boggling array of varieties and forms. Over 70 percent of the planet’s surface is formed from quartz in its many guises.

Quartz crystal is the healing crystal. It can channel any type of energy and will help in all healing situations. If you’re stuck or unsure which crystal(s) to work with, then turn to quartz because, although there will often be a different and more beneficial crystal to help a specific condition, quartz will help everything.

Some of the many varieties of quartz and their specific healing qualities are covered within this chapter.

Quartz crystal

Clear or white hexagonal crystals and masses sometimes with inclusions. (See also profiles for specific quartzes.)

Common alternative names: clear quartz, rock crystal

Common sources: worldwide—especially Brazil, China, Colombia, Madagascar, Russia, Republic of South Africa, Tibet, USA (specifically Arkansas)

Astrological associations: all

Chakras: all

HEALING QUALITIES

Quartz crystal is a feel-better stone—it improves your quality of life, makes you feel happier, and re-energizes you in all situations. It channels any energy, so helps any condition.

Physical: helps diabetes, ear infections, hearing and balance, heart health, malaise, MS, CFS/ME, obesity, pain and discomfort, spinal health, tinnitus, and weight loss.

Emotional/spiritual: focuses the mind, aids meditation, and relieves negativity.

Amethyst

Variety of quartz found as crystals or masses. Its classic purple color is due to manganese and iron inclusions. Also found, almost black amethyst (rare), purple/white banded chevron amethyst, prasiolite, which is green amethyst colored by mineral inclusions, and a combination of amethyst and prasiolite called amegreen.

Common sources: worldwide—especially Brazil, India, Madagascar, Republic of South Africa, Uruguay

Astrological associations: Virgo, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces

Chakra: crown

HEALING QUALITIES

Amethyst magnifies the energy of other crystals. It is good for overall protection, and physical, emotional, and mental balance. It can be worked with to encourage chastity and relieve homesickness. It helps negotiation skills, decision making, wealth, business success, moving forward in life, coping with responsibility and change, and public speaking. It is beneficial for purification during ceremonies.

Physical: heals the causes of dis-ease (see page 171). Good for hearing, hormone regulation, insomnia, headaches, migraine, acne, asthma, blood clots, bacterial and viral infections, bad posture, cancer, and arthritis (as an elixir). Encourages the health of the immune, circulatory, and sympathetic nervous systems. Good for bones, heart, stomach, skin, teeth, liver, and endocrine glands. Helps with drunkenness and addictions, especially alcoholism. Aids detoxing and blood cleansing.

Emotional/spiritual: helps with OCD, anger, and violent tendencies. Calms passion, nerves, oversensitivity, tension, emotional energy, and grief. Enhances aura, self-esteem, meditation, spirit contact, and spirituality.

RED

Cinnabar

Found in the form of druses, tabular, and needle-like crystals and masses. The name is derived from an Indian or Persian word for “dragon’s blood.” May also be red/brown and gray.

Common sources: Australia, Europe, Japan, Mexico, Russia, USA

Astrological association: Leo

Chakra: base

HEALING QUALITIES

Cinnabar is a “merchant’s stone” that enhances wealth and business and financial pursuits. Brings vitality.

Physical: good for the blood and fertility. Helps obesity.

Emotional/spiritual: enhances dignity; helps aggression.

No elixir.

Red calcite

A variety of calcite found in the form of masses. It is the building block of lime and marble.

Common source: Mexico

Astrological association: Cancer

Chakra: base

HEALING QUALITIES

Physical: calms physical energy. Good for ADHD.

Emotional/spiritual: grounding; helps anxiety, panic attacks, and OCD.

Red jasper

A variety of quartz colored red by iron oxide inclusions.

Common sources: India, Brazil

Astrological associations: Aries, Taurus

Chakra: base

HEALING QUALITIES

Together with jet, red jasper offers protection.

Physical: prevents illness.

Emotional/spiritual: aids rebirth, new ideas, astral travel, meditation, survival instinct, and dream recall.

Garnet

Found as dodecahedral and trapezohedral crystals and combinations, masses, and layered “plates.” Colors include: red, pink eudialyte, pink/red rhodolite, green grossularite, emerald green uvarovite, black melanite, orange spessartine, red/purple almandine, greenish yellow andradite, and yellow and brown hessonite.

Common sources: India, Russia, USA

Astrological associations: Leo, Virgo, Capricorn, Aquarius Chakra: heart

HEALING QUALITIES

Brings courage, creative energy, vitality, abundance, flow, change, and awareness.

Physical: helps anemia, arthritis, blood cleansing/detox, blood flow, low blood pressure, rheumatism, under-active thyroid, and deficiencies of iodine, calcium, magnesium and vitamins A, D, and E. Enhances the health of the bones, spine, heart, and lungs. Balances sex drive.

Emotional/spiritual: brings emotional balance. Helps depression, chaos, disruption, and emotional trauma. Good for magic and spiritual devotion.

Almandine

A red/purple variety of garnet.

Common source: India

Astrological associations: Virgo, Scorpio

Chakras: base, heart

HEALING QUALITIES

Almandine is helpful for people who work with numbers. It brings youthfulness.

Physical: brings physical energy. Enhances the health of the eyes, heart, liver, and pancreas. Helps blood disorders, post-operative healing, and wounds.

Emotional/spiritual: enhances connection to higher self, meditation, rejuvenation, and love. Eases death and the dying process.

Mookaite

A patterned red and cream variety of jasper.

Common source: Australia

Astrological association: Leo

Chakra: base

HEALING QUALITIES

Good for people who are making decisions and seeking creativity and new perceptions, ideas or work. Also those who are coping with children and loneliness. Offers general protection and helps communication.

Physical: good for weight loss and the health of the stomach and thyroid gland. Helps with hernias and water retention.

Emotional/spiritual: good for grounding, dreams, moving forward in life, and building self-esteem. Helps fear and depression. Aids meditation.

Brecciated jasper

Formed as jasper is shattered by tectonic activity and the created spaces are filled with more jasper, chalcedony, and different varieties of macrocrystalline quartz. The deep red colors are due to hematite embedded within the jasper.