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From: MSN Nickname†♥§weetwinds♪�?/nobr>  (Original Message)Sent: 5/15/2005 7:34 AM
Touch the Earth: A Deeper Look at Grounding Stones
'Excerpted from Living with Crystals Newsletter'

When I discovered crystals, I realized that one way to balance my
energies was to keep grounding crystals around. Since I quickly fell
in love with smoky quartz, hematite, black tourmaline, and tiger's
eye, I was set for a lifetime of grounding.

However, as I began to explore the relationship between crystals
and the chakras, I discovered grounding stones weren't limited to
those associated with the first chakra. This is because the energies
of particular chakras often need to be grounded or stabilized.

Calming the Chakras

For example, the sixth chakra (also called the third eye, and
located between and slightly above the physical eyes) governs
mental processes, including reason and logic, intuition, and
psychic awareness. Many people find that having a lively, flexible,
and imaginative intellect enhances creativity. Sometimes, though,
mental processes become a little too lively, producing scattered,
disconnected thoughts, and mental confusion which is often
deepened by emotional turmoil.

Under such conditions, it can be very difficult to make the most
appropriate decision. The ideal crystal for such a state of mind
is sodalite, a grounding dark-blue stone with streaks of black and
white. It helps to calm the emotions and the mind, creating a space
of mental quiet during which we can view the possibilities of a
situation with objectivity and detachment.

Each chakra is associated with at least one crystal that has a
grounding effect on its energies. I describe here the ones I've
found most helpful.

First Chakra:  Various Crystals

This chakra is all about grounding, and I've written about the
relationship of the crystals associated with it to grounding at
http://www.rainbowcrystal.com/crystal/firstchakrastones.html

Second Chakra: Red Jasper

The second chakra relates to passion, creative energy, sexuality,
the flow of blood through our bodies, freedom of motion, and feeling.
Overall, it is about movement and flow, whether that flow is physical
or emotional.

Sometimes flow becomes flood. We may feel overwhelmed by sensation
or emotion. As a physical flood sweeps away topsoil and looses the
roots of trees, sometimes uprooting them altogether, so an unbalanced
second chakra may make us feel as life is moving too fast and out
of control.

One antidote for this feeling is red jasper. Unlike high energy
crystals
(strong examples being Herkimer diamonds and rutilated quartz), this
crystal's energy is slow moving and grounding. It is, in some Native
cultures, thought to be the symbolic blood of the earth. As such, it
helps us to connect  with earth's deep, stabilizing energies.

Generally it's considered to be an emotionally calming stone. This
makes it excellent for those who either feel unbalanced by stronger
crystalline energies who who like change to be a gradual process.

Third Chakra: Tiger's Eye

This chakra relates to self-esteem, the expression of personal power,
and the ability to realize one's dreams. Sometimes we know what we
want, have access to the energy needed to create it, but feel at a
loss in terms of the steps necessary for accomplishment. When this
occurs, it is because we are disconnected from  our inner knowing.

Tiger's eye (which, because it is both gold and brown, relates to
the first and third chakras) helps us to reground us in our deepest
intuition. It enables to activate the qualities of patience and
timing. It also assists us in having more confidence in our ability
to realize our dreams by connecting us to the inner resources we
can use for accomplishment.

Solar Plexus: Chrysoprase

(Note: while the solar plexus is generally considered to be part
of the third chakra, it has some distinctive qualities.)

When I lead a meditation, I often have students visualizing roots
extending deep into the earth. The idea of being anchored to the
earth symbolizes rootedness in physical existence.

We also become more deeply rooted in the physical plane when we a
ppreciate its many beauties and pleasures. Chrysoprase, a sea
green stone, encourages this kind of receptivity.

As a solar plexus stone, it relates to the release of emotional
blockages and to full, deep breathing. When we are storing emotions
we don't want to feel in the solar plexus, we block our ability to
appreciate because appreciation is feeling, and we've learned that
feeling hurts.

Chrysoprase, by helping us to learn to focus on positive energies,
allows us to diminish the power of negative feelings from the past.
Thus healing occurs as we learn to appreciative all that is joyful
in our lives.  This appreciation teaches us to be grateful for our
physical existence.

Heart: Rhodonite

When all is well and love flows smoothly, we experience it as
passion, joy, ecstasy. Our feet may not be touching the ground,
but we don't care, for we are deeply grounded in the experience
of loving.

When all is not well, and irritation, anger, annoyance and other
emotions block our experience of love, we may forget we ever loved
the person who is causing us such displeasure and pain. We are
ungrounded. The crystal that can help us reconnect to the source
of love is rhodonite.

This deep pink stone with black streaks represents patience. While
tiger's eye stands for the kind of patience connected with knowing
when and how to take the steps that help to  manifest one's dreams
associated with tiger's eye, rhodonite is associated with how we
relate to others.

It is a patience that allows others to be however they are without
judging them. It means not shooting off hostile vibrations to a
slow teller or cashier, staying calm when faced with a barrage of
questions from a curious child, understanding that your mate loves
you even if (s)he forgot to take the garbage out.

I don't say rhodonite accomplishes this on its own, but it definitely
helps.

Fifth Chakra: Amazonite

The fifth chakra relates to self-expression. True self-expression
involves honesty: communicating how you really feel, what you really
want, what you truly  believe.

Have you ever been in a situation where someone (or your own long
pent-up anger) kept on goading you to say what you felt, and it all
poured out in a flood of words that you immediately wished you could
stuff back into your mouth.

This is the kind of situation working with amazonite can help you
avoid.

Courage of self-expression means expressing yourself before the need
to unload your feelings becomes explosive. It means being grounded in
self expression: knowing what you feel and being able to express it
in a calm and self-confident way. In the deepest sense, it means being
grounded in your inner being or higher self and being able to express
your unique, personal truths.

Sixth Chakra: Charoite

I've already described sodalite as a grounding crystal for the sixth
chakra. Another is charoite, a purple stone with black and white
streaks.

One of the pleasures of being in physical existence is to be in a
continual and joyful process of translating nonphysical into physical
energy (or ideas into things). If we are finding limitations in doing
this, it's often because fear keeps us from being grounded in the use
of the laws of physical existence.

Charoite helps us to handle fear. While the purple in this stone helps
us to move closer to spirit, the color black grounds the purple ray,
and enables us to explore the nature of our fears so that we may
release them.

Seventh Chakra: Chrysanthemum Stone

Our journey through life, like our journey through the chakras, is,
at its best, an unfolding that returns us to universal source, as
represented by the seventh chakra. Sometimes that journey feels more
like a roller coaster ride, so bumpy a trip that, bruised and battered,
we hit the brakes. Thus, we lose our grounding connection to the
source that guides us.

Chrysanthemum stone helps us to  have a smoother ride, to experience
change as flowing growth. This black stone has delicate white patterns
like Asian brush paintings. I think of the black as the grounding
force that frames the pure path of the soul's journey.

When we aren't racing through the scenery of our lives, we're able to
enjoy the journey and appreciate the blossoming of each moment and its
gifts.

This is the gift of chrysanthemum.


You can read this article online at
http://www.rainbowcrystal.com/crystal/grounding.html