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Falling In Love With Rose Quartz- A Heart Chakra Meditation

February 1st, 2010
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 Over the past several weeks I immersed  myself in heart chakra stones. I wanted to put together a collection of Heart Chakra jewerly as part of my Valentine’s day jewelry sale. I took out all of my pink gemstone beads and began designing Heart opening necklaces.  The more I worked with Rose Quartz the more I feel in love with this stone all over again.   All pink and green stones are Heart Chakra stones. There are many pink and green gemstones in the mineral kingdom and I have a vast collection of  these heart stones.  It is easy to over look the lovely soft Rose Quartz.  As I worked with Rose Quartz I began to connect once again to its amazing energies.
While the vibration of Rose Quartz is soft and gentle, it is also very powerful.  This stone reminds us that love begins with ourselves. Rose Quartz is all about self love and self nurturing.
 
Meditating with rose quartz can help to release emotional wounds that hold our hearts closed. Its softness allows us to slowly and delicately look at the hurts we experience and one by one let it go and open back to love. Meditating with Rose Quartz gives us the opportunity to be surrounded in love energy. Here is a short meditation using the Gemstone Rose Quartz.
 
While laying down, place a Rose Quartz on your Heart Chakra.  Close your eyes and breath slowly and deeply, quieting the mind.  Begin to feel the vibration of the Rose Quartz on your Heart Chakra. Visualize the color pink.  Begin at your feet and slowly move the soft pink color up and over your body until your whole body is bathed in the loving, compassionate and peaceful energy that is Rose Quartz.  Allow yourself several minutes to be in this calm and loving space. When you feel ready place both your hands over the stone as it sits on your Heart Chakra and once again become aware of your breath. With each in breath, breathe in the loving energy of the Rose Quartz, with each out breath, breathe out hurt, fear, worry or any other emotion that is blocking your heart.  Do this several times until you begin to feel a peacefulness, a calm throughout your body.  You can say to yourself, I am love, I am loved, repeat several times.  When you feel ready, place your hands down by your sides and feel love, feel your heart warm and open to receive all the love that is here for you.  When you feel ready open your eyes and give yourself a great big hug.
 
Rose Quartz can help us open to receive love from ourselves and others.  Do you have difficulty being kind to yourself?  This is your stone.
This Valentine’s day fall in love with yourself. Let Rose Quartz remind you to do something just for you.

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Celebrate Buddha’s Birth: Meditate!

May 8th, 2009
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Buddha Necklace

Buddha Necklace

This full Moon, May 9th, is one of the most auspicious dates in the Tibetan Buddhist Calendar. The May full moon is known as Wesak, the celebration of the birth and Ascension of Gautama Buddha and the enlightened consciousness of the Buddha within humanity. It is an excellent time to do meditation practice, as the benefits and merit for all sentient beings are exponentially multiplied.

 
Many teachers say it is a time when all the Masters of all beliefs are present. At this time we have the ability to access sacred knowledge, a deeper understanding of universal law, and a higher consciousness. An opening is created through the veil of obscurity, and we have an opportunity to actually see and know the true nature of things.
 
I will be practicing the Prajna Paramita practice with the Key West Tara Mandala Sangha. This practice is often called the “short course” to the true understanding of the nature of mind. We will also explore the Heart Sutra, an essential discourse on Prajna Paramita. This beautiful reading explores the concept of “Form is emptiness, Emptiness is form, Form is not other than emptiness, Emptiness is not other than Form.”
 
No matter what type of meditation you practice, this is a great time to meditate.
Amethyst is always a great gemstone to assist in meditation.
This Turquoise Buddha necklace is available from my web site, www.spiralsoflight.com/yoga-jewelry.html

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What are you doing for Earth day?

April 21st, 2009
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chrysocolla

chrysocolla

In honor of Earth Day, April 22 I am going to celebrate this great planet Earth with a meditation using the gemstone Chrysocolla.  Chrysocolla is a beautiful Turquoise blue- green gemstone that reminds us of  the earth when viewed from outer space.
It is known as  a stone for healing the Earth.  Chrysocolla’s vibration is closely attuned to the Earth and can bring us into a empathic connection to Mother Earth.

 
Focusing attention on our Mother Earth we can send out healing energy for all living beings, for all Earth’s creatures great and small, for the land, for the water for the natural beauty and bounty that the Earth offers each and everyone of us.
While holding a Chryscocolla I will pray for healing and send out thoughts of love and appreciation.  
 What are you doing for Earth Day?

Plant some seeds
Breathe in the beauty of nature
Show you care
Recycle
Walk gently
Use less
Say your own prayers

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Yoga Love

February 14th, 2009
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Rose Quartz heart

Rose Quartz heart

Rose Quartz is perhaps one of the best known gemstones in the crystal world. Commonly known as the “stone of love.” I’ve been placing a Rose Quartz heart by my Yoga mat for the past week, in honor of Valentine’s Day. It helps me put my focus on heart opening yoga poses. Asanas like, cobra pose, cat pose, upward facing dog and bridge pose. At the end of my yoga sessions I sit and meditate with Rose Quartz and listen to its gifts.

Rose Quartz first and foremost reminds us to love ourselves. Each day when I get on my mat I am demonstrating this self love. I bring self acceptance to the mat when I feel the tightness in my muscles, and forgive the places in my body where it is difficult for me to stretch further. We often distance ourselves from self love when we feel un-entitled to it, or less than, or unworthy, or even guilty. But without self love there can be no love of others. Fill your heart with love and the world outside you sees it and feels it. May you have a love filled day.

You can find Rose Quartz Hearts and Jewelry on my web site: http://www.spiralsoflight.com/jewelry-specials.html

Happy Valentine’s Day.

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Amethyst for Meditation: Looking for Wisdom

January 18th, 2009
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amy-om-smI admit, I let my meditation practice slip. It hasn’t disappeared, just been put on hold. Until today. Today I put on my OM necklace with Amethyst and sat down to meditate. Inspired to come back to my meditation cushion by a Dharma Talk given by Lama Migmar Tseten. Lama Migmar is a Buddhist chaplain at Harvard University. He founded the Sakya Institute in Cambridge, MA. www.lamamigmar.com.

 Lama Migmar is visiting here in Key West FL, giving talks to help “Free Your Mind” from stress, and emotional patterns that cause confusion in our lives. He presented an overview of basic techniques found in the wisdom traditions of Tibetan Buddhism for achieving tranquility and insight, cultivation of positive emotions and achieving a state of awakening. He reminded me that through meditation we can free our minds from wondering thoughts and focus attention. Through focused attention we can find insight. Through insight we can find wisdom. Through wisdom we can hold the personal experience that allows us to see the ultimate nature of ourselves, ONENESS with all things, oneness with the universe, and experiencing true awakening. Lama Migmar explained that when we have the experience of oneness we will experience complete peace, complete joy and perfection.In listening to his words, I was reminded of my favorite gemstone to use while meditating- Amethyst.

 While there are many stones that help in a meditation practice, I find Amethyst to be the one I always go to. Amethyst represents pure existence and through this pure existence it assist us in quieting our minds, finding attention and focus, moving into awareness, insight and wisdom. From this place of wisdom awakening to the oneness can come.

I felt a deeper connection to my meditation today, a deeper quietness.

Thanks Lama Migmar, thanks Amethyst.

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