Crystals for Energy Protection - Judy Hall 2020
Reversing Mental Overload
Eliminate the Negative
Negative or obsessive thinking is one of the most destructive things you can do to yourself — or to other people because, if you obsess on their behalf or about them, you’ll attract to them what you most fear for them. Rigid thinking, deeply inculcated beliefs, negative expectations and self-doubt are weapons you turn against yourself or others.
How you think generally and what you expect on a day-to-day basis can have a surprising effect on the inanimate objects around you, as this story shows:
’I had to go to the hospital to hear the test results for my young son. If the news was bad, it would require an operation and long hospitalization, so it was a tense and emotional journey.
Within a few minutes of leaving the house the car started misfiring and juddering and I drove for the next 40 minutes with the car stalling at every junction.
In the end, I abandoned it and walked the last few hundred yards, shaking with anticipation as I went.
After receiving the good news from the doctor that my son wouldn’t need an operation, I decided to give the car another try before calling my husband for assistance, as I was a long way from home. It started first time and I drove home with not a single stall. I realized then how much my fear had been affecting the car.’
Similarly, what you read, what you fantasize about and where you put your mental energy can create situations that sometimes feel like an external mental influence but may not be.
Some years ago a young man came on one of my workshops. He was psychically open and traumatized following repeated sexual abuse in a psychiatric hospital when he was a teenager. He had, he believed, picked up a ’spirit’ there who was particularly unpleasant with a strong sexual focus. This alleged ’spirit’, he claimed, had taken over his thoughts and feelings and he had become obsessed with sex and sexual fantasies. Having dealt with people with similar feelings, I began to wonder whether this was in fact a spirit. Although it communicated, its vocabulary and content were limited. The same information repeated itself, all of it linked to sexual fantasy of abuse. I asked for details of the life the spirit had lived on Earth, but there was no answer. Then I asked the young man to try using a psychic light technique to ’zap’ the spirit. It instantly dissolved. It had been a thought form — something created by words and thoughts rather than a living being. My feeling was it had been created from the young man’s experience of abuse and his constant dwelling on it. As he was so psychically open, he had absorbed his abuser’s fantasies, carried the energy around with him and strengthened it by paying attention to it as a spirit rather than recognizing it was his own memories. Whilst he clearly needed further counselling work to overcome the effects of the abuse, the fact that he had finally owned the memories rather than projecting them onto a ’spirit’ meant that he would be able to deal with them.
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Sunstone
If pessimism or another negative mental attitude is your problem, a glinting, glitzy Sunstone is your answer. Encouraging optimism and enthusiasm, it switches to a positive take on events. Even the most incorrigible pessimist responds to it. It’s particularly beneficial when worn in the sun, as this doubles its effect. This stone is excellent if you suffer from the lethargy of seasonal affective disorder and long for the summer sunshine to lift your dark moods.
Dispelling Mental Negativity
Apathy, hopelessness and helplessness are insidious mental attitudes that have a deeper effect than might at first appear. They underlie poverty, despair and victim mentality. The world looks bleak, the person ’suffers’ and it is all someone else’s fault. But by taking responsibility for your feelings and mental attitude, ’failure’ or ’lack’ can be turned into a positive gift for the future. Take the decision now to become a thriver, not a victim or merely a survivor, and note it in your journal.
But you can also become mentally obsessed with something, a fear for the future or of illness, a belief system you have bought into without really thinking it through, or some of the more bizarre manifestations of this world of ours. Any such obsessions need to be released if you are to fully protect yourself psychically.
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Blue Kyanite
Blue Kyanite prevents people messing with your head and creates clear mental boundaries. The crystal overcomes anxiety, self-doubt or suspicion, increasing the capacity for logical thought and clarifying what is really being communicated. It blocks manipulation, coercion, bullying, lying and the like. Amplifying high-frequency energies, Blue Kyanite aligns the chakras and subtle bodies, clearing pathways and meridians. Kyanite is tranquillizing, inducing deep meditative states and stimulating metaphysical abilities. It helps to facilitate detaching from the idea of blind fate or implacable karma and reveals the measures required to balance out the past. Grounding and mediating the flow of spiritual energy, Kyanite restores Qi (life-force) to the physical body and is a natural pain reliever. It restabilizes the energy bodies and the soul after energetic transformation. Black Kyanite is a powerful energy protector.
Cut the Worry
Next to fear, worry is the greatest underminer of all your plans. Constant worry actually creates the situations you fear. As much of it is generated from listening to so-called experts, stop believing what they tell you and find out for yourself, as knowledge equals power. Above all, cut the worry!
Worry beads have been used for thousands of years to help calm and focus the mind. Letting the beads slip through your fingers while in a relaxed state facilitates new insight into the most difficult of situations and helps to rectify unjust situations. Red Jasper makes excellent worry beads. This stone helps you to see what really matters and what is an unnecessary concern. It also strengthens your boundaries and helps you to say ’no’.
TRY THIS: WORRY BEADS
Gently slip a string of worry beads through your fingers while quietly contemplating your worries and allow them to dissolve with each click of the beads. This will soon bring you to a calm place.
Additional Worry-Bead Crystals
Amazonite, Azurite, Eye of the Storm, Pink Crackle Quartz, Rainbow Obsidian, Ocean Jasper, Rose Quartz, Smoky Quartz, Snakeskin Agate.
TRY THIS CEREMONY: THE WORRY POT
✵ Sit quietly and on a small rainbow pad, with focused intention, write each of your worries on a separate piece of paper. Write everything, no matter how big or small, that is concerning you. Some may seem trivial and silly, others absolutely overwhelming, but put them all down on paper.
✵ Use a fireproof pot or make a fire and, taking one worry at a time, set fire to the paper and drop it in the pot or on the fire. As you do so, say out loud: ’I release this worry to the universe so it can be taken care of for me.’
✵ Watch the paper burn away and add the next one until all the worries have gone up in smoke.
✵ Feel how the weight of those worries has lifted from your shoulders, stand up tall, smile and say out loud: ’I am free, untroubled, and I trust in the universe.’
✵ Turn your attention elsewhere.
✵ If you find yourself worrying again, write down the worry and burn it.
Additional Tools
Pink light, programming a crystal.
Crystals for Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health Issues
Crystals can be an enormous support if you suffer from mental health issues such as an obsession with fearful thoughts, and they can stabilize your mood or assist you to overcome addictions or other compulsive patterns, particularly as they help you to deal with the underlying cause of your problem.
You can wear your stone constantly to support your mind or carry crystals with you, grid them around your space or make gem essences for various mental health issues (see Tool 5), as these are particularly effective for gently dissolving the subtle underlying causes behind them.
TRY THIS: GET MOTIVATED
If you feel uninspired or unmotivated, try wearing a sunny Citrine, Poppy Jasper, Quantum Quattro, Sunstone or Topaz. These crystals shed golden light on your purpose and inspire limitless possibilities. Your motivation gets a kick start whenever these powerful crystals are nearby!
Crystal Tips for Specific Conditions
✵ Addictions: Amethyst has a sobering effect and is helpful in overcoming addictions or overindulgence of any kind. It was traditionally worn to ward off drunkenness and to provide protection. (Use cider vinegar to preserve the essence if you have an alcohol addiction or allergy.) Use Botswana or Fire Agate if the addiction is to nicotine.
✵ Anger: Angry thoughts can be as destructive and debilitating as the emotion itself. Soothing Agate gently dissolves the kind of bitter anger that eats away inside you and leads to compulsive thinking. If you choose the Blue Lace variety, you’ll find it calms and lifts your thoughts and has the added benefit of opening your throat chakra so that you can communicate your feelings clearly. Keep a piece with you at all times and hold it whenever anger threatens to overwhelm you.
✵ Anxiety: Amethyst, Crackle Quartz, Epidote, Halite, Mangano Calcite, Kunzite, Rutilated Quartz/Angel Hair, Rhodochrosite, Star Hollandite, Tanzanite and Zebra Stone are good for anxiety in general. Apophyllite is excellent for when you cannot tolerate uncertainty and Beryl for when you’re prone to mental over-analysis. Iron Pyrite overcomes a feeling of mental servitude and Rose Quartz calms mental agitation.
✵ Boosting confidence: Carnelian, Chrysocolla, Citrine, Dumortierite, Eudialyte, Eye of the Storm, Hematite, Iron Pyrite, Lazulite and Purpurite.
✵ Boosting self-esteem: Strawberry Quartz.
✵ Boosting strength: Bloodstone, Eye of the Storm, Flint, Jasper, Mahogany Obsidian, Merlinite, Obsidian, Onyx, Preseli Bluestone, Purpurite.
✵ Breaking old patterns: Brandenberg, Fenster or Phantom Quartz, Honey Calcite.
✵ Letting go: Azurite, Fenster Quartz, Fire Opal, Fulgarite, Rainbow Obsidian and Rutilated Quartz/Angel Hair. Garnet changes outworn ideas, Green Calcite moves stagnant energy or situations, Pumice lets go of feelings of vulnerability and Snow Quartz helps when you are weighed down by overwhelming responsibilities. Rainbow Mayanite aids release.
✵ Letting go of worrying what others think of you: Pink Crackle Quartz.
✵ Mid-life crisis: Rose Quartz will steer you through a mid-life crisis, enabling you to get your life back on track or find the right pathway forward.
✵ Neurosis: Green Aventurine is beneficial in severe neurosis, helping you to understand what lies behind the condition.
✵ Panic attacks: Amethyst and Sodalite calm panic attacks. Keep a crystal in your pocket and hold it over your chest at the first sign of an attack. Breathe slowly and deeply and count to seven, hold the breath for a count of six and breathe out for a count of ten.
✵ Phobias: Sodalite is an excellent stone to help overcome phobias, whilst Green Aventurine specifically overcomes claustrophobia.
✵ Psychiatric conditions: An effective balancer of mood and a natural tranquillizer, Amethyst can assist in stabilizing psychiatric conditions. This powerful healing stone is extremely calming for your mind, helping you to feel less scattered. It should not, however, be used for the treatment of paranoia or schizophrenia.
✵ Reducing mental stress: Amber, Beryl, Eye of the Storm, Laser Quartz, Spirit Quartz.
✵ Rigid mental conditioning: Agate or Sodalite gently releases old mental conditioning and dissolves a rigid mindset, allowing you to be more yourself.
✵ An overly sensitive or defensive personality: Sodalite releases the core fears and control mechanisms that underlie this problem and enhances self-acceptance.
✵ Suicidal tendencies: The gently cleansing and protective energies of Smoky Quartz or Eye of the Storm are excellent for alleviating suicidal urges, as they resolve any ambivalence about being in incarnation.
Crystals for Healing Depression
An extremely debilitating mental state that may well have underlying emotional toxicity, depression manifests somewhat differently according to its cause but inevitably leaves you energetically depleted and vulnerable.
Reactive depression is a response to life events and is usually triggered by stressful personal situations or your family, but it may also be linked to emotional blockages or suppressed memories and is common in the partners of people who suffer from chronic depression. Reactive depression is alleviated by happy events or by the removal of the stressful situation. Typically, symptoms are less noticeable in the morning and increase during the day.
Endogenous depression is not alleviated by happy events and is believed to be caused by biochemical imbalances, although emotional factors or spiritual dis-ease are also present. With this type of depression, there are disturbed sleep and eating patterns and a tendency to wake up feeling low.
Whilst approaches such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, EFT and counselling may well relieve the underlying causes of depression and teach how to handle its manifestations, and journalling can also reveal the hidden forces at work, carrying crystals can also be extremely helpful, particularly as a first-aid measure. Crystals such as Kunzite contain natural lithium — prescribed by the medical profession to regulate bipolar disorder.
Crystal Tips for Depression
✵ Labradorite benefits reactive depression and steers you through necessary change into a place of calm.
✵ Smoky Quartz is useful for endogenous depression and alleviates suicidal tendencies. This stone gently dissolves any negative emotions or emotional blockages that underlie depression.
TRY THIS: LAYOUT FOR ALLEVIATING DEPRESSION
✵ Lie comfortably on your bed or on the floor. Ensure you won’t be disturbed.
✵ Place an Amethyst on your brow to balance out emotional highs and lows and to promote emotional centring.
✵ Place Rose Quartz or Green Aventurine over your heart to release unexpressed emotions and heartache, soothe your emotional pain and open your heart to unconditional love.
✵ Place Labradorite, Sunstone, Eye of the Storm or Smoky Quartz on your solar plexus to draw out fear and negative emotions, encourage you to let go of anything that no longer serves you and instil positive vibes in its place.
✵ Place Orange Carnelian on your sacral chakra to stabilize and anchor yourself into the present. Feel the vibrant energy of the stone radiating up through your whole body and down into the sexual chakras to gently transmute abuse of any kind. Be aware of the activation of your body’s natural ability to heal and rebalance itself.
✵ Leave the stones in place for 15 to 20 minutes, then remove them and sit up slowly.
✵ Cleanse them thoroughly.
Additional Tools
Crystal EFT (Tool 23), Gem Essences (Tool 5).