The Beginner's Guide to Crystal Healing

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 to working with crystals, Shirley O'Donoghue shares the basics of crystal therapy, enabling anyone to begin using 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, as well as 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. Exploring the subtle energy system of the body, she discusses the effects of crystals on the chakras, the meridians, and the aura and how to work with gems and these systems for healing, protection, and elevating consciousness. She explains how to craft your own gem essences and how to identify and deal with toxic crystals. The author explores techniques for using crystals for healing animals, including guidance on animal chakras and the benefits of giving healing to animals. She looks at the relationship between crystals and astrology, numerology, and sacred geometry, as well as how to use gemstones for connecting with spirit guides, angels, and ascended masters. She examines how to use gems for energetic space clearing and how to work with crystal grids, providing several grid layouts. She also explores how to use stones for ancestral healing and how to combine crystals with other healing modalities, including Reiki, reflexology, acupuncture, and massage.

Filled with explanatory diagrams and step-by-step photographic instructions, 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.

Author: Shirley O'Donoghue
Publisher: Healing Arts Press
Published: 08/27/2024
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
ISBN: 9781644116753

About the Author
Shirley O'Donoghue has been teaching crystal healing for over 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 non-profit that provides access to complementary therapies and energy healing for disadvantaged groups and individuals. Born in London, she now lives in Dorking, Surrey, England.