1. CHOOSING YOUR CRYSTALS

We have all had the experience of meeting a perfect stranger for the very first time and either liking that person immediately or feeling an antipathy towards them - without in any way being able to explain our feelings or emotions.

To fall in perfect love is a beautiful and wondrous experience - the coming together of two minds, two spirits and two physical bodies, both 'vibrating' on the same beautiful frequency!

Crystals and gemstones should be chosen in exactly the same way. It is so very important that the stones which we choose and use should 'vibrate' on a frequency as close as possible to our own.

Individual methods of choosing crystals and gemstones vary from person to person but normally include:-
 

1)	Close your eyes and quietly meditate for a few moments. Then open your eyes very quickly and pick up the very first stone to which your eye becomes naturally drawn.
2)	Run your hand (either your left or right hand depending upon which you prefer to use) over all the stones available for selection. You will soon discover that one stone will 'stick' to your hand as if it is ' tacky' or surrounded with glue. This is your stone.
3)	Intuitively you will instinctively 'know' which stone you should choose and which is 'right' for you! You might feel as if the stone is jumping up and down shouting, "Me! Me! Me! Choose Me!"
	Or you might sense or even 'see' a strong crystalline white light radiating from the stone and attracting you like a magnet.
4)	Should you happen to be a competent dowser then you should be able to select the most appropriate stone by using your own individual dowsing techniques ............

And sometimes you truly feel as if your stones are actually choosing you!

This has often happened to me. All my most powerful and energised quartz crystals have all arrived on my doorstep (so to speak) for a particular purpose and have a special reason for wanting me to work with them. Normally they have been either absolutely free or have cost me very little money.
Should you wish to choose a quartz crystal or a gemstone for one of your friends who, perhaps, lives some distance away from you, follow exactly the same principles as if you were choosing a personal stone for yourself but on this occasion visualise, as strongly as possible, a picture of your friend within your mind's eye. With a little practice you will soon discover that it is very easy to select just the right quartz crystal or gemstone for any of your friends who are unable to choose their stones in person for themselves.

Although more and more retail outlets are now selling crystals and gemstones there are still many towns and cities here in the United Kingdom where it is still extremely difficult to purchase your own crystals and stones in person.

For many people, the only real opportunity they have to select a crystal or gemstone personally is to attend one of the regular workshops and seminars that I run under the auspices of 'Crystal 2000'. At all these workshops and seminars there are always a large selection of crystals, gemstones and books available for purchase.

However, there are always a great many people, living in all parts of the United Kingdom who, for one reason or another, are unable to participate in any of these workshops and seminars and who rely on my personal intuition to select the most appropriate crystal or gemstone on their behalf. In such cases I find that I am either able to work on their name 'vibration' alone or on the 'vibrations' emanating from their original letter. From all the feedback which I receive it would certainly appear that this method works extremely well in most instances.

2. CLEANSING YOUR CRYSTALS

Quartz crystals and gemstones easily attract all kinds of 'vibrations'; negative as well as positive. The stones are always 'open' to receiving impressions from everyone and everything around them!

Your stone, which you have just selected, may well have travelled many thousands of miles before coming to you - and may well have acquired many negative energies and ' vibrations' in its long and arduous journey to find you!

Therefore before starting to use your stone for any purpose whatsoever it is very important that you first remove any of these unwanted negative 'vibrations' and disharmonious energies before you commence to use your stone. You must do everything you possibly can to ensure that only the most natural - and purest - energies remain within your stone.

The cleansing method which you use is always a matter of personal choice, sometimes dependent upon the amount of time which you have readily available, but I strongly recommend that you use one of the following cleansing methods which I myself have found to be very successful:-
 

1)	Hold your stone in either your left or right hand (according to personal preference) and say these words, "I will and command that this stone be self-cleansing". As you repeat these few words (whether mentally or orally) you should visualise the negative energies falling away from your stone and only the natural, and pure, energies remaining.
2)	Water is a wonderful universal cleanser.
	Hold your stone under cold flowing water from the tap (cold or luke-warm water only. Never use hot water!) and,again, visualise all the negative energies and 'vibrations' being washed away and only the natural, and pure, energies remaining. When drying your stone after cleansing in water never attempt to dry your stone with a towel or cloth. Always allow your stone to dry naturally - preferably from the rays of the sun! The sun, of course, is also a very powerful energiser and should be used whenever possible.
	If, however, as is so often the case with our own peculiar English climate, there is little or no sun around, then you should allow your stone to dry as naturally as possible in the warmth within your home.
3)	Immerse your stone in salt water for several hours. Dry as in (2) above.
4)	Bury the stone under the earth in your garden. Our planet Earth consists of at least one third quartz and the very strong and powerful magnetic energy field in the actual earth will 'cleanse' your stone of all its negativity very effectively.
	N.B. If you should own a dog - be very careful! Dogs find it great fun to dig up crystals....
5)	Place your stone on a large quartz crystal cluster for a few hours. The very strong crystalline energies present within the cluster will soon neutralise any negative energies to be found within your stone.

3. DEDICATING YOUR CRYSTALS

According to Edgar Cayce, the great American seer, the downfall of Atlantis - and its eventual destruction - was caused through the gross misuse and abuse of all the sacred knowledge and energies by certain evil priests, who only sought eternal power and corruption.

These evil and corrupt priests experimented by 'inter-breeding' incompatible sources of energy and power which resulted in the creation of 'new' vibrational frequencies that they were able to place under their personal control. These 'new' vibrations were then implanted within the cells of other living creatures; which led to terrible physical and mental deformities.

The 'children' of many of these deformed creatures feature in many of the myths and legends that have been perpetuated throughout the eons of time.

Monsters, some half-man, half-beast, demons, giants; all appear to have been 'liberated' throughout the world for many thousands of years.

In the end they all had to be spiritually destroyed before they could upset the vibrational balances within the energies of Mother Earth.

As we have seen from the above, in the wrong hands crystalline energy may be used for evil or negative purposes. It is therefore up to each and every one of us, in our own way, to protect our personal quartz crystals and gemstones from all such negativity, mis-use or abuse.

Crystals will always attract inquisitive minds and hands (children and adults alike!) and many of these hands do transmit negative or unhappy 'vibrations' which your crystal is quite easily capable of picking up!

To comprehensively protect your crystals and gemstones from all potentially harmful energies and 'vibrations', hold your stone in your hand and say the following few words, "I will and command that this stone be only used for the highest benefit of myself and the people with whom I shall be working". Your stone has now been 'cleansed' and 'dedicated' and is ready for 'programming'............

PROGRAMMING YOUR CRYSTALS

By simply wishing - or visualising - the crystalline energy to be used in a particular way - it will be! It really is that simple.......

Quartz crystals are usually 'programmed' for the following purposes:
a) Meditation
b) Healing
c) Absent Healing
d) Manifesting

a) Meditation

By holding a quartz crystal or an amethyst in your hand whilst participating in whichever type of meditation is appropriate to your own individual needs, you will enhance and enrich the spiritual depths of your own meditative experience.

The quartz crystal or amethyst enables you to undertake a new and wondrous journey within the inner recesses of your soul. Unknown pathways, hitherto previously uncharted, will open up in front of you.

A new dimension of self-expression will rise to the surface and expand your inner consciousness and awareness.

The amethyst, of course, is well known for being able to relieve mental and physical stress and tension. It is the stone containing inner peace and tranquility; the stone of sublime relaxation.

Every member of your meditation circle or group should have their very own piece of quartz crystal or amethyst to hold throughout the meditation session. As time passes, perhaps very slowly at first, each person will gradually become aware that their breathing has become far deeper and far more rhythmical and they have now entered a completely new world of inner peace and harmony.

All meditation rooms would greatly benefit from having large quartz crystals placed at all four corners of the room with their single-terminated points directed towards the centre of the room. The crystals should be placed either on the floor or affixed to the corners of the ceiling.

Each of the four quartz crystals in the meditation room should be 'programmed' to project gentle, loving, relaxing, crystalline energy towards all those present within the Meditation group. The quartz crystals will then generate a field of positive crystalline energy surrounding everyone in the room.

In addition to every member of the meditation group holding their own individual amethyst or quartz crystal, a large amethyst or quartz crystal cluster may be placed in the middle of the group. This large cluster should then be 'programmed' to release beautiful cosmic crystalline energies into every corner of the room.

It is very important that one member of the meditation group should be nominated to look after the group's amethyst or quartz crystal cluster - and to make absolutely certain that it is properly 'cleansed', 'dedicated' and 'programmed'.

Whilst holding your crystal or amethyst when meditating with music you will often discover that some quite amazing effects are being produced. On some occasions you might even be able to 'see' the music in terms of colour and shape. Even should you be just listening to a piece of music whilst holding your stone - and not even consciously trying to meditate -you will find the depth of experience greatly enriched by the presence of your crystal or amethyst.

Whenever harmonious music is being played in the presence of your crystal or amethyst, the mood and thoughts of the composer become deeply embedded within the very heart of the crystal and if you 'listen' to the crystal afterwards, with your inner ear, you will often be able to pick up the esoteric meaning of the music itself.

You may use your crystal or amethyst in so very many ways when meditating. Do not be afraid to experiment and try new methods. Listen to what your crystal is saying and try to respond accordingly. You will find the results truly amazing and very worth while.

b) Healing

It is very important to note, however, that for best results your quartz crystal should only be used for either healing or meditation. Not for both! The 'vibrations' and 'energies' used in healing and meditation are very different and to use the same quartz crystal for both occasions would result in the dissipation of the crystal's unique energies.
Quartz crystals are, in all reality, only 'tools'. By themselves they can only be described as passive; but when they become activated by the human mind they can become extremely powerful indeed........

Each and every one of us, as beings of the human species, possess an inherent healing energy. In the majority of people, of course, this healing ability lies totally dormant and inactive.

But when we possess the knowledge to enable us to 'channel' our own healing energy through our quartz crystal friends we are then able to amplify this healing power and the resultant energy that we have ourselves created - ours, that is, in conjunction with that of our crystal - may be used for many positive healing purposes.

Even though you may not wish to become a qualified crystal healing therapist yourself there are still plenty of opportunities for you to use your quartz crystal to heal your family and friends.

When my youngest child, Cameron, was only a few months old I returned home one day after having given a crystal healing workshop to discover that he was very ill. My wife, Judith, had taken him to our local doctor who had told her that if he did not improve within the next couple of days he would have to go into hospital.

Obviously, I had to do something! When Cameron was ready for bed that evening I cradled him in my arms and placed an electro-crystal therapy 'wand' on his stomach. I also held my personal healing quartz crystal and directed its healing energy to completely envelop Cameron's body. I gave him crystal healing for only thirty minutes, at the end of which, my little Cameron was fast asleep.

The next morning, he was almost completely cured! And so there was no need for Judith to take him back to the doctor or for him to go into hospital.

When treating a patient the following guide-lines may prove helpful:-

At the beginning of the healing session you should hold your quartz crystal in whichever hand feels 'right' to you; and calmly attune yourself to the inner energies of your quartz crystal. You will probably experience energies 'throbbing' within your hand.

Now direct the single-terminated end of your healing quartz crystal towards your patient and gently move the crystal around the perimeter of their whole body in a clockwise direction. As you do this, at the same time visualise a blue-white crystalline light emanating from the apex of the patient's body and flowing towards the patient and surrounding him. Do this several times. This will help to strengthen the electro-magnetic field of energy around the physical body of the patient.

The single-terminated end of the quartz crystal should then be directed towards that part of the patient's body which you believe or 'sense' to be most in need of healing.

Visualise, as strongly as possible, a lovely blue-white light emanating from the apex of your crystal once again and direct this light, like a laser beam, to that part of the patient's body where you feel that the healing is most needed.

This lovely blue-white becomes stronger and stronger, brighter and brighter, and the energy between the crystal and your patient slowly begins to intensify.

The crystal healing session itself may, in theory at any rate, last any length of time, but intuitively you will become aware when the time is right to bring the session to an end.

To finish the crystal healing treatment session you should visualise the blue-white light gently flowing back into your quartz crystal. Once more you should direct and project the healing energies around the perimeter of your patient's body in a clockwise direction. Then allow your patient to relax for a few minutes......

Many of my own patients regularly fall fast asleep so it is very important that you bring them back to the present in as relaxed manner as possible.

Whenever practical it is best for your patient not to have to drive a car for some time after the crystal healing session as the patient often becomes so very 'de-stressed' and almost 'spaced out' that it can take some considerable time to re-orient themselves!

Whilst I quite often do discuss a patient's medical history with them before offering any form of treatment, from my own personal experience I have found that it is not always absolutely necessary to know, in advance, what is medically wrong with my patient.

One lady whom I visited on one occasion whilst I was in London was keen for me to demonstrate some of my crystal healing techniques upon her! I duly obliged by first directing some crystalline healing energy towards her third eye chakra.

Immediately she told me that she had felt the crystal healing energy 'hit' her third eye and then travel downwards through her body and into her stomach. Apparently, so it transpired, she had had a serious operation on her stomach a couple of weeks previously (which I had no way of knowing!) and, naturally, that was the part of her body which most needed the crystal healing energies.

My own personal believe is that all dis-ease occurs purely as a result of an imbalance of our normal bodily 'vibrations'. Therefore, whatever health condition from which we may suffer, however serious or however mild, whether it be cancer, multiple sclerosis, tumours or simply a dose of influenza or the common cold, the basic treatment remains much the same.

All that is really necessary is for the disharmonious or imbalanced 'vibrations' to be re-harmonised,re-energised and re-balanced. This may, at first sight, appear to be an over-simplification but years of experience has shown me that all too often we can over-complicate our diagnoses.

The main difference between allopathic medicine and natural medicine is that allopathic medicine treats symptoms whilst natural medicine concentrates upon finding the root cause of the health problem.
Simply put - if we can discover the originating cause or 'imbalance' of any health condition or dis-ease then by using our crystal healing techniques to rebalance all the 'vibrations' which are out of alignment, we must be able to effect a cure or, at the very least, a gradual improvement in the patient's overall health!

You may also, of course use your quartz crystal for self - healing purposes. All that you have to do is to direct the single-terminated end of your crystal towards the appropriate part of your own body and, as you did before when treating your patient, visualise a lovely blue-white light radiating from the apex of your crystal, like a laser beam, into your own body.

Crystal Healing is one of the most powerful - and successful - methods of re-balancing, re-energising and re-harmonising every part of the physical and mental bodies of either yourself or of your patient.

c) Absent - or Distant - Healing

For best results it is recommended that the quartz crystals which you use for absent healing purposes are used solely for absent healing and for no other purpose.

It is only really necessary to have the name of the person who wishes to receive absent healing. Absent Healing, using the unique power of quartz crystals, can work solely on the name 'vibration' alone.
All you have to do is to visualise the crystalline energy pulsating within your absent healing quartz crystal being projected towards your patient, wherever he or she may live. Your quartz crystal will then do the rest!

If, however, you should have in your possession an actual photograph of your patient - or, if you have already met the person and therefore know what they look like - just hold your crystal in your hands and visualise, as strongly as possible, the crystalline energy totally surrounding the patient.

In addition it is very helpful after the absent healing session has been completed if you were to place your absent healing quartz crystal on a photograph of your patient; this assists the amplification of the crystalline energy which is being projected by the crystal towards your patient.

In my own personal healing centre I use a Master absent healing quartz crystal which I use for all my absent healing treatments. Whenever I am asked for absent healing I inscribe the patient's name and relevant details in my absent healing book and I then place my Master absent healing quartz crystal on top of this book with the 'programme' that every name entered in the book will receive healing from the crystalline energies; each according to his or her needs.

I ask that everyone tries to link up with my Master absent healing quartz crystal at 10pm every evening. Those of you reading these words and who may, for whatever healing purpose, need my crystal healing, prayers, powers and energies, please try to sit quietly by yourself at the hour of 10pm each evening, relax and visualise the crystalline energies flowing into your crown chakra. Think of me and you will receive crystal healing energy from the divine crystalline source.

d) Manifesting

Before you proceed with any form of manifesting it is extremely important that you examine your conscience and decide exactly what it is you wish to achieve. Decide, in as much precise detail as possible, whatever it is you need to acquire.

In order to avoid dissipating the crystalline energies, as already stated previously, it is most essential that you only use your chosen crystal for manifesting purposes only!

Let me repeat once again. Need, not want, should be your main criteria! For example, we might all say that we want to win a first dividend on the football pools of £2,000,000. But that is most definitely a want - not a need!

So be warned........

Now, make yourself comfortable in an easy chair and let us begin to start manifesting your innermost needs.

First, hold your quartz crystal in front of you, with both hands. Stare at it intently and visualise yourself entering into the crystal through a door cut into the crystal.

Once through this door you will find yourself in a long narrow hall. At the end of this hall is a green door inscribed with the words 'MANIFESTING ROOM' written upon it.

Open the door of this 'Manifesting Room' and step inside and look around. The walls are solid gold; the floor is green; the ceiling is studded with millions of precious gemstones, sparkling with all the colours of the rainbow. The room is filled with a warm, rich feeling of prosperity.

Bring into your mind a complete and exact image of whatever it is you wish to manifest. Visualise as much detail as possible; concentrate as hard as you possibly can and imagine that you actually possess whatever it is you are manifesting. You are extremely happy and relaxed, secure in the knowledge that your need has been met.

Take your time; 5, 10 or even 15 minutes, it doesn't matter. Then, when you have finished, slowly walk back out of the manifesting room, closing the door firmly shut behind you.

Walk back along the hall and step outside of the crystal. Take a large deep breath, relax your body and when you feel comfortable, open your eyes.

Do your manifesting at least twice per day (morning and evening) until your need has been fulfilled.

THE HEALING PROPERTIES OF GEMSTONES

As the former director of The Crystal Research Foundation and currently as the Director of CRYSTAL 2000, over the years I have been personally responsible for sending out hundred (literally!) of gemstones - the vast majority in the form of gemstone pendants - to many people throughout the United Kingdom. From some of the letters which I have received in reply I do know that many of these gemstones have had a positive effect upon the recipients!

From my own personal experience - and in talking with hundreds of people who have successfully received healing from their gemstones - I have found that the most effective way to use any gemstone for healing purposes is to wear it as close to the skin as possible.

Some ladies seem to 'hide' their gemstones within the deep inner recesses of their bras but the vast majority of people prefer to wear their chosen gemstone around their neck on a silver or gold plated chain.

In addition to the healing energies of the gemstone being able to penetrate the subtle body more easily, the gemstone pendant is a beautiful piece of jewellery - and is always aesthetically pleasing to the eye.

Remember - a stone of beauty is a joy forever!

Gemstones may, if so desired, be held in the hand whilst you are watching television during the evening, or whilst you are reading a favourite book or magazine.

You may also place your gemstone under your pillow at night whilst you are asleep; thus allowing the energies of the stone to gently penetrate your subtle body throughout the course of the night.

The healing - and therapeutic - power of crystals and gemstones has even reached boardroom level!

In recent natural health exhibitions, for example, I have sold some fairly large amethyst clusters to Managing Directors, Sales Directors etc. who have acquired their clusters to place on their office desks - or within their boardroom!

Amethyst or quartz crystal clusters are now the 'in' executive toy.

Certain stones can help you to develop your spiritual abilities and gifts. Use an amethyst for developing your intuitive awareness; a lapis lazuli for acquiring wisdom and truth; a moonstone for obtaining humanitarian love and sensitivity.
Use your gemstones wisely in the pursuit of all your ambitions and needs.

Be aware, however, that your gemstones can never become miracle workers. They need your loving care and attention, your mental attunement with their unique properties and energies, before they are able to truly help you!

In my first book, 'The Healing Crystal' (Cassells,£8.95), I included 72 gemstones under this chapter. Since writing my previous book, however, my personal research and experience has expanded my own knowledge and understanding and therefore I have now added a considerable number of 'additional' stones to this list.

A stone for strengthening the muscular tissue, especially around the heart.

Very good in the treatment of spinal degeneration diseases.

Semi-precious stone, the Agate is said to improve natural vitality and energy and to increase the self-confidence of the person using it. It is believed to be of special benefit to athletes and to those taking any kind of examination or test - or anyone else who has to call upon instant bursts of energy whether mental or physical.

Balances the emotions and calms the body, mind and feelings.

General healing, reduces fever, hardens tender gums, gives courage and banishes fear, also assists the wearer to express thoughts into spoken words. Helps to develop powers of eloquence.

Stone of health and good fortune.

A stone which strengthens the lungs, spleen and thymus.

Helps the nervous system, spleen, pancreas and testicles.

May be used to amplify colour therapy.

Generally used to help soothe the nervous system and to give some relief to those who are suffering from emotional disturbances.

Also helps with one's metabolism and growth. Useful when trying to express oneself more clearly. Regulates and improves thinking abilities.

Although it may look like one, Amber is not really a stone but the yellow-brown fossilised resin of trees.

It is claimed that Amber is used to best effect by those who suffer from throat infections, those who have bronchial disorders or those who are prone to asthma or convulsions, also rheumatism, intestinal disorders, earache, bladder trouble, nerves or bone-marrow deficiencies.

Calming, can absorb negative energy and helps the body to heal itself.

Used for making and breaking spells.

Helps with depression and suicidal tendencies.

A purple-coloured quartz used as a semi-precious stone; the Amethyst is known as a spiritual stone and is used for general healing and for meditation.

It is said that sleeping with a piece of amethyst beneath one's pillow promotes intuitive dreams and inspired thought.

Many healers also consider it useful in the relief of insomnia and to bring serenity in times of grief.

The Amethyst clears, purifies and helps with any addictions or stress or tension.

Also protects against blood disease, toxic effects of substance use, acne, neuralgia and fits.

Soothes and calms the mind, raises the spirit, rebalances and increases intuitive awareness, protects from negative vibrations.

It is a very good idea to have an Amethyst cluster in your room because of the cleansing and energising properties associated with it.

Traditionally believed to protect from drunkeness.

This stone strengthens the kidneys and ovaries.

Used in 'grounding' one's energies. Also helps soul reflection.

Strengthens muscle tissue, aids in co-ordinating basic motor responses.

Assists people suffering from stuttering and used in the treatment of hypertension.

Improves heart, lungs, throat, and thymus.

Good for people suffering from emotional traumas. Aids release of inner emotional tension from deep within the body.

Helps meditation.

Bluish-green transparent Beryl; the Aquamarine is supposed to be most useful when dealing with the problems of the eyes, liver, throat, stomach, nerves, and glands.

Relieves toothache, improves sight.

Preserves innocence. Quickens intellect, increases self-knowledge.

It is also reputed to promote clear and logical thinking and for that reason is often carried as a 'good luck' charm by those who are taking examinations or being interviewed for a job.

Brings inspiration and new ideas.

This stone strengthens the genitals, thyroid and the nervous system.

Used in the treatment of venereal diseases, including herpes.

Similar to Smithsonite.

Aventurine is said to be useful in relieving migraine and in soothing the eyes.

A traditional method of using this stone is to leave it in water overnight and to use the water the following day to bathe eyes.

Aventurine water - made in the same way can also be used for bathing irritations of the skin.

Aventurine is a soother and helps relax one for a better night's sleep!

It also relieves tension and shock. Improves vitality, equalises blood pressure.

Encourages creativity, gives the wearer courage, independence, calmness and serenity. Gives adventure and luck in love and sport.

A natural blue copper carbonate.

The Azurite is said to be an aid to psychic development and is a very powerful stone. Also aids meditation.

Relates to penetrating through your deepest fear in the subconscious.

It is used as a general healing stone. Relieves arthritis and joint disabilities. Reduces hip joint pain.

Helps heart problems, liver trouble, mouth, stomach and throat infections.

Improves intellect, strengthens will-power, guards against stupidity and mental disorders.

Deep-green precious stone flecked with red; it is believed that the Bloodstone will help to overcome depression and melancholia - especially if it is worn by the sufferer.

It is also said to help those who suffer from psychosomatic illness and pains which have an emotional rather than a physical cause.

Bloodstone is also a purifier of the blood and a general detoxification of organs, particularly the liver, kidneys and spleen.

It helps to allow light into the body.

Provides vitality, strengthens idealism and the will to do good - especially for charity. Increases one's talent, stimulates the kundalini and balances all of the chakras.

Blue-lace agate is a very calming stone. It is helpful for freely expressing oneself and how one feels and thinks.

Provides cool and soothing energy which is good for neutralising red energies such as anger, infections, inflammations, fevers etc.

Helps to open the throat chakra.

Helps improve heart, lungs, throat and thymus.

Good for people suffering from emotional traumas.

Aids the release of inner emotional tension from deep within the body.

Has general healing qualities and assists tissue regeneration.

Strengthens all the chakras and meridians.

Carries the golden healing ray. Gives comfort, helps cheer depression. Good for most of what ails you!

Helps kidneys, spleen and the pancreas. Removes toxins from the body and alleviates mental fear. Aids mental clarity, soothes anxiety,calms turbulent energies.

Expands awareness, aids intuition, links parallel realities.

Good when undertaking mental change.

Helps gall bladder, improves physical energy, also expands awareness etc as above.

Improves eyesight. Brings spiritual understanding into challenging circumstances and situations. Helps when doing regression.

Semi-precious stone, a reddish variety of chalcedony.

This stone is useful for understanding one's rhythms and cycles and it is said that if it is worn in a pouch around the neck by a women during menstrual periods - it will help to ease the stomach cramps felt at that time.

Strengthens voice; helps rheumatism and arthritis, depression, neuralgia; aids the sense of touch.

Used for infertility and impotence. Alleviates blood poisoning, fever, infection and nose bleeds.

Helps in the treatment of sores, spasms and wounds.

Protects from evil, elevates the spirits, grounds energies thus assisting concentration and mental focus by clearing the mind and focussing one's thoughts.

Helps daydreamers and those who are absent-minded.

Helps to ease tension, opens the mind and develops awareness.

Cools the overactive mind, helps relaxes muscles.

Elevates consciousness. Promotes peaceful co-existence and harmonious interaction with other aspects of creation.

Improves bone-marrow, spleen, red corpuscles and heart tissue.

Stimulates optimism and enhances one's spiritual and artistic creativity.

Helps cheer those with constant worries. Also improves prosperity consciousness.

Dissolves fear including fear of fear itself!

Will help the fear rise to the surface so that it may be faced - and dealt with.

Relieves nervous tension, emotional congestion, ulcer or stomach problems.

Brings balance, cleanses all negativity, brings inner peace and contentment.

Strengthens the appendix. Alleviates general toxaemia and viral conditions.

Improves prostate gland, testicles, fallopian tubes and ovaries.

Increases fertility.

Yellow variety of quartz.

It is claimed that the citrine is able to help those who feel that they have misplaced their path in life and to give them a new sense of direction and rebuild the structure of their earthly existence.

It helps to control the emotions and works with relationships and self-knowledge.

It attracts self-worth, dissolves emotional blocks and induces dreams.

It is also said to be beneficial to those people suffering from poor circulation and to strengthen the immune system, tissue regeneration, eases toxic conditions particularly in the endocrine and digestive systems. Helps with diabetes and depression.

Activates mental powers and clarifies thought. Improves self-image bringing confidence into relationships and environment, improving the quality of one's life, sometimes bringing prosperity.

Reduces harmful effect of electrical products.

Cheering stone, helpful with symbolic re-birth, helps strengthen new resolutions.

Hard substance formed of skeletons of various marine polyps.

Coral is said to promote general physical and mental well-being and to be of particular assistance to those suffering from anaemia, bladder conditions, colic and whooping cough.

In many parts of the world it is believed that coral can be used to ward off evil thoughts sent by ill-wishers.

Used to help people who become over-preoccupied with their own personal limitations.

Master healer. An extremely powerful stone in the removing of blockages and all emotional negativity.

An emerald green silicate of copper.

General healer. Relieves mental stress, promotes abundance, relaxation, love and emotional expressiveness.

Heals the parts emotionally abandoned whilst experiencing heartache. Good for those that, through loss, fear to love again, helps heal the heart and helps one to be able to trust again.

Used to help people who lack resourcefulness and who have an acute fear of personal failure.

Bright green precious stone. Improves intellect and memory.

Helps tired eyes and insomnia. Improves eloquence.

Gives power to see into the future and grants success in business. Acts as emotional stabiliser.

It is said to help release emotionally based trauma and to govern the awareness of emotions by others.

It opens up the heart to love, peace and healing.

Fluorspar - a natural calcium fluoride. Fluorite helps bring the spiritual into the material and quickens enlightenment.

Helps heal holes in one's auras where energy is drained.

Grounds, balances and focuses one's energies. Absorbs and alters negative and other energies. Opens the chakras. Aids physical and mental healing. Strengthens bone tissue, especially teeth enamel. Relieves dental disease, pneumonia, viral inflammation.

Strengthens lungs, thyroid, and the nervous system.

Protects against depression and skin diseases.

Promotes self-confidence, pride and success. Improves imagination.

A dark red gem.

The garnet is most often used as a general tonic for the whole system - physical, mental and emotional. It is regenerative and revitalising, strengthening the blood and helping with anaemia and circulatory problems.

Protects against infection, depression and skin diseases. It brings into consciousness the physical powers and is particularly recommended for those who need to improve their self-respect and self-confidence, pride and success and to increase their courage when dealing with changes. Improves imagination. Assists in dreamwork and in past life recall.

Increases determination, energy and courage. Attracts love, promotes bonding.

Apple green variety of chalcedony.

It reveals will-power and is useful for dealing with depression and loss of incentive. Feminine stone, ideal for menstrual pain and pre-menstrual tension. Helps after miscarriages, abortions, hysterectomies.

Helps with birthing if held, worn or meditated upon during labour. Cools fevers, heals burns, calms nerves, helps thyroid imbalance, voice problems, neck/shoulder strain.

Develops patience, kindness, tolerance, compassion, humility.

Gives peace and serenity; emotional balance, eases sorrow and anger.

Good for men who don't allow themselves to express their feelings or emotions.

Excellent stone for meditation and can assist the development of clairvoyance.

Used in the treatment of people who fear emotional hostility from everyone surrounding them.

Natural ferric oxide.

Improves all blood disorders, helps coagulation.

Reduces stressful effects of air travel, combats insomnia.

Enhances astral projection, promotes balance, focus, convergence and concentration of energy.

The hematite is a stone which it is said will help to increase courage and it is also claimed that it will strengthen the heart and is good for reducing a rapid pulse.

This stone stimulates the pancreas and spleen. Helps to restore the balance in erratic emotional behaviour.

Releases stress and tension throughout the body, boosts the power of other crystals by being used to close the circuit, particularly effective with Boji stones.

Stimulates endocrine system. Improves blood circulation. Helps in Meditation.

A natural sulphide or iron.

Aids digestive system of abdomen and upper intestinal tract.

Eases anxiety, depression, frustration and false hopes.

Strengthens astral body. Opens mind to new ideas, intellectually stimulating, links left and right hemispheres of brain facilitating communication between logic and emotion.

Promotes analysis, creativity, psychic development, memory, channelling activities, strength of will.

Pyrite is claimed to increase the oxygen supply in the blood, to strengthen the circulatory system in general and to be useful in clearing congested air passages.

Protects one's physical body from injury.

Promotes spiritual sight and understanding.

Used in childbirth. Helps in the treatment of insomnia.

A pale green gemstone.

Jade is said to be of help in relieving kidney complaints, bladder trouble and eye problems.

Yellow jade is believed to aid a poor digestion. When worn as a piece of jewellery, jade is thought to provide protection from one's enemies and can be used to protect one on long journeys.

Also to attract good luck, for wisdom, for long life and a peaceful death.

Helps to control dream content or focus.

In ancient China and ancient Egypt it was widely used as a talisman to attract good fortune, friendship and loyalty.

Coloured impure form of natural silica.

Jasper is said to be both invigorating and stabilising, bringing stillness to a troubled mind.

It generates an even rhythmic pulse. It is also said to improve the sense of smell and to overcome depression.

Red jasper is known to contain iron oxide which is used medically to control excessive bleeding and for this reason, it is claimed it can be useful in overcoming disorders of the blood.

Also for digestion and stomach problems, biliousness and bladder trouble.

Protects from witchcraft, soothes the nerves.

[Editor's note: I don't view Witchcraft as something one needs to be protected from...]

A very hard lustrous form of natural carbon. Prevents deep depression, quietens fears.

Protects from violence and illness. Aids grieving.

It is also used in healing to control and ease migraine and pain behind the eyes.

Alleviates anaemia, improves general tissue rejuvenation.

Creates balance between heart and mind, clears emotional blockages.

In meditation can balance negative emotional and troubled mental states.

Used in meridian points to stimulate flow of energy, or on chakra centres to clear blockages.

Recalls past lives when placed on third eye.

Augments channelling, altered states, vivid dreams, clear visualisation, loyalty, honour and serenity.

Kyanite blades can make incisions in the auric field. Also cut through layers of mental misconceptions and create new lines of energy for new thought.

A brilliant blue mineral.

The lapis lazuli was called by the ancient Egyptians 'The Stone of Heaven' and it is thought by many to be the stone upon which were carved the laws given to Moses.

It is said that it has the power to prevent fits and epilepsy and to improve the eyesight. Helps heart and spleen, protects against strokes, helps depression.

Helps acquire wisdom and truth.

It is also a symbol of power and a mental and spiritual cleanser.

Assists one's psychic development and mental stability. Gives hope and self awareness and helps one to face one's shadow-self. It is the stone of friendship.

Helps cut through superficialities to find inner truth. Aura cleanser.

Soothes sore throats and tonsilitis. Helps express new ideas.

Brings harmony between heart and mind. Good for schizophrenics. Transmutes anger, greed, frustration to peace; calms excess energies by rebalancing.

Improves pineal glands and the liver.

Stimulates visions. Can amplify thought-form. Also used for tissue rejuvenation.

Unifies mind and heart, heals whatever inhibits this mergence.

Used in the treatment of schizophrenia.

Good for introverted shy people who are unable to express love in external ways.

Restores balance to pineal, pituitary and left and right brain hemispheres.

Improves autism, dyslexia, epilepsy, physical coordination problems, visual problems, spiritual problems.

Stimulates endocrine system. Improves blood circulation. Helps in meditation.

A green copper carbonate.

Malachite contains copper and it is claimed that it is helpful in the treatment of rheumatism and also in regularising menstruation.

Used in the treatment of asthma, toothache. Improves eyesight.

Raises one's spirits and increases hope, health and happiness. It attracts physical and material benefits and brings prosperity.

It assists wise rule and helps remove mental blockages hindering spiritual growth.

It relieves any congestion in the body and helps with confusion and lack or purpose and insecurity.

Gentle physical strengthener. Makes one feel more able to cope with any problems and difficulties.

Helps communication, grounds and insulates.

Small glassy (translucent) greeny stone believed to be associated with meteorites.

Eases epilepsy, brain imbalances and malfunctions and autism, particularly if brought on by excessive sensitivity.

Assists conscious communication with star-seed sources and is a healing balm for the deep longing - and heartfelt yearning - of many people to "go home".

Moldavite also helps one to understand one's true purpose in life.

A stone for transformation.

Moonstone is an opalescent feldspar. It is claimed to promote long life and happiness and is said to attract friendship and loyalty towards the wearer.

It acts as a mediator between mind and emotions and allows peace of mind and accessability to one's innerself.

Helps soothe and balance emotion.

In healing terms, it is often used to reduce excess fluid in the body and to reduce the swelling caused by this fluid.

Used in women suffering from pre-menstrual tension.

Gives inspiration, encourages personal attachments. Helps obtain humanitarian love, romance and sensitivity.

This stone strengthens the larynx, lungs, thyroid and nervous system.

A smokey quartz crystal. so dark as to be black instead of the more usual brown. Very good for grounding.

Moss agate is said to cleanse the emotional body and release anger and frustration.

A grounding stone - makes the user face up to responsibility.

Dedicated to change, metamorphosis, purification, fulfilment, inner growth and introspection.

Deflects negative energy.

A variety of agate.

The onyx is reputed to improve concentration and devotion. Perhaps it is for this reason that it is frequently to be found in rosaries.

Helps hearing problems, heart trouble and ulcers.

Helps lung conditions, increases assimilation of protein. Assists the control of one's temper and calms the nerves.

Aids the development of one's psychic ability. Sometimes considered an unlucky stone, perhaps because it causes one's thoughts - good or bad - to rebound upon oneself!

Above all, it is a stone of love, but if the lover be false its influence is reversed, and the opal proves a sorry stone for faithless lovers.

Promotes antibodies and fights infection.

Peridot, as well as being recommended as a cure for insomnia, is said to aid the digestion and placate the nervous system.

Improves bruised eyes.

Can cleanse and heal hurt feelings, helps mend damaged relationships.

Attracts occult powers to the user. Develops inner vision; the stone of the seer.

Counteracts negativity and opens the mind. It acts like a tonic and heals the physical body and can be useful in reducing fever.

Also used in treating emotional states such as anger or jealousy.

Restores physical energy. Helps hip and back problems. Aids past-life recall.

A natural crystalline silica. So many uses and properties that it needs a whole book to itself!

The Quartz Crystal attracts the powers of light and energy and is said to be an excellent powerful general healer and dynamic working tool which works on all levels - strengthening, cleansing and protecting.

Purifies air.

Protects against harmful electrical vibrations.

Assists the wearer to think intuitively. Amplifies and transmits subtle vibrations.

The symbol of elemental wholeness, containing the four elements of creation. Assists development and integration of our entire being.

Assists us to amplify, focus, direct, transmit and store energy.

Its greatest attribute is known to be its use as an aid to opening the psychic centres, enabling the ability to meditate at a deeper level and to free one's mind from the mundane and the trivia. It releases the higher consciousness and develops mystical and spiritual gifts.

Prevents mental breakdowns, balances physical and emotional traumas. Improves eyesight, kidney, pancreas and spleen. Inspires forgiveness, heals emotional scars, attracts love.

Helps one face reality and new situations.

Assists integration of physical, mental and emotional fields.

Restores physical energy (especially following trauma or shock).

Strengthens inner ear and improves sense of hearing. Aids vitamin absorption.

Increases language skills, raises self-esteem. Helps maintain loving state in every-day life by bolstering one's resolve not to give in without one having to be aggressive or non-loving.

Rejuvenates physical beauty. Helps increase self-expression and to speak with greater clarity.

Relieves diarrhoea, dizziness, haemorrhage, kidney troubles, spasms, vertigo. Helps ease pain anywhere.

This lovely stone is claimed to be one of the best stones to use in the treatment of migraines and headaches of all types.

Calms emotions, helps suffering due to emotional trauma, heals wounds of neglect giving inner peace.

It is also said to stimulate the imagination and the intellect and to open up the heart to inner peace, self love and self recognition.

It is a very healing stone for internal wounds, bitterness and sorrows.

It promotes forgiveness, love and friendship. It makes one more receptive to beauty, hastens recovery and gladdens the heart. The Venus - or love - stone.

A deep red transparent gemstone, a form of corundum.

As well as aiding intuitive thinking, the ruby is believed to increase levels of energy and divine creativity.

It is often used to alleviate disorders of the blood, such as anaemia, poor circulation and menstrual problems.

Also used in the treatment of rheumatism and arthritis.

Improves fever, pain and spasms.

Alleviates worries, lifts spirits, improves one's confidence, intuition, spiritual wisdom, energy and courage.

Encourages self-nurturing in those with a poor self-image.

Rutilated quartz is said to be of particular benefit to those who suffer from respiratory complaints of any form such as asthma, bronchitus etc.

Increases tissue regeneration.

Rebalances different levels of consciousness.

Improves decisiveness, strength of will.

Helps bleeding, insomnia and nervousness.

Stone of friendship and love, attracts good influences.

Gives the wearer devotion, faith, imagination and peace of mind.

Stimulates self-control and protection.

Selenite calms and clears troubled minds and is useful in personal meditation and visualisation.

Stabilises one's emotions, bringing them under calm control.

Natural environmental record keeper. Helps to clarify one's innermost thoughts and to expand one's mental powers.

One of the most powerful healing stones!

Used in past-life recall and in regression therapy. Can be used in any healing treatment but should only be used by a qualified crystal healing therapist who is able to handle and direct the powerful energies properly.

Calms and clears, good to use in high anxiety situations.

Helps after nervous breakdowns, relaxes overtense muscles, also good in childbirth. Neutralises red energies.

Smokey quartz disperses negative patterns and vibrations, and transmits a high quantity of light.

Good luck talisman. Helps protect soldiers on active service.

Improves abdomen, kidneys, pancreas and the sexual organs.

Increases energy fertility. Encourages survival instincts. Stimulates and purifies energy centres.

Grounds and stabilises energies, helps lift depression. Draws out and absorbs negative energies, replacing them with positive ones.

Strengthens immune system. A softer energy than clear quartz.

Used in meditation.

A stone which gives one serenity and powers of inner contemplation. A peaceful stone!

Sodalite is a good stone for oversensitive and defensive people, improves courage and endurance. It balances and stills the mind and clears rigid thought patterns.

Helps logical and rational thought, and intellect, widens the perspective.

Blue sodalite is reputed to assist in lowering of blood pressure and balancing the metabolism. Aids sleep.

Attracts help. Makes the wearer strong in character.

Used to help people who suffer from overcaution or doubt.

To help those people who are resisting a condition or relationship which they regard as discouraging.

It is claimed that tigers eye will counteract feelings of hypocondria and the onset of psychosomatic illness and will also give a feeling of self-confidence.

It is especially good for clear thinking and helps one to see a problem objectively when confused or emotionally affected. It releases tension and develops will-power.

Good for asthma.

Helps people gain insight into their own faults.

Protects from witchcraft and evil.

[Editor's note: Ahem...]

A yellowish transparent mineral.

Topaz helps to overcome stress and soothes nerves thereby helping one to achieve a deeper sleep.

It is also good for colds and flu. Strengthens blood vessels, improves blood circulation, varicose veins, sense of taste.

Good for liver trouble.

Improves the intellect, develops psychic abilities, calms both mind and body.

Throat disorders, calming. Inspires leadership ability, psychic insight, spiritual and artistic growth.

Helps with clarity and concentration.

Prevents lymphatic disease. Balances, protects, calms, gives self- confidence and cheerfulness. Useful for meditation.

Attracts inspiration, goodwill and friendship. Protects wearer against misfortune and anaemia. Grounds high-frequency energies into the physicality.

Strengthens nervous system, regulates blood pressure.

Deflects negative energy, attracts prosperity.

All throat problems, thyroid, speech impediments.

Promotes clear verbal expression, dissolves mental friction, emotional constriction.

Carries a high electrical charge and if rubbed briskly one end becomes positive and one negative, the energy can then be directed wherever peaceful energy is required.

Heart balancer. Promotes understanding of self and emotions.

A bluish green precious stone. Turquoise helps the ability to express oneself and verbalise freely. It is good for laryngitis and nervousness in speech.

It is said that turquoise will grow pale on a sickly person and recover its colour when returned to a healthy person.

Can strengthen entire anatomy and helps improve all diseases.

Shields the wearer from harmful influences, attracts friendship.

Used in meditation. Also for the development of intuition. Brings one wisdom. It reminds us of both our spiritual nature, our earthly inheritance and its beauty.

Helps balance and gives one stability.

A grounding stone.

Helps with throat problems and communication.

Symbol of rebirth, burns away old ways of looking at things and gives you a new perspective on life. Helps clear vision at all levels.

General healer. Helps liver complaints, childbirth, insomnia.

Promotes spiritual sight and understanding.

Strengthens the male genitals and the female cervix. Helps to increase fertility.