CHAPTER 9

More Crystal Power

When you start putting together all your different healing needs, you could end up using a lot of different crystals. While there’s certainly nothing wrong with that, some techniques are helpful in analyzing which crystal you need. Ideally, there is one crystal that will do it all for you, if it’s the right one—we call that a constitutional crystal. It’s used to heal both past and current conditions.

So far in this book, I’ve been talking about all kinds of crystals and their corresponding powers. In this chapter, you learn how to combine some of your concerns and issues, and how to choose powerful stones to assist in healing them, as well as using your personal constitutional crystal.

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Your Personal Agenda

The first step to understanding your own healing needs is looking at yourself. When choosing crystals for healing, you need to first assess the problem areas in your physical, emotional, and spiritual lives. If you have been collecting crystals for a while, take a look at your personal crystal collection. Your collection will reveal your healing needs and ultimately help you identify your personal healing crystal.

If you have a dominant color choice, that color and the chakra to which it relates is often where your healing attention needs are focused. Being in balance takes some effort. Crystals can create a much bigger story than you can handle, and that energy can get away from you.

So, what are you doing or avoiding doing? Line up all your crystals now and have a look. It will be very revealing.

To identify areas that are ripe for healing and identify the type of constitutional gemstone you will need, jot down your answers to the following questions in your journal:

Excellent! In the next sections, you’ll read about a healing program that takes you through the different stages of healing with crystals. Then, you’ll read about the master healers and other powerful crystals. You want to select your constitutional crystal and other crystals to work with your personal strengths and weaknesses. Follow the three-step program to maximize the benefits.

Three-Step Program

After cleansing and dedicating your crystal, it’s time to move on to a program that will help you integrate the healing energies of your selected crystals into your subtle body. When you wear a crystal, you are initiating a powerful esoteric healing process that requires time to adjust to your subtle energy vibration. This is accomplished in a simple three-step process.

Step 1: Cleansing

In the first week or so, the crystal is making tremendous adjustments within your energy field, matching the matrix of your energy to a larger outer universal energy field that will be used in your healing. We call this the cleansing process.

It is important to keep the crystal on you 24 hours a day for at least the first 21 days for this cleansing process to be initiated and completed. This is also a period of time where the blockages of energy that are causing the imbalance are removed and purified.

Sometimes a healing crisis occurs during these early days. This might occur as a sudden release of energy—an emotional release, a sudden increase of pain, vivid visions, intense dreaming, or other physical or psychological phenomena. Remember, crystals accelerate the change process, so this is normal.

Allow these processes to occur without interruption by continuously wearing the stone or crystal until you complete the next two steps. If you find the process is too intense, remove the crystal and wear it for a shorter period of time to let your energies adjust during the initial 3-week period.

Cleanse your crystal every week and recharge it in the sunlight for at least 4 hours weekly throughout the initial healing process.

Step 2: Harmonizing and Integrating

During the second stage, around the fourth week of wearing the stone or crystal, you might notice that your face looks more relaxed. This is due to a harmonizing connection that’s being made within yourself and your subtle bodies. Your mental outlook, thoughts, feelings, and even opinions can change significantly. All aspects of your energy will be activated, and the result will be a very positive feeling. However, you’re not quite finished yet!

You might notice physical and emotional changes during either the first or second steps as your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual bodies come into alignment. Some of these changes are caused by throwing off toxins and negative energies during the cleansing process, which will continue during the entire healing process.

You may not feel much physically. If you have pain, you might find it lessens. If your mind has been dull, you might find it’s sharper. If you have been down a bit emotionally, you might find your mood has improved. Mostly you will see your awareness grow, and with that comes spiritual confidence—the acknowledgement that you are transforming into the person you want to be.

Step 3: Stabilizing

The third step can take 3 to 4 months, or possibly even longer for some people, depending on the intensity of your original condition. When you are committed to wearing a crystal for stabilizing purposes, you will wear it for a long time, occasionally changing it for a new one of the same type. With continuous wearing of a stone or crystal, you will achieve stability in the changes you have achieved, whether they are emotional or physical.

“Will I be dependent on this crystal forever?” you might be wondering. No, you won’t. So how do you know when it’s safe to remove it? You can test your stability by removing your crystal from time to time—maybe just for a few hours or perhaps for days at a time. If you are able to go for a few days without your stone, but then notice you are slipping back into your old ways, consider wearing it for another week or more or only at bedtime before taking it off again. As you develop deeper sensitivity for crystal energy, you might decide to keep the crystal on much longer to complete the healing process.

Maximizing Crystal Healing

A crystal should be worn next to the skin for best results. The size of the crystal might be relative to your budget. Many semiprecious crystals such as rose quartz are inexpensive, costing around $1 to $2. The crystal should be what you can afford and should be no smaller than the fingernail on your ring finger, symbolic of your spiritual heart’s minimal need. Your commitment to the crystal is part of the healing process. Let the crystal do the work for you. The length of time it takes to obtain the desired outcome depends on the quality of the crystal (size, color, and energy charge), where and how long you wear it, and the crystal’s appropriateness to your healing.

How Many to Wear

If you are new to crystal healing, it is best not to wear more than two or three stones at any one time since many people find the effects too distracting. You can, however, wear up to seven crystals in a leather or silk pouch and wear them at the heart chakra. The heart chakra redistributes the energy all over the body, so you don’t need to wear a crystal on a specific chakra. Why seven? With seven chakras, the workload is distributed over the energy system. The heart chakra is generally the regulator of the energies. However, remember there are other systems in your body such as meridians; the nervous, lymphatic, and glandular systems. You don’t want to overwhelm these systems all at once. It takes time to integrate the energies. Seven is enough to do the job.

To help you select your constitutional crystal, review the characteristics of the following crystals thoroughly to see if any one of them would be a good personal crystal for you. You can use your pendulum to help divine which crystal would be best. (See the end of this chapter on how to use a pendulum.) Take your pendulum with you on your shopping trip, hold it over the crystals you have selected, and ask which is best for your long-term use as a personal healing crystal.

The Five Master Healers

The five master healers are crystals that work well to repair a lot of troubles that we humans get into. They can be used for many purposes at the physical, emotional, and spiritual levels of healing. One of them may become your constitutional crystal.

These crystals are easy to find and genuinely work as indicated. You don’t have to worry about getting the perfect crystal within each master class because they are very forgiving crystals. For clear quartz, however, it’s helpful to know about the various configurations so you can use the one that’s right for you. Let’s start there.

Clear Quartz: Universal Healer

The basic building block of all crystals is clear quartz, or silicon dioxide. When you first receive a clear quartz crystal, you will probably look it over, but unless you know about this crystal’s interesting formations, you might miss something!

In general, clear quartz crystal is part of the hexagonal lattice system and has six sides and six faces. Because the sides and faces can have different lengths and widths due to growing conditions, different configurations arise. I’ve put together the 10 basic configurations of clear quartz in the following sections. Keep your eyes open to look for these crystals to add to your crystal collection. One of them might actually become a personal crystal that you’ll keep with you for years ahead.

Generator

A generator is a crystal where all six sides of the crystal join together at the tip to form a uniform apex that generates energy. Finding a good generator is rare because each face must be perfectly formed to meet at the tip with all the other faces. Most polished crystals are ground by machine to accomplish this level of perfection. This type of crystal is the most basic formation, and as such, is a good crystal for a beginner. As a universal healer, generators are useful for stimulating healing through all subtle body levels, although they are best used for…

A generator crystal

Double-Terminated

A double-terminated crystal has six faces at each end of the crystal. The ends might be like a generator, with all points coming to a common tip, or they might be different. Energy in this crystal moves bidirectionally—in both directions concurrently. Energy is either drawn or is transmitted, depending on the crystal’s programming. Look for a crystal with a good center so that energy can flow freely and uniformly.

Double-terminated crystals are best used for…

A double-terminated crystal

To send a message with a double-terminated crystal, hold it and visualize the message being sent out of one tip of the crystal and being received through the tip of the other crystal. The message will be stored for your friend to pick up later and can be accessed by holding the crystal and inhaling deeply, allowing the message to form in his or her mind.

Channeler

A channeler crystal has a single large face framed by seven sides. This face represents the seeker of wisdom. On the opposite side is a small, three-sided face in the shape of a triangle. The triangle represents the seeker of truth. Hold the crystal in front with the seven-sided face toward you, and tip the crystal back to see the secret pyramid on the other side. This type of crystal should be in everyone’s collection to help channel higher energy.

Channelers are best used for…

A channeler crystal

Transmitter

A transmitter crystal has a seven-sided face that sits on either side of a three-sided triangle face. These two seven-sided faces should look identical. The edges of the triangle should be uniform and look sharp, clear, and in proportion. The crystal should be clear and feel slightly heavy, illustrating the crystal’s ability to hold a greater energy charge.

Transmitters are best used for…

A transmitter crystal

Trans-Channeler

A trans-channeler, also called a dow crystal, combines both a single seven-sided channeling face and a three-sided transmitter face to the left and right of the main channeling face. An even more rare configuration is the alternating of three-sided faces and seven-sided faces to form a special 3:7:3:7:3:7 configuration. Trans-channelers are hard to find but very valuable spiritually.

Trans-channelers are best used for…

A trans-channeler crystal

Window

This crystal is a real find! A large diamond shape is created from sloping angles of other faces on the front of a crystal. Like real windows, the best window crystals are ones you can see through. Some crystals have more than one window—one to show you the past (in a smaller face to the left of the major window) and one to show the future (in a smaller face to the right of the major window).

Some crystals have more than one major window. These are time windows, showing you snapshots of certain events. A window crystal can also be used for unblocking creativity, like writer’s block.

Windows are best used for…

A window crystal

Record Keeper

On the surface of the largest face of the record keeper crystal are small, slightly raised triangular bumps. These small bumps can sometimes also be found on smaller faces. Don’t look into the crystal, just look on the surface of the face.

This crystal is sometimes called a teacher because the information has much to do with planetary origins, cosmology, and planetary evolution; healing information; and higher states of consciousness. If this is so, do not give this crystal away. It has come to you and is meant for you to keep and to learn from.

Record keepers are best used for…

A record-keeper crystal

Self-Healed

Due to shifts in the ground and other interventions, the bottom of a self-healed crystal will often appear to be broken off. When the crystal regrows, small triangular faces cover the bottom. If a crystal has a large self-healed area where it has started to regrow, it has had a long time to heal with many lessons learned along the way. An older crystal would be better to learn from than a younger one, which is still in the process of rehealing. Newly broken crystals have a glassy, fish-eyed look to them at the bottom, and the edges might still be quite sharp.

Self-healed crystals are best used for…

A self-healed crystal

Rainbow

Rainbows inside crystals are caused by changes in the optical quality of the crystal due to a fracture inside the crystal, probably caused by rough handling such as geodesic shifting, dynamite, or even being dropped during extraction from the earth.

Another way rainbows are created is when a crack or fissure has opened up due to thermal stress. Cooling and heating expands and contracts at a weak point in the crystal’s material and a fracture occurs, creating a space between the walls of the fracture. The various colors of the rainbow are caused by the thickness of the gap picking up a certain part of the light spectrum.

Rainbows are best used for…

Veil

A veil is a thin reflective silvery wall or a white wispy cloud inside the crystal. Veils show you the future—not to see the future exactly as how it will unfold, but as a potential of what will come to be, allowing you to prepare in advance. Sometimes inclusions look like veils. It looks like a transparent curtain. You might even see what appear to be little bubbles.

Veils are best used for…

Amethyst: Master Transformer

If you were limited to choosing only one crystal, amethyst would be the one to pick. As a major transformational crystal, amethyst is also a purifier of the aura. Its job is to take lower dysfunctional vibrations and clear them by transmuting them to a higher vibrational level. It is very protective of the wearer’s energy and acts as a filter for negative energies coming from both the environment and other people. Wearing an amethyst anywhere on the body will provide some degree of healing.

Amethyst heals all things at all levels. Use it for physical problems, for dispelling negative emotions, for changing negative thoughts into higher aspirations, and for accessing higher spiritual planes. If you are using amethyst for meditation, choose a polished single-point generator—the larger, the better. Amethyst will need frequent charging and cleansing because it is subject to burnout. Keep it fully charged as much as possible.

Rose Quartz: The Love Stone

Rose quartz is the heart chakra opener, oozing compassion into all centers of the body. It’s a powerful healing crystal and bestows divine gifts. The wearer becomes aligned with a gracious and gentle energy that can smooth over even the toughest emotional wounds.

When used for physical healing, results can be remarkable. For instance, here’s a story about a man who had an inflamed scar behind his knee. During his heart surgery 10 years earlier, a vein had been removed from his leg. After only a few minutes of holding a 3-inch rose quartz to the scarred area, the redness completely disappeared. The man declared to me that it was the first time since the operation that he finally felt comfortable!

As a master healer, rose quartz gently releases emotional pain and encourages trust and forgiveness of oneself and of others. When gentleness and calming of any situation is needed, rose quartz can provide the emotional support. It is a great healer for that hole in the heart, for loss and grieving, and for alleviating a sense of despair. For heartbreak, go to rose quartz for healing love and relationship issues. This crystal is indispensable for healing raw emotions expressed from the solar plexus and not yet evolved to the level and understanding of the heart chakra.

Turquoise: Personal Protector

Turquoise is a protector of the physical body. It aligns all subtle bodies and works with the meridians to unblock and promote the flow of chi.

This crystal is best known as a stone of communication, working enthusiastically with the throat chakra. It supports the expression of creativity, not only vocally through speech and singing, but also through activity, such as the arts and crafts, music making, and construction. This is a crystal that supports your career ambitions. While wearing it, you will feel the power of leadership. It protects during travel, changes of location, and for job changes. It is mentally relaxing, reduces anxiety, and brings good fortune.

As a master healer, turquoise dispels negativity by providing a detoxifying influence, knocking out self-sabotage and self-harm to those who are near the stone. It’s a stone of many virtues and is highly versatile for use with various diseases and ailments.

Smoky Quartz: Spiritual Warrior

Smoky quartz is known for its intensity for absorbing and dissolving negativity. Some unwanted energies will be neutralized or transmuted but much will be absorbed into the quartz’s structure. Larger pieces of smoky quartz tend to amplify negative emotions, so be sure to cleanse your crystal often and wear an appropriate size for your emotional nature. If you need more protection from gossip and bullying, keep a piece near you.

Smoky quartz is highly grounding, yet it carries a lot of light in its structure. This crystal is usually used in the middle and lower chakras because it provides a field of confinement for emotional issues, dissipates outbursts and uncontrolled anger, and handles negativity toward others from you or from others toward you. Help ease a panic attack by running your fingers over the surface or sides of a smoky quartz while clasping it to your solar plexus. Because it’s a grounding tool, wearing a programmed piece can help manifest your goals and help direct chaotic or focus flighty thoughts to more practicable applications.

Selecting a Constitutional Crystal

Now that you are more familiar with some of the major healing crystals, finding a crystal that is good for your constitution or your individual makeup is a holistic consideration. I would advise selecting a crystal that’s beneficial for your personality at all levels of physical, emotional, and spiritual healing—one that could be worn continuously.

Similar to the use of constitutional homeopathy, select a constitutional crystal that aims to treat your current health concerns, mental and emotional states such as fears and aversions, and your spiritual aspirations such as love and ascension.

Consider the areas where you seem to have the most trouble—again, this might be physical, emotional, or spiritual in nature—or it could be that it’s all tied together. Perhaps you have trouble speaking your mind, and that’s the issue that bothers you the most. Do you also suffer from frequent sore throats? Feel blocked as a creative writer? A number of crystals could be used individually for these problems, but one in particular would cover most of these symptoms in one compact package. Have you guessed? I covered this one earlier as one of the master healers—it’s turquoise.

Crystals are amazing. Let them lead you to health and healing. A constitutional crystal will support you through your self-transformation. You can trust your constitutional crystal because it is an extension of you, and who else knows you better than yourself? Your constitutional crystal is intended for long-term use. Use other crystals to support short-term healing for your body, mind, and emotions. It may take a bit of detective work to find your crystal. Check the eight dimensions of wellness list noted in Chapter 1 and answer the questions at the beginning of this chapter as starting points.

With a constitutional crystal, you would wear the crystal much longer (maybe years) to provide ongoing healing benefits and to alleviate specific conditions. Remember, the crystal will need to be cleansed and recharged regularly to get the most from the stone. It’s not unusual to change your crystal every two years or so if you feel you have moved past the stone’s capacity.

Using a Pendulum

At any point while working with crystals, you can also use a pendulum to help you select an appropriate gemstone for healing. A pendulum is a crystal or metal, charged with positive intent, and suspended from a chain or string. It is used to answer your questions about the future or to hone your intuition. Wherever there’s a choice to be made, the pendulum works on the basis that your subconscious already knows what you need to know. The pendulum will show you the answer by picking up and amplifying the subtle vibrations from your subconscious, causing the pendulum to swing. As mentioned before, set your mind with intent and focus on the question before using the pendulum.

Hold the pendulum between your thumb and index finger with your elbow slightly bent at your side. Use the hand that feels most comfortable for you and relax. It is important to let the natural vibrations of your own body move through your hand to the pendulum. Your questions should be phrased in such a way that they can be answered with a yes or no.

Interpreting the Pendulum’s Response

For many people, when the pendulum swings left and right, this can be interpreted as a no. If the pendulum swings up and down (to and fro), this can be interpreted as a yes. If your pendulum swings elliptically, clockwise, counterclockwise, or even stays rigidly still, you must interpret this as best you can.

Here are some tips:

Consulting your pendulum is not the same as asking a doctor for informed and reliable information. Seek professional care if you’re concerned about a medical issue.

CARVED IN STONE

Turquoise: I am your protector in all things. I dispel your fears and doubts. I unite your broken and wounded parts into a healed whole. I bring tranquility to your life.