Cassandra Eason - A Little Bit of Crystals: An Introduction to Crystal Healing

Crystals are the most exciting, powerful psychic tools, for they act as transmitters and amplifiers of health, happiness, love, success, and prosperity, and they enhance the home and workplace with both energy and protection.

If you wonder why crystals contain so much power, you should know that the oldest object found on Earth was a tiny fragment of zircon discovered in Western Australia that is 4.404 billion years old. The great antiquity of every crystal as well as its formation by rushing water, volcanic fire, the earth, and the winds give crystals a depth that connects with our innate spiritual nature.

Crystals release this power quite naturally as we hold, display, or wear them as jewelry, and they transform, in ways we scarcely understand, negativity flowing into our lives from whatever source to positive energies. They radiate joy and healing as they catch light. Crystals also connect us with our angels and wise guides, a topic we will explore in Chapters 1 and 8.

Many people have tried to explain the wondrous properties of crystals. The ancient Greeks believed that all quartz crystals found on earth were pieces of the Crystal of Truth, dropped by Hercules from Mount Olympus, home of the gods. The Greek philosopher Plato (427347 BC) claimed that stars and planets converted decayed and decaying material into the gemstones that were ruled by their mother star or planet. You will learn more of zodiac and planetary crystals in Chapter 8. To indigenous people throughout the world, including the Australian aboriginal and Native American peoples, stones and crystals are living entities, manifestations of the Great Creative Spirit, giving crystals the power to heal plants, animals, and people.

Crystals are an effective healing tool, not as an alternative to conventional medicine, but because in ways we cant fully explain, they kick-start our own immune system and generate our innate self-healing powers. They can speed the anticipated positive effects of pharmaceutical medicine, ease side effects of a necessary but debilitating treatment, and even when a patient is not responsive to formal medical intervention with a chronic condition, often bring relief from pain and anxiety.

Children are gifted crystal healers. For example, from a collection of different crystals even the youngest child will instinctively choose pink rose quartz or purple amethyst to ease a headache or yellow citrine for stomachache. This instinctive crystal knowledge is within us all, maybe carried in our genes, but logic and the everyday world make us distrust this innate wisdom. However, within a few weeks of using crystals in your everyday life, crystal wisdom spontaneously becomes accessible once more. You will often discover a crystal you choose purely by touch, even with your eyes closed, from a selection of many different kinds will ease a particular physical or emotional problem and is the one recommended over hundreds of years for the same condition.

Chapter 7 covers crystal healing, and healing is a theme that naturally recurs in most chapters.

Crystals can be categorized in three ways: shape, kind, and color. If you are uncertain of the kind when you encounter a new crystal, its color and size will act as a reliable guide to its properties. Over the years you can collect different shapes, kinds, and colors of crystals so you have a comprehensive collection for every purpose.

If in doubt as to a crystals meaning, hold the crystal between cupped hands and allow images, words, and impressions to come into your mind. These sensations will guide you to the best use of individual crystals. If unsure, ask yourself, What does this crystal make me feel? Instinct will then kick in.

ROUND crystals offer ongoing flowing energies and are ideal for every purpose.

POINTED crystals offer more powerful directed energies. Point the crystal inward to draw energy, healing, or protection toward you and outward to shed pain and negativity.

SQUARE or RECTANGULAR crystals bring stability and so balance an overactive home or workplace and absorb harm. (Wash them regularly under running water if you are using them protectively.)

OVAL crystals attract love and fertility, and bring abundance and happiness to families, children, and animals, releasing gentle healing powers however and wherever needed.

ELONGATED, BARREL , or WAND-LIKE crystals offer longer-term and slow-growing prosperity, career success, safe travel, and protection against ill-wishers. The wand shapes can be used to send a wish into the cosmos for yourself or others (pointed crystals were probably the original magic wands).

SPHERES , particularly clear quartz, energize and purify any room or workspace, attracting prosperity, health, and joy and transforming inertia, sickness, bad luck, or negativity into light and good fortune.

PYRAMIDS , especially the squat-shaped ones, are natural transmitters of healing and enhanced psychic powers and will bring peaceful sleep in a bedroom, and calm, unity, and harmony in the home or workplace.

QUARTZ , the most common mineral found on earth, brings change and energizes any person, place, or situation, the intensity depending on whether it is a soft or sparkling crystal.

JASPERS brings power and growth.

AGATES offer balance, protection, and stability.

FOSSILS slow down energies but bring wisdom and compassion.

VOLCANIC STONES , such as obsidian, cut through inertia and are fiercely defensive.

GEODES where tiny crystals are embedded in rock (a matrix) or, when split, reveal two halves of matching crystals heal any negative energies from the earth or contained in the land, remove spirits, and encourage the development of hidden talents.

Consider both the actual color and the shade, whether clear and sparkling or a muted, cloudier hue. Some colors, such as red, orange, and yellow, are naturally hot and dynamic, while greens, blues, and purples are softer and calmer. To test this, hold a red stone in one hand and a soft green stone in the other. Almost immediately you will feel the dynamic, fast energies of the red and the slow, gentler flowing power of the green. I have a blind client who identifies the energies of a crystal purely by touch; as you develop this gift over time using the sensitive energy centers in your hands by a power called psychometry or psychic touch, it will enable you to instinctively