Howlite question

[Guest guest]

Interesting that I go through the messages and see a thread on

Howlite! I work with crystals as I feel the need, I'm sort of

learning my way around them. Earlier this year achieved third level

reiki, and I'm wondering if this new sensitivity might have an

effect on the " symptom " I'm having.

 

I've been underneath a great deal of psychological stress, harboring

loads of anger towards anything that breathes. It is affecting my

family obviously, not in a harmful way, but the kids are getting

very leery of mommy's " yellings " . It happens almost before I'm

aware of it, like instinct.

 

Yesterday while on vacation I picked up a stone, Howlite, made into

a butterfly and hanging on a black cord. I have a friend who wears

a howlite turtle, and swears by it. I love butterflies, so I

though " why not? " I debated for a few minutes, and bought the

necklace, remembering that the stone soothed my friend, but knowing

nothing else about it. I wore it for a while with no problems, but

by that night I had to take it off. An hour later I was ripping it

from the cord, wanting to use the cord to thread my husband's new

necklace. I put the butterfly in the computer bag, not able to hold

it. Came home today, and I still can't touch it. It's almost

sickening.

 

I looked up the properties, and it is supposed to help with healing

stress and anger, which I didn't know when I bought it. Supposed

to " soothe " . Question is, why can't I stand to touch it if it is

supposed to help what is plaguing me? It isn't ugly, I like the

carving, but I can't touch the thing. I get a bad feeling. That's

the best I can describe it.

 

Now the interesting thing is, before I spied the necklace, I was

holding a fluorite ball about the size of a shooter marble, and

soaked up everything it had. It was really strange, I didn't want

to put it down, but I did. Never had that happen to me.

 

Any thoughts? Notions? Jeers? Corrections? All are appreciated.

 

Thanks,

 

Kam

[Guest guest]

I have found with stones, especially ones that have been set out for public

display, they need to be cleansed, or have a time wher ethey are purified.

Especially if they have been carved, (it is early so please forgive me if I

am ramble a little) energies can get confused when they get carved and so

what I have done is focus thoughts at the stone and tell it that it has been

carved to help inhance its power to help. then I would put it in a dark

place for a while with some soft music playing. I have found this helps the

stones. when they are out for display to sell they pick up energies from

everyone who touches it. I also feel there are some unscrupulous people out

there that focus negative energies into stones or even program them wrong

for a bad purpose. even the place where they were carved or altered could

have had exposure to negative, angry energies.

whenever I get new stones they get a time out for a while, I find this helps

to cleans them.

 

now for high stress I would personally choose garnet for stress, and smoky

quartz to help me ground and then a piece of moonstone (I use rainbow or

peach) to help calm, and a good strand of amethyst. now some I would wear

and some I would wear in my pocket.

 

now a side not I would wonder how is your vegie and fruit intake, and a big

one water, do you drink enough water a day. Now flat out no soda and

espessially nothing with artificial sweeteners no aspartame/nutrasweet,

splenda or the like. it can cause mood swings as well as many other

problems.

I am also thinking that you might need a good sublingual b complex as well

as some stones to help your body get over the slump you're in.

 

I hope this helps and I hope I am awake enough to get this all out right.

hope it makes sense

have a happy and keep smiling

Angelina

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Kam-

 

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I've been underneath a great deal of psychological stress, harboring

loads of anger towards anything that breathes.

<snip>

Yesterday while on vacation I picked up a stone, Howlite, made into

a butterfly and hanging on a black cord

<snip>

Came home today, and I still can't touch it. It's almost sickening.

>

 

I'm sorry to hear that you're struggling with anger. It can be a hard

dance to unwind the cords that bind us up and cause us to lash out.

 

I think your listening guided you to the perfect stone spirit to help

you. As always our heart knows precisely what medicine we need, even

if our head doesn't. It's important to trust you own knowing, to

honor the wisdom that drew you into a dance with Howlite and to

explore the messages this apparent obstacle in the road may be

sharing.

 

The stone spirits of Howlite embody and express an energy that often

evokes a " detox " reaction within us. This can happen at a number of

levels, including emotionally. These spirits can help us to purge the

toxins within us, which naturally includes emotional toxins like

intense chronic anger. The energy of Howlite tends to move in a

spiral, ascending and descending. This spiraling presence cleanses as

it moves, scrubbing the toxins out, bringing them to the surface and

helping us to release them fully.

 

It makes perfect sense to me that you may encounter some rough spots

in your dances with this spirit. I know that most models found in

books about stone spirits tend to place the " blame " on the stone

spirits - they need cleansed, they need programmed, they need

charged, etc. However, I think that's rarely the case. Most of the

challenges we encounter have to do with dynamics within ourselves.

Understanding that and reorienting ourselves to the experience can

provide us with a profound chance at healing.

 

The experience that you're describing sounds like resistance, that

the spirits of Howlite, in working to cleanse the emotional toxins of

the anger you're experiencing, have hit an inner wall of resistance.

This results in an uncomfortable feeling that builds until we're no

longer able to sustain interactions with the stone that seems to be

triggering it.

 

One way to work through this is to spend some time with Howlite, be

willing to feel the discomfort and understand it as a messenger.

Spend some time examining just how you feel uncomfortable. Where does

it appear in your body? What emotions does it evoke if you sit with

it long enough? What it is that's really " sickening " you? Is there

something Howlite is revealing that seems too revolting to accept,

thereby evoking the experience you're having? You may find the

solution by being willing to sit with the " problem, " to work through

the discomfort by listening to what it's saying to you.

 

For many years I had a real aversion to the spirits of Peridot. Every

time I'd get around them I'd have a bad reaction of some kind. I'd

feel sick. I'd get anxious. I'd feel angry. At the time, from a place

of limited vision, I'd blame it on Peridot. At some point it dawned

on me that the problem wasn't within the stone spirits, but rather it

was within me. By being willing to take responsibility for my

experience, I was able to return to Peridot, greet them as a teacher

and listen to what they had to share.

 

There were moments I felt like pulling my own hair out or screaming

until I passed out because I felt so uncomfortable. However, as the

layers began to peel back I could clearly see that these spirits made

me so uncomfortable because they were seeking to address some deep

core issues, issues that I had no interest in facing at the time. So

I hit resistance, felt uncomfortable and walked away... until I

decided to do something different. When I did I received some of the

greatest healing medicine and wisdom I have ever been given in my

life. All thanks to Peridot... those green spirits that once would

cause me to run in the opposite direction. <grin>

 

I think your listening is perfect. I think you're dancing with

precisely the right stone spirit to help. I think the stone spirit

itself is just fine, not in need of a cleansing or charging or

programming of anything else. I also find it fitting that this spirit

reflects the message of Butterfly. In order to experience

transformation Butterfly has to surrender itself, to release all

resistance and experience a very literal death that results in

rebirth... and the ability to fly. Of course I don't think you have

to die in the literal sense, but perhaps a big surrender is necessary

before a big transformation can be seen.

 

The stone spirits that evoke an uncomfortable experience within us

have just as much, if not more, to teach us as those spirits that

naturally attract us and put us at ease. When we're willing to sit

with that uncomfortable experience we can uncover a medicine that can

heal us on all levels of our wholeness. The obstacle and its

resolution can always be found within the self.

 

Good thoughts to you on your way to becoming a Butterfly. <grin>

 

In Love,

Fabeku

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