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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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
New squidoo lens about crystal healing and the chakra system http://www.squidoo.com/crystalartsandhealth
Crystal Uses
Chest and lungs: Moss agate, Turquoise, Aventurine
Heart: Ruby, Aventurine, Emerald, Coral, Labradorite, Unakite
Digestion: Citrine, Tiger’s Eye
Herbalism
Bad circulation
Cayenne, Ginger, Prickly Ash and Hawthorn.
Varicose Veins
Hawthorn Berries, Horsechestnut and Buckwheat. For water build-up – Yarrow and Dandelion Leaf.
Horsechestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum)
Increases the strength and tone of the blood vessels. Dosage: Pour a cup of boiling water onto 1 - 2 tsp of the dried fruit and leave to infuse for 10 to 15 minutes drink x 3 a day or used as a lotion.
Yoga
Knee and Thigh Stretch
Helps remove stiffness and tension in the knees and thighs. Enables you to walk and stand without becoming tired quickly.
1) Extend your legs straight out in front of you. 2) Bend legs at knees and bring your feet in as far as possible towards you with the soles of the feet together. 3) Clasp your hands firmly around your feet. 4) Pull up on your feet with your hands and allow the knees and thighs to bend downward as far as able without strain. Sit erect and hold the extreme position for 15 seconds. Relax and allow knees and thighs to return to original start position with your hands remaining clasped around your feet. Repeat three times.
Poetry
http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/famous/eliot/ts.html
Rhapsody On A Windy Night
Twelve o'clock.
Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Dissolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said, "Regard that woman
Who hesitates towards you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
You see the border of her dress
Is torn and stained with sand,
And you see the corner of her eye
Twists like a crooked pin."
The memory throws up high and dry
A crowd of twisted things;
A twisted branch upon the beach
Eaten smooth, and polished
As if the world gave up
The secret of its skeleton,
Stiff and white.
A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the strength has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
Half-past two,
The street lamp said,
"Remark the cat which flattens itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter."
So the hand of a child, automatic,
Slipped out and pocketed a toy that was running along the quay.
I could see nothing behind that child's eye.
I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp muttered in the dark.
The lamp hummed:
"Regard the moon,
La lune ne garde aucune rancune,
She winks a feeble eye,
She smiles into corners.
She smoothes the hair of the grass.
The moon has lost her memory.
A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone
With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain."
The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets,
And female smells in shuttered rooms,
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars."
The lamp said,
"Four o'clock,
Here is the number on the door.
Memory!
You have the key,
The little lamp spreads a ring on the stair,
Mount.
The bed is open; the tooth-brush hangs on the wall,
Put your shoes at the door, sleep, prepare for life."
The last twist of the knife
by T. S. Eliot
Horizon’s Place And Time Meet by Cara E. Moore Chapbook
Poem from this collection
http://www.gaias-garden.co.uk/library/ACheerfulCanvas.html
Amazon link
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Horizons-Place-Time-Meet-Collection/dp/0955539404/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1272790461&sr=8-1-catcorr
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Music
Vocal training
http://www.mostentertaining.com/tutors/cara/
Songwriters – Eric Clampton
http://musiced.about.com/od/songwriters/p/ericclapton.htm?nl=1
http://musiced.about.com/od/faqs/f/hook.htm?p=1
In music the word "hook" refers to that part of a song that catches the ear of the listener. In other words, it's a lyrical line or melodic phrase that makes the song memorable. In this context you can say songwriting is somewhat like fishing; make your hook strong and appealing and you'll be able to catch 'em and reel 'em in.
The hook may be the title of the song, a lyrical line (usually repeated) that summarizes what the song is about, a rhythmic passage or an instrumental part called "riff." It is mostly evident in pop music; songs that have made it to the top of the charts have unforgettable hooks. Here are some examples:
Don't You (Forget About Me) by Simple Minds -
"Don't you forget about me
Don't, don't don't don't
Don't you forget about me"
With Or Without You by U2 -
"With or without you
With or without you, oh
I can't live with or without you"
Nothing Compares 2 U by Sinead O'Connor
"Nothing compares
Nothing compares to you"
I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston -
"And I will always love you
I will always love you"
You're Beautiful by James Blunt
"You're beautiful, you're beautiful
You're beautiful it's true"
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