The crystals can be used as an aid to evolution, healing, etc...for some people who evolve by certain methods.

Crystals are not a must for all types evolution and healing methods. However, the knowledge about crystals is an added advantage and may be useful in certain situations.

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What are Crystals?

Crystals are solids that form by a regular repeated pattern of molecules connecting together. In some solids, the arrangements of the building blocks (atoms and molecules) can be random or very different throughout the material. In crystals, however, a collections of atoms called the Unit Cell is repeated in exactly the same arrangement over and over throughout the entire material.

Because of this repetitive nature, crystals can take on strange and interesting looking forms, naturally. When we grow crystals we are separating all the building block molecules into individual units in water and letting them fall naturally into their appropriate place in the repetitive structure as the water evaporates. According to Drunvalo Melchizedek, crystals are alive and conscious. In science, carbon is associated with all organic chemistry and everything that is alive. Right below carbon on the periodic table is Silicon, which is the primary element of quartz crystal. Silicon actually displays the same exact principles of life than carbon does and both carbon and silicon are the only two elements known to create life. There are even some living life-forms in the ocean that are completely made of silicon and no carbon. Crystals are conscious living things. Crystals are powerful enough to pick up electromagnetic signals and frequencies, they are also able to pick up human thoughts and frequencies. They are also indispensable elements used in computers today. Crystals can hold thought patterns and programs forever. Crystals can help people intensify an affirmation or intention. They can help put the chakras of the human body into balance and help heal the body. Each crystal has different properties, since they may vibrate at different frequencies. Some help with meditation, while others may protect someone or help someone feel grounded. Each gemstone is also associated to a particular planet and astrological sign. Different crystals have many different healing properties and certain crystals are associated to particular organs or parts of the body. Crystals will help raise your vibration, so their effect is always positive.

USES OF CRYSTALS ARTICLE WRITTEN BY PHYLLIS GALDE.

Perhaps the greatest value of crystals is their use in healing. They have long been known for their curative effects when used in the preparation of tinctures; for their protective characteristics when worn as amulets and talismans; and for their ability to enhance the energy fields of the body as they emit uniform vibrations. They have the power of a living stone. The energy field of this quartz, called piezoelectricity, is a major contributor to our communication systems. Computers, sonar, watches, radio stationsall use this amazing and constant, undeviating energy field. The piezoelectrical property of crystals means that they are capable of holding an electrical charge, and because of this quality, these minerals amplify healing work or meditation, which in turn speeds up the process. Quartz is the most economical source of this energy. To reduce the cost even further, laboratories are growing quartz from a slice of the real thing. It has been found that the laboratory grown specimens are the preferred kind. They are better because they are more uniform, clearer, and of a higher quality. Crystals store and conduct energy. They can even absorb one kind of energy and emit another when squeezed, heated or cooled. Quartz crystal absorbs both magnetism from the Earths core and radiation from the Sun, and then emits that energy. Kirlian photography has recorded this energy emission, which appears in photographs as a white-light aura radiating from a blue star center. The energy radiant from clear quartz and other crystals is resonant with the human aura; this is its healing attribute. The resonance occurs rapidly, within a few moments of holding a crystal or gemstone in the hand. Energy from crystals passes through and penetrates all matter, even into human cells. Crystal energy transmission has a magnetic polarity similar to the natural aura polarity used in laying on of hands. Its strong ability to match aura energy and resonate with it makes crystal a powerful healing tool. Clear quartz contains the greatest human resonance and the ability to transmit any color, to focus a chosen strand of its rainbow white light spectrum and use it to transmit, store, duplicate and magnify color and aura polarity. An interesting phenomenon happens when you begin to work with crystalsfor whatever reason. You will start becoming aware of an energy or force greater than what you presently contain. This force has been called your

Higher Self, and it encompasses "that which you are capable of becoming. "It is your perfected self. Quartz crystals, in their wonderfully helpful way, will help you tune in to this higher aspect of yourself.

Crystals in Healing Noted healers have demonstrated that crystals can be used to accelerate bone and wound healing, relieve pain, and bring catastrophic illness into remission. Although it is said by some that there are no powers whatsoever in the crystal because it is a neutral object, its inner structure exhibits a state of perfection and balance. When a crystal is cut to the proper form, and the human mind enters into a relationship with its structural perfection, the crystal emits a vibration which extends and amplifies the powers of the healers mind. Like a laser, it radiates energy in a coherent, highly concentrated form, and this energy may be transmitted into objects or people at will. When people become emotionally distressed, a weakness forms in their subtle energy body, and disease may soon follow. With a properly attuned crystal, a healer can help release negative patterns in the energy body, allowing the physical body to return to a state of wholeness. When healers attune their minds lovingly with a crystal, they become one with the Divine Mind, which has imprinted its consciousness in the precise, geometrical form of that structure. Healers use crystals because the crystal is the most perfectly organized state of matter existing in nature. It is precise, regular, and free from imperfections and impurities. If people tune in to the perfection of the crystal, they can become perfect themselves. One method of crystal healing is to tune in to the energy field of the crystal lovingly, projecting your energy into the crystal, resonating in harmony with the crystal. When you (the healer) feel the crystal is charged, scan the body of the person, being sensitive to areas of obvious imbalance where healing energies should be directed. A good focal point is the heart chakra, where through visualization the problems intuitively felt can be brought to awareness. Then snap the crystal, like a whip cracking (by flicking the wrist and hand holding the crystal), releasing the negativity that was held in the subtle body. The crystal can take the feeling of love in the healers heart and amplify it so a concentrated stream of energy is emitted from the crystal for use in healing. This amplified energy field can help persons dislodge inhibitions which block the flow for their higher life energies. The crystal works in much the same way that a laser does: It takes scattered rays of energy and focuses them. It makes the energy field coherent and unidirectional so that a tremendous force is generated. When used with love, the crystal unites the energies of the mind. It brings these energies into a pattern, exactly fitting the life energies of the person seeking to be healed, and then amplifies them for the healing. To use the crystal effectively, it is necessary to turn off the rational mind, so you may enter a right-brain meditative state and intuitively tune into the energies focused by the crystal transmitter. There are many methods of uses for crystal healing. Perhaps the best advice to follow is to listen to your own intuition. Use what works best for you. Practice on yourself and people close to you. Meditate and listen to what the voice within gently suggests to you. The general size of crystal to use for healing is whatever fits comfortably in the palm of your hand, or, what you are attracted to use. Its size is not so important as the feel or essence of it. It isnt necessary to have a large piece of quartz; a small piece will suffice in most cases. Some possible methods for healing are to place crystals or gemstones on the seven main chakra points. Place a

crystal anywhere on the body where there is a pain or discomfort. Also, a crystal can be held near the source of pain and rotated in a clockwise motion to draw out the problem. Snap the crystal to get rid of the unwelcome vibrations. Single crystals can be placed near the soles of the feet and the palms of the hands to draw out blocks and balance energies. Crystals are excellent biofeedback tools, and work well with creative visualization for mood and body changes. When feeling cold or chilled, hold a crystal in the left hand and draw warmth. Do this in a color meditation with deep breathing, drawing in the energyvisualized as the color red through the left side of the body, in a circuit coursing through the body that releases it from the right side to the Earth or sky. Continue doing this for several minutes until you feel warm. This works for cooling with blue as well. For cheering, draw yellow in the same way; for calming, draw violet or indigo. Body metabolism and heart rate can be raised or lowered by this, an effect already familiar to those who have used deep breathing. Use crystals in visualizations, affirmations, and rituals to amplify and intensify what is being done. Generally, use a crystal in the left hand to receive energy, and in the right hand to send it, but this can be opposite in some people. Experiment and learn what works best. Crystals can relieve pain almost magically. In another self-healing exercise, hold a crystal in the left hand, feel the energy polarity build from it; place the right hand gently on a pain area and hold it there. The pain is usually gone within half an hour. A different method recommends that you set the crystal directly on the pain area; hold it flat in the palm of the hand with the thumb; or grip it between the fingers, pointing downward. When you remove the crystal, the pain goes away. Crystals can be used effectively in aura reading and aura healing. Hold a crystal in whichever hand feels correct, and scan the aura of the person from the head down to the toes. Feel for heat, tingling, cold, resistance. When you encounter these, rotate the crystal counterclockwise and touch the tip to the area. This energizes the aura. A clockwise motion takes energy out. After you have gone down the front and the back of the person, brush down the aura to cleanse and seal the chakras.

Why Crystals Have Healing and Ascension Properties

How crystals heal us in the various ways that they are known for or how they help us to vibrate at different frequencies. To answer these types of questions is to show how science and metaphysics agree with each other and discuss all the ways that science is now finally catching up to metaphysics. "Science and religion are not enemies. There are some things that science is simply too young to understand" . We tend to think that we have power or dominion over "lesser" kingdoms such as minerals, however, when contrasted; we are relatively short-lived, quite unsteady and easily energetically influenced due to our emotions, which are simply energy. The human body's vibrations can move out of its base resonance frequency very easily when we experience any type of stress. Actually, since we are connected and influenced by everything, including crystals and stones, our malleable vibrational nature makes it so that just about anything can interact with our energy field and can leave its mark! The abilities to heal and vibrate at the correct frequencies are already present within the cells of your body just waiting to oscillate with the correct frequencies.

I promise not to bore you with too much physics! However, a little bit of physics will really help you to understand the reasons why the crystals and stones work. In addition, many times, knowing "why" really boosts the effectiveness of a process' abilities. Where thought goes, energy flows. Quantum physics has proven to us that our conscious thoughts influence the actions of subatomic particles; therefore, it goes without saying that we are creating our own reality with our thought patterns. It's important to realize that the entire physical universe is made up of pure energy and vibration. In fact, Einstein determined that energy and matter are actually one in the same. E=mc2! So crystals have vibrations just as everything else does and different forms of matter and energy vibrate at different vibrational frequencies, known as their individual base resonant frequencies. These different frequencies depend on the crystal's specific molecular composition, size, thickness and color (light frequencies). This frequency is expressed in units called hertz (Hz). That wasn't too bad, right? Being that they vibrate, crystals are a kind of vibratory tool. One of the unique features of crystals is that their molecules are arranged in a fixed, regularly repeating pattern. Since they are so geometrically perfect, they have the lowest possible state of entropy and easily maintain their base resonant frequency, unlike us. One of the unique features of crystals is that their molecules are arranged in a fixed, regularly repeating patterns. Since they are so complex and geometrically perfect, they have the lowest possible state of entropy and easily maintain their base resonant frequency. Crystals, in turn, entrain the cells around them, creating this state of greater complexity and reducing entropy in so doing, increasing the health and longevity of the body. Now, let me preface the rest of this article by saying that crystals and stones are healing and ascension reinforcements and do not do all the work all by themselves. The person needing the healing needs to put their intentions towards their goal. Where thoughts go, energy flows or as the Buddhist message says, "Reality exists only where we create focus." Stones and crystals can facilitate this endeavor. The crystals and stones are not the cause of your healing, but rather they are tools that support and amplify your self-rule and clear intentions. Of course, if you cannot resonate with this information and think this will not work for you then that is exactly what you will manifest. This will not work for you. Your intention and your intuition are the most powerful factors of whether crystals and stones will work for you. Please allow me to discuss just a bit more science behind the crystals to help us understand how they work. I promise to try not to geek out too much on you. You may already be familiar with the fact that quartz crystals, rubies, tourmaline, sapphires, emeralds and many other crystals are often used in technology. For instance, quartz crystals have a continuous vibrational frequency that never varies allowing them to operate at a very exact vibrational frequency. That non-varying pulsation emits programmed information into their environment making quartz a favorite for technology. Some crystals, again, such as quartz crystal, are also piezoelectric, meaning they take on an electrical charge when they are squeezed. The quartz clock is a very familiar device using quartz for this purpose. Some crystals are pyroelectric, meaning they take on an electrical charges when heated, like tourmaline. The core of the Earth itself is a huge iron moon-sized hexagon crystal, like a diamond in the center of the Earth. How nicely this fits with a common prescribed practice of using Hematite, an iron oxide mineral, to ground and anchor to Mother Earth our Earth Star and Root Chakra. The spinning of the Earth's layers around this massive iron crystal is what creates the Earth's powerful electromagnetic field. Stones and crystals are known to heal us, align our chakras or allow us to vibrate at a various rates. In order to achieve these results, you need to know what stones resonate at the correct frequency for what you are trying to achieve. One method of learning which stones resonate at that correct frequency is to turn to the ancients and their recorded information. Thankfully, much experimentation has already been done for thousands of years by the many ancient civilizations (ancient India, China, Egypt, Native American, Australian Aborigines, etc.) with the art of 'laying on of stones'. These civilizations have already figured out through much meditation and experimentation. They recorded what stones help with what needs or ailments. To go along with this, there are a multitude of highly recommended books written by respected authors on the subject that are usually primarily based on what the ancients have determined for us. A second way to work with crystals is to meditate with them. Since I feel that one's intention and intuition are the most powerful factor in whether crystals and stones will work for you, one can meditate

with a stone or crystal first and see what they pick up and relate with. Often times, people will receive information or specific types of energy when meditating with their stones. Some of this information may come over very powerfully. If this happens, cross reference the acquired messages with a highly recommended crystal/ stone reference books. You will find that it usually matches up. If, however the messages are different, go with the information you received in your meditation. Messages are usually more accurate for personal use and work more powerfully than anything found in a book. But you will only learn this through experimentation. A third way to work with crystals is to determine their elemental content. Often times, if you research the mineral and elemental content of the stone or crystal you will notice that it completely harmonizes with the messages you received during your crystal meditation. For instance, let's look at lepidolite (very pretty pinkish lavender mica stone; a potassium lithium aluminum silicateplease bare with me here). Let's just choose two of these elements to discuss. Potassium helps control the release of chemical messages to your brain while lithium, in small doses, helps to prevent episodes of frenzied moods. Lo and behold, we find that lepidolite is found to be important in balancing the emotional body and soothing the mind. What is happening here scientifically? Well, you are bringing the lepidolite into your electromagnetic field (EMF), which is strongest within a torus field (a 3D donut shape) of 4 feet around your body, but extends outward to about 12 feet. In metaphysics, this torus of energy is often referred to as your aura (I get so excited when we see the connections between science and metaphysics!!). So whenever you bring a crystal or stone into your EMF, the crystal or stone acts as an oscillator, in other words, a frequency stabilizer. The lepidolite has its own energy torus as well, which will entrain your more easily influenced EMF to resonate with it, vibrating certain frequencies within you that resonate with that stone. In the case of lepidolite, the potassium in it will resonate with the potassium within you. So your body will perceive that it has more potassium and will biochemically respond to that. The other elements present with lepidolite will do the same. In fact, there is a famous cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton who stated in his book The Biology of Belief that our own DNA has the ability to examine the surroundings for relevant frequencies and then reshapes itself accordingly. These effects will be multiplied if you are consciously directing your atoms, DNA and frequencies with purpose to move into resonance with lepidolite's atoms and frequencies. The resonating frequencies may actually remove obstructions in your aura (or EMF) or chakras by actually vibrating them free! If you place the lepidolite directly on your third eye chakra, that specific chakra vortex will seek to find resonance with the lepidolite. This vibrational resonance will make emotional and physical biochemical changes within your body as well as your EMF. Confirming this, Western medical researchers have discovered that the precise arrangement of matter (crystals, atmosphere, bacteria, other people, etc.) that is within your body's immediate environment (in your EMF torus) are interconnected with and influence the feelings and emotions you are experiencing. Another way we can determine resonant frequencies of stones is to match up their color with their corresponding chakra colors. Ensuring you use crystals or stones whose colors correspond with the chakra colors allows harmonizing photons of light to generate light color healing or therapy. This type of healing is achieved by introducing light of specific frequencies (colors) into someone's EMF which will in turn entrain their emotional and biochemical state. Again, many cultures knew and practiced this therapy and science has only recently begun to catch up. Let's use lepidolite for our example again. Lepidolite is our lavender, light purple or pinkish stone. It is often used for either the heart or third eye chakra. I would determine which chakra I used it for by looking at the specific color of the stone; if more pinkish, I would use it for the heart chakra and more purple, would be used on the third eye chakra. The heart chakra involves emotional issues and the third eye deals with releasing one's ego and acceptance of the soul so it only makes sense that lepidolite resonating with either the purple or pink frequency is known to help in balancing emotional extremes and to teach the mind to live in the "now". You may also choose to infuse a specific color into a person's entire EMF and not just focus on one chakra. Color therapy (chromotherapy) also works by permeating a particular light frequency (in the case of lepidolite, let's say pink light, fabric and surrounding one with pink colored lepidolite's) into one's EMF and surrounding environment. By doing this, you can change one's emotional and biochemical state in a powerful way. Finally, one more way that I feel crystals could work to heal our bodies is through a yet unnamed modality I will call crystal photon therapy, which also works with light, but in a slightly different way. This therapy is still in its infancy but is very promising. It's based off of a physics principle which states that as you approach the speed of light entropy in systems (such as the human body system) begins to

slow down and gets closer to zero decay the closer you get to the speed of light (or zero disease). This would mean disease reversing itself. Scientists have noted that when we are emotionally or physically healthy our biophotons, which are units of electromagnetic radiation in each of our cells and DNA, are high in number. When we are ill, these biophotons are low. When we work with crystals, we energize them (as they do us) bringing us closer to what some call "enlightenment". As a side note, this marvel concurs with many sacred traditions which state that at the most advanced stage of "enlightenment" our body is transformed to light energy, E=mc2. Now this energizing "enlightenment" allows the crystals we're working with to emit photons of light which can vary in intensity. Scientists have also discovered that an increase in oxygen also increases our biophotons. These excited biophotons may be yet another explanation for a strong, healthy, bright aura. Therefore, in my reasoning, working with oxygen based crystals, such as those in the quartz family, means we are surrounding ourselves with photons of light encased in oxygen atoms thereby supporting cellular repair and healing. Scientists have found cells (including DNA) 99% destroyed by UV light can be almost entirely repaired just by illuminating the cell with the same wavelength at a much weaker intensity. Therefore, if we increase the crystals in one's EMF we will increase the amount of photons inducing this powerful healing effect on the body and mind. In fact, scientists have started using various light tools to communicate the nutrient and mineral information in the form of light into the body, entraining it biochemically the same way as eating the nutrient or mineral would do, synchronizing with my earlier thoughts on working energetically with the elemental compounds within crystals. Once we understand how and why crystals work with our vibrational frequencies, we can clearly see that they can be used as very effective tools to help with healing and the ascension process. Through working with crystals and stones in the way that resonates best with us individually in our own spiritual practices we may work on our consciousness and ascension process. Remember, where thought goes, energy flows. In summary, 5 Ways to Work with Crystals and Stones Healing Properties: Turn to the ancients and their recorded information. In Hindu temples some of the statues of deities are made with certain crystals.(ancient India, China, Egypt, Native American, Australian Aborigines) Laying on of Stones. To go along with this, there are a multitude of highly recommended books written by respected authors on the subject. One's intention and intuition are the most powerful; meditate with a stone or crystal first and see what they pick up and relate with, cross reference the info. you receive Research the mineral and elemental content of the stone or crystal. Bringing the stone into your electromagnetic field (EMF), which is strongest within a torus field (a 3D donut shape) of 4 feet, allowing the crystal or stone to act as an oscillator, in other words, a frequency stabilizer. Your body will respond biochemically. Match up their color with their corresponding chakra colors. Colors allow harmonizing photons of light to generate light color healing or therapy. This type of healing is achieved by introducing light of specific frequencies (colors) into someone's EMF which will in turn entrain their emotional and biochemical state. Color therapy (chromotherapy) also works by permeating a particular light frequency into one's EMF and surrounding environment. By doing this, you can change one's emotional and biochemical state in a powerful way. Surround the body with quartz family crystals to increase biophotons and induce cellular and DNA repair and healing.

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