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  REMEDY #2: SODALITE & ROSE QUARTZ

  Once you are firm in what your boundaries are, use rose quartz to impart compassion and sodalite to enhance and clarify communication. Carrying these two crystals with you in a pocket whenever you need to assert your boundaries will help you do so with kindness, clarity, and love.

  Centering

  Centering is the process of calming your mind, body, and spirit and moving into your peaceful center. When you are centered, you are in a calm and relaxed state, but you are also alert. From this state, it is easier to understand the flow of energy and information around you, and it is easier to tune in to your creativity, feelings, and intuition, as well as to receive information from the Divine.

  I relax my mind, body, and spirit and find my center.

  MEDITATION

  Sit comfortably with your eyes closed. Notice your breathing. As you begin to relax, repeat the mantra several times until you feel relaxed, maintaining focus on your center, the area between your solar plexus and sacral chakras.

  REMEDY #1: BLUE LACE AGATE

  Blue lace agate is a calming stone that can also help you center yourself. Hold the stone in one hand and, with your eyes closed, breathe deeply, allowing calm to wash over you. You can remain in any position, even standing, to center yourself this way. If you tend to be off center a lot, it may be helpful to carry a piece of blue lace agate with you to hold whenever you need to find your center.

  REMEDY #2: CLEAR QUARTZ

  Center yourself at the start of the day with a brief clear quartz meditation. Sit comfortably, holding a piece of clear quartz in your receiving (nondominant) hand. Close your eyes and take 10 deep, full breaths, focusing your attention on your core and feeling the energy from the clear quartz flowing toward your center.

  TIP: Typically, grounding and centering are activities you perform together. Always ground yourself (see here) before centering.

  ACCEPTING

  Change

  Many people find change difficult because they fear the unknown. They prefer to remain with something they know, even if it brings them pain or discomfort, rather than face an uncertain future. However, change is a necessary and natural part of life. The nature of the universe is constant change, and without it, we can’t grow.

  I am grateful for change in my life because it serves as a source of positive empowerment.

  MEDITATION

  Sit quietly in a comfortable position with your eyes closed. Place both hands gently over your heart chakra. Breathe deeply and visualize pure white energy flowing from above, down through your crown chakra, through your arms and hands, and into your heart chakra. Repeat the mantra, sitting quietly for at least 10 minutes or until you feel at peace.

  REMEDY #1: WATERMELON TOURMALINE

  During periods of tumultuous change in your life, carry a piece of watermelon tourmaline in your pocket or wear watermelon tourmaline in a necklace. It will help bring acceptance and clarity to your situation.

  REMEDY #2: PREHNITE & CLEAR QUARTZ GRID

  Set up a simple grid with a prehnite center stone and three clear quartz points arranged in a triangle around the center stone, with the points facing away from the center. The quartz points will amplify the power of the prehnite, which provides inner strength and acceptance of new circumstances. The direction of the quartz points moves the energy in the direction the point faces, in this case, sending it out into the surrounding area.

  BRINGING ABOUT

  Change

  Sometimes you reach a place in your life where you are stuck in a rut, and you know you must change. However, it can be difficult to actually take the steps required for change, because you are so comfortable where you are. Everyone needs a little help to get started from time to time, but once you do, you’ll discover that the effort you made to change was worthwhile.

  I have the motivation to make the changes necessary for my growth.

  MEDITATION

  Sit comfortably with your eyes closed. Breathe naturally, relaxing your body and mind. Visualize the aspect of yourself you’d like to change, and imagine yourself making the change, taking the visualization through to its logical conclusion. Allow yourself to feel the joy and empowerment that comes from making that change. After your visualization, repeat the mantra nine times (in numerology, nine is the number of completion).

  REMEDY #1: BLUE OR GREEN AVENTURINE

  Blue and green aventurine are stones of opportunity, and change is always about opportunity. Sleep with a blue or green aventurine under your pillow to help you subconsciously awaken your will to bring about change.

  REMEDY #2: BLUE KYANITE

  Use blue kyanite to help dissolve old habits and beliefs, which often block you from making changes in your life. Meditate holding a blue kyanite crystal in your receiving (nondominant) hand. As you breathe in, repeat, “I welcome new ideas that serve me,” and as you breathe out, repeat, “I release that which is no longer useful to me.”

  TIP: Most often, it is your mind-set that prevents change. It may help to think of change in a different way. Instead of considering change as a necessary evil or something to fear, set your mind to believe that change is always an opportunity to bring positive, new energy into your life.

  SPACE

  Cleansing

  Cleansing a new space can help make it your own, removing any negativity from past inhabitants. Cleansing is an excellent way to prepare a new home or apartment, a new office or classroom, or any other space where you spend a lot of time. You can also use it to refresh a space after a period of negativity, such as a fight with a loved one or an illness.

  The light of love fills this space.

  MEDITATION

  Sit in the center of the space with your eyes closed, breathing normally. Visualize a white light coming down from above and filling the space all around you, pushing out any previous energy. As you visualize, repeat the mantra for 10 minutes or until your intuition tells you the space has been cleansed.

  REMEDY #1: CLEAR QUARTZ

  Place a clear quartz cluster in a central location, or strategically place pieces of clear quartz around the room (or both). Once the quartz is in place, stand in the center of the room with your eyes closed. Do the meditation with the quartz in place.

  REMEDY #2: BLACK TOURMALINE AFTER SMUDGING

  Light a smudge bundle of sage and cedar, sage and sweetgrass, or sage and lavender. Blow out the bundle but leave it smoldering. Working clockwise, carry the smoking bundle around the room’s perimeter and wave it clockwise around every door and window. Visualize pure light entering the room while repeating the mantra. After you’ve smudged the entire space, place black tourmaline pieces in the four corners of the area to block negative energy from entering.

  SPIRITUAL AND/OR EMOTIONAL

  Cleansing

  Just as you need to bathe to cleanse your physical body, sometimes you may also feel in need of an emotional or spiritual cleansing. Using cleansing techniques can help remove any lingering negativity, leaving you feeling refreshed and renewed. Consider cleansing after periods of negativity, or if you’re just feeling that you need to refresh your intuition, creativity, or some other aspect of yourself. I cleanse after interacting with a negative person, which always helps me wash away their energy and focus on my own.

  I fill myself with a pure, cleansing white light.

  MEDITATION

  Close your eyes and visualize a white light coming down from above and entering into your body through your crown chakra. Now, visualize the white light traveling downward through each chakra and passing all the way through you into the Earth. Perform this meditation for about 10 minutes.

  REMEDY #1: CLEAR & SMOKY QUARTZ

  Dissolve ¼ cup of Himalayan pink salt or sea salt in a full bathtub. Sit in the tub and add a clear quartz crystal and a smoky quartz crystal to the water. Soak for 10 minutes with your eyes closed, repeating the mantra. Remove the crystals from the tub and then drain it, remaining in the tub until all t
he water drains away. Afterward, cleanse your crystals (see here).

  REMEDY #2: SELENITE

  Use selenite when you meditate, to increase the cleansing effects of your meditation. During meditation, hold the selenite in your receiving (nondominant) hand or lie on the floor and place it in contact with your crown chakra. You can do this with a piece also touching your root chakra, letting the energy run through your chakras to cleanse them.

  REMEDY #3: BLOODSTONE

  Bloodstone can help cleanse your aura. Hold a bloodstone in your receiving (nondominant) hand and close your eyes. Visualize pure white energy coming from the stone and spreading into your body and then out into your aura.

  Comfort

  During difficult times, we often turn to other people or objects for comfort. While relationships with others are an important part of being human, you can be your own greatest source of comfort during times of sorrow. Using crystals can help you realize that your most important source of comfort lies within you, helping you connect to your own Divine source of power to bring about peace and acceptance.

  I am grateful to the Divine, my source of comfort.

  MEDITATION

  Sit comfortably with your eyes closed, placing your receiving (nondominant) hand on your head and your giving (dominant) hand on your heart. Breathing naturally and, repeating the mantra, visualize a gentle green light coming down from above and entering through your crown chakra. Allow the light to flow down through the chakras into your heart, as well as through your arms and hands into your heart chakra. Sit this way for at least 10 minutes or until you feel comfort.

  REMEDY #1: SELENITE & GREEN AVENTURINE CHAKRA WORK

  Communication with the Divine comes from your crown chakra and flows down into your heart chakra. Use this crystal meditation to draw peace in through your crown chakra and send emotional soothing into your heart chakra. Lie on your back, placing a selenite crystal on the floor just touching the top of your head at your crown chakra and a green aventurine crystal on your heart chakra. Feel the energy flow between the two stones along the midline of your body.

  REMEDY #2: APACHE TEARS

  Apache tears are excellent for easing sorrow and offering comfort. Carry Apache tears with you, as close to your heart as you can. For example, you may wish to tuck them into a shirt pocket or bra.

  TIP: Connection to the Source, whatever you choose to call it (God, Buddha, Christ, Divine energy, Source, Goddess, and so on), can always provide comfort. Christians call this concept grace, in which the Divine source eases pain and sorrow. Permit yourself to connect to your Source, however you define it, through prayer or meditation in your moments of greatest sorrow, and allow the energy of the Divine to flow through you.

  IMPROVED

  Communication

  Effective communication is important in developing and growing healthy and functional relationships. It can help you in your career, and it makes sharing your thoughts and ideas with others easier. While the throat chakra primarily controls personal truth and effective communication, you can be even more effective if you also seek higher guidance in communication via the crown chakra.

  I clearly and calmly speak my truth.

  MEDITATION

  Amethyst works with your crown chakra to help you receive guidance and inspiration, which can help guide your words and communications, while lapis lazuli is a throat chakra stone that can help you clearly communicate. Sitting comfortably with your eyes closed, place an amethyst crystal on your crown chakra and hold a lapis lazuli crystal over your throat as you repeat the mantra for 10 minutes, or longer if you feel you need to.

  REMEDY #1: ROSE QUARTZ & SODALITE

  Speaking from a place of truth and love allows for effective communication. To bring love into your interactions, try this meditation. Lie on your back with a rose quartz crystal on your heart chakra and a sodalite crystal on your throat chakra. Close your eyes and repeat the mantra, “I communicate with love,” for 10 minutes.

  REMEDY #2: AQUAMARINE

  Wear an aquamarine pendant around your neck or carry an aquamarine crystal in your pocket whenever communication is important. For example, use aquamarine when you have a presentation to make or an important job interview, or when you need to have an important conversation with a loved one.

  TIP: It’s important to remember that communication is a two-way street, and listening is just as important as speaking. If you speak well but frequently miscommunicate because you don’t listen well, working with blue throat chakra crystals can help improve this aspect of communication.

  Compassion

  Compassion is intricately linked to unconditional love, which is a function of the heart chakra. Compassion enables you to feel deeply for another and act toward them with kindness and care. Sometimes, compassion may be hard to find, particularly as it relates to difficult people in your life. However, responding with compassion toward others—even the most difficult people in your life—allows healing in your own life.

  The spark of divinity in me recognizes the spark of divinity in you.

  MEDITATION

  Sit or lie comfortably with your eyes closed. Visualize the person for whom you wish to cultivate compassion. Now, as you repeat the mantra, visualize pure white light coming from your heart and entering the heart of that person, allowing the light to flow from both of you and surround you completely. Do this for about 10 minutes.

  REMEDY #1: ROSE QUARTZ HEART CHAKRA WORK

  Hold a piece of rose quartz in your receiving (nondominant) hand, pressing it gently against your heart chakra. Hold your giving (dominant) hand in front of you with your palm facing up. Close your eyes and imagine energy flowing from the crystal into your heart chakra, and then out through your giving hand and into the universe until it reaches the person for whom you wish to experience compassion. Perform this meditation for about 10 minutes.

  REMEDY #2: CELESTITE

  Celestite can help heal relationships and foster compassion. Carry a small piece of this beautiful light blue stone in your pocket when you are going to spend time with someone for whom you need to develop compassion.

  TIP: “The spark of divinity in me recognizes the spark of divinity in you” is the meaning of the word namaste. It is a reminder that everyone has the same spark of the Divine and that even though we seem different from one another, we are, in fact, all one. Meditating on your oneness with everyone on the planet can help you develop compassion for all—even the people who frustrate or anger you the most.

  Confidence

  Confidence comes from your solar plexus chakra, where you foster your sense of personal identity and self-esteem. Integrity, a heart chakra issue, also plays a role in confidence, because it is difficult to be confident when you are not living and speaking your truth. To grow more confident, pay close attention to these two chakras, learning who you are and then living that truth with integrity.

  I exude confidence because I know I am living my truth.

  MEDITATION

  Sit or lie quietly with your eyes closed. Place a citrine crystal on your heart chakra and a lapis lazuli crystal on your throat chakra. Now, visualize yourself going about your day with the confidence that you are living within your integrity. Be as detailed in the visualization as possible. When you are done, repeat the mantra 10 times.

  REMEDY #1: MOONSTONE

  Wear moonstone jewelry or carry moonstone in your pocket whenever you need an extra boost of confidence. It is a stone that encourages you and provides strength for self-confidence.

  REMEDY #2: HEMATITE

  Hematite is a very powerful stone that helps build and boost self-confidence. Sleep with a piece of hematite under your pillow at night to help build your confidence while you sleep. When you awake in the morning, repeat the mantra 10 times before rising to go about your day.

  Confusion

  Life can be confusing sometimes. Whether it has an emotional, mental, spiritual, or physical cause, confusion can keep you stuck in the same pl
ace, which prevents you from progressing. Gaining clarity enables you to overcome the inertia caused by confusion, freeing you to move forward with your life in a positive and productive manner.

  I see my life and choices clearly and move forward with self-assurance.

  MEDITATION

  Looking for guidance from your higher self and the Divine can help ease confusion and bring about clarity. Sit quietly with your eyes closed, breathing normally. Visualize a pure white light from above flowing into your crown chakra and bring the light down to your third eye chakra. Now, focus on your third eye, repeating the mantra for at least 10 minutes or until your confusion lifts.