I have been very fortunate to be spending the last couple of days in Kennebunkport, Maine. It has been a much needed break and very restorative to my spirit. This quaint little weekend destination town has a very peaceful energy even with the many who flock to it’s shops and restaurants or it’s many hotels or vacation homes. Kennebunkport some how treats this energy gently and transmutes it to an amazingly soothing vibe. The people here are calm friendly and welcoming even with the constant invasion of outsiders.

The land has a sense of life to it that speaks well of the people in this part of the world. The homes and towns and villages seem not so much to shape the land to their needs as it seems they take their cues from the land. The homes are gently nestled in beautiful nooks of meadow, marsh, sea sides and wood blending harmoniously with the natural enviroments of the land.

I can feel the wholeness of this place. The lands still lives here and is doing what it does best… healing, nuturing and sustaining the people here. Maine is revitalizing my spirit. Maine is healing me. I only hope that I can do something in return for Maine.

Black tourmaline is a stone that is a must have for anyone working with crystal healing or crystal energy.

Tourmaline Comes in a wide variety of colors and like most crystals there is a specific attribute given to each color as well as those to the main attributes of the crystal or stone family. Black tourmaline or schorl is one of the most protective stones.

It not only protects from the negative thoughts and emotions of others, it also clears your own negative thoughts dissolving tension and stress encouraging a laid back attitude with a clear,focused, objective and rational, neutral thought process.

Black tourmaline is a stone of emotional and mental stability. It promotes a positive attitude even in difficult circumstances. A powerful grounding stone, it helps to bring flighty and scattered energies and thoughts into focus. This also eliminates unnecessary energies from our system by pulling it into the ground to be dispersed.

Black tourmaline is a cleansing stone like no other. Many Crystals and stones have the ability to cleanse negative energies and work quite well for those purposes but tourmaline is one of the quickest and strongest stones for cleaning the subtle energy bodies as well as the environment. Tourmaline takes heavy, dense, low vibrational energy and dissolves and transmutes it to lighter vibrations. Just holding Black tourmaline brings about instant grounding cleansing as well as protection from further  dense and environmental energy pollution. You will see the term pollution used in regards to the uses of Black tourmaline quite often as it has a wide sweeping effect that not only effects the body but the surrounding environment as well.While many stones work on the low dense or negative energy given off by the thoughts and consciousness of your self and others  Black tourmaline also absorbs and cleanses natural and man made sources of energetic pollution.

Black Tourmaline  pulls less refined energies such as electromagnetic smog as well as many other environmental pollutions that are caused by the electrical devices and radio frequencies. A  piece of tourmaline taped or glued to a cell phone or computer can help protect you from some of the most common sources of electromagnetic smog. A large piece of  black tourmaline is effective in blocking geopathic stress which is believed to be radiation points due to the stresses from the earth itself.

The effects of prolonged exposure to strong electromagnetic fields have been thought to cause, Nervous system symptoms (e.g. fatigue, stress, sleep disturbances), Skin symptoms (e.g. facial prickling, burning sensations, rashes), Various body symptoms (e.g. pain and ache in muscles), Eye symptoms (e.g. burning sensations), Various less common symptoms, including ear, nose, and throat symptoms, digestive disorders, As well as anxiety depression and panic and uncontrollable irrational fears that are said to be responsible for the belief in some haunting scenarios. Black tourmaline  is one of the stones to top the list as a protection and cleanser of this energy.

Black tourmaline`s most potent physical healing properties are it ability to cleanse and detoxify the body and according to the Judy hall in The Crystal Bible it strengthens the immune system, it treats arthritis dyslexia, provides pain relief and defends against debilitating disease.

Mineralogical Information from wikipedia – Tourmaline is a crystal silicate mineral compounded with elements such as aluminium, iron, magnesium, sodium, lithium, or potassium. Tourmaline is classed as a semi-precious stone and the gem comes in a wide variety of colors. The name comes from the Sinhalese word “turamali” or “toramalli”, which applied to different gemstones found in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).

I have been working with hemimorphite. I find this stone to be gentle and powerful at the same time. Gently blending life into one joyous flow filled with purpose, compassion, and freedom. Hemimophite is quite powerful stone working to connect the emotional, physical, and subtle bodies.  Hemimorphite is a stone that helps raise our vibrational level and to help ground and hold this new higher vibrational level.

Hemimorphite is a stone of joy. Joy is not an emotion that excludes other emotional experiences. Joy is an experience of all of lifes emotions with out judgment, seeing the Sweet with the sour so to speak. Allowing us to view even painful emotions in a light of growth and acceptance. This acceptance allows us to view our emotions from a calm centered space. It is through this wholistic view of our emotional experience that  we develop the ability to grow emotionally.There is a blended unrestricted flow of emotions that helps become Empathic and compassionate to the joys and suffering of others.  Hemimorphite encourages emotional honesty and helps with the communication of our emotions to others in an open and honest way. This honest communication builds personal relationships and group dynamics. This stone is very useful for those working as healers and counselors. Affording a strong emotional connection that is empathic not pitying. Using hemimorphite during healing and counseling will help your clients express the emotional core beliefs that are holding them back or affecting the dis-ease of there bodies, minds, or spirits.

Hemimorphite is a stone of spiritual Ascension and Spiritual Purpose. This powerful stone connects us with our highest spiritual self  forcing us to take personal responsibility for our lives past and present as well as our health and Dis-ease. Hemimrophite raises the light of energetic vibrations in our auric field bring us closer to the state of ascension. Hemimorphite has powerful protective and cleansing properties that cleanse dark spots and negative energies form the aura and  protecting us from the negative energies of others allowing us to rise above those energies. This protection is a very powerful protector from the manipulations of others both conscious and unconscious keeping us free from unconsciously following the herd so to speak. With this clarity and connection to our highest spiritual self  we gain the ability to use our intuition to guide us to our highest purpose. All of this the raising of vibration, development of empathic compassion, the personal responsibility, cleansing, and connection to our higher self  leading to our soul purpose are essential and key to the way of Ascension.

In the Crystal Bible 2 Judy Hall says Hemimorphite helps bring a general sense of well being as well as supports regaining health on all levels. Used especially to support weight loss, pain relief, blood disorders, the heart, cellular memory and structures; helps with genital herpes, warts,and ulcerative disorders, hormonal inbalances,burns and restless legs

In the The Book of Stones: Who They Are & What They Teach Richard Simmons and Naisha Ahsian list the keywords of Hemimorphite as: Light Activation, aura balancing, emotional healing and communication, empathy, joy, channeling and mediumship. Richard Simmons says the emotional communication leads to the healing of  dysfunctional relationships as well as the inner growth and empathy necessary to communicate with those who have moved on to other realms of existence.

Here is some mineralogical information from Wikipedia. Hemimorphite, is a sorosilicate mineral which has been mined from days of old from the upper parts of zinc and lead ores, chiefly associated with smithsonite. It was often assumed to be the same mineral and both were classed under the same name of calamine. In the second half of the 18th century it was discovered that there were two different minerals under the heading of calamine – a zinc carbonate and a zinc silicate, which often closely resembled each other.

Oneness

There are a lot of people and things out there. Some of them we find enjoyable and others we wish to avoid.
So how is it that we are one with all of these things how is it that we are one with people such as murders,
and sex offenders. You might say that it is impossible that you share any similarities with any of these people.
You would be mistaken if  you truly believed that.

How can I make such claims? Well first of all it is a matter of science and the Law of Conservation.
The Law of Conservation states that you cannot create or destroy matter. Matter can only be changed
from one form to another. As it is changed, matter releases energy as it releases bits of the more
complex form becoming simpler in form ; or it requires energy to add bits as it goes from simple to
complex. This Law of the natural world shows that there is a finite amount of the stuff called matter.
Matter is what makes up our physical forms. It is also what the foods we eat, the water we drink, the air
we breathe, the planet we live on, and the stars in the sky are all built from.

So we are all built from the same stuff called matter; Matter that has been recycled through every physical
form that can be found on this planet. You are air, water, fire, earth, dog, cat, bird, and people.
On the physical level we are the same. You might say, but that is not the same as being one with something else.
Just because our bodies might have the same bits making them work does not mean that I Am the same as they are.
That is on a physical level, I don`t think like they do, I have too much compassion to harm another, I have a
different soul than they do. You are correct this is not the same as being one with something or someone else.
I think differently than other people. I feel differently than other people. My perspective is unique because
of my experiences. These are arguments that many will make meaning that because of our thoughts and experiences
we are separate beings with no connection. For all of our similarities in our atomic and molecular make up, each
of us is unique in our specific physical design.

There is another level we are seldom aware of. It is the level of Universal Consciousness.
This Level of being has been talked about in every major belief system that exists on the Earth at this
Time. This is the realm of Mystery. The realm Where we as humans lose the ability to understand with our
human minds. This is the Tao that Taoist say can Not be known. This is the Chi that Flows in Chinese
medicine. In Hermetic teachings this is the Mind of the Unknowable all. The essence of these thoughts when they
are boiled down is that we are all part of and inseparable from the Universal Consciousness. It can be
said that Creator and Creation are one and the same.

The ALL could be viewed as an ocean and we are the waves. We are water, Inseparable from the ocean until
suddenly we find that we have form,we have consciousness,we have physical characteristics. We soon learn to
Identify with our form and differentiate between our form and others. We begin to say” I am taller than
that wave.” or “I am faster than The other Wave.” We become so engrossed in the world of form that we
forget that we all started as water. We are all still water. and as we rush towards the shore and we see
the other waves disappearing we begin to worry about what will happen to us when we get to the shore.
Being so Identified with forms that we now have forgot our origins as water and part of the ALL. Finally
we hit the beach and our form dissolves and we return back to the water and settle into the peace of being
simply the ocean, the ALL once more.

It is this Identification with the world of forms that causes us to forget our origins as part of the
Universal Consciousness. This Identification brings us so much suffering as we attach ourselves to the
world of forms all the while forgetting that we Will eventually return to the peace of the source.

We are truly One we are the waves on the ocean who have forgotten that we do not exist separate form the
ocean. When we are still and our minds are quiet we begin to sense our true being as part of the Divine
Whole.

The mind emphasizes these differences. In fact the Mind creates all of these differences.

Charoite is the stone of soul purpose. Charoite is a stone of very profound emotional and spiritual influence. As I explored the depths of this stone I found that it was a stone that brought about a deep feeling of peace, confidence and acceptance of the present moment as perfect. From this place of centered calm judgments about the present seemed to dissolve along with the anxieties of life. This is probably how Charoite has earned it`s reputation as a stone of courage. Courage is standing strong in the face of fear, Charoite does more than give you the ability to face your fears. Charoite dissolves the thought forms that feed our fears by allowing us to see the present moment without judgment. Judgment is the true beginning of fear and anxiety, the emotions that wreak such havoc on our physical an subtle energy systems. It is when we forget that there are no good or bad events in our lives, only it events, that we start to bring in fear and anxiety. Charoite allows us to stay open to the changing winds of life in a calm centered way.

Charoite is also a stone of compassion and unconditional love. Charoite connects the heart chakra to the crown chakra bringing a compassionate view to our spiritual endeavors. This heart centered awareness allows us to see that we are all spiritual beings connected by our being a part of the same Divine Creation. This environment of unconditional love is the beginning of a deeper understanding of our spiritual path. The first step is letting go of judgments that we have placed on ourselves and others facilitating, personal healing and forgiveness. This process of healing further grounds us in the present moment bringing in the higher spiritual vibrations to our physical world. With out our judgments our Insights and intuitions about our spiritual growth and path become clearer. With our judgments dissolved we then can begin to think about the world in a compassionate manner. Love is the emotion, Compassion is the new way that we view our world. Compassion is truly hindered by fears and prejudices. These two create the illusory divisions that lead to our feelings of separateness. This stone draws downs the higher vibrational energies and grounds them in our everyday life. Increasing the work of spirit in our lives guiding us, Not always gently, To our higher spiritual purpose.

Charoite helps one to acclimate to higher energy vibrations and is especially useful for energy workers, channels, and anyone that works with higher vibrational energies. For those that are working to raise their energy vibrations Charoite reminds you to bring the higher-vibrational energy  down to the earth plane. Charoite helps overcome spiritual escapism, encouraging one to to assume responsibility for bring spiritual energies where they are needed and grounding them here on earth.

In The Book of Stones: Who They Are & What They Teach Richard Simmons Say that Because of it`s Emanation of the purple ray it is a powerful tool for the cleansing of the ethereal body,Cleansing dis harmonies and in dispelling negativity. It can protect one from psychic attack and dispel the tendency to have bad dreams. It can help release internalized negativity and fear to help bring healing for maladies that spring from these.  Charoite can increase synchronicity in your life. Learning to understand the messages in these can guiding one as if by a golden thread down the “pathless path of ones highest potential.”

Judy hall in the The Crystal Bible Says Charoite regulates blood pressure, treats eyes, heart, liver, and pancreas. It reverses liver damage due to alcohol, alleviates cramps,aches, and pains. Charoite bestows deep sleep with powerful dreams, overcomes, insomnia, and give children calm sleep. Charoite heals autism and bipolar disorder.It is helpful with dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system where the heart is involved.

Mineralogical information for Charoite from Wikipedia

Charoite (K(Ca;Na)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH;F)·H₂O) is a rare mineral, named for the Chara River (though this etymology is disputed by some), and found only in the Sakha Republic, Siberia, Russia. It is found where a syenite massif has intruded into and altered limestone deposits.^[4]

Charoite is a strong, translucent lavender to purple in color, reminding some of a granite or marble with its pearly, swirling luster. However, it is a discrete mineral rather than a rock. Charoite is strictly massive in nature, and fractures are conchoidal. It has an unusual swirling, fibrous appearance, sometimes chatoyant, and that, along with its intense color, sometimes of a “grape” nature, can lead many to believe at first that it is synthetic or enhanced artificially.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charoite

Tumbled Malachite

Malachite is one of my favorite stones. This stone is one of the most powerful healing stones that I know of. When working at Coyote Wisdom I am often asked about stones for Helping with the healing of various conditions. The first stone that my Intuition usually pulls to the surface is Malachite.

Malachite Works in many ways and on many levels.  The Healing process begins with the clearing of energies that may be causing problems and blockages in the Energy body which manifest as physical problems. This Stone cleanses “Negative” Energies from the chakras, as well as electromagnetic pollution, radiation and other energies that can throw the energy system out of balance.

Malachite is a powerful physical healer. As stones for physical healing go in my opinion it is one of the most powerful. Malachite works to reduce  inflammation, promotes cellular regeneration, strengthens the immune system, and detoxifies the body. Because it works on the cellular level malachite can help after traumatic injuries and surgeries.Malachite works on the physical body by helping to speed detoxification. As a result malachite is one of the best stones to remove negative energies and pollutants from the body, subtle energy system, and the environment as a result malachite needs to be cleansed often.

Malachite works on a Psychological and mental level by illuminating the core beliefs and psychosomatic roots of our disease. It helps to break old patterns that are holding us back. Malachite goes to the core of a problem enhancing Intuition and insight about the causes of our problems physical and otherwise. Malachite helps bring suppressed feeling to the surface and release emotional trauma.

Malachite is a very protective stone. It can protect you from the Negative thoughts and energies from others. Malachite by many sources is a stone of transformation that points to the blocks on our spiritual path. It can also help with Psychic and intuitive development by opening up the third eye and stimulating psychic visions. Malachite is also connected strongly with the heart chakra and helps empathic development and bringing an awareness of our personal power and will, as well as our own personal worth allowing us to to effectively change our lives to our benefit.

As you can see I could go on and on about the benefits of malachite. I have barely scratched the surface of the uses for this stone. These are some of the best uses for malachite but not all by any means. I would like to add in here that malachite should be used with some caution. It has some toxic properties but can be safely handled. Do not make elixirs or waters to take internally. If using unpolished malachite be careful not to inhale any of  the powder that may come off of this soft stone. Take a reasonable precaution to protect the stone as it will easily break and scratch.

Here is some more information from wikipedia

Malachite is a carbonate mineral normally known as “copper carbonate” with the formula CuCO3.Cu(OH)2. This green-colored mineral crystallizes in the monoclinic crystal system, and most often forms botryoidal, fibrous, or stalagmitic masses. Individual crystals are rare but do occur as slender to acicular prisms. Pseudomorphs after more tabular or blocky azurite crystals also occur.

And From Crystal-Links

Uses: pancreas, spleen, heart, circulation, pineal and pituitary glands, balance, harmony, mental illness, detoxifying,
tissue regeneration, self expression, vision, reduce stress, get rid of nightmares. Solar Plexus and Heart Chakra.
Malachite is believed to be a strong protector of children. It is said to protect the wearer from accidents and protects travelers.
Malachite has been used to aid success in business and protect against undesirable business associations. It is a stone of balance in relationships.
Malachite is always green, usually in banded tones varying from very dark green to a mellow green.
Most malachite comes from Zaire, Chile and Australia. Ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans used malachite for jewelry and ground it to use as eye shadow.
It is used in amulets to protect against the evil eye. In the Middle Ages it was used to protect children from witches and other dangers.
Malachite has been called the Mirror of the Soul. It reaches the inner feelings of the person and reflects what is there, negative or positive.
Malachite will always reflect how you feel, if you feel negative don’t normally wear it.

As you can see malachite is truly a stone of spiritual transformation as well as energetic transformation. Malachite transmutes negative energies within and without helping along our spiritual paths and mending our broken bodies and minds.