Full Description
A full-color guide to working with gemstones for self-healing, energy work, and spiritual growth
• Explains how to choose your crystals and cleanse them, how to energize and charge them, as well as how to get to know your crystals and attune to them
• Explores the correspondences between gemstones and colors and discusses the effects of crystals on the chakras, the meridians, and the aura
• Reveals how to craft crystal essences, heal animals with gemstones, work with crystal grids, and combine crystal therapy with ancestral healing, Reiki, reflexology, acupuncture, and massage
In this full-color guide that is filled with explanatory diagrams and step-by-step photographic instructions, Shirley O'Donoghue shares the basics of crystal healing, enabling anyone to learn to use crystals for self-healing, energy work, and spiritual growth.
The author explains how to choose your crystals and cleanse them, how to energize and charge them, and how to get to know your crystals and attune to them. Examining the correspondences between stones and colors, she looks at how to use crystals in color therapy and how to work with color to create crystal mandalas. She discusses the effects of crystals on the chakras, the meridians, and the aura and explains how to craft your own gem essences and how to identify and deal with toxic crystals. She looks at the relationship between crystals and astrology, numerology, and sacred geometry—providing several crystal grid layouts—as well as how to use gemstones for connecting with spirit guides, angels, and ascended masters. The author also explores techniques for using crystals for healing animals, for ancestral healing, and for combining crystals with other healing modalities, including Reiki, reflexology, acupuncture, and massage.
This comprehensive guide also includes a directory of more than 20 common crystals and stones, enabling you to begin your crystal healing journey right away.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
CHAPTER 1
Crystal-Therapy Basics
The History of Crystal Therapy
and Atlantis
What is Crystal Healing?
Questions on Chapter 1
CHAPTER 2
Selecting and Taking Care
of Your Crystals
How to Choose the Correct Crystals
for You
How to Dowse and Why
Cleansing Crystals
Questions on Chapter 2
CHAPTER 3
Getting to Know Your Crystals
Dedicating a Crystal
Attuning to a Crystal
Crystal Attunement Sheets
Energizing and Charging Crystals
Self-Healing with Crystals—Energy Flush
Questions on Chapter 3
CHAPTER 4
The Link between Color and Crystals
Color Therapy and Crystals
How Light is Reflected through
Crystals
Color Correspondences
How the Colors of Crystals Are Created
Creating a Crystal Mandala
Questions on Chapter 4
CHAPTER 5
The Subtle Energy System
The Chakra System
Chakra Functions
The Chakras and the Endocrine System
Chakra Sets
Reiki and the Foot and Palm Chakras
Discovering the Cause of Disease
The New Transpersonal Chakras
Differing Dimensional States
Higher States of Consciousness
Other Chakra-Cleansing Techniques
Chakra Imbalances
Nadis and the Kundalini
Marma Points (Vital Points)
Questions on Chapter 5
CHAPTER 6
Meridians, Auras, and Protection
What Are Meridians?
Techniques for Working on Meridians
Chinese Five Elements
The Aura
Electromagnetic Frequencies and Other
Energy Stressors
Crystals and Basic Feng Shui
Energy Protection
Questions on Chapter 6
CHAPTER 7
Making Your Own Gem Essences
History of Gem Essences
Making Gem Essences
How You Can Use Your Gem Essences
Toxic Crystals
Discerning What an Essence Does
Questions on Chapter 7
CHAPTER 8
Animal Healing
Rules and Regulations
Benefits of Giving Healing to Animals
Animal Chakras
Techniques for Working with Animals
Questions on Chapter 8
CHAPTER 9
Crystals and Astrology
Birthstones
Natal (Birth) Charts
Using Astrology to Empower
a Crystal Treatment
Crystal Rituals for Winter
and Summer Solstices
Questions on Chapter 9
CHAPTER 10
Using Crystals to Connect with Guides,
Angels, and Ascended Masters
Angels and the Angelic Hierarchy
Archangels
Guardian Angels
Contacting your Guardian Angel
Crystals with an Angelic Energy
and Angelic "Signals"
Connecting with Spirit Guides
Ascended Masters
Crystal Divination
Questions on Chapter 10
CHAPTER 11
Space Clearing with Crystals
Ways You Can Use Crystals
for Space Clearing
Questions on Chapter 11
CHAPTER 12
Numerology
Number Definitions
Digit Summing
Life-Path Number
Destiny Number
Master Numbers
Questions on Chapter 12
CHAPTER 13
Ancestra Healing
What is Ancestral Healing?
Reasons Why Ancestral Healing
is Required
Ways in which Ancestral Healing
Can Be Done
Questions on Chapter 13
CHAPTER 14
Combining Crystals with Other Treatments
How to Combine Crystals with Reflexology,
Reiki, Acupuncture, and Massage Selecting Crystals for Use with Other
Therapies
Facial Massage
Questions on Chapter 14
CHAPTER 15
Crystals and Sacred Geometry
Geometric Shapes and Their
Correspondences
Crystal Templates
Reiki Generators
Questions on Chapter 15
CHAPTER 16
Crystal Crafts
Growing Your Own Crystals
Making a Bracelet
Making a Crystal Wand
Examples of Other Craft Ideas
Recommended Reading
Appendix 1: Crystal Glossary
Amber
Amethyst Aventurine
Carnelian
Citrine
Hematite
Red Jasper
Lapis Lazuli
Malachite
Moonstone
Obsidian
Pyrite
Blue Quartz
Clear Quartz
Rose Quartz
Smoky Quartz
Snowy Quartz
Sodalite
Tiger's Eye
Black Tourmaline
Turquoise
Appendix 2: Crystal Grids
Crystal Color Baths
Reiki Empowerment Grid
Energy Refresh Grid
Platonic Solids Grids
Angelic Empowerment Grid
Electromagnetic Grid
Low Energy Grid
Release Anger Grid
Grid Layouts for the Subtle Bodies
Appendix 3: Crystal Attunement Sheets
Appendix 4: The Mandala
Mandala Diagram
Interpreting the Mandala
Appendix 5: Crystal Casting Boards
Appendix 6: Dowsing Charts
Index
