Orange Calcite

Meet the newest addition of my crystal collection, it's a stunning orange calcite sphere. I have a thing for crystal spheres and just could not resist this one. As soon as I walked into the teaching room at The Rose School, it was the first thing I noticed. It's colour is so vibrant that it does not look like a crystal at all, it looks like it's made from the orange ice lollies I used to eat as a child. The sight of it instantly took me back to childhood and a fond memory of sitting on the grass in the hot summer sun licking my orange ice lolly, bikes thrown carelessly on the floor while our sole intention was to lick the lolly before it melted all over our hands, although we still ended up in a sticky mess. 

I just had to pick it up and proceeded to do so even before saying hello to my fellow students in the room, not that I'm rude but I was distracted by something sweet, a bit like pooh bear and honey. As soon as I picked up the crystal I knew it was coming home with me, I'd had no intention of buying any crystals today, but this one did not want to leave my hand. 




Within minutes I realised how happy I felt, it hadn't been the best morning, in fact it hadn't been the best week and that morning I was feeling particularly down in the dumps. So it was very noticeable to me how quickly and dramatically my mood had changed. I felt so joyous, like a mischievous little child, I wanted to play and laugh, I felt warm inside like someone had switched the fire on. 

There was more than one orange calcite sphere in the room and a couple of us were holding them and cooing over them which in turn stimulated a shift in energy and we all spent the day laughing. The energy of this crystal really connected all of us to that inner child that resides in everyone which most of us forget to nurture. It brought to the surface the energy of play and reminded us all the importance of not taking life too seriously, to have a laugh, to play with the carefree innocence of children and to be joyous in the work that we do. The tone did lower at times, we are all adults and our humour can at times be smutty, all in good fun but it showed me that this crystal also stimulates the creative and sexual side of us, which again can be a side we may forget to nurture. 




This time round I didn't need to sit and meditate with a crystal to see what effect it has. As you probably noticed I haven't posted in a while, it's been a difficult month with a lack of motivation, creativity, inspiration, a few fears chucked in and the month was a bit of a wash out with the writing. Anyway, after 5 minutes with this beautiful calcite sphere I felt joyful, creative, full of life and inspired to write another post (about this crystal of course). Need I say anymore?!



Orange calcite - warming and energising, will stimulate joy and shine light into a dark hour uplifting fear into joy. Having a stabilising effect orange calcite brings a sense of perspective over the lower thoughts during a state of confusion. 




An old friend there to support, encourage and inspire one to fulfil their hopes, dreams and life purpose. Stimulating creativity orange calcite connects to the sacral centre which is situated below the navel, the sacral centre relates to emotions, relationships and creativity. 




Orange calcite helps to unblock the sacral centre warming any cold emotion that may be lurking and causing depression bringing in the love of life and enabling one to see the joy in their own life circumstance. Stimulating in one that sense of childlike playfulness that we so often forget to connect to, teaching us not to take life to serious, always make time to laugh and play.

Labradorite

First thing I did before selecting my crystal this time was to put funky Shelia to bed, no expectations. I had been thinking about my beautiful piece of carnelian for a few days and assumed that as I walked into the treatment room that was the crystal I would use. A little voice in my head suggested I scan the crystal table with my hand, hmmm god idea, why not? Selecting crystals this way is a favourite of many people I have met over the past few years. So slowly I run my hands very closely over the crystals, not touching them but just sweeping above the surface. My palm feels all tingly and like a magnet I feel a pull. Allowing my hand to be pulled by the magnetic force it stops over a piece of labradorite that I have had since before I began training as a crystal therapist.

It’s a lovely crystal just smaller than my palm and sits in it perfectly; it’s rough on one side and polished into a dome on the other.  At a first glance you could over look this crystal and go for a pretty sparkly one but hold it up to the light and its beauty can be seen. It has a stunning sheen that dances across its surface as you move it under the light, specks of electric blue flash with greens and gold’s. I have once seen a piece that shone purple, very beautiful, haven’t seen the purple sheen on a piece since.

Anyway, this is the crystal for tonight; my carnelian will have to wait. I sit in my chair this time rather than on the floor with pillows, this crystal doesn’t weigh 50k’s!

• Visualise a ball of golden fire burning brightly below your feet
• See a strand of this fire snake it's way up through the feet
• Up the legs
• Through the abdomen
• Up into rest at the heart
• Take your focus out into the cosmos until you come across the most magnificent white light you have ever seen
• Bring a strand of this light down through the cosmos
• Bring it down into your space of awareness
• Allow it to enter through the crown
• Through your brow
• Bringing it through the throat
• Allow it to mingle with the golden earth energy
• Bring your awareness to the crystal in your hand
• Feel it vibrating and pulsating with energy
• Allow the energy to grow
• You see and feel the energy of your crystal envelope you until you are sitting in the middle of an egg of crystal energy
• Greet the crystal with a heart felt sense of gratitude

So this time I wasn’t sitting on tender hooks waiting, I sat and allowed the energy of the crystal to do its thing. I wasn’t expecting any words or inspiration I just sat there.

The first thing I noticed was the soles of my feet started to tingle , I realised I felt very very relaxed as if my body was asleep, I was extremely comfortable even though I was sitting up right. My posture is not great so sitting upright usually gives me an achy back. There was only myself and my baby in the house so the house was super quiet but I started to hear noise. There is a main road that goes through our village but it doesn’t go near our house and you can’t hear it from my treatment room but as I sat there I started to hear the cars, only faintly but I could hear them. It felt like there was an increase in clarity of my hearing I felt as though I could have heard a pin drop a mile away.

Behind my eye lids shades of colour started to dance, purples and blues moved in waves which seemed to extend to a physical sensation of waves moving around my body. I was so aware of my physical body being so relaxed; there was not one area of tension. The mental chatter was still there but it was like the volume had been turned right down until it was just quiet background noise that I wasn’t really paying attention to, a bit like having the telly on quiet while you potter about the house you’re not paying it any attention but you know it’s on showing friends or eastenders or something.

This was when I realised the stillness in the room, there was an intense clarity the energy was pristine, it felt as though time had stopped and all that existed was me and this energy as though nothing existed outside of my treatment room. I was aware of the mental chatter and aware of my physical body but started to realise that these are just aspects of me, I was observing them, and then at that precise moment in time I was aware of the true self. I could see how our thoughts are not really who we are because if my thoughts were who I am then how can I be observing them without actually paying them any attention? The same with the physical body, it was there, I was aware of it but I was also observing it. I also noticed, no emotions, I didn’t feel anything, they were still. Wow now that’s a first.

This didn’t all happen straight away, I must have been sat like this for about 20 minutes. But just as I was having all these realisations I hear a distant cry of a baby. Ah she awakes, smack bang in the middle of mummy’s moment of spiritual realisation brought straight back down to earth by a wailing child, duty called.

She wanted milk, normally I can give her milk and she will fall straight back to sleep again within about 10 minutes, not tonight. She snuggled into me as I lay down nursing her and in about 10 minutes she started to wriggle, then she gets more vigorous with her movements and before I know it there is full blown Pilates work out going on at my boob, she’s still attached I might add! Clearly there was no going straight back to sleep for this little girl. Then the singing starts, she sits up and starts babbling her beautiful little baby babble at me and crawls over for kisses then sings some more, crawls around a bit, stands up sits down. This routine went on for over 2 hours. (I really can’t complain as its very cute and adorable, it’ll be these moments I miss when she’s sleeping through the night and no longer wants milk.)

Once again the crystal energy has inadvertently affected my baby but this time has turned my milk into a double strength espresso. By the time I had got her back to sleep again it was late and I was done in so went to bed myself where I had the weirdest dreams. Lots of past stuff coming up full of people I went to school with and hadn’t seen for years, it was like my memory was being cleared out of stuff that no longer needed to be there , the memory stick downloading and erasing after import.

So on reflection I can see how this unassuming crystal can stimulate and initiate spiritual energies and realisations. This gives depth to the statement ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’.

Labradorite

A stone of truth enabling one to realise the true self by activating the spiritual energies of the space and bringing one to a point of stillness so that their truth may be realised.

It grounds spiritual energy into the physical bringing about a state of calm and relaxation prompting the alignment of the physical.

Bringing clarity of the senses to the user, labradorite may help to unblock that which is undesirable encouraging the user to recognise those aspects of them which needs to be let go of if one is to move forward.

A stone of silence, this crystal will enhance the silence of the space to be utilised within meditation and healing work. A stone of forgiveness that activates the heart centre to allow for the transmutation of what is perceived as mistakes by turning them into valuable lessons to be seen upon as experience and not regrets. 

Amethyst

I approach the first crystal meditation with a sense of apprehension. I'm convinced I'll either be inspired with the most profound prose of words giving me the answers to life or I'll have nothing to write about which would be embarrassing since how I posted this blog on Face book!

I thought 'best to keep things simple'; the crystal that came to mind to use first is amethyst. I walk into my treatment room and scan my crystal table for a crystal to use but out of the corner of my eye a beautiful amethyst geode sparkled at me, 'could I use a geode?' so much for keeping things simple, I've never meditated with a geode before. This geode probably weighs about 50k's so there was no way of picking it up and holding it. 

'Pillows!’ Making myself comfortable in front of the geode I began my meditation.

• Visualise a ball of golden fire burning brightly below your feet

• See a strand of this fire snake it's way up through the feet

• Up the legs

• Up unto the base of the spine

• Through the abdomen

• Up into rest at the heart

• Above the head is a ball of bright White light 

• Take a strand of this down into the crown

• Through the brow

• Down the throat 

• Bring it to rest in the heart

• Focus the consciousness into the area between the eyebrows

• Here see your crystal shining

• Visualise the crystal getting bigger and bigger until it's the size of a mountain

• From here make your way up the crystal until you come to a door

• Open the door and great the consciousness of your crystal

So I sat and waited.

And waited

Nothing.

No poetry, no prose, no bright spark of inspiration not even one word of inspiration.

It would have been easy to think sod it and leave the room but I realised how calm I felt, my breathing was slow and deep and my thoughts had slowed right down, there wasn’t the normal chitter chatter of a hundred trains of thought.

I focused back on the crystal from the brow. It started to feel like I was being hugged by an old friend, my body went tingly and I felt very uplifted.

I then sneezed and heard in my head 'out with the old in with the new' which I first thought was insignificant but comical, out with the boogies in with fresh air. Gross I know, sorry but that's what I thought and I'm being truthful on this blog, I'm not going to lie and give you a load of made up toss.

Anyway, I sat and enjoyed the feelings I felt connecting to this geode. I felt as though I had been cleaned, it's the only word that I can think of how to describe the sensation, sort of like how your mouth feels after rinsing with mouthwash but I felt that all over my body. I felt very calm and was happy to leave the meditation there.

It was late so off to bed where I slept soundly all night, I usually wake with the foot of my 11 month old baby in my face or her little fidgety bum stirs me but even she slept soundly all night. The energy of amethyst was inadvertently effecting my baby through my energy field / auric field (aura).

Whilst reflecting the next day I look at the notes I made after the meditation, I see how the first lesson of expecting phenomenal insight was blatantly the shouting of the ego! That little Madame who we shall name funky Sheila, obviously needed raining in! 

It seemed that the meditation was more about how the crystal made me feel rather than insight, which showed me how powerful amethyst is with 1) clearing 2) feelings 3) thoughts 4) sleeping.

An opportunity presented itself to me the next day, one I'm not going to divulge at the moment, don't want to pre-empt anything or even jinx it, but I thought of the sneeze, out with old in with the new! Ah ha perhaps it wasn’t just about boogies after all as the new opportunity, if all goes to plan, will usher in new things.

Well that was the first meditation with the first crystal; I can see how this is going to be a journey of discovery.

Tip: A good tip on how to find out what the properties of a crystal are, is to sit and connect to the crystal and mentally ask for the healing properties and see what you get. They may come to you through feelings or thoughts. I wrote the following whilst sitting with amethyst using my intention to find out its properties.

Amethyst

Amethyst is a powerful cleansing crystal; it removes negative energy and blockages and enhances spiritual awareness. 

A geode in a room is extremely beneficial for transmuting negative energies into loving vibes.

Amethyst promotes the transmutation of negative feelings into the lessons one needs to learn and enables one to receive insight into the feelings.

Amethyst activates the higher spiritual centres to enable spiritual connection to higher realms and helps one to become aware of their spiritual purpose.

Amethyst helps to overcome addictions and an addictive or overactive personality, it also helps with insomnia.

Amethyst activates the Heart Centre to open the bridge of spiritual energy to penetrate the lower centres.

Mentally Amethyst clears and focuses the thought patterns, stimulates memory and is an excellent study aid.

A sobering stone, Amethyst helps to dissipate the ‘rose tinted spectacles’ syndrome to enable one to see one’s reality clearly but without judgement, it brings in spiritual truth and helps to overcome addictions on a physical and emotional level.

Psychologically Amethyst reduces fears in one’s own ability; it is a protective stone and helps to strengthen the energy field.

Amethyst also enhances one’s intuition.

Introduction

Hi I'm Lynne and I have been practising crystal therapy for over four years. My passion for crystals has brought me here, to writing this blog. I love crystals, not only because they are beautiful to look at but also because of the amazing properties they hide within their beauty. The results I have seen and experienced from this amazing therapy are phenomenal and only add fuel to my crystal passion. 

As you can probably imagine I have managed to build up quite a humble collection of crystals over the years, so many that I do not use all of them, which is a shame, so I thought to myself 'how can I use all of these crystals?'. What came to mind was to sit with each crystal and meditate and see what happens (I also love to meditate by the way). 

And this is how I got here, to writing this blog. I am going to choose a crystal every few days or once a week maybe and sit with it, meditate and see if any inspiration descends or creativity of some sort and then I'll write about it. I'll write what crystal I used, the meditation I used and then tell you what happens. I'll also add some information about the crystal and tell you how you can use it in your lives to help bring the benefits of its properties to you.

I'm not very organised or structured so the crystals will not be chosen in any sort of order just whatever crystal I am drawn to that day. Same with the meditation, I'll just go with how I feel. 

I hope you enjoy my little crystal inspirations and I hope it ignites a spark of light in someone somewhere. 

May the light of the soul pour forth through the open heart 

igniting the passion for love, life and wisdom