Description
A full-color guide to working with gemstones for self-healing, energy work, and spiritual growth
* Explains how to choose your crystals and cleanse them, how to energize and charge them, as well as how to get to know your crystals and attune to them
* Explores the correspondences between gemstones and colors and discusses the effects of crystals on the chakras, the meridians, and the aura
* Reveals how to craft crystal essences, heal animals with gemstones, work with crystal grids, and combine crystal therapy with ancestral healing, Reiki, reflexology, acupuncture, and massage
In this full-color guide that is filled with explanatory diagrams and step-by-step photographic instructions, Shirley O'Donoghue shares the basics of crystal healing, enabling anyone to learn to use crystals for self-healing, energy work, and spiritual growth.
The author explains how to choose your crystals and cleanse them, how to energize and charge them, and how to get to know your crystals and attune to them. Examining the correspondences between stones and colors, she looks at how to use crystals in color therapy and how to work with color to create crystal mandalas. She discusses the effects of crystals on the chakras, the meridians, and the aura and explains how to craft your own gem essences and how to identify and deal with toxic crystals. She looks at the relationship between crystals and astrology, numerology, and sacred geometry-providing several crystal grid layouts-as well as how to use gemstones for connecting with spirit guides, angels, and ascended masters. The author also explores techniques for using crystals for healing animals, for ancestral healing, and for combining crystals with other healing modalities, including Reiki, reflexology, acupuncture, and massage.
This comprehensive guide also includes a directory of more than 20 common crystals and stones, enabling you to begin your crystal healing journey right away.
About the Author
Shirley O'Donoghue has been teaching crystal healing for more than 30 years. The principal of Lucis College, she is an experienced lecturer and teacher in a wide range of holistic therapies including Reiki, color therapy, and flower and gem essence therapy. She is the host of a podcast, Consciousness Unveiled, Alchemy Unveiled, as well as a director of Holistic Harmony, a nonprofit that provides access to complementary therapies and energy healing for disadvantaged groups and individuals. Born in London, she now lives in Dorking, Surrey, England.
Reviews
"Through clear and concise guidance, Shirley explains various techniques from cleansing and charging crystals to crafting gem essences and working with crystal grids. Her expertise shines in this book as she demonstrates how to seamlessly integrate crystal therapy with other therapeutic modalities, enhancing the overall efficacy of holistic treatments. A fascinating read." * Oliver Chaplin, the Federation of Holistic Therapists *
"This book is ideal for both beginners and those more experienced. It is a useful survey of the wide range of practical techniques within crystal healing and also explores the ideas they are based on." * Simon and Sue Lilly, authors of The Essential Crystal Handbook *
"A complete and detailed course of instruction in the use of crystals for healing and health, The Beginner's Guide to Crystal Healing is the ideal and thoroughly 'user friendly' introduction to the subject and a welcome, unreservedly recommended addition to personal, professional, community, and college/university library metaphysical studies and alternative health/medicine collections." * Midwest Book Review *
Book Information
ISBN 9781644116753
Author Shirley O'Donoghue
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint Healing Arts Press
Publisher Inner Traditions Bear and Company
Weight(grams) 374g
Dimensions(mm) 241mm * 171mm * 15mm
* Explains how to choose your crystals and cleanse them, how to energize and charge them, as well as how to get to know your crystals and attune to them
* Explores the correspondences between gemstones and colors and discusses the effects of crystals on the chakras, the meridians, and the aura
* Reveals how to craft crystal essences, heal animals with gemstones, work with crystal grids, and combine crystal therapy with ancestral healing, Reiki, reflexology, acupuncture, and massage
In this full-color guide that is filled with explanatory diagrams and step-by-step photographic instructions, Shirley O'Donoghue shares the basics of crystal healing, enabling anyone to learn to use crystals for self-healing, energy work, and spiritual growth.
The author explains how to choose your crystals and cleanse them, how to energize and charge them, and how to get to know your crystals and attune to them. Examining the correspondences between stones and colors, she looks at how to use crystals in color therapy and how to work with color to create crystal mandalas. She discusses the effects of crystals on the chakras, the meridians, and the aura and explains how to craft your own gem essences and how to identify and deal with toxic crystals. She looks at the relationship between crystals and astrology, numerology, and sacred geometry-providing several crystal grid layouts-as well as how to use gemstones for connecting with spirit guides, angels, and ascended masters. The author also explores techniques for using crystals for healing animals, for ancestral healing, and for combining crystals with other healing modalities, including Reiki, reflexology, acupuncture, and massage.
This comprehensive guide also includes a directory of more than 20 common crystals and stones, enabling you to begin your crystal healing journey right away.
About the Author
Shirley O'Donoghue has been teaching crystal healing for more than 30 years. The principal of Lucis College, she is an experienced lecturer and teacher in a wide range of holistic therapies including Reiki, color therapy, and flower and gem essence therapy. She is the host of a podcast, Consciousness Unveiled, Alchemy Unveiled, as well as a director of Holistic Harmony, a nonprofit that provides access to complementary therapies and energy healing for disadvantaged groups and individuals. Born in London, she now lives in Dorking, Surrey, England.
Reviews
"Through clear and concise guidance, Shirley explains various techniques from cleansing and charging crystals to crafting gem essences and working with crystal grids. Her expertise shines in this book as she demonstrates how to seamlessly integrate crystal therapy with other therapeutic modalities, enhancing the overall efficacy of holistic treatments. A fascinating read." * Oliver Chaplin, the Federation of Holistic Therapists *
"This book is ideal for both beginners and those more experienced. It is a useful survey of the wide range of practical techniques within crystal healing and also explores the ideas they are based on." * Simon and Sue Lilly, authors of The Essential Crystal Handbook *
"A complete and detailed course of instruction in the use of crystals for healing and health, The Beginner's Guide to Crystal Healing is the ideal and thoroughly 'user friendly' introduction to the subject and a welcome, unreservedly recommended addition to personal, professional, community, and college/university library metaphysical studies and alternative health/medicine collections." * Midwest Book Review *
Book Information
ISBN 9781644116753
Author Shirley O'Donoghue
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint Healing Arts Press
Publisher Inner Traditions Bear and Company
Weight(grams) 374g
Dimensions(mm) 241mm * 171mm * 15mm
