Green Tourmaline releases us from Shyness.
I love the colour Green, I always have. Must be the early childhood fascination with green frogs, I spent hours watching them catch flying insects. I had so much patience when it came to waiting for nature to show it self. Most people that know or knew me wouldn’t believe that I could sit that still.
The Green Colour of Green Tourmaline is simply amazing. I just love how it appears to glow like fiber optics. I imagine it to be a direct uplink from our heart to the universe. This stone brings me the feeling of patience, stillness and nature.
Green Tourmaline opens our heart chakra and transfers negative energy into positive energy. This transfer brings with it a flood of vital life force energy. Your entire body is bathed in the colour green, your heart expands and encompasses your entire energy field with the abundance of love and self worth.
Green Tourmaline brings out our creative desires, allowing the flow of our creative juices to start new passions whether artistically or a loving new relationship that we have been shy about. Green Tourmaline can also aid in physical ailments and treatment of the heart, thymus gland, and our immune system.
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Charles Brand
The Angels bring us Angelite
Angelite: Throat Chakra Stone –
Angelite bring us towards our conscious awareness, our oneness with spirit or god. Angelite opens our Listening Skills to the messages of the divine including deciphering these messages for a better understanding of our place in the universe.
Angelite aids our spiritual journey and astral travel, it merges time and space so that we can enter the timeline at any moment and witness the present knowledge. Angelite brings peace and a feeling of community to the carrier, allowing for a deeper connection between all of organisms. Angelite builds bridges that once divided you from your own pleasure and desires.
Angelite allows a “new you” to unfold in a much gentler manner, calling upon the angels and spirits to guide you towards enlightenment. Angelite is the stone of connections and communications with your higher self.
Angelite is one of my favourites, I love the feeling it gives me, it allows me to speak from my heart the truth, and the courage to speak it aloud.
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Charles
The Snowflake and our Crown Chakra Sahasrara
The beauty of the snow flake, each one completely different from the other. Like us, we are each different from one another and create the crystalline structure, the vibration of pure love and gratitude – Crystal Clear Energy.
I have often thought that Quartz is actually fossilized water. When we think that our own bodies are made up of roughly 70% water, we can see why we resonate so vibrantly with quartz. Our own thoughts can create a positive or negative ripple throughout our bodies by resonating the liquid crystals within us as proven by Dr. Masaru Emoto, and as discussed by Robert Simmons in their research and books.
Goddess Shakti, also known as our Kundalini Energy, has finally come to Shiva, her eternal dance partner; their dance floor is the entire Universe. This awakening in the Crown Chakra is remarkable when all 6 Chakras below are in balance. Enlightenment can be experienced in this place. Pure bliss, love and joy surround every part of you.
This Chakra represents thought, consciousness, knowing, transcendence and meditation. Our complete understanding of the entire universe around us and our place within it is here in the Crown Chakra. The Pituitary Gland known as the “Master Gland” is linked with the Crown Chakra and regulates all the other Endocrine Glands maintaining homeostasis throughout your entire body.
Tour of the Tourmalinated Quartz
Tourmalinated Quartz
Tourmalinated Quartz is a very powerful healer and protector crystal, balances the male/female polarities and aids in eliminating many set patterns that are destructive in nature and in one’s own life.
Tourmalinated Quartz aligns all of our Chakras by connecting us with the Earth and the Soul Star Chakra above our heads, this connection gives us the ability to connect with Spirit or God.
Tourmalinated Quartz is the perfect crystal for adjusting imbalances throughout the body and creating Harmony for you within your environment.
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Charles Brand
Kunzite – It’s good for the heart
Kunzite activates our Heart Chakra and aligns all of our Chakras. Kunzite with its high lithium content is beneficial for those battling any addictive behaviour. Kunzite will empower our self-esteem and dissolves all negativity.
Kunzite promotes deep feelings of love and strengthens our cardiovascular system, giving us a boost of sensuality and clarity of the mind. Kunzite aids individuals in states of manic-depression by bringing tolerance and acceptance into your heart.
Kunzite will heal all past and present wounds to the heart and is a useful tool for opening our heart centre to love again. Kunzite balances our physical, emotional and mental bodies, promotes our own maturity and allows for deep meditation to occur.
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Charles Brand
Herkimer Diamonds – Not just any old Quartz
Herkimer Diamonds are beautiful Quartz Crystals found only in Herkimer, New York. Herkimers offer a profound connection with our Soul Star Chakra, giving us an awareness of the ether or web that connects us to “Everything” in the universe.
Herkimers balance our entire body and mind, both spiritually and physically by activating our entire liquid crystal bodies. Herkimers will amplify our intuitive abilities in both wake and dream states, giving us access to information and inner visions.
Herkimers are powerful healing crystals, placed along meridians or chakras to allow our chi or life force energy to bring healing to an area that might have been blocked for some time. Herkimers are typically double terminated growing within a vug or hollow opening, these precious little gems can bring a sense of joy to the body and calmness to the mind.
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Charles Brand
Ajna the Third Eye Chakra
Ajna or Third Eye Chakra located in the centre of the head slightly above the eye level relates with our Mind’s Eye of All Knowing. My company logo uses the Eye of Horus that represents a similar belief of “All Knowingness”.
This particular Chakra represents light, colour, seeing, intuition, vision and clairvoyance. The Ajna Chakra is linked with the Pineal Gland that is sometimes called the “Seat of the Soul” because it acts as a light meter for the body. Similar to the aperture of a camera, the Pineal Gland translates the amount of sunlight that our body is receiving to the amount of hormones governing our nervous system. In winter, our body’s metabolism slows down to conserve energy, and in the summer it speeds up.
The Pineal Gland or Third Eye Chakra keeps our body in balance and in homeostasis with our environment by balancing our input and output. If you are fortunate enough to own a DSLR camera, or, like me, used a manual SLR camera, then you will have an understanding that light carries information. Allowing the light to enter our own body or the body of the camera, will relay a vibrant and colourful frequency onto our Retina and into our pineal gland, or, light information onto film respectively.
The information we “see” with our eyes or Retina, travels from our Optic Nerve through the Optic Chasm and is partially processed by our Pineal Glands. A camera processes the information in a similar way by exposing the light information onto film as “recorded information”, only to be processed later within a photo lab. Technically, what we “see” is the colour that is “not absorbed” by the object, but reflected back to us.
As a side note: The common use of the word “Dark” fascinates me, I feel this word should be removed from the dictionary for there is no such thing as Dark. Dark does not exist, only the “Lack of Light”.
Light is typically defined into the colours of the visible light spectrum or rainbow, and consist of the same colours of each of our chakras—Amazing! Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet.
The element ‘light’ is related with the Third Eye Chakra. Light travels the fastest of any element of the lower chakras, at the speed of almost 300,000 km per second. The Ajna Chakra allows us to see clearly the big picture – hormones are released and our body can now react accordingly to what we see (think of it as our ability to “fight or flight” from a situation). A balanced Third Eye Chakra allows us to use and trust our intuition so that a sense of knowing (Claircognizance) surrounds us and our actions.
Lapis Lazuli—The Third Eye Chakra Stone
Lapis is by far one of the most powerful Third Eye Chakra Stones to have in your collection. Where should I begin with describing this beautiful powerhouse of a stone? Wars have been waged, won and lost over this stone. This stone has been traded for thousands of years by Egyptians and people from the Middle East and is especially known as the stone of royalty. It was used for eye shadow, paintings and adorned many sarcophagus’, including the famed King Tut’s face mask.
Lapis Lazuli helps one attain wisdom by aiding in deciphering the coded messages from Spirit or God. Lapis also strengthens our skeletal systems, activating our thyroid gland, bringing our body in alignment for our ascension with our higher self or spirit guides. Lapis has been used to release tension within the body, reduce anxiety and increases strength, vitality, and virility. This stone can help us attain great wisdom and clarity, shedding light on our illumination and proximity with the divine.
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Charles
Hematite – To Fake or Not to Fake
I have always been drawn to the feeling Hematite brought, and with the weight of it in my pocket. I even found the artificially-magnetized hematite interesting as well (until I learned that it is NOT Hematite at all). Hematite is made up of Iron Oxide. It is not the prettiest stone in its natural state. New York City’s famous “Brownstone Fronts” were due to the Iron Oxide in the sandstone beds of the Connecticut Valley. Polished Hematite takes on the look of a freshly buffed chrome bumper of an antique car. This reflective quality is also part of the healing this stone brings; it aids us to reflect on ourselves. We often spend time watching others, but how long do we spend watching ourselves? Enter Hematite – the grounding and reflective stone.
Hematite comes from the Greek word for Red. Hematite was used to create red chalk for 1000’s of years which relates well to the red colour of our Root Chakra. The gravity of Hematite reminds us that we are all earth beings and connected through the Root Chakra with the Earth. It is a wonderful stone to carry in your pocket, although your pants might fall down from the weight of this stone (it is quite heavy for its size). Hematite was also used by Egyptians to protect tombs from tomb raiders. Hematite dust can be lethal if breathed in, so they covered the sarcophagus with hematite dust to stop thieves.
What is the difference of Magnetic and Non Magnetic Hematite? The difference is that Hematite is not naturally found magnetized (actually, only a very small magnetic charge can be found within natural hematite) and only becomes this way through a mechanical process. The procedure includes heating and cooling the hematite while it is attached to very strong magnet. Most often the Magnetized Hematite does not even include Hematite, but uses synthetic ceramic barium-strontium ferrite magnet and is polished to a silvery gleam. Most manufacturers keep their formulas a trade secret. Artificially or fake magnetized Hematite may not serve our highest good or expectation, but may offer a relief to the wearer. Let me try to explain the health benefits of wearing a magnetic bracelet:
Short Term Healing Properties of wearing Magnetic Jewelry
I have a very simple explanation. It is known that we have many heavy metals within our bodies circulating through our blood stream. These heavy metals entered our bodies through either absorption of solvents (gasoline/varsol), inhalation from Factory Air Emissions known as Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC’s), or by ingestion of foods. Many species are not able to release these heavy metals (known as Bio-Accumulation). The compounded ingestion of Bio-Accumulated species is known as Bio-Magnification.
It is my belief that wearing a magnetized bracelet will make you feel better “temporarily”, as the heavy metals are attracted to the magnetic bracelet and concentrate in your wrist, thus no longer flowing throughout your bloodstream. The removal of the bracelet allows the heavy metals to circulate again, and we will feel the ill effects of this toxic loading. There are alternative measure for ridding the body of heavy metals, and one should research approved methods of Chelating Therapies.
Now Back to the Real Hematite:
The real connection of the Root Chakra with the Earth occurs through the Sciatic Nerve (the longest and largest nerve in our bodies) that runs from the heel of your foot to the base of your spine where our Root Chakra is located. Individuals suffering from sciatica experience disconnect with the Earth and the onset of dis-eases occurs that are associated with being out of balance with the Earth’s Frequency. Hematite offers us a reconnection through our sciatic nerve and a rebalance with the Earth Energies.
Hematite is often referred to as a bloodstream purifier. When you polish or drill into this stone, it appears to bleed due to the high concentration of Iron Ore. This stone energizes the entire body by improving circulation and the flow of oxygen to all cells. Hematite is also a protective stone and enhances optimism, courage and willpower.
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Galena and Avatar, what is the connection?
Galena:
Do you remember the movie Avatar? What mineral were they mining on Pandora? Was it Unobtanium or was it really Galena? The movie instilled upon us the “connectedness of our beings”, that we can be open to receive and transfer information through this matrix of energy. I am fascinated that they used Galena to represent this importance. In the movie Avatar, Unobtanium cost over $10 million per pound, on Earth, the real cost of Galena is around $25 per pound.
I have always been attracted to the cubic shape and silver colour of this mineral, maybe because it was used in crystal radio kits from decades ago and still available today. The lead content of Galena is useful for us to feel connected with the earth and also to act as a transducer of Electromagnetic Frequencies (EMF). Use of Galena near your computer or electronic equipment can aid in reducing headaches and fatigue caused by these devices by blocking and transducing EMF.
This stone is mined extensively around the world for its Lead content. Luckily for us, the lead is tied up within the sulphides of the stone, so that lead poisoning will not occur from simple handling this stone. However this stone would be toxic if used as a crystal elixir using the direct method (the indirect method should always be used when making an elixir of a crystal you are not familiar with).
I have always offered Galena to those individuals that are receiving radiation treatments. It is known to reduce the harmful effects of excessive radiation; by absorbing the excess the body does not need.
Galena is used by mystics to receive the thoughts of others from their past, present and or future. They were thought to utilize unseen waves from Uranus which aided in their metaphysical properties of the stone of communication.
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Charles
Atlantisite – The Knowledge Stone of Atlantis.
Atlantisite is a mixture of Serpentine and Stichtite creating two wonderful energies to raise our creative energies, our Kundalini! Atlantisite is very useful in accessing a deeper meditation and in retrieving wisdom from our past lives and ancient ancestors.
Atlantisite brings balance to our Heart Chakra and a loving vibration to our heart and lungs. The healing powers of Atlantisite can benefit the stomach and kidneys. Atlantisite also aids our skin by regenerating and improving the elasticity of it.
Atlantisite brings us a feeling of security, soothing our anxiety and bringing a sense of calm to our home or safe place. Atlantisite aids in resolving conflicts by promoting an inner peace and gentleness within us, while protecting us from negative energies.
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Cuprite – The stone of the Beautiful Sonora Sunset
Cuprite is a very powerful stone, enhancing our pranic breath (our life force) and accelerating our light body. When we see the Sonora Sunset, we can identify the Cuprite as Red, Chrysocolla as Green and Tenorite as Black. The healing properties of these two other stones apply.
Cuprite activates the Root Chakra, connecting the entire body with the Earth’s Energy. Cuprite increases our vitality through this connecting with the Earth, giving our energy level a boost.
Cuprite can be called upon to attract love admirers and fertility when needed. Cuprite literally attracts and satiates our physical needs. Cuprite can relieve us from worry and anxiety, reminding us that some things are outside of our control.
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Charles
Shattuckite
The rare Shattuckite is said to directly affect our human genetic code, increasing our cell division and re-growth/regeneration of healthy cells within our body. Shattuckite activates our Throat and Third Eye Chakras giving us the ability to articulate our interpretation of the “Mind’s Eye”.
Shattuckite will enable us to channel information more clearly and concisely from the spirit world, bringing the verbalization of spirit and energies from multiple dimensions.
Shattuckite is a stone of communication, increases our psychic abilities, and brings transformation to the carrier. Shattuckite will open doors on different dimensions that previously appeared locked to us.
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Charles
Shiva Lingam or is it a Dinosaur Egg
The Shiva Lingam stones are found along the Narmada River in Central India. Shiva Lingams are said to raise your Kundalini Energy (our creative energies) and aid in our spiritual connection with the universe.
Shiva Lingams are sacred and have been used in ceremony for thousands of years. Shiva Lingams are seen as a symbol of sexuality, and often combined with a Yoni (a platform to hold the Lingam) that represents feminine energies. Shiva Lingams are excellent for use in sexual healing by balancing our own levels of masculine and feminine energy, and are also known as the fertility stone.
Shiva Lingams can aid in severing the connection with our past or ended relationships. Shiva Lingams are often thought to connect with the Earth Energy through our Root Chakra (red end) and open our spirit to the universe by opening our Crown Chakra (white end).
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Nephrite Jade = Beauty and Bliss
Nephrite Jade is a Heart Chakra strengthening stone, radiating unconditional divine love to the carrier. Nephrite Jade is a powerful ally to restore balance in our love sector, and aids in our social happiness.
Nephrite Jade can also bring balance to our emotions and sharpens our clarity, to enable us to overcome or simply steer clear of conflicts. Nephrite Jade is a powerful emotional balancer, also aids in courage, justice and brings wisdom when called upon.
Nephrite Jade helps cleanse the blood, boosts kidney function and our immune system, increasing our longevity and our fertility. Nephrite Jade brings a sense of peacefulness and nourishment and dispels any feelings of negativity.
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Charles
Take a ride on the “Shaman Dream Quartz” Train
Shamanic Dream Quartz Crystal
Shaman Dream Quartz are very powerful journey crystals, used by shamans to aid in vision quests and healings. Shaman Dream Quarts will aid in the transformations, allowing the carrier to see clearly the direction needed to be taken.
Shaman Dream Quartz may have single or multiple inclusions of Lodolite, Rutile, Hematite, Limonite, Chlorite, and Amphibole. Mined in Minas Gerais, Brazil and hand polished into high domed shapes, leaving the natural bottom, no two are alike.
Shaman Dream Quartz brings a sense of joy, wonderment, and vitalizes the sense of imagination. Shaman Dream Quartz activates our Third Eye and Crown Chakras and enhances our ability to lucid dream, including dream interpretations.
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Amazonite – Throat Chakra and so much more
Amazonite – Throat Chakra Stone
Amazonite, the beautiful Throat Chakra Stone, activates our creative skills and is a true visionary stone. Amazonite soothes the nervous system bringing a sense of calm over the entire body.
Amazonite facilitates a creative expression by bringing joy and enlightenment to the carrier. Amazonite aligns our mental and etheric bodies to bring balance to an over active mind.
Amazonite releases us from addictive habits by clearing our vision and obstructions of harmful behaviours and detrimental addictive habits. Simply, Amazonite instils a warm feeling of happiness.
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Charles
Not So Bloody BloodStone
Bloodstone
Bloodstone, like the name suggests strengthens and oxygenates our bloodstream. Bloodstone activates our Heart Chakra, revitalizing it, and assists us in taking actions on our hearts desires.
Bloodstone is a very powerful healing stone that builds our courage by centering and grounding us with the Earths energy. Bloodstone allows us to be in harmony and adapt to our environment. Bloodstone keeps our mind focused and dispels thoughts of bewilderment and obscurity.
Bloodstone can also aid in our mental physical vitality by balancing and reduce our mental and physical stressors. Bloodstone aids in the elimination of toxins, balances iron deficiencies and strengthens our heart, spleen and bone marrow. Bloodstone is a true ally to our whole body homeostasis.
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Charles
The Road to Rhodochrosite
Rhodochrosite:
Rhodochrosite is known as the Divine Love stone activating our Heart Chakra. Rhodochrosite is a powerful healing stone bringing love and balance to one’s life.
Rhodochrosite aids in the functioning of the spleen, kidneys, and the circulation of the blood throughout the body. Rhodochrosite brings emotional balance to the carrier and enhances our intellectual power and memory capacities.
Rhodochrosite heals emotional wounds and traumas and allowing courage, willpower and passion to return to the heart centre allowing the carrier to have acceptance of self and life.
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The Road to Rhodonite
Rhodonite:
Rhodonite is a rich pink Heart Chakra Stone with inclusions of Manganese. The loving energy of this Rhodonite will balance our heart centres and bring our mind and body into balance.
Rhodonite has a long list of benefits to the carrier. Starting with the central nervous systems this stone eases the blockages and allows the flow of information to occur. Thyroid, Reflexes, and Pancreas are all strengthened by Rhodonite. Memory, Immunity, Trauma, and Stress are other improvements that you will feel.
When the Heart Chakra is in balance using Rhodonite you will feel an increased level of energy to both the mind and body. Rhodonite is useful to bring Love, Peace and harmony into your life.
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Tiger Iron – One Super Strong Stone.
Tiger Iron
Tiger Iron is a combination of Hematite, Red or Yellow Jasper and Golden Tiger Eye. Tiger Iron activates the bottom three Chakras grounding us with the Earth, while protecting and healing our physical identities.
Tiger Iron brings clarity in our mental and or knowledge sectors, enabling us to see the truth through the illusions. Tiger Iron promotes our artistic abilities, bringing us confidence, strength vitality, willpower and balance.
Tiger Iron motivates our very being, releasing our natural steroids and builds muscular structure. Tiger Iron balancing white and red cells, helps with healing legs, sexual organs, liver and the nervous system.
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Virtuous Sardonyx
Sardonyx:
Sardonyx is the stone of Virtue. Friends and Fortune will be attracted with the use of Sardonyx. Sardonyx brings happiness to our Marriage and or Domestic Partnerships.
Sardonyx will encourage you to have self-control and diminish any hesitation to act on your beliefs, literally gives you the courage you have been seeking. Sardonyx strengthens our intellect, aids in dissipating tumours and repelling infections.
Sardonyx aligns our spinal column, aids our thyroid gland, larynx and balances our metabolism. Sardonyx works at the cellular level to dispel disturbances within our bone marrow. Sardonyx allows one to realize the LOVE of LIVING.
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Serpent Powers of Serpentine
Serpentine
Serpentine emits a gentle loving energy that embraces the Heart Chakra and whole body. Serpentine is known for its profound healing frequency of our emotions and promotes a sense of calm.
Serpentine is a great stone to have in your corner when resolving conflicts by enhancing the “Serpent Power” or our creative Kundalini energy. Serpentine expands our awareness and strengthens our connection with the grounding energy of the Earth.
Serpentine is wonderful to use for meditation by clearing the slate of scattered of distracted thought forms. Serpentine benefits and influences our emotional body and spiritual well-being by aiding in our understanding of our own Sacred Geometry within our cellular structures.
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Rose Quartz – Love to the Heart Chakra
Rose Quartz – Heart Chakra
Rose Quartz is a wonderful stone to have in your collection, soothing and softening the energy of other stones and is known for its loving energy as the “Love Stone”.
Rose Quartz aid in kidney functioning and our circulatory system for an entire body cleanse. Fertility opportunities are improved by easing our sexual and emotional imbalances with one another and with ourselves. Rose Quartz releases our “Present Day” and “Past Life” attached negative emotions like; anger, resentment, guilt, fear, and jealousy.
Rose Quartz aids in reducing tension and stress by cooling hot tempers. Rose Quartz also brings many positive attributes like; enhancing self-confidence, increasing creativity, forgiveness, compassion and love. Rose Quartz simply attracts LOVE in all its Forms.
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Charles