Crystal: How to find your own chakras

There are many pictures showing the location of chakras. One of the simple way to feel and find your own chakras within your own body is as follows;

- Find a quiet room where no one can disturb you.
- Sit down and relax.
- Hold your palm about 3cm away from one of the chakra you want to feel.
- Breathe in & out regularly & slowly.
- Visualise a white light glowing between your palm and your body.
- You will feel energy streaming from the relevant chakra.
- Do not feel disappointed if you cant feel anything at your first attempt.
- You have to try few more times and do not feel excited or tense up.
- Main point is to stay relaxed and calm.
- All these chakras are susceptible to external energy forces including crystals.
- Each crystal is associated with a specific colour and this is the colour of the crystal most often used 
   in this form of healing.

Crystal: How do I select crystal?

There are so many types of crystal, how do I choose for myself or for others?

First and foremost, ask yourself why do you need the crystal for before you search for the correct ones to help the condition or symptoms.

Follow your gut feeling or intuition. Feeling drawn or attracted in any way to a crystal suggests that you may need it. It will stand out from the rest, as though shouting out loud to you, waving at you and that is the one for you. However you are drawn to the crystals, they will help you, often in an unexpected ways. If you are selecting as a gift for friend, keep that person in mind when choosing. Sometimes it helps to look at a photo of that friend or write their name on a paper.

Sometimes when we work with crystals, we may feel emotional, perhaps shedding some tears or being irritable, as you release the ensnared disturbing experience. After a while, the emotion is freed, you will feel better. These are the unpleasant feeling or experiences one encounter and had suppressed  them and buried deep in our subconscious.

Take the crystals that attracts your attention and hold it in your palms. Close your eyes and relax while holding onto the crystals. You may feel a tingling on your palm or a pulsating feeling or a sensation of warmth or coolness. You may also feel an energetic charge in some part of your body, such as the top part of your head or middle of your chest.

If these sensations are pleasurable, the crystal you hold in your palm is resonating with some aspect of your body and is likely to be a good one for you to work with. If the sensations are unpleasant, it maybe  good to read about the crystal properties and ask yourself whether it is bringing up something you are avoiding. Take note of what you had discover so that you can come back to this crystal later.

Crystal: How do I cleanse my crystals?

How do I cleanse my crystal?  A piece of crystal may have been touched by many people & the crystal will carry the energy of the person. Therefore, we need to cleanse the crystals. There are many method of cleansing.

Running water
- Cup the crystal in your hand and open the water tap for few minutes. Let the running water run 
  through the crystals. Allow it to dry after that.

Sea salt water
- add in sea salt to a bowl of water and wash your crystal with the sea salt water. Allow it to dry.

Singing Bowl
- When you purchase the crystal from some shop, they will put the crystal into a singing bowl and use
  a wooden stick to go round the singing bowl creating a sound. This method use the sound vibration 
  to cleanse the crystal.

Smudging
- Use sage leaves or cedar leaves and put inside a container and burn. Hold your crystals over the
  smoke to cleanse it. This method is commonly used by the native American.

- Sandalwood incense powder can also be used to cleanse crystals.

Geode
- If you have a geode, place the crystal inside the geode for at least 24 hr. The geode will cleanse the 
   negative energy of the crystal by itself.