How Crystals Heal

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How do Healing Crystals Work?

Healing with gemstones, how it worksarticle by DeanHow

in the world can a rock help us to heal? The idea of a stone healing a

human being must seem ridiculous to anyone who has yet to experience

it. There was a time when I was also skeptical—not just skeptical, but

would laugh if you even suggested that rocks, minerals or metals could

do anything but just sit there. It could maybe look pretty. It must

have been quite a while ago. I have been a practicing gem therapist

(for myself, mostly) since the early eighties.

I

have a pile of raw gems next to my bed, and sleep with a beautiful

ocean jade under my pillow almost every night. Next to my bed are

aragonite, quartz, amethyst, and copper—to name a few. I can absolutely

understand how it would seem absurd that these stones actually do

anything outside of appeal to the eye. A skeptic would likely chalk all

this “healing business†up to imagination—which, hey—imagination is a

good thing too, so if it works, go for it! It is true that gemstones

can heal us.

Anything and everything is a potential

healer. To understand this, it is important to first have some sense of

how the natural holistic healing process works. First off, when we

speak about the body, we are including the subtle bodies (i.e. the

physical, mental, emotional, and even spiritual bodies). Some things

are obvious, and some things are subtle (less obvious). “Subtle bodiesâ€

is just another way of referring to the experience that surrounds your

thoughts, feelings, nuances, and emotions.

Keep in mind

that our entire bodily system is nothing more than energy that shows up

in various patterns and densities. Our thoughts and our feelings are

connected to our physical bodies and have a density of their own. We

are all built pretty much the same. Diversity has its place, and we are

all individuals, yet nature created patterns that work the same in all

of us to keep our hearts beating, our blood flowing, and so on. When

these patterns of energy work together in a balanced way then we

experience our health.

These patterns can be disrupted.

When this happens we experience poor health. This can be anything from

a headache to the worst that you can imagine in terms of poor health,

even disease. Hence the popular splitting of the word (dis-ease) for

harmony feels good and disharmony doesn’t. Balance is easy on us, and

imbalances feel not at ease, or dis-eased. Nature will heal itself if

it can. It will if we let it. It is ourselves who distort this harmony

with our lop-sided outlooks and behavior. Correcting this lop-sidedness

one way or another is what healing is all about. Healing it in a

natural way is much preferred.

Anything with an inherent

harmony can act like a tuning fork to our poor patterns and challenge

us to retune ourselves to return to the original organic natural

patterns of energy that belong to our bodies. A good piece of art can

work wonders, as well as music, dance, a pleasant person, or anything

else exhibiting integrity in terms of energy patterns. Anything can

heal us if we are open to suggestion by external tuning fork of

another’s harmony. Receptivity is a necessity. Being open to it is the

key.

Gemstones radiate pure patterns. Gemstones resonate

with unmatched consistency. Gemstones sing their incredible songs of

structure, balance, wavelength and frequency and can bring us back into

harmony. Raw energy establishes patterns on an initial primal scale

when it takes the form of subatomic particles. These particles combine

and cooperate to produce atoms, molecules and minerals. Mother Nature

ushers forth all that is possible in the natural world, building up its

complexity from the mineral kingdom to the plant kingdom and on to the

animal kingdom. As human beings, our bodies are an incredible and

complex masterpiece of nature’s organization and balance.

Plants

also have their healing properties. They too perform a special magic in

terms of reminding the body of harmonic patterns in regards to fluidity

and flow. There energy is a moving one, while gemstones remain

relatively the same and whose patterns are incorruptible. Each has its

place. Herbal remedies are more connected to the sophistication of

feelings with their fluid nature. Gemstones are more suited to tune the

inherent pattern and are a reliable and consistent source of pure

frequency and pattern. How does all this work on our bodies?

Nature

repeats itself over and over again. Once it finds a pattern that works,

it builds on it. Every kingdom and species less complex than our human

form is in a sense a testing field for patterns and systems that work.

We are all us, the entire natural world built with the same

patterns—the same materials. This is how we can heal each other. The

patterns are the same, yet the integrity can falter. Getting close to

beings with a high integrity is good for us, and helps us to align to

that integrity.

Each stone resonates with a slightly

different pattern geometrically. These same geometric patterns reside

in our systems, organs, etc. To hold a Rose Quartz up to our heart is

to ask the structural patterns active in our subtle bodies to align

themselves and operate effortlessly and with purity. Any unresolved

heart issues will be challenged to break up, allowing us to let go of

whatever is distorting our energies. One often experiences a flash of

imagery around the past experience that initially caused the distortion.

Gemstones

are living creatures. They are active participants in nature. Protons,

neutrons and electrons are flying around in an absolute bliss of

balance and participation, upholding patterns of sacred geometry. Yes,

geometry is sacred because nothing could be built in the natural world

without it. Biology is math. Nature is an exploration of possibility

through patterns that work in balance, creating the living, behaving,

and interactive world that we all live in—in and through.

Healing

is often a matter of recovering our bodies inherent harmony by letting

go of what we are holding onto— our own ideas about how, where, when,

what and why—mental frameworks that have us behaving in inorganic ways.

Our organic ways are right there to be expressed and experienced

effortlessly. Mother Nature takes care of it all, if we can only learn

to respect her and surrender to her wisdom—the wisdom of spontaneity,

joy, accepting all others as equal, and together sharing in her

abundance.

- DeanAbout

is a poet, playwright and author of material on holistic healing. When

he is not writing or meditating, he is cooking, running, relaxing at a

local coffee shop, or spending time with his family. His studies

include holistic medicine, psychology, theatre, astrology, crystals and

gems, numerology, sacred geometry, Taoism, and Zen. He has been writing

for over thirty years, and it remains his passion. His site on Holistic

Healing can be found at How Nature Heals - Holistic Natural Health, Healing The site features a wide range of insightful, in-depth articles on how natural healing works. His poetry can be found at Short Zen Poems for Meditation - Koans Quotes and Short Poems about Life - Deep Funny Cool.