July 3, 2024 • 34 mins
Crystals serve as conduits to enhance our consciousness and our healing. They connect with us to help accelerate our growth, grounding us, and granting access to energies or talents that might otherwise elude us. It is important to recognize that we do not need crystals to recognize empowerment, clarity, or healing - the energy already resides within you.
Crystals are a mineral-rich living object that hold a certain structure and vibrate at a consistent frequency. When we attune to the frequency in which they vibrate, we are able to align our energy fields to tap into or harness those energies.
Utilize crystals as a resource, a gift that you get to choose to work with. They allow you to work with your consciousness and belief: “I believe and trust this crystal has these attributes and vibrations”. It’s not about giving your power away - it’s about the crystals enhance, attune, awaken, remember and activate cells within your DNA that you are not conscious of.
Here’s a step-by-step guide on working with crystals:
- Set Intentions and Communicate:
When you acquire a crystal, express gratitude and intention:
- Thank you for coming home with me
- Thank you for finding me
- I’m glad to have you
Hard-wire your intention immediately:
- May we work together for the greatest good, highest light, and evolution
- As I work with you, may optimal healing unfold
- Clear and Cleanse Your Crystal
- Use salt water or a salt bath (avoid for any salt-based crystals)
- Employ sage or palo santo to clear its energy
- Rinse the crystal and place it in the sunlight or moonlight for recharging
- Meditate with Your Crystal
- Hold the crystal in your right hand
- Sit outdoors, play meditation music, and allow energy exchange
- Note: the left side of your body absorbs energy, while the right side emits it
- Research and Learn
- Explore CrystalVaults.com for metaphysical and healing properties
- Write your learnings down
- Organically Attune to Frequencies and Energies
- Follow your intuition in wearing the crystal, placing it on your body, or in your home
- Journal your experience & remember there’s no right or wrong- tune into nature’s wisdom
- Monthly Recharge
- Choose an intentional date to cleanse and clear their energy
- Create a ritual - put them under the new or full moon, or do it on the solstice, your birthday, the first of the month
- Embrace Breakage
- If a crystal breaks, it signifies a breakthrough, healing, or completion: the work is done
- Thank the stone and meditate to review what you’ve learned or healed through your work together
- Respect Nature
- Always seek permission before taking a stone from its natural habitat
- Listen to your intuitive answer and honor its history and energy
Remember, crystals enhance intuition and creativity, harmonizing the brain’s hemispheres as you utilize your reasoning and logic along with it. Enjoy the magical, exciting journey of working with them!
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Hi everyone, It's Amanda Rigua Green. Welcome to Soul Sessions
and happy holiday week. Fourth of July in the United States.
It's a celebratory time and it also just feels like
summer when the Fourth of July happens. Whatever you're doing,
hopefully you're doing something fun with your kids, with your family,
or you have a little bit of time off work,
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or you're making time for yourself. And you know I
talked about that in the July Energy Update. Is we
have a full moon in cancer about to happen. So
create space, create intimate time that feels comforting and nurturing.
And do you remember how I said the energy, the
psychic energy is really rich right now, Well, guess what
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we're going to talk about today. Crystals. Crystals one oh one.
I cannot believe I haven't done a dedicated episode yet
working with crystals. I have to tell you I was
not that child that worked with crystals. You know how
kids now they work with crystals. I work with so
many mothers and fathers, my fathers too. I have a
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really good male client that I work with who is
into crystals and his boys are into crystals, and it
blows my mind and it's so cool. But I didn't use,
you know, gemstones and crystals and amethyst and rose quartz
and have those things when I was younger. But I
was drawn to them when my intuitive gifts years ago
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began to really come to the forefmoornt as a tool,
but more so a foundational, vibrational way of attuning my
energy to something else. And let me give you the
foundational element of working with crystals that I innately believe
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we do not need crystals to become empowered or clear
or healed. Crystals enhance our consciousness and our healing. They
join us to help accelerate or ground in or access
an energy that may elude us, or a healing or
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a talent, because crystals can be used for a multitude
of things. But you do not even physically need to
hold a crystal to even work with its energy. You
already have it all within you. And I remember the
very first time I did a crystal workshop. Oh my gosh,
I've done so many of these, and it's been so
long ago. When I first started out, I would do
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crystal workshops, you know, because it just came to me.
I just knew without looking up what crystals did I
could hold them and I'd say, oh, gosh, this crystal
does this, and then sure enough I would look up
the metaphysical properties and it would align with what I
knew because they just spoke to me. And there's a
lot of people who I have met or know that
just know what certain crystals the energies they transmit and
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emit or communicate that. They're very much a mineral rich,
living object. And the amazing thing about crystals is, you
know how we are primarily made of fluid water, like
we are watery, we are not static. Crystals hold a
certain structure and they vibrate at a consistent frequency, and
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that's why when we attune to the frequency in which
they vibrate at, we are able to align our energy
fields to tap into or harness those energies. But you
already have the ability to cultivate those energies within you.
So crystals are land yap They're a resource, they're a gift,
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they's something you get to choose to work with. And yes,
there's an etheric quality to crystals that also resonates with belief,
like I believe this crystal has these frequencies, these attunements,
these vibrations these attributes, and so you're actually working with
your consciousness and belief, very similar to working with astrology
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or numerology ruins like any oracle cards, you're vibrating at
a frequency that says I believe, I trust, and then
there's a road map to it. So it is about
having fun, but it's not about giving your power away
or saying if I get this crystal, then I'm going
to be psychic. I mean, it's really more, Oh, you
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already are psychic. Maybe this crystal can enhance or help
you attune to that energy, or help you recall or
remember cellular information that's already in your DNA, in your genes,
in your consciousness that maybe you are not conscious of.
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So they enhance, they activate, they awaken. That's what crystals do.
And to start working with crystals, first of all, if
you've never been in a metaphysical store or a crystal
store or a freaking rock shop, go go do that
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this summer. Wherever you live, or if you're on vacation
and traveling, go into a metaphysical store, and before you
go in, just say, okay, I'm going to get a
couple of crystals today and I'm just going to be
drawn to a couple of crystals, and I'm going to
get them, and then I'm going to play with them
and work with them. So just see what you're drawn to,
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and not even by reading, Like a lot of times
when you go in a metaphysical store and they've got,
you know, kinite, and they talk about kinite creating alignment
and clarity and all the things beautiful blue kinite does
because it's a very aligned stone in it tunes with
all the chakras and all the frequencies and the energetic
systems in the body. And it's kind of a magical
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stone in the sense that it doesn't necessarily need recharging.
And I'm going to talk about these things, but you know,
you're just drawn to it without reading the description because
you're like, gosh, that kinite is beautiful. The very first
crystal I ever got was some citrin, and it was
pretty profound and it was the most magical stone, and
I gave it away years ago and I kind of
miss it. But I give a lot of crystals away
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because I use them, and when it's time, I'll be like, oh,
this person is supposed to have this. Oh we're done
and then there are some crystals that I'm like, you're
never going anywhere. But if I were to give it away,
or if it were to tell me it's time, or
somebody or or was really talking to me and saying, hey, Amanda,
this person needs this crystal, or you're supposed to give
this away, I would listen to that intuitive hit, even
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if I was attached and sad to my precious my crystal.
But go in a metaphysical store, start by just seeing
what you're drawn to and picking a couple out to
take home with you and touch and hold and speak
to the first thing you want to do when you
get a crystal, whether you you're in a metaphysical store
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or you order it online somewhere, and we'll talk about
resources for ordering crystals. I'll give you some tools and
tips around that too. But the first thing you want
to do when you receive it is talk to it
and literally state your intentions. And all you have to
do is say, hey, thank you for coming home with me,
thank you for finding me. You know, I mean, talk
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to it like it's your pet plant. It's part of
the mineral kingdom. It's part of the second dimension, which
is if the first dimension. If we want to think
about it in very linear literal terms, the first dimension
is the iron core crystal of the Earth, and the
second dimension is part of the mineral kingdom. So all
of that material that is in the Earth's crust, which
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is where crystals come from their mind, from the earth,
sometimes consciously, sometimes recklessly. That is a big thing that
comes up, the ethical minding of diamonds, crystals, gemstones, that
sort of thing. But when you get a crystal, say
to it, hey, I'm so glad to have you. Thank you.
May we work together for the greatest good, for the
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highest light, for the greatest healing, for the highest evolution.
So you want to condition it immediately to say, hey,
work with me. I'll work with you, and let's do
it for the most optimal outcomes, for the most optimal healing.
And just say that. Believe it. But I speak it
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out loud. When I get a new crystal, whether someone
gives me a new crystal or I have to have
one somewhere, I immediately say thank you, acknowledge and set
that intention. So it's like you code it in you
hardwire in the intention. So that's rule of thumb one
oh one and then I usually like to clear or
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cleanse a crystal when I first get it. So a
lot of crystals you can put in salt water or
you can run them underwater. A lot of crystals like
to be in a salt bath. They like to take baths,
so that's an easy way to do it. Now, if
it is a salt based crystal like cellianite, or it
has salt in it, any of the calcites, you don't
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want to put them in salt water because they erode
and they either lose their luster or they really literally
start to deteriorate. So you have to be mindful of
the mineral and the crystal you're using. And then there
are stones like cayanite or turmaline that don't necessarily need
a cleanse or a recharge because their vibration is so strong.
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So you're not going to know all these things. So
when you get a crystal, aside from what it said
at the metaphysical store, do a little search on it
and say, show me the metaphysical properties of sunstone, whatever
crystal you get, and I tell you what. One of
my favorite resources that I think has the most extensive
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library of crystal descriptions is crystal vaults. It's called cris
vaults dot com, but it's a full on crystal encyclopedia
and it's the most extensive library and they outline everything
from the mineral qualities of the crystal to the metaphysical,
the emotional, the intuitive, the chakras that it correlates with
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working with it as a healing crystal. It's an extensive
dictionary that is well done and I've used that for
years in my research and it's always a go to
for me. So crystal vaults dot Com is great for
your research. And if you can't find it on the website,
just go into your search engine and type in healing
properties of black termaline crystal vaults. That's usually the way
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that I find the crystal vaults. That's how it'll pop
up in the SEO for me. So that works, and
that is your best go to resource for crystals as
far as their meaning. One of the things that I
love to do is when I get a crystal, even
if I know the properties of it, I like to
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write some things down. But you can also do the
reverse of this, Okay, So I want you to play
with this both ways. Right when you get a crystal,
and you get it home and you're like, let me
check out all the qualities of it. So go to
crystal vaults, do your little research, take your notes, and
be like, oh my gosh, I can't believe I picked
out this crystal and I'm dealing with self doubt and
this is all about transforming self doubt. You know. That's
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when you go, oh my gosh, of course this is
the stone, you know, and your intuition goes off and
you smile. I mean, that is like the magic of
it because you're like, how did I know? Or how
did it choose me? Or ugh? And then when you
blow it off, is that's a coincidence? Well, you're just
shooting down and shutting down your intuition. So you just
get magical with it. And that's what is so amazing
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about working with crystals is they just exude higher consciousness
and joy because it's childlike in a way, and it's
magical rights it brings in this magical thing, and that's
that's what they do. And I mean, I'm smiling as
I talk about crystals because they are pretty miraculous. So
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you can do it that way, or you can go
home with your stone and maybe rinse it off, or
put it out in the sunlight for a few minutes,
or put it out in the moonlight. So you can
either put it in a window seal, or you can
if you have a balcony or a backyard or front yard,
whatever you want to do. Put it out overnight, let
it charge overnight, let it get some sunlight, and say
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I'm gonna let you kind of recharge, and then we're
going to work together. And before you research it and
look it up, take it in from being in the
sunlight or the moonlight, or do in a little cleanse
whatever works for you. Or you can take some sage,
even if you don't know when you're afraid maybe it's
salt based and you don't want to put it in
salt water, then get your sage or your pallo santo
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and clear it. You do you do something to clear
its energy, because it's it's reverent, is what it is.
It's respectful, it's honoring. You're showing respect just by acknowledging
that it has gifts that it wants to give you,
So you're basically showing respect and intentionality. So then you
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could just take it in before you do your research,
and you could sit with it and meditate for a
few minutes, and you could do one of two things.
You could either sit in you know, a cross legged
sitting up straight meditative position and put it in your
right hand and you know, align your spine, get clear,
maybe turn some meditation music on, sit outside, whatever works
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for you. You do your own ritual and just hold
it and I will tell you something. Put it in
your right hand to start the right hand. I can
feel crystals in both of my hands, but the right
hand tends to be more active. Usually I can feel
my pulse with a crystal like I can feel it.
If I get very still, I can more easily feel
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my heart beat and the pulse and the vibration of
the crystal, and it starts to vibrate a lot of times.
By the way, it's kind of amazing. If you've never
done this, just holding it in your right palm and
if you feel nothing, don't worry about it. Put it
in your left palm and see if there's a different sensation.
A lot of times for me, it depends on the crystal.
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But I can put one in my right palm and
I can like feel it like pulsating, vibrating, like I
get really still and then I start to feel it
and it then it like moves up my arm and
then I can feel it in my heart. I can
feel my heart beat. And then it's almost like my
hand gets some tingly and I can feel the vibration.
I mean that will happen and then I'll move it
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to my left palm and I feel nothing. But then
it's almost like the crystal gets really heavy or it
gets really hot, or it gets really cold. So for me,
usually the left palm, I feel like a temperature change
or a weight change in the crystal. In my right palm,
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I feel vibrations, and that's what works for me. I
know that about crystals for me, that that's the way
that they speak to me in those poems. The left
side of the body pulls in energy typically and the
right side of the body exudes energy. So when you're
working with crystal bracelets, and this was my go to
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with people and for myself for years, I mean I
didn't work with a single client where I wasn't recommending crystals,
sending them to get their best bang for their about
crystal bracelet on Amazon and you know, writing out the
attributes of that crystal as it related to that crystal
and that person's healing. I mean, I would send the
most extens I still do send extensive emails to my
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clients after we do a session. It's just what I do.
And I can't help myself because I'm like, oh, yeah,
they need this and this and this, and then I
would read this book and I would do this. But
it's usually you're gonna get crystals for me, and you're
gonna get instructions. I'm gonna say, Okay, get this bracelet
and where on your right arm for these two weeks,
and then after that, on this date, switch it to
this one. I mean, I give really specific instructions because
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I've been doing this for a long time, but I
know what's going to work with their energy. Feel to
really work effectively with that crystal for a set amount
of time, to recalibrate the energy, to really synthesize it.
And sometimes I'll recommend to somebody first to wear a
crystal on their right arm if they're needing to exude
or pull out an energy, and then I'll have them
switch to the left to pull it back in in
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a more organic, synthesized cohesive way. Other times I will
be like, oh, no, you need to pull these energies
and put them on the left wrist for X amount
of time, or oh it's your birthday, okay, get them
do this, do it on your birthday, and then on
this full moon or whatever, cleanse the crystals and then
put it back on the right arm. Once you've pulled
that in, then you can you will start to feel
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that life being born and it exuding out. You'll see
the action in it. So it just depends. For me.
I'm intuitive and I work with crystals, and you know,
I know the formulaarity to give to somebody based on
the session we've just done and what we're doing. But
you can figure this out and play with it for yourself.
You can see what you feel. And you know, in numerology,
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when I'm talking about address numerology and I say, okay,
if you're going to change your address numerology, commit to
it for six months at least. Don't just change the
address numerology and then you know a month later it's
not working for you and switch it out. It's kind
of the same with a crystal. Is you want to
patiently let it organically attune to and align your frequencies,
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your energies. So it's not an overnight healing. I mean
there is crystal healing. And I have been on plenty
of tables and had people lay crystals all over me,
or I have I will lay down sometimes and put
crystals all over me. Because when I was telling you
to go home and sit down with your crystals and
maybe put one in the right palm or the left palm,
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and meditate and ask what the energies are and see
what you feel, Oh, this is creating a soothing in
my body where I've felt in a lot of disease
or anks or frustration, and you can into it, maybe
some meanings there, and then journal around it. You could
also lie down with the crystal and you could intuitively
place it on your body, so you know, maybe it's
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going to be a heart chakra stone, and you're intuitively
you think, oh I need to put this on my sternum,
or oh this needs to go on my third eye,
or it needs to go on my throat or my
belly button or my right knee. I mean, you just
you do you and just follow your intuition. There's no
right or wrong to this, and that's the other thing too,
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with any metaphysical resource and a natural resource like crystals,
there's no specific formulay. It's about you opening up your
intuition and getting in tune with something that is organic,
something that is from nature. So do your meditation for
a few minutes and see what you feel, see what
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comes up, see what you resonate with, and then journal
about it and then maybe do your research. So play
with that a couple of different ways. And I'm going
to go through crystals too for different things that are
kind of go tos that I would recommend, whether it
be for physical healing, emotional distress, working with your higher self,
your intuition. I'll go through and give you some specific
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examples that I would work with and some rule of thumb.
But one thing with crystals is they do love to
be recharged. When you're working with crystals, you know, every
month or so, and you can do it more frequently
or less frequently. It's kind of intuitive, but it's about
being aware and conscious. You want to recharge them or
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you want to give them some love. So whether you
sage them, you put them in a salt water bath
for a couple of hours, you put them out under
the moonlight, a full moon. They love new and full moons.
They really love full moon. So put them outside or
out in the sunlight. And you want to be mindful
of putting crystals out in the sunlight because they can
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lose some of their coloring, they can kind of fade.
So you don't just leave them out there for a week,
you know, unless it's a crystal that you keep outdoors.
And I have crystals outside of my house and around
my house like a grid, And that's another piece to
the puzzle that you can intuitively create. But cleanse them
and clear their energy regularly. And the best time to
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do that is on a fuller, a new moon, a solstice,
your birthday, or maybe the first of the month when
there's like an energetic portal. So always when I go
to cleanse crystals, I do it on an intentional date.
I align it with some sort of energy astrologically or
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for me sometimes the numerology or a significant date for me,
which could be like the anniversary of something, the anniversary
of a death, or again, like I said, a birthday.
Make it intentional and you make it conscious. It shows reverence,
but it's it's ritualistic in a way, and that's there's
something magical to that. So in working with crystals, I
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used to put them in my bra all the time.
My husband had a joke like I would get home
from work and I would forget that I had crystals
in my bra and I would have to place them
so I didn't have like lumps in my boobs in
my shirts. I mean, I was like, I'd be like, oh, yeah,
I can put this crystal here, and I can do
it here, And then I would forget and I would
take my wrow off and they would just scatter, and
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I cracked crystals and broke them that way, and I
would get so distraught and upset because I would feel reckless.
But it happens. Sometimes I break crystals or I break
the tips off of crystals with points, so it's if
it's a pyramid or a wand Hugh, I can't tell
you how many of those I have accidental dropped or
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cracked or broken. And when that happens, couple of rules
of thumb with when a crystal breaks, especially a bracelet
or a piece of jewelry, it's like you've had a
breakthrough with that stone, or the work is done or
the healing has happened. I have broken so many crystal
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bracelets over time. I have a whole bag of the
beads of crystals that are from broken bracelets. And any
time one the elastic breaks, it busts into a million
crystal balls all over the floor. I gather them up,
you know, I thank them. And usually when that happens,
I go back into my meditation. What have I learned,
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what have I done? Where have I grown? Where have
I healed? Or if I can't remember, wait a minute.
If it's a really elusive crystal, I'm like, let me
go to crystal vaults and see what this means. And
then I start drawing all of these correlations and it's
like I have all these transcendent off moments of how
that energy of the crystal healing happened in that period
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of time that I worked with it. So anytime you
do break or a crystal cracks, or you break a crystal,
it's not a bad omen like you know, a mirror shatters.
It's more like you've had a breakthrough, or the crystal
is saying we're done here. You know, it's time to
put me down for right now and listen. I have
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this one wand that is broken into three parts. It
didn't crack in half, it cracked into three and it's
a floort wand. And I sometimes pull out those three
pieces and I'll put like one on my chest and
one of my you know, one in either palm when
I'm meditating and working with those, So now I get
to work with it like in three places, in three parts.
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So it's about being creative, being intuitive, being resourceful. And
that's one of the things that I think crystals teat
is intuition and creativity and going with it and believing it.
It's like, oh, yeah, this broke, Well this needs to happen,
you know. And people will call me or I'll work
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with clients and they'll say, oh my gosh, this happened,
this broke What do I do with it? And then
I can see it. I'm like, oh my gosh, that happened.
You need to go and do this, you know, not
you need to. But I do say that sometimes because
I just have like a breakthrough because I can see
the energy. But then other times I'll say to somebody,
even if I know, I'm like, well, what do you
think about that? What would you do with that? Tell
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me what your first intuition is around that. So again
it's playful, it's creative, and there again there's no formularey
or right or wrong. There are some things, like I said,
if a crystal breaks, it really to me signifies a
clearing of energy, a breakthrough, a shifting to the next level,
or our time is done, it's time to work somewhere else.
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Like you've hammered this in enough, we might need to
use some new energies. With crystal bracelets, I think they're
so effective, and for years I would send people Amazon
lenks links. I still do that, but if you're wanting
a crystal bracelet, you can certainly find them in a
metaphysical shop or a store. But I tell you what,
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there are Amazon little crystal bracelets that are best bang
for your buck. And I don't always know about the
sourcing of crystals, the intentional sourcing. And I have to
say wholeheartedly and knowingly, I don't know that there's any
true good mining practices or sourcing of crystals. For getting
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crystals and crystal resources, it's very hard to trace back
and find the intention even if a site tells you
that their crystals are sourced consciously. I mean, they come
from Africa, they come from South America, they come from
the United States, they come from all over and of course,
like you know, if you've ever gone to Arkansas, gosh,
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there are so many fun places where you can go
and find crystals in Arkansas. But I will tell you this.
Anywhere you go in the world and you are somewhere,
whether it is a sanctioned place to go gather crystals,
or you are visiting Belize and you are in the
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jungle and you see an amazing rock or an amazing stone,
you better ask permission. And I will tell you this.
And I have seen this happen, and I've had it
happen for myself numerous times, like Sodona, for example, picking
up a piece of stone from Sedona and taking it home.
Or we lived in Belize for years and we would
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be places sometimes and I'd be like, oh my gosh,
I have to take the stone. I want it. But
I would always ask the land, may I take this stone?
May I take it? And sometimes the intuitive hit was
hell no, like nope, Like I would get a know
and immediately it's trusting that no and being reverent about
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it and respectful. I have also taken stones from places,
and I've asked permission because I just knew to do
that or was cognizant of it, and I kind of
got a no, I don't think this is right. No,
But I'm like, but it's okay. I'm being reverent. And
then I will get that stone home and back on
a plane or wherever I'm going, and it's off, it's wonky,
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and then some weird stuff happens, or weird dreams, or
the energy feels disjointed, or I've actually had some kind
of wicked things happen around that. So with those stones
that I feel like I have taken against the intuitive
hit or the guidance from the land from the stone,
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and I have either done my best to return them,
and I've done that before. Even if I go back
somewhere two years later, I will bring the stone and
I will give it back. I mean, I've done wacky
stuff like that. So obviously you're thinking, well, Amanda, if
you didn't go back for two years and you had
the stone, are you cursed for two years? No? I
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just say, hey, I recognize that you didn't want to
be with me. You were meant to be in your
indigenous authentic natural space in your homeland, and I have
you with me. I respect that, you know. May I
make an amends and also I will get you back
to your rightful place when I can get there. And
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when it is time, thank you, I recognize this, I
am going to send you back. So I have done
that penance before. There's something about it that's very humbling,
and it's very conscious, and it's very evolved. It's kind
of like a right of passage, like there's some kind
of it's almost like the magic happens by taking the
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crystal and then being like I shouldn't have done this.
It's like stealing gum at the grocery store, right, I
don't like that, Like I'm gonna get in trouble, you know,
or I shouldn't be doing this, and then actually having
the humility and the reverence and the maturity or the
respect to bring it back. So let's say you're in
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Peru and you are on the Inca trail and you
know you just can't help yourself because you need a treat.
You know, you have to have a remembrance of being
on the Inca trail, and you come home with a stone,
and then you get some bad juju or something, or
you just feel off about it and you may not
go back to Peru. Well, there are multiple things you
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can do, and you can be very intuitive about it.
First of all, you can ask the crystal, how can
I make this right? I probably took you and that
might not have been a good idea, or that wasn't
a good idea. How can I make this right? How
can I equalize the energy and honor you? And it
may be that you go on a trip somewhere, or
you go on a hike and you place it somewhere new,
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out in nature where you are going too a lake
and you throw it out in a lake like intentionally
and consciously, and you give it a new home somewhere
back in nature. That's usually my rule of thumb is
to place it in nature intentionally, like to go somewhere intentionally,
or bring it with me intentionally and put it back
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into nature give it back. So that's one way you
can do it, and you can just ask and be intentional.
But usually with those stones, I do not keep them.
So if I'm not going back to a place, I
find a place where it's kind of like catch and release.
It's like I just find a place where intuitively I
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feel that I am righting the wrong, even though I
don't know about right or wrong in that sense, but
it's like I'm leveling out the field. I'm clearing the karma.
And again there's the act of reverence. There's the action
in it, the ritual in it, the intention behind it.
And usually when all of that happens, I have some
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kind of healing or revelation or clearing or release that
I wasn't anticipating. So just be mindful. So back to
Amazon and these crystals and not knowing where they're sourced,
my role with thumba thought is I'm all about best
bang for your buck on Amazon crystal bracelets. And if
you're looking for a crystal bracelet and you're a gal
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or you want smaller crystal bracelets, So say you want Citrin,
type in the Amazon search bar Citrin for mm crystal bracelet.
Four mm is four millimeter gauge on the crystal. So
they're really nice size little bracelet and you'll get a
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handful of options. And if you see one that's seven
ninety nine and another one that's eleven ninety nine, by
the seven ninety nine one you're not gonna get a
quality and sometimes you will look for a citrin bracelet,
and I'm giving that example because a lot of times
you can't find real citrin on Amazon. So I'm giving
that one as an example because usually they're more expensive
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than that. And you can see Citrina is yellow. It's
a quartz that has yellow in it, and you can
see the hues. But I have bought crystal bracelets on
Amazon that are absolutely not what they say they are,
and I kind of laugh about it, and it's like, well,
I guess I get what I paid for. But a
lot of times with those crystal bracelets, like a little
amethyst bracelet or a blue cow site, you'll find a
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real cowcite bracelet and you just work with it for
what it is. But when you receive it, no matter
where it's been sourced, you set the intention say I
don't know how you were sourced. I don't know how
you were procured or taken from your home of origin,
but I appreciate that you're here and we're going to
work together in the highest light, and you cleanse and
clear it. So those are just kind of some rule
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of thumb in buying crystals. But just use your reasoning
and logic along with your intuition. That's the other thing
about crystals is by working with crystals and being cognizant
and aware, you get to exercise both hemispheres of the brain.
There's reason and logic alongside of intuitive and creative, and
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that's kind of the other trick to crystals is they
synchronize the right and left hemispheres of the brain. Okay, everybody,
I'm going to hit a stopping point because obviously I
can go on and on about this and I have
so much to say about crystals, So we're going to
close here for now. This is going to be part
one Crystal one oh one, and there is more to
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come next week with all sorts of insights and different
ways to use crystals and specific examples. So tune in
next week, but start working with your crystals now. Take
care of everybody, and be well.
Hi everyone, It's Amanda Rigua Green. Welcome to Soul Sessions
and happy holiday week. Fourth of July in the United States.
It's a celebratory time and it also just feels like
summer when the Fourth of July happens. Whatever you're doing,
hopefully you're doing something fun with your kids, with your family,
or you have a little bit of time off work,
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or you're making time for yourself. And you know I
talked about that in the July Energy Update. Is we
have a full moon in cancer about to happen. So
create space, create intimate time that feels comforting and nurturing.
And do you remember how I said the energy, the
psychic energy is really rich right now, Well, guess what
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we're going to talk about today. Crystals. Crystals one oh one.
I cannot believe I haven't done a dedicated episode yet
working with crystals. I have to tell you I was
not that child that worked with crystals. You know how
kids now they work with crystals. I work with so
many mothers and fathers, my fathers too. I have a
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really good male client that I work with who is
into crystals and his boys are into crystals, and it
blows my mind and it's so cool. But I didn't use,
you know, gemstones and crystals and amethyst and rose quartz
and have those things when I was younger. But I
was drawn to them when my intuitive gifts years ago
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began to really come to the forefmoornt as a tool,
but more so a foundational, vibrational way of attuning my
energy to something else. And let me give you the
foundational element of working with crystals that I innately believe
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we do not need crystals to become empowered or clear
or healed. Crystals enhance our consciousness and our healing. They
join us to help accelerate or ground in or access
an energy that may elude us, or a healing or
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a talent, because crystals can be used for a multitude
of things. But you do not even physically need to
hold a crystal to even work with its energy. You
already have it all within you. And I remember the
very first time I did a crystal workshop. Oh my gosh,
I've done so many of these, and it's been so
long ago. When I first started out, I would do
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crystal workshops, you know, because it just came to me.
I just knew without looking up what crystals did I
could hold them and I'd say, oh, gosh, this crystal
does this, and then sure enough I would look up
the metaphysical properties and it would align with what I
knew because they just spoke to me. And there's a
lot of people who I have met or know that
just know what certain crystals the energies they transmit and
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emit or communicate that. They're very much a mineral rich,
living object. And the amazing thing about crystals is, you
know how we are primarily made of fluid water, like
we are watery, we are not static. Crystals hold a
certain structure and they vibrate at a consistent frequency, and
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that's why when we attune to the frequency in which
they vibrate at, we are able to align our energy
fields to tap into or harness those energies. But you
already have the ability to cultivate those energies within you.
So crystals are land yap They're a resource, they're a gift,
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they's something you get to choose to work with. And yes,
there's an etheric quality to crystals that also resonates with belief,
like I believe this crystal has these frequencies, these attunements,
these vibrations these attributes, and so you're actually working with
your consciousness and belief, very similar to working with astrology
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or numerology ruins like any oracle cards, you're vibrating at
a frequency that says I believe, I trust, and then
there's a road map to it. So it is about
having fun, but it's not about giving your power away
or saying if I get this crystal, then I'm going
to be psychic. I mean, it's really more, Oh, you
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already are psychic. Maybe this crystal can enhance or help
you attune to that energy, or help you recall or
remember cellular information that's already in your DNA, in your genes,
in your consciousness that maybe you are not conscious of.
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So they enhance, they activate, they awaken. That's what crystals do.
And to start working with crystals, first of all, if
you've never been in a metaphysical store or a crystal
store or a freaking rock shop, go go do that
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this summer. Wherever you live, or if you're on vacation
and traveling, go into a metaphysical store, and before you
go in, just say, okay, I'm going to get a
couple of crystals today and I'm just going to be
drawn to a couple of crystals, and I'm going to
get them, and then I'm going to play with them
and work with them. So just see what you're drawn to,
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and not even by reading, Like a lot of times
when you go in a metaphysical store and they've got,
you know, kinite, and they talk about kinite creating alignment
and clarity and all the things beautiful blue kinite does
because it's a very aligned stone in it tunes with
all the chakras and all the frequencies and the energetic
systems in the body. And it's kind of a magical
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stone in the sense that it doesn't necessarily need recharging.
And I'm going to talk about these things, but you know,
you're just drawn to it without reading the description because
you're like, gosh, that kinite is beautiful. The very first
crystal I ever got was some citrin, and it was
pretty profound and it was the most magical stone, and
I gave it away years ago and I kind of
miss it. But I give a lot of crystals away
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because I use them, and when it's time, I'll be like, oh,
this person is supposed to have this. Oh we're done
and then there are some crystals that I'm like, you're
never going anywhere. But if I were to give it away,
or if it were to tell me it's time, or
somebody or or was really talking to me and saying, hey, Amanda,
this person needs this crystal, or you're supposed to give
this away, I would listen to that intuitive hit, even
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if I was attached and sad to my precious my crystal.
But go in a metaphysical store, start by just seeing
what you're drawn to and picking a couple out to
take home with you and touch and hold and speak
to the first thing you want to do when you
get a crystal, whether you you're in a metaphysical store
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or you order it online somewhere, and we'll talk about
resources for ordering crystals. I'll give you some tools and
tips around that too. But the first thing you want
to do when you receive it is talk to it
and literally state your intentions. And all you have to
do is say, hey, thank you for coming home with me,
thank you for finding me. You know, I mean, talk
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to it like it's your pet plant. It's part of
the mineral kingdom. It's part of the second dimension, which
is if the first dimension. If we want to think
about it in very linear literal terms, the first dimension
is the iron core crystal of the Earth, and the
second dimension is part of the mineral kingdom. So all
of that material that is in the Earth's crust, which
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is where crystals come from their mind, from the earth,
sometimes consciously, sometimes recklessly. That is a big thing that
comes up, the ethical minding of diamonds, crystals, gemstones, that
sort of thing. But when you get a crystal, say
to it, hey, I'm so glad to have you. Thank you.
May we work together for the greatest good, for the
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highest light, for the greatest healing, for the highest evolution.
So you want to condition it immediately to say, hey,
work with me. I'll work with you, and let's do
it for the most optimal outcomes, for the most optimal healing.
And just say that. Believe it. But I speak it
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out loud. When I get a new crystal, whether someone
gives me a new crystal or I have to have
one somewhere, I immediately say thank you, acknowledge and set
that intention. So it's like you code it in you
hardwire in the intention. So that's rule of thumb one
oh one and then I usually like to clear or
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cleanse a crystal when I first get it. So a
lot of crystals you can put in salt water or
you can run them underwater. A lot of crystals like
to be in a salt bath. They like to take baths,
so that's an easy way to do it. Now, if
it is a salt based crystal like cellianite, or it
has salt in it, any of the calcites, you don't
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want to put them in salt water because they erode
and they either lose their luster or they really literally
start to deteriorate. So you have to be mindful of
the mineral and the crystal you're using. And then there
are stones like cayanite or turmaline that don't necessarily need
a cleanse or a recharge because their vibration is so strong.
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So you're not going to know all these things. So
when you get a crystal, aside from what it said
at the metaphysical store, do a little search on it
and say, show me the metaphysical properties of sunstone, whatever
crystal you get, and I tell you what. One of
my favorite resources that I think has the most extensive
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library of crystal descriptions is crystal vaults. It's called cris
vaults dot com, but it's a full on crystal encyclopedia
and it's the most extensive library and they outline everything
from the mineral qualities of the crystal to the metaphysical,
the emotional, the intuitive, the chakras that it correlates with
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working with it as a healing crystal. It's an extensive
dictionary that is well done and I've used that for
years in my research and it's always a go to
for me. So crystal vaults dot Com is great for
your research. And if you can't find it on the website,
just go into your search engine and type in healing
properties of black termaline crystal vaults. That's usually the way
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that I find the crystal vaults. That's how it'll pop
up in the SEO for me. So that works, and
that is your best go to resource for crystals as
far as their meaning. One of the things that I
love to do is when I get a crystal, even
if I know the properties of it, I like to
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write some things down. But you can also do the
reverse of this, Okay, So I want you to play
with this both ways. Right when you get a crystal,
and you get it home and you're like, let me
check out all the qualities of it. So go to
crystal vaults, do your little research, take your notes, and
be like, oh my gosh, I can't believe I picked
out this crystal and I'm dealing with self doubt and
this is all about transforming self doubt. You know. That's
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when you go, oh my gosh, of course this is
the stone, you know, and your intuition goes off and
you smile. I mean, that is like the magic of
it because you're like, how did I know? Or how
did it choose me? Or ugh? And then when you
blow it off, is that's a coincidence? Well, you're just
shooting down and shutting down your intuition. So you just
get magical with it. And that's what is so amazing
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about working with crystals is they just exude higher consciousness
and joy because it's childlike in a way, and it's
magical rights it brings in this magical thing, and that's
that's what they do. And I mean, I'm smiling as
I talk about crystals because they are pretty miraculous. So
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you can do it that way, or you can go
home with your stone and maybe rinse it off, or
put it out in the sunlight for a few minutes,
or put it out in the moonlight. So you can
either put it in a window seal, or you can
if you have a balcony or a backyard or front yard,
whatever you want to do. Put it out overnight, let
it charge overnight, let it get some sunlight, and say
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I'm gonna let you kind of recharge, and then we're
going to work together. And before you research it and
look it up, take it in from being in the
sunlight or the moonlight, or do in a little cleanse
whatever works for you. Or you can take some sage,
even if you don't know when you're afraid maybe it's
salt based and you don't want to put it in
salt water, then get your sage or your pallo santo
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and clear it. You do you do something to clear
its energy, because it's it's reverent, is what it is.
It's respectful, it's honoring. You're showing respect just by acknowledging
that it has gifts that it wants to give you,
So you're basically showing respect and intentionality. So then you
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could just take it in before you do your research,
and you could sit with it and meditate for a
few minutes, and you could do one of two things.
You could either sit in you know, a cross legged
sitting up straight meditative position and put it in your
right hand and you know, align your spine, get clear,
maybe turn some meditation music on, sit outside, whatever works
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for you. You do your own ritual and just hold
it and I will tell you something. Put it in
your right hand to start the right hand. I can
feel crystals in both of my hands, but the right
hand tends to be more active. Usually I can feel
my pulse with a crystal like I can feel it.
If I get very still, I can more easily feel
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my heart beat and the pulse and the vibration of
the crystal, and it starts to vibrate a lot of times.
By the way, it's kind of amazing. If you've never
done this, just holding it in your right palm and
if you feel nothing, don't worry about it. Put it
in your left palm and see if there's a different sensation.
A lot of times for me, it depends on the crystal.
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But I can put one in my right palm and
I can like feel it like pulsating, vibrating, like I
get really still and then I start to feel it
and it then it like moves up my arm and
then I can feel it in my heart. I can
feel my heart beat. And then it's almost like my
hand gets some tingly and I can feel the vibration.
I mean that will happen and then I'll move it
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to my left palm and I feel nothing. But then
it's almost like the crystal gets really heavy or it
gets really hot, or it gets really cold. So for me,
usually the left palm, I feel like a temperature change
or a weight change in the crystal. In my right palm,
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I feel vibrations, and that's what works for me. I
know that about crystals for me, that that's the way
that they speak to me in those poems. The left
side of the body pulls in energy typically and the
right side of the body exudes energy. So when you're
working with crystal bracelets, and this was my go to
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with people and for myself for years, I mean I
didn't work with a single client where I wasn't recommending crystals,
sending them to get their best bang for their about
crystal bracelet on Amazon and you know, writing out the
attributes of that crystal as it related to that crystal
and that person's healing. I mean, I would send the
most extens I still do send extensive emails to my
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clients after we do a session. It's just what I do.
And I can't help myself because I'm like, oh, yeah,
they need this and this and this, and then I
would read this book and I would do this. But
it's usually you're gonna get crystals for me, and you're
gonna get instructions. I'm gonna say, Okay, get this bracelet
and where on your right arm for these two weeks,
and then after that, on this date, switch it to
this one. I mean, I give really specific instructions because
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I've been doing this for a long time, but I
know what's going to work with their energy. Feel to
really work effectively with that crystal for a set amount
of time, to recalibrate the energy, to really synthesize it.
And sometimes I'll recommend to somebody first to wear a
crystal on their right arm if they're needing to exude
or pull out an energy, and then I'll have them
switch to the left to pull it back in in
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a more organic, synthesized cohesive way. Other times I will
be like, oh, no, you need to pull these energies
and put them on the left wrist for X amount
of time, or oh it's your birthday, okay, get them
do this, do it on your birthday, and then on
this full moon or whatever, cleanse the crystals and then
put it back on the right arm. Once you've pulled
that in, then you can you will start to feel
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that life being born and it exuding out. You'll see
the action in it. So it just depends. For me.
I'm intuitive and I work with crystals, and you know,
I know the formulaarity to give to somebody based on
the session we've just done and what we're doing. But
you can figure this out and play with it for yourself.
You can see what you feel. And you know, in numerology,
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when I'm talking about address numerology and I say, okay,
if you're going to change your address numerology, commit to
it for six months at least. Don't just change the
address numerology and then you know a month later it's
not working for you and switch it out. It's kind
of the same with a crystal. Is you want to
patiently let it organically attune to and align your frequencies,
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your energies. So it's not an overnight healing. I mean
there is crystal healing. And I have been on plenty
of tables and had people lay crystals all over me,
or I have I will lay down sometimes and put
crystals all over me. Because when I was telling you
to go home and sit down with your crystals and
maybe put one in the right palm or the left palm,
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and meditate and ask what the energies are and see
what you feel, Oh, this is creating a soothing in
my body where I've felt in a lot of disease
or anks or frustration, and you can into it, maybe
some meanings there, and then journal around it. You could
also lie down with the crystal and you could intuitively
place it on your body, so you know, maybe it's
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going to be a heart chakra stone, and you're intuitively
you think, oh I need to put this on my sternum,
or oh this needs to go on my third eye,
or it needs to go on my throat or my
belly button or my right knee. I mean, you just
you do you and just follow your intuition. There's no
right or wrong to this, and that's the other thing too,
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with any metaphysical resource and a natural resource like crystals,
there's no specific formulay. It's about you opening up your
intuition and getting in tune with something that is organic,
something that is from nature. So do your meditation for
a few minutes and see what you feel, see what
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comes up, see what you resonate with, and then journal
about it and then maybe do your research. So play
with that a couple of different ways. And I'm going
to go through crystals too for different things that are
kind of go tos that I would recommend, whether it
be for physical healing, emotional distress, working with your higher self,
your intuition. I'll go through and give you some specific
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examples that I would work with and some rule of thumb.
But one thing with crystals is they do love to
be recharged. When you're working with crystals, you know, every
month or so, and you can do it more frequently
or less frequently. It's kind of intuitive, but it's about
being aware and conscious. You want to recharge them or
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you want to give them some love. So whether you
sage them, you put them in a salt water bath
for a couple of hours, you put them out under
the moonlight, a full moon. They love new and full moons.
They really love full moon. So put them outside or
out in the sunlight. And you want to be mindful
of putting crystals out in the sunlight because they can
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lose some of their coloring, they can kind of fade.
So you don't just leave them out there for a week,
you know, unless it's a crystal that you keep outdoors.
And I have crystals outside of my house and around
my house like a grid, And that's another piece to
the puzzle that you can intuitively create. But cleanse them
and clear their energy regularly. And the best time to
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do that is on a fuller, a new moon, a solstice,
your birthday, or maybe the first of the month when
there's like an energetic portal. So always when I go
to cleanse crystals, I do it on an intentional date.
I align it with some sort of energy astrologically or
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for me sometimes the numerology or a significant date for me,
which could be like the anniversary of something, the anniversary
of a death, or again, like I said, a birthday.
Make it intentional and you make it conscious. It shows reverence,
but it's it's ritualistic in a way, and that's there's
something magical to that. So in working with crystals, I
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used to put them in my bra all the time.
My husband had a joke like I would get home
from work and I would forget that I had crystals
in my bra and I would have to place them
so I didn't have like lumps in my boobs in
my shirts. I mean, I was like, I'd be like, oh, yeah,
I can put this crystal here, and I can do
it here, And then I would forget and I would
take my wrow off and they would just scatter, and
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I cracked crystals and broke them that way, and I
would get so distraught and upset because I would feel reckless.
But it happens. Sometimes I break crystals or I break
the tips off of crystals with points, so it's if
it's a pyramid or a wand Hugh, I can't tell
you how many of those I have accidental dropped or
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cracked or broken. And when that happens, couple of rules
of thumb with when a crystal breaks, especially a bracelet
or a piece of jewelry, it's like you've had a
breakthrough with that stone, or the work is done or
the healing has happened. I have broken so many crystal
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bracelets over time. I have a whole bag of the
beads of crystals that are from broken bracelets. And any
time one the elastic breaks, it busts into a million
crystal balls all over the floor. I gather them up,
you know, I thank them. And usually when that happens,
I go back into my meditation. What have I learned,
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what have I done? Where have I grown? Where have
I healed? Or if I can't remember, wait a minute.
If it's a really elusive crystal, I'm like, let me
go to crystal vaults and see what this means. And
then I start drawing all of these correlations and it's
like I have all these transcendent off moments of how
that energy of the crystal healing happened in that period
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of time that I worked with it. So anytime you
do break or a crystal cracks, or you break a crystal,
it's not a bad omen like you know, a mirror shatters.
It's more like you've had a breakthrough, or the crystal
is saying we're done here. You know, it's time to
put me down for right now and listen. I have
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this one wand that is broken into three parts. It
didn't crack in half, it cracked into three and it's
a floort wand. And I sometimes pull out those three
pieces and I'll put like one on my chest and
one of my you know, one in either palm when
I'm meditating and working with those, So now I get
to work with it like in three places, in three parts.
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So it's about being creative, being intuitive, being resourceful. And
that's one of the things that I think crystals teat
is intuition and creativity and going with it and believing it.
It's like, oh, yeah, this broke, Well this needs to happen,
you know. And people will call me or I'll work
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with clients and they'll say, oh my gosh, this happened,
this broke What do I do with it? And then
I can see it. I'm like, oh my gosh, that happened.
You need to go and do this, you know, not
you need to. But I do say that sometimes because
I just have like a breakthrough because I can see
the energy. But then other times I'll say to somebody,
even if I know, I'm like, well, what do you
think about that? What would you do with that? Tell
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me what your first intuition is around that. So again
it's playful, it's creative, and there again there's no formularey
or right or wrong. There are some things, like I said,
if a crystal breaks, it really to me signifies a
clearing of energy, a breakthrough, a shifting to the next level,
or our time is done, it's time to work somewhere else.
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Like you've hammered this in enough, we might need to
use some new energies. With crystal bracelets, I think they're
so effective, and for years I would send people Amazon
lenks links. I still do that, but if you're wanting
a crystal bracelet, you can certainly find them in a
metaphysical shop or a store. But I tell you what,
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there are Amazon little crystal bracelets that are best bang
for your buck. And I don't always know about the
sourcing of crystals, the intentional sourcing. And I have to
say wholeheartedly and knowingly, I don't know that there's any
true good mining practices or sourcing of crystals. For getting
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crystals and crystal resources, it's very hard to trace back
and find the intention even if a site tells you
that their crystals are sourced consciously. I mean, they come
from Africa, they come from South America, they come from
the United States, they come from all over and of course,
like you know, if you've ever gone to Arkansas, gosh,
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there are so many fun places where you can go
and find crystals in Arkansas. But I will tell you this.
Anywhere you go in the world and you are somewhere,
whether it is a sanctioned place to go gather crystals,
or you are visiting Belize and you are in the
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jungle and you see an amazing rock or an amazing stone,
you better ask permission. And I will tell you this.
And I have seen this happen, and I've had it
happen for myself numerous times, like Sodona, for example, picking
up a piece of stone from Sedona and taking it home.
Or we lived in Belize for years and we would
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be places sometimes and I'd be like, oh my gosh,
I have to take the stone. I want it. But
I would always ask the land, may I take this stone?
May I take it? And sometimes the intuitive hit was
hell no, like nope, Like I would get a know
and immediately it's trusting that no and being reverent about
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it and respectful. I have also taken stones from places,
and I've asked permission because I just knew to do
that or was cognizant of it, and I kind of
got a no, I don't think this is right. No,
But I'm like, but it's okay. I'm being reverent. And
then I will get that stone home and back on
a plane or wherever I'm going, and it's off, it's wonky,
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and then some weird stuff happens, or weird dreams, or
the energy feels disjointed, or I've actually had some kind
of wicked things happen around that. So with those stones
that I feel like I have taken against the intuitive
hit or the guidance from the land from the stone,
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and I have either done my best to return them,
and I've done that before. Even if I go back
somewhere two years later, I will bring the stone and
I will give it back. I mean, I've done wacky
stuff like that. So obviously you're thinking, well, Amanda, if
you didn't go back for two years and you had
the stone, are you cursed for two years? No? I
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just say, hey, I recognize that you didn't want to
be with me. You were meant to be in your
indigenous authentic natural space in your homeland, and I have
you with me. I respect that, you know. May I
make an amends and also I will get you back
to your rightful place when I can get there. And
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when it is time, thank you, I recognize this, I
am going to send you back. So I have done
that penance before. There's something about it that's very humbling,
and it's very conscious, and it's very evolved. It's kind
of like a right of passage, like there's some kind
of it's almost like the magic happens by taking the
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crystal and then being like I shouldn't have done this.
It's like stealing gum at the grocery store, right, I
don't like that, Like I'm gonna get in trouble, you know,
or I shouldn't be doing this, and then actually having
the humility and the reverence and the maturity or the
respect to bring it back. So let's say you're in
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Peru and you are on the Inca trail and you
know you just can't help yourself because you need a treat.
You know, you have to have a remembrance of being
on the Inca trail, and you come home with a stone,
and then you get some bad juju or something, or
you just feel off about it and you may not
go back to Peru. Well, there are multiple things you
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can do, and you can be very intuitive about it.
First of all, you can ask the crystal, how can
I make this right? I probably took you and that
might not have been a good idea, or that wasn't
a good idea. How can I make this right? How
can I equalize the energy and honor you? And it
may be that you go on a trip somewhere, or
you go on a hike and you place it somewhere new,
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out in nature where you are going too a lake
and you throw it out in a lake like intentionally
and consciously, and you give it a new home somewhere
back in nature. That's usually my rule of thumb is
to place it in nature intentionally, like to go somewhere intentionally,
or bring it with me intentionally and put it back
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into nature give it back. So that's one way you
can do it, and you can just ask and be intentional.
But usually with those stones, I do not keep them.
So if I'm not going back to a place, I
find a place where it's kind of like catch and release.
It's like I just find a place where intuitively I
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feel that I am righting the wrong, even though I
don't know about right or wrong in that sense, but
it's like I'm leveling out the field. I'm clearing the karma.
And again there's the act of reverence. There's the action
in it, the ritual in it, the intention behind it.
And usually when all of that happens, I have some
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kind of healing or revelation or clearing or release that
I wasn't anticipating. So just be mindful. So back to
Amazon and these crystals and not knowing where they're sourced,
my role with thumba thought is I'm all about best
bang for your buck on Amazon crystal bracelets. And if
you're looking for a crystal bracelet and you're a gal
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or you want smaller crystal bracelets, So say you want Citrin,
type in the Amazon search bar Citrin for mm crystal bracelet.
Four mm is four millimeter gauge on the crystal. So
they're really nice size little bracelet and you'll get a
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handful of options. And if you see one that's seven
ninety nine and another one that's eleven ninety nine, by
the seven ninety nine one you're not gonna get a
quality and sometimes you will look for a citrin bracelet,
and I'm giving that example because a lot of times
you can't find real citrin on Amazon. So I'm giving
that one as an example because usually they're more expensive
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than that. And you can see Citrina is yellow. It's
a quartz that has yellow in it, and you can
see the hues. But I have bought crystal bracelets on
Amazon that are absolutely not what they say they are,
and I kind of laugh about it, and it's like, well,
I guess I get what I paid for. But a
lot of times with those crystal bracelets, like a little
amethyst bracelet or a blue cow site, you'll find a
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real cowcite bracelet and you just work with it for
what it is. But when you receive it, no matter
where it's been sourced, you set the intention say I
don't know how you were sourced. I don't know how
you were procured or taken from your home of origin,
but I appreciate that you're here and we're going to
work together in the highest light, and you cleanse and
clear it. So those are just kind of some rule
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of thumb in buying crystals. But just use your reasoning
and logic along with your intuition. That's the other thing
about crystals is by working with crystals and being cognizant
and aware, you get to exercise both hemispheres of the brain.
There's reason and logic alongside of intuitive and creative, and
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that's kind of the other trick to crystals is they
synchronize the right and left hemispheres of the brain. Okay, everybody,
I'm going to hit a stopping point because obviously I
can go on and on about this and I have
so much to say about crystals, So we're going to
close here for now. This is going to be part
one Crystal one oh one, and there is more to
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come next week with all sorts of insights and different
ways to use crystals and specific examples. So tune in
next week, but start working with your crystals now. Take
care of everybody, and be well.
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