A few weeks ago I had a request to select
Mum says that us children are becoming more
some crystals for someone who lives a long
and more ‘intuitive’ and spiritual; she says that
way from us and had been told she had
her job as an adult is to help me have the
throat cancer, I felt her energy line and put
choice to be whatever I want to be, to feel how
every crystal which felt right in a little bag.
I feel, and connect with crystals and people in
Out of interest Mum then read a crystal book
the sky in the way I want to. Mum has never
and suggested that there was one crystal
read us a spiritual book or told us what we
which was really good for cancer which we
should or should not believe. Mum says we
didn’t have in stock. We held back sending
should believe what we feel for ourselves.
the collection by a few days until we had managed to get to the wholesalers and get
How we use crystals
the missing crystal, then I am really pleased
There are some amazingly complicated things
to share that we found out she doesn’t have
you can do with crystals but I normally just do
cancer and so even the books agree that I
simple things. There are loads of books,
had selected the perfect crystals for what
websites and people giving advice, so I
was wrong with her!
thought I would do something a bit different and I am going to share how we use crystals
A couple of months ago I had my crystals at
in our home.
a lovely spiritual exhibition and a boy of about 13 came up to the stand, he was immediately
I keep my rose quartz dog in a little box with a
drawn to a piece of agate; it was like a
pillow and a sparkly pink felt blanket on my
magnet to him. His mum and her friend came
bedside table, and I have a gorgeous rose
over and the friend took the agate out of his
quartz lamp which I love having on when I
hand and said “you don’t need that, you need
sleep. Mum keeps her large ball of orange
this” and picked up a hematite tumble for him
calcite on her bedside table. Bedside tables
because she had read about it. Well the
are a great place to put crystals as you will be
boy’s face was really sad, he knew which
in one place for a long period of time and the
crystal was right for him and so did I; I saw
energy is close to you, I suggest you don’t put
the connection between him and the agate
one there though if you find it gives you lots of
and so did my Mum. I told them that a crystal
energy as it might keep you awake.
should be chosen by feeling not by theory but they bought the hematite.
Mum often puts crystals in her bra which is quiet funny when she takes her bra off and
The boy came back to my stand at least 3
crystals fall out, she only puts little crystals in
times, every time he was drawn to the
her bra though, it would be really funny if she
original piece of agate and yet still the mother
put big crystals in there! My sister and mum
continued to listen to the friend.
often wear a crystal pendant on a chain and
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