Crystal Arts &amp; Health

http://cara-moore.suite101.com/imbolc-to-ostara-silver-and-tigers-eye-enhance-rituals-a375262

http://cara-moore.suite101.com/yule-rituals-are-aided-by-garnet-jade-and-moonstones-a375260

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.

Immune stimulator

Place Bloodstone over the thymus (higher heart chakra) and leave in place for 20-30 minutes. Use other immune system crystals to enhance this placement such as Lapis Lazuli, Blue Agate, Carnalian, Ruby in Zoisite, Turquoise or Ametrine.

Crystal Prescriptions, Judy Hall

Herbalism

Article on Radiation

http://www.susunweed.com/Article_Surviving_Radiation.htm

Herbal Articles by Cara E Moore

http://www.baldwins.co.uk/perl/go.pl/healthnotes.html?%2fuk%2fassets%2fa-z-index%2fa-to-z-index-of-vitamin-and-herb-interactions%2f%7edefault

"These are the things I know: You always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder, plant rosemary at your gate, keep lavender for luck and fall in love whenever possible." ~Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic http://www.alicehoffman.com/hoffman-bio.htm

Useful herb resource for vitamin and herb interactions:

Lady’s Mantle (Alchemilla vulgaris)

Astringent, diuretic, anti-inflammatory, vulnerary.

Eases period pains, excessive bleeding, used in treatment of menopause, used internally in diarrhoea and externally for cuts and wounds.

Dosage: Pour a cup of boiling water onto 2 tsp of dried herb, steep for 10-15 minutes drink x 3 a day.

Herbal Primer, Cara E. Moore

Yoga

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

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

Namaste means "the divinity within me salutes the divinity within you."

http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/biological-significance-piezoelectricity-relation-acupuncture-hatha-yoga-osteopathic-medicin

Yoga

http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/2445

I Want It So Bad Meditation

Dhyana

Bring your desire fully into awareness. Notice the words associated with it.

Pay special attention to the emotional quality of the desire and the thoughts you have about it. Notice the emotional state it induces. Are you excited, uncomfortable, nervous, anxious, elated?

Once you've identified the desire and how it makes you feel, ask yourself the following helpful questions:

How does this desire fit in with my greater priorities?
Is it beneficial to other people as well as to myself?
Will following this impulse hurt me or others?
What will I have to give up if I follow this desire?
Does it take me closer to my higher Self, or will it create more barriers between my soul and myself?
What will I have to give up if I don't follow it?
What do I really want by getting what I want?

After you've figured out what you really want, voice it. Articulate it. Make it real. Even if it's something vague, like "to be happy," you can still make it an intention. You might say, "My intention is to experience happiness in an intimate relationship." Or, "My intention is to experience happiness at work." Or, "My intention is to be happy no matter what is going on in my life."

Poetry

Horizon’s Place And Time Meet by Cara E. Moore Chapbook

Poem from this collection http://www.gaias-garden.co.uk/library/ACheerfulCanvas.html

Paperback version of Horizon’s Place And Time Meet: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2011093/?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=banner&utm_content=140x240 Also available now in iPad/iPhone version

Amazon link http://www.amazon.co.uk/Horizons-Place-Time-Meet-%20Collection/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

Auld Lang Syne

by Robert Burns

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,

And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And auld lang syne!

Chorus:

For auld lang syne, my dear,

For auld lang syne.
We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.

And surely ye'll be your pint stowp!

And surely I'll be mine!
And we'll tak a cup o' kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.

Chorus

We twa hae run about the braes,

And pou'd the gowans fine;
But we've wander'd mony a weary fit,
Sin' auld lang syne.

Chorus

We twa hae paidl'd in the burn,

Frae morning sun till dine;
But seas between us braid hae roar'd
Sin' auld lang syne.

Chorus

And there's a hand, my trusty fere!

And gie's a hand o' thine!
And we'll tak a right gude-willie waught,
For auld lang syne.

Chorus

Music

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

Vocal Training

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

Jennifer Lopez

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_66jPJVS4JE

"Waiting For Tonight"

Like a movie scene

In the sweetest dreams
I have pictured us together
Now to feel your lips
On my fingertips
I have to say is even better
Then I ever thought it could possibly be
It's perfect, it's passion, it's setting me free
From all of my sadness
The tears that I've cried
I have spent all of my life

[CHORUS:]

Waiting for tonight, oh

When you would be here in my arms
Waiting for tonight, oh
I've dreamed of this love for so long
Waiting for tonight

Tender words you say

Take my breath away
Love me now, leave me never
Found a sacred place
Lost in your embrace
I want to stay in this forever
I think of the days when the sun used to set
On my empty heart, all alone in my bed
Tossing and turning
Emotions were strong
I knew I had to hold on

[CHORUS 2x]

Gone are the days when the sun used to set

On my empty heart all alone in my bed
Tossing and turning
Emotions were strong
I knew I had to hold on

[CHORUS] x 3

Friday 23 December 2011

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/

Happy Christmas and Winter Solstice.

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

New Facebook page for Crystal Arts And Health http://www.facebook.com/pages/Crystal-Arts-And-Health/272894976093686

Online training courses in Crystal Healing and Herbalism are available at http://crystalartsandhealth.coggno.com/shop (Accredited by World Metaphysical Association)

See http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/for the Autumn/Winter Catalogue and for the new products in the e-shop. For Christmas and Yule we have Christmas tree shaped soaps in peppermint and jade and amethyst and lavender snowflake shaped soaps. There are a collection of angels with Victorian cherub angels in chocolate & gold and sandalwood and clear quartz. 3-D cherub angels are available in chocolate and gold, rose & rose quartz and clary sage and garnet. Nature fairy scenes are available in amethyst and lavender.

The Crystal Essence TM range also include shaving soaps, solid shampoo soaps, and baby products, colognes, perfumes including the new Crystal Essence ™ Everlasting Rose Quartz perfume including gift card size perfume cards and make-ups. There are also lots of new fun shapes for soaps, perfect for gift bags and wedding and event favours. 3-D Swan Soaps using a white soap base are now available in right and left facing poses. Crystal Essence ™ Chrysanthemum shaped handmade soaps makes a nice house warming or host/hostess gift. In Feng Shui Chrysanthemum brings laughter and happiness into the home. We also have a good luck 3-D kitty in Sandalwood and clear quartz. Dragon soaps include a clary sage and garnet super-sized Welsh Dragon rectangular soap and a circular Chinese dragon embossed soap. The herbal Gardening Soap is a year-round favourite, with white maize, pumice and clay it gets hands super clean and moisturizers at the same time with a lovely orange essential oil scent.

The latest category called aromatherapy oils and incense is available on the online shop with Litha oil, with chamomile, sandalwood, rose and lavender, the combination promotes health, love and prosperity. Hand blended Beltane incense, used in handfasting rituals and house blessing incense are also available. Also new are hand-made beeswax melts available in uplifting Bergamont and Orange, Calming Rose and Lavender and summer time Citronella. An uplifting Yule blend of Cinnamon, Clove, Frankincense, Myrrh and Orange is also available.

Crystal Healing

http://www.suite101.com/content/recycled-glass-art-a297478

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

http://cara-moore.suite101.com/yule-rituals-are-aided-by-garnet-jade-and-moonstones-a375260

http://cara-moore.suite101.com/how-to-have-a-country-christmas-a297440

Lunar Crystals

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

Petrified Wood

Makes stable and firmly rooted. Stimulates digestion and metabolism. Fortifies the nerves and helps with overweight caused by “inadequate earthing.”

Healing Crystals, Michael Gienger

Herbalism

Article on Radiation

http://www.susunweed.com/Article_Surviving_Radiation.htm

Herbal Articles by Cara E Moore

http://www.baldwins.co.uk/perl/go.pl/healthnotes.html?%2fuk%2fassets%2fa-z-index%2fa-to-z-index-of-vitamin-and-herb-interactions%2f%7edefault

Useful herb resource for vitamin and herb interactions:

Lavender (Lavendula angustifolia) Antiseptic, analgesic, anti-convulsant, anti-depressant, anti-rheumatic, anti-spasmodic, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, bactericide, carminative, cholagogue, cicatrisant, cordial, cytophylactic, decongestant, deodorant, diuretic, emmenagogue, hypotensive, nervine, rubefacient, sedative, sudorific and vulnerary. Calming effect on the nerves, relieving tension, depression, panic, hysteria and nervous exhaustion in general and is effective for headaches, migraines and insomnia, bronchitis, asthma, colds, laryngitis, halitosis, throat infections and whooping cough and helps the digestive system deal with colic, nausea, vomiting and flatulence. Relieves pain when used for rheumatism, arthritis, lumbago and muscular aches and pains. Skin conditions: abscesses, acne, oily skin, boils, burns, sunburn, wounds, psoriasis, lice, insect bites, stings and also acts as an insect repellent. Dosage: Pour a cup of boiling water onto-1-2 tsp of dried herb, leave to infuse for 10-15 minutes, drink x 3 a day. A drop of lavender oil can be put on a sugar cube for relief for migraines.

Herbal Primer, Cara E. Moore

Yoga

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

Namaste means "the divinity within me salutes the divinity within you."

http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/biological-significance-piezoelectricity-relation-acupuncture-hatha-yoga-osteopathic-medicin

Yoga

http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/936

Lord of the Dance Pose

Natarajasana

(not-ah-raj-AHS-anna)

nata = actor, dancer, mime

raja = king

Anatomical Focus: Thighs, Knees, Ankles, Abdomen, Pelvis, Groins, Chest, Shoulders, Spine, Kidneys, Lungs

Benefits: Stretches the shoulders and chest, Stretches the thighs, groins, and abdomen, Strengthens the legs and ankles,Improves balance

Contraindications and Cautions: Low blood pressure

Stand in Tadasana (Mountain Pose). Inhale, shift your weight onto your right foot, and lift your left heel toward your left buttock as you bend the knee. Press the head of your right thigh bone back, deep into the hip joint, and pull the knee cap up to keep the standing leg straight and strong.
There are two variations you might try here with your arms and hands. In either case, try to keep your torso relatively upright. The first is to reach back with your left hand and grasp the outside of your left foot or ankle. To avoid compression in your lower back, actively lift your pubis toward your navel, and at the same time, press your tailbone toward the floor.
Begin to lift your left foot up, away from the floor, and back, away from your torso. Extend the left thigh behind you and parallel to the floor. Stretch your right arm forward, in front of your torso, parallel to the floor.
The second option with the hands is to sweep your right hand around behind your back and catch hold of the inner left foot. Then sweep the left hand back and grab the outside of the left foot. This variation will challenge your balance even more. Then raise the thigh as described in step 3. This second variation will increase the lift of your chest and the stretch of your shoulders.
Stay in the pose for 20 to 30 seconds. Then release the grasp on the foot, place the left foot back onto the floor, and repeat for the same length of time on the other side.

Full Pose

For the full pose, perform step 1 as described above. Then turn your left arm actively outward (so the palm faces away from the side of the torso), bend the elbow, and grip the outside of the left foot. (You can also grab the big toe with the first two fingers and the thumb.) The fingers will cross the top of the foot, the thumb will press against the sole. Inhale, lift the left leg up, and bring the thigh parallel to the floor. As you do this, rotate the left shoulder in such a way that the bent elbow swings around and up, so that it points toward the ceiling. It requires extreme flexibility to externally rotate and flex the shoulder joint in this way. Reach the right arm straight forward, in front of the torso and parallel to the floor. Hold for 20 to 30 seconds, release, and repeat on the second side for the same length of time.

Poetry

Horizon’s Place And Time Meet by Cara E. Moore Chapbook

Poem from this collection http://www.gaias-garden.co.uk/library/ACheerfulCanvas.html

Paperback version of Horizon’s Place And Time Meet: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2011093/?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=banner&utm_content=140x240 Also available now in iPad/iPhone version

Dylan’s Thomas “Child’s Christmas in Wales”

http://www.bfsmedia.com/MAS/Dylan/Christmas.html

Music

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

Vocal Training

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

Mariah Carey

http://youtube/BEJmP8T07JU

O Holy Night

Oh, holy night, the stars are brightly shining

It is the night of our dear Savior's birth
Long lay the world in sin and error, pining

Till He appeared and the soul felt it's worth

A thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices

For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn'
Fall on your knees, oh, hear the Angels' voices
Oh, night divine, oh, night when Christ was born
Oh, night divine, oh, night, oh night divine

Instrumental.

A thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices

For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn'
Fall on your knees, oh, hear, (whistle register) hear the Angels' voices
Oh, night divine, yeah, oh, night when Christ was born
Oh, night divine, (whistle register) oh, night divine

Choir

Oh, night divine (oh yes it was)

Oh, night divine
(It is the night of our saviours birth)
It was the night

Choir

Oh, night divine

Oh holy night divine

(It is the night, the night the night of our saviours birth)

Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh

Choir

Oh , yeah

Oh night divine
Oh, night divine
Oh holy night divine

Choir

(clapping)

Oh, night divine

Oh, night divine
Oh night divine

Saturday 17 December 2011

Crystal Arts And Health Blog

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 (Accredited by World Metaphysical Association)

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 http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2273371/?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=banner&utm_content=140x240 Also available for iPad/iPhone through Blurb.

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 as a paperback http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2298804/?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=banner&utm_content=140x240 Also available for iPad/iPhone through Blurb.

See http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/ for the Autumn/Winter Catalogue and for the new products in the e-shop. For Christmas and Yule we have Christmas tree shaped soaps in peppermint and jade and amethyst and lavender snowflake shaped soaps. There are a collection of angels with Victorian cherub angels in chocolate & gold and sandalwood and clear quartz. 3-D cherub angels are available in chocolate and gold, rose & rose quartz and clary sage and garnet. Nature fairy scenes are available in amethyst and lavender.

The Crystal Essence TM range also include shaving soaps, solid shampoo soaps, and baby products, colognes, perfumes including the new Crystal Essence ™ Everlasting Rose Quartz perfume including gift card size perfume cards and make-ups. There are also lots of new fun shapes for soaps, perfect for gift bags and wedding and event favours. 3-D Swan Soaps using a white soap base are now available in right and left facing poses. Crystal Essence ™ Chrysanthemum shaped handmade soaps makes a nice house warming or host/hostess gift. In Feng Shui Chrysanthemum brings laughter and happiness into the home. We also have a good luck 3-D kitty in Sandalwood and clear quartz. Dragon soaps include a clary sage and garnet super-sized Welsh Dragon rectangular soap and a circular Chinese dragon embossed soap. The herbal Gardening Soap is a year-round favourite, with white maize, pumice and clay it gets hands super clean and moisturizers at the same time with a lovely orange essential oil scent.

http://www.suite101.com/content/recycled-glass-art-a297478

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

http://cara-moore.suite101.com/yule-rituals-are-aided-by-garnet-jade-and-moonstones-a375260

http://cara-moore.suite101.com/how-to-have-a-country-christmas-a297440

Lunar Crystals

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

Dumortierite

Alleviates fear, depression, nervousness and stress. Helps overcome addiction, alleviates headaches, cramps, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting.

Healing Crystals, Michael Gienger

Herbalism

Article on Radiation
http://www.susunweed.com/Article_Surviving_Radiation.htm

Herbal Articles by Cara E Moore

http://www.baldwins.co.uk/perl/go.pl/healthnotes.html?%2fuk%2fassets%2fa-z-index%2fa-to-z-index-of-vitamin-and-herb-interactions%2f%7edefault

Useful herb resource for vitamin and herb interactions:

Jasmine (Jasmine officinalis)

Anti-depressant, antiseptic, aphrodisiac, anti-spasmodic, cicatrisant, expectorant, galactagogue, parturient, sedative and uterine. Caution: Do not use during pregnancy. Eases coughs, sore eyes, tension, mild-antidepressant.

Uplift your Spirits Tea (Herbmoonhollow.com)

2 oz Lemon Balm, Ginkgo, Nettles, Jasmine Flowers, Hawthorn, Dandelion Root, Liquorice Root, Lavender. Use 1 tsp per cup of boiling water.

Herbal Primer, Cara E. Moore

Yoga

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

Namaste means "the divinity within me salutes the divinity within you."

http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/biological-significance-piezoelectricity-relation-acupuncture-hatha-yoga-osteopathic-medicin

Yoga

http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/483

Reclining Big Toe Pose

Supta Padangusthasana

(soup-TAH pod-ang-goosh-TAHS-anna)

supta = lying down, reclining

pada = foot

angusta = big toe

Benefits: Stretches hips, thighs, hamstrings, groins, and calves, strengthens the knees. Stimulates the prostate gland, improves digestion, relieves backache, sciatica, and menstrual discomfort. Therapeutic for high blood pressure, flat feet, and infertility

Contraindications and Cautions: Diarrhea, Headache, High blood pressure: Raise your head and neck on a folded blanket.

Lie supine on the floor, legs strongly extended. If your head doesn't rest comfortably on the floor, support it on a folded blanket. Exhale, bend the left knee, and draw the thigh into your torso. Hug the thigh to your belly. Press the front of the right thigh heavily to the floor, and push actively through the right heel.
Loop a strap around the arch of the left foot and hold the strap in both hands. Inhale and straighten the knee, pressing the left heel up toward the ceiling. Walk your hands up the strap until the elbows are fully extended. Broaden the shoulder blades across your back. Keeping the hands as high on the strap as possible, press the shoulder blades lightly into the floor. Widen the collarbones away from the sternum.
Extend up first through the back of the left heel, and once the back of the leg between the heel and sitting bone is fully lengthened, lift through the ball of the big toe. Begin with the raised leg perpendicular to the floor. Release the head of the thigh bone more deeply into the pelvis and, as you do, draw the foot a little closer to your head, increasing the stretch on the back of the leg.
You can stay here in this stretch, or turn the leg outward from the hip joint, so the knee and toes look to the left. Pinning the top of the right thigh to the floor, exhale and swing the left leg out to the left and hold it a few inches off the floor. Continue rotating the leg. As you feel the outer thigh move away from the left side of the torso, try to bring the left foot in line with the left shoulder joint. Inhale to bring the leg back to vertical. Lighten your grip on the strap as you do, so that you challenge the muscles of the inner thigh and hip to do the work.
Hold the vertical position of the leg anywhere from 1 to 3 minutes, and the side position for an equal length of time. Once you have returned to vertical release the strap, hold the leg in place for 30 seconds or so, then slowly release as you exhale. Repeat on the right for the same length of time.

Poetry

Horizon’s Place And Time Meet by Cara E. Moore Chapbook

Poem from this collection http://www.gaias-garden.co.uk/library/ACheerfulCanvas.html

Paperback version of Horizon’s Place And Time Meet: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2011093/?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=banner&utm_content=140x240 Also available now in iPad/iPhone version

Twas the Night before Christmas Poem

By Clement Clarke Moore

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house

Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there.

The children were nestled all snug in their beds,

While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads.
And mamma in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap.

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,

I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow

Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below.
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a miniature sleigh, and eight tinny reindeer.

With a little old driver, so lively and quick,

I knew in a moment it must be St Nick.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name!

"Now Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen!

On, Comet! On, Cupid! on, on Donner and Blitzen!
To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!
Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!"

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,

When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky.
So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,
With the sleigh full of Toys, and St Nicholas too.

And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof

The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.
As I drew in my head, and was turning around,
Down the chimney St Nicholas came with a bound.

He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,

And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot.
A bundle of Toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a peddler, just opening his pack.

His eyes-how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!

His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.

The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,

And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.
He had a broad face and a little round belly,
That shook when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly!

He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,

And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself!
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.

He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,

And filled all the stockings, then turned with a jerk.
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose!

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,

And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him exclaim, ‘ere he drove out of sight,
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!"

Music

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

Vocal Training

http://www.suite101.com/content/recycled-glass-art-a297478

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

Aled Jones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDh_L9JU5dQ

We're walking in the air

We're floating in the moonlit sky
The people far below are sleeping as we fly

I'm holding very tight
I'm riding in the midnight blue
I'm finding I can fly so high above with you

Far across the world
The villages go by like dreams
The rivers and the hills
The forests and the streams

Children gaze open mouthed
Taken by surprise
Nobody down below believes their eyes

We're surfing in the air
We're swimming in the frozen sky
We're drifting over icy
Mountains floating by

Suddenly swooping low on an ocean deep
Arousing of a mighty monster from its sleep

We're walking in the air
We're dancing in the midnight sky
And everyone who sees us greets us as we fly

We're walking in the air
We're walking in the air

Sunday 11 December 2011

Crystal Arts And Health Blog

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 (Accredited by World Metaphysical Association)

See http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/ for the Autumn/Winter Catalogue and for the new products in the e-shop. For Christmas and Yule we have Christmas tree shaped soaps in peppermint and jade and amethyst and lavender snowflake shaped soaps. There are a collection of angels with Victorian cherub angels in chocolate & gold and sandalwood and clear quartz. 3-D cherub angels are available in chocolate and gold, rose & rose quartz and clary sage and garnet. Nature fairy scenes are available in amethyst and lavender.

The latest addition is the new large Crystal shaped soaps like the wedding favour soaps in birthday month crystals. November is Citrine and Neroli and the solar plexus charka, November is Citrine & Neroli and the solar plexus chakra, December is Sodalite & Chamomile and throat chakra, January is Clary Sage and Garnet and the root chakra and February is Amethyst and Lavender and the brow chakra. Lovely vintage Victorian patterned soaps are also now in stock. These include a heart shaped soap, a bed of flowers rectangular soap, a circular happy birthday soap with flowers and an oval lucky pig with a feng shui coin. These are all available in Crystal Essence TM Rose Quartz and Rose.

The Crystal Essence TM range also include shaving soaps, solid shampoo soaps, and baby products, colognes, perfumes including the new Crystal Essence ™ Everlasting Rose Quartz perfume including gift card size perfume cards and make-ups. There are also lots of new fun shapes for soaps, perfect for gift bags and wedding and event favours. 3-D Swan Soaps using a white soap base are now available in right and left facing poses. Crystal Essence ™ Chrysanthemum shaped handmade soaps makes a nice house warming or host/hostess gift. In Feng Shui Chrysanthemum brings laughter and happiness into the home. We also have a good luck 3-D kitty in Sandalwood and clear quartz. Dragon soaps include a clary sage and garnet super-sized Welsh Dragon rectangular soap and a circular Chinese dragon embossed soap. The herbal Gardening Soap is a year-round favourite, with white maize, pumice and clay it gets hands super clean and moisturizers at the same time with a lovely orange essential oil scent.

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

http://cara-moore.suite101.com/yule-rituals-are-aided-by-garnet-jade-and-moonstones-a375260

http://cara-moore.suite101.com/how-to-have-a-country-christmas-a297440

Lunar Crystals

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

Emerald

Promotes harmony and justice, recuperation and regeneration. Supports seeking and realizing objectives. Helps with sinusitis, headaches, epilepsy and diseases of the eyes, heart and intestine.

Healing Crystals, Michael Gienger

Herbalism

Article on Radiation

http://www.susunweed.com/Article_Surviving_Radiation.htm

Herbal Articles by Cara E Moore

http://www.baldwins.co.uk/perl/go.pl/healthnotes.html?%2fuk%2fassets%2fa-z-index%2fa-to-z-index-of-vitamin-and-herb-interactions%2f%7edefault

Useful herb resource for vitamin and herb interactions:

Hyssop (Hyssopus officinalis)

Anti-spasmodic, expectorant, diaphoretic, sedative, carminative. Coughs, bronchitis, chronic catarrh, common cold, nervine, anxiety, petit mal (epilepsy). Dosage: Pour a cup of boiling water onto-1 - 2 tsp of dried herb, leave to infuse for 10-15 minutes, drink x 3 a day.

Herbal Primer, Cara E. Moore

Yoga

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

Namaste means "the divinity within me salutes the divinity within you."

http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/biological-significance-piezoelectricity-relation-acupuncture-hatha-yoga-osteopathic-medicin

Yoga

http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/489

Full Boat Pose (Paripurna Navasana)

Anatomical Focus: Thyroid

Benefits: Strengthens the abdomen, hip flexors, and spine, Stimulates the kidneys, thyroid and prostate glands, and intestines , helps relieve stress, improves digestion

Contraindications and Cautions: Asthma, Diarrhea, Headache, Heart Problems, Insomnia, Low blood pressure, Menstruation, Pregnancy, Neck injury: Sit with your back near a wall to perform this pose. As you tilt your torso back rest the back of your head on the wall.

Sit on the floor with your legs straight in front of you. Press your hands on the floor a little behind your hips, fingers pointing toward the feet, and strengthen the arms. Lift through the top of the sternum and lean back slightly. As you do this make sure your back doesn't round; continue to lengthen the front of your torso between the pubis and top sternum. Sit on the "tripod" of your two sitting bones and tailbone.
Exhale and bend your knees, then lift your feet off the floor, so that the thighs are angled about 45-50 degrees relative to the floor. Lengthen your tailbone into the floor and lift your pubis toward your navel. If possible, slowly straighten your knees, raising the tips of your toes slightly above the level of your eyes. If this isn't possible remain with your knees bent, perhaps lifting the shins parallel to the floor.
Stretch your arms alongside the legs, parallel to each other and the floor. Spread the shoulder blades across your back and reach strongly out through the fingers. If this isn't possible, keep the hands on the floor beside your hips or hold on to the backs of your thighs.
While the lower belly should be firm, it shouldn't get hard and thick. Try to keep the lower belly relatively flat. Press the heads of the thigh bones toward the floor to help anchor the pose and lift the top sternum. Breathe easily. Tip the chin slightly toward the sternum so the base of the skull lifts lightly away from the back of the neck.
At first stay in the pose for 10-20 seconds. Gradually increase the time of your stay to 1 minute. Release the legs with an exhalation and sit upright on an inhalation.

Poetry

Horizon’s Place And Time Meet by Cara E. Moore Chapbook

Poem from this collection http://www.gaias-garden.co.uk/library/ACheerfulCanvas.html

Paperback version of Horizon’s Place And Time Meet: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2011093/?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=banner&utm_content=140x240 Also available now in iPad/iPhone version

When I am dead

a poem by Christina Rossetti

When I am dead, my dearest,

Sing no sad songs for me:
Plant thou no roses at my head,
Nor shady cypress tree:
Be the green grass above me
With showers and dewdrops wet;
And if thou wilt, remember,
And if thou wilt, forget.

I shall not see the shadows,

I shall not feel the rain;
I shall not hear the nightingale
Sing on, as if in pain;
And dreaming through the twilight
That doth not rise nor set,
Haply I may remember,
And haply may forget.

Music

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

Vocal Training

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

Mariah Carey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXQViqx6GMY

All I Want For Christmas lyrics

I don't want a lot for Christmas

There's just one thing I need
I don't care about the presents
Underneath the Christmas tree
I just want you for my own
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true...
All I want for christmas
Is you...

I don't want a lot for christmas

There is just one thing I need

I don't care about the presents

Underneath the Christmas tree

I don't need to hang my stockings

There upon the fireplace

Santa Clause won't keep me happy

With a toy on christmas day

I just want you for my own

More than you could ever know

Make my wish come true

All I want for Christmas is you...

You baby

I won't ask for much this Christmas

I won't even wish for snow

I'm just gonna keep on waiting

Underneath the mistletoe

I won't make a list and send it

To the north pole for Saint nick

I won't even stay awake to

Hear those magic reindeer click

'Cause I just want you here tonight

Holding on to me so tight

What more can I do

Baby all I want for christmas is you

You...

All the lights are shining

So brightly everywhere

And the sound of childrens

Laughter fills the air

And everyone is singing

I hear those sleigh bells ringing
Santa won't you bring me the one I really need

Won't you please bring my baby to me...

Oh I don't want a lot for christmas

This is all I'm asking for

I just want to see my baby

Standing right outside my door

Oh I just want him for my own

More than you could ever know

Make my wish come true

Baby all I want for Christmas is

You

Saturday 3 December 2011

Crystal Arts And Health Blog

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 (Accredited by World Metaphysical Association)

See http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/ for the Autumn/Winter Catalogue and for the new products in the e-shop. For Christmas and Yule we have Christmas tree shaped soaps in peppermint and jade and amethyst and lavender snowflake shaped soaps. There are a collection of angels with Victorian cherub angels in chocolate & gold and sandalwood and clear quartz. 3-D cherub angels are available in chocolate and gold, rose & rose quartz and clary sage and garnet. Nature fairy scenes are available in amethyst and lavender.

The latest addition is the new large Crystal shaped soaps like the wedding favour soaps in birthday month crystals. November is Citrine and Neroli and the solar plexus charka, December is Sodalite & Chamomile and throat chakra, January is Clary Sage and Garnet and the root chakra and February is Amethyst and Lavender and the brow chakra. Lovely vintage Victorian patterned soaps are also now in stock. These include a heart shaped soap, a bed of flowers rectangular soap, a circular happy birthday soap with flowers and a fun oval hippo wearing a flowered hat. These are all available in Crystal Essence TM Rose Quartz and Rose.

The Crystal Essence TM range also include shaving soaps, solid shampoo soaps, and baby products, colognes, perfumes including the new Crystal Essence ™ Everlasting Rose Quartz perfume including gift card size perfume cards and make-ups. There are also lots of new fun shapes for soaps, perfect for gift bags and wedding and event favours. 3-D Swan Soaps using a white soap base are now available in right and left facing poses. Crystal Essence ™ Chrysanthemum shaped handmade soaps makes a nice house warming or host/hostess gift. In Feng Shui Chrysanthemum brings laughter and happiness into the home. We also have a good luck 3-D kitty in Sandalwood and clear quartz. Dragon soaps include a clary sage and garnet super-sized Welsh Dragon rectangular soap and a circular Chinese dragon embossed soap. The herbal Gardening Soap is a year-round favourite, with white maize, pumice and clay it gets hands super clean and moisturizers at the same time with a lovely orange essential oil scent.

Crystal Healing

http://www.suite101.com/content/recycled-glass-art-a297478

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

http://www.brighthub.com/members/caramoore.aspx

Lunar Crystals

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

Ivory Jasper

Cleansing. Brings constant, harmonious flow power, helps avoid extremes. Alleviates allergies and skin problems.

Healing Crystals, Michael Gienger

Herbalism

Article on Radiation

http://www.susunweed.com/Article_Surviving_Radiation.htm

Herbal Articles by Cara E Moore

http://www.baldwins.co.uk/perl/go.pl/healthnotes.html?%2fuk%2fassets%2fa-z-index%2fa-to-z-index-of-vitamin-and-herb-interactions%2f%7edefault

Useful herb resource for vitamin and herb interactions:

Horsetail (Equisetum arvense)

Astringent, diuretic, vulnerary. Astringent for genito-urinary system, reducing haemorrhage, healing wounds, mild diuretic, inflamed/ benign enlargement of prostrate, ease pain of rheumatism, chilblains. Dosage: Pour a cup of boiling water onto 2 tsp of dried herb, infuse for 15-20 minutes x 3 a day.

Herbal Primer, Cara E. Moore

Yoga

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

Namaste means "the divinity within me salutes the divinity within you."

http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/biological-significance-piezoelectricity-relation-acupuncture-hatha-yoga-osteopathic-medicin

Yoga

http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/2500

Side-Reclining Leg Lift (Anantasana)

Anatomical Focus: Hips

Benefits: Stretches the backs of the legs, Stretches the sides of the torso, Tones the belly

Follow-Up Poses: Adho Mukha Svanasana (Downward-Facing Dog)

Lie on the floor on your right. Press actively through your right heel, flex the ankle, and use the outside of the foot to stabilize the position (if you still feel unstable, brace your soles against the wall.)
Stretch your right arm straight out along the floor parallel to your torso, so that you create one long line from the heels to your finger tips. Bend your right elbow and support your head in your palm. Slide the elbow away from your torso to stretch the armpit.
Externally rotate your left leg so the toes point toward the ceiling, then bend and draw the knee toward your torso. Reach across the inside of the leg and take hold of the left big toe with your index and middle fingers. Secure the grip by wrapping the thumb around the two fingers. (If you're not able to comfortably hold the toe, loop a strap around the sole and hold the strap.) On an inhale, extend the leg up toward the ceiling.
The raised leg will likely angle slightly forward, while the top buttock will drop back. Firm the sacrum against the pelvis; this creates a kind of fulcrum that will help you move the leg slightly back toward a perpendicular position.
Press actively through both heels. Stay in the pose for 30 seconds to 1 minute, then release the leg, take a few breaths, and roll over onto your left side. Repeat for the same length of time.

Poetry

Horizon’s Place And Time Meet by Cara E. Moore Chapbook

Poem from this collection http://www.gaias-garden.co.uk/library/ACheerfulCanvas.html

Paperback version of Horizon’s Place And Time Meet: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2011093/?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=banner&utm_content=140x240 Also available now in iPad/iPhone version

Grief

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless;

That only men incredulous of despair,
Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air
Beat upward to God's throne in loud access
Of shrieking and reproach. Full desertness,
In souls as countries, lieth silent-bare
Under the blanching, vertical eye-glare
Of the absolute Heavens. Deep-hearted man, express
Grief for thy Dead in silence like to death--
Most like a monumental statue set
In everlasting watch and moveless woe
Till itself crumble to the dust beneath.
Touch it; the marble eyelids are not wet:
If it could weep, it could arise and go.

Music

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

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

Vocal Training
http://www.mostentertaining.com/tutors/cara/

Anne Murray

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6_hFOBo7-I&feature=related

I Just Fall In Love Again

Dreaming

I must be dreaming
or am I really lying here with you

Baby

You take me in your arms
and though I'm wide awake
I know my dream is coming true

Chorus:

And though I

Just fall in love again
Just one touch and then it happens every time
There I go I
Just fall in love again
and when I do
I can't help myself I fall in love with you

Magic

It must be magic
The way I hold you and the night just seems to fly

Easy

For you to take me to a star
Heaven is that moment when I look into your eyes

Chorus:

And though I
Just fall in love again
Just one touch and then it happens every time
There I go I
Just fall in love again
and when I do
I can't help myself I fall in love with you
I can't help myself I fall in love with you

Saturday 26 November 2011

Crystal Arts And Health Blog

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 (Accredited by World Metaphysical Association)

See http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/ for the Autumn/Winter Catalogue and for the new products in the e-shop. For Christmas and Yule we have Christmas tree shaped soaps in peppermint and jade and amethyst and lavender snowflake shaped soaps. There are a collection of angels with Victorian cherub angels in chocolate & gold and sandalwood and clear quartz. 3-D cherub angels are available in chocolate and gold, rose & rose quartz and clary sage and garnet. Nature fairy scenes are available in amethyst and lavender.

The Crystal Essence TM range also include shaving soaps, solid shampoo soaps, and baby products, colognes, perfumes including the new Crystal Essence ™ Everlasting Rose Quartz perfume including gift card size perfume cards and make-ups. There are also lots of new fun shapes for soaps, perfect for gift bags and wedding and event favours. 3-D Swan Soaps using a white soap base are now available in right and left facing poses.

Crystal Essence ™ Chrysanthemum shaped handmade soaps makes a nice house warming or host/hostess gift. In Feng Shui Chrysanthemum brings laughter and happiness into the home. We also have a good luck 3-D kitty in Sandalwood and clear quartz. Dragon soaps include a clary sage and garnet super-sized Welsh Dragon rectangular soap and a circular Chinese dragon embossed soap. The herbal Gardening Soap is a year-round favourite, with white maize, pumice and clay it gets hands super clean and moisturizers at the same time with a lovely orange essential oil scent.

Crystal Healing

http://www.suite101.com/content/recycled-glass-art-a297478

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

http://www.brighthub.com/members/caramoore.aspx

Lunar Crystals

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

Turquoise – Harmonises, cheers, and protects from external influences. Helps recognize causes of happiness and unhappiness and master them. Helps with exhaustion, hyperacidity, rheumatism, gout, stomach pains and cramps.

Healing Crystals, Michael Gienger

Herbalism

Article on Radiation

http://www.susunweed.com/Article_Surviving_Radiation.htm

Herbal Articles by Cara E Moore

http://www.baldwins.co.uk/perl/go.pl/healthnotes.html?%2fuk%2fassets%2fa-z-index%2fa-to-z-index-of-vitamin-and-herb-interactions%2f%7edefault

Useful herb resource for vitamin and herb interactions:

Horsechestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) Astringent, circulatory tonic. Strengthens and/tones veins. Used internally to aid body in treatment of phlebitis, inflammation of veins, varicosity, haemorrhoids, externally as a lotion. Dosage: Pour a cup of boiling water onto 1-2 tsp of dried fruit, leave to infuse for 10-15 minutes drink x 3 a day or use to make a lotion.

Herbal Primer, Cara E. Moore

Yoga

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

Namaste means "the divinity within me salutes the divinity within you."

http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/biological-significance-piezoelectricity-relation-acupuncture-hatha-yoga-osteopathic-medicin

Yoga

http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/1705

Lion Pose- Simhasana

Anatomical Focus: Knees, Ankles, Abdomen, Chest, Hands/Fingers, Diaphragm

Therapeutic Applications: According to several sources, Simhasana is a useful pose for people with bad breath or for those who stutter. (Also good for diaphragm and singing)

Contraindications and Cautions: If you have a knee injury, always be cautious in flexed-knee sitting positions and, if necessary, sit on a chair to do the pose.

Benefits: Relieves tension in the chest and face. An often-overlooked benefit of Simhasana is that it stimulates the platysma, a flat, thin, rectangular-shaped muscle on the front of the throat. The platysma, when contracted, pulls down on the corners of the mouth and wrinkles the skin of the neck. Simhasana helps keep the platysma firm as we age. According to traditional texts, Simhasana destroys disease and facilitates the three major bandhas (Mula, Jalandhara, Uddiyana).

Kneel on the floor and cross the front of the right ankle over the back of the left. The feet will point out to the sides. Sit back so the perineum snuggles down onto the on the top (right) heel.

Press your palms firmly against your knees. Fan the palms and splay your fingers like the sharpened claws of a large feline.
Take a deep inhalation through the nose. Then simultaneously open your mouth wide and stretch your tongue out, curling its tip down toward the chin, open your eyes wide, contract the muscles on the front of your throat, and exhale the breath slowly out through your mouth with a distinct "ha" sound. The breath should pass over the back of the throat.
Some texts instruct us to set our gaze (drishti) at the spot between the eyebrows. This is called "mid-brow gazing" (bhru-madhya-drishti; bhru = the brow; madhya = middle).Other texts direct the eyes to the tip of the nose (nasa-agra-drishti; nasa = nose; agra = foremost point or part, i.e., tip).
You can roar two or three times. Then change the cross of the legs and repeat for the same number of times.

Poetry

Horizon’s Place And Time Meet by Cara E. Moore Chapbook

Poem from this collection http://www.gaias-garden.co.uk/library/ACheerfulCanvas.html

Paperback version of Horizon’s Place And Time Meet: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2011093/?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=banner&utm_content=140x240 Also available now in iPad/iPhone version

To Winter by William Blake

William Blake (from Poetical Sketches, 1783)

O winter! bar thine adamantine doors:

The north is thine; there hast thou built thy dark
Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs
Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.

He hears me not, but o’er the yawning deep

Rides heavy; his storms are unchain’d, sheathed
In ribbed steel; I dare not lift mine eyes;
For he hath rear’d his sceptre o’er the world.

Lo! now the direful monster, whose skin clings

To his strong bones, strides o’er the groaning rocks:
He withers all in silence, and in his hand
Unclothes the earth, and freezes up frail life.

He takes his seat upon the cliffs, the mariner

Cries in vain. Poor little wretch! that deal’st
With storms, till heaven smiles, and the monster
Is driven yelling to his caves beneath Mount Hecla.

Music

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

Vocal Training