Crystals Empower The Physician Within

By Lydee Ritchie

Crystals empower the physician within.

In my practice as an energy worker, I have found that the healing properties of crystals can be gentle, yet powerful, when coupled with positive thinking and the will to change one’s life. I have countless clients tell me how their anxiety, depression, stress, and anger deescalate when they pick up their crystals, take deep breaths, quiet the mind, and come back to the present where they can use their free will and choose to let go, forgive, and bring in peace and happiness.

What are healing crystals? Crystals are living beings from the mineral kingdom. They are natural solids baked in the opu (belly) of Mama Aina (earth). As there are many different types of plants and animals, each crystal has its own color, shape, and size due to its precise and repeating atomic arrangement. Some are very old, created during the age of the dinosaurs. Some are younger, bred with fallen meteorites from other planets, or born out of Mother Earth’s volcanic eruptions.

How do crystals work? Crystal healing is “vibrational medicine,” a term coined in the 1970s by IBM researcher Marcel Vogel. It happens within the human energy system – the mana, prana, chi, chakras, meridians, nadis, and auras. Some believe certain stones can alter the vibration of the body’s molecules by attuning and entraining

Summer-Fall Crystals

By Philip Permutt

The stones I love to work with during the summer toward the fall season are associated with the astrological sign of Cancer and Leo. They usually are yellow, orange, and red, which are colors related to the root, sacral, and solar plexus chakras. The summer’s sun reflects the warmth of these stones, from which their crystalline properties can help balance the chakras. The colors and crystals are also associated with our connections with family, loved ones, and community, as well as with Mother Nature and the diverse parts of our Inner Selves.

What’s In The Grid?

Cancer and Leo stones: Golden calcite, center sphere, helps improve fertility, the reproductive system, bone growth, and calcium deficiency. It brings stability and balance.

Citrine, pointers, is considered the money stone that brings abundance and wealth. It is good for the digestive system, as well as helps bring positivity and helps raise your self-esteem and confidence.

Carnelian is one of my “energy” stones that gives me motivation and creativity. It helps with study, memory, inspiration, and speech, and is also good for live performers. Singers like Adele put Carnelian in their bras to help with confidence, protection, and grounding down.

Libyan Gold Tektite brings connection with distant friends and family. It is used for telepathy, ESP, psychic surgery, distant healing and to contact with other worlds.

Ruby brings health, balance, energy, wealth, abundance, knowledge, creativity, longevity, passion, and protection. It helps stabilize menstrual cycles and the health of the immune and circulatory systems.

Moonstone helps you relax and calm down. It is used for vitality, fertility, pregnancy, childbirth, female hormones, menstrual cycles, and menopause. It brings forth positive changes and new beginnings, and is a good luck and protection stone for travelers. (Source: The Crystal Healer by Philip Permutt) them to the flawless energetic perfection of the crystals. Crystal healing occurs further through an electrical charge within the physical body. The focused thought and intent of the one facilitating treatment can direct this: such as a Reiki practitioner, as requested and intended by the receiver: the client. A basic rule of thumb: Crystals must be used only for one’s highest good and with permission from the client.

Safety Note: Crystals are not intended to replace the diagnosis of illness, ailments, healing, or medicine. Always consult your doctor or other health professionals in the case of illness.

Most often, people use crystals for self-healing. I often place a Herkimer Diamond, Lemurian, or fluorite over my third eye to clear out blockages and to get clarity on a situation. I see it as allowing the crystal’s sacred geometry – beautiful patterns that never atrophy – to retune brain waves, thoughts, and vibrations that are out of sync with peace, joy, and happiness. It’s an energy tune-up. We all live in flux, influenced by how we think and feel.

Often, we slack off or tighten up and get out of tune. It’s like using a tuning fork for our chakra petal strings, bringing back harmony, balance, and good health. Crystals help us with shining our light from within, and entraining with our Higher Self.

As a working psychotherapist for nearly 20 years, I’ve witnessed the importance of talk therapy. I also enjoy energy healing by meditating with crystals. My clients who do mindfulness techniques with me have improved even beyond what talk therapy can offer, as they trust the vibrational medicine from the Aina to help them override negative thoughts and stuck phantom energies in their painful bodies and looping minds.

Lydee Ritchie is sponsoring an opportunity to become a certified crystal healer, with a rare opportunity to attend the Crystal Healer Retreat with Philip Permutt, held at Lumeria Maui Educational Retreat Center Aug. 25 -28. Additional workshops are offered Sept. 2-3. For more information, visit www.crystalsusa.com, or email lydeemaui@gmail.com.

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By Taryn Kama

If you’re looking to cultivate a healthy water sports habit, consider wing foiling.

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