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How to Meditate with Crystals: Simple Ways to Change Your Life, by Jolie DeMarco

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

I love to share that meditation is the best habit you can create. And, combining meditation with powerful crystal energies is the new craze. In case you didn't know, crystals from Mother Earth carry frequencies that can balance, adjust, or help us release what is needed in our lives—simply holding specific crystals adjusts your human aura (the electromagnetic field that surrounds your physical body).

Meditation lowers stress levels, and it can bring balance and enhance the mental mind to create positive thoughts and connect you to success. When you pair your meditation with a purposeful intention, you are able to bring the ultimate outcomes that you desire.

All that and a bag of chips! Now, if you combine two high-powered crystals with your chosen meditation to match your purpose, you will be euphoric. Once you get started, you'll be hooked.

Whether you're new to meditation and crystals or a seasoned practitioner, please let me teach you how to amplify your bliss with the specific crystals paired with meditations—simultaneously raising your frequency and increasing your level of happiness.

My new book, How to Meditate with Crystals, features helpful guided meditations, chakra and color meditations, meditations for manifesting love, meditations to connect with spirit guides or loved ones who have passed over, meditations for past or parallel lives, self-soul connection meditations, meditations to help you bond with earth elements, meditations using sacred geometry, and body movement meditations. Whether you're just beginning a meditation practice or have been meditating for many years, this book will support your journey toward a more balanced, fulfilled, and spiritually-connected authentic version of yourself.

This fabulous book includes 33 powerful meditations and in-depth discussions of 33 individual crystals. For each meditation, I share the best high-vibe crystals to use and 5 unique methods of meditation. For each crystal, you will be able to explore its energy vibrations, its origin, and its best usage in a meditation, as well as its influence on the chakras, the physical body, the emotions, and the spirit. These crystal and meditation combinations will help you address a wide range of issues and goals, including improving your mental health, heightening your level of happiness, and igniting success.

Below, I have provided 3 meditations and crystal pairings to get you started on your crystal meditation journey.

1. Meditation for Release of Self-Negativity
Purpose: This meditation helps you to purge those vibrations that are lower and repeated, such as resentments, self-hurting thoughts and fears, a lack of confidence, and self-sabotage that stems from words or thoughts you hold over your.

Best Crystals: Danburite is a steadfast train that rolls through any weather, your bull, facades you created, and any self-blame. Its frequencies break all of these down so it can be swept out of your body and out of your energy fields for good. Rutile quartz keeps your frequency from going back to that same old track of negativity.

Intention and Opening: "I understand that I have allowed self-sabotage; I am now allowing and giving permission to change and adapt powerful loving thoughts, as everyone deserves good things and occurrences in their life. I am part of everyone. I deserve a positive, good life and good opportunities that allow me to move forward. I now accept these gifts and will take action when I am offered these gifts from other people, myself, and the universe."

Easy Guidance: "I release all fears or facades I created in my mind about me and my life. All that is negative, I am allowing myself to change. That includes changing my record, shifting my ideals, and becoming more honorable, trustworthy, and loyal to myself and others. I am a human being who has faults and can easily move them out—the emotions of them and my mental process of how I think about them. This way I can become all I truly want to be."

Closing and Gratitude: "I am always able to release any issues that arise. I am powerful in loving ways. I can create my own destiny; only I can release what I need to. I certainly am thankful that I understand how to dispose of any toxic energy with beauty and grace."

2. Full Moon Cycle Meditation
Purpose: This meditation is good for completing a cycle or the closure of an event, a relationship, or a personal emotion, along with enhancing your overall energy frequency during the full moon.

Best Crystals: Herkimer diamonds enhance and advance your well-being and tune-up your frequencies. The full moon's energy also amps up your vibes by cleansing and clearing your aura. Combine those with moonstone—a favorable crystal for positive travels, cycles of life, and purposes in our lives—and we can continue to manifest and reset.

Intention and Opening: "I am grateful for the cosmic energy, such as the moon and stars. They favorably guide me in my quest to complete and have closure. I am ready to advance and bathe in the moonlight's frequencies to charge my energy as it cleanses and clears me."

Easy Guidance: This meditation is best done outdoors, weather permitting. Basking in the full moon is definitely beneficial to your frequency! Place a Herkimer and a moonstone so there is a stone in each hand. Sit or lie in a comfortable position, and if you can, face up so you can actually see the moon over you. Don't worry if it is cloudy; the vibes still penetrate through to you. Now close your eyes and breathe in the outdoor air.

Closing and Gratitude: "I am blessed that I can enjoy Earth and beyond as a connection of all that is. I can synchronize my mind and my body to create what I want and need in my current life. I am gifted to be able to sense the moon's energy to fulfill and move me forward to my next quest."

3. Meditation to Connect to Light Beings and Extraterrestrial Frequencies
Purpose: This meditation will help you to connect to light beings and extraterrestrial frequencies.

Best Crystals: Celestite brings in soft, soothing, loving energy and sometimes calls in light beings, as does Moldavite. These frequencies allow telepathic communication with those from other atmospheres.

Intention and Opening: "I am and I allow myself to connect to [light or extraterrestrial beings]. I will be able to sense them and understand messages from my intuitive abilities and my sensitivities of hearing, feeling, and inner knowing. When I fully wake, I will take notes on my sensations and thoughts, which are messages from them to me."

Easy Guidance: Breathe in and out to relax your body. Do this at a nice, slow pace. At least six breaths in and out. As you find yourself completely relaxed, notice your third eye and visualize white light opening that area of your forehead. It is easy and light and feels beautiful. This will allow a connection for you and your communicators to telepathically send you information that you can clearly understand. As you relax and feel the white light over the top of your head and forehead, you feel safe and warm. Your body from the nose all the way down to your feet is feeling activated with a heavenly pink light of energy. This makes you feel comfortable. Your shoulders feel like you are receiving a hug from your guides and friends of the light. They will start to show you visions or help you get a color or picture as a message. You may also hear something or feel as though they are speaking to you in your inner mind. Occasionally you may feel a soft touch on the forehead or shoulder. This is them letting you know they are present. Allow and receive. If you are completely relaxed and would like to, imagine a rope or energy rope that looks like light. You can grab this rope and allow your visitors to pull you into a space where they reside. You can do this by asking them to bring you into this space safely. When you are ready to come back to Earth, mindfully ask them to bring you back safely.

Closing and Gratitude: "I would like to thank all the beings who brought me wonderful visions and experiences. I am back and hope to continue a space travel with you soon."

How to Meditate with Crystals connects you to all of your existence. You may be drawn to explore all 33 crystal meditations—go for it! It is fun, easy, and enlightening, to say the least! I invite you to connect with me and share your crystal meditation journeys! You can find me online at www.Crystaljunkie.com and on my YouTube channel.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2021. All rights reserved.

My dad's spirit touches me at night all the time. He passed away last year. I was just wondering if I can talk to him when he does this or not. If I can, how do I go about that? Thank you!

Rick

Astrea:

I know you are making your father feel welcome if you're able to feel his spirit touch you, you but there are other things you can do that may be more effective. It takes quite a lot of energy for our loved ones to come through to us in the manner you describe.

Is it possible for you to wear his watch or another piece of metal jewelry to bed at night? This might create a tangible connection through which his spirit could connect with you.

In addition to touching you at night, I think your father is trying to talk to you in your dreams, which is much easier for spirits. Of course, controlling our own dream experiences is difficult.

Dreams are the easiest place for most of us to communicate with spirits. Many people find if they write down what they want to speak to their departed loved ones about before they go to sleep, that person will come into their dreams and initiate that conversation.

Keeping a notebook is very handy because you can write out your questions beforehand and then later record the answers you receive. This won't happen every time you want it to, but it WILL happen every time your dad is able to visit you.

You may have to repeat the questions in your notebook two or three times before things really gel, and you may have long conversations that don't address the questions you want to ask, but you WILL be communicating with him.

We have an electric clock that Daddy sets forward a few minutes every now and then. This activity usually follows a very vivid dream I've had of him. Pay attention to the electrical items in your room and see if your father is leaving any evidence that he has been there.

I find that small acts of charity can bring our loved ones closer to us and make it easier for them to communicate. These don't have to be grand or expensive gestures. You might give a blanket to a homeless shelter or take a friend who is financially challenged to get a few groceries. Every time I complete small, selfless acts, I feel Daddy close to me. In many religious faiths, an act of charity made in the name of a departed loved one is said to bring their spirits closer to God and closer to us as well.

Remember that you are doing these things because YOU miss HIM. He is worried that you're not getting on with your life or he wouldn't be around so often. I think it's wonderful your dad can come to you as he does, but you should try to work toward letting him go.

*****

Susyn:

Though we may not be able to tell if our messages are being received, our loved ones can always hear us, so communicating with your dad can be as simple as talking to him out loud, especially when you sense his spirit around you.

We tend to doubt what we are experiencing because weíve been influenced by society to discount anything of a supernatural nature, and to focus on the so-called facts. This may be one reason you feel you need a special ritual or way of speaking to your dad to be sure he can hear you.

Though you don't have to limit your conversations with him to night hours, it would appear this is the time when it's easiest for him to visit you. He seems to be better able to get your attention without the distractions of everyday life.

You may want to start with a guided meditation and a few rituals to help you get used to the idea of communicating with your father. This is especially helpful if there are certain subjects you want to discuss with him or questions you want to ask. If you perform these practices before bedtime, you may find that your encounters with your father become more frequent and more powerful.

Begin by gathering together a picture of your dad or a few of his belongings. Light a white candle and focus on the flame of the candle while meditating on your father. Think about what you would like to tell or ask him.

For a more concise, effective approach, write him a letter. Putting your thoughts and feelings down on paper will allow more to rise into your consciousness. This is also an ideal time to ask him for a definite sign that he is okay and is indeed visiting you during the night.

Once the letter is complete, light it with the flame of the candle and then burn it, sending the message into the ethers where it will be delivered to him.

If you practice these rituals for a few nights in a row, you should begin to feel more comfortable talking with him. These practices can center us and expand our awareness, thus making it easier to sense and interact with our loved ones who dwell on the other side. As this communication grows stronger, you'll begin to trust more in the experiences you have with him.

If you still feel any doubt that he can hear you, you may want to visit a psychic medium who can act as a go-between by processing specific messages back and forth between you and your father. In this way, you can also affirm that he is well and get more advice on how to best communicate with him.

Astrea:

Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.

Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!

While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!

I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!

As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.

I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.

You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!

Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.

A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.

You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.