Living With Crystals November07


	November 2007 Living With Crystals Living With Crystals A Newsletter from Beyond the Rainbow http://www.rainbowcrystal.com/ PO Box 110, Ruby, NY 12475 Volume XI, Number 10 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Living with Crystals gives monthly information about working with crystals, flower essences, and aromatherapy. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In This Issue I Welcome II Email Address for Beyond the Rainbow III Feature Article: Touch the Earth IV Courses V Bach Flower Remedy Classes V Courses VI Good Vibrations Welcome to the Beyond the Rainbow's newsletter about crystals, Living with Crystals, first published February 1997. Every issue of Living with Crystals is dedicated to all of you who read it; we dedicate this issue with special appreciation, and pledge that Living with Crystals will continue to serve all those who wants to learn more about working with crystals as our partners in creation. May your every day become more crystalline. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Touch the Earth: A Deeper Look at Grounding Stones* When I discovered crystals, I realized that one way to balance my energies was to keep grounding crystals around. Since I quickly fell in love with smoky quartz, hematite, black tourmaline, and tiger's eye, I was set for a lifetime of grounding. However, as I began to explore the relationship between crystals and the chakras, I discovered grounding stones weren't limited to those associated with the first chakra. This is because the energies of particular chakras often need to be grounded or stabilized. Calming the Chakras For example, the sixth chakra (also called the third eye, and located between and slightly above the physical eyes) governs mental processes, including reason and logic, intuition, and psychic awareness. Many people find that having a lively, flexible, and imaginative intellect enhances creativity. Sometimes, though, mental processes become a little too lively, producing scattered, disconnected thoughts, and mental confusion which is often deepened by emotional turmoil. Under such conditions, it can be very difficult to make the most appropriate decision. The ideal crystal for such a state of mind is sodalite, a grounding dark-blue stone with streaks of black and white. It helps to calm the emotions and the mind, creating a space of mental quiet during which we can view the possibilities of a situation with objectivity and detachment. Each chakra is associated with at least one crystal that has a grounding effect on its energies. I describe here the ones I've found most helpful. First Chakra: Various Crystals This chakra is all about grounding, and I've written about the relationship of the crystals associated with it to grounding at http://www.rainbowcrystal.com/crystal/firstchakrastones.html Second Chakra: Red Jasper The second chakra relates to passion, creative energy, sexuality, the flow of blood through our bodies, freedom of motion, and feeling. Overall, it is about movement and flow, whether that flow is physical or emotional. Sometimes flow becomes flood. We may feel overwhelmed by sensation or emotion. As a physical flood sweeps away topsoil and looses the roots of trees, sometimes uprooting them altogether, so an unbalanced second chakra may make us feel as if life is moving too fast and out of control. One antidote for this feeling is red jasper. Unlike high-energy crystals (strong examples being Herkimer diamonds and rutilated quartz), this crystal's energy is slow moving and grounding. It is, in some Native cultures, thought to be the symbolic blood of the earth. As such, it helps us to connect with earth's deep, stabilizing energies. Generally it's considered to be an emotionally calming stone. This makes it excellent for those who either feel unbalanced by stronger crystalline energies or who like change to be a gradual process. Third Chakra: Tiger's Eye This chakra relates to self-esteem, the expression of personal power, and the ability to realize one's dreams. Sometimes we know what we want, have access to the energy needed to create it, but feel at a loss in terms of the steps necessary for accomplishment. When this occurs, it is because we are disconnected from our inner knowing. Tiger's eye (which, because it is both gold and brown, relates to the first and third chakras) helps us to reground us in our deepest intuition. It enables to activate the qualities of patience and timing. It also assists us in having more confidence in our ability to realize our dreams by connecting us to the inner resources we can use for accomplishment. Solar Plexus: Chrysoprase (Note: while the solar plexus is generally considered to be part of the third chakra, it has some distinctive qualities.) When I lead a meditation, I often have students visualizing roots extending deep into the earth. The idea of being anchored to the earth symbolizes rootedness in physical existence. We also become more deeply rooted in the physical plane when we appreciate its many beauties and pleasures. Chrysoprase, a sea green stone, encourages this kind of receptivity. As a solar plexus stone, it relates to the release of emotional blockages and to full, deep breathing. When we are storing emotions we don't want to feel in the solar plexus, we block our ability to appreciate--because appreciation is feeling, and we've learned that feeling hurts. Chrysoprase, by helping us to learn to focus on positive energies, allows us to diminish the power of negative feelings from the past. Thus healing occurs as we learn to appreciative all that is joyful in our lives. This appreciation teaches us to be grateful for our physical existence. Heart: Rhodonite When all is well and love flows smoothly, we experience it as passion, joy, ecstasy. Our feet may not be touching the ground, but we don't care, for we are deeply grounded in the experience of loving. When all is not well, and irritation, anger, annoyance and other emotions block our experience of love, we may forget we ever loved the person who is causing us such displeasure and pain. We are ungrounded. The crystal that can help us reconnect to the source of love is rhodonite. This deep pink stone with black streaks represents patience. While tiger's eye stands for the kind of patience connected with knowing when and how to take the steps that help to manifest one's dreams, rhodonite is associated with how we relate to others. It is a patience that allows others to be however they are without judging them. It means not shooting off hostile vibrations to a slow teller or cashier, staying calm when faced with a barrage of questions from a curious child, understanding that your mate loves you even if (s)he forgot to take the garbage out. I don't say rhodonite accomplishes this on its own, but it definitely helps. Fifth Chakra: Amazonite The fifth chakra relates to self-expression. True self-expression involves honesty: communicating how you really feel, what you really want, what you truly believe. Have you ever been in a situation where someone (or your own long pent-up anger) kept on goading you to say what you felt, and it all poured out in a flood of words that you immediately wished you could stuff back into your mouth? This is the kind of situation working with amazonite can help you avoid. Courage of self-expression means expressing yourself before the need to unload your feelings becomes explosive. It means being grounded in self-expression: knowing what you feel and being able to express it in a calm and self-confident way. In the deepest sense, it means being grounded in your inner being or higher self and being able to express your unique, personal truths. Sixth Chakra: Charoite I've already described sodalite as a grounding crystal for the sixth chakra. Another is charoite, a purple stone with black and white streaks. One of the pleasures of being in physical existence is to be in a continual and joyful process of translating nonphysical into physical energy (or ideas into things). If we are finding limitations in doing this, it's often because fear keeps us from being grounded in the use of the laws of physical existence. Charoite helps us to handle fear. While the purple in this stone helps us to move closer to spirit, the color black grounds the purple ray, and enables us to explore the nature of our fears so that we may release them. Seventh Chakra: Chrysanthemum Stone Our journey through life, like our journey through the chakras, is, at its best, an unfolding that returns us to universal source, as represented by the seventh chakra. Sometimes that journey feels more like a roller coaster ride, so bumpy a trip that, bruised and battered, we hit the brakes. Thus, we lose our grounding connection to the source that guides us. Chrysanthemum stone helps us to have a smoother ride, to experience change as flowing growth. This black stone has delicate white patterns like Asian brush paintings. I think of the black as the grounding force that frames the pure path of the soul's journey. When we aren't racing through the scenery of our lives, we're able to enjoy the journey and appreciate the blossoming of each moment and its gifts. This is the gift of chrysanthemum. Note: for recommendations on grounding essences and oils, please see http://www.rainbowcrystal.com/crystal/higherground.html You can view this online at http://www.rainbowcrystal.com/crystal/grounding.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A New Way to Learn About Our Courses* If you've been interested in our email courses but have been unsure which would be best for you, you now have a new way to choose. I've put together a pamphlet in Microsoft Word format that fully describes each course: Bach Flower Remedies: A User-Friendly Guide Crystals and the Chakras Allow More Love in Your Life Think More: Work Less Each course description includes annotated tables of contents and summaries of the course material. In addition, the pamphlet includes sample lessons. This inclusion gives you the opportunity to decide whether the format works for your learning needs. While most of the material in the 61-page pamphlet is also available on our web site, the new format gives you all the information in one convenient document. To receive this pamphlet, please email celticmuse@rainbowcrystal.net I will send you the pamphlet by email. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bach Flower Remedy Course* The "Bach Flower Remedies" course is without a doubt one of the best classes I have ever taken. Ms. Barrett has done an excellent job in explaining these essences and their applications so that all may benefit from them. Coupled with real world examples and suggestions, her down to earth presentation makes this a "must-take" course for anyone interested in Natural Health. Paul E. Fitzgibbons, N.D. I've written a 71,000-word workbook that includes full descriptions of the Remedies, extensive comparisons between them, and study sections. All participants will complete a consultation for themselves that I will evaluate. The cost is $60. To read a detailed table of contents for the written material please go to http://rainbowcrystal.com/bach/bachbooktableofcontents.html You can also see a sample section at http://www.rainbowcrystal.com/bach/bachclasssample.html Like our other courses, the Bach Flower Remedy class is self-paced. The written material is delivered by email in Microsoft Word format. To learn more about this course or to register, please go to http://www.rainbowcrystal.com/bach/bachonlineclass.html If you have any questions, please email me at celticmuse@rainbowcrystal.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Course on the Chakras* Upon completing the Chakra Course, Bonnie Staggs wrote: "I would like to thank Beyond the Rainbow for making this online Chakra course available and for the awesome materials and support. I probably have taken longer than most to complete the course, however, there is so much valuable information that I really devoured and thoroughly enjoyed the process. I am so excited to learn this and to apply it in my life, and others! I look forward to learning more each day as I experience it in my life and the lives of others!" When we understand what the chakras have to do with our emotions, health, and mental well being we have a new way to understand ourselves. When we learn how to rebalance the energy of the chakras we can raise our lives to a new level of empowerment. This self-paced course can assist you in rebalancing your life. I've expanded it and made it available in a more attractive format. It includes: • Detailed descriptions of many crystals • A quiz to help you begin • Several articles describing different ways to work with the chakras • An appendix of supplementary information To see a complete lesson online, please go to http://www.rainbowcrystal.com/crystal/thirdchakra.html To learn more about this course in general, please see http://www.rainbowcrystal.com/crystal/class.html If you have any questions, please email me at celticmuse@rainbowcrystal.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Allow More Love in Your Life* When we live in the spirit of love, life becomes joyful. We find that when we aren't bound up in negative emotions, we have more vitality. We appreciate the many blessings of our lives, and the positive energy of appreciation creates more blessings for us to appreciate. Our relationships become our greatest blessings. We turn relationship challenges into opportunities for greater understanding and intimacy. All of this is possible when we recognize that we are the source of love. Like our other courses, Your Journey of Love is self-paced and full of exercises designed to help you discover what keeps you from experiencing unconditional love. This course also contains several lessons describing how certain crystals and essences relate to different aspects of love. For more information, please see http://www.rainbowcrystal.com/crystalemailcourses/loveclass.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Your Prosperity Journey* The course is designed to help you to explore and dissolve limiting beliefs and habits and emotional ways of being and to replace them with powerful affirmations and new habits that can help you to create a prosperous and fulfilling life for yourself, For us prosperity isn't only money, although that's the area where many of us notice that we're not as prosperous as we'd like to be. It's the quality of our lives, lives where work is play that fills our creative and spiritual needs. The course includes detailed information about crystals and essences related to prosperity, meditations, and many practical suggestions. We have personally tested every principle, practice, and assignment included in this course. We continue to use them on a daily basis, and plan to do so for the rest of our lives--because they work. For more information on this course please see http://www.rainbowcrystal.com/crystal/prosperityclass.html This page has links to details about the course and a sample lesson. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Two Popular Email Courses Now Available in Ebook Form* Allow More Love in Your Life Think More: Work Less Previously only offered as email courses for $50 each, the material for each of these classes is now available, either for easy reading on your computer screen or in printable form. After much thought, we decided to publish the books in Microsoft Word format. With this format, you can easily search through the table of contents and chapter headings for specific material. You can also make a copy of the document and do the homeplay in the book itself. This makes it a true workbook -- or, as we prefer to say, Playbook. We are in the process of learning more advanced technologies for ebook production, but for now, this appears to be the most effective format. To order or learn more, please see http://www.rainbowcrystal.com/books/book.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Good Vibrations: A New Way to Learn About Crystals and Essences* http://goodvibrations.ning.com/ is a page where you can help build a community of people who love crystals and essences and want to share information. The page has a forum where you can ask and answer questions about crystals and essences. If you have a particular interest: meditating with crystals, working with affirmations, how to enhance the use of essences, raising crystal children, you can set up a group. I will be happy to list groups in this newsletters so that others can join. If you like, you can also create your own page, where you can share favorite links and upload pictures of your crystals. To join, look for the line on the right side of the page, towards the top, that says "Join Good Vibrations Now." You'll be taken to a page where you answer a few questions. 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