Helpful Tips for Meditating with Healing Crystals

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Practicing meditation can be extremely beneficial. It is a safe and simple way to balance a person's physical, emotional, and mental states. Meditating with crystals can bring a new dimension to the practice of meditation.

Citrine Healing Crystal Heart

Before beginning a crystal meditation make sure your have cleansed your crystal.
To begin choose your crystal. Choosing a crystal with fault lines or patterns within it may help you to 'lose yourself' within the crystal while meditating.

Find a quiet place where you will not be disturbed. Hold your chosen crystal or place it in front of you where you can see it clearly. Breath gently. Make each breath out a little longer than the breath in. Look at your crystal; notice its color, pattern, and shape.

Hold your crystal in both hands, close your eyes, and relax. Imagine you are inside your crystal; let yourself move with the flow of the crystal. Let go of worldly thoughts and emotions and move deep into the center of your crystal, imagine you are wandering through it exploring its inner beauty.

When you are ready, slowly allow yourself to come back to physical reality. Put your crystal aside and ground yourself by imagining roots coming from your feet and going down into the ground. Move your toes, shake your hands, and just sit for a moment reflecting on what you saw and how you felt. You may just want to lie and put your crystal on its associated chakra.

The Seventh Chakra: The Crown Chakra

 The Seventh Chakra or Crown Chakra is situated on the top of the head or crown area. This chakra is represented by the colors violet or white, and is the foundation of our spiritual body, linking us to creation.

The Crown Chakra influences spiritual will, inspiration, idealism, and celestial knowledge, and it is our connection with the universe. This chakra physically influences the cerebral cortex, cerebrum, central nervous system, glands and the pineal gland, pituitary gland and hormones related to them.

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When our Crown Chakra is balanced, we are released from ego driven desires, and are able to trust in our highest self. If this chakra is not working properly, we will experience reduced self-confidence, creating fear and anxiety.

When open, this chakra feels as if there is a small amount of pressure, pulling or tugging at the crown of the head. The balance of the previous six chakras affects the balance of the Seventh Chakra.

We can help to balance this chakra by spending quiet time in meditation and connecting with our inner selves.

Healing crystals that work to help open and balance the Crown Chakra include amethyst, alexandrite, purple fluorite, sugilite, quartz crystal, and selenite.

Learn How Reiki Healing and Energy Can Benefit You

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Have you ever wondered what Reiki healing can do for you?  We've assembled of set of questions and answers we hope will answer all of your questions about Reiki healing and hopefully get you started on the pathway to discovery and healing.





What is Reiki?

Reiki is a natural healing system designed to assist in healing and help achieve balance. Reiki is administered by a practitioner, who serves as a conduit through whom the Universal Life Energy can be transmitted to the recipient, by either hands-on or distance healing techniques. Practitioners may also practice Reiki self-treatments.

How does Reiki energy flow?

Reiki flows through our palms at different rates of speed, depending on various factors such as the extent of the recipient’s illness, degree of blockage, his or her readiness to accept change, and so on.

Is Reiki a form of faith healing?

No, Reiki is not a religion, nor is it based on the acceptance of any religious doctrine. Having a belief system is not a requirement for Reiki to work. Reiki does not infringe on anyone’s right to believe what he or she wishes. However, Reiki's principles are spiritual in nature and do encourage spiritual empowerment and growth.

Who can benefit from a Reiki treatment?

Reiki's gift of increased energy and vitality can be extended to anyone. It doesn't matter what a person's gender, race, intelligence, or financial status is. Reiki is not a healing energy reserved only for the elite, wealthy, educated, or spiritually evolved.

What does Reiki feel like?

Common Reiki sensations are heat or coolness, "pins and needles" tingling, vibrational buzzing, electrical sparks, numbness, throbbing, itchiness, and drowsiness.

What is a Reiki attunement?

A Reiki attunement is a ritual performed by a Reiki Master. The ritual involves energetic placement of Reiki symbols through a specific set of sequenced actions into the student's crown and palms.

Will Reiki ever run out?

When you are giving a Reiki treatment to someone, you are giving of your time and your intent to assist, but you are not giving away any of your own energy. Reiki is in infinite supply. It never runs out.

What is the purpose of the Reiki hand placements?

Emphasis is placed on devoting five minutes on each hand placement so that no part of the body is neglected and to ensure that each body part is given equal consideration.

Do I need to direct the flow of Reiki?

Reiki will automatically go to wherever it needs to go with no mental involvement of either the practitioner or the recipient. However, when mental intention is used, a linear pathway is opened. This cleared route allows Reiki to flow more effectively to that part of the body where attention is most desired.

What purpose do Reiki symbols serve?

Independently, each Reiki symbol has its own unique purposes. The combined function of these symbols is to provide Reiki practitioners with focal points for their healing intentions.

Why is Reiki called "smart energy"?

Reiki is an intelligent energy because it knows which areas of the body most need healing and will automatically flow to specific areas where suffering or imbalance are prevalent.