Crystal Healing Therapy & The Chakras
The potency and magnetism of crystals have been recognized for centuries. They have the ability to adorn, heal, protect, manifest, and transmute and transform energy. With each one holding its own frequency, crystals can be used to restore our well-being.​
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Crystal healing therapy is a holistic treatment that uses the magnetic frequency of crystals to facilitate physical, emotional, and spiritual healing. The healing vibrations of the crystals interact with the body’s energy system to remove blockages, restore balance, and stimulate the body’s natural healing abilities.
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​Some of the positive effects of crystal healing therapy include:
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Emotional release
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Reduced mental stress
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Relaxation
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Neutralizes negativity
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Lifts depression
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Calms the nervous system
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Harmonizes the body, mind, emotions and spirit
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Clears and balances the Chakras
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Promote peace and tranquility
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Restores well-being
What are Chakras?
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Chakras are major centers of radiant power and link between the physical body and subtle bodies. There are seven main chakras representing the energetic intersection between the physical matter and your consciousness. Each of your chakras is an antenna that is constantly receiving and transmitting energy. How smoothly your chakras function determines how fully you inhabit your body, how successful you are in your relationships, and how much inner peace exists within your being.
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Each one is a door that can be opened to greater energetic, psychic and spiritual knowledge, or it can stay closed causing you to remain within your present limitations. Working with your chakras can help you restore and enhance your energy flow. With regular practice you may find that you are able to tap into the vast potential of the psychospiritual energy known as Kundalini that lies dormant in your lower chakras.​
Chakra work involves a number of simple, yet powerful techniques that can help you to develop inner poise and keep your life in balance. These practices are most helpful when you reinforce them with regular self-analysis and boost them with positive activities such as, a healthy diet, meditation, or a regular yoga practice.
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Please see below for information on each chakra center.
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Crystal healing therapy is an add-on service. Adding crystal healing therapy to your energy healing appointment will further assist in the alignment of your chakras.
ROOT (MULADHARA) CHAKRA
The root chakra provides the energetic foundation of your body and mind. It supplies you with the crucial energy of survival. This was the only focus of your life from the time you were in the womb until you were one year old. During that stage of your development you required warmth, nourishment, stability and security; you needed to be safe and fed, but didn't desire much. For the most part, you were unaware of the outside world.
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This chakra is the seat of your instincts. It grounds you and gives you energy to endure life's trials and tribulations. The fight or flight response is a manifestation of the energy that emanates from the root or muladhara chakra.
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Located at the base of your body, the root chakra governs your auto-immune and skeletal systems, as well as your bones, feet, knees, base of spine, buttocks, and sciatica.
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Benefits of working with your root energy:
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Connecting with your body
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Insights into your relationships
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Freeing yourself from prejudices and intolerences
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Releasing yourself from inherited negative views
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Valuing all life
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Grounding yourself
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Feeling more secure in life
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Making and keeping commitments
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Working with the energy of your root chakra can assist you in connecting with your body in a healthier manner. It enhances your ability to eliminate what you no longer need or want in your life including, negative thoughts, emotions, and relationships.
SACRAL (SWADHISTHANA) CHAKRA
The sacral chakra is associated with your creative instincts and pleasure impulse. When its energy is balanced and unblocked, you experience fluidity and grace in your life and are able to accept and adapt to change. The sacral chakra is the seat of your instinct of procreation. It is not necessarily concerned with your personal survival, but rather your gratification. Its power lies in self-fulfillment, as opposed to the self-centered energy of the root chakra.
Symbolized by the water element, the sacral energy is what enables you to move and change. It is about balance in your life, and the ability to engage in a healthy give and take with others.
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If you are able to maintain an equilibrium of sacral energy, you will tend to feel more comfortable with yourself. You will be able to give your energy to others, but also recognize that your own needs in life are as equally important.
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Located in the middle region of your lower back, the sacral chakra governs the liquid elements of your body—blood, lymph, tears, urine, and saliva. It is responsible for maintaining your body's liquid levels, as well as the viscosity of your blood. When the energy of the sacral chakra is out of balance, you may suffer from problems with your kidneys, urinary tract or reproductive system. You may have trouble physically expressing your emotions.
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Benefits of working with your sacral chakra:
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Increased vitality, sensitivity, and creative abilities
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Healthier emotional expression
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Higher levels of confidence
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Sensual awareness
SOLAR PLEXUS (MANIPURA) CHAKRA
Your solar plexus chakra provides the transformational power for your body and mind to be able to process matter and energy. It converts whatever you take in—whether food or idea—into a more usable form. The solar plexus chakra houses your most prized possession, your sense of self. It is the seat of your personality and charisma; how well it functions determines how the world sees you.
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The element of this chakra is fire. As the sun, fire gives life to everything on earth. Without heat in your body, you would not be alive. In a fire ceremony, the flames transform the offerings and prayers, and carry their essence to the gods. Thus, fire is the messenger and conduit between dimensions; it is the interface between the physical world and higher realms.
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The solar plexus chakra is the base of what is known in Ayurveda as "digestive fire". Digestion is the process by which your body changes matter into usable energy and takes place when you carry out any kind of activity in which energy is used. The functioning of both your digestive system and your muscles is said to be controlled by the solar plexus chakra.
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Benefits of working with your solar plexus energy:
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Establishing healthy boundaries
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Strengthening will-power and assertiveness
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Connecting with and understanding your own power
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Improving digestion and metabolism
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Boosting stamina, but also knowing when to quit
HEART (ANAHATA) CHAKRA
The heart chakra is the energetic center of your subtle body. It is one of your most powerful links between the physical and spiritual realms. Its function is to transmute the higher vibrations from the upper three chakras into grosser forms so that they can manifest on the physical plane. It enables the download movement of energy, transforming consciousness into matter. Simultaneously, it converts energy from your lower chakras into the upward-moving, more subtle energy of thoughts and inspiration. This is the most complex, talked about and perhaps most difficult chakra to understand.
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Your heart chakra enables you to express unselfish love and to be compassionate. It makes it possible for you to accept what life has to offer. With every breath your lung draws in air, the element of the heart chakra. Air symbolizes all physical matter that is gaseous in form. Anahata or heart chakra energy does not repress or attempt to negate the emotions of the lower chakras. It sublimates them so you can express them in unselfish and unrestrained ways.
The heart chakra governs your respiratory and circulatory systems. Asthma, bronchitis and lung cancer may be linked to anahata energy, as well as pain in your ribs, upper back, shoulders, chest and thoracic spine. In women , this chakra is related to the health of breasts.
Benefits of working with your anahata energy:
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Finding emotional balance
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Enhancing your ability in "heart-centered" activities
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Forgiving people who have harmed you
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Letting go of negitivity
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Improved breathing patterns and circulation
THROAT (VISHUDDHA) CHAKRA
The throat chakra is the communication center of your subtle body. It enables you to listen deeply, as well as to speak with conviction. If its energy is out of balance, it impedes communication between your heart and mind. It may block the feelings that arise in your heart; you may not think them through properly and may act to too impulsively or irrationally. When your throat chakra is open, the ideas, hopes and dreams that come from your third eye or ajna chakra can be "taken to heart".
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At your throat chakra, the energy is one of language, not emotions. Vishuddha can express blessings and sweet words, but it can also enable you to articulate negativity if you are feeling blocked. Therefore, it is important to keep its energy pure and open.
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In your physical body, the throat chakra governs your neck, throat, esophagus, thyroid and parathyroid glands, vocal chords, trachea, cervical spine, mouth, teeth and gums, hypothalamus, tonsils, ears, and auditory system. As your communication center, it gives you energy to hear and speak. When its energy is blocked, you may be prone to frequent sore throats, speech impediments, eating disorders, deafness, tightness of jaw, teeth clenching or thyroid imbalance.
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Benefits of working with your vishuddha energy:
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Improving your communication and creativity
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Strengthening skills such as public speaking, singing or dancing
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Developing your inner voice
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Making your voice, face and body more expressive
THIRD EYE (AJNA) CHAKRA
Your third eye is the command center of your subtle body and the source of intellectual understanding. It is the seat of judgement, emotional intelligence, rationality and wisdom. Its energy enables you to understand and develop symbolic concepts, abstract thinking and organizational skills.
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The third eye chakra is your "sixth sense", which manages your five physical senses. It regulates the five lower chakras and the nadis (meridians) leading into them. Six spiritual powers are associated with your third eye chakra: the ability to control your thoughts and direct your attention, perfect concentration, unobstructed meditation, enlightenment and samadhi (the super-conscious state). Your third eye is where perception meets logic; it the highest expression of human polarity. By working with the energy of your brow center, you can enhance your intuition and get a clearer insight into your purpose in the world.
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In your physical body, the ajna governs your brain. On a more subtle level, its energy is related to the functioning of your mind. When the energy of your third eye is out of balance, physical symptoms may include headaches and poor eyesight. In extreme cases you may suffer a brain hemorrhage or stroke, a tumor, Alzheimer's disease or epileptic seizures. You may have a learning disability or dyslexia, lack concentration, have frequent nightmares or be very forgetful. Many mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia and obsessive compulsive disorder also seem to be related to ajna imbalances.
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Benefits of working with your ajna energy:
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Enhancing intuition
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Becoming clairvoyant or developing other psychic abilities
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Cultivating creativity and imagination
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Flexibility in opinions and viewpoints
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Breaking through to higher consciousness
CROWN (SAHASRARA) CHAKRA
The crown chakra is your gateway to infinite consciousness. It is through this chakra that you are able to connect with and experience the blissful state of Absolute Knowledge that yogis call "satchidananda". This is beyond the realm of your individual awareness, which is known as the "chitta". The crown provides the energetic connection by which you are able to transcend your mundane sense of duality, that is your experience of yourself and other, subject and object, masculine and feminine. It provides the metaphysical framework for your life. The crown chakra is at the top end of the central meridian (sushumna nadi), where the other two meridians (ida and pingala- ordinary consciousness) do not reach.
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People who can access the energy of the crown chakra at will are often percieved as miracle workers. This is because they seem to be divinely guided and able to transcend the laws of nature.
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Blockages in the crown chakra often leave you with a feeling of being scattered. You may lack inspiration, lead a joyless existence, see the world in a purely rational and materialistic manner and experience a sense of disconnection from all spiritual sources.
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Benefits of working with your crown energy:
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Inituitive knowledge
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Deeper understanding
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Strong spiritual connections
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Enhances sense of wonder
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Discovery of divine "mysteries"
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Experience of your Higher Self
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Connection to the Divine
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Experience of completeness