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Tips For A Relaxing Holiday Season Using Crystals & Gemstones

December 10th, 2009
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Crystals & Gemstones For the Holidays

Crystals & Gemstones For the Holidays

During the holidays it’s easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of the parties, shopping and busy activities of the season. This year the best gift you can give your friends and loved ones is a healthy, relaxed YOU!  If you truly want to enjoy this special time of year, give yourself some self nurturing. 
Crystals and gemstones can help you stay calm, centered and focused during this stressful time of year.
Here are some ways to use Crystals & Gemstones to help you stay  in the holiday spirit of love, joy and happiness.
 
1. Stay focused.  We lose so much of our energy when we aren’t clear and focused on the project at hand.  Instead of multi-tasking, give yourself the joy of focused attention.  If you are having trouble staying focused, try using a Hematite or wear a Hematite necklace or bracelet.
Hematite is know as a grounding stone. Its also a stone to calm the mind. It can help us to sort things out and calm the racing mind. It helps with memory retention and is useful while writing. It also assists in dissolving negativity as it can transform the negative to a more pure state of love.
So, when you notice your mind racing around, reach for a Hematite and feel yourself grounded and focused.
 
2.  Ask for help.  Sometimes just simply letting others know you need assistance in all the preparations can relieve the pressure and feelings of doing too much.  If you are having trouble speaking up and asking for help, reach for a blue gemstone like Sodalite.  Sodalite can help you gently and calmly speak “your truth“, that is to come from you heart and express your needs to others, before frustration grabs a hold of you. No need to hit your melting point, speak up!
 
3. Rest.  Make sure you are getting the correct amount of sleep that your body needs. It’s easy to fall into erratic sleeping patterns with parties, travel, preparation, and other seasonal events. If you find it difficult to fall asleep or stay asleep try sleeping with the gemstone Petalite. Petalite can take us to a dimension of rest and healing, to a space in which worries and concerns of this world are released.
 
4. Remember to Breath.  When you catch yourself holding your breath in stressful situations, remember to take a few deep breaths.  Breath in clean fresh air to rejuvenate  yourself, and exhale out stress. In stressful situations we have a tendency to breathe shallow. This can increase anxiety in our mind and body.
Choose a Quartz Crystal as a reminder to breath throughout the day.  Place it in your pocket, purse, near your desk, in the kitchen, wherever you will be. Every time you look at the crystal, stop and take a few deep breaths.  Remember to take it with you where ever you go throughout your day.  If you can, place several crystals in all the rooms of your house, car and office. Just breathe!
 
5. Nurture yourself.  Remember to take care of yourself with relaxing music, a evening bath, some quiet time. Use a Rose Quartz  as a reminder to love and nurture yourself. Rose Quartz is known as the “Stone of Love”.  Before we can love another, we must first learn to love ourselves.  Before we can give to others we must first take care of ourselves.
 
6. Stay cool, calm and collected with Fluorite.  Fluorite is my all time favorite stone for staying centered in stressful situations.  It has a cooling energy that helps us maintain our calm.  Reach for the cooling vibrations of Fluorite when you know you will be in situations that will challenge you.
 
7. Meditate.  It’s a known fact that meditation can help reduce stress, lower our heart rate and create peace within us.  Choose a purple Amethyst to assist you in meditation.  Amethyst is known as a stone of Spirituality and helps us to sit in meditation.  Give yourself the gift of meditation this holiday season and bring peace into your heart, mind and spirit.
 
May your holiday season be filled with fun, laughter, joy and RELAXATION!
 
For more information on the energy properties of Crystals and Gemstones go to http://www.spiralsoflight.com/gem-stones-crystals-properties.html or schedule a personal crystal consultation to learn how Gemstones can assist you in your everyday life.
 

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Crystal Readings

July 19th, 2009
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 sunshine-om

On Saturday July 25th I will be in Pagosa Springs, CO at Satori Boutique offering crystal readings from 10 am to 5 pm at the INTUITIVE ARTS FESTIVAL. 

Crystal readings are similar to other forms of readings, like Tarot. A person chooses 3 gemstones from my bag of stones by feeling for an energy connection with the stone. I begin to focus on the crystal’s energy and it’s specific meaning. I will share information on how that energy can help in your everyday life. The stones offer messages and are tools to assist us in bringing balance to our lives.

 

During a reading, crystals provide information and insight that may help answer questions about love, career, happiness or any other area of daily life.

Each semi-precious gemstone radiates a different energy and has it’s own unique vibration. The way the stones resonate with you helps you learn about yourself , as well as helps you to identify what is going on in your life and what needs healing and balancing. Crystal readings are a great way to get clarity on any issues you are experiencing. Crystal readings can also help you to know what crystals you should wear or carry at this time to assist you in improving any situation. A Crystal reading can help you release energy blockages and bring healing and balance back to your life.

My intent is to offer an opportunity to gain clarity and insight into the questions and issues that are present in your life through the use of crystals and gemstones. Crystal readings are a fun and light-hearted way of experiencing the energy of the mineral kingdom.

 I will also be selling my assortment of hand selected, high energy Crystals, Gemstones, and Jewelry. I have been buying and selling crystals and stones for more than 20 years. I’ve made great contacts with gemstones dealers from around the world. I look for the best quality, highest energy and fair prices. It is always so much fun to watch someone interact with a stone and know that they must have that stone. Feeling the stone’s subtle vibration, a connection to its energy is made, sometimes through a sensation, heat, coolness or just plain “knowing”

If you are in the 4 corners area  please come join us.  If  you would like a reading by phone, please email me and I will contact you to set up an appointment. Debra@spiralsoflight.com

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Manifesting with Crystals

June 24th, 2009
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Black Tourmaline

Black Tourmaline

I am giving a presentation tomorrow night, Thursday June 25, on Manifesting with Crystals. This event is being sponsored  by the Purple Phoenix www.purplephoenix.com.  It will be held at the Asante Center in Durango Colorado.
I’ll be talking about how to use gemstones in our everyday lives to manifest the quality of life we desire.  The secret is out, we create our own realities.  Gemstones are wonderful tools to assist us in setting intention, finding focus and bringing our desires and dreams into form.  We  are more powerful than we recognize.  We are powerful creative beings.
 
In order to manifest we have to see life as we want it, not how it is.  We give our attention and our intention to what we prefer.  This is where gemstones can come in to help us.
Gemstones are energy in form.  They can carry our intentions and desires into form.
 
If we are going to make a change in our life, bring a thought, desire, wish, dream into physical form we first need to:
1. Know what we want.  Get clear.  Sometimes a way to know what we want is to know what we don’t want.  The gemstone Hematite is a stone they can help us get clear and focus on what we want.  It is a grounding stone.  When we are grounded and connected to the earth plane we can see what it is we are wanting.  When we are ungrounded our energies are all over the place, we flit from one thought to the next, never holding on to a thought or desire long enough to bring it into form. Hematite helps us to focus.  Hematite works to bring mental clarity.
 
2. Set intention.  Setting intention gives energy to the desire.  Set focus long enough to bring it into existence.  The gemstone Citrine is a stone that can help us to put energy into intention.  It helps us to get clear on our desires and intentions.  Getting clear on our intention is really the first step in manifesting.  Chose a Citrine to help you set your intention and  it will energize your personal will  by connecting you to your solar plexus chakra.
 
3. Let go of whatever has held you back from receiving.  Let go of the negative thinking that surrounds whatever it is that you are wanting to manifest.  Sometimes this it the tricky part.  Our minds get in the way and tell us, we can never have what it is we are wanting.  Step out of old programs, old ways of thinking.  Chose Black Tourmaline as a stone that can help absorb the negative thinking.  Think of Black Tourmaline like dong a smudging of your intentions, clearing away the parts that no longer serve you, leaving you with clear, positive, powerful intention.
 
Crystals and gemstones can help us find focus and clarity, set intention and bring desires into form. 
 
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Balancing the Chakras with Gemstones and Flower Essences

June 1st, 2009
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The Chakra Energy System

The Chakra Energy System

I attended  a workshop on the healing power of flower essences and the chakra energy system this weekend with Rhonda PallasDowney, the author of ” The Healing Power of Flowers”.
Rhonda shared wonderful information on seven different flower essences, their healing qualities and how they relate to balancing the chakra energy system.
I’ve used flower essences over the years and even make my own flower essences using the flowers that grow here in Colorado as well as those in my yard in the Florida Keys.  Spending time with the flowers, getting to know their energies and “listening” to them brings me out into nature and strengthens my connection to Mother Earth.
It was fun for me to relate this information on the flower essences to the chakra energy system and extend that information into the world of gemstones. I’ve been teaching classes on the healing power of gemstones and the chakras for many years now and my gemstone jewelry chakra designs incorporates this information. Rhonda gave me information to add flower essences to my gemstone/chakra work. I purchased her “Human Energy System” kit with 7 flower essences to balance the chakras, here are the seven flower essences, gemstones and chakra they correspond with.
 
Gemstones and Flower Essences for balancing the 7 Chakras:
  1. Root Chakra- red or black gemstones, Garnet, Ruby, Red Jasper, Jet, Hematite, Black Tourmaline. Flower Essence-Indian Paintbrush
  2. Sacral Chakra-orange gemstones, Carnelian, Amber. Flower essence- Pomegranate
  3. Solar Plexus- yellow gemstones, Citrine, Tiger eye,Golden Topaz. Flower Essence- Sunflower.
  4. Heart Chakra- pink or green gemstone, Rose Quartz, Rhodonite, Aventurine, Jade, Malachite. Flower Essence-Wild Rose.
  5. Throat Chakra- blue gemstones, Turquoise, Sodalite,Lapis, Azurite. Flower Essence-Desert Larkspur
  6. 3rd Eye Chakra- purple gemstones, Amethyst,Sugilite, Charoite. Flower Essence-Aster
  7. Crown Chakra-white and clear gemstones, Quartz,Selenite,Danburite. Flower Essence-Saguaro 
For more information on  chakras and gemstones go to my web site: http://www.spiralsoflight.com/chakra_energy_system.html
To see my Chakra Jewelry collection go to: http://www.spiralsoflight.com/chakra_energy_system.html
 Rhonda PallasDowney  is a flower essence practitioner who integrates whole plant medicine with color healing.  She is the founder of Living Flower Essences. www.livingfloweressences.com

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What to do with a Crystal & Gemstone Collection?

May 2nd, 2009
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Crystal Ball

Crystal Ball

I think I may have found a new sideline to my work- “Crystal and Gemstone appraiser“.
All this week  I’ve been helping a friend sort through, identify and price a large crystal and gemstone collection she recently acquired. She came to me and asked, “ What do I do with this amazing  Crystal collection my friend needs to let go of?”  I knew I could help and have some fun at the same time.
The collection contains a wide variety of beautiful gemstones and crystals which need pricing so that they can be re- sold. We have been sorting through many polished stones as well as rough mineral specimens like Malachite, Chrysocolla, Apache Tears. When a large perfect Aquamarine crystal turned up I knew the previous owner was a serious collector as this one stone is valued at more than $400.00. Mix in some Tourmalines and this gemstone collection is quite valuable.

 
We’ve been oohing and ahhing as we unwrap each new precious treasure. These gemstones have been hidden away  for years and are now welcoming the bright Florida sunshine and sea water baths.  We are getting them ready so they may find new owners who will cherish them.
 
 In exchange for my time I’ve been able to choose some treasures to keep for myself.  I uncovered a really unique piece of gem quality Lepidolite, something I’d never seen before.  This one will stay in my personal collection. Along with some stunning pieces of Danburite.  I was surprised to find a black Shiva Lingham.  Most of the Shiva Linghams I see have the unique markings on them, but this one is all black and beautiful to hold.
 
The original owner of this collection was into spheres.  There are all kinds and sizes of gemstone balls, including this rather large Crystal Ball. It needs two hands to support it.
Its been a fun week rolling my hands through pounds of tumbled stones, holding perfectly clear crystal wands, finding water bubbles in Smokey Elestials and gazing into crystal balls.
 
Anyone else need a crystal appraiser. I’m for hire.  Will trade time for treasures….

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Crystal Readings at Key West Island Alchemy

April 15th, 2009
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Key West Sunset

Key West Sunset

On Saturday April 18th I will be in Key West Florida at Island Alchemy offering crystal readings from 2-6pm.

Crystal readings are similar to other forms of readings, like Tarot. A person chooses 3 gemstones from my bag of stones by feeling for an energy connection with the stone. I begin to focus on the crystal’s energy and it’s specific meaning. I will share information on how that energy can help in your everyday life. The stones offer messages and are tools to assist us in bringing balance to our lives.

 

During a reading, crystals provide information and insight that may help answer questions about love, career, happiness or any other area of daily life.

Each semi-precious gemstone radiates a different energy and has it’s own unique vibration. The way the stones resonate with you helps you learn about yourself , as well as helps you to identify what is going on in your life and what needs healing and balancing. Crystal readings are a great way to get clarity on any issues you are experiencing. Crystal readings can also help you to know what crystals you should wear or carry at this time to assist you in improving any situation. A Crystal reading can help you release energy blockages and bring healing and balance back to your life.

My intent is to offer an opportunity to gain clarity and insight into the questions and issues that are present in your life through the use of crystals and gemstones. Crystal readings are a fun and light-hearted way of experiencing the energy of the mineral kingdom.

 I will also be selling my assortment of hand selected, high energy Crystals, Gemstones, and Jewelry. I have been buying and selling crystals and stones for more than 20 years. I’ve made great contacts with gemstones dealers from around the world. I look for the best quality, highest energy and fair prices. It is always so much fun to watch someone interact with a stone and know that they must have that stone. Feeling the stone’s subtle vibration, a connection to its energy is made, sometimes through a sensation, heat, coolness or just plain “knowing”

If you are in the Key West area please come join us.

Island Alchemy is a center for self-emergence, a place of holistic healing, inspiration and artful events, located at 1204 Simonton St in Old Town Key West.

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Selling my jewelry at the art fair

March 2nd, 2009
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A beautiful day in the Florida Keys

A beautiful day in the Florida Keys

Selling jewelry, crystals, gemstones and minerals at shows is so much fun. This weekend I displayed my collection of treasures at a local art show, sponsored by the local art gallery “ Artist in Paradise” here on Big Pine Key. The day was warm and breezy, one of those #10 days we like to boast about here in the Keys. Attendance was good as people milled about, perusing the art and crafts of local Keys artists.

What I like so much about exhibiting at art shows is meeting the people who buy my jewelry and stones. Watching the responses as folks pick up a stone or place a necklace around their neck completes the connection for me. We get to talk about how the stones make them feel, what attracts them to a certain piece. I can learn what people are looking for. I often get requests to make up something special for specific occasions or situations.

I’ve been asked to make a special healing necklace for someone who is working at a very stressful job. She said she wanted something to help her remain calm and peaceful, yet at the same time allow her to feel energized so she can get through the work day. Together we chose some gemstone beads, Ruby, Larimar, Kyanite, Rhodocroscite. The combination that was picked was not something that I would have put together based on design or color. This necklace is being designed solely by the different energies of the stones she needs at this time. Not only will it be enjoyable to make, it will offer her some needed energy.

I feel much gratitude to all of those people who passed by my display booth this weekend. Supporting local artists by making the choice to buy handmade items is a priceless experience.

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How to create a relaxing bath using gemstones

January 30th, 2009
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As part of my yoga practice I am doing a 2 week cleanse to help detoxify my body from all the holiday eating or should I say over eating! I am following the Ultra Simple Diet by Dr Mark Hyman:, check out his blog: http://www.ultrawellness.com/blog

Dr Hyman recommends taking detox baths at the end of every day. I love these quiet, relaxing baths, but I created my own recipe for relaxation while in the tub.

I add the gemstone Lepidolite to my bath water. Lepidolite is known for its calming and relaxing properties. Lepidolite can relieve tension and stress in the body and help sooth frayed nerves.

My simple relaxing bath recipe:

  • Place a piece of Lepidolite into the tub allowing the water to run over it as the tub fills. If you have more than one piece you can add them too. Just be sure you don’t lose them down the drain when you let the water out.
  • Add pure Lavender essential oil, about 10 drops
  • Add 1 Cup sea salt
  • Light a candle and dim the lights
  • Soak 15-20 minutes

As I soak I rub the smooth Lepidolite stones over the parts of my body that feel the most tense. I especially like to rub the stone around my face. It works to smooth the wrinkles and fine lines.

ENJOY!

Soothing Lepidolite
Soothing Lepidolite

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Beads, Beads and more Beads

January 11th, 2009
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Beads, beads & more beads

I am shopping. Shopping for gems, beads and jewelry at the Gem and Lapidary wholesale show in Orlando, FL. I visited table after table covered with all different shapes, sizes and textures of beads. Everything from A-Z is here. I found some really nice Lapis from Afghanistan, in shapes I hadn’t had before. I came across some citrine ovals. They will be used in an abundance necklace, I have been wanting to create. Because I bought many strands I was able to get them at a good price, which will make the abundance necklace very affordable. That is what makes going to a gem show so much fun, you never know what you will find, and sometimes you find real bargains.
Not only did I find beads, I found some exceptional pendants to create into necklaces. A Wonderful carved Quan Yin made from orange Carnelian and a Buddha carved from Nephrite Jade. From a Tibetan dealer I purchased some beautiful handmade Tibetan beads made with old Tibetan Turquoise.
With February just around the corner, I stocked up on hearts in a variety of gemstones, and bought pounds of rough Rose quartz, the stone of love. I am going to place some around the entrance to my home, creating a vortex of healing love energy.
I am going home with new treasures, I can’t wait to sit down at my work table and begin creating with these new gems. Inspired and ready to begin the new year with new ideas and creativity.

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