How do Healing Crystals Work?
Healing with gemstones, how it works
article by Benjamin Dean
How in the world can a rock help us to
heal? The idea of a stone healing a human being must seem ridiculous to
anyone who has yet to experience it.
Anything and everything is a potential
healer. To understand this, it is important to first have some sense of
how the natural holistic healing process works. First off, when we speak
about the body, we are including the subtle bodies (i.e. the physical,
mental, emotional, and even spiritual bodies). Some things are obvious,
and some things are subtle (less obvious). “Subtle bodies” is just
another way of referring to the experience that surrounds your thoughts,
feelings, nuances, and emotions.
Keep in mind that our entire bodily
system is nothing more than energy that shows up in various patterns and
densities. Our thoughts and our feelings are connected to our physical
bodies and have a density of their own. We are all built pretty much the
same. Diversity has its place, and we are all individuals, yet nature
created patterns that work the same in all of us to keep our hearts
beating, our blood flowing, and so on. When these patterns of energy
work together in a balanced way then we experience our health.
These patterns can be disrupted. When
this happens we experience poor health. This can be anything from a
headache to the worst that you can imagine in terms of poor health, even
disease. Hence the popular splitting of the word (dis-ease) for harmony
feels good and disharmony doesn’t. Balance is easy on us, and
imbalances feel not at ease, or dis-eased. Nature will heal itself if it
can. It will if we let it. It is ourselves who distort this harmony
with our lop-sided outlooks and behavior. Correcting this lop-sidedness
one way or another is what healing is all about. Healing it in a natural
way is much preferred.
Anything with an inherent harmony can act
like a tuning fork to our poor patterns and challenge us to retune
ourselves to return to the original organic natural patterns of energy
that belong to our bodies. A good piece of art can work wonders, as well
as music, dance, a pleasant person, or anything else exhibiting
integrity in terms of energy patterns. Anything can heal us if we are
open to suggestion by external tuning fork of another’s harmony.
Receptivity is a necessity. Being open to it is the key.
Gemstones radiate pure patterns.
Gemstones resonate with unmatched consistency. Gemstones sing their
incredible songs of structure, balance, wavelength and frequency and can
bring us back into harmony. Raw energy establishes patterns on an
initial primal scale when it takes the form of subatomic particles.
These particles combine and cooperate to produce atoms, molecules and
minerals. Mother Nature ushers forth all that is possible in the natural
world, building up its complexity from the mineral kingdom to the plant
kingdom and on to the animal kingdom. As human beings, our bodies are
an incredible and complex masterpiece of nature’s organization and
balance.
Plants also have their healing
properties. They too perform a special magic in terms of reminding the
body of harmonic patterns in regards to fluidity and flow. There energy
is a moving one, while gemstones remain relatively the same and whose
patterns are incorruptible. Each has its place. Herbal remedies are more
connected to the sophistication of feelings with their fluid nature.
Gemstones are more suited to tune the inherent pattern and are a
reliable and consistent source of pure frequency and pattern. How does
all this work on our bodies?
Nature repeats itself over and over
again. Once it finds a pattern that works, it builds on it. Every
kingdom and species less complex than our human form is in a sense a
testing field for patterns and systems that work. We are all us, the
entire natural world built with the same patterns—the same materials.
This is how we can heal each other. The patterns are the same, yet the
integrity can falter. Getting close to beings with a high integrity is
good for us, and helps us to align to that integrity.
Each stone resonates with a slightly
different pattern geometrically. These same geometric patterns reside in
our systems, organs, etc. To hold a Rose Quartz up to our heart is to
ask the structural patterns active in our subtle bodies to align
themselves and operate effortlessly and with purity. Any unresolved
heart issues will be challenged to break up, allowing us to let go of
whatever is distorting our energies. One often experiences a flash of
imagery around the past experience that initially caused the distortion.
Gemstones are living creatures. They are
active participants in nature. Protons, neutrons and electrons are
flying around in an absolute bliss of balance and participation,
upholding patterns of sacred geometry. Yes, geometry is sacred because
nothing could be built in the natural world without it. Biology is math.
Nature is an exploration of possibility through patterns that work in
balance, creating the living, behaving, and interactive world that we
all live in—in and through.
Healing is often a matter of recovering
our bodies inherent harmony by letting go of what we are holding onto—
our own ideas about how, where, when, what and why—mental frameworks
that have us behaving in inorganic ways. Our organic ways are right
there to be expressed and experienced effortlessly. Mother Nature takes
care of it all, if we can only learn to respect her and surrender to her
wisdom—the wisdom of spontaneity, joy, accepting all others as equal,
and together sharing in her abundance.
- Benjamin Dean
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Black Tourmaline
(Schrol)
Introduction to Meaning and Uses of Black Tourmaline
Ancient magicians relied upon Black
Tourmaline, known as Schorl, to protect them from earth demons as they
cast their spells. Today this stone is still revered as a premier
talisman of protection, a psychic shield deflecting and dispelling
negative energies, entities, or destructive forces. It guards against
radiation and environmental pollutants, and is highly useful in
purifying and neutralizing one’s own negative thoughts and internal
conflicts, and turning them into positive, usable energy. [Eason, 204][Raphaell, 132][Ahsian, 407]
Black Tourmaline is also a powerful
grounding stone, electrical in nature, providing a connection between
Earth and the human spirit. Its supportive energy aligns the energy
centers of the body and channels healing light throughout the system. It
promotes a sense of power and self-confidence, allowing for a clearer,
more objective view of the world. It is empowering to those who must
live or work in challenging environments or when facing difficult
circumstances. [Eason, 204][Simmons, 406][Raphaell, 132][Hall, 298]
Although Tourmaline may be found on every
continent, fine crystal specimens and gems are still considered rare
and can be quite expensive. Its vast popularity as a gemstone began in
1876, when mineralogist and jeweler George Kunz sold a Green Tourmaline
from Maine to the famous Tiffany and Co. in New York, and its
desirability spread. More recently it has become a favorite of
metaphysical collectors and practitioners for its versatile energy
properties. [Simmons, 406]
Tourmaline belongs to a complex family of
aluminum borosilicates mixed with iron, magnesium, or other various
metals that, depending on the proportions of its components, may form as
red, pink, yellow, brown, black, green, blue or violet. Its prismatic,
vertically striated crystals may be long and slender, or thick and
columnar, and are uniquely triangular in cross-section. They often vary
in coloration within a single specimen, lengthwise or in cross sections,
and may be transparent or opaque. The name Tourmaline comes from an
ancient Sinhalese word turmali, meaning “a mixed color precious stone,” or turamali, meaning “something small from the earth.” [Mella, 110][Simmons, 406][Megemont, 182]
The most common species of Tourmaline is
Schorl, which accounts for ninety-five percent of all Tourmaline in
nature. It is black, or sometimes a blue so deep it appears to be black.
The term Schorl was in use before the 1400s, named for a town in Saxony, Germany, where Black Tourmaline was found in nearby tin mines. [wikipedia.org]
Needles of Black Tourmaline, or Schorl,
can also be found embedded in clear Quartz, called Tourmalinated or
Tourmalated Quartz. The combination of clear white and radiant black are
believed to create a perfect polarity of energies, a manifestation of
light and dark forces united together for a common goal. It is regarded
as a symbol of great fortune and is not carried as an ongoing charm, but
when specific good luck is needed. [Raphaell, 132][Eason, 132]
One of Tourmaline’s most distinguishing
properties is its ability to become electrically charged simply by
heating or rubbing it. When charged, one end becomes positive and the
other negative, allowing it to attract, or repel, particles of dust or
bits of paper. This property of pyroelectricity (from heat) or
piezoelectricity (from pressure or rubbing) was well-known to the Dutch
traders of the 1700s who used Tourmaline to pull ash from their
Meerschaum pipes, calling the stone Aschentrekker, or “ash puller.” [Simmons, 406]
Black Tourmaline Uses and Purposes - Overview
Tourmaline is a shamanic stone, providing
protection during ritual work. It can be used for scrying, and was
traditionally used to point out a cause of trouble or an offender, and
to indicate a good direction in which to move. [Hall, 297]
To use Black Tourmaline in purification and protection rituals, create a
ring of eight small natural tumblestones for a protection circle or
place upon an altar. [Eason, 204]
Black Tourmaline is an excellent
grounding crystal for meditation and healing, and a small number of
Black Tourmalines are double-terminated, ideal for body layouts. The
linear flow of energies is enhanced equally in both directions along the
crystalline form. [Simmons, 407]
Black Tourmaline soothes panic attacks,
especially those caused by dark or confined spaces, or in places where
the atmosphere is frightening. It also helps control fears of doctors or
dentists. [Eason, 204]
Wear this crystal for protection against
moaners, whiners, complaining neighbors or emotional vampires who burden
you with their problems but do nothing to improve their situations. [Eason, 204]
In the workplace, hold Black Tourmaline
for a few minutes when you need to wake up your mind or when you need
full concentration. It provides an excellent shield against
environmental pollutants, electromagnetic smog, and radiation associated
with cell phones, computers, and other electronic equipment. [Eason, 204][Hall, 298] It is a professional support stone for miners and telephone workers. [Mella, 132-133]
In industry, Tourmalines are highly
valued as electrical tuning circuits for conducting television and radio
frequencies. They are used for their durability since high frequencies
can be passed through them without shattering, as many crystals do. [Mella, 110]
Tourmaline strengthens the sense of
smell, and in that respect, can also enhance the perception of
pheromones which produces an aphrodisiac effect.
Tourmaline is specifically used to treat motion sickness. It may also assist in restoring luster and shine to hair and nails.
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