Crystal Arts & Health: February 2012

Thursday 23 February 2012

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/

Have a happy and blessed 2012.

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)

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.

I am an Herbalism and Crystal Healing Practitioner and have a line of products Crystal Essence™ that combine, aromatherapy, herbal products and crystal essences for "Holistic Wellbeing for Auric and Physical Body"

See http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/ for the Spring/Summer 2012 Catalogue and for the new products in the e-shop. A collection of angels with Victorian cherub angels in Crystal Essence™ Chocolate & Gold Cherub of Courage and Protection and Crystal Essence™ Sandalwood and Clear quartz Cherub of Abundance and Prosperity and Crystal Essence™ Rose & Rose Quartz Cherub of Love and Harmony. 3-D cherub with hearts angels and Facing Cherubs hand-made soaps are available in Crystal Essence™ Chocolate and Gold, Rose & Rose quartz and Clary Sage and Garnet. Nature fairy scenes are available in Crystal Essence™ Amethyst and Lavender.

New large Crystal shaped soaps like the wedding favour soaps in birthday month crystals. February is Lavender & Amethyst and the brow chakra. March is Bergamot & Aquamarine in a healing turquoise colour and the thymus chakra for the immune system. Lovely vintage Victorian and traditional patterned soaps are also now in stock under the Vintage Soaps section on the online shop. These include a Crystal Essence™ Rose Quartz and Rose 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. New Crystal Essence™ Rose & Rose Quartz love soaps include a stunning winged cupid, a “For You” heart shaped soap, a delicate cameo shaped soap, a round rose soap, a heart shaped bunch of roses and a lovely square butterfly soap.

For the Year of the Water Dragon 2012 Crystal Essence™ Bergamot & Aquamarine rectangular embossed Dragon hand-made soaps are now available. Naelyan (pronounced nail-yon) is the dragon lord of the waters. This water drake is turquoise in colour and is associated with spells of compassion, peace, forgiveness, intuition and peace of mind. Fire Drake Crystal Essence™ Hand-made soaps include Clary Sage and Garnet and Crystal Essence™ and Orange and Carnelian. Fire Drakes assist in spells of protection, passion, prosperity, manifestations of goals and transformation. A green dragon Crystal Essence™ Jade and Peppermint is also now available. Green Earth Dragons are associated with rituals of peace, fertility, money, prosperity, business activity, stability and growth. A Clary Sage and Garnet and Crystal Essence™ Welsh Dragon motif hand-made soap is also just newly available.

Aromatherapy Ostara (20^th March 2012) beeswax melts feature a healing combination of rose, violet, frankincense and orange as well as the birthday Crystal Essence™ Crystal Shaped Handmade soaps for April to August. April is Herkimer Diamond & Sandalwood (Crown Chakra), May is Rose & Rose Quartz (Heart chakra), June is White Pearl & Neroli, (Solar Plexus Chakra) July is Ruby & Orange (Heart chakra) as well as Orange and Carnelian (Sacral Chakra) and August is Jade & Peppermint (Heart chakra). Crystal Essence™ Olive embossed olive handmade soaps and adorable bee skep shaped honey soaps are featured in the Spring/Summer Catalogue. Crystal Essence™ Peppermint and Jade Celtic Circular embossed Triquetra and Triskele shaped hand-made soaps are available for St. Patrick’s Day.

The Crystal Essence™ 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. Crystal Essence 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 Golden Feng Shui kitty in Sandalwood and clear quartz. 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. 3-D Crystal Essence™ Bunnys in White Orange & Carnelian and Chocolate & Gold as well as colourful Crystal Essence™ Egg shaped soaps will also will be available in Spring in time for Ostara and Easter.

The latest category called aromatherapy oils and incense is available on the online shop with Litha oil (20^th June 2012), with Chamomile, Sandalwood, Rose and Lavender, the combination promotes health, love and prosperity. Hand blended Beltane (30^th April 2012) incense, used in handfasting rituals and house blessing incense are also available. Hand-made beeswax melts available in uplifting Bergamont and Orange, Calming Rose and Lavender and summer time Citronella. A protective and motivating Imbolc (1^st of February) blend Wax melts with Myrrh, Basil and Cinnamon is also available. Heart shaped massage candles with Patchouli, Lavender and Eucalyptus are available. These make a lovely gift for special occasions. Be sure to also check out the herbal teas available like Pleasant Dreams, Less Stress and the new “Lover’s Tea” a recipe by Witch Bree (Love Spells Deck 36 Spells for Romance and Passion) with Hibiscus flowers, rosehips, lemon balm, mint and meadow sweet under the Herbal Products section on the online shop. Please note the Baldwins health notes pages for interactions with other medicines and conditions.

Check out the 10% off paycodes coupon for paypal purchases. Code is t2e6g When using online shop basket when the total amount is known, go to paycode link, put in code, click general unless ebay purchase, the amount due and shipping and then you will be redirected to paypal checkout where the 10% will be taken off purchase price

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

http://www.suite101.com/profile.cfm/caraemoore

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

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.

Brow Chakra (Third eye)

The sphere of intuition and mental connection. Imbalances here can create a sense of your being bombarded by other’s people’s thoughts or being overtaken by wild and irrational intuitions that have no basis in truth.

Negative quality: delusion. Positive quality: intuitive insight.

Purple stones like Amethyst and Sugalite strengthen and balance the brow chakra.

Crystal Prescriptions, Judy Hall

Herbalism

Article on Radiation

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

http://www.squidoo.com/Herbalprimer

Herbal Articles by Cara E Moore

http://www.suite101.com/profile.cfm/caraemoore

"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:

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

Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) Bitter tonic, stimulant, nervine tonic, emmenagogue. Used as a flavouring, digestive stimulant, aids digestion, mild nervine action aids in Depression, eases tension, used to aid normal menstrual flow. Dosage: Infusion: Pour a cup of boiling water onto 1-2 tsp of herb, infuse 10-15 minutes in a covered container, 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

http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/2473

Extended Hand-To-Big-Toe Pose

Utthita Hasta Padangustasana

Anatomical Focus: Upper back

Benefits: Strengthens the legs and ankles, stretches the backs of the legs, improves sense of balance.

Contraindications and Cautions: Ankle or low back injuries

From Tadasana, bring your left knee toward your belly.
Reach your left arm inside the thigh, cross it over the front ankle, and hold the outside of your left foot. If your hamstrings are tight, hold a strap looped around the left sole.
Firm the front thigh muscles of the standing leg, and press the outer thigh inward.
Inhale and extend the left leg forward. Straighten the knee as much as possible. If your're steady, swing the leg out to the side. Breathe steadily; breathing takes concentration, but it will help you balance.
Hold for 30 seconds, then swing the leg back to center with an inhale, and lower the foot to the floor with an exhale. Repeat on the other 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

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

The Angel by William Blake

I Dreamt a Dream! what can it mean?
And that I was a maiden Queen:
Guarded by an Angel mild;
Witless woe, was neer beguil'd!

And I wept both night and day
And he wip'd my tears away
And I wept both day and night
And hid from him my hearts delight

So he took his wings and fled:
Then the morn blush'd rosy red:
I dried my tears & armd my fears,
With ten thousand shields and spears.

Soon my Angel came again;
I was arm'd, he came in vain:
For the time of youth was fled
And grey hairs were on my head

Music Cara E. Moore http://www.reverbnation.com/controller/audio_player/detachable_player/artist_487603?autoPlay=true http://shootingpeople.org/cards/caraemoore Vocal Training

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

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

Sheryl Crow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raSb13MX1mc&feature=related

My friend the communist

Holds meetings in his RV

I can’t afford his gas

So I’m stuck here watching TV

I don’t have digital

I don’t have diddly squat

It’s not having what you want

It’s wanting what you’ve got

(Chorus:)

I’m gonna soak up the sun

Gonna tell everyone

To lighten up (I’m gonna tell ‘em that)

I’ve got no one to blame

For every time I feel lame

I’m looking up o I’m gonna soak up the sun

I am going to soak up the sun

I’ve got a crummy job

I don’t pay near enough

To buy the things it takes

To win me some of your love

Every time I turn around

I’m looking up, you’re looking down

Maybe something’s wrong with you

That makes you act the way you do

Maybe I am crazy too

(Chorus:)

I’m gonna soak up the sun

Gonna tell everyone

To lighten up (I’m gonna tell ‘em that)

I’ve got no one to blame

For every time I feel lame

I’m looking up o I’m gonna soak up the sun

I am going to soak up the sun

I’m gonna soak up the sun

While it’s still free

I’m gonna soak up the sun

Before it goes out on me

Don’t have no master suite

I’m still the king of me

You have a fancy ride, but baby

I’m the one who has the key

Every time I turn around

I’m looking up, you’re looking down

Maybe something’s wrong with you

That makes you act the way you do

Maybe I am crazy too.

(Chorus:)

I’m gonna soak up the sun

Gonna tell everyone

To lighten up (I’m gonna tell ‘em that)

I’ve got no one to blame

For every time I feel lame

I’m looking up o I’m gonna soak up the sun

I am going to soak up the sun

I’m gonna soak up the sun

Got my 45 on

So I can rock on.

Saturday 18 February 2012

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/

Have a happy and blessed 2012.

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)

My book, Herbal Primer, 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.

I am an Herbalism and Crystal Healing Practitioner and have a line of products Crystal Essence™ that combine, aromatherapy, herbal products and crystal essences for "Holistic Wellbeing for Auric and Physical Body"

Aromatherapy Ostara (20th March 2012) beeswax melts feature a healing combination of rose, violet, frankincense and orange as well as the birthday Crystal Essence™ Crystal Shaped Handmade soaps for April to August. April is Herkimer Diamond & Sandalwood (Crown Chakra), May is Rose & Rose Quartz (Heart chakra), June is White Pearl & Neroli, (Solar Plexus Chakra) July is Ruby & Orange (Heart chakra) as well as Orange and Carnelian (Sacral Chakra) and August is Jade & Peppermint (Heart chakra). Crystal Essence™ Olive embossed olive handmade soaps and adorable bee skep shaped honey soaps are featured in the Spring/Summer Catalogue. Crystal Essence™ Peppermint and Jade Celtic Circular embossed Triquetra and Triskele shaped hand-made soaps are available for St. Patrick’s Day.

The latest category called aromatherapy oils and incense is available on the online shop with Litha oil (20th June 2012), with Chamomile, Sandalwood, Rose and Lavender, the combination promotes health, love and prosperity. Hand blended Beltane (30th April 2012) incense, used in handfasting rituals and house blessing incense are also available. Hand-made beeswax melts available in uplifting Bergamont and Orange, Calming Rose and Lavender and summer time Citronella. A protective and motivating Imbolc (1st of February) blend Wax melts with Myrrh, Basil and Cinnamon is also available. Heart shaped massage candles with Patchouli, Lavender and Eucalyptus are available. These make a lovely gift for special occasions. Be sure to also check out the herbal teas available like Pleasant Dreams, Less Stress and the new “Lover’s Tea” a recipe by Witch Bree (Love Spells Deck 36 Spells for Romance and Passion) with Hibiscus flowers, rosehips, lemon balm, mint and meadow sweet under the Herbal Products section on the online shop. Please note the Baldwins health notes pages for interactions with other medicines and conditions.

Check out the 10% off paycodes coupon for paypal purchases. Code is t2e6g When using online shop basket when the total amount is known, go to paycode link, put in code, click general unless ebay purchase, the amount due and shipping and then you will be redirected to paypal checkout where the 10% will be taken off purchase price

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

http://www.suite101.com/profile.cfm/caraemoore

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

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.

Throat Chakra

The sphere of communication. If blocked thoughts and feelings cannot be verbalized. Other people’s opinions may cause you difficulties.

Negative quality: mendacity. Positive quality: truthful self-expression.

Crystal Prescriptions, Judy Hall

Blue colour stones like Sodalite and Lapis Lazuli strengthen and balance the throat chakra.

Herbalism

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

http://www.squidoo.com/Herbalprimer

Herbal Articles by Cara E Moore

http://www.suite101.com/profile.cfm/caraemoore

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

Motherwort (Leonurus cardiac) Sedative, emmenagogue, anti-spasmodic, cardiac tonic. Used to treat uterine and menstrual, heart and circulation conditions. Relaxing tonic for menopause, false labour pains, tonic for heart, delayed and suppressed menstruation, over-rapid heart beats, palpitations. Dosage: Pour a cup of boiling water onto 1-2 tsp of dried herb and 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

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

http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/2447

Loving Your Enemies Meditation

Dhyana

This meditation will take anywhere from five to 20 minutes, or even longer if you wish. We recommend staying in Steps 1 and 2 for one to two minutes each; in Step 3 for three to five minutes; and in Step 4 for five to 15 minutes.
Get into a comfortable, seated position, either in a chair with your legs uncrossed, or on the floor. Adjust your posture so that your spine is upright, yet your body feels relaxed. Rest your hands in your lap or on your thighs, with the palms facing up or down.
Close your eyes and bring your attention to your breathing. Take a few conscious and deep abdominal breaths. Let your exhalations carry out any tension or anxiety you're feeling now, and use them throughout your meditation to expel any tension or anxiety that comes up.
If it is helpful, you may use the affirmations—"I am" on the in-breath and "calm and relaxed" on the out-breath—to center yourself during this practice.
Bring your awareness to your heart. Allow your breaths to massage this area. Notice any specific feelings or thoughts you may have about yourself, people you know, or any particular event. Cultivate a detached and nonjudgmental attitude to anything that comes up for you.
Continue to focus on the heart area while doing the following:
Cultivate a friendly and accepting attitude toward yourself and your friends.
Develop feelings of compassion and understanding for all those who suffer.
Be joyful in your thoughts about a particular person who's important to you or a saint or guru you hold in high esteem.
Maintain feelings of indifference and equanimity to anyone who has harmed you or anyone else. Don't get sucked into their mean-spiritedness or harmful deeds. To complete your meditation, take three to five deep abdominal breaths. Open your eyes and slowly get up.

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

Love

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All thoughts, all passions, all delights,

Whatever stirs this mortal frame,
All are but ministers of Love,
And feed his sacred flame.

Oft in my waking dreams do I
Live o’er again that happy hour,
When midway on the mount I lay,
Beside the ruined tower.

The moonshine, stealing o’er the scene
Had blended with the lights of eve;
And she was there, my hope, my joy,
My own dear Genevieve!

She leant against the armèd man,
The statue of the armèd knight;
She stood and listened to my lay,
Amid the lingering light.

Few sorrows hath she of her own,
My hope! my joy! my Genevieve!
She loves me best, whene’er I sing
The songs that make her grieve.

I played a soft and doleful air,
I sang an old and moving story—
An old rude song, that suited well
That ruin wild and hoary.

She listened with a flitting blush,
With downcast eyes and modest grace;
For well she know, I could not choose
But gaze upon her face.

I told her of the Knight that wore
Upon his shield a burning brand;
And that for ten long years he wooed
The Lady of the Land.

I told her how he pined: and ah!
The deep, the low, the pleading tone
With which I sang another’s love,
Interpreted my own.

She listened with a flitting blush,
With downcast eyes, and modest grace;
And she forgave me, that I gazed
Too fondly on her face!

But when I told the cruel scorn
That crazed that bold and lovely Knight,
And that he crossed the mountain-woods,
Nor rested day nor night;

That sometimes from the savage den,
And sometimes from the darksome shade,
And sometimes starting up at once
In green and sunny glade,—

There came and looked him in the face
An angel beautiful and bright;
And that he knew it was a Fiend,
This miserable Knight!

And that unknowing what he did,
He leaped amid a murderous band,
And saved from outrage worse than death
The Lady of the Land!

And how she wept, and clasped his knees;
And how she tended him in vain—
And ever strove to expiate
The scorn that crazed his brain;—

And that she nursed him in a cave;
And how his madness went away,
When on the yellow forest-leaves
A dying man he lay;—

His dying words—but when I reached
That tenderest strain of all the ditty,
My faultering voice and pausing harp
Disturbed her soul with pity!

All impulses of soul and sense
Had thrilled my guileless Genevieve;
The music and the doleful tale,
The rich and balmy eve;

And hopes, and fears that kindle hope,
An undistinguishable throng,
And gentle wishes long subdued,
Subdued and cherished long!

She wept with pity and delight,
She blushed with love, and virgin-shame;
And like the murmur of a dream,
I heard her breathe my name.

Her bosom heaved—she stepped aside,
As conscious of my look she stepped—
The suddenly, with timorous eye
She fled to me and wept.

She half enclosed me with her arms,
She pressed me with a meek embrace;
And bending back her head, looked up,
And gazed upon my face.

’Twas partly love, and partly fear,
And partly ’twas a bashful art,
That I might rather feel, than see,
The swelling of her heart.

I calmed her fears, and she was calm,
And told her love with virgin pride;
And so I won my Genevieve,
My bright and beauteous Bride.

Music

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

http://shootingpeople.org/cards/caraemoore

Vocal Training

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

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

Cranberries
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asu7A6tTDkU

If you, if you could return...

Don't let it burn,don't let it fade...

I'm sure I'm not being rude
But it's just your attitude
It's tearing me apart
It's ruining everything

I swore, I swore I would be true
And honey so did you
So why were you holding her hand
Is that the way we stand
Were you lying all the time
Was it just a game to you

But I'm in so deep
You know I'm such a fool for you
You've got me wrapped around your finger, ra ah ound
Do you have to let it linger
Do you have to, do you have to, do you have to let it linger

Oh, I thought the world of you
I thought nothing could go wrong
But I was wrong, I was wrong
If you, if you could get by
Trying not to lie
Things wouldn't be so confused
And I wouldn't feel so used
But you always really knew
I just wanna be with you

But I'm in so deep
You know I'm such a fool for you
You've got me wrapped around your finger, ra ah ound
Do you have to let it linger
Do you have to, do you have to, do you have to let it linger

But I'm in so deep
You know I'm such a fool for you
You've got me wrapped around your finger, ra ah ound
Do you have to let it linger
Do you have to, do you have to, do you have to let it linger

You know I'm such a fool for you
You've got me wrapped around your finger, ra ah ound
Do you have to let it linger
Do you have to, do you have to, do you have to let it linge

Friday 10 February 2012

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/

Have a happy and blessed 2012.

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)

I am an Herbalism 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 and Physical Body"

See http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/for the Spring/Summer 2012 Catalogue and for the new products in the e-shop. For Winter we have Crystal Essence™ Amethyst and Lavender snowflake shaped soaps. Snowflakes are a winter symbol of love and a lovely Crystal Essence™ Orange and carnelian rectangular white soap rectangular snowman. There are also a collection of angels with Victorian cherub angels in Crystal Essence™ Chocolate & Gold Cherub of Courage and Protection and Crystal Essence™ Sandalwood and Clear quartz Cherub of Abundance and Prosperity and Crystal Essence™ Rose & Rose Quartz Cherub of Love and Harmony. 3-D cherub angels are also available in Crystal Essence™ Chocolate and Gold, Rose & Rose quartz and Clary Sage and Garnet. Nature fairy scenes are available in Crystal Essence™ Amethyst and Lavender.

The latest addition is the new large Crystal shaped soaps like the wedding favour soaps in birthday month crystals. January is Clary Sage and Garnet and the root chakra and February is Lavender & Amethyst and the brow chakra. March is Bergamot & Aquamarine in a healing turquoise colour to strengthen and balance the thymus chakra for the immune system. Lovely vintage Victorian and traditional patterned soaps are also now in stock under the Vintage Soaps section on the online shop. These include a Crystal Essence™ Rose Quartz and Rose 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. New Valentine soaps include a stunning winged cupid, a “For You” heart shaped soap, a delicate cameo shaped soap, a round rose soap, a heart shaped bunch of roses and a lovely square butterfly soap.

For the new Spring/Summer 2012 catalogue a lovely bunch of Daffodils, the symbol of Wales, rectangular soap and a golden Triskele shaped hand-made soaps are available now in Crystal Essence™ Sandalwood & Clear Quartz. Right and left facing 3-D white soap swans, a sacred bird of the Celts (and Swansea City Football fans, limited edition black right facing swans are also available) in Crystal Essence™ Carnelian and Orange. Crystal Essence™ Lavender motif rectangular bars and rectangular dragon embossed bars in Clary Sage and Garnet are also new. For the Year of the Water Dragon 2012 Crystal Essence™ Bergamot & Aquamarine rectangular embossed Dragon hand-made soaps are now available. Naelyan (pronounced nail-yon) is the dragon lord of the waters. This water drake is turquoise in colour and is associated with spells of compassion, peace, forgiveness, intuition and peace of mind.

Aromatherapy Ostara (20^th March 2012) beeswax melts feature a healing combination of rose, violet, frankincense and orange as well as the birthday Crystal Essence™ Crystal Shaped Handmade soaps for April to August. April is Herkimer Diamond & Sandalwood (Crown Chakra), May is Rose & Rose Quartz (Heart chakra), June is White Pearl & Neroli, (Solar Plexus Chakra) July is Ruby & Orange (Heart chakra) and August is Jade & Peppermint (Heart chakra). Crystal Essence™ Olive embossed olive handmade soaps and adorable bee skep shaped honey soaps are featured in the Spring/Summer Catalogue. Crystal Essence™ Peppermint and Jade Celtic Circular embossed Triquetra and Triskele shaped hand-made soaps are available for St. Patrick’s Day.

The Crystal Essence™ 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. Crystal Essence 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 Golden Feng Shui 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. Chinese New Year is the Year of The Dragon, which started the 23^rd of January. For Spring a circular phoenix is also now available. The Dragon and Phoenix are often pictured together as a balance between the Dragon (Yang) and the Phoenix (Yin). 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. 3-D Crystal Essence™ Bunnys in White Orange & Carnelian and Chocolate & Gold as well as colourful Crystal Essence™ Egg shaped soaps will also will be available in Spring in time for Ostara and Easter.

The latest category called aromatherapy oils and incense is available on the online shop with Litha oil (20^th June 2012), with Chamomile, Sandalwood, Rose and Lavender, the combination promotes health, love and prosperity. Hand blended Beltane (30^th April 2012) incense, used in handfasting rituals and house blessing incense are also available. Hand-made beeswax melts available in uplifting Bergamont and Orange, Calming Rose and Lavender and summer time Citronella. A protective and motivating Imbolc (1^st of February) blend Wax melts with Myrrh, Basil and Cinnamon is also available. Heart shaped massage candles with Patchouli, Lavender and Eucalyptus are also available. These make a lovely valentine’s day gift. Be sure to also check out the herbal teas available like Pleasant Dreams, Less Stress and the new “Lover’s Tea” a recipe by Witch Bree (Love Spells Deck 36 Spells for Romance and Passion) with Hibiscus flowers, rosehips, lemon balm, mint and meadow sweet under the Herbal Products section on the online shop. Please note the Baldwins health notes pages for interactions with other medicines and conditions.

Check out the 10% off paycodes coupon for paypal purchases. Code is t2e6g When using online shop basket when the total amount is known, go to paycode link, put in code, click general unless ebay purchase, the amount due and shipping and then you will be redirected to paypal checkout where the 10% will be taken off purchase price

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

http://www.suite101.com/profile.cfm/caraemoore

Higher Heart Chakra (Thymus Chakra)

The sphere of compassion.

Negative quality: Neediness Positive quality: Unconditional love

Crystal Prescriptions, Judy Hall

Turquoise coloured stones like Turquoise and Aquamarine are used to strengthen and balance the thymus chakra.

Herbalism

Article on Radiation

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

http://www.squidoo.com/Herbalprimer

Herbal Articles by Cara E Moore

http://www.suite101.com/profile.cfm/caraemoore

Useful herb resource for vitamin and herb interactions:

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

Milk thistle (Carduus marianus) Liver function stimulant, Detoxification, Gallstones, High cholesterol, Liver tonic. Used to treat morning sickness, motion sickness, lessens varicose veins, haemorrhoids caused by poor circulation during pregnancy. Encourages good milk production, calming. Used in treatment of acne and psoriasis. Dosage: Pour a cup of boiling water onto 1-2 tsp of dried herb and leave to infuse for 10-5 minutes, drink x 3 a day.

Herbal Primer, Cara E. Moore

http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/1675

Intense Side Stretch Pose

Parsvottanasana

(parsh-voh-tahn-AHS-anna)
parsva = side, flank
ut = intense
tan = to stretch or extend (compare the Latin verb tendere, “to stretch or extend”)

Benefits: Calms the brain, stretches the spine, shoulders and wrists (in the full pose), hips and hamstrings, strengthens the legs, stimulates the abdominal organs, improves posture and sense of balance, improves digestion

Contraindications and cautions: If you have a back injury or high blood pressure, avoid the full forward bend; instead do Ardha Parsvottanasana (pronounced are-dah = half). Perform steps 1 and 2 as described above, a couple of feet from and facing a wall. With an exhalation lower your torso parallel to the floor and reach your hands out to the wall. Press your palms actively into the wall (preferably with your elbows fully extended), keeping your front torso longer than your back.

Stand in Tadasana . With an exhalation, step or lightly jump your feet 3½ to 4 feet apart. Rest your hands on your hips. Turn your left foot in 45 to 60 degrees to the right and your right foot out to the right 90 degrees. Align the right heel with the left heel. Firm your thighs and turn your right thigh outward, so that the center of the right knee cap is in line with the center of the right ankle.
Exhale and rotate your torso to the right, squaring the front of your pelvis as much as possible with the front edge of your mat. As the left hip point turns forward, press the head of the left femur back to ground the back heel. Press your outer thighs inward, as if squeezing a block between your thighs. Firm your scapulas against your back torso, lengthen your coccyx toward the floor, and arch your upper torso back slightly.
With another exhalation, lean the torso forward from the groins over the right leg. Stop when the torso is parallel to the floor. Press your fingertips to the floor on either side of the right foot. If it isn’t possible for you to touch the floor, support your hands on a pair of blocks or the seat of a folding chair. Press the thighs back and lengthen the torso forward, lifting through the top of the sternum.
In this pose the front-leg hip tends to lift up toward the shoulder and swing out to the side, which shortens the front-leg side. Be sure to soften the front-leg hip toward the earth and away from the same-side shoulder while you continue squeezing the outer thighs. Press the base of the big toe and the inner heel of the front foot firmly into the floor, then lift the inner groin of the front leg deep into the pelvis.
Hold your torso and head parallel to the floor for a few breaths. Then, if you have the flexibility, bring the front torso closer to the top of the thigh, but don’t round forward from the waist to do this. Eventually the long front torso will rest down on the thigh. Hold your maximum position for 15 to 30 seconds, then come up with an inhalation by pressing actively through the back heel and dragging the coccyx first down and then into the pelvis. Then go to the left side.

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

A Charm invests a face a poem by Emily Dickinson

A charm invest a face

Imperfectly beheld.

The lady dare not lift her vein

For fear it be dispelled.

But peers beyond her mesh,

And wishes and denies,

Lest interview annul a want

That image satisfies.

Music

Cara E. Moore

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

http://shootingpeople.org/cards/caraemoore

Vocal Training

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

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

Corrs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY-HU2Xh7PE

I Know My Love Lyrics

I know my love by his way of walking
And I know my love by his way of talking
And I know my love dressed in a suit of blue
And if my love leaves me what will I do...

And still she cried, "I love him the best
And a troubled mind sure can know no rest"
And still she cried, "Bonny boys are few
And if my love leaves me what will I do"

There is a dance house in Maradyke
And there my true love goes every night
He takes a strange girl upon his knee
Well now don't you think that that vexes me?

And still she cried, "I love him the best
And a troubled mind sure can know no rest"
And still she cried, "Bonny boys are few
And if my love leaves me what will I do"
If my love knew I can wash and wring
If my love knew I can sew and spin
I'd make a coat of the finest kind
But the want of money sure leaves me behind

And still she cried, "I love him the best
And a troubled mind sure can know no rest"
And still she cried, "Bonny boys are few
And if my love leaves me what will I do"

I know my love is an arrant rover
I know he'll wander the wild world over
In dear old Ireland he'll no longer tarry
An American girl he's sure to marry

And still she cried, "I love him the best
And a troubled mind sure can know no rest"
And still she cried, "Bonny boys are few
And if my love leaves me what will I do"

And still she cried, "I love him the best
And a troubled mind sure can know no rest"
And still she cried, "Bonny boys are few
And if my love leaves me what will I do"