Being able to be quiet inside is vitally important to good stone work…and in life in general. The more we quiet ourselves inside, the more quiet and calm we will probably find our outer life to be, which, in the end will make us feel happier. In stone work, unless we are able to quiet the constant “mind chatter” so that our mind is as clear and calm as a still pool, or as empty as sky, we cannot hear the guiding inner voice. It’s like throwing a stone in the calm pool of water. If the pool has waves it’s almost impossible to see the ripples from the stone plunging into the water. Likewise, if the pool is still, you can see the ripples quite clearly. Thoughts are like the waves in the clear pool of our mind and the ripples are the inner voice. Our mind in its natural state is perfectly clear. Another way of saying this is that the underlying context from which our thoughts emerge and then re-merge is clear and empty of thought. This is important in our crystal and stone work because if we are able to have our minds be clear, then we can hear the guiding voice undisturbed by “ripples” of our other thought. And not only that, but we can hear this guidance undisturbed uncolored by our own judgments, evaluations of like or dislike, accompanying emotions or the like. We just hear the guidance inside of ourselves...and nothing else. Then, of course, we let the inner guidance direct our actions. (By the way, inner guidance will never lead us to do harm to ourselves or another.) Another thing…guidance is clear and unmistakable. If you’re wondering if you really did hear the inner, guiding voice, you probably didn’t. Perhaps, instead, you heard the “voice” of your own desires. If so, it’s good to clear your mind and wait. So, that said, here is a good way to use your stones to help clear and quiet your mind: First, sit upright with your spine straight, lie down, or stand upright. Close your eyes and let your breathing slow and deepen. Place a rose quartz stone on your heart chakra in the middle of your chest. If you’re standing up, wear a rose quartz stone on a 24” chain or cord so that it hangs over your heart chakra. Hold a smokey quartz crystal, or obsidian or black onyx in each hand. Or use clear quartz crystals in which you’ve programmed the dark brown color. If you’re holding crystals, point the points down into the earth. Now, imagine that a stream of earthen light flows out from the points of the crystals way down into the center of the earth. As it flows downward, feel your feet as becoming more and more attached to the ground beneath you. If you’re lying down, feel yourself as becoming more and more in contact with the surface beneath your back. As you do this you feel heavy yet not solid. Next, imagine that your breath moves in and our of the rose quartz and your heart chakra, and as you do so, you relax with each breath. Feel as if the breath moving in and out of your heart chakra charges it with pink light and the rose quartz “energy” of compassion, love and inner peace. Imagine that this rose quartz, pink light fills your body and spills outward to form a pink orb around you. As you do this you’ll begin to feel more calm and expansive as well as grounded and centered into your self. As we slow our breathing and focus on our heart center, we automatically change our focus from the lower chakras of fear and survival, automatically transforming anxiety to more calmness. Our breathing will automatically slow and as it does that, our thoughts will slow. As our thinking process slows down anxiety will lessen. In order to feel anxious, we have to be centered in our thinking mind to imagine into the future as we think of what “might happen”. This process will bring our thoughts out of the future and into the present. Furthermore, as our thoughts slow, there becomes more space between thoughts and we can feel even more spacious and relaxed. As you continue to breathe slowly, charging and opening your heart chakra, our thoughts increasingly seem to just float through our minds….merely coming and going. If you want to work with this further, try this: If you notice yourself thinking of something when you’re trying to focus on your breath and the pink light in your heart center, try to notice each thought as it comes and goes. Then, notice any other thoughts that emerge as the thought you were on disappears. Notice a chain of thoughts, each thought a link on the chain leading from one to another. Notice that there is a space between each thought, and then focus on this space. Notice that as you observe your thoughts this way, that they seem to lose their emotional component…each thought being merely a thought and nothing more…and you feel very spacious and calm. Once you are feeling clear and calm begin to listen for the inner guiding “voice”. It may not sound like an actual voice that you hear with your physical ears, but instead more like hearing with the mind’s “ear”. It may be more of a wordless sensing where you “just know” something. Then follow the inner guidance and test your results in the “real world”…and remember…what you “hear” may be just applicable for you and nobody else, or just for that time and space, or just with those stones, or just for that situation. So when you “hear” your inner guidance, be careful about extrapolating that it’s true for every situation and every person or every time you use that particular stone etc. Instead, it’s better to hear directly and anew each and every time.

 

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