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.

How Your Aura Colors Can Guide Your Life

Do you feel unfulfilled? Are you stuck in a job that is not quite right, or are you in a relationship that is not meeting your needs? Have you lost yourself trying to please others? Are you ready to live a life that is more satisfying and reflects the true you, but you are not sure what that is or how to get there?

This can be the year that you start really living. There is a great way to rediscover yourself and learn how to live your best life. The key to understanding who you are, your life purpose, most fulfilling career, most compatible relationship and more is revealed in your aura (what science refers to as the electromagnetic or energy field that surrounds all living things). The colors of your aura reveal powerful information about you and the path you have chosen for your life.

Your aura colors can reflect your specific personality traits and reveal the different strengths and methods you can use to accomplish your dreams. Once you recognize and acknowledge the true you, you can begin to live your authentic life.

Most people have two main aura colors, so the personality traits of both will apply. These can be complementary qualities, or can potentially cause inner conflict. Learning to honor, accept and live in balance with both will create a more fulfilling life. Here are some of the aura colors and their descriptions.

Aura Colors for Healing

Yellows — Yellows can be shy and sensitive; others are outgoing, playful, energetic, funny, optimistic and free-spirited. Yellows rarely look, feel or act their age. Their life purpose is to enjoy life, spread joy or help others heal. Yellows exercise and eat healthily — although, if they are unfulfilled, they often become addicts. Their best careers are in fields that are either creative (artist, musician, dancer, designer, writer, comedian); healing (doctor, masseuse, veterinarian, etc); or physical (athlete, builder, landscaper, etc.). Yellows need playful, fun-loving partners who are their best friends and can accept their youthful behavior.

Tans — Tans are practical, logical and down to earth. They analyze and calculate the steps they take in life. People often appreciate the calm, levelheaded and sensible nature of tans. They are usually employees, pay their bills on time and make conservative, long-term investments. They value security. Tans tend to keep their feelings to themselves and dislike drama; so they prefer partners who are reliable, calm, rational and stable. Tans are often architects, engineers, bookkeepers, computer programmers and the like.

Greens — Greens are intelligent, quick and usually drawn to money and power. Often found in business, they are movers and shakers, and even workaholics. They are organized, efficient and list-makers. Greens are some of the wealthiest people on the planet. They need projects or businesses to work with; otherwise, they become bored and restless. They are highly competitive and thrive on taking risks. Most fulfilling jobs for them include CEO, stockbroker, banker, realtor, salesperson, organizer, fundraiser, manager, etc. Greens prefer partners who are self-reliant, intellectually stimulating and respectful of them, their money and their work.

Blues — Blues are emotional, nurturing and supportive. Their priorities are love, spirituality and helping others. People usually turn to blues for comfort and counsel. Blues are very loyal to their families and friends, and love to be in love. They live from their hearts and tend to cry easily. They are also very intuitive, even psychic. Blues are often teachers, counselors, nurses, volunteers and caretakers. They need mates who are loyal, caring, kind, emotionally available, faithful and trustworthy.

Violets — Violets are visionaries and are often accused of being unrealistic dreamers. They sense that they have a big purpose — to save the planet, improve the quality of life for people, or inspire or educate the masses. Violets prefer to work for themselves or become leaders. Violets are often famous. They like careers in the media, entertainment, art, music, psychology, teaching, politics, law or causes. They need freedom and travel and to be passionate about life and their work. Without this, they will feel something is missing. Violets need partners who are equals, who share their vision, are inspirational, passionate and can soar with them.

The Power and Popularity of Amethyst Healing Crystals

April’s healing crystal birthstone is Clear Quartz. While there are many varieties of quartz crystals, one of the most popular is the Amethyst healing crystal.

Amethyst Healing Crystal Tower

Amethyst is also a variety of Quartz and is a 6th Anniversary gemstone.

Amethyst is a powerful and protective stone.  It guards against psychic attack, transmuting the energy into love and protecting the wearer from all types of harm.  Amethyst is also a natural tranquiliser, relieving stress and strain, soothing irritability, balancing mood swings, and dispelling anger, rage, fear and anxiety.  Amethyst healing crystals also alleviate sadness and grief, and dissolve negativity.  It has strong healing and cleansing powers.

Amethyst encourages sobriety, having a sobering effect on overindulgence of alcohol, drugs or other addictions.  It calms and stimulates the mind, helping you become more focused, enhancing memory and improving motivation.  Amethyst assists in remembering and understanding dreams.  It relieves insomnia and encourages selflessness and spiritual wisdom.

Amethyst relieves physical, emotional and psychological pain or stress.  With all of its positive healing attributes and natural beauty, it is no surprise Amethyst healing crystals are such a popular choice for healing crystal accessories and jewelry.

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Obsidian helps to protect the very sensitive against depression. It is the stone of the soft-hearted, and gentle people of the world. Use obsidian to help block negativity of any kind. It's a wonderful healing crystal gemstone, and makes a beautiful crystal ball.  Good luck!

 

Rainbow Obsidian Crystal Ball

Crystal Healing and Aura Cleansing

There are various ways to get balanced; one method is crystal healing. Crystal healing is a soft, gentle, easy and natural way to balance our body on all levels--emotional, mental, spiritual and physical.

Amethyst Healing Crystal Cluster

Each crystal has a unique vibrational resonance. They owe their qualities to their mineral content, their inherent geometry and the colour frequency they emit. The human body has its own frequencies as well, that change according to the state we are in.

The body has a complex electromagnetic system and around it, we find a structure, also known as the aura. Within this auric field we find our chakras, which are like spinning wheels of energy. Because crystals are known to be perfect electromagnetic conductors, they are capable of interacting with the aura, the chakras or on a more physical or emotional level. By placing the crystals on the body you can reach a sympathetic resonance.

Another thing you can do with crystals is aura cleansing; a quick way to clean, vitalize and seal the aura. Learn more about healing crystals to assist you with aura healing.

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.

Amethyst Healing Crystal Cluster

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.

The Sixth Chakra: Third Eye

"Ajna" is the Sanskrit word for the Sixth or Third Eye Chakra. It means "beyond wisdom." It has also been translated to mean "the perception center."

The Sixth Chakra is located between, and just above, the eyes. It is often referred to as the Third Eye. This chakra deals with visualization, intuition, imagination and telepathy.

The emotion for the Third Eye Chakra is "knowing", an intuitive type of knowing. When this chakra is dominant, one may have clairvoyant abilities, making them able to see things that others can't.

Amethyst Healing Crystal Pyramid

When the energy of the Sixth Chakra is excessive, it can cause headaches, hallucinations, difficulty in concentrating, and even nightmares.

By supporting the energy of the Sixth Chakra we are supporting our natural intuitive abilities.

The Third Eye Chakra is also called the Ajna Chakra. In Sanskrit, Ajna means order and control. The Sixth Chakra functions like a coordinator of the five chakras below it. When the five chakras beneath have been transformed, then the sixth becomes a coordinator of sorts to make sure all is working well within us.

However, when the Third Eye Chakra has an impurity of its own it can become more controlling.

When the Third Eye Chakra is balanced we experience high mental ability, we are able to separate between reality and imagination and best combine logic and emotion. When the chakra is unbalanced we experience fatigue, day dreaming, sleep problems, lack of assertiveness, inability to listen to others, and may even often feel disoriented.

Healing crystals for the Third Eye Chakra include amethyst,

angelite, aquamarine, celestite, fluorite, howlite, iolite, jasper, kunzite

lapis lazuli, lepidolite and unakite.

Fifth Chakra: The Throat Chakra

The Throat Chakra is the chakra of diplomacy, of pure relationships with others, and of playful detachment. It removes all our guilt and remorse when it is opened,  and gives us a kind and compassionate voice.

This chakra is placed in our necks, and is responsible for communication with others.

The Throat Chakra represents the need for harmony and collective living becomes important. It signifies the ability of the human being to rise above petty differences and strive to experience the unity of the spirit.

The Throat Chakra allows us to communicate our thoughts and feelings. It is directly connected to the ability to express inner creativity. Both teaching and learning are affected by the balance of the Throat Chakra.

Chrysocolla Healing Crystal Heart

Some signs that the Throat Chakra is out of balance are:

·      Difficulty expressing oneself

·      Poor learning ability

·      Habitual lying

·      Fear, doubt, uncertainty

The color associated with the Throat Chakra is blue. Blue is the symbol of inspiration, devotion, infinity and religious pursuits. It produces calm and peace. The Throat Chakra is the origination point of the spoken word, and the expression of our feelings via communication.

All the blue healing crystal gemstones - sapphire, lapis lazuli, blue topaz, aquamarine, turquoise, chrysocolla and sodalite - are used to help open and balance  the Throat Chakra.

For healing purposes, these stones are said to aid the treatment of any blockage or disease of the throat. It is also said to aid with internal bleeding and nervous conditions.

Deep blue indicates intense power, and light blue (or azure) symbolizes high levels of inspiration.

The Fourth Chakra: Healing with the Heart

The fourth or Heart Chakra, is physically located in the center of our chests. The Heart Chakra is the seat of compassion, oneness and of being connected. Through the heart, we find our commonality with others, our true oneness with all things, and our ability to connect and aid in healing. It is truly the chakra where all healing comes from.

Malachite Healing Crystal Ball

Equally important is our ability to have love and compassion for ourselves. Just as being able to give unconditionally cannot exist without our ability to receive unconditionally, we must learn to care for ourselves in order to give to others. Through meditation, we can learn to create a continuous flow of energy through the chakra, bringing about the balance that we need and healing our own blockages.

Having a blocked Heart Chakra can result in many imbalances, including feelings of resentment, anger and frustration. In other words, our ability to give and receive becomes unbalanced.

Examining our heart relationships can be a very powerful exercise.

Open your heart, knowing that you are well protected and that energy can

flow evenly both ways.

Rose Quartz, Pink Tourmaline, Green Aventurine, Malachite and Jade healing crystals are all excellent gemstones to use when working with the Heart Chakra.

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Healing the Solar Plexus Chakra

The Solar Plexus Chakra is a center of personal strength, learning and comprehension. It guides you through life by creating a strong sense of self, setting personal boundaries and building self esteem and willpower. The ability to bring change into your life and to the world is born within this chakra.

The color for the Solar Plexus Chakra is yellow, and the Solar Plexus Chakra is located midway between the navel and the base of the sternum.

Citrine Crystal Sphere

Fire is the element of the Solar Plexus Chakra. Fire purifies the past and energizes progress towards mental awareness and spiritual development. This chakra is where we get our gut instincts, which guide us during difficult times.

A balanced Solar Plexus Chakra boosts self esteem, respect for others, calmness and initiative. It can help you feel friendly, joyful and confident. An unbalanced Solar Plexus Chakra can threaten your self confidence, and invite concerns about what others think of you. Lack of yellow energy may cause depression and confusion that also have bodily manifestations such as digestive, liver and respiratory problems.

Ways to strengthen your yellow energy include aromatherapy and the use of healing crystals.

Healing crystal gemstones that help balance and heal the Solar Plexus Chakra include citrine, imperial topaz, amber, tigers eye, sulphur, yellow jasper and ametrine.

Healing Crystals for the Second Chakra: Sacral Chakra

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Carnelian Massage Stone for the Sacral Chakra

The Second or Sacral Chakra is located just below your navel, and is associated with feelings and emotions, gut-instincts and intuition, creativity, passion and sexuality.

People who easily feel and express with their own emotions, as well as connect well with others on an emotional level tend to have this chakra open and flowing.  They tend to trust others while maintaining proper boundaries.  They let their feeling flow and listen to the messages
their emotions are giving them.

When the second chakra is blocked, it often indicates someone who is closed down on an emotional level.  Maybe that person has had painful experiences and no longer trusts.  They may not trust their own emotions, or they may not trust others enough to make emotional connections.  When this happens, one may experience lack of creativity and passion, and even depression.

Emotions are important messages to us, and the energy of those messages wants to move!  We are taught that certain emotions are okay, but we are also taught  that some emotions are bad.  These beliefs about what is alright and not alright to feel can block the Second Chakra and keep us from
being emotionally healthy. Clearing the Second Chakra can give us the freedom to fully express who

we are and what is emotionally and creatively important in our lives.

Healing crystals for the Sacral Chakra include Amber, Brecciated Jasper, Bronzite,Carnelian, Orange Chalcedony, Citrine, Goldstone, Orange Aventurine, OrangeCalcite, Orange Coral, Orange Jasper, Orange Sunstone, Rutilated Quartz, TigersEye and Topaz.

Healing Crystal Shapes: Towers and Pyramids

There are a variety of natural and created healing crystal shapes to choose from for your healing needs. Two of the more structural choices include the pyramid (considered a sacred shape) and healing crystal towers. 

Healing Crystal Tourmaline Pyramid

Rare Sacred Super Seven Amethyst Tower

Healing Crystal Pyramids

The very shape of the pyramid is inherently powerful. When crystals are shaped into a pyramid, this allows you to focus your mental, physical, and emotional energies through its apex, or tip.  The base of the pyramid provides a very grounding influence. Also, to maximize its focusing power, you may want to program, or “charge” your pyramid crystal to achieve certain goals. Pyramid crystals can also be used to fend off negative energy. Many people prefer the smoky quartz pyramids, the clear quartz pyramids, and the obsidian pyramids.


Healing Crystal Towers

The straight, tall, tower-like appearance of the tower healing amplifies energy and focuses it out through the apex, or top of the point. These crystals help people attain or maintain a good mental, physical, and emotional balance. It is also believed that tower healing crystals help reduce negative energy, making it a useful shape for locations like the workplace, or any room in which there could be stress or conflict. The amethyst healing crystal tower and the lapis lazuli healing crystal tower are two very beautiful and popular choices.

Find more healing crystal shapes and accessories and put them to use in your home or workspace today.

Healing Crystals for Peace and Relaxation

One of the most popular requests people have when searching for healing crystals is to find one that can bring peace, relax the mind, ease tension in the body, and soothe the soul. Fortunately, many crystals have vibrations that encourage tranquility and a more relaxed state of mind. Here is a list of healing crystals that can help promote a sense of peace and tranquility:

Abalone – helps soothe nerves

Amethyst Healing Crystal Cluster

Amethyst – works well to help release the tight knots at the base of the skull that result in tension headaches

Aventurine – enhances meditation and finding inner peace

Blue Lace Agate– aids in releasing tension in the body when feeling “highly strung”

Blue Calcite – works well to “calm” a racing heartbeat

Blue Chalcedony – vibrations bring peace into the energetic bodies

Dumortierite – relieves fears that may be at the root of nervousness

Imperial Topaz – great for those “butterflies” in your stomach before exams, giving speeches, or when doing anything new and/or unexpected

Larimar– great for alleviating moodiness or feelings of fear

Lepidolite – excellent for difficulty sleeping when thoughts keep going round and round in the head

Lithium Quartz- aids in the release of stress or anxiety

Magnesite – deals/disperses/deflects the energy of irritability that can come with extra sensitivity

Sugilite – helps release emotional fears that keep us tied up in stressful knots

To learn more about healing crystals for peace you can find a wide range of crystals available at Satin Crystals.

Chakra Healing Crystals Solutions: The Root Chakra

The Base or Root Chakra is located at the base of the spine. It is also known as the First Chakra, as it is the first of the seven major chakras.

This chakra is associated with feeling comfortable sexually as well as with your ability to feel grounded. This is the area of the body where your ambitions, interest in life and sex drive originates.

The Root Chakra relates to our sex drive, procreation, circulation, survival, base instincts and protection.

It is strongly associated with the colors red or black, but there are some stones of other colors that aid this area.

Red Jasper Healing Crystal Heart

If this chakra is healthy, then you have a strong desire to live, and you feel the drive to survive and to create change whenever and wherever needed.

The red Root Chakra stones, like Red Jasper can help you increase your sex drive, improve relationships and enhance your interest in life.

The stones for the Root Chakra are powerful enough to ensure a robust sex drive, promote good circulation in the reproductive areas, and igniting a strong interest in living life to its fullest.

Some of the healing crystal gemstones for the Root Chakra include Hematite, Black Obsidian, Black Tourmaline, Garnet and Smoky Quartz. 

Be sure to check back for our next post on the Sacral Chakra, and the crystal healing gemstones that help open and balance the Second Chakra.

Crystal Healing Gemstones to Help Heal Your Pets

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As many of us are already aware, healing crystal gemstones can provide humans with great comfort, healing and protection.  But were you aware the impact healing crystals could have on your pet’s health? Here’s a list of healing crystals and how they may be able to help your pet:

Agate - Agates are known to be a helpful aid in developing telepathy and the balancing of energy.

Amethyst Healing Crystal Heart

Amethyst - Powerful multi-purpose healer. Amethyst healing crystals can be a great help if your pet is older and has arthritis. It also aids the digestive track, heart, stomach, skin, and teeth.

Aventurine - Helps pets adjust to a new environment. If you are going on vacation and either boarding your pet, or taking them with you, placing a gemstone under their beds or wherever you pets sleeps will help them in adjusting to their new environment.

Citrine - Helps the digestive track and insomnia. Just like humans, animals can have problems sleeping from time to time.

Hematite – Helps the muscular system.

Jade – Helps to increase longevity.

Lapis Lazuli– Helps the immune system; leukemia and bone cancer pain.

Obsidian - Helps to protect from physical and emotional harm. Can provide balance during times of change.

Rose Quartz - This is wonderful gemstone if your pet has had surgery or has a wound.

Smoky Quartz - Helps to heal paw disorders. It also helps with the nervous system and swellings. This is a wonderful grounding stone and helps to remove negative energy.

Sodalite – Calming nervousness, great for traveling as it promotes calmness during travel. If your pet gets car sick, try Sodalite.

Tigers Eye – Helps to calm your pet. Helps eye, throat and reproductive system problems. Tigers Eye is helpful in mending broken bones and strengthening the spine.

Clear Quartz - Quartz aids in communication between animals and humans. Quartz can be useful when teaching a pet commands.

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Crystal Balls for Healing, Meditation and Gazing

Crystal Balls and Spheres

Crystal and gemstone balls have been used for divination since at least medieval times. They are a traditional symbol of the occult and hidden wisdom, and much more. Some of their uses include:

Healing

Cleansing

Rituals

Decoration with a purpose

Crystal Ball Gazing

Whether used for crystal ball gazing (scrying), aura cleansing, meditation, rituals or as a room decoration, crystal and gemstone spheres radiate special energies that are created from the earth.

Unlike the focused energy of a wand or egg shaped crystal, a ball emits energy in all directions equally.

Rose Quartz Crystal Ball

Each healing gemstone crystal ball contains energy that is unique to the type of stone.



Crystal Ball Uses

Meditation

A gemstone or crystal sphere can be used during meditation. You may want to hold the sphere or just gaze upon it when meditating.

Healing

Crystal healing should be done by a professional and in conjunction with traditional medicine. Find a professional in your area who offers a workshop or seminar.

Purposeful Decorating

Place a gemstone sphere in a room or on your bedside dresser or office desk to emanate a particular energy. For example, a rose quartz sphere at your bedside surrounds the room with love. A crystal ball will cleanse the room of negativity, while a jasper sphere will also provide protection. Bring money to your business by placing a malachite sphere on your desk. Increase your good fortune with a black tourmaline sphere.

Crystal Ball Gazing

A crystal ball that is used for gazing should be kept wrapped in black silk. When using the crystal ball for gazing, it is best to hold the crystal ball in your hands with the black silk between your hands and the crystal ball. You may use a stand for the ball if you find holding the ball uncomfortable.

Often colors are seen the Crystal Ball. Green, blue and violet are excellent omens. Red, orange and yellow are negative omens and you must take care. Black is unfavorable and much care must be taken until it is no longer seen.

A white brilliance is very favorable for you, meaning your life is on the right track and will be improved. You may see movement or even visions in your crystal ball.

Heal by Shape: Crystal Healing Wands

Crystal Healing Wands

Since ancient times, crystal wands have been used for healing by healers all over the world. Today, crystal wands are still a common tool used by healers around the world.

Wands come in many different shapes and sizes, and also in many varieties of gemstone as well. Wands may be long or short, and the cylinder can be smooth or faceted. They can be pointed at one end and rounded at the other, or they can be rounded on both ends, or pointed at both ends. Some wands are wider at one end and tapered at the other, while others are not. Most wands are shaped and polished, but rough natural pointed crystals, such as quartz, can also be used as a healing wand.

Amazonite Massage Wand

Healing wands gather and direct energy. The elongated, cylindrical shape of a wand enables the stone or crystal to direct its healing energy in a straight line, and the wand's point focuses the crystal's energy so that it can be used on specific areas of the body.

Using Crystal Wands for Healing

Crystal wands can be used in many different methods of healing. They can be used to heal the entire body or aura, or they can be used on a specific area of the body, or on a particular chakra. They can be used to scan the aura and the chakras to locate blockages, and then cleanse and heal them.

Wands can also be used in massage healing. Massaging the body with a stone wand helps to release tension from the body, while at the same time the stone's healing energy is transferred to the body. Smooth, round wands that are rounded on at least one end are the best to use in massage healing as they will not scratch or cause other discomfort.

Pointed wands are good to use in reflexology, a healing method in which the stone's point is held at certain pressure points, mostly on the hands and feet, to heal ailments in particular areas of the body.

Selecting the Right Healing Crystal Wand
 

Wands come in a wide variety of stones and crystals, so there are many different wands to choose from. Different stones have different healing energies and, therefore, have different effects on the body, aura, and chakras. As each gemstone has different healing properties, it is nice to have a variety of wands to use for a variety of different purposes. You might, therefore, wish to build a collection of wands made from a variety of gemstones. If you are interested in learning more about healing crystal wands, and their many uses visit our online store today.