Meditating with crystals

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Meditating with crystals

 

Not everyone makes clear separations between meditation, visualization,

journeying and visions and the distinctions are sometimes unclear.

Meditation is usually centered on focusing and is not the same thing as

zoning out or daydreaming though these can also have value.

Meditation often opens the way for journeying or visions and may

include visual sensations . Guided visualization usually refers to a

relaxation or meditation form in which one is guided through a series

of experiences in a story like form.

There is a text on meditation in the zfiles of our list files page .

Meditating with crystals is to use crystals in general meditation or

specific meditations to enhance deepen or in some other way assist with

the meditation.

 

Clear quartz and other crystals and stones have been used to assist

and as a focus for meditation for a very long time .

Just focusing gentle attention on a clear quartz crystal can quiet the

mind and help bring mental clarity for problem solving.

When you have a particular problem take a few minutes to think about and

define the problem then gaze deeply into your crystal. Just allow your

thoughts to come and go as your mind stills you may find a solution if

not when you end the meditation just let the problem go quite often a

solution will pop into your head later .

 

Program single terminated crystals to help you meditate or to deepen

and enhance a particular meditation form . You can program a crystal to

help you reach deeper higher states of meditative awareness this is

said to greatly shorten the time it may take for you to achieve these

states (these may still take years ) These states are not to be thought

of as a goal of meditation and if you meditate with a crystal for this

purpose it is advised that you limit your use to about one third of the

time you spend in meditation weekly .

Other crystal programs could assist you with meditation such as

programs for relaxation or mental clarity and those to assist you in

experiencing a particular spiritual state or plane such as bliss, or

oneness with the divine, or unconditional love for example.

You can program a crystal to enhance any standard meditation such as

the diamond heart meditation in the files or other meditations.

You can program a crystal to hold the energy of a particular Tarot card

 

or spiritual passage and hold the crystal while meditating on that card

or text.

 

Sit with or hold a crystal chosen to harmonize with the form of the

meditation

rose quartz or kunzite for love and compassion meditations for example

citrine for bringing your personal will into harmony with your soul

purpose

and recognizing that purpose ,

green stones and /or amber or shells and fossils for meditations on

nature.

 

You may also use a crystal or stone as a focus to gaze on while

meditating

Place the crystal at a comfortable distance so that you can easily gaze

on or into it

relax and gaze into the stone, when your attention wanders just return

it to the stone

if it feels natural after a few moments you may close your eyes and

continue meditating

if you feel tension anywhere take a couple of deep breaths and relax

again and continue until you decide to finish by opening your eyes and

gazing on the crystal again .

 

Some people will tape an appropriate crystal to their brow to enhance

meditation.

You may prefer just to hold an agreeing crystal or stone to your

brow for a bit and then hold it in your hand or in your lap or set it

down nearby.

Besides clear quartz many of the blue and aqua and violet to purple

stones are commonly used this way to activate intuition and spiritual

connection but almost any stone can be meditated with, some more

effectively than others . some that are not of value for you will be

good for another person

Generally it is a good idea to use your intuition to determine if it is

of positive value to work with any particular stone at a given time this

way. Do not use a crystal if it does not seem harmonious.

Some people lie down to meditate and place crystals at the feet and

crown or at various points on the body often over some of the chakra

points

 

Many people like to sit within a circle of stones or crystals when they

meditate.

 

On occasions when you find it difficult to calm your mind for a

traditional meditation

you might find a variation of an altar or mandala making form relaxing

and healing

this is to take a large number of your stones and crystals and setting

them in front of you

then after taking a few deep breaths just move them around and form

them into patterns

before or around you this is a form of active contemplation which can

be of as valuable as receptive meditations .

 

Crystal Haven

This combines visualization with a meditation, select a fairly large

quartz crystal and begin with it in front of you or in your hands .

Breathe deeply, a traditional chi practice suggests that women imagine

the breath rising from the Earth and men imagine the breath flowing down

from above. Gaze into the crystal breathing slowly and deeply imagine

the crystal expanding and becoming larger imagine it growing to expand

gently around you so that you are sitting within the safety of the

crystal the light coming into the crystal illuminates your entire being

and fills you with peace and love, stay within the crystal breathing in

the light for as long as you wish then allow the crystal to move away

from you and return to its natural size.

 

Toning crystals are useful in any meditation form which uses sound such

as chanting toning

even listening trance and meditation music or drumming toning crystals

often look like small flatish lazar wands but are identified because

they help you when you tone or chant perhaps by allowing you to hold

notes longer or in some other way.

 

You may find a pair of singing crystals often these look a lot like

small lazar wand crystals

when they are gently rolled together in your hands these would make a

musical bell like sound that can help you enter meditation and deepen

trance or visualization states.

 

Many of the crystal books have suggestions for stones to use in

different meditations

there must be well over a thousand suggestions for meditation with

crystals in the most popular books alone.

some suggestions are

Celestite for Angel meditations

Fluorite can help with soul retrieval

rainbow garnet for monadic contact (the all knowing oneness)

Selinite for access to akashic records

 

We have separated meditating with crystals from the practice of

meditating on crystals Meditating on crystals is to meditate directly

on the crystal to find information about working with them or for some

other directly crystal related reason. We have discussed this a bit in

some of the posts on exploring crystals .

 

Solarraven PeggyJentoft

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