Lembo Margaret Ann - Color your life with crystals: your first guide to crystals, colors and chakras

Color Your Life with Crystals!
Your First Guide to Crystals, Colors and Chakras
Margaret Ann Lembo

Publishers Note
All information in this book has been compiled according to the publishers best knowledge and belief. People react in different ways however, and therefore neither the publisher nor the author can, for individual cases, provide a guarantee as to the effectiveness or harmlessness of the applications described herein. In cases of serious physical or mental health concerns, please consult a physician, alternative practitioner, or psychologist.

First Edition 2013

Margaret Ann Lembo
Color Your Life With Crystals Your First Guide to Crystals, Colors and Chakras

Copyright 2013 Earthdancer GmbH
Text copyright Margaret Ann Lembo 2012

Editing: Claudine Eleanor Bloomfield
Proofreading: Tony Mitton

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

Cover Design: Dragon Design UK
Cover Photography: Peter Fernau (young girl), Nikki Zalewski/fotolia.com (crystals)
Photo model: Emilia Rother

Typesetting and graphics: Dragon Design UK
Typeset in Minion

Printed and bound in China

ISBN 978-1-84409-605-3

Published by Earthdancer GmbH, an imprint of:
Findhorn Press, 117-121 High Street, Forres, IV36 1AB, Scotland
www.earthdancerbooks.com, www.findhornpress.com

To all the children of the world!
For all parents everywhere!
To all my cousins, nieces and nephews whom I love so much.

First, I give all of you who will read this book, a big THANK YOU! I have appreciation for all the children who have come into my store, The Crystal Garden, over the past twenty-four years asking me about crystals, gemstones, and rocks. It is because of their curiosity and attraction to the sparkling stones that I wrote this book. Its always a gift when a publisher believes in your project. I want to thank Sabine Weeke of Findhorn Press for introducing me to Arwen Lentz, the publisher of their imprint, Earthdancer. I am eternally grateful that you both had the vision to know that the young readers of our world need the information within these pages. Gratitude! Gratitude! Gratitude!

I had many teachers and mentors when I was little who taught me the power of positive thinking. I would like to give gratitude to all my teachers, mentors and colleagues who have shared their knowledge and wisdom with me. I acknowledge all the authors who have written self-help books and books on crystals.

I want to thank my friend, Lisa Paolo, and her children, for taking the time to go through this book a page at a time to make it child-friendly and easy-to-read. Likewise, I have so much gratitude for my cousins, Leala Dickenson and Alissa Gulisano-Waldman, who also took the time to comb every page and come up with great ideas for kids to enjoy this book. Thanks to them the activity part of each chapter is included to make it easier to integrate all that this book teaches and shares.

A special artistic thanks goes to Andy Frame of Andy Frame Photography. It is because of his great photographic talent that there are so many beautiful photographs of my gemstone collection throughout this book. Thanks to his wife and children for their hand in this photography project as well.

Of course, I have deep gratitude for the staff of The Crystal Garden, my bookstore, gift store and spiritual center. It is because of their dedication to running my retail store that I could take the time away from my business to write this book.

As always and forever, I am profoundly and lovingly grateful to my beloved, Vincent Velardez. His constant support, encouragement, and easy-going nature helps me every day to be all that I can be. Thanks, honey!

This book is about how to use crystals, minerals, rocks, gemstones and metals to help you in school, with friends, with your emotions, and in all parts of your life. The book is an easy guide to gemstones based on metaphysical principles. The word metaphysical means that which goes beyond the physical. Metaphysics includes that which the physical and scientific world cannot define but we know exists.

This book is also a book about the power of positive thought, the power of your imagination, and the fact that thoughts are things. Improve your life by using these principles and combining gemstones with good thoughts. Use the teachings you will learn here and use them for the rest of your life. There is magic in believing! This book will teach you how to use the power of your belief, thoughts and your imagination to create whatever you wish to create in your life. You can use these tools to make good friends, do well in school, be happy and safe, and have high self-confidence. Believe in yourself and you can achieve great things and help many other people too.

You can choose to fill your life with color and crystal power.

These beautiful treasures from the Earth can help you spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and physically, as well as helping you develop a strong sense of who you are. Crystals, minerals, rocks, metals and gemstones are tools to help you stay focused on your goals and create good things in your life.

As a young girl, I collected all types of rocks alongside my collection of seashells. I also had the good fortune to have a family friend who introduced me to the magic of believing and the power of positive thought when I was very young. I learned that the power of your imagination and visualization can help you achieve great things. These tools I wish to pass on to you.

Visualizationis when you use your imagination to mentally see something even though it is not in front of you. Visualizing is making a mental picture or creating images in your mind.

I call them tools because I look at them like tools in a toolbox. The tools include:

• good thoughts.
• looking at things in a positive way.
• pretty crystals, rocks, stones and metals.
• a vivid imagination.
• the ability to visualize.
• the magic of believing that anything is possible.
• the willingness to try, because you wont know if you dont try.

To use the tools from your tool box, start by thinking a positive thought like, I am smart or I can do anything or It is easy for me to make friends or I am safe and happy. Next, pick up a stone, any stone you like. Hold it in your hand, put it in your pocket or keep it nearby to help you remember to think that good thought. The stone magnifies the thought, making it stronger. Every time you see or touch the stone it will help you maintain your focus on what you do want. It will keep you from thinking about what you dont want, or things that you might be afraid of. Keep your attention on the good thought so it replaces any thoughts that are the opposite of what you want. Visualize and make believe that whatever you want already exists. And take the action to make it your intention.

An intention is a plan, objective or a purpose.

It is important to have an intention and to focus on the positive so that life reflects your highest potential. Everything that is created is created through intention. We create our lives with our thoughts, actions, words and deeds. Our intentions vibrate out into the world and return to us in the form of our personal reality.