Crystal Arts & Health

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
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New Online training courses in Crystal Healing and Herbalism are available at http://crystalartsandhealth.coggno.com/shop

My book Crystal Healing & The Chakra System covers the Chakra system, Crystal identification and uses, making crystal essences and meditation with crystals. Is available as an ebook from http://store.payloadz.com/go/?id=239922 or as a paperback.

My book, Herbal Primer, newly released, covers herbal action classification, herbal identification, herbal preparation and recipes, including herbal teas, incense and potpourri. Is available as an ebook from http://store.payloadz.com/go/?id=796359 or soon as a paperback.

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 Spring/Summer 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

Garnet – Base Chakra. Speeds up healing process. Can be used with clear quartz healing wands for this purpose. Energizing, warming, good against cold, sluggishness and for improved circulation.

Herkimer Diamond – Powerful Detoxifier, wear over pancreas for Diabetes. Good for meditation. Found in Herkimer County, New York state. Amplifier used by healers. Dispels darkness, balances energy flows.

Herbalism

Caynenne Pepper (Capsicum minimum)

Used extensively by Mayan and Aztec. Nourishes the heart, removes plaque from the arteries, help rebuild flesh destroyed or harmed by frostbite, heal hemorrhoids, re-build stomach tissue, heals stomach ulcers. Good for circulation, equalizes blood pressure, used for gall bladder. Antifungal. Used as a rubefacient for lumbago, rheumatic pains. Dosage: Pour a cup of boiling water onto ½ to 1 tsp of Cayenne, infuse for 10 minutes. A tablespoon of this infusion should be mixed with hot water and drunk when needed.

Elder (Sambucus nigra)
Bark: purgative, emetic, diuretic, Leaves externally emollient and vulnerary, internally, purgative, expectorant, diuretic and diaphoretic, Flowers: Diaphoretic, anti-catarrhal, Berries: Diaphoretic, diuretic, laxative. Leaves used for bruises, sprains, wounds and chilblains, ointment for tumours, flowers treatment of colds and influenza, Hayfever, Sinusitis. Dosage: Pour a cup of boiling water onto 2 teaspoon of blossoms, leave to infuse for 10 minutes, drink x 3 a day.

Marigold (Calendula officinalis) Vulnerary. Reduces inflammation, helps chilblains, chapped or cracked skin, excellent for bruises and burns.

Yoga

Kriyas Set of six purifying exercises:

Neti – Cleansing exercise for the nose and sinuses.

Nauli – Strong churning of the abdomen.

Dhauti – Exercise to cleanse upper digestive track (mouth, oesophagus, and stomach)

Basti – Cleansing of the colon or lower digestive track.

Kapalabhati – Rapid abdominal breathing that cleanses the respiratory track.

Tratak – Stimulates powerful cleansing of the eye, sinus and forehead region.

Poetry

A Psalm of Life

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tell me not in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou are, to dust thou returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each tomorrow
Find us farther than today.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.

In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!

Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act, - act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o'erhead!

Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sand of time;

Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.

Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.

Music

http://musiced.about.com/od/beginnerstheory/f/modes.htm?nl=1

Types of Modal Scales

Ionian - Also known as the major scale; follows the pattern W-W-H-W-W-W-H.

Dorian - Constructed from the second note of a major scale; follows the pattern W-H-W-W-W-H-W.

Phrygian - Constructed from the third note of a major scale; follows the pattern H-W-W-W-H-W-W.

Lydian - Constructed from the fourth note of a major scale; follows the pattern W-W-W-H-W-W-H.

Mixolydian - Also known as "mixo," is constructed from the fifth note of a major scale and follows the pattern W-W-H-W-W-H-W.

Aeolian - Also known as the natural minor scale, is constructed from the sixth note of a major scale and follows the pattern W-H-W-W-H-W-W.

Locrian - Constructed from the seventh note of a major scale; follows the pattern H-W-W-H-W-W-W.

Each mode has a very distinct sound; for example, the Phrygian mode sounds melancholy and reflects the music of Spain.

The Lydian mode sounds happy and is often used in jazz and rock music.

The Mixolydian mode evokes a bluesy sound and can often be heard in jazz, blues and rock music.

The Locrian mode, on the other hand, has a very strange sound but is rarely used.

Note: W = whole step, H = half step

Tips for Music Education
http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2010/04/classroom-management-for-the-music-teacher/