Crystals: How to Use Crystals and Their Energy to Enhance Your Life (Hay House Basics) - Judy Hall 2015

Crystals, the aura and the chakras
Crystal Applications

Vortices for the reception or transmission of subtle energy, chakras link the subtle energy bodies (the aura) that surround and interpenetrate the physical body and mediate energy flow. They help the body assimilate Qi, the life force, and assist communication between the different dimensions of being: physical, emotional, mental, karmic, metaphysical, cosmic and spiritual. Healthy chakras create a healthy body and blockages can be dissolved with crystals.

The aura: The biomagnetic sheath

A measurable biomagnetic energetic sheath that surrounds the physical body, the aura has many layers. These interpenetrate and, to the psychic eye, look like misty colours weaving in and out. Any physical, emotional, mental or spiritual dis-ease shows up as a dark patch or broken energy lines in the aura.

If your aura extends too far out, people interpenetrate it and pull on your energy or infuse you with negativity. If it’s too close, it doesn’t have room to filter energies before they reach you. A comfortable distance is about arm’s length all around your body, but if you feel ’invaded’, pull your aura in closer and protect it with a crystal (see below). Blockages, holes or ’tears’ in your auric field leave you open to subtle energetic invasion, but a crystal quickly cleanses and repairs the field or the chakra linkage point.

Exercise: Repairing your aura

✵ Stand comfortably so you can reach all around yourself (sit if you find this easier).

✵ Take a cleansed Clear Quartz, Flint or Selenite crystal and, starting at arm’s length above your head, gently brush all over your aura with it.

✵ If the crystal hesitates or drops inwards, or you feel a cold patch or sense a hook or a cord-like obstruction anywhere, hold the crystal in that place and ask it to dissolve the hook and repair the hole with light. Spiralling the crystal out, flicking it and spiralling it back in helps this process.

✵ When you’ve checked out the outer levels of your aura, work a little more closely in towards your body, and then move closer still until you’re sure your aura is healthy and whole.

Crystals for the aura

Flint

Vibration: Earthy

A basic, earthy stone, Flint is made from the decomposed and cemented bodies of marine creatures. It cleanses and filters energy and opens a portal to other worlds.

Selenite

Vibration: Extremely high

Physiological correspondences: The biochemical, chemical and electrical processes within the cells and the organs that make up the physical body

Crystallized divine light, ethereal white Selenite occupies the space between light and matter. It’s excellent for repairing and re-energizing the aura. This stone holds a deep inner peace and meditating with it takes you into pure light and also creates a protective grid around your home, as it does not allow outside influences to penetrate. A large piece within the house ensures a peaceful atmosphere.

Other auric crystals include:

✵ For cleansing: Amber, Anandalite^TM, Bloodstone, Green Jasper, Herkimer Diamond, Quartz or Smoky Quartz.

✵ For protection: Amber, Amethyst, Apache Tear, Black Tourmaline, Diamond, Labradorite, Quartz or Shattuckite with Ajoite (wear continuously).

✵ For alignment: To align your aura with your physical body, place Amber over your head or solar plexus. To align your aura spiritually, place Labradorite over your head.

✵ For repair: To repair holes, use Amethyst, Anandalite^TM, Aqua Aura, Green Tourmaline, Quartz or Selenite.

The chakras: Vital energy links

In recent times, the chakras have been simplified to seven main energy points, but, as ancient diagrams show, there are many more, and additional chakras are now coming online as our consciousness expands.

Each chakra is assigned a colour, but the colours used today are a modern attribution. Crystals with older chakra designations may not conform to this system and other colours of crystals can be equally effective. Follow the crystal—chakra attribution rather than sticking with a colour when exploring what works for you.

The chakras

Everyday connections

Each chakra links to a specific area of life and to various organs and conditions. Chakras below the waist are primarily physical, although blockages affect endocrine gland functioning, with resultant personality traits. Those in the upper torso are for the most part aligned to emotional functioning and the psyche. Blockages here create psychosomatic conditions. Those in the head function on a mental and metaphysical intuitive/spiritual basis, but blockages here also have physical repercussions.

Blown chakras

If a chakra is too open, it is known as a ’blown’ chakra. This leads to negative conditions forming. A blown chakra is particularly vulnerable to outside influences, as there is no protection or filtering. Similarly, a chakra can be stuck in the closed position, which also leads to negative qualities manifesting. A chakra may be blocked because of our own past experiences or because other people ’put a block’ on it — that is, they control us, don’t want us to sense what is really going on, and so on.

Chakra imbalances can be rectified and chakras harmonized by placing crystals of the appropriate vibration over the chakras for 10 to 15 minutes (see Selenite, Chakra crystals and Exercise: Activating the higher chakras).

Chakra spin

To a psychic eye, chakras look like whirling pools of light. Despite what you may read in books, individual chakras have their own direction of spin, and reversing yours may not be appropriate, so allow your intuition — or a crystal — to know what is appropriate. Spiralling a crystal out from a chakra opens and cleanses it. Spiralling back in re-energizes and seals it. Let your intuition tell you the direction in which to move the crystal. You may need to cleanse it in between.

Closing chakras

Chakras such as the third eye need to be closed down at times if you are not to be overwhelmed by psychic impressions. Similarly, you need to protect your solar plexus at times of strong emotion.

Placing your hand over the site closes a chakra, as does placing a piece of Flint over it.

Keeping your Earth Star chakra open helps to ground your energies unless you are in an area with disturbed or toxic Earth energies.

High-vibration chakras

High-vibration chakras are coming online now as energy shifts occur. These chakras assist in assimilating changing frequencies and exploring other dimensions (see Chapter 16).

Healing through the chakras

Chakric pathways to health

Traditionally physical illness starts in one of four ways (see Chapter 10), but we can add a fifth: chakra blockages. When the chakras are invaded or disturbed, or weak or damaged, they cannot mediate the flow of life force around the body, leaving the physical immune system depleted and the endocrine system affected.

To crystal healers, dis-ease (as opposed to injury) starts in the aura and chakras. It is the state that results from physical imbalances, blocked feelings, suppressed emotions and toxic thinking. If not reversed, it moves from the subtle to the physical; see my The Book of Why for further details. In addition, the aura and the chakras carry not only present life dis-ease and emotional imprints but also past-life attitudes and wounds that affect how the present-life physical body functions.

Dis-ease can be addressed by bringing the chakras and the subtle bodies into an equilibrium that passes into the physical body. However, crystal energies also work directly on the site of the pain, disturbance or dis-ease (see chapters 10, 11 and 12).

The chakras and physiology

These are the correspondences between the chakras and the areas of the body (there are some crossovers in certain areas):

✵ Base chakra: Adrenals, bladder and elimination system, gonads, immune system, kidneys, lower back, lower extremities, lymph system, prostate gland, rectum, skeletal system (teeth and bones), veins, sense of smell

✵ Sacral chakra: Bladder and elimination system, gallbladder, immune system, kidneys, lumbar and pelvic region, ovaries, spleen, testes, uterus, sense of taste

✵ Solar plexus chakra: Adrenals, digestion, liver, lymphatic system, metabolism, pancreas, skin, small intestine, stomach, eyesight

✵ Heart chakra: Chest, circulation, heart, lungs, shoulders, thymus, sense of touch

✵ Throat chakra: Ears, nervous system, nose, respiratory system, sinuses, skin, throat, thyroid, tongue, tonsils, speech and body language

✵ Third eye chakra: Brain, ears, eyes, neurological system, pineal gland, scalp, sinuses, hearing

✵ Crown chakra: Brain, central nervous system, hair, hypothalamus, pituitary gland, spine

Chakra crystals

✵ Earth Star chakra: Boji Stone, Brown Jasper, Cuprite, Fire Agate, Flint, Graphic Smoky Quartz in Feldspar, Haematite, Mahogany Obsidian, Rhodonite, Smoky Quartz, Smoky Elestial Quartz, Tourmaline

✵ Base chakra: Bloodstone, Carnelian, Cuprite, Fire Agate, Garnet, Graphic Smoky Quartz, Menalite, Pink Tourmaline, Red Calcite, Red Jasper, Smoky Quartz

✵ Sacral chakra: Blue Jasper, Citrine, Menalite, Orange Calcite, Orange Carnelian, Que Sera, Topaz

✵ Solar plexus chakra: Citrine, Golden Beryl, Jasper, Malachite, Rhodochrosite, Tiger’s Eye, Yellow Tourmaline

✵ Heart chakra: Aventurine, Chrysocolla, Danburite, Green Jasper, Green Quartz, Green Tourmaline, Jade, Jadeite, Kunzite, Morganite, Muscovite, Pink Tourmaline, Rhodochrosite, Rhodonite, Rose Quartz, Ruby, Tugtupite, Variscite, Watermelon Tourmaline

✵ Throat chakra: Amber, Amethyst, Aquamarine, Blue Lace Agate, Kunzite, Lepidolite, Topaz, Tourmaline, Turquoise

✵ Third eye chakra: Apophyllite, Aquamarine, Azurite, Herkimer Diamond, Iolite, Kunzite, Lapis Lazuli, Lepidolite, Malachite with Azurite, Moldavite, Preseli Bluestone, Purple Fluorite, Royal Sapphire, Sodalite, Yellow Labradorite

✵ Crown chakra: Angelite, Clear Tourmaline, Golden Beryl, Larimar, Lepidolite, Moldavite, Quartz, Petalite, Phenacite, Purple Jasper, Purple Sapphire, Selenite

✵ To cleanse and align all the chakras: Anandalite^TM, Citrine, Graphic Smoky Quartz, Kyanite, Quantum Quattro, Quartz, Sunstone

✵ To align chakras with the physical body: Amber, Graphic Smoky Quartz, Que Sera

✵ To dissolve blockages: Bloodstone, Clear Quartz, Graphic Smoky Quartz, Lapis Lazuli, Rainbow Mayanite

✵ For blown chakras and chakra repair: Fire Agate, Graphic Smoky Quartz, Que Sera, Rainbow Mayanite

✵ For cleansing: Amethyst, Anandalite^TM, Bloodstone, Calcite, Citrine, Gold and Silver Healer, Graphic Smoky Quartz, Quartz, Que Sera, Rainbow Mayanite, Tourmaline wand

✵ To prevent energy leakage: Ajoite with Shattuckite, Graphic Smoky Quartz, Green Aventurine, Labradorite, Quartz, Que Sera

✵ For protection: Apache Tear, Graphic Smoky Quartz, Jet, Labradorite, Quartz

✵ For strengthening: Graphic Smoky Quartz, Magnetite (Lodestone), Quartz, Que Sera

Crystal chakra healing

Blockages or imbalances in the chakras are treated by placing crystals on the chakra in question. An appropriate crystal redresses any imbalance and brings the chakra back into equilibrium.

Colour is not the only indicator of how a crystal’s energy functions, or what a chakra requires. Placing a crystal on a chakra according to whether it needs stimulating or sedating can be more beneficial than using the traditional chakra colours, as if a chakra is overactive it may need calming or stimulating to work appropriately, or, if blocked, it will need activating. A stimulating and a sedating crystal placed together on the same chakra will neutralize the effect of each, but placed one after the other as appropriate will restore balance.

Dowsing (see Exercise: Finding your pendulum) or sensing with your palm chakras pinpoints which chakras need balancing and which need stimulating or sedating, but you can also use a crystal, such as a Lemurian Seed or Indicolite (Blue) Tourmaline, which ’jumps’, twitches or tingles at a site of imbalance.

If you are using a crystal with a point, placing it with the point facing outwards will draw negative energy away from the body, and with the point facing in will draw energy into the body.

You can do a complete chakra cleanse and recharge (see Exercise: Sensing blockages and balancing the chakras) or cleanse a specific chakra if you identify an issue associated with that chakra. Throat or lung conditions, for instance, respond to treating the throat chakra and abdominal distress to treating the base or sacral chakras. We look further at this in Chapter 10.

A chakra that is closed or blocked feels energy-less, lifeless. One that is too open or blown feels buzzy and whizzy, with energy flying off in all directions. A balanced chakra has a calm, centred energy with a measured spin. Each chakra functions holistically and we’ll be looking at some of them in the following chapters, but first we’ll reconnect to an essential grounding chakra and explore two of the more physically linked chakras.

The Earth Star chakra

Location: Beneath your feet

The sphere of everyday reality and groundedness. Imbalances or blockages lead to discomfort in the physical body, feelings of helplessness and the inability to function practically in the world, also to picking up adverse environmental factors such as geopathic stress and toxic pollutants. When properly functioning, the chakra filters these out.

Typical dis-eases are lethargic: Arthritis, autoimmune diseases, cancer, depression, ME, muscular disorders, psychiatric disturbances

The base chakra

Location: The base of the spine/perineum

The sphere of basic survival instincts and security issues, the ’fight or flight’ response. Imbalances lead to sexual disturbances and feelings of stuckness, anger, impotence and frustration and the inability to let go.

Typical dis-eases can be constant low-level ones or flare up suddenly: Autoimmune diseases, bipolar disorder, chronic lower back pain, glandular disturbances, personality and anxiety disorders, renal, reproductive or rectal disorders such as fluid retention/constipation (diarrhoea if the chakra is blown), stiffness in the joints, varicose veins or hernias

The sacral chakra

Location: Halfway between the belly button and the base of the pubic bone

The sphere of creativity, fertility and acceptance of yourself as a powerful and sexual being. Imbalances lead to infertility and blocked creativity. The sacral chakra is where ’hooks’ from other people may make themselves felt, particularly from sexual encounters.

Typical dis-eases are toxic and psychosomatic: Addictions, allergies, chronic back pain, diabetes, eating disorders, impotence, infertility, liver or intestinal dysfunction including irritable bowel syndrome, PMT and muscle cramps, reproductive blockages or diseases, urinary infections

Exercise: Sensing blockages and balancing the chakras

Select a variety of crystals (see Chakra crystals). You could work with a friend on this activity, checking out each other’s chakras.

✵ Open your palm chakras (see Exercise: Opening the palm chakras). Sit in an upright chair to begin with (or lie down if working with a friend). If you are using your palm to check out the chakras, hold it towards a chakra about a hand’s breadth out from your body. If you are dowsing to check the chakras, hold the pendulum level with the chakra, but use your palm to sense the energy first.

✵ Begin with the Earth Star chakra beneath your feet. Hold the pendulum or your palm just above your feet.

✵ Sense the energy. Is it lifeless, or buzzy, spinning, whirling off? Does it need stimulating or sedating? (Let your intuition help you to know the answer to this.) If the chakra feels particularly ’sticky’, spiral the crystal out, cleanse it and then spiral it in again.

✵ Place different crystals between your feet in turn and note the change in energy. When you find the right crystal to balance the chakra (you will sense this), leave it in place. Picture light and energy radiating out from the crystal into the Earth Star chakra for two or three minutes. Be aware that the chakra is being cleansed and its spin regulated. It will then anchor you into incarnation and mediate the vibration of Earth.

✵ Check out the base chakra and place or tape a red or other appropriate crystal on it. Picture light and energy radiating out from the crystal into the chakra for a few moments.

✵ Place or tape an orange or other appropriate crystal on your sacral chakra, just below the navel. Feel the cleansing process.

✵ Place a yellow or other appropriate crystal on your solar plexus.

✵ Place a green or other appropriate crystal on your heart.

✵ Place a blue or other appropriate crystal on your throat.

✵ Place an indigo or other appropriate crystal on your brow.

✵ Place a lilac-purple crystal on your crown.

✵ Place a white or other appropriate crystal (point facing down if it has one) above your head.

✵ Now take your attention slowly from the soles of your feet up the midline of your body, feeling how each chakra has become balanced and harmonized.

✵ Remain still and relaxed, breathing deep down into your belly and counting to seven before you exhale. As you breathe in and hold, feel the energy of the crystals re-energizing the chakras and radiating out through your whole being.

✵ When you feel ready, gather your crystals up, starting from above the crown. As you reach the Earth Star, be aware of a grounding cord anchoring you to the Earth and to your physical body.

✵ Cleanse the crystals thoroughly (see Exercise: Cleansing a crystal).

Case history: Menalite for conception

Anna was a young woman who longed to have a baby but had failed to conceive for over three years. She was depressed and anxious and she and her husband were about to undergo tests. Sensing lower chakra blockages, I gave her a Menalite and suggested she kept it in her pocket during the day (where it would radiate into the belly chakras) and put it under her pillow at night. I had used this stone, which is traditionally associated with conception and birth, successfully with several other women.

When next I saw Anna, she was pregnant. She had conceived that very night. She was still using the Menalite to help her through the pregnancy and would do so with the birth.

Menalite

Vibration: Earthy

Chakras: Base and sacral

Physiological correspondences: Breasts, hormonal-endocrine systems and the female reproductive system

Menalite guides a soul as it incarnates. It energetically guards both mother and unborn child, bringing them safely through pregnancy to birth, then encourages lactation and mother—child bonding. Solidifying the core energy field, it is also a powerful healer during female transitions such as puberty and menopause. It adjusts and rebalances the subtle hormonal system and provides psychological support, and during night sweats or hot flushes it draws out the heat and moisture, promoting restful sleep.

SUMMARY

✵ The aura is a measurable biomagnetic energetic sheath that surrounds the physical body.

✵ Crystals can be used to repair the aura.

✵ Chakras are vortices for the reception or transmission of subtle energy.

✵ Chakras help the body assimilate Qi, the life force, and assist communication between different dimensions of being.

✵ Healthy chakras create a healthy body. Crystals can assist.

✵ Chakras are traditionally linked to certain colours, although different coloured crystals may well be beneficial for chakras.