Crystals

[Adrian]

Greetings everyone,

Most of us know how useful crystals can be for many metaphysical procedures.

We have an excellent crystal shop over here, but they only sell the polished crystals. I personally believe that raw, unpolished crystal are  by far the best for these things. I particularly believe that the various quartz, e.g. smokey quartz, rose quartz are particularly useful. Do you people have problems obtaining unpolished crystals?

Also, while we are on the subject, it would be interesting to hear of experiences with crystals for Astral projection, meditation etc..

With best regards,

Adrian.


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[yothu]

Something I have tried in the last time is putting crystals on the chakra areas and then simply relax and going into slight meditation. I was surprised by the different and strong feelings I did experience when doing it.

What I did: I put a citrin crystal (tiny ones) on my brow chakra and my throat chakra. Clear quartz on my heart chakra. In this 'configuration' I felt my heart very well. Also my brow was being stimulated.
After that I tried it with clear quartz on my brow chakra, citrin on my throat and above navel, rose quartz on my heart. It felt different. I felt my head 'was being cleared' especially above my eyes.
Yesterday I put my clear quartz above the navel (5th chakra from top) and citrin on my brow chakra. I had a sensation which is best described in a feeling of wholeness. I felt like being 'complete', energetically speaking. I hope you know what I mean. I experienced such a feeling sometimes when doing EFT, but the feeling of having an energy body was never this clear and smooth. I felt really smooth, without a flaw. Like a perfect...well, crystal. hahahaha

Now that I describe it...! Amazing feeling. If someone has tried it, please give me your comments!

I also 'discovered' that the feeling of sympathy and love is amplified when wearing rose quartz. I had one in my pocket for example.

Somebody said the purer, cleaner the chrystal the better. My citrin is not very pure but it 'works' very well though. I plan to get some purer stuff, which I have right now. Wasn't cheap but I do not go to McDonalds, so...

- A few days later

Again I placed clear quartz crystals on my major six (left out root chakra) chakras and concentrated on the energy flow from my root chakra along the spine. After a while I had a strange feeling in my right arm, just at elbow. A few seconds later I remembered that this is the location I broke my arm say 13 years ago. I recall that I sensed the same with my left wrist, which too was broken, in an earlier session.

Also I put a crystal on each of my eyes and felt like if my eyeballs were sinking in my head. Like they are never completely in my head, but somehow 'lifted out'. Could be true, because I have what doctors call shortsightedness and often feel that I tense the muscles of my eyes too much. I can relax them, but only to a certain degree I feel.

I believe that crystals broadcast some of their harmony and greatly aid to receive and send energy. I have yet to do more experiments, but I clearly see no placebo effect, because I can reproduce certain effects. That is the feeling of sinking, vibrating and of being aligned. Together with a slightly enhanced ability to broadcast energy. If I don't use crystals those abilities don't cease, but are not amplyfied anymore as what I perceive. Again, I have to do more experiments on this. Effects vary when using different crystals. Eg. the feeling of being aligned is stronger for me when using citrin instead of clear quartz. When using citrin it I have slightly stronger and more intense experiences.

I have to admit that since I use crystals before going to sleep I need less time to rest. When I get up I feel completely rested, healthier and fit. I also feel that my body is cleaning itself.

[James S]

Hi Yothu,

I've recently started meditation with crystals on my major chakras, and find that it is not only empowering, but at the same time it feels very relaxing and soothing, like my aura is being healed & softened. I do a lot of energy/chakra meditations, so it's a wonderful feeling to have the crystals used. I can see where you would be getting a lot of success using clear quartz, as it is the all purpose amplifier.

More recently, I attended a crystal healing workshop that helped me gain a much better insight into using crystals with our chakras, and how they can be used to repair & rejuvinate our auras. Typically we used crystals that matched the colours of the chakras -

Base - Tiger Iron (a natural combination of Tiger eye, Hematite & Jasper)
Sacral - Carnelion
Solar plexus - Citrine
Heart - Rose quartz (and a green stone such as Aventurine if extra healing is needed here)
Throat - Sodalite (Blue Calcite is also very good here)
Brow - Amethyst
Crown - Clear Quartz

When doing a healing on someones chakras your basically feeding reiki or white light energy into the crystal on that chakra, and letting it attune the energy for that person. If the chakra is not functioning well, holding clear quartz in your hand while sending the energy gives it a huge boost. You can really feel the quartz amplifying the energy here.

The colour of stone you use isn't strict - there are general guidelines but no rules. I read where you were using Citrine on your heart. Though it's not usually associated with the heart chakra, Citrine is an excellent stone for opening up the chakras - any of them. We were told during the course to let your intuition guide you on what stoned to use where for best effect.

Kind regards,
James.

[GOTHIKA]

I have taken up an interest in energy work with crystals and am trying to figure out what would work best for me in my meditation exercises.
Also I find it quite fascinating that crystals can be used to perform healing exercises upon people.
I usually use my own energy when I attempt to heal others but am always interested in other techniques as well.

[Alaskans]

I'm not one to jump on bandwagons (when I was starting out I even thought chakras were bogus hehe.) My belief in crystals changed one day also. I used to have a nice cliff I would climb, up to a ledge overlooking the valleys and river.. awsome place. I always meditate at the same spot when possible, to build latent energy. But after awhile I started changing my location. I noticed that some places on the cliff I had much better meditations than others, moving a foot or two could make a huge difference. I investigated the cliff. I found that at all of my favorite spots there were hidden veins of smokey quartz. I moved, but I hope to find another crystal vein like that. But as a substitute I was thinking you could get a lot of raw quartz crystals and arrange them on your mat in a flower design with their base (-) pointing away from you.

[Stookie]

I know next to nothing about crystals in relation to metaphysics. But my new home has a rediculous amout of quartz on the property, due to a rediculous amout of granite in the area. I recently found a baseball sized chunk of quartz that was too pretty not to pick up. I'm going to put it in my garden when I get it started.

[GOTHIKA]

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(I'm not one to jump on bandwagons but when I was starting out I thought chakra were bogus)

I was sort of skeptical as well until I realized that I was interacting with certain chakra centers such as the heart and the crown in my metapsychical endeavors.

I have also heard that Quartz can be a most useful crystal to work with but haven't tried it as of yet.
As for the suggested usage of placing many of them around oneself the idea sounds most intriuging but I hope that they are'nt very expensive crystals to purchase.

[Rob]

Stookie... I am so jealous 

[MW]

I agree with Mustang. Nothing should be taken at face value but investigated and then filtered through your intelligence and reasoning. However, if benefits can be gained through crystals psychosomatically, doesn't this invalidate modern pharmaceuticals, with their enormous profit margins and long list of side effects? If you can cure yourself through the power of the mind why bother with medicines at all? Since I had my first session with a local energy healer (3 months of tendonitis gone in 3 days-woohoo!) I haven't see a doctor since.

I'm definitely going to try sleeping with a crystal on my brow and see what happens - but I sleep on my side and toss and turn a fair bit, is it ok to keep the crystal there with sticky tape?

Also, does how clear the crystal is affect how powerful it is?