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.

 

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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