Living With Crystals
A Newsletter from Beyond the Rainbow
http://www.rainbowcrystal.com
PO Box 110, Ruby, NY 12475
Volume XIV, Number 10
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Living with Crystals gives monthly information about working with crystals, flower essences, and aromatherapy.
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Editor's Note: My apologies. I tried to make clickable links here, but they aren't working. Back to the drawing board. If you know how to do this in blogger, I'd love to know.
In This Issue
I Welcome
II Living with Crystals Is Changing
III Feature Article: Shapely Stones
IV Pre-Holiday Sale on Jewelry
V Return of the Statues
VI Bach Flower Remedy Classes
VII Courses & Consultations
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Welcome to the Beyond the Rainbow's newsletter about crystals, Living with Crystals, first published February 1997.
If this is your first newsletter, thank you for subscribing. If it isn't, thanks for continuing to read it. If you'd like to forward a copy to a friend whom you think would enjoy it please feel free to do so.
Every issue of Living with Crystals is dedicated to all of you who read it; we dedicate this issue with special appreciation, and pledge that Living with Crystals will continue to serve all those who wants to learn more about working with crystals as our partners in creation.
May you every day become more crystalline.
Living With Crystals Is Changing
We have decided to change Living with Crystals to a blog format. Beginning with this issue, the main article will also be posted to our blog at http://livingwithcrystals.blogspot.com
We will continue sending the newsletter in email format for an as-yet-undecided number of months. After that we will be using the blog format exclusively. This will enable us to post more frequently and vary the format of the newsletter.
So that you will know when we post a new newsletter, we invite you to subscribe to either of the two available message systems.
Yahoo Groups
To subscribe to our message list via email
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The other way you can subscribe is through Google Groups
Send an email to livingwithcrystals+subscribe@googlegroups.com
We promise not to send more than two emails a month announcing posts. There's no telling how often, however, we will post.
We're excited about this new way of communicating with you and believe that it will offer us new and creative ways to share living with crystals.
Shapely Stones
In choosing a crystal it is helpful not only to consider the particular characteristics of the stone itself, but also its shape. None of what I've written here is intended to be the last word on the qualities of particular shapes. Nor is it intended to discourage you from experimenting. Your particular relationship with a crystal is always the most valid source of information.
Terminated Crystals
Generally speaking, I and many others have found that in terms of intensified and directed energy there is no more powerful shape than a natural termination (point) such as are found in quartz, amethyst, citrine, and smoky quartz, among others. This is because a termination centers and focuses energy.
They are very useful for programming because when you put the energy of your intention into them they focus it; you might say they point to your goal.
They are also very helpful in breaking up energy blockages. One of the things you can do in a crystal healing/meditation is to rotate a quartz point over an area that feels congested.
If you don't know about a congestion from feeling it you may know it exists because of an imbalance in your life. For example, if you have difficulty in feeling self-esteem this is a third-chakra blockage. To work on this (among other actions) you could rotate a quartz point in a clockwise direction over the navel/solar plexus area. Doing this can be more effective if you place a citrine in this area.
Holding a termination in your hand when you meditate will help you to focus on meditation.
The most common form for a crystal point is a simple termination. Variations include double-terminated points (points at both ends) gemini (twin) crystals, tabular (flat) points, window crystals (with a diamond shape on the point), and channeling crystals.
See our article on these variations.
Pyramids
The energy of a pyramid is generally less intense than of a terminated crystal. Although it comes to a point the angle of this point isn't as narrow.
Probably the most important function of a pyramid is to draw spiritual energy through the point and to ground it at the base. It helps to blend spiritual and physical energies.
This is especially helpful for people who fear that a sudden influx of spiritual energies will leave them feeling ungrounded and disoriented. Because a pyramid grounds these energies this is less likely to happen.
To gain insights about a particular blockage you can place a pyramid on the appropriate location of the physical body. For example, to understand the emotional roots of an illness you might place an aventurine pyramid on the heart area. Visualize awareness and healing flowing through the point of the pyramid and spreading throughout the heart chakra.
Eggs
The shape of an egg is less focused than that of a pyramid. It does come to a rounded point, but doesn't have a flat base.
Historically, the egg symbolizes fertility, and a fertilized egg eventually becomes a living being. When we translate this into spiritual terms we see the egg shape as symbolizing the first stage for the realization of our goals and dreams.
For example, if you are feeling vulnerable and perhaps low in self-esteem and want to change this you could meditate with a hematite egg. Meditate, holding the egg in your hand (I find that eggs have a special, comforting feeling.)
Imagine the situations (or people) that arouse vulnerable feelings in you. Feel the energy of hematite encircling you like a shield or armor. Ask what you can do to change this situation, how you can be different. See yourself responding to the situation or person in an appropriate way (for example, by being assertive). Visualize yourself being this way until it feels real and powerful to you.
Repeat as needed.
You can also program your egg for the results you have envisioned. Please see the article on programming.
After you've programmed the egg you can continue to meditate with it. You may find that it's even more helpful.
Spheres
The sphere represents completion, fullness, and the realization of all possibilities. It has no beginning or end.
To carve a sphere one must cut away a mass of crystal that can be as much as ten times the finished creation. A sphere symbolizes all that we need to release in order to reach the realization of our own innate perfection.
In feng shui, the ancient art of creating optimal energy flow in an environment, disharmony is created by sharp angles and edges. In that context a sphere is the most harmonious form possible. Because of its balancing energy it is ideal to place in the center of a room (called the T'ai Chi). It's also the perfect centerpiece for a crystal arrangement or for an altar.
Because it has no beginning or end it can place us very much in the here and now. I find that holding a sphere while I meditate helps me to release worry and take me to a deeper state.
I also find that gazing at the rainbow in calcite spheres or the pattern of light in tiger's eye and labradorite is a wonderful way to go deeper into meditation—or to simply appreciate the beauty of a special stone.
I would like to thank the crystals that helped me write this article: a labradorite pyramid, a tiger's eye egg, and a green calcite sphere.
Go to http://rainbowcrystal.com/crystal/crystalpyramid.html to see pyramids.
Go to http://www.rainbowcrystal.com/crystal/sphere.html to see spheres and to http://www.rainbowcrystal.com/crystal/crystalegg.html to see eggs.
You can read this online at http://www.rainbowcrystal.com/crystal/transformation.html
Pre-Holiday Jewelry Sale: 50% off Selected Jewelry
We're doing fall cleaning, and in the process, we are discontinuing certain pieces or lines of jewelry.
These include some Tibetan, Buddhist, and Hindu pieces, pieces in lapis, rose quartz and amethyst, Om pendants, and many more.
You can see these pieces at http://www.rainbowcrystal.com/salejewelry/jewelrysale.html This is the index page, which will direct you to individual pages.
The Return of the Statues
For some time our supplier of Buddha, Kwan Yin, Egyptian, and other popular statues has been out of many of the most sought-after statues. We are happy to report that this situation has now changed. Most of these statues are now back and available for order. More will be available at the end of November.
By the time you receive this email, we should have complete information about statue availability. Please feel free to email us at beyondtherainbow@hvc.rr.com regarding availability of the statue you want. If you are interested in purchasing a statue, we recommend ordering early, as the availability seems to be seasonal. We don't know if someone is growing statues in a distant garden, but the harvest is in.
See http://www.rainbowcrystal.com/atext/altar5.html for an index of statues.
Learn About Our Courses
If you've been interested in our email courses but have been unsure which would be best for you, you now have a new way to choose.
I've put together a pamphlet in Microsoft Word format that fully describes each course:
Bach Flower Remedies: A User-Friendly Guide
Crystals and the Chakras
Allow More Love in Your Life
Think More: Work Less
Each course description includes annotated tables of contents and summaries of the course material.
In addition, the pamphlet includes sample lessons. This inclusion gives you the opportunity to decide whether the format works for your learning needs.
While most of the material in the 61-page pamphlet is also available on our web site, the new format gives you all the information in one convenient document.
To receive this pamphlet, please email elfspirit333@gmail.com
I will send you the pamphlet by email.
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Bach Flower Remedy Course
The materials as basic course you designed is wonderful, the highlight part is you made a scenario for each flower essence personality. Those statements are so vivid.
--Tim Kuan, Doctor of Oriental Medicine
I've written a 71,000-word workbook that includes full descriptions of the Remedies, extensive comparisons between them, and study sections. All participants will complete a consultation for themselves that I will evaluate. The cost is $60.
To read a detailed table of contents for the written material please go to http://rainbowcrystal.com/bach/bachbooktableofcontents.html
Yo You can also see a sample section at http://www.rainbowcrystal.com/bach/bachclasssample.html
Like our other courses, the Bach Flower Remedy class is self-paced. The written material is delivered by email in Microsoft Word format.
To learn more about this course or to register, please go to http://www.rainbowcrystal.com/bach/bachonlineclass.html
If you have any questions, please email me at elfspirit333@gmail.com
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Consultations Available by Phone and Skype
For years we've given email consultations in order to assist people who lived too far away to come for a face-to-face consultation. We've found it a very effective way to advise people regarding the flower essences, crystals, and essential oils (as well as other modalities which seemed appropriate) that were most helpful to them. After receiving many requests, we've now added phone consultations.
Giving consultations is one of the most rewarding and inspiring aspects of our work. We deeply respect our clients' commitment to clearing the past and transforming the future and consider it a privilege to be of assistance.
If you're not familiar with Skype, it's an internet-based communication system through you can make Skype to Skype free calls all over the world 24/7. For more information, see http://www.skype.com
For more information about consultations, please see http://www.rainbowcrystal.com/bach/consult.html
Connie is also now giving consultations that use the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) as a method. This can be added to or replace a flower essence consultation.
For more information, please see http://www.eftconsultations.com
You can also read the following article that outlines the basic principles of EFT at http://www.eftconsultations.com/eftenergy.shtml
You can also request a pamphlet on EFT by emailing me at http://www.eftconsultations.com/emailus.shtml
If you'd like to receive a free monthly newsletter about EFT and the Law of Attraction, among other subjects, please sign up at http://www.eftconsultations.com/eftandlawofattraction/subscribe.shtml
Course on the Chakras
When we understand what the chakras have to do with our
emotions, health, and mental well being we have a new way to understand ourselves. When we learn how to rebalance the energy of the chakras we can raise our lives to a new level of empowerment.
This self-paced course can assist you in rebalancing your life. I've expanded it and made it available in a more attractive format. It includes:
Detailed descriptions of many crystals
A quiz to help you begin
Several articles describing different ways to work with the chakras
An appendix of supplementary information
To see a complete lesson online, please go to http://www.rainbowcrystal.com/crystal/thirdchakra.html
To learn more about this course in general, please see http://www.rainbowcrystal.com/crystal/class.html
If you have any questions, please email me at elfspirit333@gmail.com
Allow More Love in Your Life
When we live in the spirit of love, life becomes joyful. We find that when we aren't bound up in negative emotions, we have more vitality. We appreciate the many blessings of our lives, and the positive energy of appreciation creates more blessings for us to appreciate.
Our relationships become our greatest blessings. We turn relationship challenges into opportunities for greater understanding and intimacy.
All of this is possible when we recognize that we are the source of love.
Like our other courses, Your Journey of Love is self-paced and full of exercises designed to help you discover what keeps you from experiencing unconditional love.
This course also contains several lessons describing how certain crystals and essences relate to different aspects of love.
For more information, please see http://www.rainbowcrystal.com/crystalemailcourses/loveclass.html
Your Prosperity Journey
The course is designed to help you to explore and dissolve limiting beliefs and habits and emotional ways of being and to replace them with powerful affirmations and new habits that can help you to create a prosperous and fulfilling life for yourself,
For us prosperity isn't only money, although that's the area where many of us notice that we're not as prosperous as we'd like to be. It's the quality of our lives, lives where work is play that fills our creative and spiritual needs.
The course includes detailed information about crystals and essences related to prosperity, meditations, and many practical suggestions.
We have personally tested every principle, practice, and assignment included in this course. We continue to use them on a daily basis, and plan to do so for the rest of our lives˜because they work.
For more information on this course please see http://www.rainbowcrystal.com/crystal/prosperityclass.html
This page has links to details about the course and a sample lesson.
Two Popular Email Courses
Now Available in Ebook Form
Allow More Love in Your Life
Think More: Work Less
Previously only offered as email courses for $50 each, the material for each of these classes is now available, either for easy reading on your computer screen or in printable form.
After much thought, we decided to publish the books in Microsoft Word format. With this format, you can easily search through the table of contents and chapter headings for specific material. You can also make a copy of the document and do the homeplay in the book itself. This makes it a true workbook -- or, as we prefer to say, Playbook.
To order or learn more, please see http://www.rainbowcrystal.com/books/book.html
