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Since I was talking about crystals and my new jewelry product (Spirit Guided Jewelry) I thought I would talk about the book on crystals and gemstones I use for a reference which is The Illustrated Directory of Healing Crystals: A Comprehensive Guide to 150 Crystals and Gemstones
by Cassandra Eason. There are several books on crystals out there and some are more popular than this one. But I prefer this one as it is smaller, more concise, and easy for locating specific properties.
The crystals are divided by color with some stones being listed in several sections because they come in different colors such as quartz which comes in ‘milky quartz’, ‘clear quartz’, ‘blue quartz’, ‘rose quartz’, you get the picture. Even though these are all quartz, each type has its own properties.
Each crystal has a side bar with concise information on ‘Symbolic Associations’ some of which may be meaningful to you and some may be meaningless. The Symbolic Associations include associated zodiac sign, planet, element, candle color, guardian angel, chakra, herbs, incenses and oils, flowers, and associated crystals. I tend to only be concerned with the chakra in that section. The main description for each stone is organized into sections. The first is background information such as mythology or history of the crystal. Some of the older more well known crystals may have several paragraphs of mythology and history but most are shorter. The second section talks about the divinatory significance, this is when you randomly pick a stone and then look at it’s meaning and apply that to your life.
Next section is ‘Healing and the Environment’ which explains the stones healing properties and how to use it. For example, some stones are placed on the afflicted area others are soaked in water for a certain length of time then the water is used to gargle or drink.
Next section is the stone’s uses at work and home. This section tells you how to use the stone to help in family maters or in work related problems. The various crystals and their uses are very diverse; you have to read them for yourself.
There is a section on ‘Children and Animals’. I was surprised to see that some stones are labeled as too strong to be used with children. There were other stones I would like to tie around my cat’s neck to help with his nervous disposition.
The next section deals with ‘Psychic Associations’. This talks about clairaudience, visionary qualities, past-life recall, increasing intuition and many other properties. Of course each crystal has it own abilities and uses.
The last paragraph tells how to recharge the stone. Over time and use the stone may pick up other vibrations and need to be cleaned and recharged. Different stones may require different cleaning methods. Some stones do well laid out in full sun while others would crack if they were treated in that way.
This is a very informative book and I have enjoyed just reading over the different properties and circling which crystals I would like to have in my collection.
Create Your Own Rules
Posted by: Ann
May 8th, 2010 >> Energy, Manifesting, Physical/Material, Truth, Vibration
We all live by rules. Some rules are there to protect you. Some rules are created to level the playing field. Some rules are just to make the game more interesting.
We have legal rules to keep us safe. Then there are general and globally accepted morality rules about relationships, food, money, religion and a host of other areas. Each culture and country has rules on social behavior and acceptable ideologies. Then there are more personal rules that we create for ourselves. These rules are often a refinement of the more global rules such as: I will never find that perfect partner, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and I just can’t lose weight.
These rules hold true of us because we created them. But on the personal level, what is true for one may not be true for another. We manifest these personal truths into being. How do you manifest them? By putting energy into the idea. To manifest something you have to start with an idea. Then you add your passion, your energy, your emotion. Over time that extra energy solidifies into reality. The reality may start as an idea, such as “I can’t lose weight” that manifest into being overweight.
From what I have read about manifesting, answered prayers and even the paranormal activity some police departments run up against, it is intense emotion that creates things. I have found from personal experience in my prayer life that the more intense, emotional prayers get answered the fastest. I have heard and read many true life stories where some one in the midst of strong anger had extraordinary experiences such as: ironing clothes with a hot iron that was never plugged in, seeing objects falling off shelves and other objects being thrown across the room, witnessing objects appear in thin air. Often when someone feels their house is haunted and they move but the haunting continues in their new home, it is because their own strong emotion about something is still with them. It is the emotion that is creating the haunting activity not another entity.
If we are so good at manifesting, why don’t we direct that energy and create a more desirable life for ourselves? I believe we are attempting to learn that right now. Some people can do that. Some people seem to have a natural ability to manifest what they want. Maybe the rest of us are trying too hard. I would love to create my own rules and manifest what I want at will. I’ll let you know when I get there.
Last October I bought a bracelet that was made of Citrine and green Aventurine. The Citrine (also known as the merchant’s stone) opens the Solar Plexus Chakra and releases joy and brings spiritual powers into the everyday world. Aventurine works on the Heart Chakra. Since I am into healing energy work I felt this bracelet with these stones and their properties would be useful to me.
I have used stones before. When I was experiencing panic attacks, I often felt like I was not all here and I was less panicky if I could pull myself together. I was told to carry Hematite to help me stay grounded. So for years I carried hematite with me until I finally used the EFT to get over my panic attacks.
Everything and every emotion is made of energy and so has a vibration. Each type of stone and crystal has their own unique vibration that can help create a certain vibration in the person who wears or carries the stone/crystal. This vibration can help create healing, or some other emotional change in the person.
I have been so impressed with the use of crystals and stones that I wanted to offer some form of jewelry on my website. I was even looking at creating some myself (but I am no jeweler and really did not want to go there). While attending a metaphysical fair, I found some one who could provide the jewelry and do one step better. She communicates with your Spirit Guides to find what crystal or stone would be of best benefit for the wearer! I talk to my guides and my client’s guides all the time but I had not considered that angle to the jewelry.
I ordered a necklace for myself, both as a proof of concept, and as a bit of a “test”. After I’d ordered my necklace, I spoke to my Spirit Guides. I told them I really wanted something blue in my necklace — maybe Turquoise because I like Turquoise, but it didn’t have to be Turquoise if they felt a different blue stone with different properties would be better. When the necklace came, guess what? It had Turquoise, about every 8th stone. The other stones are Amethyst. I then talked with Karen, the artist, about the necklace. She mentioned that there had been a bit of a “discussion” amongst the Guides about whether to use Turquoise or Lapis Lazuli (another blue stone). They finally decided on Turquoise!
I just had to sign her up in a joint venture right away. So now –Ta Da – I am offering something new on my website: “Spirit Guided” Jewelry.
Go to www.naturallyresilient.com/cicada/ and read more about how to get your own or as a unique personal gift for a special person in your life!
The Power of Now
This is a book my husband said I had to read. I like reading books after he has because he has already underlined and made notes and I get to see what he thought was important. We tend to underline different things. I also love the deep conversations we have when discussing such a book and this book lends itself to deep conversations.
Tolle delves into the life force, energies, moving beyond your self, the observer, manifesting, the ego and many more esoteric areas. It is presented in a question and answer format where an “average” person is asking questions, some of which I could relate to, others I had already moved past but I was still interested in Tolle’s answers. The author brings depth and understanding with examples and also practical meditations and other practices to use to raise your vibration and energy awareness.
After reading this book, my husband discovered another book by Eckhart Tolle and immediately bought it and is reading it. This is another one he says I must read.
Comment from Ann’s husband, Paul:
I was introduced to Eckhart Tolle through a video that was included on one of the DVD’s we received through a subscription to The Spiritual Cinema Circle. The video was “Living Luminaries (On the Serious Business of Happiness)”. I had heard of Eckhart Tolle’s book “The Power of Now”, but didn’t know much about him or his book. I was totally amazed and impressed with Eckhart Tolle in the video, and immediately bought and read “The Power of Now”. I consider the book to be a pivotal work, a “Required Reading”. The “Living Luminaries” video is available on its own, see the link at right. Recently his new book “A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose (Oprah’s Book Club, Selection 61)
Placebo Effect
Posted by: Ann
April 30th, 2010 >> Change, Energy, Life, Manifesting, Physical/Material, Spirituality
Wow! It looks like the changes in the world are occurring!
What changes you may ask? The changes the holistic community and light workers are expecting soon. These involve the ability to manifest easier, a realization that there is much more out here than the physical world and the ability to heal ourselves.
Dr. Mercola recently had a report from Wired Magazine (August 24, 2009) that stated: “From 2001 to 2006, the percentage of new products cut from development after Phase II clinical trials, when drugs are first tested against placebo, rose by 20 percent. The failure rate in more extensive Phase III trials increased by 11 percent, mainly due to surprisingly poor showings against placebo. Despite historic levels of industry investment in R&D, the US Food and Drug Administration approved only 19 first-of-their-kind remedies in 2007—the fewest since 1983—and just 24 in 2008. Half of all drugs that fail in late-stage trials drop out of the pipeline due to their inability to beat sugar pills.”
To me this is saying that we are making headway with changes in our spiritual beings.
The article continues with: “Some products that have been on the market for decades, like Prozac, are faltering in more recent follow-up tests. In many cases, these are the compounds that, in the late ’90s, made Big Pharma more profitable than Big Oil. But if these same drugs were vetted now, the FDA might not approve some of them.
Isn’t this wild! Even the older drugs when retested are not beating the sugar pills!
It’s not that the old meds are getting weaker, drug developers say. It’s as if the placebo effect is somehow getting stronger.
Maybe we are finally realizing we do have more control than we thought.
The fact that an increasing number of medications are unable to beat sugar pills has thrown the industry into crisis.”
I guess the drug companies would get pretty nervous about this report and will probably try and debunk it. I think it is great and gives me more hope for the future of mankind.
This is getting toward the end of the month and I am staring at next month’s bills wondering how to shuffle money to pay for them.
I woke up a little after 4:00 am this morning in my bill paying panic mode. I was laying there experiencing my monthly fears, doing a little mental EFT so I would not wake my husband. I started thinking how I have had fears all my life; they have just shifted in what I was afraid of through my life. Then I started thinking about the past lives I knew about and how they had a lot of fear in them. That was when I decided I had had enough fear and it was time to release it.
I then felt a calm come over me. It started in my legs and then crept all over me. I felt at peace and could not feel the fear. I was laying there amazed, then for some reason I was curious about the time. I looked at the clock and there was 5:55 on it. I have this recurring theme lately about waking and seeing 5:55 on the clock. This has been going on off and on for about 5 months. I have a book by Doreen Virtue called Healing with the Angels that list number sequences that are messages from the angels. Since this number sequence occurred with a shift in emotions I decided to reread it and pay closer attention to what it said.
The book says for the sequence 555 “Buckle your seatbelts, because a major life change is upon you. This change should not be viewed as being ‘positive’ or ‘negative,’ since all change is but a natural part of life’s flow. Perhaps this change is an answer to your prayers, so continue seeing and feeling yourself being at peace.” This time the last sentence had a lot of meaning to me, so I will continue to be hopeful and will enjoy the sense of peace I woke to this morning.
Playing With Life
Posted by: Ann
April 27th, 2010 >> Change, EFT, Energy, Life, Manifesting, Meridian Tapping, Vibration
There has been an idea coming to me over the last two years. I have always heard that if something comes to you three times you better take notice. Well this has been coming at me multiple times! The last one was Sunday when we were reviewing Ecclesiastes. This is a book in the Bible that is rather cynical as one of my classmates put it. We all agreed that it sounded like a teenager blogging their deep thoughts and questions, trying to make sense out of life. There was a kernel that jumped out at me. Ecclesiastes 3:22 states “So I saw that there is nothing better for people than to be happy in their work. That is why they are here!…” This was just another version of what I have been confronted with over the last 2 years.
“Have fun”, “Play with it”, “Enjoy life” this is what I have been hearing over and over again. Am I that dull of a person that I have to keep being told to enjoy being here? My life has had some hard and rough patches or stretches over the last 18 years so maybe some one is trying to wake me up and tell me that it is ok to have fun again. It is hard to stop stressing about life when you have done it for so long. I am working with the various energy techniques I know such as EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), Meridian flushing and tracing, other meridian tapping techniques and of course “Law of Attraction” work.
I see playing with life, playing with energy flow, as being positive qualities that according to the “Law of Attraction” will bring more good and positive things into my life. I want to play with life and have fun!
Last year I did an experiment where I noted how I was doing emotionally and what happened in my life soon after my emotions changed. I noted that when I was feeling up and positive good things happened and life went smoothly. When I was feeling down, depressed and scared soon my life started attracting reasons to feel that way. The feelings always came first!
This year I am trying to stay positive, trying to play with life. I never thought of myself as a negative person but it has been a struggle. Writing positive words on me has helped; also shifting to anticipating good in the future is helping me stay positive. I can often feel the energy flowing and I will often stop and play with it, raising its vibration. I will keep you informed about how the “law of attraction” goes with the positive thinking.
Intense Emotions = Manifesting
Posted by: Ann
April 24th, 2010 >> Change, Energy, God, Guides, Life, Manifesting
I am big on symbolism. Many of the inconveniences and problems in life are symbols of other things that are going on in our emotional life. Our emotions have a tendency of coming out in physical form. This is what the ‘law of attraction’ is all about. In fact the more intense the emotion the faster something will manifest.
I have heard that the prayers of mothers are answered the quickest and I believe that is due to the intense nature of a mother’s prayer for her child.
However, to our dismay we often materialize the negative things in life quicker than the positive. This is because we can quickly bring up the negative emotions with more intensity that we can bring up the positive emotions. Try it right now, think of something bad and see how fast and how intense you can bring up the fear, the worry or the anger. Now think of something happy or good and see how long it takes to bring the intensity of that emotion to the same level as the negative emotion.
Some people are good with the positive emotions. I am not – yet. I am working on it. As they say, the first step is recognition of the problem.
There are techniques that can help. Vision boards give you something to focus on. Meditation can help calm a person. Prayer or talking with your spirit guides can help you realize you are not alone and it gives you someone to hand your hard problems to. But all of these are difficult when you are in the middle of the trauma that is bringing on the emotions. Sometimes you just have to go with the flow and let it wash over you and when you come out on the other side you will finally see the sun shining.
Last Sunday I reviewed a book called The Hidden Messages in Water
Now when I start feeling down, all I have to do is think about the words I wrote on myself and those feelings come over me. The words ‘Love’ and ‘Gratitude’ seem to be the strongest.
I will continue to do this for a while and let you know if anything significant happens in my life.
The “Soul Mate Workshop” was Saturday. I should have looked at my horoscope Saturday morning. According to tarot.com my horoscope said “It’s nearly impossible to keep on schedule today, so you might as well not even try”, that about says it all. The group was small and people brought specific questions which caused the schedule to go out the door very quickly. We may not have stuck religiously to my schedule but the energy was there and I did see a lot accomplished.
The plan was to look into past relationships to determine what you want and don’t want in a relationship. Past relationship patterns are also important to locate. Once you see a pattern, you can disrupt it or recognize it when it is occurring again.
Then we looked at what an ideal relationship would be like for each person. You have to be clear on what you want before you can see it or even recognize it when it comes to you.
The next step was to delve into the energy, ideas, writing on your interior walls that is holding you back. This is where it really strayed from the plan. This is an important area to investigate for any plan whether it is finding your soul mate, or releasing excess weight, or even visualizing a bigger, better future, so I did not mind spending extra time in this area as it was needed.
The last section was how to get where you want. The work in the previous sections was mainly to lay the groundwork for this section.
After all was said and done, much was accomplished. I had a call today (Monday) from one of the attendees and she was all excited. She had met someone Sunday and no red flags came up! (We had spent considerable time talking about red flags and to not continue a relationship if a red flag is waving).
This was a great and potentially life changing workshop, sorry you missed it!