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Using Crystals In Your Metaphysical Practice
Crystal energy work has a long history as a popular, powerful metaphysical practice. It’s an ancient tradition that involves the use of crystals and semiprecious gemstones to promote healing, improve emotional and mental well-being, and manifest desires.
The documented history of crystal work dates as far back as the ancient Sumerians who used crystals in their magical practices, circa 4500 to 2000 BC. Traditionally the most commonly used crystals are quartz, agate, amethyst, or opal.
The practice relies on the unique energetic properties of various crystals that can influence energy fields and the human aura and chakras. Each crystal has a unique energy frequency that is exceptionally stable and reliable, compared to the unstable, variable energies of humans.
Crystals emit their stable energy vibration while also absorbing, neutralizing or transforming external energies. Crystals are therefore used in metaphysical practices and energy work because they create changes in energetic frequencies.
Crystals can be used in your daily spiritual practices as follows.
Healing
Crystals enhance physical, emotional, and mental well-being. Different types of crystals have unique healing properties that can be used to address different ailments and energy imbalances. For instance, amethyst is often used to alleviate stress and anxiety, while rose quartz promotes love and emotional healing.
The Healing Power Of Tree Hugging
Trees and plants are the most powerful energy conduits on the planet, next to the various bodies of water, such as the ocean, lakes, rivers, ponds, and so on.
It is no coincidence that many of the powerful energy vortex locations on the planet are typically surrounded by forests and abundant vegetation, such as Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England; Es Vedrà on the Spanish island of Ibiza; Mount Shasta in Siskiyou County, California; Machu Picchu in southern Peru; and the Mayan ruins in Tulum, Mexico. All these spiritual power spots feature either natural or man-made rock formations with a unique structure or design that draws energy from the surrounding vegetation, especially the trees.
Did you know that without trees humanity would not survive? Without trees to filter and replenish our air with oxygen, we would not be able to breathe without wearing gas masks. Trees are a vital link in the carbon cycle – a process in which carbon dioxide is constantly circulating through the atmosphere into organisms and back again.
Carbon is the second most valuable element to life, after water. Trees absorb carbon from the atmosphere and turns it into energy. The carbon is then either transformed into oxygen and released into the air we breathe, or stored inside the tree until it decomposes into the earth.
Without trees we will also starve, as there will no longer be nutrient-rich soil for us to grow food, and there will be chronic droughts. Planet Earth will in time become an arid wasteland. There will be no food to eat and very little fresh water to drink. Trees are essential to the energy of life.
Your Outer Life Reflects Your Inner World
Everything that happens in the Universe requires our participation for the highest good of all, and everything we personally contribute to this process of co-creation always has its consequences, for better or worse. The people and situations we experience in our daily lives reflect our inner world.
Although the final outcomes of what we co-create with others is not always our choice, or solely our doing, but still reflects on us anyway. Why? Because energy is the language of the Universe, and the Universe will simply respond to what we emanate with manifestations that match our energies.
For example, if you don’t like yourself much and constantly put yourself down, you will continually have life experiences that match your own self-loathing energy frequencies. So, you may find yourself frequently being disrespected, judged, or criticized by other people.
Another good example is repetitive dysfunctional patterns in your relationships, such as always being the one who is being cheated on. Believing that your partners will be unfaithful, and always fearing for the worst, can become like a magnet for cheating in every new relationship. The negative expectations and fearful energy we put into a relationship from the very beginning will eventually catch up with us.
To break these toxic energy patterns, we have to enter a new relationship with an open, fearless heart, trusting that if the Universe guided us towards meeting this person, then there must be a good reason for it.
So, why not let go, and let Spirit, God, Source, Universe, the Divine guide you towards your highest good? Have faith, and just trust the process! If your own energies are confident, hopeful, and positive, then life around you will unfold organically as it must. Stop analyzing and trying to control everything, and allow life energy to flow where it will for your highest good.
Keep Your Love Light Shining
You must have experienced the feeling of being in a great mood, and then encountering someone who is just not having a great day. You often feel in these situations that your heart is in the right place, but there is nothing you can do or say to raise that person’s vibration to a happier, healthier one.
There are some people that you can help and give them a reality check, because you know them so well. You connect with them in a way that you can remedy their bad energy or mood, with a funny joke or something that will speak to their soul – if you know the person well enough.
If not, and nothing you can do can bring that person into a better mindset, then you must for your own personal well-being you must learn to just walk away to protect your own energy. Do whatever you need to do to get away from negative people you cannot help, especially if they are doing nothing but bring you down. You must learn to stay above it!
You must learn to not let anyone drag you down, because it will bring everyone else down that you encounter. If you stay around this negative person you will also put yourself at risk to have ‘little negative ones’, as I like to call them.
I am referring to those negative entities that can attach themselves to you and who love to seek, ruin and destroy anything positive and good. They feed on the souls of those that have energy and love in their lives. They seek out all that is good – that is how they get their survival power to wreak even more havoc.
It is therefore important to keep your energy at an altitude that cannot be messed with. Learn to protect yourself and shield yourself from negative people and energies. You want to keep that positive domino effect going in your life, so that you can be a part of making a positive change in the world.
Clear And Ground Your Energy Before You Shield
Psychics, mediums and healers often mention the importance of shielding your energy. I have learned the hard way as an empath that it is equally important to clear and ground your energy and this should always be done first.
Shielding implies psychic defense. This is wonderful and necessary, but along with a strong shield one also needs good armor. My angels told me that for me to serve most effectively it was critical that my energy be clear, grounded and shielded daily. Early in my career as an empath, I made a practice of shielding at the beginning of every day. It worked very well initially. However, after a few weeks I noticed that in spite of this I was feeling drained at times, even slightly irritable and frustrated. Then I discovered the important of clearing and grounding.
Being shielded without first clearing any negative residual energy is akin to not showering or bathing, or letting garbage pile up in your home. Additionally, shielding without being grounded causes our energy and our purpose to be untethered, distracted and easily blown off course. Incorporating these practices allows for a much stronger shield for body, mind and spirit.
If you always clear and ground before you shield, your mind will be clearer, your emotions more balanced and your body stronger. You’ll find yourself better equipped to deal with chaos at work or at home. Decisions and appropriate courses of action will flow more easily. You will be in essence more effectively linked to your natural intuition and inner guidance, without confusion or uncertainty.
I clear my energy every evening. I am a huge advocate of massage, acupuncture and energy work, such as Reiki, but it isn’t practical for me to incorporate that on a daily basis. Meditation, prayer and the visualization of cutting cords, are fabulous tools available to us daily.
Shielding Yourself From Unwanted Negative Energy
An unusual event that occurred in the early stages of my own psychic journey taught me how important it is to shield one’s energy from unwanted negative energy influences. Once I started working more frequently with clients, I soon realized that I was becoming increasingly susceptible to other people’s energies, both good and bad.
Early in 2002, I was doing an in-person reading for a client that began pleasantly enough. However, this soon changed, once I began connecting more deeply with this lady’s energy. I suddenly had a vivid perception of an evil-looking face rushing towards me. I mean, holy cow batman! This ‘thing’ actually hit me with a wave of energy as it passed through me. I was rattled to say the least and briefly felt physically ill. I was nauseous, sweating, light-headed and my hands were shaking.
Then it returned and hit me again! I then had to stop the reading and excused myself from the room. As I was walking away, the lady gave me an extremely annoyed, angry look. It made no sense to me that she would be so upset with me for feeling sick, but I soon discovered the reason.
I had recently done another reading for a gentleman who was concerned about his company losing so much money, although his business was actually growing and doing well. I told him that I saw an employee in his company was stealing money by cheating with the bookkeeping.
Well, you can probably guess who that employee was! Yes indeed, it was the angry woman whose reading made me physically sick. She was so furious that I advised her boss to check the books randomly. He soon discovered some entries were being changed at specific times each day and week. After a thorough investigation, it became clear that she had been defrauding the company and she was fired from her position.
She then found out it was a psychic that alerted him to what was going on and subsequently located me. She did not really want a reading, she simply wanted to confront me or somehow ‘get even.’
Psychic Vampires Are Very Real
Vampires do exist. Psychic vampires, that is. This is a hard fact to accept, but psychic vampires are very real! Most people, at one time or another, have probably encountered at least one psychic vampire.
For example, you meet up with a friend and they start a conversation, and little by little you start feeling tired, sleepy, exhausted… while they just happily keep up the banter. Finally, the person leaves and the only thing you want to do is to crawl into bed, for a good, long rest. Now, what really happened in that situation, is that your life force has been drained.
Not all vampires are bad, or even realize what they are doing to you. We just need learn to protect ourselves from their energy drain. On the flip side, there are psychic vampires who do know exactly what they are doing. These people are manipulative and do all of the taking without ever giving in return.
The non-intentional vampire may be a good person, but these people seem to be the followers. They never want to be original themselves. They never want to be the leaders, showing that they are in control of their own lives.
To avert the effect of psychic vampirism in your life, you must begin with out your own physical, mental and spiritual health and well-being. Make sure your nutrition is proper, and that you do not have any underlying medical conditions. After that, make sure to lead a healthy lifestyle and get some exercise every day. Then also work on improving your daily spiritual practice (be sure to include an energy shielding or spiritual protection meditation or prayer).
