Crystal Healing for the Solar Plexus Chakra

Crystal Healing for the Solar Plexus Chakra

The Solar Plexus Chakra it is located beneath the sternum, below the heart and below the base of the rib cage.


It has 10 petals


It's governs the organs of the abdominal cavity the stomach, liver, gallbladder and the small and large intestine.


The endocrine gland is the pancreas.


It is associated with the lower astral/mental plane.


Colour for this Chakra is Yellow.


Crystal for this Chakra is Aragonite.


The lower emotions based on fear- anxiety, insecurity, jealousy, and anger are generated here.


This is the place of the wounded child, it can also be found in the sacral and base charkas as well. Its energies also affect the digestive system, the diaphragm and so the breathing.


The solar plexus chakra is the ruling and governing chakra in most people.


This charka's energies are the most influential, as they tend to permeate and influence the consciousness of most people.


If it is unbalanced it can have the effect in most cases that people are predominately influenced and ruled by their own selfish desires.


It can hold a lot of negative energy, due to a weakness in the personality.


A balanced solar plexus chakra radiates the qualities of pure devotion love and radiates a power within.


Energies from the solar plexus transfer to the third eye. It vibrates to a bright golden yellow.


Disorders that can be associated with an unbalanced Solar Plexus Chakra are:


Coeliac's Disease Diabetes Digestive Problems Gallstones Hypoglycemia Liver Disease Muscle Cramps Peptic Ulcer Pancreatic Disease.



The Solar Plexus Chakra is related to self-worth, personality, ego the way we see ourselves and others.


It is also connected to Self-centeredness and the need to dominate.


It is the center of personal power and intellect also our perceptions regarding control, freedom and power.


It gives us our get up and go attitude to life.


POSITIVES: Alert-Cheerful-Confident-Good Humor-Optimistic-Skillful-Spontaneous.


NEGATIVES: Depressed-Distrustful-Inferiority-Jealousy-Over Analytical-Pessimistic- Sarcastic.
The Sacral Chakra gives us the energy to turn desire into action.


You know that feeling you get when you feel like your get up and go has got up and gone well this the Chakra that is causing that feeling as this is our center for our sense of personal power, we will need to get it back into balance quickly.


A quick way to do this if you do not have easy access to crystals is to use laughter and fun this Chakra responds well to humor you can also do activities like jogging and running and also I have found letting out a really good primordial Yell!! works wonders


Colleen is the Author of 3 Crystal Healing Books and also a Crystal Healer and Teacher.


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What is an ion bracelet?

What is an ion bracelet?

The ion bracelet is a balance bracelet that contains mineral ionizers. The Tourmaline Bracelet, for example, is a processed combination of silicone rubber, titanium, tourmaline (a silicate mineral http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourmaline), and ceramic. The Tourmaline Bracelet closely resembles the Rayma bracelet. The only difference between the two is that the Rayma bracelet simply contains “special metals” which contain alternate types of mineral alloys. However, despite their differences in composition, these bracelets, along with almost all other ion bracelets, work on the exact same principles. These bracelets (along with necklaces, rice cookers, washing machines…) are primarily a product of Japan and are one of the numerous products associated with using “minus-ions.”


What does an ion bracelet do?

The purpose of the ion bracelet is to reduce pain and restore bodily energy. Golfers, for example, may use a bracelet to help relieve stresses in their wrists, which enables improvement of their golf swing.

How is the ion bracelet supposed to work?

The bracelet uses yin-yang therapy and what is known as the “autoinduction principle.” According to bracelet advertisers, the yin-yang ideal works by giving off specific alternating electrical currents (like your wrist). The currents are composed through different interactions between positive and negative ions.

Positive and negative ions are found everywhere—from the air, to the ground, and in our bodies. In salts, such as common table salt, sodium chloride (NaCl), the molecules are connected with ionic bonds. Once the bond is broken, (may it be through water, wind, or some other outside force) the salt forms a cation and anion. Cations are positively charged and anions are negatively charged ions. These different types of ions circulate all throughout our bodies and serve as everything from the constituents of our pH level, to chemical signals for proteins. (Tocci & Viehland, 1996)

According to advertisers, through the autoinduction principle, the bracelet absorbs the static electricity given off by the body in order to seek balance between these ions. Pain is caused by an imbalance when organs or tissues lose some of their energy. As energy is given off, it may fall within the bracelet’s range of frequency; then bracelet will give off an opposite form of energy. This process returns the organ’s or tissue’s energy to its original state, thus negating the pain.
http://healthpsych.psy.vanderbilt.edu/TourmalineResearch.htm

CHARM BRACELETS

CHARM BRACELETS


Beginning in the early years of the 20th century and extending until around 1960, it was a mark of middle-class properity that young girls be given a charm bracelet before they reached puberty and that at every holiday or anniversay, a new charm be added to the assemblage, often by the doting relative who had supplied the original bracelet. One suspects that jewelers were behind the craze, but in fact, the demand for charms is ancient; only this method of marketing them is relatively recent. Not all the charms on these bracelets were lucky emblems -- equally common were hobby-related and school-related charms. In fact, the multiplicity of charms available, and the mundanity of many of them -- a telephone, a car, a cheerleader's megaphone, a windmill -- served to devalue the word "charm" in the English language, so that today one may be misunderstood if one refers to "charms" when one means "amulets."

The 20th century American charm bracelet at left features a variety of lucky charms in a bright mix of brass, copper, sterling silver, and gold-plated metal.

This bracelet is typical of the kind of jewelry worn by adolescent girls in the 1950s and 1960s, collected charm by charm while travelling through the tourist traps, flea markets, jewelry stores, and yard sales of the heartland. It is, in fact, my very own charm bracelet! There are 13 charms on it, demonstating the use of "unlucky" 13 as reversed bad luck. Clockwise from the top, they are:

a silver heart engraved with initials: love for the named individual
a brass heart pierced by an arrow: smitten romantic love
a silver horseshoe: attraction or "drawing" luck
a gold wishbone set with a pearl: wishes come true
a silver horseshoe on which is placed a wishbone, a four-leaf clover, a horseshoe and the words "Good Luck": good luck
a gold and green enamelled four-leaf clover: luck
a silver money bag with a $ sign: wealth
a copper horseshoe on which is placed a four-leaf clover: good luck
a brass heart padlock: faithful love
a silver spread of playing cards: gambling luck
a gold double horseshoe set with an artificial diamond: money luck
a brass money bag marked 1000: wealth
a silver horseshoe: attraction or "drawing" luck
Other popular 20th century charms not depicted on this page but often found on European and American charm bracelets include:

a swastika: luck (pre-Hitlerian, of course)
twin hearts pierced by a single arrow: reciprocated love
an Amanita muscaria mushroom: luck
a chimney sweep or his ladder and brush: luck
a so-called "Lucky Buddha": luck
a black cat: gambling luck
Unrelated to European and American charm bracelets -- but probably made to meet Occidental rather than Oriental tastes -- are the so-called Chinese charm bracelets made with glass beads, jade carvings, and metal amulets strung on black cord and tied around the wrist.

http://www.luckymojo.com/charmbracelets.html

Quartz family

Blue Quartz’s main ingredient is Quartz.

The addition or inclusion of a blue colored element will turn the quartz a lovely blue shade.There are two types of Blue Quartz.

The first type is when Inclusions or impurities appear as phantoms or needle like pieces within the quartz crystal itself. The inclusions in this case would be Blue Tourmaline, also called Indicolite, or Magnesioriebeckite. The Blue Quartz inclusions are opaque (solid, no light can pass through) to translucent (permitting a small amount of light to pass through).The second type of Blue Quartz is what is called massive, or in laymen’s terms, a really big chunk of rock.

In this case, a large area of quartz is embedded during the growth process with blue minerals/crystals such as Dumortierite. This colors the entire specimen blue.

In other words, Quartz is the main ingredient and Dumortierite would be a secondary mineral.Many geologists will be careful to distinguish between Dumortierite and Dumortierite in Quartz. Dumortierite in quartz or more commonly known as Dumortierite Quartz is basically blue colored quartz with abundant, tiny crystals of Dumortierite included.

Dumortierite itself is pure, and not as an included mineral in another specimen.

Blue Quartz is a member of the Quartz family (SiO2) Silicon Dioxide with a hardness of 7. It is found in a variety of locations within the US, as well as Australia, Austria, Brazil, Zaire, Russia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
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Dumortierite

Dumortierite is a Boro-silicate mineral, which means simply that it has quite a few more “ingredients” in its make up.

Aluminum is the most prominent element here, with Boron, Silicon, Hydrogen and Oxygen playing the supporting roles.Dumortierite is a deep blue to violet in color and is sometimes called “Desert Lapis”. Dumortierite is also opaque (solid, no light can pass through) to translucent (permitting a small amount of light to pass through). Dumortierite can grow in a massive (huge chunks) formation, columnar (like tourmaline) or fiber like fans.

It may also contain other inclusions, such as Iron, Titanium, Magnesium or Calcium, which will add interesting spots or splotches to the specimen.In some respects, Dumortierite looks very similar to Sodalite. The difference in appearance is that Sodalite has white streaks, while Dumortierite does not.

In China, Dumortierite is often used as imitation Lapis Lazuli for carvings. It is very easy to see how this lovely piece can so readily be confused!Dumortierite is a Boro-silicate mineral (Aluminum, Silicon, Boron, Hydrogen and Oxygen).

It has a hardness of 7 - 8.5. Translucent to transparent gemmy variety is very rare. Dumortierite can be found in Australia, Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, Ukraine and the US.Blue Aventurine is the last in this series of our blue friends.

Aventurine, also called Aventurine Quartz is a member of the quartz family (Silicon Dioxide) that is colored blue by the presence of Copper Silicates. Blue Aventurine contains another ingredient or two that sets it apart from Blue Quartz. The additional inclusion of Mica and/or Pyrite may add a shimmer, sparkle or shine.

So, Blue Aventurine is a member of the Quartz family (SiO2) Silicon Dioxide that is colored by a variety of Copper Silicates with the additional shimmer (shiller) of Mica an/or Pyrite. How dark or how light the specimen is will depend on the amount/content of these Copper Silicates. Blue Aventurine has a hardness of 7, and can be opaque to translucent.

Aventurine can be found in Austria, Germany, India, Russia, South Africa and the US.

Source: healingcrystals.com