Honoring All Hallow's Eve: Intuition & Crystals to Enhance Mind Power

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Honoring All Hallow's Eve: Intuition & Crystals to Enhance Mind Power

Tuning in to any energy is the ability to quiet the mind, allowing your

inner self, or intuition, to perceive truth. By practicing this art, we

develop a sensitivity toward inner information and the ability to

condition our mind to listen on a much more subtle level. This

developing can allow us the ability to sense energy and actually

perceive on an even more subconscious plane.

Techniques are vast and varied and include Meditation, Yoga, Qi Qong,

Visualization, Physical Exercise, Prayer or your own personal

techniques, all of which can be used in calming and clearing the mind

and achieving clearer perception. Greater self control and self

balance, awareness, inner peace and connective energy to the source of

truth are all important in the path to attunement.

As our minds are conditioned to listen in silence, responses come quicker and clearer to us.

When we tend not to trust our intuition, there are two specific crystals which can help.

Crystals Associated with Intuition

The power behind Earth's minerals can be felt the minute you put a

crystal in your hands or near your physical body. Crystals are the

treasures of the earth. These stones are filled with energy to be used.

Some of the best crystals for intuition include: Blue Lace Agate,

Charoite, Hematite, Kyanite, Malachite, Moldavite, Petalite, Phenacite

and Tiger's Eye.

Blue Lace Agate Properties: Helps to focus on the inner source of love

within you that transforms and heals all wounds. Contains the qualities

of flight, air, movement, and grace. Highly inspirational when working

with the inner self. Works well with not only the Throat Chakra, but

the Heart, Third Eye and Crown Chakra. These stones (along with

malachite) assist in left/right-brain balance. Therefore, those who

feel stuck in their logical, rational selves can rebalance so that they

may hear their intuitive voices.

Charoite Properties: The stone of transformation. Charoite helps seeing

old patterns with new possibilities. It is believed to open the heart,

allow inspiration, encourage service, and grants us the ability for

seeing more clearly (mentally, physically, psychically). It is believed

that this stone brings about faster healing. Some find it useful for

entity release work. Most effective on the upper centers of energy,

which are the Heart, Brow and Crown Chakra to transmute/lift us out of

troubled or stuck emotions and most of all, fear. This brings about

vibrational change and therefore stimulates the Aura. Use this stone

for transforming negative energies into acceptance. Use Charoite to

assist in the foresight and ability to improve your intuitive vision.

Hematite Properties: This crystal is the most recommended stone for

grounding and is associated with the Root Chakra, by encourages ones

survival instincts and is centering. Hematite condenses scattered

feelings, turns fuzziness into mental clarity, enhances concentration,

memory, practicality, helps those who study, do bookkeeping, detailed

work and helps with sound sleep. Considered the symbol of life energy,

hematite allows for more confidence, will power and boldness. Helps us

adjust to being physical. A protective stone and helps bolster low

self-esteem. Hematite is known to deflect negativity. It restores

equilibrium, stability and is also used for astral protection. It

brings our awareness back to the body and helps one maintain their

sense of self.

Kyanite Properties: Kyanite is considered the "Earth Stone" due to its

soothing earth tone colors, as well as its grounding and tranquil

nature. The healing benefits depend on the color it comes in. Blue

Kyanite is most effective when placed on the Throat Chakra in order to

open the throat for communication and self expression. On the Brow

(Third Eye) Chakra, it enhances psychic images, foresight,

consciousness and meditation. Kyanite is used to answer questions,

especially in imagery, such as in vision, dreams or written

interpretations. It brings out our natural ability to manifest things

into reality via thoughts and visualization.

Malachite Properties: Stimulates physical and psychic vision and

concentration. Use for the heart and solar plexus centers. These stones

(along with blue lace agate) assist in left/right-brain balance.

Therefore, those who feel stuck in their logical, rational selves can

rebalance so that they may hear their intuitive voices.

Moldavite Properties: Powerfully expands psychic abilities, channeling.

On Heart Chakra. Eases longing to leave earth. On pillow, brow, crown:

Telepathic access to spiritual laws, info from higher regions/places to

help us and Earth to be healthier and more spiritual.

Petalite Properties: Petalite is highly spiritual. It has been called

the "stone of the Angels " and will help one connect with one's guides.

It is also said to dissolve negativity and black magic spells. Petalite

has been used on vision quests for strength, protection, and peace. It

will balance one's yin/yang qualities as well as one's mind, body, and

spirit. It also enhances one's ability to feel energy in stones.

Phenacite: Properties: A powerfully loving, healing, spiritual stone.

Clearer stones intensely opens 3rd eye, Crown and Transpersonal Chakra

as a white light channel. Clairvoyance/spiritual communication,

meditation, astral travel, journeys. Helps one to map out a pathway

within the dimensions. Energizes meridians and healing of other stones.

It is a powerful stone for clearing and activating the chakras, in

particular, the Third Eye and Crown chakras. It helps one to go further

in meditation, and gives a deep awareness of one's inner structures,

the chakras in particular. Phenacite in general can be used to amplify

the energies of other stones used for healing, and to balance energy

within one.

Tiger's Eye: Properties: This stone is most recognized for bringing

money, psychic protection, courage, luck confidence, willpower, clear

thinking and speaking to show us the personal power in life that we

have. Very versatile for the Yellow/Solar Plexus and Crown Chakra.

Tiger's Eye works on our mental plane by amplifying thinking and

manifesting what you think about. Helps separate thoughts from

feelings, more centered, less emotional. Tiger's Eye allows us to

recognize both our talents and our faults. It can reveal your true

needs without our self-serving or rigid mental attitudes getting in the

way. Use Tiger's Eye with malachite or pearl to benefit from their

synergy for mental/emotional balance and true understanding. This stone

helps change anxiety, fear and obsessiveness into practicality and

logic. Has the grounding energy of the earth, but is embellished with a

glowing warmth. A stone for people who need more confidence to

accomplish their goals. Draws helpful people and material things to the

wearer. Centers energy and mental focus. This stone helps us to find

our closest version of perfectionism without obsessive behavior.

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Honoring All Hallow's Eve

Halloween originated from the Pagan festival Samhain, celebrated among

the Celts of Ireland and Great Britain. Irish and ish immigrants

carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth

century.

The term Halloween (and its alternative rendering Hallowe'en) is

shortened from All-hallow-even, as it is the eve of "All Hallows'

Day",[1] also which is now known as All Saints' Day. It was a day of

religious festivities in various northern European Pagan traditions,

[2] until Popes III and IV moved the old Christian

feast of All Saints' Day from May 13 to November 1. In the ninth

century, the Church measured the day as starting at sunset, in

accordance with the Florentine calendar. Although All Saints' Day is

now considered to occur one day after Halloween, the two holidays were,

at that time, celebrated on the same day. Liturgically, the Church

traditionally celebrated that day as the Vigil of All Saints, and,

until 1970, a day of fasting as well. Like other vigils, it was

celebrated on the previous day if it fell on a Sunday, although secular

celebrations of the holiday remained on the 31st. The Vigil was

suppressed in 1955, but was later restored in the post-Vatican II

calendar.

Many European cultural traditions, in particular Celtic cultures, hold

that Halloween is one of the liminal times of the year when spirits can

make contact with the physical world, and when magic is most potent

(according to, for example, Catalan mythology about witches and Irish

tales of the Sídhe).

Pacholyk, MS, L.Ac

http://www.peacefulmind.com/order_crystals.htm

Therapies for healing

mind, body, spirit

References

1. Simpson, ; Weiner, Edmund (1989). Oxford English Dictionary, second, London: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-861186-2.

2. a b Danaher, (1972) The Year in Ireland: Irish Calendar Customs Dublin, Mercier. ISBN 1-85635-093-2 pp.190-232

3. Wikipedia definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween