CONTENTS

Introduction

How to use the book and audio

Building up a picture

Glossary of terms

How do I choose a crystal?

What’s in my collection?

Choosing a crystal

Cleansing, activating and storing crystals

Which crystals will I need?

Crystal directory

Choosing and cleansing exercises

EXERCISE 1: Identifying my crystals

EXERCISE 2: What do my fingers tell me?

EXERCISE 3: The big crystal cleanse

EXERCISE 4: Attuning to my crystals

All about crystals

What is a crystal?

Do shape and colour matter?

Crystal systems

Shape and colour exercises

EXERCISE 5: Feel me

EXERCISE 6: Which colour am I?

EXERCISE 7: Which shape am I?

EXERCISE 8: What system do I belong to?

Crystals and the chakras

Chakras and healing

Chakras and colour

Chakras and the aura

Opening the higher chakras

Chakra exercises

EXERCISE 9: Full chakra cleanse, balance and recharge

EXERCISE 10: What colour are my chakras?

EXERCISE 11: Strengthening my aura

EXERCISE 12: Bringing my higher chakras on-line

Crystals for self-development

Crystal qualities

Which crystals do I love?

Which crystals do I avoid?

How can I protect myself with crystals?

Protecting my space

Self-development exercises

EXERCISE 13: My Quartz crystal journey

EXERCISE 14: What do the crystals I love tell me?

EXERCISE 15: Facing my shadow energy

EXERCISE 16: Protecting my spleen

EXERCISE 17: Using grid systems

How can I be my own crystal healer?

Sources of dis-ease

Crystals and my emotions

Releasing from the past

Crystals and my organs

Crystals and my mind

Healing exercises

EXERCISE 18: Finding my immune-system crystal

EXERCISE 19: My Rainbow Obsidian journey

EXERCISE 20: My detox layout

EXERCISE 21: Improving my mind

How do I keep my crystals working?

Working with crystals every day

Crystal bathing

Crystal massage

Talking to your crystals

Incorporating new spiritual qualities

Gem essences

Exercises to keep crystals working

EXERCISE 22: Travelling my inner planes

EXERCISE 23: Giving myself a crystal massage

EXERCISE 24: Finding my inner balance

EXERCISE 25: Accessing my spiritual gifts

EXERCISE 26: Using my gem essence

Taking crystal work further

Working with higher vibration crystals

Crystal rituals and journeys

Attracting love

Exercises to take crystal work further

EXERCISE 27: Comparing my high- and low-vibration crystals

EXERCISE 28: Attuning to my high-vibration crystals

EXERCISE 29: My Attracting Love Ritual

EXERCISE 30: My Wholeness Meditation

Inspirations (audio scripts)

TRACK 1: Relaxation, focusing and opening the mind’s eye

TRACK 2: Attuning to my crystals

TRACK 4: The Quartz crystal journey

TRACK 5: The Rainbow Obsidian journey

Acknowledgements

Audio tracks

TRACK 1: Relaxation, focusing and opening the mind’s eye

TRACK 2: Attuning to my crystals

TRACK 3: Music only

TRACK 4: The Quartz crystal journey

TRACK 5: The Rainbow Obsidian journey

How to use this ebook

Select one of the chapters from the main contents list and you will be taken straight to that chapter.

Look out for linked text (which is blue) throughout the ebook that you can select to help you navigate between related sections.

You can double tap images to increase their size. To return to the original view, just tap the cross in the top left-hand corner of the screen.

Make sure to have your notebook and pen ready for recording your experiences and the insights you discover.

The audio material for this workshop is available from library.guidedwellbeing.app or from the Guided Wellbeing Library app.

Introduction

Have you ever wanted to get up close and personal with your crystals? To become totally attuned to them? Have you read a book about crystal properties and thought I’d so like to know more, to really experience this for myself? Well, now you can. My books The Crystal Bible volume I and volume 2 describe in detail the attributes of almost five hundred crystals and their healing properties. This book is different. Rather than telling you what each crystal does, it helps you to discover for yourself how you respond to a particular crystal and what that crystal has to offer you. It is exactly like attending a workshop with me to explore how you can work with crystals for self-healing and personal development in the right way for you.

In my workshops, I don’t tell people what to do or what to expect. Instead I encourage them to experience a crystal for themselves by opening their minds to exciting possibilities and playing joyfully with the wondrous little beings that are crystals. I know that everybody is unique and everyone experiences the energy of a particular crystal differently because of personal expectations, past experiences, energetic overlays, emotional blocks, environmental factors and the effects of spiritual practices.

Some of my most potent crystal remedies have come about through what I call serendipitious synchronicity – the right crystals happened to be there at the right time. In one workshop, for example, a surprisingly large Stibnite wand sat in front of me alongside a huge Chlorite Quartz long point, both recently purchased, plus a beloved piece of Selenite that also formed a wand. When I put these crystals on the table I had no idea what I would use them for. But when I suddenly needed a portal to help lost souls depart this world and go to the light, I picked up the three crystals and held them one on top of the other. This created an extremely efficient portal, and many smaller versions are now in use all over the world. Similarly, I intuitively used Vivianite to heal an extremely sore eye before I intellectually knew that this was an eye crystal, and a Cathedral Quartz took away a nasty backache just weeks before one of my favourite crystal shop owners said, ‘I give anyone who comes into the shop with a pain or who feels under the weather one of these to hold and they go out feeling so much better.’

So, this book helps you to find out for yourself exactly which crystals resonate with you. It helps you to explore their subtle energies and vibrations, colours and shapes, and it takes you on journeys deep into the heart of yourself and All That Is. You’ll find guidance on choosing crystals, building up a crystal collection and expanding your knowledge, whether you are a beginner or an experienced crystal worker. By taking part in this crystal workshop you will develop your skills in relaxation, visualization and intuition, too. Relaxation involves entering a receptive state of mind in which your attention is focused inward and disregards external stimuli yet remains alert. Visualization means seeing pictures in your mind’s eye and taking journeys through your imagination into other ways of being. When you develop your intuition, you pay attention to the subtle messages that your body, mind and environment are sending you all the time but that you may not have noticed up to now.

You will find it helpful to relax, focus and open your mind’s eye before undertaking any of the journeys in this book. With practice, this preparation will take only a few moments.

illustration Work with the audio now Track 1 Learn how to relax, focus your intention and open your mind’s eye (to follow the script, see Audio Track 1: Relaxation, focusing and opening the mind’s eye). If you would like to listen to the track lying down, place seven Amethysts around your head to create a calm space and an Apophyllite pyramid over your third eye at the centre of your forehead to open your mind’s eye.

Throughout this book you will find symbols to guide you into the next stage of your crystal exploration.

illustration This exercise/journey is suitable for Exercises are usually given for a specific crystal, so this symbol tells you which other crystals in your collection you could also use. Journeying with several crystals helps you to establish the differences between them and find exactly the right one for you.

illustration Work with your crystal/s now This symbol guides you to the relevant practical exercise when you are ready, where you will find full instructions to follow.

illustration I’m not quite there yet If you don’t yet feel confident about doing the exercise, this symbol gives suggestions for ways to revise and prepare yourself.

illustration Work with the audio now This symbol tells you when to use the audio and which track to select. The audio tracks are available to download from library.guidedwellbeing.com, or from the Guided Wellbeing Library app. If you would like to follow the script to the audio, turn to the pages indicated in the Inspirations chapter.

How to use the book and audio

This book is divided into different sections that have been specially designed to lead you step-by-step into a deeper energetic understanding of crystals as you gain in experience and confidence.

In the first part of each section you will find a brief introduction to the subject, suggestions of which crystals you could use and directions to guide you to the practical exercises once you feel ready to experience the crystal for yourself. There are also suggestions for what to do if you’re not quite ready for the practical experience. At every stage you have the choice to move on or to revise previous work so that you can take things at your own pace and gradually build up your knowledge.

In the second part of each section of the book you will find exercises and guided questions. Record your experiences and the answers and insights you have discovered in a notebook. You can read about the properties of the crystals before you work with a crystal, either in The Crystal Bible volumes or in the Crystal Directory. Alternatively, wait until after you have completed a practical exercise to look up the crystal’s properties, or simply work with the qualities you discover for yourself. The audio tracks that accompany this book have been devised to guide you into the relaxed, receptive state that best facilitates crystal journeys and experiences. When you play the track recommended for an exercise Illustration (as directed by this audio symbol) just follow the instructions you hear. There will be a musical interlude while you carry them out, followed by more instructions guiding you to the next stage of the exercise. If you need further time to practise, pause the track and move on when you are ready. You will also find a music-only tracks to use as an optional background accompaniment to many of the exercises. This lasts for 20 minutes and its ending closes the exercise.

Building up a picture

Recording your insights and experiences is essential if you are to get the most out of this book, and I encourage you to write your experiences a notebook after each exercise. When writing down your observations, remember to record the date and time and the crystal you used. By varying the time you do the exercises, you can find out whether there is a particular time of day when you are more intuitive or receptive to crystal energies. Some people find it easer to work with crystals in the morning, for instance, and others in the afternoon or evening. If you find there is a significant difference, time your sessions accordingly.

Recording your experiences in the present tense – ‘I am walking ... I am hearing ...’ and so on – helps you to re-enter more fully into the experience later and recall as much information as possible. Write down even the tiniest, seemingly least significant detail, because it may assume greater importance later. Remember to pay attention to the sensations in your body: the feelings you have, the thoughts that pass through your mind, the sounds or smells you become aware of, how your heart rate and breathing change and, most of all, whether any particular area of your body is affected by the crystal. Part of you might tingle, for example, or become uncomfortable, hot, cold or painful; alternatively, it might feel comforted or soothed.

Each exercise includes questions to help you focus on how the crystal affected you, the emotional, mental or energetic changes it brought about and the insights you received about the crystal’s properties. Filling these in as fully as possible will help you to monitor your insights and keep track of the ways in which your intuition opens. Don’t hesitate to go back and add to the record if you remember something later – but do put the date and time beside it, making it clear that this is an addition to the original record. You might find it helpful to hold the crystal you worked with as you record your insights and then to return to it for several days afterward, sitting quietly and holding the crystal for a few minutes to see if any new insights arise.

Glossary of terms

You will encounter many of these crystal-healing terms as you work through the book; familiarizing yourself with them now will help you to gain more from the exercises.

All That Is

Spirit, the Source, the divine. The sum total of everything that is.

Aura/subtle body

Subtle bio-energetic field surrounding the physical body, which can be sensed intuitively. The aura holds imprints of emotions, blockages, thoughts and injuries.

Cellular memory

Genetic or past-life information encoded into the cells.

Chakra

Linkage point between subtle energy and the physical body. Chakra malfunction leads to physical, emotional, mental and spiritual dis-ease.

Crystal

All stones, gems and minerals in their raw state, regardless of whether they have a crystalline structure.

Dis-ease

Final manifestation of spiritual, environmental, psychological, karmic, emotional or mental imbalance or distress.

Etheric blueprint

Subtle energy pattern, programme or grid from which the physical body is constructed. It carries imprints from past lives, previous attitudes, trauma or injury and ancestral beliefs.

Geopathic stress

Negative energy carried by the earth, generated by water, electromagnetic stress and other disturbances.

Grids/gridding/layouts

Placing crystals around yourself or a building to bring about balance, energy enhancement or protection.

Grounding/grounded

Anchoring energies in the earth; being fully connected to your physical body and the earth on which you walk.

Healing

Bringing the body and its subtle energies, mind, spirit and emotions back into balance on all levels. Healing does not imply cure.

Healing challenge

Some crystals may rapidly release underlying causes of dis-ease, temporarily worsening a condition (a catharsis). If this occurs, remove the crystal and rebalance yourself by holding Smoky Quartz or another appropriate crystal.

Higher vibration/resonance

Refined, purer vibration that usually resonates faster. Higher vibrations exist on earth, in the physical body or in other dimensions.

Journeying

When the consciousness leaves day-to-day awareness and travels through various dimensions and locations.

Lightbody

Subtle energy body vibrating at a high frequency. A vehicle for Spirit.

Meridians

Subtle energy channels that radiate through the physical body and can be accessed through acupuncture points.

Self

The higher, extended part of you that is not totally incarnated within your physical body and that can therefore access other lives and other dimensions and the totality of your being.

Spirit/Source

See All That Is.

Celestite cluster

Onyx ball