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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My 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 and wedding and event favours.

Crystal Healing

Crystal Uses

Head and Eye: Azurite, Amethyst, Fluorite, Sugilite, Diamond

Ears, nose, throat and neck: Amazonite, Aquamarine, Blue lace agate, Celestite, Lapis lazuli, Kunzite, Preseli bluestone

Herbalism

Resources

Index of conditions and herbal remedies

www.plant-medicine.com

Royal Horticulture Society

www.rhs.org.uk

Also have a volunteer program.

Digestive System

Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria)

Anti-rheumatic, anti-inflammatory, stomachic, antacid, antemetic, astringent

Protects and soothes digestive tract, reduces excess acidity, eases nausea. Used in treatment of heartburn, hyperactivity, gastritis, peptic ulceration. Useful in treating diarrhea in children (1/4 dosage used), reduces fever, relieves pain of rheumatism in muscles and joints.

Dosage: Pour a cup of boiling water onto 1-2 teaspoonfuls of dried herb, leave to infuse for 10 -15 minutes, drink three times a day as needed. Tincture take 1-4 ml of tincture three times a day.

Yoga

Purification techniques

Abdominal Churning – Nauli

Massages and invigorates all the internal organs, brings concentration of prana to solar plexus region, powerful tonic for gastro-intestinal disorder. Stand legs apart, knees slightly bent, hands resting on thighs. Take a deep breathe, exhale fully, pushing on thighs, when lungs are empty draw diaphragm upwards. Without taking a breathe, contract the central band of muscles in the abdomen and push ir forwards, forming a ridge down centre of abdomen. Draw muscles in and out.

This practice improves posture, strengthens muscles used for breathing, elimination

Poetry

I Cannot Live With You

Emily Dickinson

By Simran Khurana, About.com Guide

I cannot live with you,
It would be life,
And life is over there
Behind the shelf

The sexton keeps the key to,
Putting up Our life,
his porcelain,
Like a cup

Discarded of the housewife,
Quaint or broken;
A newer Sevres pleases,
Old ones crack.

I could not die with you,
For one must wait
To shut the other's gaze down,
You could not.

And I, could I stand by
And see you freeze,
Without my right of frost,
Death's privilege?

Nor could I rise with you,
Because your face
Would put out Jesus'.
That new grace

Glow plain and foreign
On my homesick eye,
Except that you,
than he Shone closer by.

They'd judge us - how?
For you served Heaven, you know
Or sought to;
I could not,

Because you saturated sight,
And I had no more eyes
For sordid excellence
As Paradise.

And were you lost, I would be,
Though my name
Rang loudest
On the heavenly fame.

And were you saved,
And I condemned to be
Where you were not,
That self were hell to me.

So we must keep apart,
You there, I here,
With just the door ajar
That oceans are,
And prayer,
And that pale sustenance,
Despair!

Music

http://www.cajunradio.org/earlysongs.html

Song for Mardi Gras

Jolie Blonde

Pretty blonde, look at what you've done
You left me to go
To go with another than me
What hope and what future can I have?

Pretty blonde, you left me all alone
To go back to your family
If you hadn't listened to the advice of the others
You'd be here with me today.

Pretty blonde, you thought you were the only one
You're not the only one in the world for me to love
I will find another pretty blonde
God knows, that I love so much.

Pretty blonde, to die would be nothing
It's just staying in the ground for a long time
I don't know what I'll do if you don't come back, baby
Come back to me in Louisiana.

JOLIE BLONDE

Traditional

Jolie Blonde, 'gardez donc, quoi t'as fait
Tu m'as quitte' pour t'en aller
Pour t'en aller avec un autre, oui, que moi
Quel espoir et quel av'nir mais moi je peux avoir?

Jolie blonde, tu m'as laisse' moi tout seul
Pour t'en aller chez ta famille
Si t'aurais pas ecoute' tous les conseils de les autres
Tu serais ici avec moi aujourd'hui.

Jolie blonde, tu croyais il y avait juste toi
Il y'a pas juste toi dans le pays pour moi aimer
Je va's trouver juste une autre jolie blonde
Bon Dieu sait, moi, j'aime tant.

Jolie blonde, mourir, ca serait pas rien
C'est de rester dans la terre aussi longtemps
Moi j'vois pas quoi faire si tu reviens pas, be'be'
T'en revenir avec moi dans la Louisiane.