Not everyone Meditating with crystals and in general (repost)

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Meditating with crystals

 

Not everyone makes clear separations between meditation, visualization,

journeying and

visions and the distinctions are sometimes unclear. Meditation is

usually centered on

focusing and is not the same thing as zoning out or daydreaming though

these can also have

value.

Meditation often opens the way for journeying or visions and may include

visual

sensations . Guided visualization usually refers to a relaxation or

meditation form in which

one is guided through a series of experiences in a story like form.

There is also a file on meditation in general

<http://solarraven.com/z-3-meditation.html> in the crystal workshop

pages .

Meditating with crystals is to use crystals in general meditation or

specific meditations to

enhance deepen or in some other way assist with the meditation.

 

Clear quartz and other crystals and stones have been used to assist and

as a focus for

meditation for a very long time . Just focusing gentle attention on a

clear quartz crystal can quiet the mind and help bring mental clarity

for problem solving.

 

When you have a particular problem take a few minutes to think about and

define the

problem then gaze deeply into your crystal. Just allow your thoughts to

come and go as

your mind stills you may find a solution if not when you end the

meditation just let the

problem go quite often a solution will pop into your head later .

 

Program single terminated crystals to help you meditate or to deepen and

enhance a

particular meditation form . You can program a crystal to help you reach

deeper higher

states of meditative awareness this is said to greatly shorten the time

it may take for you to

achieve these states (these may still take years ) These states are not

to be thought of as a

goal of meditation and if you meditate with a crystal for this purpose

it is advised that you

limit your use to about one third of the time you spend in meditation

weekly .

Other crystal programs could assist you with meditation such as programs

for relaxation

or mental clarity and those to assist you in experiencing a particular

spiritual state or plane

such as bliss, or oneness with the divine, or unconditional love for

example.

You can program a crystal to enhance any standard meditation such as the

diamond heart

meditation in the files or other meditations.

You can program a crystal to hold the energy of a particular Tarot card

or spiritual passage and hold the crystal while meditating on that card

or text.

(Crystal programming) <http://solarraven.com/file-13-programming.html>

 

Sit with or hold a crystal chosen to harmonize with the form of the

meditation

rose quartz or kunzite for love and compassion meditations for example,

citrine for bringing your personal will into harmony with your soul

purpose and recognizing that purpose ,

green stones and /or amber or shells and fossils for meditations on

nature. There are many lists of stone properties that will offer

suggestions as to appropriate crystals for directed meditations.

 

You may also use a crystal or stone as a focus to gaze on while meditating

Place the crystal at a comfortable distance so that you can easily gaze

on or into it

relax and gaze into the stone, when your attention wanders just return

it to the stone

if it feels natural after a few moments you may close your eyes and

continue meditating

if you feel tension anywhere take a couple of deep breaths and relax

again and continue

until you decide to finish by opening your eyes and gazing on the

crystal again .

 

Some people will tape an appropriate crystal to their brow to enhance

meditation.

or place the stone in or under a headband . a string of beads or a

pendant could also be used. You may prefer just to hold a crystal or

stone to your brow for a bit and then hold it in your hand or in your

lap or set it down nearby.

Clear Quartz and many of the blue and aqua and violet to purple

stones are commonly

used to activate intuition and spiritual connection but almost any

stone can be

meditated with, some more effectively than others . Some stones that

are not of value for you will be good for another person to use in

meditation.

 

Generally it is a good idea to use your intuition to determine if it is

of positive value to work

with any particular stone at a given time this way. Do not use a crystal

if it does not seem

harmonious. Some people lie down to meditate and place crystals at the

feet and crown or at various points on the body often over some of the

chakra points.

 

Many people like to sit within a circle of stones or crystals when they

meditate.

 

On occasions when you find it difficult to calm your mind for a

traditional meditation

you might find a variation of an altar or mandala making form relaxing

and healing

this is to take a large number of your stones and crystals and setting

them in front of you

then after taking a few deep breaths just move them around and form them

into patterns

before or around you this is a form of active contemplation which can be

of as valuable as

receptive meditations .

 

Crystal Haven

This combines visualization with a meditation, select a fairly large

quartz crystal and begin

with it in front of you or in your hands . Breathe deeply, a traditional

chi practice suggests

that women imagine the breath rising from the Earth and men imagine the

breath flowing

down from above. Gaze into the crystal breathing slowly and deeply

imagine the crystal

expanding and becoming larger imagine it growing to expand gently around

you so that

you are sitting within the safety of the crystal the light coming into

the crystal illuminates your entire being and fills you with peace and

love, stay within the crystal breathing in the light for as long as you

wish then allow the crystal to move away from you and return to its

natural size.

 

Toning crystals are useful in any meditation form which uses sound such

as chanting toning

even listening trance and meditation music or drumming toning crystals

often look like small flatish laser wands but are identified because

they help you when you tone or chant perhaps by allowing you to hold

notes longer or in some other way.

 

You may find a pair of singing crystals often these look a lot like

small lazar wand crystals

when they are gently rolled together in your hands these would make a

musical bell like

sound that can help you enter meditation and deepen trance or

visualization states.

 

Many of the crystal books have suggestions for stones to use in

different meditations

there must be well over a thousand suggestions for meditation with

crystals in the most

popular books alone.

some suggestions are

Celestite for Angel meditations

Fluorite can help with soul retrieval

rainbow garnet for monadic contact (the all knowing oneness)

Selinite for access to akashic records

Other stones reccomended for meditation include Amethyst, Yellow

Calcite, Celestite, Azurite, Labradorite, Chrysocolla, Blue Tiger's Eye,

Lapis Lazuli, Turquoise, Blue Fluorite, Quartz , Hawk's Eye,

Apophyllite, Geodes

You can program a crystal to help you maintain focus in meditation. You

can meditate on a crystal or stone . Some crystals called toning

crystals can help you do toning and

chanting meditations. They are usualy thin crystals but way you

recognize them is that if

you hold one and tone you will be able to hold the tone longer or more

clearly.

 

We have separated meditating with crystals from the practice of

meditating on crystals

Meditating on crystals is to meditate directly on the crystal to find

information about

working with them or for some other directly crystal related reason.

This practice is sometimes called Attuning to crystals and is very

useful for fammiliarizing oneself with the crystals energies and ways

to work with them .

 

Meditation in general .

Meditation is one of the practices that can help us develop sensitivity

to intuitive and spiritually sourced information feelings and

experiences . It is this sensitivity which assists us in knowing what to

do in a treatment when our crystals are charged what our path is. This

is not all that meditation can do.

The first thing to know about meditation is that there is no wrong way

to do it there is no possible wrong result and there is no particular

outcome that is the Right one. The only important thing about

meditation is that you do continue to do it when you can, if only for a

few moments daily or weekly if possible.

 

Meditation can be done by anyone While many people associate meditation

with Buddhism or Yoga the practice is universal and not religion or

culture dependent. Whatever beliefs you hold there are meditations that

will work for you and harmonize with them. Some

meditations lead to great mental clarity. Many of the great writings of

the world came about out of, or in meditation . Meditation is an

experience it is not about results, it is in the doing. It is, to me an

essential part of experiencing daily life to the fullest and being a

participant in it. It is an essential part of separating yourself from

the stresses and trials of daily life and being detached from them.

 

Part of all meditation ,spiritual and energy work practice is about

raising our own life condition to the point where we are not buffeted by

transient phenomena . While some people may have visions or get blissed

out that is not the point of meditation and in most

forms you just move past this kind of thing if it happens and return to

your focus just like you do for any other distraction. Meditation is

not something you really become an expert at. There is always more to

experience . There are many forms of meditation . I think meditation is

of vital importance to personal spiritual evolution.

 

Some people meditate to calm down and some people meditate to get high,

and it does not matter why they do it or what happens when they do it or

how they do it . If you fall asleep while meditating you probably needed

the sleep more than you needed the meditation. and on occasion

meditation might turn into journey.

 

It is important to practice a variety of forms of meditation to achieve

a balance in

your life. The practice of stilling your mind can be balanced with a

mindfulness meditation of attending to each thought as it occurs. The

practice of focusing inward with eyes closed , can be balanced with the

open eyed practice of observing in the outer world, Meditating on fire

is balanced by meditating on water. practicing detachment, with

practicing loving kindness and compassion, Seated, still meditations

with walking and moving and dancing meditations, Silence with chanting.

 

You may have met lovely spiritual people with decades of meditation

practice who are so blissed out in the oneness that they seem about to

float away and may be quite unable to balance a checkbook , Or people

who are so detached that they don't even notice or respond to events

around them in a human way. These could be examples of people who have

focused on one practice to the exclusion of all others and are

unbalanced as a result. This kind of effect takes years to occur and is

not something that will effect you if you practice a variety of

meditations and participate in living life fully. The ability to

participate in living life fully is great skill and benefit that can

acquired through meditation. It is often said that the only wrong way to

meditate is to not meditate. so whether you have only 5 or ten minutes

to watch your eyelids (imagine a Movie screen or some such) or you have

hours to practice

meditating, give it a try.

Do not expect any particular result, don't worry if nothing happens .

(In some forms the idea is for " nothing " to happen.) don't worry if

something does happen either. Everyone has different experiences with

meditation. The cliché is that prayer is Talking to God and

meditation is listening .

One simple basic meditation practice is to relax and center your

attention on a sphere in the center of your head and keep your focus

there. When you notice that your mind has wandered, gently bring it back

to center and the sphere ,just practice bringing

your attention into the center of your head. people often find it

difficult to focus at first or feel sleepy, do not criticize your self.

You can place a word like love or peace in your sphere to meditate on .

People also may focus on the tan tien or Hara a spot about two inches

below the navel this is an energy center in the aura , obviously this is

the focus that is referred to as contemplating your belly button..

 

In conventional meditation when you notice that your mind has wandered

just gently bring it back to your focus say a sphere inside your head or

your breath or an object you are looking at or a word or sound you are

focusing on or your heart and the diamond of light

within it don't fight your wandering mind. Gently return your thoughts

to your chosen focus or you may even do a meditation where you just

strive to observe those very same scattered thoughts as you might watch

birds flying by.

 

The classic blank zen mind most think of when meditation is mentioned is

not the only way to meditate there are almost as many ways to meditate

as there are people and with experiment and exploration you are certain

to find methods that " work " for you. If you find still- mind an

incomprehensible concept I suggest you might try one of the focused

Huna Nalu meditations

 

This form of brief focused total attention can be quite valuable in

crystal work

and is one way of beginning to develop a sensitivity to energy and

spiritual information

Pick a sense any sense sight, touch, taste, hearing, smell. Pick an

object or quality related to that sense A food ,a sound the way

something feels, a leaf, and focus your attention on it Or focus all

your senses and attention on an object or idea observe it with your

entire being do this for, your initial goal is 10 seconds. Do this

anytime it occurs to you to do it.

Classically you breathe deeply while your are doing your focus.

 

Vipassana is one of the oldest and most well known meditation forms. It

is also called

Insight meditation. one becomes Aware without being judgmental, of

motivations, emotions, thoughts by just gently allowing ones thoughts to

flow paying attention to them without criticism .

For many meditations you can use an open eyed focus such as when you

meditate by gazing on a sacred writing or stone or other object such as

a mandala or natural view .For others you close your eyes as in breath

and mindfulness meditations. Those methods where you focus on a word

you may s keep your eyes half open or focused on your Tan tien .

 

Non focused meditations are usually done eyes closed or half open mantra

or sound meditations vary. obviously walking and dance meditations must

usually be done with eyes open.

 

There are quite a few different web pages about meditation a search on

about .com will bring several good sites .

 

Peggy Jentoft