Crystal Arts &amp; Health

http://herbalmedicine.suite101.com/article.cfm/herbal-remedies-for-frostbite-and-poor-circulation

Lunar Crystals

The moon represents emotion and powerful instincts, patterns, ancestral and karmic inheritances. For all moon signs it is recommended to meditate with a bloodstone at the full moon to uncover hidden unfulfilled desires that are controlling your life.

It is possible to reprogram patterns of behavior and facilitate healthy sources of nurturing.

Moon in Aquarius

Clear Quartz – Absorbs, stores, releases and regulates energy, discharges static energy within physical body. Harmonizes vibrations that support evolution, helps overcome fear of change.

Positive qualities – original eccentric and independent, science-orientated, expressing universal love. Forward looking and emotionally objective.

Blue Celestite – facilitates social change and evolution of humankind.

Herbalism

http://www.suite101.com/content/herbal-remedies-for-stress-and-sleep-a274726

http://www.suite101.com/content/herbal-remedies-for-hayfever-and-colds-a274380

http://hatha-yoga.suite101.com/article.cfm/yoga-practice-routine-for-office-workers

Ashwagandha Root Powder (Withania somnifera) Indian Adaptogen herb (similar properties to that of Ginseng) used to alleviate symptoms associated with arthritis. Reported to have anti-carcinogenic effects.

Yoga

The two forces of mind and prana maintain the rhythm of life and consciousness. Everything in the universe is evolving. Matter in its ultimate form is energy. The goal of yoga is to turn the body into solid energy. – Hatha Yoga Pradipika

Paschimottanasana (back stretching pose)

Sit with the legs stretched out in front of the body, hands on the knees.
Inhale while raising the hands above the head and keeping the back straight.
Exhale while bending forward from the hips and keep the head between the shoulders so that the spinal column is stretched
Clasp the big toes or ankles with the hands and bring the head down to rest on the knees. If not possible, hold the calf muscles. The back should not curve or hunch. In the final position you can hold the breath or breathe normally concentrating on the navel.
When releasing the position inhale and raise the arms above the head while sitting up. Exhale while bringing the hands down to the knees.

Poetry

Edgar Allan Poe

http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/famous/poe/edgar.html

A Dream Within a Dream

Take this kiss upon the brow!

And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow --
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if Hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar

Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand --
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep -- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

by Edgar Allan Poe

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 For Ebook download Direct Link: http://store.payloadz.com/go/?id=25453

Music

Vocal training

http://musicaltheatre.suite101.com/article.cfm/vocal-training-posture-and-warm-ups-key-to-best-performance

Cara E. Moore http://www.reverbnation.com/controller/audio_player/detachable_player/artist_487603?autoPlay=true

Shakira

Music Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzQZqpPGpzY

Top of the pops performance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1Bf0mcYqaY

Objection

It's not her fault that she's so irresistable

But all the damage she's caused isn't fixable
Every twenty seconds you repeat her name
But when it comes to me you don't care
If I'm alive or dead

So objection, I don't wanna be the exception

To get a bit of your attention
I love you for free and I'm not your mother
But you don't even bother

Objection I'm tired of this triangle

Got dizzy dancing tango
I'm falling apart in your hands again
No way I've got to get away

Next to her cheap silicone I look minimal

That's why in front of your eyes I'm invisible
But you gotta know small things also count
You better put your feet on the ground
And see what it's about

Objection I don't wanna be the exception

To get a bit of your attention
I love you for free and I'm not your mother
But you don't even bother

Objection the angles of this triangle

Got dizzy dancing tango
I'm falling apart in your hands again
No way

I wish there was a chance for you and me

I wish you couldn't find a place to be
Away from here

This is pathetic and sardonic

It's sadistic and psychotic
Tango is not for three
Was never meant to be

But you can try it

Rehearse it
Or train like a horse
But don't you count on me
Oh don't you count on me boy!

Objection, I don't wanna be the exception

To get a bit of your attention
I love you for free and I'm not your mother
But you don't even bother

Objection I'm tired of this triangle

Got dizzy dancing tango
I'm falling apart in your hands again
No way I've got to get away

Saturday 18 September 2010

Crystal Arts And Health

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

Crystal Healing

New squidoo lens about crystal healing and the chakra system http://www.squidoo.com/crystalartsandhealth

Using Crystals and Yoga Meditation to Detox Stress http://chakrayoga.suite101.com/article.cfm/using-crystals-and-yoga-meditation-to-heal-and-detox-stress

Happy Mabon!

Summer Solstice to Mabon http://www.brighthub.com/society/religion-spirituality/articles/78877.aspx

Samhain: Honouring the Ancestors http://www.brighthub.com/society/religion-spirituality/articles/79124.aspx

Yule: Celtic Festival of Rebirth and Light http://www.brighthub.com/society/religion-spirituality/articles/79323.aspx

http://www.suite101.com/content/herbal-remedies-for-stress-and-sleep-a274726

Lunar Crystals

It is possible to reprogram patterns of behavior and facilitate healthy sources of nurturing.

Moon in Capricorn

Snow Quartz – Supports and encourages letting go of burdens and emotional baggage. Links to inner wisdom. Gives insight to areas of over compensation due to feelings of inadequacy.

Positive qualities – Diligent, responsible person who does what is right, garnet helps foster these traits, solid and dependable. Quests towards the spiritual.

Herbalism
http://herbalmedicine.suite101.com/article.cfm/herbal-remedies-for-frostbite-and-poor-circulation

http://www.suite101.com/content/herbal-remedies-for-hayfever-and-colds-a274380

Arnica (Arnica Montana)

Been used for centuries for oedema (fluid retention) and swelling, bruises, cuts, arthritis, sore muscles and joints, sore throats, swollen insect bites, and phlebitis. Has been approved by the European Commission for fever and colds, inflammation of the skin, cough/bronchitis, inflammation of the mouth and Pharynx, Rheumatism, common cold, blunt injuries and to prevent infection. Caution: Do not take internally or put on open wounds.

Yoga

http://hatha-yoga.suite101.com/article.cfm/yoga-practice-routine-for-office-workers

Shavasana (corpse pose)

Pose of relaxation.
Benefits of this pose is that it develops the awareness of the body.
Useful in management of blood pressure, peptic ulcer, anxiety, cancer, psychosomatic diseases and neuroses.
Revitalizes entire system.

Lie flat on the back. Separate feet slightly, place hands by the side of the body with palms facing upwards. Legs back and head should be in alignment.
Relax whole body, keep eyes and mouth closed. Breathe naturally through the nose.
Feel the body becoming looser and lighter with each exhalation. Keep awareness on the breath and physical body.

Poetry

John Keats
http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/famous/keats/john.html

Ode to a Nightingale

John Keats

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains

My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:
'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,
But being too happy in thy happiness,--
That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees,
In some melodious plot
Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,
Singest of summer in full-throated ease.

O for a draught of vintage, that hath been

Cooled a long age in the deep-delved earth,
Tasting of Flora and the country green,
Dance, and Provencal song, and sun-burnt mirth!
O for a beaker full of the warm South,
Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,
With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,
And purple-stained mouth;
That I might drink, and leave the world unseen,
And with thee fade away into the forest dim:

Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget
What thou among the leaves hast never known,
The weariness, the fever, and the fret
Here, where men sit and hear each other groan;
Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs,
Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies;
Where but to think is to be full of sorrow
And leaden-eyed despairs;
Where beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes,
Or new love pine at them beyond tomorrow.

Away! away! for I will fly to thee,

Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards,
But on the viewless wings of Poesy,
Though the dull brain perplexes and retards:
Already with thee! tender is the night,
And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne,
Clustered around by all her starry fays;
But here there is no light,
Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown
Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.

I cannot see what flowers are at my feet,

Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs,
But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet
Wherewith the seasonable month endows
The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild;
White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine;
Fast-fading violets covered up in leaves;
And mid-May's eldest child,
The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine,
The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves.

Darkling I listen; and for many a time

I have been half in love with easeful Death,
Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme,
To take into the air my quiet breath;
Now more than ever seems it rich to die,
To cease upon the midnight with no pain,
While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad
In such an ecstasy!
Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain--
To thy high requiem become a sod

Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!

No hungry generations tread thee down;
The voice I hear this passing night was heard
In ancient days by emperor and clown:
Perhaps the self-same song that found a path
Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home,
She stood in tears amid the alien corn;
The same that oft-times hath
Charmed magic casements, opening on the foam
Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.

Forlorn! the very word is like a bell

To toll me back from thee to my sole self!
Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well
As she is famed to do, deceiving elf.
Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades
Past the near meadows, over the still stream,
Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep
In the next valley-glades:
Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
Fled is that music:--do I wake or sleep?

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 For Ebook download Direct Link: http://store.payloadz.com/go/?id=25453

Music

Vocal training

http://musicaltheatre.suite101.com/article.cfm/vocal-training-posture-and-warm-ups-key-to-best-performance

Cara E. Moore http://www.reverbnation.com/controller/audio_player/detachable_player/artist_487603?autoPlay=true

Patsy Cline

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patsy_Cline

http://www.patsyclinemuseum.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA7rxBWBxsY&feature=fvw

You Belong To Me

Written by Pee Wee King, Chilton Price and Redd Stewart

(As recorded by Jim Reeves, 6/25/57)

See the pyramids along the Nile

Watch the sunrise on a tropic isle
Just remember darlin' all the while
You belong to me

See the market place in Old Algiers

Send me photographs and souvenirs
Just remember when a dream appears
You belong to me

I'll be so alone without you

Maybe you'll be lonesome too, and blue

Fly the ocean in a silver plane
See the jungle when it's wet with rain
Just remember 'til you're home again
You belong to me

Fly the ocean in a silver plane
See the jungle when it's wet with rain
Just remember 'til you're home again
You belong to me

(Repeat last verse)

Saturday 11 September 2010

Crystal Arts And Health Blog

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

Crystal Healing

New squidoo lens about crystal healing and the chakra system http://www.squidoo.com/crystalartsandhealth

Using Crystals and Yoga Meditation to Detox Stress http://chakrayoga.suite101.com/article.cfm/using-crystals-and-yoga-meditation-to-heal-and-detox-stress

Summer Solstice to Mabon http://www.brighthub.com/society/religion-spirituality/articles/78877.aspx

Samhain: Honouring the Ancestors http://www.brighthub.com/society/religion-spirituality/articles/79124.aspx

Yule: Celtic Festival of Rebirth and Light http://www.brighthub.com/society/religion-spirituality/articles/79323.aspx

http://herbalmedicine.suite101.com/article.cfm/herbal-remedies-for-frostbite-and-poor-circulation

Lunar Crystals

It is possible to reprogram patterns of behavior and facilitate healthy sources of nurturing.

Moon in Sagittarius

Apoplyllite – recognition of true self, bridge between physical and spiritual words, astral travel.

Blue Lace Agate – reconnect to emotions in balance.

Herbalism

http://www.suite101.com/content/herbal-remedies-for-stress-and-sleep-a274726

http://www.suite101.com/content/herbal-remedies-for-hayfever-and-colds-a274380

http://hatha-yoga.suite101.com/article.cfm/yoga-practice-routine-for-office-workers

Aniseed (Pimpinella anisum)

Expectorant, anti-spasmodic, carminative, parasiticide, aromatic intestinal colic, and flatulence, expectorant and anti-spasmodic used in bronchitis with irritable coughing, whooping cough, externally oil is used in treatment of scabies and to control and eradicate lice, used for flavouring. Dosage: Pour one cup of boiling water over 1-2 tsp of seeds, let stand covered for 5 -10 minutes, take one cup x 3 a day, tea should be drunk slowly before meals to prevent flatulence. If taking oil one drop oil taken internally by mixing with half a teaspoon of honey.

Yoga

Head Stand (Called the master of all poses)

Restores vitality and activates nerve centres in brain
Improves faculties of the brain, maintains alertness of the mind
Helps to prevent and stop falling hair
Improves vision and hearing.

Sit on heels to begin backward bend. Keep knees together on the floor.
Interlace fingers and place our clasped hands and forearms on the floor in front of you.
Place the top of your head on the floor and hold back of head with clasped hands.
Raise yurt run and knees from the floor so that you are on your toes and forming an arch.
Walk forward on your toes until you have brought your knees as close to your chest as possible.
Now push off from the floor lightly with toes and transfer the weight so it is evenly distributed between head and forearms. Keep legs folded and close to the chest. Hold for 30 seconds and work up to three minutes over the course of a few weeks. Return feet lightly to the floor.

Once this position has been mastered to complete the head stand go from step 6 and slowly straighten your legs until body is in a vertical position. Hold.

To come out of the posture, fold your legs at the knees so you return slowly to the floor exactly reverse to the manner of going up. Always keep the knees close to the body. Rest on the floor with head down for at least a minute; slowly sit up into the lotus or cross-legged posture

Poetry

Emily Dickinson

http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/famous/dickinson/emily.html

The Bustle in a House

The bustle in a house

The morning after death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted upon earth.

The sweeping up the heart

And putting love away
We shall not want to use again
Until eternity.

by Emily Dickinson

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 For Ebook download Direct Link: http://store.payloadz.com/go/?id=25453

Music

Vocal training

ttp://musicaltheatre.suite101.com/article.cfm/vocal-training-posture-and-warm-ups-key-to-best-performance

Cara E. Moore http://www.reverbnation.com/controller/audio_player/detachable_player/artist_487603?autoPlay=true

Amy Winehouse

http://www.whatsontv.co.uk/video/youtube/search/Valerie/video/qPnQrNF0-zk&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Lyrics to Valerie :

Well Sometimes I Go Out, By Myself,

And I Look Across The Water.

And I Think Of All The Things,

Of What You're Doing,

And in my head I Paint A Picture.

Since I've Come Home,

Well My Body's Been A Mess,
And I Miss Your Ginger Hair,
And The Way You Like To Dress.

Oh Wont You Come On Over,

Stop Making A Fool Out Of Me,

Why Dont You Come On Over,

Valerie.

Valerie

Valerie
Valerie

Did You Have To Go To Jail,

Put Your House Out Up For Sale,

Did You Get A Good Lawyer.

I Hope You Didn’t Catch A Tan,

I Hope You Find The Right Man,

Who'll Fix It For You.

Are You Shopping Anywhere,

Change The Color Of Your Hair,
And Are You Busy.

Did You Have To Pay That Fine,

That You Were Dodging All The Time,

Are You Still Dizzy.

Well Since I Come Home,

Well My Body's Been A Mess,

And I Miss Your Ginger Hair,

And The Way You Like To Dress.

Oh Wont You Come On Over,

Stop Making A Fool Out Of Me,
Oh Why Dont You Come On Over,
Valerie.

Valerie

Valerie
Valerie

Well Sometimes I Go Out,

By Myself, And I Look Across The Water.
And I Think Of All The Things,

What You're Doing,

And In My Head I Paint A Picture.

Since I've Come Home,

Well My Body's Been A Mess,

And I Miss Your Ginger Hair,

And The Way You Like To Dress.

Oh Won’t You Come On Over,

Stop Making A Fool Out Of Me,

Oh Why Dont You Come On Over,

Valerie

Valerie
Valerie
Valerie
Valerie
Valerie
Valerie
Valerie

Why Don't You Come On Over Valerie...

Saturday 4 September 2010

Crystal Arts And Health Blog

Topics that will be covered are Crystal Healing, Herbalism, Yoga, Music, Poetry, The Arts and activities of Crystal Arts And Health http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/

For those with a Kindle this blog can be located at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002FQJHC4

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

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

New squidoo lens about crystal healing and the chakra system http://www.squidoo.com/crystalartsandhealth

Using Crystals and Yoga Meditation to Detox Stress http://chakrayoga.suite101.com/article.cfm/using-crystals-and-yoga-meditation-to-heal-and-detox-stress

Summer Solstice to Mabon http://www.brighthub.com/society/religion-spirituality/articles/78877.aspx

http://www.suite101.com/content/herbal-remedies-for-stress-and-sleep-a274726

Lunar Crystals

It is possible to reprogram patterns of behavior and facilitate healthy sources of nurturing.

Moon in Scorpio

Smoky Quartz – promotes detoxification, elimination of the unneeded, fortifies resolve, strength through difficult times.

Positive traits – healer, self-transformation, survival.

Labradorite – protective, mystical stone, raises consciousness, transforms perception.

Herbalism

http://herbalmedicine.suite101.com/article.cfm/herbal-remedies-for-frostbite-and-poor-circulation

http://www.suite101.com/content/herbal-remedies-for-hayfever-and-colds-a274380

http://hatha-yoga.suite101.com/article.cfm/yoga-practice-routine-for-office-workers

Angelica (Angelica archangelica)

Carminative, anti-spasmodic, expectorant, diuretic, diaphoretic. Expectorant for coughs, bronchitis and pleurisy, especially with fever, colds or influenza, used as a compress in inflammations of the chest, carminative for intestinal colic and flatulence, digestive stimulate used in treatment of anorexia nervosa, rheumatic inflammations, for cystitis as urinary antiseptic. Dosage: 1 tsp cut root in a cup of water, bring to boil and simmer for two minutes, let stand 15 minutes, take one cup x 3 a day.

Yoga

Complete Leg Pull

Provides elasticity for the spine
Tones back with concave stretching movement
Strengthens the entire leg and makes skin taut and firm.

Follows the plough position.

From the reclined position, slowly raise your trunk to a sitting position, extend the arms straight out before you.
Slowly bend your trunk forward and extend hands, grasp the farthermost area of your legs that you can hold.
Bend your elbows outward, allow neck to go limp, close your eyes. Breathe slowly and slowly pull your trunk forward and downward. Lower your forehead and rest as close to your knees as possible. Keep back of knees on the floor and legs together. Hold this extreme position for 25 seconds working up to 30 seconds over the course of a few weeks. The ultimate position is with the elbows touching the floor and hands holding the feet.
Release your legs and slowly return to the sitting position.

Poetry

Robert Frost

http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/famous/frost/robert.html

Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer

To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake

To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.

But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

by Robert Frost

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 For Ebook download Direct Link: http://store.payloadz.com/go/?id=25453

Music

Vocal training