My Crystalaura Newsletter.
December 2011
In this Newsletter: - Words from Ron—good habits can fall away if you don’t pay attention, Easy Christmas shopping tips and how to get free extra money to spend, Stone of the Month – Dumortierite, Tips and techniques, An easy exercise for re-energising your energy field.
Hello and welcome.
As I am sitting here I find it hard to believe another year is nearly past, and all so quickly, but all in all it has been a good one. MyCrystalAura has been steadily growing and we have thoroughly enjoyed being of service to you and playing our role in improving the general understanding of the field of vibrational healing, both through the supply of products and in the role of educators with our newsletter and classes.
Next year we intend to put more emphasis on teaching, and apart from private tuition we will be conducting more classes and workshops in Crystal Healing, Reiki and Meditation. If you have been considering learning in these areas we hope to see you at one of our classes. And of course if you can get a group together we will come to you.
It seems that as time goes by things can go unnoticed and fall away until by their absence they become obvious and you wonder how you allowed this to happen. And I hope you haven’t fallen into a similar situation. It sometimes takes years and lots of dedication and effort to achieve something, to build a habit force for good, that can slip by and you wonder how you allowed it to happen.
When we started ‘Akasha Keep’ our healing and teaching centre in Lowood, about 12 years ago I also started practising Kundalini Yoga to return some suppleness and dexterity to an otherwise aging and somewhat bashed about body and to enjoy all of the other benefits that come with its practice. I got to love it and looked forward every day to my practice. So what happened?
Somehow, somewhere about a year or so ago I lost the habit. While we were travelling last year, a lot of the time it was awkward and inconvenient to stay with my normal habit and it seems when I got home I failed to pick it up again. Spasmodically I did some for a while and never noticed a big difference. How did I let something so beneficial to my health and wellbeing drop out of my life?
I don’t know, but I do know this. The other day I was feeling very stiff and awkward and noticed that my energy levels had dropped; enough to make me wonder why, especially as I am aware of working with energy and vibrations. I realised that I needed exercise, gentle exercise with stretching and breathing and that’s when I realised I wasn’t doing my yoga anymore.
Even when I had been doing it regularly for some time, there was no such thing as ‘sitting comfortably cross legged’ and reaching for my toes, my hand would land on my shin and Sue laughed a lot when she watched me. But it was as good as could be for me.
Anyway I have restarted and there is still no such thing as ‘sitting comfortably cross legged’ and I guess Sue will laugh even more as she watches me now, but already I can feel the difference and I am sure as time goes by I will reap the benefits of my practice. The lifestyle I want to live and the age I want to live to demand that I put in the effort today to maintain my vitality and zest for life. I hope you do to!
I can’t believe the amount of self discipline and effort it is taking to get back into the habit and how stiff I have become over this time. Another thing I realised is that at the time I stopped we got rid of our VHS and I liked to do my classes in front of the tele. So I am going to get a new set of DVD’s to help me get back into the swing of it. There's nothing like having an instructor to lead you through a routine.
Back into it and I still find my favourite position is yoga nidra, this is where you lay down on your back and deeply relax for several minutes; not all yoga is exercising and stretching, and it really makes quite an impact on your spiritual, mental and emotional growth as well.
NB.
Christmas deliveries, we suggest that you get your orders in early, preferably
before the 16th if you want them in time for Christmas.
We will not be processing orders between the 22nd Dec and the 4th Jan, however you can still place your orders in this time and they will be processed after the 4th.
We are taking a bit of a break and your next newsletter will be in February 2012.
Sue and I wish you all the very best for the Christmas holiday season and hope you have a very healthy, happy, vibrant and uplifting new year.
Inspirational Quotes
for the month
Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
~ Dale Evans ~
Learn from yesterday, live for today and dream for tomorrow.
Christmas Gift Buying made easy with
BONUS buys.
FREE! ... $10.00 extra to spend with every $50.00 purchase.
We will give you a $10.00 gift voucher for every $50.00 you spend online between now and Christmas. So, spend $100.00 and we will give you a $20.00 voucher, spend $200.00 and we will give you a $40.00 voucher; valid for six months and fully transferable, so you could use your voucher as a gift.
To claim your free bonus gift voucher put “Christmas gift” in the instruction box as you leave the check-out.
High energy, high vibration products like those you find in our store make ideal gifts.
You have probably found that most of your friends like the same sort of things you do, so what could be better than a gift from the on-line shop where you shop!
Across the range you should be able to find plenty of stocking fillers as well as those carefully selected and meaningful items that express very clearly the value of your friendship, as well as saying who you are and what you are about.
FREE WRAPPING SERVICE ... As always, if you let us know we will gift wrap your purchase for free and send the paperwork separately to you.
Gift Certificates can now be purchased on-line to make gift buying easier, especially if you’re unsure of just what to buy. They are available in $25.00 increments up to $100.00 and are valid for six months, allowing plenty of time to use them.
Stone of the month: Dumortierite
Dumortierite is a blue to blue grey and sometimes a pink to brown coloured stone that crystallizes in the orthorhombic system, and is usually found in massive form. It is transparent to translucent with a dull to vitreous lustre and has a Mohs hardness of 7.
Dumortierite is called the "blue denim stone" and was first described in 1881 and named after the French palaeontologist Eugene Dumortier. It is used in the manufacture of high grade porcelain, especially for use where extremely high temperature resistance is required.
Known as a stone of order, Dumortierite enhances organizational abilities, self-discipline, and orderliness. This enhancement is believed to be due to the effect of balancing the throat chakra and enhancing communication between the lower or physical chakras and the higher or mental/spiritual chakras. It brings this sense of order to all things, and releases fear, bringing courage into your life. It also provides a boost to creativity and self expression.
Dumortierite greatly reduces the difficulties of a scattered mind and disorganization, and brings mental clarity and enhanced intellectual abilities. It also encourages you to see and accept reality, and react to it in an intelligent manner. It helps you to become more businesslike, systematic, tidy and methodical. For business people, this stone may help you better organize files, procedures and even your thought processes in evaluating what's best for your company. Considered to be a good career stone for women.
Dumortierite is a highly useful aid for anyone who is studying as it assists with the retention of information while enhancing your will power and capacity for self mastery.
It can lift depression and replace it with peace and happiness. It also can help reduce stubbornness, particularly self injuring stubbornness. Helps reduce emotional tension. Promotes accomplishments, builds a positive attitude, trust, harmony, and helps you to cope with panic and fear. It will also provide you with the strength and courage to assert your true potential and help you vocalize your abilities to sell yourself others. This stone is highly recommended for people in sales.
Dumortierite is a powerful stone that teaches you to stand up for yourself. It will help you to take control of your own life and increase your level of patience and will help you to stabilize your emotions, and give you the ability to see the value and worth in others.
In the psychic and spiritual realms, Dumortierite encourages spiritual development, and makes you more receptive when in contact with spirit guides and angels, and it is a popular stone for opening the Third Eye. It can also help you express your spiritual thoughts and dreams. It is an excellent stone for peaceful mindfulness and/or meditation.
This is a good stone to carry during dramatic events as it provides you with the endurance to get through what is happening, promotes self-discipline so that you can respond appropriately and provides a sense of calm as chaos erupts around you. It reduces excitability and hyperactivity.
Dumortierite is a great stone for healers as an aid in diagnosing health problems. It can illuminate the base issues and true causes of an illness so the healer is better able to treat the individual.
It is highly stimulating to the pineal gland located behind the third eye in the forehead and to the spleen and endocrine system. Works best at the psychosomatic level, but is beneficial for cellular memory, hypersensitivity and wasting disorders. It provides stamina and strength for those dealing with the condition of chronic disease and aids healing in the areas of nausea, vomiting, colic, diarrhoea, cramps, skin irritations, blood disorders, epilepsy, headaches and addictions by releasing toxins from the body.
Crystal Tips and Techniques
◊ Wear a Dumortierite pendant or a tumble stone in a wire cage to strengthen your immune system and improve your communication skills and self expression.
◊ To activate your personal spiritual potential and development: place a Dumortierite on your forehead and hold one in each hand. Sit quietly and/or meditate for as long as you feel comfortable. Repeat as you feel the need.
◊ To ease fears and sorrow, place a Dumortierite at the forehead and a Rose Quartz at the heart.
◊ Dumortierite is effective for calming an over excitable dog that jumps up and barks at visitors and friends or on walks: Attach a tumblestone in a wire cage to their collar and keep a couple in their sleeping place.
◊ Keeping Dumortierite around your work place will help you to keep your space tidy and organised.
◊ An effective pick-me-up after too much celebrating or partying is to place some tumble stones in a pitcher of water or a bottle and sip throughout the day. To overcome the effects of over drinking; either an Amethyst or a Tiger Eye, combined with an Aquamarine, Emerald, or a Bloodstone for an upset and unsettled stomach. If you use the lot it won’t do any harm and of course make sure you don’t swallow the stones.
◊ An effective rescue remedy is an elixir of Larimar, Rhodochrosite and Rhodonite which can be taken frequently as needed.
◊ Wearing or carrying Amethyst and Rose Quartz over the Christmas period can help keep you in the right space and frame of mind.
◊ Always remember to cleanse and dedicate your crystals as appropriate when you use them.
‡ Burning incense at this time of year is a
great way to enter into the feel of the season. Frankincense and Myrrh 
are particularly effective.
‡ Wearing Frankincense Spiritual Sky oil makes a wonderful Christmas perfume.
An easy exercise for re-energising your energy field
Over the holiday period or at any time in fact, it can be very easy to over-do things and neglect and deplete your personal energy levels and allow yourself to become rundown and out of balance. The effect upon your energy field can be extremely detrimental and draining but can be corrected with a simple exercise using the power of Clear Quartz to regenerate and amplify your energy and bring it back into balance.
Strangely sometimes when you sense your energy being drained, you may subconsciously respond by sending more and more energy to the place of depletion creating an excess and imbalance of energy, which is just as detrimental.
This exercise can be used at any time to re-energise your energy field:
Hold
a Clear Quartz crystal point over your solar plexus. If your energy field feels
depleted or stagnant, focus your attention into the crystal and gently breathe
energy in through the crystal and into your solar plexus and distribute it out
through your entire body. Feel it purifying, expanding and harmonising your
entire body and energy field.
If your energy field feels over-stimulated, allow the Quartz crystal to harmonise and balance your energy field, calming and de-stressing it and bringing in a peaceful vibration.
Classes and workshops:
Crystal
Healing – next class 4th Feb 2012
Learn to meditate – next class 18th Feb 2012
Reiki level 1 – next class 10th Mar 2012
Events
Drum
Meditation and Healing Circle 2nd Mar 2012
Contact us or phone 07 5427 9618 for details.
Good vibrations and all the best,
Ron & Sue Windred.
P.S. Remember your Christmas shopping is made easy here and you get $10.00 extra to spend with every $50.00 you purchase.
P.P.S. Have a joyful Christmas, make the most of the holidays and may the New Year be all you want it to be.
P.P.P.S. Appointments are available at our Healing Centre for Crystal Healing, Reiki and other Vibrational and Shamanic modalities.
P.P.P.S. We really do value your feed-back, so could you take a moment and let us know what you think of the newsletter. Please Email us at - ron@mycrystalaura.com.au or phone us on 07 5427 9618.
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Disclaimer: The metaphysical and healing
properties outlined in this website are for inspiration and reference. These alleged properties are gathered from
writings, books, folklore and various other sources. They are dependent
upon the attitude and beliefs of the individual. In no way are they meant to
replace diagnosis or treatment by a qualified therapist or physician.