This is a copy of the Final Exam that was submitted in keeping with
my Crystal Healing Practitioner course in December 2006 whereby I had to
write at least 1000 words on how I would use Crystal Healing
either in my own life or on a person that I would treat.




The therapeutic use of gems is not a new or alternative healing method.
Evidence that gemstones were used to heal disease can be found from the most ancient
civilizations. Whether in leather pouches as carried by the Sumerians, or worn as talismans
and amulets, or distilled into powders or elixirs, gemstones were known by natural healers to
strengthen those who wore them, protecting from evil spirits, sickness and disaster.

In the Vedic tradition, naturopathic medicine was known as Ayurveda, a word that is derived
from sanskrit with "ayur" meaning life and "veda" meaning wisdom. Ayurveda describes in detail
how to prepare elixirs, pastes and powders made from gemstones.

In the first Chinese medical book, written 5000 years ago by Shen Nung, the Red Emperor,
can be found detailed descriptions of gemstones and their influence on the body.

In answering this exam question, I can only concentrate on what it is
that I am doing, on what it is my intent to do, with regards to crystal healing
in my personal life. In future, it is my dream to own/operate a wholistic wellness center
as a means of sharing my knowledge with others.

On a spiritual (esoteric) level, I find that I have a great affinity for the mineral kingdom.
I believe that one of the ways I can develop open-mindedness and intuition
is through working with crystals and gemstones.

Crystals, when they come into your possession, can still be holding programs that allow
them to work with discordant energies. Deprogramming stops the crystals from doing this.
There is a difference between programming and cleaning or cleansing.
Programming imprints a command, or a thought form or idea, into the internal matrix
of the crystal, just as you would put the information onto the hard disk of a computer.
Clearing and cleansing merely clears the crystal of the accumulation of unwanted energies.

Despite the fact that the most commonly given method of deprogramming and cleansing
one's crystal is to put them in sea salt or saline solutions, I chose specifically not to use this method
for the simple reason that salt is a crystalline structure. It is also a great gatherer of discordant
energies, or energies that have disassociated themselves from the Source, or from the Light.
Crystals do not like salt because it gets into the microscopic cracks in the faces of the crystal and
leeches out their water content. They dehydrate and start to crack. It is possible to actually
deprogram and reprogram the salt in order to clear it of unwanted energies, but even so the crystals
still do not like being in salt, because of the dehydration that it causes.

I clear and cleanse my crystals, before using, with INTENT. Thought is energy,
and intent is everything. When you draw a symbol in your mind, or with your hands,
or repeat the name of a symbol, then you link, or connect with, the energy of that symbol.
This is linked with intent. I make use of my Reiki 2 symbols, first connect by invoking the
Choku Rei symbol followed by the Sei Hei Ki (to clear of accumulated energies). I then follow
with the Choku Rei again, repeating twice more, saying each symbol in a series of 3's.

In keeping with the fact that the human body is also of a crystalline nature, the first crystal
with which one must work, clean, polish and purify, must be one's self. Luc Bourgault, author
of The American Indian Secrets of Crystal Healing states that ...

It is an illusion to think that you can work effectively with crystals if you have not already
started to work on yourself (p 17).The crystal is but a tool, for it is not the crystal which will do
the work but the person who holds it and who channels their will to heal into it (p 18).

I believe, as does Luc, that crystals are living beings, an intimate part of Mother Earth. In this light,
everything that we think, say and do is registered, expressed and amplified by the crystals.
If you possess a power such as that of working with crystals, you have also the responsibility for it.
With any power there comes responsibility (p 24).


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