Crystal Healing

The concept of stones having metaphysical properties which can help and heal humans is not a modern invention: it goes back millennia. The High Priests of Israel wore ceremonial armour containing stones valued for their mystical and protective properties, according to the Old Testament.

The principles of crystal healing involve the resonance of crystals with particular frequencies depending on their internal structure and their colour. Used in harmony with the body's energies, they can help to balance and unblock them to lead to better physical and emotional health. Crystal healing is non-invasive and is done with the recipient fully clothed.

The healing can take place by laying crystals in a grid around the body to help with certain states of mind or conditions, or by laying them on the body. This is often done using the "chakras" or energy vortexes: according to ancient Indian tradition, there are 7 main chakras and numerous smaller ones. Each of the main ones resonates with a particular colour and is associated with various physical and mental states, as outlined briefly below:

By placing crystals of the appropriate colour on each chakra, the energy can be brought back into balance and the client's well-being improved. If the client has a particular affinity with one or more stones (for example, if they are lacking self-esteem and feel rose quartz helps with their confidence) I will happily create crystal jewellery from that stone so it can be worn often to bring its benefit to the wearer. It can be used on its own, or in combination with other therapies: I sometimes use it combined with reiki.

I know some people will be sceptical of healing in this way, so I am including a couple of examples of how it has helped people, in my own experience:

S. came to me with a torn ligament in her foot. It was making life hard for her as she teaches dance and could barely walk, let alone dance. We hadn't a lot of time so I put appropriate crystals on her chakras, and because Carnelian (orange) is recommended for ligaments I gave her one to take with her, to put on her sacral chakra and on her sore foot.

Two days later I texted her to see how she was going. I got this reply:

"It works, been dancing, great stuff!"

W. came to me one Friday with a very sore shoulder and neck. Although she was primarily having a reiki treatment, I was fairly sure her problem was due to an imbalance in her throat chakra. This relates to communication and holding in what we want to say instead of letting it out, and she had been getting very frustrated in her work and not able to express this. I therefore put blue and turquoise crystals at her neck and throat to enhance the reiki's effect there.

She was intending to go to her G.P. with this problem on the Monday but phoned me on the Tuesday and said:

"I didn't go, it's completely cleared up!!"

Earthereal would like to stress that crystal and reiki healing are complementary therapies and not intended to replace conventional medicine in any way.