EMMA LUCY KNOWLES

A renowned healer, clairvoyant, crystal whisperer, energy and light worker, spiritual coach, meditation guide and author, Emma Lucy Knowles has over 20 years of experience in the energy and spiritual field. When thinking about our well-being journeys, who better to ask about our journey to all round calmness...

HOW DID YOU FIND YOUR TALENT?

I found my talent at a really young age. I was around seven when I started interacting with crystals. I was picking them up in the shop when everybody else was buying sweets - that’s what I spent my money on. The ability to channel spirits came from when I was a young girl where I always felt connected to things that we couldn’t see. I always understood how people felt but had all these waves of emotion and didn’t really know what to do with them. We had a tragic family loss that I was never told until one of those people in spirit came to visit me when I was 11 and told me about what happened. That was my first experience of channelling and understanding what I’m channelling.

FOR THOSE BEGINNING THEIR OWN WELLNESS JOURNEY, WHERE WOULD YOU SUGGEST TO START?

I would say we are already on a wellness journey. Don’t think about this as starting, think about this as adding value to who you are and what you’ve always known about yourself. Wellbeing is all about being well. Don’t make wellness feel like a chore, don’t feel like you have to do something for the sake of it. Make your wellness journey as enjoyable as going and having your hair done or something that you enjoy doing that you perceive as treating yourself.

Ask yourself what does wellness feel like to me? For example, does meditation feel like it’s a treat to me or am I adding stress by doing this? By purchasing crystals and interacting with their energies, does that feel like it’s something that is enriching me or do I feel stressed when I’m doing it? Or does it feel like the easiest thing that adds value to my life. Start thinking about it in terms of where you see the most value rather than feeling like I just don’t know where to begin and then not starting at all. to everyone else’s energy, and would never really tend to my own, so in order to spend the day feeling like I’m working well and good for everyone else, I get up early in order to ensure my energy is completely aligned and ready for everything that’s coming for the day.

Bringing in crystals is an amazing starting point as it allows us to bring in the energy without needing to make drastic change. They work towards aligning our energy so then they align us on the path and with the vibration – when we are aligned with that vibration, we’re pretty much unstoppable because our gut and intuition kicks in allowing us to know what is right for us.

WHAT IS YOUR MUST-DO GO TO BED ROUTINE?

Before I go to bed, I’ll always have a stretch - even if it’s just lying in bed. I’ll make sure that I can stretch my arms from my head, rotating my neck a couple of times, and then it’s my time for giving thanks and looking back over the day.

bullet to distract me because it wants to keep us safe - it doesn’t want us to grow. So “I am and I can’” is my big one. It just helps me put that voice out of the room and focus on what my heart and soul is trying to say.

WHAT IS THE MOST ADVENTUROUS THING YOU’VE DONE IN LIFE?

I went to Brazil and I built a school for the Bobby Moore foundation for cancer research which was phenomenal. I had absolutely no idea what we were doing, but we went off into the national park and built a school which was an incredible experience.

Then ask yourself “what do I think I am lacking in my life now” and then finding the correlating crystal for that and carrying that within you. If you are wanting to bring something in to give you that release from what is holding you back, we can also ask: “Where do we feel like we are stagnating?” If this is in friendship: a piece of dalmatian jasper to get you into loyalty. If it is in grief, for many a reason life throws upon us, a piece of pink tourmaline could help. Crystals are going to – not just take away from your life so you feel depleted – but always going to be serving your energy first and then centring you with who you are naturally.

Fundamentally, this is what treating yourself with kindness and being in a state of being well and looking after your well-being means to me.

WHAT IS YOUR WAKE-UP ROUTINE?

I have quite an intense wake up routine. I get up at 6am, I meditate and then I try to journal anything I’ve seen or felt to get that all down. I’m currently learning to teach Qigong, so I’m up and doing my morning practice. It’s all about getting my energy in a space that feels good for helping other people align their energy. I learned that for a very long time I was tending

I do this because your brain tracks the last things that you’ve thought about before going to sleep, and that’s what you take into your dream. So I try to keep my mind really clean, positive and uplifted and on the trajectory to the things that feel really good. This really helps me sink into sleep especially as I’ve never naturally been a good sleeper. It’s a time where my mind goes “right, you’ve got time to think”. So I make sure I think about all the things that I’m grateful for and appreciate. And equally, the things that didn’t go well today. I like to think about how I’ve learnt from them or how I could do better with them. I think it is all about how we just change our mindset before we go to bed.

WHAT IS YOUR DAILY AFFIRMATION?

My daily affirmation is “I am and I can”. I channel a lot of people which means I’m communicating with spirits through my being, hearing my voice, and then giving it back to somebody. So you have to really be in a state of trust.

IF YOU COULD ONLY CARRY ONE CRYSTAL FOREVER, WHAT WOULD IT BE AND WHY?

So crystals work in a couple of ways: they allow us to align the energy within our body, and eventually we end up taking on that alignment so we don’t need to carry them forever. A lot of people come back to the rose quartz because that is a love stone, but for me the crystal I would carry forever is a chrysoprase because it allows you to speak your truth from the heart and with clarity. If I’m allowed a second piece, it would always be Selenite - the moon stone. It helps us keep in check with the balance of our energy. It allows us to realise there is good in the bad things and bad in the good things, so it’s about finding what that is to you and how to make the most of it.

I’ve learnt that even though I’ve trusted the voice, I haven’t always had the confidence with it sometimes. The ego comes in, you know that voice that says “oh don’t do that”. Ego uses the same voice as intuition, so where intuition is going “you can do this, you can grow, expand, give it a go, I have faith in you”, your ego is sitting there in the background saying “don’t do it, people will laugh at you” etc. So even if I’m having big moments, or if I’m sitting one to one with somebody, that cheeky little ego voice will find any moment to fire off a little

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