I remember when I was first introduced to the idea that crystals could help the body heal I was extremely sceptical. I thought “how can a “rock” make any difference to the human energy field?”. Well as so often happens in life I was going to discover first hand just how much crystals can, and do affect the human physical body and energy field.
I was at a weekend workshop learning about what psychic abilities are, and how to tap into them with a girlfriend here on the Sunshine Coast (I wasn’t a local at this point, but had traveled up to participate in the course). The facilitator was very well known, and I was curious about the subject of how she came to posses and enhance her psychic ability to the point where she would help police find missing or deceased people (she appeared on the popular TV series Sensing Murder).
Within the workshop she also introduced the subject of crystal healing. Now to my skeptical mind this was just tree hugging mumbo jumbo, and I joked with my friend (who was super excited about learning this) that maybe it was the herbs they smoked in the hinterland that made them think crystals could heal people rather than reality, and she may have to buy a bag of herbs to make them work. Oh how wrong I was!
When we had set up the tables the client was to lay on, I decided I would be the patient as my friend was more than happy to be the healer. I thought it would be nothing more than half an hour to relax, and took no real notice of what was being said. Crystals were laid out in a grid formation as per the facilitators instructions and I just laid there giggling to myself about how absurd this part of the workshop was. The facilitator then asked if anyone had any pain to let the person doing the healing know. I happened to have pain in the lower left side of my stomach which I relayed to my friend, who called the facilitator over. She handed my friend a quartz crystal wand (long crystal with a tapered end), and asked me to indicate with my eyes still closed where the pain was. I pointed to the spot and put my hand back at my side. She then said to my friend “here move it like this”, immediately I felt as though the wand end was in my actual stomach, felt the pain move to the left and outside my body (the pain was completely gone and didn’t return).
My eyes sprang open as I was sure she must have been touching me with the wand, however to my amazement it was at least 30cm or more away from me. My reaction was far to quick for her to have pulled the crystal away from my body, and the shocked look on my face said it all. From that day on I knew that crystals could most definitely work on healing, and just how powerful they were even at a distance on the physical body. This started both my love and fascination with crystals, however my skeptical mind needed to know HOW could a seemingly lifeless object affect my body and bring healing to it. As I said once I felt the pain move out of my body it didn’t come back at all.
I had some understanding of physics and understood in a very rudimentary way that all things are energy vibrating at different frequencies including the subtle bodies (also called the emotional, mental, and spiritual bodies), and depending on the vibration or frequency it would appear as all the different things we see around us.
However at that time I hadn’t understood that the vibration would also affect the human energy bodies. This is why certain things can make us feel uplifted (such as music, nature, and even crystals). Very much like a tuning fork when struck will affect the strings of a guitar or piano (even at a distance), and they will begin to vibrate to the frequency of the tuning fork. It appears to me that this is exactly what happens with crystals. This is also why different crystals are used, because as the reiki is moving and unblocking the energy field different frequencies are needed help the reiki hold the correct vibration so as not to (in my very layman terms) overload or raise the clients vibration to quickly.
Reiki is powerful, and I found prior to using crystals that the sudden change in vibration for some clients could feel overwhelming. I have found since using crystals and working with them to know where they should be placed and which crystal, that although the same level of healing and vibrational change has occurred, it is gentler, and clients are able to assimilate the changes faster.
So I hope that helps you understand why I use crystals within my healing sessions. I only use those things that have had a profound effect upon my physical body. Belief systems are not enough, pretty words and ideas are not enough, it has to have worked for me, and I have to have seen it work over and over again within my practice. Crystals have certainly done this.