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.