Aisha Amarfio - Crystals: A Guide to Using the Crystal Compass for Energy, Healing, and Reclaiming Your Power

MY STORY

I clearly remember my first interaction with crystals. My mum and I were walking on our way somewhere, and I noticed a crystal shop nearby. I knew absolutely nothing about crystals, but I felt so compelled to go in. Crystals have a way of having that effect on people. They call you.

I was called. The rest is history.

From the moment we walked in, I was hooked. It felt like I was home. I was immediately in love with all these little magic beings from the earth. They held a purity of life force that for those short moments shifted me to a peaceful state; beyond the pressures of daily life outside. The crystals spoke to me, and though I had no conscious idea of what they were saying, I could just feel their sense of cosmic harmony being transmitted right through me, and in my excitement, intrigue, and curiosity, I was desperate to know more.

I gravitated toward specific crystals and bought a purple fluorite, whose structure and color fascinated me. That was ten years ago. As I sit here and write this, that purple fluorite still sits on my desk today, helping me organize my thoughts. On reflection, I can honestly say that entering that shop was my entry into my own spiritual healing journey. Crystals introduced me to deeper dimensions of who I am and became tools of support in everything I did. A bit overexcitedly at first, I admit. I had them under my pillow to help me understand my dreams, tucked in my pockets to give me confidence, stuffed in my bag to promote prosperity and protection; I had so many crystals in my room it was becoming a bit of a cave.

I would count down the hours at work in my eagerness to get home to just sit and meditate with my crystals like a hermit; and if I was staying the night anywhere I would take a shedload of crystals with me, just in case. Just in case of what, I dont know. It was all bit obsessive, and crossing the line into unnecessary nerdy behavior territory, but it was a sign. Because when you want to live and breathe something, you know you are on to a passion on your soul path.

Looking back, I can chart how crystals cleared me of many blockages and gave me incredible experiences that taught me about the nature of energy. From kundalini experiences to orgasmic heart awakenings, crystals taught me, by initiation, about the fundamental role that energy plays in every layer of our being.

I studied crystals with several crystal healers and immersed myself in books, but my greatest time was spent just learning from the crystals themselves. Because they are the best teachers. Crystals became my allies, and helped guide me through the fears, through the lack of confidence, through the negative beliefs and the difficult experiences. They helped me to reveal my strength, listen to my intuition and make life choices that were true to my soul.

Today, I am an energy healer and use crystals in my practice to help others on their path. I spent six years in training and initiation to become a reiki master and a shamanic energy healer.

Reiki healing is a means of channeling universal life force energy through your hands onto a recipient to bring about balance. Shamanism is an ancient practice that attends to the healing needs of our soul, which is so often missing in our modern-day hustle and bustle. Shamanism involves deep relationship and communion with spirit and nature to access the harmonic wisdom of the whole. Shamanic energy healing is about awakening peoples soul gifts and their innate capacity for healing, growth, and transformation; it seeks to get to the energetic root cause of an issue or a life pattern that a person is facing, by removing energetic blockages and restoring their energy to be in harmony with their soul.

Becoming a shamanic healer and reiki master helped me to deepen my practice of energy work with crystals. Working with crystals over the years, I discovered that crystals are little shamanic healers and reiki masters themselves. They are master channels of life force energy, each with their own unique quality. And just like a shaman, they tune you into yourself and the rest of the universe so that you can unlock your deepest wisdom, reclaim your power, and reconnect with your soul to be the fullest version of you.

In this book I combine my experience of shamanism and energy healing with my knowledge of crystals to offer a healing journey where you can reconnect with your soul, using crystals as your personal on-hand shamanic energy healers.

There are common misconceptions about what shamanism is. To me, shamanism is our most ancient and natural way to tune in to the spirit and oneness of life, to come into wholeness and soulful relationship with the world. It is a way to work in harmony with life force energy, which is in tune to the whole, and is always guiding us on our path.

Tuning in often means us finding a quiet moment where we can soften the chatter and attachments of our conscious minds, and bring our awareness to the signs and signals of the souls dream that is being communicated through us all the time, through our body, our emotions, our mind, and our spiritual awareness of the universe.

Some of our oldest practices for tuning in are meditation, prayer, inner work, yoga, and the shamanic journey. The shamanic journey is a method of expanding our awareness, to include both the physical reality and the spiritual reality that exists behind it. Shamanic journeying often utilizes rhythms of drumming or rattling, to shift us into a state of consciousness where we can be more in tune with the spiritual nature of life.