Welcome everyone to the blog of Crystal Arts & Health Topics that will be covered are Crystal Healing, Herbalism, Yoga, Music, Poetry, The Arts and activities of Crystal Arts & Health http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/
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New Online Crystal Healing training course is available at http://crystalartsandhealth.coggno.com/shopMy book Crystal Healing & The Chakra System has recently been published. It covers the Chakra system, Crystal identification and uses, making crystal essences and meditation with crystals.
I am an Herbalist and Crystal Healing Practitioner and have a line of products Crystal Essence TM that combine, aromatherapy, herbal products and crystal essences for "Holistic Wellbeing for Auric & Physical Body"
See http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/ for the new Autumn/Winter Catalogue and for the new products in the e-shop. We have started making shaving soaps, solid shampoo soaps, and baby products and there are lots of new fun shapes for soaps, perfect for gift bags or stocking fillers.
Healing
Pearl – Regulates glandular functions, assimilation of nutrients, balances emotions, increases tolerance, energizes sacral chakra, reduces, worry, anxiety, frustration, helps focus on who we are. To ease lower back pain, place pearl at sacral chakra, black tourmaline above head, below feet, lodestone at the base of neck. To release stress worry, or overcome addiction place pearl at solar plexus, clear quartz above head, smoky quartz or other grounding stone at feet.
Herbalism
Lime Blossom (Tilia europea)
Nervine, anti-spasmodic, diaphoretic, diuretic, mild astringent.
Renowned prophylactic against development against arteriosclerosis, hypertension, relaxing properties useful in treatment of some migraines, feverish colds and flu. Combines with hops for nervous tension, mistletoe and hawthorn for raised blood pressure and with elderflower in the common cold.
Dosage: pour a cup of boiling water onto 1 teaspoonful of blossoms and leave to infuse for 10 minutes three times a day.
Bad Circulation
Horsechestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum)
Astringent, circulatory tonic. Increases strength and tone of veins. Can be used internally and externally.
Dosage pour a cup of boiling water onto 1-2 tsp of dried fruit, infuse 10 to 15 minutes, drink x 3 a day or use as a lotion.
Yoga
The Spinal Twist
Ardha Matsyendrasana
Keeps spine elastic, relieves muscular problems in the back and hips, removes adhesion in the joints caused by rheumatism, increases synovial fluid of joints, tones roots of spinal nerves, and sympathetic nervous system, massages the abdominal muscles, relieves digestive problems, benefits gall bladder, spleen, kidneys, liver and bowels. Brings peace of mind, relieves disorders of nervous system. Pranic benefits includes removing numerous diseases.
Poetry
Christmas Poem
A Christmas Carol
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1799)
The shepherds went their hasty way,
And found the lowly stable-shed
Where the Virgin-Mother lay:
And now they checked their eager tread,
For to the Babe, that at her bosom clung,
A Mother’s song the Virgin-Mother sung.
They told her how a glorious light,
Streaming from a heavenly throng,
Around them shone, suspending night!
While sweeter than a mother’s song,
Blest Angels heralded the Saviour’s birth,
Glory to God on high! and Peace on Earth.
She listened to the tale divine,
And closer still the Babe she pressed;
And while she cried, the Babe is mine!
The milk rushed faster to her breast:
Joy rose within her, like a summer’s morn;
Peace, Peace on Earth! the Prince of Peace is born.
Thou Mother of the Prince of Peace,
Poor, simple, and of low estate!
That strife should vanish, battle cease,
O why should this thy soul elate?
Sweet Music’s loudest note, the Poet’s story, —
Didst thou ne’er love to hear of fame and glory?
And is not War a youthful king,
A stately Hero clad in mail?
Beneath his footsteps laurels spring;
Him Earth’s majestic monarchs hail
Their friend, their playmate! and his bold bright eye
Compels the maiden’s love-confessing sigh.
“Tell this in some more courtly scene,
To maids and youths in robes of state!
I am a woman poor and mean,
And therefore is my soul elate.
War is a ruffian, all with guilt defiled,
That from the agéd father tears his child!
A murderous fiend, by fiends adored,
He kills the sire and starves the son;
The husband kills, and from her board
Steals all his widow’s toil had won;
Plunders God’s world of beauty; rends away
All safety from the night, all comfort from the day.
Then wisely is my soul elate,
That strife should vanish, battle cease:
I’m poor and of a low estate,
The Mother of the Prince of Peace.
Joy rises in me, like a summer’s morn:
Peace, Peace on Earth! the Prince of Peace is born.”
Music
Music Websitehttp://pitchfork.com/
Christmas music history (from music education site at about.com)
Title of the Song: Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Author: Charles Wesley (1707-1788), younger brother of John Wesley. Charles was a hymn writer and a poet, also known as one of the poeple who began the Methodist movement in the Church of England. The said song appeared in 1739 in a book called Hymns and Sacred Poems.
Interesting Fact: To celebrate the invention of the printing press, Felix Mendelssohn composed a cantata in 1840 called Festgesang or "Festival Song". The melody of Mendelssohn's cantata was then used by William H. Cummings and adapted it to the lyrics of Wesley's "Hark the Herald Angels Sing".
Lyrics (Excerpt):
Hark the herald angels sing
"Glory to the newborn King!
Peace on earth and mercy mild
God and sinners reconciled"
Joyful, all ye nations rise
Join the triumph of the skies
With the angelic host proclaim:
"Christ is born in Bethlehem"
Hark! The herald angels sing
"Glory to the newborn King!"
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