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1. Selecting
Your Crystal
To
select a Crystal is not all that much different from selecting a
pet or a work of art. When you go into the store to purchase your
crystal - or any other stone used in healing or Psychic work just
pick the one that "calls" to you. Handle the various
stones and place them, one by one, in your receptive hand. (the
one that is not your dominant hand; if you are right-handed or
ambi-dextrous, your receptive hand is your left. If you are
completely left-handed your receptive hand is your right.) The
stone that is right for you will "pull" you to it. This
may not be the stone that looks the clearest or the most
impressive, either. Our societies materialistic values
and our conditioning to accept them must not enter into our
decision, which is very hard for most of us at first. Our first
tendency is to judge the stone -as we always judge ourselves and
everything else in a constant stream of thoughts- by what we have
been conditioned to believe is "good" or
"bad".
If
the piece you are choosing is for a specific purpose; i.e. for
healing, or to enhance your psychic abilities, or for meditation;
it will help if you keep that purpose in mind while you are
selecting the stone. An interesting phenomena often happens to
people who are just going into the gem and mineral healing or
psychic work. Most people start off with clear quartz, because it
has the most applications. They
go into a store or a gem show to purchase a clear quartz and find
themselves drawn to all kinds of other "rocks" (as the
collectors call them) too. Many times they bring a bag of various
mineral specimens home with them. Later they look up the stones in
one of the many reference books on this subject, only to find the
stones they were drawn to are exactly the ones they need to deal
with issues or illnesses that they need to work on.
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2.
Cleaning
Your Crystal
The
very first thing you need to do when you first get a crystal is to
"clear it" from the imbalanced energies of anyone else
who has touched it. Crystals "work" because of their
piezoelectrical field. Researchers in Kirlian photography and
other subjects have long shown us that the body is surrounded by a
field of electro-magnetic energies, which psychics call the AURA.
People who have studied this subject tell us that Crystals help us
by attuning their piezoelectrical charge to the charge of our
auras. So we must first remove the charges from the stone that
come from other's handling of it. This is done by leaving the
stone in sea-salt (available at almost any health-food store) for
3 days. The only time you will have to use this technique - which
is drastic - to cleanse the stone is when you first buy it. The
reason I say the technique is drastic is because it erases ALL of
your energy from the stone too, so the stone has to be rebonded.
(explained later) This piezoelectrical effect of the stone is the
same reason that quartz is useful in making computers, telephones,
watches, and in other electronic devices.
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3.
Programming
the Stone
Programming
or charging a stone is necessary before it is used in magick. To
do this, simply hold the stone in your projective hand (right hand
if right-handed, left hand if left-handed), visualize your
magickal need, and pour energy out from your body and into the
stone. See the power flowing out from your body, through your
hand, and into the stone. You know you are finished when you can
feel or sense the stone vibrating with your personal power. It is
now ready for your magickal use.
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4.
Regular
Care
The
regular care and maintenance of your stone is really quite simple.
First of all a gentler method of clearing the piece should
be used at least once a week and after any uses in either physical
or inner (mental/emotional/spiritual)
healing work. This can be done in several ways. First of all, you
can run it under cool - no extremes of temperature please - water
in your sink for several minutes, while visualizing (intensely
imagining in vivid detail, from a meditative or extremely relaxed
state) all imbalanced energies leaving it. You can also leave it
in mugwort (an herb) for 2-3 days buried it in carefully. You can
also place it in a flowerpot with an African violet plant, but you
should know that if it has been used to heal any severe
conditions, the plant will die.
The
stones should also be re-charged about once a month or after every
use. For other stones, direct sunlight is not such a good idea as
it can fade the colors. You
can get the reflected energy of the sun by placing them in the
moonlight during the waxing of the moon. (from one day after the
new moon through the night of the full moon) They can also be
charged by surrounding them in a circle of quartz points that have
been charged by the sun, with the points of the crystals facing
inward toward the stones being charged. Another method is to
purchase an amethyst or quartz cluster and place the stones on it.
A cluster is a specimen with several individual crystals on it.
Oh, and if you charge the stone by a circle of crystals, be sure
they have been cleared and charged themselves before using them to
charge anything else. The circle should consist of at least 4
points, but 8 is best. These stones used for charging do not have
to be large at all.
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5.
Using
your Stones
Stones
are tools in our psychic work and, as in any other object used,
work by focusing the mind's powers. To get the best use out of
them, more than just wearing them or carrying them is required.
They should be used from a state of meditation, while visualizing
the goals we wish to accomplish with them - such as healing,
increased Psychic perception, etc. A good way to do this for to
help you focus and a self-hypnosis tape that relates to your goals
and use it. And if you are using the crystals in healing, be aware
that they are not meant to replace the care of a competent health
professional - but many people find them a useful adjunct to it.
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