Lot's of people look to yoga to help release stress, anxiety, and to help balance their health. But did you know their is also tools that go hand in hand with yoga and can empower it greatly!
1. One helpful tools are healing crystals
Crystals have been used throughout history for healing. Crystals work with the human energy field and can move, absorb, focus, direct and diffuse energy within the body. Working with crystalline energy helps the body to find it’s natural rhythm. Crystal healing is basically the ‘laying on’ of stones of different vibrational rates onto the body in order to effect healing and change. It may also involve laying out different energy grids or specific patterns of crystals around the body. By using grids, the combination of the stones can enhance their individual properties, and direct energy.
In a Vibrational Healing session, I use many different types of crystals to balance your body, this is always specific to you, and one session is never like another. At the close of the session, I review not only which stones I used and what their properties are, but “read” the layouts and how that information relates to you. This can reveal a lot of messages on your present energetic situation, and give you insight on how you can begin to heal yourself.
How does Crystal Healing Work?
Crystals have a very high and precise rate of vibration and so they are utilized extensively in modern technology; ranging from the liquid crystal diodes in calculators and clocks to their use in the very computer you are reading this on. They also are used in credit cards, fiber-optic phone lines and laser technology.
Crystals have a very high and precise rate of vibration and so they are utilized extensively in modern technology; ranging from the liquid crystal diodes in calculators and clocks to their use in the very computer you are reading this on. They also are used in credit cards, fiber-optic phone lines and laser technology.
Diamond, being the hardest substance on Earth, has been used for cutting other gems and drilling. They are magnifiers of energy, capable of absorbing and enhancing energy. They can be programmed to assist us in almost anything. They are incredibly powerful and so should always be used with respect. They can focus and amplify energy.
Crystals are alive like everything else in the universe. They vibrate at different levels depending on their composition and color. They have certain characteristics that make them wonderful allies to us.
In crystal healing, I work in partnership with them by placing them on or near the body in order to effect healing change. They do this by allowing the rate of their vibration to effect change in the rate of the spinning energy centers of the chakras, clearing out any negativity and allowing them to function at peak capacity. We need to be in balance to be in perfect health. Crystals work with us to restore that balance.
Memories can be held in our cells, joints and bones. As each cell in our bodies has consciousness, so it can hold memory. This is now being scientifically demonstrated by Quantum Physics. A good example of this concept can be found in the images of water crystals. Crystals can help to free up what has become stuck.
Blockages in the flow of energy through the meridians or subtle energy pathways will cause illness or disease in the organs supplied by that meridian. Western medicine finds this hard to accept but Chinese medicine, thousands of years old, has always used the meridians in all their medicine such as acupuncture.
How Can Crystals Help Me?
- Relieve and release stress
- Amplify your healing power and potential
- Stop burn out and energy depletion
- Stimulate harmonious brain activity
- Restore the energy structure to your body and mind
- Stimulate healing, personal growth and spiritual development
- Re-connect you to your inner levels of your being and aura
- Create carrier waves of pure vibrant energy
- Improve your health and rejuvenate your body by stimulating the energy flow through your meridians
- Transfer intelligent coded information to your bloodstream
- Transmute unwanted information that may be locked in your bones, tissues and unconscious mind
- Ground you and connect you to Mother Earth
(http://rainbowsofhealing.com/113-2/)
2.Mantras
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With spiritual practices like yoga and meditation becoming more popular, it seems like everyone is talking about mantras. But what exactly is a mantra and how are you supposed to use it?
In our westernized, modern-day spiritual practices the word “mantra” has become as mainstream as “intention.” But the two are actually quite different. The word mantra can be broken down into two parts: “man,” which means mind, and “tra,” which means transport or vehicle. In other words, a mantra is an instrument of the mind—a powerful sound or vibration that you can use to enter a deep state of meditation.
Like a seed planted with the intention of blossoming into a beautiful perennial, a mantra can be thought of as a seed for energizing an intention. Much in the same way you plant a flower seed, you plant mantras in the fertile soil of practice. You nurture them and over time they bear the fruit of your intention.
Mantra in Meditation: Stillness and Silence
At the Chopra Center, where Primordial Sound Meditation is the favored meditation technique, students are given a personalized mantra, their Bija, which is the sound vibration the Universe was making at the time of their birth. This mantra is repeated silently over and over during the meditation practice to assist the student in transcending the activity of the mind. The mantra is silent and has no meaning so that the mind isn't focused on any particular quality or outcome. It is simply a vehicle that helps you access heightened levels of awareness.
Awareness, in this context, refers to the ability to pay attention to the choices you make in your everyday life, and recognize when something isn't working so you can change it. Many people face a lot of stress day to day. You wake up, cook breakfast, feed the kids, get them to school, go to work, drink coffee for lunch, and burn through the day. By the end of it, you’re ready to crash. Then you repeat the cycle the next day.
Developing a daily meditation practice helps you to cultivate a more present, peaceful, and balanced lifestyle, which ripples out into every other aspect of your life. Mantras can help bring you back to that present state of mind.
Mantra in Yoga: Setting an Intention
In many yoga studios in the West, class begins with the instructor sharing a theme for the session. He or she may invite the students to set an intention for their practice, and may offer suggestions for mantras to use during class. Mantras like, "I am strong," "I am focused," or "I let go and surrender" can help the practitioner maintain a connection to the state they wish to cultivate during their time on the mat.
This mantra is used in silent repetition during movement to help keep the mind focused. It's been said that in yoga, Asanas are postures of the body and mantras are postures of the mind. Mantras, when used in this fashion, are more like affirmations and help to keep you connected to a particular state of mind.
Mantra: The Sacred Language of Sanskrit
Getting to the ancient root of it all, mantra, at its core, is the basis of all religious traditions, scriptures, and prayers. According to Pandit Vamadeva Shastri (Dr. David Frawley), when carefully chosen and used silently, mantras are said to have the ability to help alter your subconscious impulses, habits, and afflictions. Mantras, when spoken or chanted, direct the healing power of Prana (life force energy) and, in traditional Vedic practices, can be used to energize and access spiritual states of consciousness. Mantra as a spiritual practice should be done on a regular basis for several months for its desired effects to take place.
At the end of the day, the mantra is meant to bring you back to simplicity. We live in such a complex world that it’s easy to get lost in all the details. Mantras can help you circle back to the simplistic approach to life and focus on those things that inspire you and truly make you happy.
Article on mantras by :Tris Thorp http://www.chopra.com/articles/what-is-a-mantra#sm.001jtxe6r17gmf5mpq32hyh1p5oft
3. Mudras
Mudra’s are gentle placements of the hands and fingers that can stimulate healing and emotional well-being.
The theory behind Mudra’s is that each finger represents one of the Universal elements – the thumb represents Fire, the index finger Air, the middle finger Space, the ring finger Earth and the pinky finger represents Water.
It is believed that when the body is out of balance, placing the hands into the appropriate Mudra’s can help restore the equilibrium to the elements and therefore evoke healing.
Here are the most common Mudra’s for emotional healing:
1.) Acceptance Mudra
Healing: This Mudra is perfect for overcoming sadness, resistance and being stuck in the past.
Position: Fold the index finger so it rests in the space between your thumb. Next, have your thumb touch your pinky finger. Make sure your thumb is resting on the nail of your pinky.
Practice: Start with 10 minutes a day.
2.) Self-Confidence Mudra (Ahamkara)
Healing: This Mudra is perfect to help regain your self-confidence and ability to stand up for yourself. This Mudra brings a sense of peace and confidence and helps you to overcome your fears.
Position: Bend your index finger slightly, and touch your thumb to the outside of your index finger, a little less than half way down. Try to keep your other fingers straight.
Practice: Start with 10 minutes a day.
3.) Energy Mudra (Apan)
Healing: Great for giving you a boost of energy throughout the day.
Position: Touch your thumb to your middle and ring finger. Keep your pinky and index finger as straight as possible.
Practice: Whenever you need a boost of energy. Limit to 10 minutes when first starting out.
4.) Intuition Mudra (Bhudy)
Healing: Helps to stimulate your intuitive gifts and abilities. Helps you to trust yourself.
Position: Touch the tips of the pinky and thumb finger together.
Practice: Best used during meditation.
5.) Concentration Mudra (Hakini)
Healing: Helps you to keep focus and concentrate. Also helps you to remain present and with a clear mind.
Position: Use both your hands and touch the tips your fingers together.
Practice: Use whenever you need to concentrate or remain present during a conversation or before a meeting.
6.) Patience Mudra (Shuni)
Healing: This Mudra helps you to stay present in the moment and can help evoke patience and understanding.
Practice: Touch the top of the middle finger and thumb together.
Duration: Start with 10 minutes per day.
7.) Courage Mudra (Hansi)
Healing: This Mudra helps to evoke courage, fearlessness and can help relieve anxiety. Is beneficial to help ease feelings of loneliness and isolation. Can also help stimulate feelings of self-love and acceptance.
Practice: Touch the the tips of all the fingers together expect the pinky. Hold the pinky finger out straight.
8.) Enlightenment Mudra (Uttarabodhi)
Healing: This Mudra can evoke enlightenment, a deeper sense of spiritual awareness and consciousness. It can also help you to release fears or blockages and can calm nerves. Also good for stage fright.
Position: Use both hands and interlock them together, keeping the index fingers and thumbs straight. Extend the touching thumbs and index fingers straight so they are opposite each other.
Practice: A very powerful Mudra, start with 10 minutes a day.
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Want to learn more about Mudras? Read – The Healing Power of Your Hands
http://foreverconscious.com/8-mudras-for-emotional-healing article by http://foreverconscious.com/author/tanaaz
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