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

Holistic healing: Emotions and psychosomatics
Crystal Applications

We all carry emotional baggage from the past: disappointments, losses and hurts. And we hold on to toxic emotions long after it would have been sensible to release them. This makes it difficult to adjust to life changes and creates psychosomatic dis-ease in which the ’illness’ reflects the cause — heartbreak leads to heart attacks, rigidity to hardened arteries or joints, and so on. The cause lies deep in the subconscious mind, but psychosomatic illness is not ’imagination’, it is underlying dis-ease presented in a symbolic fashion.

Crystals gently dissolve baggage such as unresolved grief, heartbreak, jealousy, anger, and so on, even when these have been carried over from a previous life. They then support positive, life-affirming emotions and bring more love into our heart.

Negative emotions and the chakras

Negative emotions are held in the chakras and subtle emotional body (see Chapter 9) and have a profound effect on our organs and wellbeing. Placing crystals on the corresponding chakra for 5 to 15 minutes transmutes negative emotions into positive ones and enhances our capacity for joy. (If the negative emotion is deeply ingrained, tape the crystal in place or repeat the exercise once daily for a week or more.)

The solar plexus chakra

Location: Slightly above the waist

The sphere of emotional communication and assimilation.

Blockages here lead to taking on other people’s feelings and problems or being overwhelmed by your own emotions. This affects energy assimilation and utilization and mental concentration. As already mentioned, emotional ’hooks’ from other people are found here too. ’Illness as theatre’ can occur — playing out the emotional story through physical dis-ease.

Positive qualities: Emotional stability

Negative qualities: Inferiority and clinginess

Typical dis-eases: These are emotional and demanding — chronic anxiety, digestive problems, eating disorders and phobias, eczema and other skin conditions, ’fight or flight’ adrenaline imbalances, gallstones, insomnia, ME, pancreatic failure, stomach ulcers

The heart chakra

Location: Over the heart

The sphere of love and nurturing. If it is blocked, love cannot flourish, feelings such as jealousy are common and there is enormous resistance to change.

Positive qualities: Compassion and peaceful harmony

Negative quality: Possessiveness

Typical dis-eases: These are psychosomatic and reactive — angina, asthma, chest infections, frozen shoulder, heart attacks, ulcers

Past-life chakras

Location: The bony ridge behind the ears

Three fingers’ width behind your ears and continuing down to the hollow in the back of your skull lie the past-life chakras. The sphere of memory and hereditary issues, as the name suggests, these chakras hold your past-life memories, especially those of traumatic events such as violent death or emotional dis-ease. When these chakras are stimulated, intentionally or otherwise, past-life memories may shoot to the surface.

Imbalances in these chakras mean that you are stuck in the past, cannot move forward and may well be repeating your own past-life patterns or the ancestral patterns that have passed down through your family. This is also a point where people from the past can attach themselves to you and control you.

Positive qualities: Wisdom skills, instinctive knowing

Negative qualities: Emotional baggage and unfinished business. If the chakras are blown, you can be subconsciously overwhelmed by past-life trauma or irrational fears. (A typical example of this type of fear is: ’For years, I wouldn’t go into woods at night in case cavaliers were there. I remember once standing looking at a dark wood and saying to myself, “For God’s sake, this is 1984. There won’t be any cavaliers there!” But I still didn’t go in.’)

Typical dis-eases: These are symbolic of the past-life condition or attitude, or may be a direct carry-over, a karmic imprint or repetition of an old injury.

Exercise: Emotional cleansing

Choose a crystal which feels right to you and ask it to clear any issues, whether you consciously recognize them or not. Malachite is particularly useful for clearing negative emotions, but other crystals will be needed to heal the site.

✵ Lie comfortably where you won’t be disturbed for a while.

✵ Place a Smoky Quartz (point facing down if it has one) at your feet to absorb and transmute the emotional baggage you release.

✵ Place your selected crystal over your solar plexus or other appropriate chakra and ask that it dissolves your emotional baggage and that the Smoky Quartz absorbs the remnants.

✵ Consciously push the energy you release down your body and out of your feet into the Smoky Quartz for transmutation.

✵ If you feel an unexplained ache, tugging or pain anywhere in your body, place a Smoky Quartz crystal over it and ask that it be released and transmuted. Your intuition may give you a glimpse into the underlying cause(s), but if not, just let the feeling dissolve without needing to know why it arose.

✵ Place Danburite, Rose Quartz, Selenite or another crystal of unconditional love over your heart to pour love into all the places where you have released your baggage, gently healing them and filling them with light and love.

✵ Lie quietly until you feel lighter. If you become aware of tension in any part of your body where you are holding old emotions, place the crystal over the site and allow it to dissolve the tension.

✵ Tell yourself that when you stand up you will have let go of the past and moved into whatever the present holds. Ensure that your Earth Star chakra is open.

✵ Thank the crystals for their work and cleanse them when it is complete.

Crystals for your emotions

✵ Amethyst balances out emotional highs and lows, encouraging emotional centring. It gently dissolves emotional blocks.

✵ Bloodstone teaches you to recognize when it would be beneficial to undertake a strategic withdrawal. Encouraging you to live in the present moment, it helps you to move away from the past and highlights the effect that your expectations and previous experience have had on your emotional stability. It reduces irritability, impatience and aggressiveness and promotes selflessness.

✵ Larvikite helps you to deal flexibly with life by encouraging you not to dwell on problems. Supporting emotional healing, it goes deep into your being to release the causes of dis-ease. For assistance in seeing behind the façade people present and in knowing the true desires and agendas of both others and yourself, keep the stone in your pocket.

✵ Malachite is a very powerful emotional detoxifier, but it can bring on a catharsis that may need calming with Haematite or Smoky Quartz.

✵ Mount Shasta Opal infuses love into the emotional body and the mind to create a calm, quiet inner space. Useful for emotional healing at any level, it disperses stress. Placed at the throat, it helps you to communicate clearly and with focused intent. It is a stone of faithfulness and loyalty.

✵ Porphyrite assists in dealing with ancestral issues passed down the family line, especially involving family secrets and lies. The energetic matrix that supports the false façade is dismantled so that the truth emerges and healing, forgiveness and reconciliation can take place. It also lifts depression by deconstructing negative emotional or belief patterns and ’heavy’ energies that weigh on the soul. It is excellent for karmic emotional healing, as it works without you needing to know the cause.

✵ Rose Quartz draws more love into your life. It gently dissolves old heartbreak, resentment and jealousy and releases them so that joy heals the heart.

✵ Rosophia dissolves self-doubt and a negative self-image. De-energizing old wounds and destructive beliefs, it offers deep compassion for all you have been through on your soul’s journey and enables you to love yourself.

✵ Smoky Quartz stabilizes emotions during emotional trauma or stress and dissolves negative emotions, facilitating emotional detoxification. It assists in tolerating difficult times with equanimity, relieves fear and induces emotional calm.

SUMMARY

✵ Many illnesses are actually dis-eases, forms of disharmony that result from emotional baggage, ingrained beliefs, toxic emotions and holding on to old pain.

✵ Attitudes and ingrained patterns also create dis-ease, and there can be past-life causes as well. Emotions have their own vibration, which easily slip out of sync.

✵ Psychosomatic illness is not ’imagination’, it is underlying dis-ease presented in a symbolic fashion.

✵ Crystals gently return the emotions to a positive pattern.