The Ultimate Guide to Crystals & Stones: A Practical Path to Personal Power, Self-Development, and Healing - Uma Silbey 2016

The Ultimate Guide to Crystals & Stones: A Practical Path to Personal Power, Self-Development, and Healing - Uma Silbey 2016

Introduction

The Stone People Speak

Meditation: Deepening Our Experience of Rock

Basic Crystal and Stone Information

Systems of Crystal and Stone Work

Terminology and Practices

Practice: Feeling the Energy of a Quartz Crystal

Science and Stones—There Are Many Ways of Knowing

The Use of Crystals and Stones—How It Works

The Mind—Body Connection and the Placebo Effect

Physical Description of Rocks

The Life Cycle of Rocks

Physical Description of Minerals and Gemstones

Basics of Quartz Crystal Energy Work

Energetic Properties of Quartz Crystals

Choosing a Quartz Crystal and Storing It Properly

Clearing Quartz Crystals

Discovering What Is Stored in a Quartz Crystal or Stone

Charging Quartz Crystals

Developing Our Sensitivity to Physically Feel and Intuitively Sense Vibration

Sending and Receiving Energy

Negative Energy

Personal Preparation for Crystal and Stone Work

Centering

Grounding

Balancing

Training the Mind

Increasing Willpower

Developing Intuition

Listening, Hearing, and Harmonizing with the Stones

Subtle Energy Bodies and Subtle Planes of Reality

The Subtle Energy Body

Prana, or Life Force

Basic Energy Channels

Description of the Chakras

Balancing the Chakras

Minor Chakra System—Secondary Energy Centers

Kundalini Energy

Metaphysical Properties of Crystal Markings and Formations

Channeled Information: Crystal Formations, Markings, and What They Mean

Master Crystals

Personal Power and Helper Crystals

More Quartz Crystal and Stone Energy Practices

Programming a Quartz Crystal or Stone

Visualization and Crystals

Developing Personal Power with Stones and Crystals

Communicating with Teachers and Other Beings

Thought Transference with Crystals and Stones

Sustaining Thought Forms with Crystals and Stones

Creating Psychic Shields or Protective Auras with Stones

Emotional Work with Crystals and Stones

Working with Higher Dimensions

Seeing the Past and the Future

Connecting and Conversing Between Worlds

Channeling with Stones and Crystals

Akashic Records

Reading a Crystal or Crystal Ball

Lucid Dreaming and Astral Travel with Quartz Crystals

Meeting Angels and Spirit Guides

Personal Power Stones

Crystal Generators and Stone Power Grids

Energy Grids and Geometric Stone Formations

Prayer, Affirmation, and Stones

Energy Work with Colored Stones

Developing Sensitivity to Color

Choosing, Clearing, Charging, and Programming a Colored Stone

How to Use Colored Stones

A Guide to Colored Stones: Their Properties and Uses

Crystal and Stone Healing

What Is Healing?

Who Heals?

Other Considerations

Basic Stone and Crystal Healing Techniques

Golden Light Body Healing

Charging Water for Healing

Emotional Healing

Distance Healing

Dying and Bereavement

The Effects of Metals

Using Crystal and Stone Jewelry

Gemstones and Colored Stones in Jewelry

Choosing a Piece of Colored Stone or Crystal Jewelry

Working with Earth Energy and Ordinary Rocks

Devas, Fairies, Elves, Gnomes, and Other Earth Spirits

Working with Ordinary Rocks

Conclusion