For years many people used crystals in jewelry for their beauty. Crystal Healing is considered by many to be a pseudoscientific alternative medicine technique that uses stones and crystals for healing, but it is an ancient practice dating back at least 6,000 years. The Romans used crystals as talismans to promote good health and provide protection in battle. Roman and Greek physicians mixed crystals with plant extracts, heated them, and used them medicinally. The ancient Egyptians believed that these stones had the power to restore health and they also buried their dead with a quartz crystal, which they believed would guide their loved one safely to the afterlife. The Chinese used them to promote healing, enlightenment, and attracting wishes.
Today, healers, shamans, and priests use crystals for their specific healing properties. I always had a fascination with stones and crystals, but that was as far as I could go, until I was introduced to crystals and their healing abilities at a Mind Body Spirit Festival. Because crystals vibrate with the energy of the earth, they can help you align your body with the energy of the earth. With these crystals, now you too can vibrate with the highest energy: the energy of the Earth! This is where the healing begins. Using crystals and tuning into their energy, you are clearing blockages within yourself that will enhance your own natural healing powers. Most don’t realize it, but our bodies were designed to correct themselves and heal themselves naturally. But as life happens, we sometimes forget to stop and take care of ourselves so often that our bodies get out of sync with that healing process, ultimately creating blockages in our physical and mental bodies.
Any blockage within your life force is what causes aches, pains, and even disease to manifest in the physical body. It is for this reason that I now use crystals every day to strength in a particular area of my life, for cicatrization what is needed that day, for personal meditation and clarityor by I use in my Reiki practice to induce love and light while cleansing and cleansing of Chakras. Reiki, as an alternative healing modality, in its simplest translation is Universal Life Force. It is the practice of channeling the universal vital energy in a particular pattern to heal and harmonize the physical and mental body and each of our Chakras, which receives, assimilates and transmits the physical, emotional and spiritual energy that flows through our bodies. There is a cleansing technique that I use, as well as a different specific crystal for each Chakra to remove any and all blockages in that area. This clears the way for life energy to flow to and through you to keep mind, body and spirit in their divine state of perfect health. If we keep our mind, body, and spirit vibrating at a high frequency of love and healing energy, we will not allow aches, pains, and illnesses to manifest and settle in the physical body.
This is just a brief description of chakra healing with crystals. Each crystal has its own unique healing property and a specific Chakra that it resonates with due to its color. Our first Chakra, being the Root Chakra, deals with grounding, and mainly vibrates and can be healed using red, brown or black crystals such as red garnet, hematite and black tourmaline. Our second Chakra, the Sacral Chakra, which deals with the abdomen and the pleasure centers, can be harmonized mainly with Orange Crystals, such as Carnelian, Amber and Orange Calcite. The Third Chakra, being the Solar Plexus Chakra, which deals with the Digestive System and personal power, resonates with and can be healed with Yellow Crystals such as Yellow Citrine and Solar Stone. The Fourth Chakra, the Heart Chakra, deals with the Heart, Lungs and Love. The Heart Chakra vibrates in a healing way with all Green or Pink crystals such as Rose Quartz, Jade or Green Aventurine. The fifth chakra, the throat chakra, deals with communication and resonates with blue crystals such as blue agate, sodalite or sapphire. The Sixth Chakra, the Third Eye Chakra, which deals with intuition and knowledge, vibrates at a healing level with Violet Crystals such as Amethyst, Lolita, and Florita. The seventh Chakra, the Crown Chakra, which deals with the Central Nervous System and the Divine, resonates best with white or purple crystals such as selenite, clear quartz or amethyst.
Personally, I have been using Crystals for my own healing for quite some time, but since I started using crystals for healing, I have had some phenomenal success stories, some of which are near and dear to my heart. The first success story is my husband who had rotator cuff surgery. This, from what many people have told me, is the most painful surgery you can have. This is definitely a problem with a long healing time, as he has only regained about three quarters of his motion in that area with no pain so far in the last 5 months. Initially, I would do Reiki to him while we were sitting and relaxing and at the end of each day. I then introduced a carnelian ball into the image and what he explained to me while using the healing ball was quite amazing. The Carnelian ball brought incredible warmth, almost like a hot stone to everywhere it touched, helping to relax and heal the muscles that had been cut and manipulated during surgery, relieving pain like a hot stone massage.
The second success story is also near and dear to me as it involves my sister. My sister Deneen has lupus, which is essentially an inflammatory disease in which the body’s immune system attacks its own tissues and organs. From what I hear and see that she is going through, it is a very painful disease and the doctors just give her different medicines as trial and error until they find a medicine that works. Well, she is still in a stage of her disease of not knowing what medication works to relieve the pain she endures every day. I did Reiki healing on her numerous times in the past, which eased the pain enough to take the edge off her, but it wasn’t until I started crystal healing therapy, that she had sustained pain relief. I used several different crystals to clear and clear her chakras, but also had her wear a Reiki charged hematite bracelet for a few hours a day. It’s been a few weeks and she hasn’t had a day of severe pain since.
My third success story in just a few short weeks involves someone who has degenerative disc disease, which is pain in the lower back or neck due to a compromised disc in the spine. While there is a mildly genetic cause for this disease, it is mostly caused by normal wear and tear or some type of trauma to the body. With this type of disease, there is usually a constant underlying pain, usually mild. It also involves mild to severe episodes of back or neck pain that can generally last from a few days to a few months and can be debilitating during that time, before the person returns to what they consider to be their norm in the pain department. Rachael had been suffering for many years with degenerative disc disease when he came to see me. I helped her with Reiki energy healing and a carnelian ball, which he used to treat lower back problems. After those two things, I used Hematite on her who, to her, was like the Belle of the Ball. As soon as the hematite stones made contact with the skin on her lower back, she reported that the pain dissolved almost immediately and she stayed as long as the hematite remained on her back. I then instructed her to continue this practice on her own while she was not with me and to cleanse the hematite with a selenite stone so that any negativity and toxins the hematite absorbed would be removed before being returned to her lower back. . again.
So despite the documented use of healing crystals by many of our ancestors, some still discredit the use of these stones in conjunction with other forms of alternative medicine. There aren’t many studies to prove or even disprove the power of alternative forms of medicine like crystal healing, acupuncture, Reiki, or even yoga as healing for the mind, body, and spirit. This does not mean that these healing practices are not effective. It simply means that the money is not being spent on what some consider to be “New Age” healing; that same healing therapy that is actually healing as old as time. Also, despite the lack of research on these kinds of healing methods, still about one-third of Americans use these or other forms of alternative medicine. This is not to say that Crystal Healing Therapy is a panacea. You should still seek the help and medical attention of your doctors, but as you can see from these three very different problems and illnesses from the cases above, Crystal Healing Stones really do serve to amplify any and all healing efforts; Whether you have emotional wounds, specific physical illnesses, or simply need to boost your energy levels, you can use crystals to vibrate with the same frequencies as earth energy and reactivate your own body’s healing abilities!
