Healing Hearts Trio

Colors vibrate different therapeutic qualities, as do crystals. These vibrations affect us consciously and subconsciously, healing our mind, body and spirit.

The subtle vibration from the color pink has a tranquilizing effect on the muscular system and soothes the emotions. It helps you to allow yourself to let go of negativity at a deep level and find a fresh start. Pink also helps the heart to feel and experience unconditional love.

Crystal vibrations also heal our wounded heart. The deep pink heart with Rhodonite will help you heal past emotional hurts. Rhodonite clears away emotional wounds from the past, allowing for forgiveness and unselfish love.

The medium pink heart is made of Kunzite, Rhodochrosite and Rose Quartz. This heart will help you with current situations in your life. Rhodochrosite, the center stone, gently brings painful and repressed feelings to the surface, allowing them to be acknowledged and then dissipated through emotional release. Kunzite awakens the heart center, clearing away emotional debris, healing heartache. Rose quartz purifies and opens the heart at all levels, and brings deep inner healing and self love.

The final heart is soft pink with Rose Quartz and helps to prepare you for the future. This heart restores trust and harmony. It encourages unconditional love, self-forgiveness and infinite peace. It teaches you how to love yourself so you can receive and give love to others.

Tranquil Trees

Trees have the wonderful ability to fill us with inner peace and harmony. Tranquil Tree will help you stay connected to tree spirits through the soothing vibrations from Amber and Moss Agate. Amber is a fossilized tree resin said to alleviate stress and bring balance into our lives. Moss Agate balances the emotions, reduces stress and lessens fear.

Hang where you can admire your Tranquil Tree and to receive its soothing energies. Since crystals naturally absorb unwanted energies, like stress, your Tranquil Tree will need periodic cleansing. Place in salt overnight, and charge in sunlight for 30 minutes.

Clarity Rings

Clarity is the understanding we gain in a situation. It helps us to understand what everything means and how it affects our life and the lives of those around us. Not having clarity in a situation can lead to scattered thoughts, mental fog and confusion, disorganization, and chaotic energies. We lose the ability to see clearly and make discriminating decisions.

Clarity Rings is comprised of three rings. The inner ring is the ring of discovery, and reflects our unconscious. Moonstone is considered a stone of new beginning and a talisman for inward journeys and discovery. Meditating with Moonstone takes us deep into our unconscious. Quite often we discover the missing pieces of the puzzle, where the puzzle is considered our current situation.

The beautiful reflective quality of Moonstone reminds us of the Moon and that our lives are full of cycles, like the moon. It teaches us to recognize and explore our current situation, and that taking appropriate actions will resolve the issues at hand and assist in the transition to the next cycle. Moonstone also has a powerful effect of calming and stabilizing our emotions.

The middle ring reflects our conscious and current situation. Rainbow Fluorite is an excellent stone for bringing clarity into any situation. It clears cluttered thoughts, mental confusion and conflicting ideas. This promotes clear thinking, making order out of chaos, and harmonizing energies.

Fluorite also teaches us how to focus on one idea, opposed to the many ideas floating around in our mind. By focusing on one idea we can figure out what we need to do in order to see our idea manifest. It helps to structure our energies to accomplish our goals and dreams. This structuring of energy brings harmony into our life, and assists in organizing the transition into the next cycle in our life.

The final ring reflects our release of the disorganized energies and patterns. Aquamarine is known as a stone of courage. It gives us the courage we need to release the old patterns and adopt new harmonious and organized ones. Its energies calm the mind and reduce stress. It also helps to filter information reaching the brain and clarifies perception, sharpens the intellect and clears up confusion.

Aquamarine asks that you take inventory of your life and possessions, and to release that which no longer fits who you are. It helps to free oneself of attachments to old patterns, relationships and ways of being. Its deep cleansing energy can assist one in moving through the transition and change from one cycle to the next, to remove the resistance and overcome the fear of the unknown.

When we work with these three stones together, Moonstone helps us to reflect upon our current situation, to help identify what our issues are. Fluorite helps us to see clearly and organize our thoughts and energies to come up with a plan to work with these issues. And Aquamarine gives us the courage release our old patterns and move forward with clarity.

Clarity Rings can be used in many ways. You could place each one in the palm of your while meditating. If placed over the solar plexus it will help draw out old emotional patterns and make conscious what has been unconscious. These rings can also balance the third eye, found between and a little above the eyebrows, and mental energies. The uses for these rings are endless. Simply having them in a room near you with help settle chaos and bring clarity into your life.

Hearts of Forgiveness

Not everyone is taught forgiveness. And others assume that everyone knows how to forgive. Some of us think we know how to forgive, but when we are called 'unforgiving' it make us wonder.

This was a very interesting piece to create. I have struggled to learn about forgiveness over the past few years, and with the help of creating this piece I think I have finally learned how to forgive. Making me know longer unforgiving, but forgivable.

Forgiveness is the process of absolving or letting go of feelings that are a direct result of a mistake, offense or behavior. Sometimes we need to forgive others for things they have done to us, and sometimes we need to forgive ourselves for things we have done to others. Which ever the case may be, releasing these negative feelings and energies will allow us to learn from the situation and move forward in a positive way.

Forgiveness may not be an easy thing for some people to do, especially those who have not been taught how to forgive, or those who are punishing themselves needlessly. The energies from the following crystals will help us with forgiveness and moving forward in a loving and positive way.

Pink Sapphire assists in healing wounds from past emotional traumas, and it facilitates compassion for others, even those who have wrongs us.

Rhodochrosite promotes inner peace and forgiveness through a tender, loving energy which soothes the heart and soul.

Green Aventurine helps us to release old relationships, emotional patterns and heartache, leaving us. It also soothes emotional wounds.

Rose Quartz assists with the dissolution of anger and resentment. It helps to open our hearts to unconditional love.

Sugilite is a wonderful stone for promoting self forgiveness. It alleviates sorrow, grief and fear and aids in eliminating hostility.

Turquoise teaches us the wisdom of compassion and forgiveness. If we can release the insistence on justice of others, we can then view them with love and compassion, which will in turn fill us with love and compassion.

This doily can be placed anywhere nearby for you to receive the healing energies as the crystals will emit them naturally. During a difficult time when you know you need to forgive, try meditating with it. While lying down, place it over your heart for a minimum of 30 minute. Over time the crystals will absorb the negative energies you have, replacing it with a positive and loving energy of compassion and forgiveness.

Drop of Gratefulness

Gratitude and appreciation can easily be forgotten in our fast paced and demanding lives, and loved ones can be taken for granted. The soothing energies from Green Apatite and Pink Sapphire teach us about appreciation and gratitude, and help us to feel true abundance. They work on the heart chakra, reminding us that love is its own reward.

Having the Drop of Gratefulness nearby will allow the energies of the crystals to help us feel more grateful. You can hang it near a window for the sunlight to catch, or give it as a gift to express your gratefulness.

Abundance

When I started researching for the written piece that would accompany my Abundance doily I first had to learn what Abundance was. Initially I thought that it was all about financial and material gain. I soon discovered that even though you could be abundant financially, you can also have an abundance of love, good health, and inner peace. Abundance is different things to different people. There is no right or wrong answer. To me, Abundance is something plentiful in your life that makes you feel really good.

Admittedly enough, my Abundance doily developed from an idea of working with crystals that would bring about financial stability and gain in these hard economic times. And since I benefit from the crystals energies while working with them, I wanted to make something that would bring about a bit of financial gain for my self too.

I chose crystals for abundance and wealth. But what I have now realized is that even though these crystals hold properties for financial gain, they also teach us how to identify what we want abundant in our lives, and helps use to remove our self imposed blockages.

As I mentioned earlier, Abundance is different things to different people. We first need to identify what it is in our lives that makes use feel really good. That special something that gives us that warm fuzzy feeling inside, making us smiles involuntarily, humming our favorite tune.

Next, we need to allow ourselves this pleasure in our lives. Speaking from experience, this can be a very hard thing to do. Different events and circumstances in our lives have imposed what I call an ‘Unworthiness Blockages’. If you feel unworthy of this pleasure or good feeling, then we put up a block. This blockage will not allow any good feelings in. It even prevents thinking about something pleasurable, since we feel unworthy of such.

I have been working for the past 5 years to remove my blockages. I’ve made remarkable progress, and some days I feel very close to breaking through that blockage. I need to allow myself to feel good. The more I can do that, the more creative I can get with my desires and inner visions. Feeling good emits a very powerful energy to those around us and the universe. It also acts like a magnet, attracting the very like of what we are sending out. Even more good feelings! I don’t know about you, but I could get the hang of feeling good all the time.

The last thing I figured out about Abundance is not to hold any expectations. If we just let nature takes its course and enjoy our ‘NOW’ moment then we can not be disappointed or discouraged when our desires and wants do not happen when we want them to happen. We need to trust that all of our good things will happen to us when we are ready for it and can enjoy it fully.

So anyways, getting back to the Crystals. For the Abundance Doily I used Yellow Sapphires, Emerald, Citrine, Peridot, and Glossular Garnet called Tsavorite. I also used a combination of Yellow and Green thread. I chose these colors for their symbolism. Yellow thread represents gold and Green thread represents money.

After doing my research, I realized that the colors were more than just gold and money. Yellow thread also related to the Solar Plexus Chakra, which is also known as our ‘Will’, and the green thread resonates with our Heart Chakra. Cleansing these chakras will enable us to remove the self-imposed blockages, allow ourselves to have creative thoughts about our wants and inner visions, and finally to enjoy the wonderful feelings that accompany the manifestation of these inner visions.

You will find 8 Emeralds in the very center of this doily. Emeralds are known for their brilliant green color which resonates with the Heart Chakra. The green ray helps to open the heart, allowing for universal blessings to enter into our lives. Emeralds help to attune our vibrations to flow with the vibrations of Abundance, allowing you to attract what you need and desire. The gentle energy brings with it a feeling of hope and encouragement. Lastly, Emeralds teach us to embrace these manifestations with gratitude.

Next you will find 8 Yellow Sapphires which surround the Emeralds. They are known as a Prosperity Stone. Yellow Sapphires resonate with the Solar Plexus chakra, and assist one in successfully manifesting wishes and desires by means of magnifying intention. It carries joyful and exciting energies that can stimulate creative visions and your desire to manifest them. Yellow Sapphire can attract wealth into your life, increasing prosperity and earnings.

Peridot is known as the little green nuggets of positive energy. If I could adorn myself from head to toe in Peridot, I would. I just love the bright enlivening energy that radiates from these beautiful stones. Working on our Solar Plexus and Heart chakra, Peridot assists in creating our inner visions and removing our self-imposed blockages. It is a stone of financial and spiritual abundance, bringing about an increase in wealth, joy, love and well-being. Peridot helps to teach us that it is okay to enjoy the wonderful feelings that accompany manifestation. The more we enjoy these feelings, the easier it is to manifest our wants and desires.

Citrine, known a Money Stone as it attracts money and wealth, but it also carries a warm, energizing and highly creative energy. Its ability to transmute and dissipate negative energy makes it ideal for removing those self-imposed blockages. It also improves motivation, activates creativity and encourages self-expression, all which is necessary for developing our inner visions. With our blockages removed, we are unfamiliar with the new feelings that will accompany the manifestation of out inner visions. Citrine will help teach you how to enjoy these new experiences.

Green Garnet, or Tsavorite, was a new stone that I had not worked with yet. I felt that it had a soft, yet enlivening energy. It opens and cleanses the Heart chakra, helping to align with and bring about our hearts desires. They are stones of abundance not just in wealth, but also in areas of creativity, emotions, artistic and even physical well-being. An all around wonderful for stone abundance.

So as you can see, the crystals used are not just for financial gain, but for all areas in our lives. Whether you seek to gain in creativity, or inner visions, or even just removing those self-imposed blockages, the crystals used will provide the energies we need. What is so wonderful about working with crystals is that simply having them in our environment allows for us to receive the energies that they naturally emit. That is what they do and why they are here. They look pretty, glisten in the light and radiate energy.

You could place the Abundance doily on a table as a center piece, or in a dark corner that needs brightening up. If you practice Feng Shui, the Abundance doily can be placed in you wealth corner, which is the farthest left corner from the entrance door. Or you can meditate with the Abundance doily, or even place it over your Heart and Solar Plexus chakra while lying down. The uses are endless, don’t be afraid to use it the way it feels right to you.

Crystals and Arthritis

An interesting thing happened to me the other day. Completely out of the blue, my daughters Music teacher started talking to me about how they were having a discussion about chakras in Music class. My daughter is 9 and surprised her teacher when she started talking about chakras and telling everyone about what I do. One thing lead to another and the Music teacher asked me about crystals for Arthritis. We did not have much time to chat, but it did give me the idea to write about crystals and arthritis this week.

Crystal and Color therapy is a non-invasive, safe approach to treating arthritis symptoms.
It is safe to use with conventional treatment and medications you may be currently receiving. It is not intended to replace your treatment prescribed by your doctor, but to compliment it.

Many arthritis sufferers know all to well how bothering the different symptoms can be. Tender, swollen joints, stiffness and pain are just a few of the symptoms we suffer from. Sometimes one symptom can lead to something else, such as Arthritis in the neck giving you a nasty headache. Some days our symptoms can be lingering on and other days down right debilitating.

I was diagnosed at 18 with osteoarthritis in both of my knees. I have had 4 surgeries, lived through the recent scare of prescription drugs used for arthritis, and lost weight. I have tried different medications, but only got tired of the drowsy, constipating effect that really only brought a few hours of relief. This brought about an idea last summer of making a patch or small doily that would have crystals for arthritic symptoms. Now when I have a bad day I tape my patch on my knee and sit quietly, usually for about 30 minutes, and then I forget I have it taped on my knee and get up and go about my day. Sometimes I remember I have it taped on, other times I forget because it is so comfortable.

I made a patch for my 82 year old grandmother, hoping she would try it for her arthritis, which she is riddled with. I gave it to her when she came for her last visit. She propped it up beside her bed, seeing that it is difficult for her to tape it to the back of her neck. For her entire visit she did not have any problems with her neck, or arthritis. Now she swears by it and keeps it by her bedside.

I’ve even managed to get my husband to wear my patch on his neck. He is a very good sport, and even though he does not announce his relief, I can see it in his facial expressions and the way he holds his head. I can always tell when it has worked for him.

Well, enough about all that. I want to show the Arthritis Patch and a custom order I had for a Knuckle Band. Since I made these I have expanded on my library (and beads). I have found additional crystals which can also be used for arthritis. These include Malachite, Lepidolite, Blue Jade, Blue Chalcedony, Copper, and Blue Opal. The crystals I used in the Arthritis Patch and Knuckle band were the crystals I had on hand. I hope to incorporate more specific stones in future pieces.

The color yellow relates to the nervous and immune system, systems which are often attacked by arthritis. Yellow provides a warm and stimulating effect, relieving the stiffness and pain of arthritis and rheumatism. Yellow is also energizing, giving us the extra boost we need when feeling drug down by the various symptoms.

The Arthritis Relief Patch comes with 4 different crystals, each offering their own healing energies. When combined, these 4 crystals offer a powerful effective yet wonderfully soothing relief for your symptoms. These 4 crystals include Amethyst, Blue Lace Agate, Fluorite, and Carnelian.

Amethyst reduces swelling and relieves physical, emotional and psychological pain.

Blue Lace Agate provides a soft energy which is cooling and calming, and will neutralize inflammation and fevers.

Fluorite cleanses, purifies and dispels anything within the body that is not in perfect order. Dissolving adhesions and mobilizing joints, Fluorite alleviates arthritis, rheumatism and spinal injuries. It also draws off negative energy and stress. Fluorite is seen as the larger purple bead with swirls and lines of other colors.

Carnelian restores vitality, helping to overcome arthritis and rheumatism. It also regulates bodily fluids, reducing the chances of fluid build up in joints. Carnelian is orange in color.

To use this patch, simply place near or tape over the joint which is sore and tender for a minimum of 20 minutes. The combined energy from the crystals will bring about the much needed relief.

If you have any questions about a specific symptom and which crystal to use, please do not hesitate to contact me. I also welcome inquiries into various shapes of arthritis patches, and can work with you to make something that is suited for your symptoms.