Permutt Crystals for Everyday Living

101 crystals to enhance your life, improve your relationships, and reach your goals
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-80065-393-1
Verlag: CICO Books
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 144 Seiten

Simple ways to make the power and energy of crystals work for you every day. Philip Permutt has brought health, happiness and harmony to many through his years of experience with crystals. With his most accessible guide to date, it is easy to incorporate the magic of crystals daily to enhance your everyday life. From selenite lamps in the living room to balance the energy of technology and screens, to carrying protective turquoise on your daily commute, Philip offers easy-to-follow tips for nurturing your relationships, bringing harmony to your home, improving performance at work and achieving your life goals. A comprehensive directory features 101 of the most useful crystals, alongside information on harnessing them to enhance the feng-shui energy of your home, connect to your chakras and work with their astrological alignment for the most successful results.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Permutt, Philip

Leseproben

What can crystals do for us?

Crystals are amazing, healing tools. They can lift you up when you’re feeling down, heal physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual wounds, and even help you to make decisions along your life path. They are truly magical.

Crystals, such as labradorite, can fill your world with magic.

Magic is defined as something we witness but cannot yet explain … “yet” is the key word here. From the invention of controlled fire to space travel, each jump in technological development has led to wondrous new things for mankind. Each one seemed magical at the time, and each time there have been doubters—those stuck in their old ways, resisting new technology. As science opens new frontiers of possibility and understanding, many of the things which were once called “magic” are now in common usage. They are all around you, every day, packed into what we consider mundane 21st-century living … something our ancestors would have called “magic!”

All innovations in science and technology, such as space travel, once seemed wondrous and “magic.”

How old is crystal technology?

Crystals have been at the cutting edge of human technology and possibility since we humans first started walking upright on two legs. The prehistory of human evolution can be witnessed at the Cradle of Humankind, a series of caves north of Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa. Some of the excavations at this UNESCO site take us back to around 3.5 million years go. As each layer of excavation reveals an earlier aeon, from our ancestral prehuman species right the way through to today’s Homo sapiens (that’s you and me), there is one thing each era has in common … crystals.

The earliest humanoid burials date back some 335,000 years. Skeletons, found buried ritually in graves, were discovered by paleoanthropologist Dr Lee Berger in the Rising Star Cave System at the Cradle of Humankind. These are Homo naledi, which are perhaps the last pre-Homo sapiens species from whom we evolved into today’s modern human beings. The ritual markings, carved into smoothed rocks with stone tools, were believed by anthropologists to be linked to belief in an afterlife of some description. Other stone artifacts were also found nearby.

In the Kalahari Desert, Republic of South Africa, Dr Jayne Wilkins discovered crystals collected by humans for spiritual use over 105,000 years ago. Described as “non-utilitarian objects” (objects which have been fashioned or placed somewhere for spiritual, beauty, or ornamentation purposes), these calcite crystals were found at a sacred site far from their natural environment. In other words, they were moved there by prehistoric man for a specific and special purpose.

The first humanoid tools were made from chert (often the flint variety of chert), which was made into many things, including scrapers and knives. Chert and pyrite also helped to make sparks for fire. Over the millennia, these tools developed in intricacy and efficiency into axes, spearheads, and arrowheads, and have continued to develop throughout the 21st century into technology for computers, cell phones, lasers, and space travel.

Humans have worked with crystals, such as this Stone Age flint knife, since the dawn of humanity.

So, what else can crystals do for us?

The question is never “Do crystals work?” or “What can they do for us?” It is always “What can’t crystals do!”

Each crystal only does one specific thing. Helping that crystal do that one thing—to be as good as it can be—can affect and change so many things in your life. Citrine, for example, balances the cells in the bowel that absorb nutrients. But it can also aid recovery from injury, maintain a healthy body weight, boost the immune system, and so much more (see box, opposite.)

All crystals affect us in different ways and can often help with many symptoms, but it’s in dealing with the cause of a condition that crystals come into their own. For example, if you feel you need to balance your weight, citrine will help if you have a digestive disorder. However, if the cause is emotional, then apatite will work much better for you. If the cause comes from social pressure, then spirit quartz may work better still. In reality, there are often several causes. A bowel disorder such as Crohn’s disease can affect weight loss and weight gain, but the condition itself is affected by stress and emotional and social pressure, as well as diet and a genetic predisposition to the condition. In this way, we may need a collection of crystals to help balance all the different aspects of a condition or situation.

A collection of crystals, such as apatite (left) and spirit quartz (far left), can work together with citrine to treat an underlying cause.

The power of citrine

Crystals help your body, mind, emotions, and soul find balance, making you happier and healthier. For example, let’s look at citrine, which balances the cells in the bowel that absorb nutrients. Sounds simple. But how does this affect your body, mind, emotions, and spirit?

Well, when we absorb the nutrients we need from whatever food we are eating, we end up with more nutrients flowing around our body. These nutrients make it easier for our bodies to repair quickly, whether from a minor bruise or when recovering from a major operation. So, citrine will help your body to repair itself more quickly.

When you are absorbing the balanced nutrients that you need, it is easier to find and maintain your natural weight. There is no “perfect” weight but a perfect size that is unique to each of us. Everyone is individual and crystals treat us as such. In this way, citrine may be good for weight loss or weight gain.

When there are more nutrients flowing around your body, your heart doesn’t need to pump as hard to get nutrients to where they are needed. So citrine is good for your heart health.

Blood flowing more easily around your body moves more oxygen to your brain, which boosts both logical and creative thought. So, citrine is also good for all mental processes, including mental healing.

The blood flowing around your body also carries white blood cells, powerful enforcers of the immune system. These blood cells are like biological bouncers evicting troublemaking bacteria and viruses from your system. So citrine gives you protection against the germs and bugs that are all around us in our environment.

I can go on and on with this example of what citrine can help with, and you may well ask “Well, what can’t citrine do?”

The simple, balancing qualities of citrine in one area can affect and improve the body, soul, heart, and mind.

Choosing crystals

The key to choosing crystals is your own intuitive awareness of the crystals you encounter. Start by being aware of the different crystals you are drawn to, be mindful of the ones that repel you, and ignore all the others for the time being.

The crystals you like—the ones that make you feel good or that make you smile—will help you with things you need or want in your life right now. You will often notice quick rewards working with these crystals.

Crystals that you are drawn to will always help you with something you are doing or want to do.

The ones that repel you—that make you feel uneasy, nauseous, or are difficult to even pick up—are the life-changing crystals. They are touching something deep down inside you that you don’t want to look at. Even though the process may be uncomfortable at times, the rewards are amazing. When this initial discomfort passes—and it will—life will seem better than it’s ever been.

Some crystals just work for almost everyone all the time. Calcite, for example, is always calming and the green variety works magically for anxiety and panic attacks. Others just seem to work in certain circumstances without us really knowing why, such as an elixir of amber to ease constipation. (A crystal elixir is water in which a crystal has been immersed.) Crystals like these are a great place to start for choosing crystals for everyday living, while others will require a little consideration.

Green calcite (top) can help if you suffer from anxiety, and tourmaline (center) eases the symptoms of worry. Amber (bottom) can make an elixir that has healing effects for almost everyone who uses it.

EVERYDAY SOLUTIONS

An easy way to choose crystals for everyday living is to look at the common things that can stop us enjoying life every day.

Stress or grief can have a huge impact on daily life and affects everyone differently. Another obvious example is worry—the single, most useless human emotion there is! Once you have thought through, planned, and actioned everything you can about a situation, continuing to think about whether you have done enough, or the right thing, or whatever else is purposeless. Tourmaline is a fabulous crystal to help you with this part. It works in two ways, firstly to help you to focus on the matter in hand and secondly to let go of worry after you have done everything you can. Coincidentally, it’s also great for stopping you worrying about what other people think of you, which can free you up to live your life to your fullest potential.

Sometimes our needs are less obvious, or they may be a combination of many different factors. We’ll look at these in more detail in Chapter 4 (see page 68.)

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