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
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
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 Pendant $95.00
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 Rough $4.00 per gram
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
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 Palm Stone $4.00 each
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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Charles
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.
Sonora Sunset Pendant $95.00
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
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 $1.00 each
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 Pendant $40.00
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
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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Charles
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 Pendant $30.00
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.
Rhodonite Palm Stone $4.00 each
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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Charles
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 Palm Stones $4.00
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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Charles
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 Pendant $30.00
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 Palm Stone $4.00
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
Carnelian – The Sacral Chakra Stone
Carnelian – Sacral Chakra
Our Sacral Chakra brings fluidity to our bodies; Carnelian helps energize our muscles to bring forth movement allowing us to dance with our divinity.
Carnelian is known as a powerful healing stone by energizing our blood, tissue regeneration, aids our kidneys in their functioning, lungs, liver, gallbladder and pancreas will also all benefit from this powerhouse of a stone.
Carnelian brings vitality to our mental, physical and emotional bodies by enhancing our ability to attune with our inner self. Carnelian also aids in concentration and creativity. Finally, this stone is strongly known for its sexuality and sensuality, bringing forth our heightened senses of this warming and joyous social sector of our lives.
Carnelian Palm Stone $4.00 each
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Green Aventurine – The Heart Chakra Stone – Anahata
Aventurine (Green) – The Heart Chakra Stone
Green Aventurine is associated with the Heart Chakra balancing input with output, activating our heart centres by refreshing and nurturing every part of our body lovingly.
Aventurine can be carried while travelling to aid in a safe and adventurous journey, a journey from the heart. By purifying our mental and emotional bodies, this stone allows us to journey without anxiety or fear. Aventurine gives strength to our muscle tissue by powering the heart to move blood throughout our circulatory system; this movement allows for emotional tranquility and creates a positive attitude towards life.
Aventurine Palm Stone $4.00 each
By aligning our heart centre (Heart Chakra) we gain the ability to bring health and well being to our bodies by balancing our masculine and feminine energies. Aventurine guides our spirit to connect with the healing energy within us, regenerating our heart to give us the ability to heal our mental, physical and spiritual bodies.
Aventurine can also stimulate our body’s metabolism, reducing fat and lowering our cholesterol levels. Aventurine contributes in the prevention of arteriosclerosis and heart attacks and also an anti-inflammatory effect that can reduce pain caused by inflammations.
Aventurine Pendant - Silver Bail $30.00
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Charles
Rhodonite – The Stone of Love, Peace and Harmony.
Rhodonite:
A rich pink Heart Chakra Stone with inclusions of Manganese. The loving energy of this stone will balance our heart centres and bring our mind and body into balance.
Rhodonite Pendant silver Bail $30.00
This stone 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. This stone is useful to bring Love, Peace and harmony into your life.
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Charles
Anahata Chakra and its Crystals
The rising Kundalini has now arrived at Anahata Chakra, our heart chakra. Anahata is at the fulcrum of our bodies, the midpoint between matter and spirit, our physical body chakras are below and our spiritual chakras are above, this is our spiritual centre or gateway.
This Chakra represents our love centre where our breath and balance are forged. It creates unity within us and keeps our relationships on an even keel. When you want to help or heal others, we focus on our own heart, the heart of “giving love freely” without expectations or stings attached, this is the love of Anahata Chakra. This Chakra is closely linked with the Thymus Gland that maintains our body’s defenses during injury or illness, the balance centre or fulcrum of our physical bodies.
The element Air is closely related to the heart chakra. I am sure you have heard someone say “I feel like I am walking on air” this usually occurs when we are feeling full of love. Air and Love move freely across borders and great divides, binding all living things together as one. The soft caress of love enlightens us to our higher consciousness and awakens within us the divine light of spirit, universe or any other name you may call it.
I also believe that particular crystals and minerals can help attract more love, or balance the love that we already have. The stones that I would suggest are: Jade, Rose Quartz, Malachite, Moss Agate, Rhodenite, Rhodochrosite and Serpentine. Rose Quarts is my “go to” stone when I want to balance my heart centre and truly feel the love that is within me.
You can learn much more in my workshops that I conduct regularly at different yoga studios, or from my home.
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Why are we drawn to Crystals, can they help?
Crystals have been used for 1000’s of years by Shamans and Ancient Healers to heal their bodies and protect their environments. Found around the globe, in every religion and spirituality, Crystals have fueled our minds and bodies for generations.
Have you ever wondered why you were drawn to a particular Stone or Crystal? For me, it has always been Amethyst. Not just because of it being my birthstone (February), but for the spiritual protection that this stone offers. The connection with our higher purpose and direction. Well at least this is what amethyst offers me.
What crystals catch your eye? hopefully not just diamonds, although they are very powerful stones too. Maybe it is Rose Quartz (as it is Valentine’s Day), Citrine or Aventurine. The quartz family of crystals offer us a huge variety of energies and each with their own beauty. As an avid rock collector and jewelry maker, I am always asked which one is my favourite. All of them, I answer. Mother Nature has taken the time to create such beautiful specimens for us to wear and enjoy that no one could single out just one stone to focus all of their love on. Each day I pick from a large bowl of crystals, a stone or two to carry in my pocket. These little additions help balance my day and ward off anything that may cause in imbalance in my daily routine.
My Belief is that quartz is fossilized water. The large amethyst geodes that come from Brazil and other countries are actually an egg shell of Agate Stone (which is porous) that allows water to enter the hollow area of the stone (Geode) the water brings elements from the periodic table that allow the quartz crystal to grow into one of many different types, in this case Amethyst. Look at this photo, and you will be able to see the agate shell I am talking about.
Amethyst Geode with Agate shell shown in Green
Amethyst offers us so much. Aiding our meditation, strengthening our immune system and brain activity, healing, our bodies, love, inspiration and intuition, lastly amethyst can help rid our bodies of addictions (what ever addiction you may have). Remember that we are all addicts in one way or another, maybe you are addicted to love, or maybe like me, addicted to Crystals especially amethyst.
But there are so many other stones that can offer healing and balancing of your Chakras. For those people that spend loads of time in front of their computers, (like me) may I suggest a stone that can help absorb the EMF (Electro Magnetic Frequencies) that are emitted. Galena, and Iron Pyrite are two in particular, and of course there are others. These two work for me and are stationed near my desk. My next blog will be exclusively on EMF and Crystals. (Stay Tuned)
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Charles
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Anahata and the Hexagram. What is the connection?
The hexagram symbol has many names, and has been used around the globe, embedded into world religions and weaved into numerous belief systems. But, what is the relationship of the hexagram with Anahata or the Heart Chakra?
The Sat-kona, as it is known in Sanskrit, is at the heart of spirituality in India. The hexagram is created using sacred geometry, by joining two equilateral triangles, six points emerge from the sacred space of the hexagram.
The union of the individual with the universe. One triangle points upward signifying our humanly ascension to the universe, and the other pointed downward signifying the spirit to the individual. In Sanskrit they are called Purusa (Man) and Prakrti (Nature or Intelligence). As we continue to strive for more information and knowledge, we look upwards, and in the same instance the universe above us, always provides the answers down towards us.
These two triangles represent the balance of spirit and matter, merging together and creating the Sacred Space we hold at our Spiritual Centre – Anahata. The Heart Chakra has always been identified as our Spiritual Centre, and the hexagram may represent the many sides of our complex emotions found in our Heart like compassion, tenderness, unconditional love, equilibrium, rejection and well-being.
Each one of our Chakras are connected to an Endocrine Gland, the Heart Chakra is linked to our Thymus Gland. Funny how the Thymus Gland has two identical lobes and is tasked with maintaining homeostasis. When our body is in Dis-Ease or the onset of illness, the Thymus is responsible to develop T-Cells to fend off these imbalances of the the body. The Thymus is most active before puberty, and begins to atrophy or waste away from puberty onwards due to circulating hormones. Luckily enough it continues it’s endocrine function, but is greatly reduced as we age, making us more susceptible to dis-ease and illness later in life.
The hexagram and the six-pointed star has been associated with many religions and the occult. Symbolizing the balance or fulcrum of “who we are”, the masculinity and femininity or the Yin Yang. We see this symbol used in every corner of our world, and I believe it represents our Oneness to one another, our Gateway to our Higher Consciousness. Within ever religion and belief system, we find Love. Love is the Unifying Force that connects each one of us together.
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Charles
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