Crystal Bliss

Attract Love. Feed Your Spirit. Manifest Your Dreams.

Devi Brown

• Publisher: Adams Media
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781507202616
• Topic: Medicine

A fresh approach to healing crystals—complete with advice for selecting, preparing, and using crystals for the ultimate meditative and energetic healing.

If you’re feeling worn out, uninspired, or unmotivated, you can change your energy with a bit of help from Mother Nature! Crystal Bliss walks you through the process of selecting crystals, cleansing and preparing for use, and incorporating them into your meditation and energy healing practice. You’ll find all the information you need in order to harness the innate energy of crystals—and discover how doing so will empower you to banish negative vibes, manifest wealth, promote good health, and open your heart to love.

Part One

GETTING STARTED WITH CRYSTALS

Diving into the world of crystals can be overwhelming. Should you display them in your home or wear them? Are smooth, polished stones any more effective than the raw kind? How do you clean them? In the next few chapters I will reveal the history behind crystals, information on how to buy, use, and care for them, and I’ll even give you a fast pass to starting your collection. Take a deep breath and get ready for the crystal turn up!

1.

What Is the Deal with Crystals?

Crystals are old. Really, really old. I’m talking anywhere from thousands to hundreds of millions of years old. The earth’s age is estimated at around 4.5 billion years old, and some zircon crystals that were recently found in Australia were dated as being 4.4 billion years old. Pretty mind-blowing, right? Many scientists now believe that the earth’s inner core is actually made up of an aggregate of small crystals. So, if crystals had eyes or ears . . . imagine what they would have seen and heard over their lifetime!

TAPPING INTO ENERGY USING CRYSTALS

While crystals are beautiful and make for excellent jewelry, there’s a lot more to them. Though rocks, stones, and crystals appear to be just inanimate objects, they are actually energetic entities. These ancient gemstones have an amazing ability to help connect you to the energy of the universe. The energy of the universe is in all things that the earth creates. Our bodies get energy from food and water. Our homes can be powered with wind and sun. Even our spirits are led by an unseen energy that we feel pulsing through us. Crystals, like everything else in this world, retain the vibrations of the earth as well. Energy and wisdom from the beginning of existence resides inside every stone. We are able to harness that energy for ourselves by wearing crystals, holding them, placing them in our homes, and even carrying them with us. Their energy aids us in transforming ourselves mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

Everything in our universe, including us, is made up of matter and energy. I saw a post on Instagram recently that said, “Men lie, women lie, energy doesn’t.” And even though that post was overly simplified and kind of passive aggressive (you just know it was posted for an ex to see, right?), there was still a lot of truth to it. In fact, energy is the universal truth. It expresses the present moment honestly, and it can guide you where people and words cannot.

Crystal energy is able to work through our human energy system (through seven points on the body known as chakras) and our auras to manifest things in our physical bodies, environment, and in the spirit realm. Chakras are considered to be invisible energy wheels that form a straight line beginning at the base of our spines and going up to the top of our heads.

An aura is the unseen atmospheric energy that is generated by and hovers around every living thing. The sacred energy of crystals is very real, and using it to align ourselves with these types of energies can be a life-changing experience.

WHERE DO CRYSTALS COME FROM?

Crystals can be found all over our planet. They were formed in the earth’s surface millions or even billions of years ago, typically during periods of shifting and change. In the modern western world we tend to focus our attention on around 200 different crystals, but in fact there are thousands of them, with new discoveries being made every day.

Crystals are found throughout the globe, in countries such as India, China, Mexico, Morocco, Peru . . . the list goes on and on. Some types of crystals, like quartz, can be found in multiple parts of the world while others are only sourced in one place, like the mookaite jasper of Australia or the Herkimer diamond found in upstate New York.

Most crystals and gemstones fall into one of three different categories: igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic. The conditions that create each category of rock are quite different (molten lava for some, flowing water or heat for others), but typically two things are needed to form crystals: time and lots of pressure. The process of how a crystal is formed in the earth might have a big impact on the whether the flow of its energy is slow and steady or fast and dramatic. Agate, for instance, a stone that is extremely abundant and comes in thousands of varieties, is known to have a slow-building energy effect, often subtly working on the background issues of a person’s life. On the other hand, moldavite, a meteorite that is often used as an amplifier stone, has an effect so intense that some people have broken into a cold sweat and even passed out when holding it.

While on a crystal hunt in Sedona a few years ago, I encountered a piece of moldavite on a necklace that left me dizzy when I held it in my hands. (Of course, being the extremist that I am, I bought it immediately.) Luckily, the kind woman I got it from saved me from myself by giving me strict directions on how to use it, warning me when not to (apparently it will give you nightmares if you sleep with it on). Now I use it sparingly, and only in specific instances when I am looking to manifest major change.

A RAINBOW OF COLORS

Aside from their powerful energy, one of the things that has always drawn me and many others to crystals is their naturally vibrant color variations. While I tend to be drawn to vivid greens and brightly hued pinks (these shades typically help open the heart and enhance success), crystals come in all sorts of colors. Calming blue, raging red, beaming yellow, and warming orange, to name a small few. The colors of healing crystals span the rainbow and are based on the chemical elements involved while the crystal is forming.

They come in different shapes and sizes, too, with each type of crystal carrying its own energetic properties and benefits, as well as its own specific atomic makeup.

WHY ARE HUMANS DRAWN TO CRYSTALS?

We know from ancient drawings and artifacts that humans have been using crystals for at least 5,000 years:

• Shamans and healers use crystals for spiritual, physical, emotional, and mental healing.

• Kings and queens wear them as adornments and use them for protection.

• Scientists have even found them useful as transmitters for information in the form of microchips.

• Watchmakers use quartz to keep time. Because of its precise frequency standard, quartz is able to help regulate the movement of timepieces.

There is a scientific reason why, since the dawn of humanity, we humans have found ourselves drawn to the beauty and energy of crystals. All of the energy in the universe vibrates at one frequency or another. This vibration is very subtle—most of us don’t even feel it. Because crystals are made of the earth itself, they carry a unique kind of earthly energy. Their vibrations are happening at an extremely high frequency.

In physics there is something called the law of entrainment, or the universal law of resonance. This is the synchronization of frequencies between at least two energy sources. As humans, we operate at a lower and slower vibrational frequency than crystals do. So according to the law of entrainment, when two objects that have different vibrational rates become close to one another, the object that vibrates lower (us) gets drawn into the higher vibrational rate of the other (crystals). So our attraction to crystals is not just some New Age juju talk; it’s physics.

As you begin to build your crystal collection, you will notice that you tend to be pulled toward specific crystals. That’s this vibrational frequency balance at work. If you feel drawn to a crystal, it’s likely one you need in your life. A friend once asked me to pick up a crystal for her on my next adventure. I quizzed her on what type of energy she was looking to invite into her life, and she could not think of anything specific—only that it be red. As I walked into one of my favorite crystal shops in San Diego, I was instantly drawn toward a small red cylinder-shaped crystal. As it turns out, this was a beautiful piece of rose-red rhodochrosite, a crystal known to help heal victims of abuse by amplifying their feelings of personal power and giving them courage to face the truth about their situation with loving awareness. My friend did not know how to share the traumas of her past with me, but energetically I was drawn toward the crystal that she needed for her journey.

So many people I have come across in the crystal community have shared similar stories of finding themselves literally pulled to a crystal and then finding out its healing properties were exactly what they needed. Energy is powerful. Sometimes it shows itself in dramatic fashion, but mostly, we subtly attract the energy that our subconscious needs. That’s why I cannot stress it enough: when you are on a spiritual journey and doing self-work, you must stay open to all possibilities. Go with the flow and follow the energy.

CRYSTALS BRING CONNECTION

When you find the right stones for you, their energy will work in harmony with yours to enhance your life and reveal things that have been out of reach.

CONNECT TO YOUR GOALS

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that crystals are now making an appearance in the everyday lives of many modern cultures. Between being glued to our phones and social media feeds all day and the ever-changing political climate, we are all subconsciously yearning to connect a little deeper with one another and to be one with the earth and its vast wisdom. Crystals are amazing conduits of energy that can be used to accelerate your discovery of the things you are searching for—health, success, love, creativity, and so on.

CONNECT TO YOUR SPIRIT

Just like certain cures for things that ail us can be found in various plants, the earth is filled with crystals that we were meant to utilize for the betterment of our lives. If you believe in a higher power, one that watches over us and has equipped us with food and water as nourishment to sustain life and grow our bodies, doesn’t it make sense that the higher power would also supply us with a way to help us nourish our spirits and grow our awareness? Crystals are food for our spirits, just like plants are food for our bodies. Using crystals, you can start tapping into that sacred earth energy, which, as I have learned from personal experience, will leave you more deeply connected to your inner self than you ever imagined possible.

CONNECT TO YOUR INTUITION

The energy of crystals is not only a way to commune with nature; it’s also a way to connect with your higher power and a way to get in tune with the deepest parts of yourself. A few years ago, I was dowsing (a ritual where you ask a question and depending on which way a crystal swings, you are given a yes or no answer) with a smoky quartz pendant. It occurred to me after I got the answer that nothing was being revealed to me that I did not already—on some deep level—know. The magic of the crystal lies in that it will amplify your intuition and connect you to parts of yourself that you have buried behind a lifetime of programming, experiences, reasoning, and fear.

CONNECT TO YOUR SPIRITUALITY

Crystals are often used as an addition to existing belief systems, not as a replacement. You might use crystals in meditations between official services to connect to your spirituality. My personal belief system is God-based and I see crystals as parts of nature that were given multiple uses for our benefit.

TELLING OTHERS ABOUT YOUR CRYSTAL WORK

When I first started working with crystal energy, I got mixed reactions from the people in my life when I told them. They were either extremely intrigued and wanted in on the experience, or they thought I had lost my mind and was worshiping rocks all day. Crystal healing is not idol worship nor is it some type of magic trick. Crystal healing is simply utilizing the sacred energy of these 100 percent natural elements to grow your life’s potential.

How you choose to activate your personal journey doesn’t have to be something done in public, so feel free to go the route of keeping your daily practices intimate and personal. You don’t need to broadcast your crystal use to everyone in your life if you don’t want to.

Personally, I welcome the opportunity to share information, though I am sure to remain detached from any expectation of how it will be received. Others have the right to think of you and your beliefs as they wish and can choose to not engage in the same things as you do. I’ve found that if someone is greeting you with hostil...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Introduction
• Part One. Getting Started with Crystals
• Part Two. Crystals for Specific Uses
• Part Three. Furthering Your Crystal Journey
• Photographs
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Index
• Copyright