Crystal Arts & Health

Friday, 9 July 2010

Crystal Arts And Health Blog

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

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

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

See http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/ for the new Spring/Summer Catalogue and for the new products in the e-shop. We have started making shaving soaps, solid shampoo soaps, and baby products and there are lots of new fun shapes for soaps, perfect for gift bags and wedding and event favours.

Crystal Healing

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

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

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 health sources of nurturing.

Moon in Scorpio

Smoky Quartz – promotes detoxification, fortifies, and strengthens during difficult times.

Moss Agate - heals bitterness of heart.

Herbalism

Stimulant

Herb that quickens and enlivens the physiological activity of the body. Example: Bayberry (Myrica cerifera)

Styptic

A herb that slows down the rate of bleeding, same as astringent.

Thymoleptic

Herbs that raise the mood and counteracts depression. Example: Damiana (Turnera aphrodisiaca)

Tonic

Herbs that strengthen and enliven a specific organ or the whole body. Example: Golden Seal (Hydrastis canadensis)

Vulnerary

Herb used for treating and healing wounds. Example: Marigold (Calendula officinalis)

Yoga

Shoulder Stand

Aids in the control of weight through thyroid gland
Helps to improve the blood circulation
Allows vital organs and glands to revert to their proper position
Relaxes legs and strained areas through relief of pressure

Lie flat on your back with arms at your side. Allow body to go limp, close eyes, breathe normally.
Turn palms downward so they press against floor, bring legs together and tense your leg and abdominal muscles.
Slowly raise your legs up into the air until at right angle with floor.
Keep your knees stiff, press hard on the floor with palms, swing your legs easily back over your head, support lumbar region with your hands. If you have difficulty lifting up legs upright. You can do this posture up against a wall and walk your legs up.
Slowly and carefully attempt to straighten yourself as far as you can into a vertical position, stop when posture becomes a strain. Hold your extreme position for 1 minute, working up to 3. Try to relax as much as possible.
To return your body to the floor, first bend your legs at the knees and bring knees as close as you can down towards your forehead, place hands on floor to support yourself. Roll forward and arch your neck so you can keep the back of your head and back on the floor.
When lower back is resting on the floor, extend your legs straight out into the air, slowly lower them to the floor.
Allow body to go completely limp and rest for at least one minute.

Poetry

Percy Bysshe Shelley

http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/famous/shelley/percy.html

Time Long Past

Like the ghost of a dear friend dead

Is Time long past.

A tone which is now forever fled,

A hope which is now forever past,

A love so sweet it could not last,

Was Time long past.

There were sweet dreams in the night

Of Time long past:

And, was it sadness or delight,

Each day a shadow onward cast

Which made us wish it yet might last--

That Time long past.

There is regret, almost remorse,

For Time long past.

'Tis like a child's belovèd corse

A father watches, till at last

Beauty is like remembrance, cast

From Time long past.

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

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

Des'ree – You gotta be

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db7cc8YRWxU&feature=related

Des'ree-You Gotta Be

Artist : Des'ree

Title : You Gotta Be

Album : I Ain't Movin'

Listen as your day unfolds

Challenge what the future holds

Try and keep your head up to the sky

Lovers, they may cause you tears

Go ahead release your fears

Stand up and be counted

Don't be ashamed to cry

You gotta be...

You gotta be bad, you gotta be bold, you gotta be wiser

You gotta be hard, you gotta be tough, you gotta be stronger

You gotta be cool, you gotta be calm, you gotta stay together

All I know, all I know, love will save the day

Herald what your mother said

Read the books your father read

Try to solve the puzzles in your own sweet time

Some may have more cash than you

Others take a different view

My oh my, yea, eh, eh

You gotta be bad, you gotta be bold, you gotta be wiser

You gotta be hard, you gotta be tough, you gotta be stronger

You gotta be cool, you gotta be calm, you gotta stay together

All I know, all I know, love will save the day

Time ask no questions, it goes on without you

Leaving you behind if you can't stand the pace

The world keeps on spinning

can't stop it, if you tried to

This best part is danger staring you in the face

(wo0o0o)

And then Listen as your day unfolds

Challenge what the future holds

Try and keep your head up to the sky

Lovers, they may cause you tears

Go ahead release your fears

My oh my, eh, eh, eh

You gotta be bad, you gotta be bold, you gotta be wiser

You gotta be hard, you gotta be tough, you gotta be stronger

You gotta be cool, you gotta be calm, you gotta stay together

All I know, all I know, love will save the day

Yea, yea, yea

You gotta be bad, you gotta be bold, you gotta be wiser

You gotta be hard, you gotta be tough, you gotta be stronger

You gotta be cool, you gotta be calm, you gotta stay together

All I know, all I know, love will save the day

Yea yea

Got to be bold

Got to be bad

Got to be wise

Do what others say

Got to be hard

Not too too hard

All I know is love will save the day

You gotta be bad, you gotta be bold, you gotta be wiser

You gotta be hard, you gotta be tough, you gotta be stronger

You gotta be cool, you gotta be calm, you gotta stay together

(fade)

Saturday, 3 July 2010

Crystal Arts And Health Blog

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

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

Sun in Virgo August 23 – September 22

Sardonyx is the Virgo birthstone, strong and stable, supports search for meaningful existence, supplements willpower, enhances self-control, helps to find stable relationships and attracts good friends.

Peridot is Virgo’s co-birthstone, assists in letting go habits that block growth, releases negative patterns.

Herbalism

Laxative
Herbs that actively stimulate the bowels to promote movements. Example: Senna Pods (Cassia angustifolia).

Nervine
Herbs that have a beneficial effect upon the nervous system. Example: Oats (Avena sativa)

Pectoral
Herbs for chest or respiratory disorders. Example: Elecampane (Inula helenium)

Rubefacient
A herb that causes the skin to become red as a counterirritant. Example: Mustard (Brassica alba)

Sedative
Herb that calms the nervous system and reduces stress and nervousness throughout the body. Example: Valerian (Valeriana officinalis)

Spasmolytic
An herb that controls muscle spasms. Same as antispasmodic.

Yoga

Complete Breathing

Helps purify and improve quality of blood
Increases resistance to colds and other respiratory diseases.
Expands chest cavity, develops diaphragm and improves general health and appearance
Strengthens nervous system and lends alertness and clarity to mind by increasing amount of life-force (prana)

Sit in a cross-legged posture, breathing normally. First movement is to use abdominal muscles to push your abdomen out as far as possible. This movement enable air to be taken into lower lungs during breathing.
Practice pulling in with the abdomen and pushing out first in the lower chest and then upper chest areas. Raise your shoulders, keeping your hands on your knees.
Slowly lower your shoulders and relax your chest and abdomen.
Practice to make step 1 flow easily into step 2.
Next, practice only the breathing. First exhale completely through your nose so that there is no air in your lung. Now inhale slowly, so it will take you 15 seconds to complete your inhalation. It may take a few attempts to slow down your breathing sufficiently so that you can do this inhalation in 15 seconds.
Retain air in lungs for 10 seconds.
Exhale through our nose during a count of 15 seconds.
Practice steps 5, 6, and 7 until the count of 15-10-15 is achieved.
Combine physical movements of steps 1, 2 and 3, with breathing steps of 5, 6, 7, push out the abdomen as you inhale during the first 5 seconds. Next pull in abdomen and push out chest area during the second group of 5 seconds. Hold the air for 10 seconds. Exhale through your nose slowly and return to normal position during a count of 15 seconds.

Inhale

5 seconds from the abdominal area
5 seconds from the chest area
5 seconds to lift the shoulders

Retain – 10 seconds

Exhale – 15 seconds

Start with 5 times; then work up to 10 times.

Poetry

Sylvia Plath

http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/famous/plath/sylvia.html

Insomniac

The night is only a sort of carbon paper,

Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars

Letting in the light, peephole after peephole . . .

A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things.

Under the eyes of the stars and the moon's rictus

He suffers his desert pillow, sleeplessness

Stretching its fine, irritating sand in all directions.

Over and over the old, granular movie

Exposes embarrassments--the mizzling days

Of childhood and adolescence, sticky with dreams,

Parental faces on tall stalks, alternately stern and tearful,

A garden of buggy rose that made him cry.

His forehead is bumpy as a sack of rocks.

Memories jostle each other for face-room like obsolete film stars.

He is immune to pills: red, purple, blue . . .

How they lit the tedium of the protracted evening!

Those sugary planets whose influence won for him

A life baptized in no-life for a while,

And the sweet, drugged waking of a forgetful baby.

Now the pills are worn-out and silly, like classical gods.

Their poppy-sleepy colors do him no good.

His head is a little interior of grey mirrors.

Each gesture flees immediately down an alley

Of diminishing perspectives, and its significance

Drains like water out the hole at the far end.

He lives without privacy in a lidless room,

The bald slots of his eyes stiffened wide-open

On the incessant heat-lightning flicker of situations.

Nightlong, in the granite yard, invisible cats

Have been howling like women, or damaged instruments.

Already he can feel daylight, his white disease,

Creeping up with her hatful of trivial repetitions.

The city is a map of cheerful twitters now,

And everywhere people, eyes mica-silver and blank,

Are riding to work in rows, as if recently brainwashed.

by Sylvia Plath

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

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

Christina Aguilera - Beautiful

Grammy 2004 performance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daixgZaIR0w&feature=related

Beautiful Lyrics

Spoken]

Don't look at me

Every day is so wonderful

Then suddenly, it's hard to breathe

Now and then, I get insecure

From all the pain, I'm so ashamed

I am beautiful no matter what they say

Words can't bring me down

I am beautiful in every single way

Yes, words can't bring me down

So don't you bring me down today

To all your friends, you're delirious

So consumed in all your doom

Trying hard to fill the emptiness

The pieces gone, left the puzzle undone

Is that the way it is

You are beautiful no matter what they say

Words can't bring you down

You are beautiful in every single way

Yes, words can't bring you down

Don't you bring me down today...

No matter what we do

(no matter what we do)

No matter what we say

(no matter what we say)

We're the song inside the tune

Full of beautiful mistakes

And everywhere we go

(everywhere we go)

The sun will always shine

(sun will always shine)

And tomorrow we might wake on the other side

All the other times

We are beautiful in every single way

Yes, words can't bring us down

We are beautiful in every single way

Yes, words can't bring us down

Don't you bring me down today

Sunday, 27 June 2010

Crystal Arts And Health Blog

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

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

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

Sun in Leo (July 23-August 22)

Tiger’s Eye is the birthstone for Leo, wear on right hand side for maximum benefit, promotes latent talents, unblocks creative abilities, this stone combines energy of the earth and sun, grounding, but with a high healing vibration. It is a protection stone. Golden topaz allows you to enhance inner riches and draw support you need. Rose quartz and Rhodochrosite are powerful emotional healers, placed over heart they draw out pain and help you feel more loving towards others.

Herbalism

Expectorant

A herb that stimulates the production of phlegm. Use: treatment of coughs. Example: Coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara)

Febrifuge

A herb that reduces fever. Example: Peppermint (Mentha piperita)

Galactagogue

Herbs that increase the production and secretion of milk. Example: Goat’s Rue (Galega officinalis)

Hepatic

Herbs that tone, strengthen, and increase the flow of bile in liver. Example Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)

Hypnotic

Herbs that help induce a deep and healing sleep. Example: Passionflower (Passiflora incarnate)

Yoga

Neck Movements

Benefits

Removes stiffness and tension in the neck
Strengthen the muscles of the neck
Should follow the Cobra

After finishing the Cobra and resting, prop yourself up on your elbows, place your hands and fingers securely on the back of your head. Gently push down until your chin rests on the top of your chest, hold this position for 20 seconds.
Slowly raise your head, place your chin in your left palm and place your right hand securely on the back of you head. Slowly turn your head as far to the left as possible without straining and hold this position for 20 seconds
Slowly turn you head so that you can now rest your chin in your right palm and place your left hand securely on the back of your head. Slowly turn your head as far to the right without straining and hold this position for 20 seconds.
Slowly return your arms to your sides; lie down and rest your cheek on the floor.
Repeat the complete posture two more times.

Poetry

Matthew Arnold http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/famous/arnold/matthew.html

Self Dependence

Weary of myself, and sick of asking

What I am, and what I ought to be,

At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me

Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea.

And a look of passionate desire

O'er the sea and to the stars I send:

"Ye who from my childhood up have calm'd me,

Calm me, ah, compose me to the end!

"Ah, once more," I cried, "ye stars, ye waters,

On my heart your mighty charm renew;

Still, still let me, as I gaze upon you,

Feel my soul becoming vast like you!"

From the intense, clear, star-sown vault of heaven,

Over the lit sea's unquiet way,

In the rustling night-air came the answer:

"Wouldst thou be as these are? Live as they.

"Unaffrighted by the silence round them,

Undistracted by the sights they see,

These demand not that the things without them

Yield them love, amusement, sympathy.

"And with joy the stars perform their shining,

And the sea its long moon-silver'd roll;

For self-poised they live, nor pine with noting

All the fever of some differing soul.

"Bounded by themselves, and unregardful

In what state God's other works may be,

In their own tasks all their powers pouring,

These attain the mighty life you see."

O air-born voice! long since, severely clear,

A cry like thine in mine own heart I hear:

"Resolve to be thyself; and know that he,

Who finds himself, loses his misery!"

by Matthew Arnold

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

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

Avril Lavigne - Keep Holding On
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PptAICkBzVQ&feature=related

Keep Holding On

You're not alone

Together we stand

I'll be by your side, you know I'll take your hand

When it gets cold

And it feels like the end

There's no place to go

You know I won't give in

No I won't give in

Keep holding on

'Cause you know we'll make it through, we'll make it through

Just stay strong

'Cause you know I'm here for you, I'm here for you

There's nothing you could say

Nothing you could do

There's no other way when it comes to the truth

So keep holding on

'Cause you know we'll make it through, we'll make it through

So far away

I wish you were here

Before it's too late, this could all disappear

Before the doors close

And it comes to an end

With you by my side I will fight and defend

I'll fight and defend

Yeah, yeah

Keep holding on

'Cause you know we'll make it through, we'll make it through

Just stay strong

'Cause you know I'm here for you, I'm here for you

There's nothing you could say

Nothing you could do

There's no other way when it comes to the truth

So keep holding on

'Cause you know we'll make it through, we'll make it through

Hear me when I say, when I say I believe

Nothing's gonna change, nothing's gonna change destiny

Whatever's meant to be will work out perfectly

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

La da da da

La da da da da da da da da

Keep holding on

'Cause you know we'll make it through, we'll make it through

Just stay strong

'Cause you know I'm here for you, I'm here for you

There's nothing you could say

Nothing you could do

There's no other way when it comes to the truth

So keep holding on

'Cause you know we'll make it through, we'll make it through

Keep holding on

There's nothing you could say

Nothing you could do

There's no other way when it comes to the truth

So keep holding on

'Cause you know we'll make it through, we'll make it through

Saturday, 19 June 2010

Crystal Arts And Health Blog

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

My book Crystal Healing & The Chakra System covers the Chakra system, Crystal identification and uses, making crystal essences and meditation with crystals. Is available as an ebook from

http://store.payloadz.com/go/?id=239922 or as a paperback.

Crystal Healing

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

Sun in Cancer the crab June 21 – July 22

Birth stone of Cancer is Moonstone, “a stone of new beginnings”. Moon rules this sign naturally intuitive, moonstone helps to use this practically, brings emotional balance, helps to bring awareness of own biorhythm cycle. Place moonstone on solar plexus to promote deep emotional healing, draw out toxic emotional patterns. Chalcedony helps nurturing energies of Cancer. Ruby helps ambitions, sharpens mind, concentration.

Herbalism

Depurative: Same term as Alternative.

Diaphoretic: Herbs that induce sweating and help poor circulation. Example: Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)

Digestive Bitter: Same term as bitter.

Diurectic: Herbs that cause an increase of urine and help the body eliminate waste and support inner cleansing. Example: Bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi)

Emetic: Herbs that cause a person to vomit. Example: Ipecacuanha (Cephaelis ipecacuanha)

Emmenagogue: Herbs that stimulate menstral flow. Example: Blue Cohosh (Caulophyllum thalictroides)

Emollienta: Herbs that soften or soothes the skin. Example: Chickweed (Stellaria media)

Yoga

Cobra

Stimulates and relaxes the vertebrae form the neck to the base of spine.
Provides relief of tension and stiffness throughout the back
Develops the chest and bust and strengthens the muscles of the vack and buttocks.
Aids general improvement in posture.

Lie on abdomen with face resting on cheek and arms by side. Close eyes allow body to go completely limp. Turn head so that forehead rests on the floor.
Using only neck muscles slowly raise head upwards and backwards as far as is comfortable.
Keep your head back and slowly raise your trunk from the floor as far as you can, using only back muscles.
When you have raised up as far as you can go, bring your hands in from sides and place them beneath your upper chest, fingers of both hands pointing towards one another.
Now using your hands for support, slowly raise your trunk as far from floor as you can, your spine must be continually curved during the raising and your head must be held back. Feel each vertebra stretch during this movement, stop stretching when becomes uncomfortable.
The ultimate position will be when abdomen is raised from the floor and body is resting on the groin. However far you can get in this posture hold motionless for 10 seconds, working eventually up to 20 seconds.
At the completion of this count, slowly lower your trunk making sure it is continually curved as you come down, your head moves slowly forward.
When you can support your trunk without the aid of your hands, return them to your side.
Continue to lower your trunk and head, when your forehead touches the floor, pause for a moment and turn your check to rest on the floor. Relax for about a minute and repeat posture two more times.

Poetry

James Joyce

http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/famous/joyce/james.html

Strings in the Earth and Air

STRINGS in the earth and air

Make music sweet;

Strings by the river where

The willows meet.

There's music along the river

For Love wanders there,

Pale flowers on his mantle,

Dark leaves on his hair.

All softly playing,

With head to the music bent,

And fingers straying

Upon an instrument.

by James Joyce

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

Cara E. Moore

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

Norah Jones

http://www.comeawaywith.me/

Has a link to mp3 downloads and snipets of songs

Come Away With Me

Come away with me in the night

Come away with me

And I will write you a song

Come away with me on a bus

Come away with me where they can't tempt us

With their lies

I want to walk with you

On a cloudy day

In fields where the yellow grass grows knee high

Won't you try to come

Come away with me and we'll kiss

On a mountain top

Come away with me

And I will never stop loving you

[scats]

I want to wake up with the rain

Falling on a tin roof

While I'm safe there in your arms

All I ask of you is to come

Come away with me and we'll kiss

On a mountain top

Come away with me

And I will never stop loving you

Come away with me

Saturday, 12 June 2010

Crystal Arts And Health Blog

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

My book Crystal Healing & The Chakra System covers the Chakra system, Crystal identification and uses, making crystal essences and meditation with crystals. Is available as an ebook from

http://store.payloadz.com/go/?id=239922 or as a paperback.

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

See http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/ for the new Spring/Summer Catalogue and for the new products in the e-shop. We have started making shaving soaps, solid shampoo soaps, and baby products and there are lots of new fun shapes for soaps, perfect for gift bags and wedding and event favours.

Crystal Healing

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

Sun in Gemini May 21- June 20

Blue Agate, useful for nervous tension, tourmaline, draws of negative energies, stabilizes directions taken. Geminis are prone to nervous exhaustion, Golden topaz recharges energy, can be worn for long periods of time.

Herbalism

Bitter

Herbs that help the detoxification of the liver, regulate blood sugar, repair gut wall damage, stimulate appetite, help allergy distorted digestion. Example: Gentian Root (Gentiana lutea)

Cardiac tonic

Herbs that have a beneficial action on the heart. Example: Lilly of the Valley (Convallaia majalis)

Carminative

Herbs that relieve flatulence or colic by expelling gas. Example: Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare)

Cholagogue

Herbs that stimulate the flow of bile from the liver. Example: Balmony (Chelone glabra)

Demulcent

Herbs that are rich in mucilage and can soothe and protect irritated or inflamed internal tissues. Example: Comfrey (Symphytum officinale)

Yoga

Chest Expansion Posture

• Develops the chest, bust, muscles of the shoulders.

• Expands the lungs, stimulates the lung cells.

• Provides a quick relief of tension throughout the trunk.

• Aids improvement in posture

Stand easily with your arms at your sides.
Bend your elbows and raise your arms slowly so back of your hands touch your chest.
Straighten out arms at chest level, bring back slowly until you can clasp your hands behind your back, straighten out your clasped hands and arms as far as you can without strain. Remain standing, do not bend forward.
Keep hands clasped and arms held high, slowly, and gently bend backwards from the waist. Drop the head backward slightly and look upward. Go as far back as you can without straining and hold position for 5 seconds.
Slowly bend forward at the waist. Bring clasped hands and arms up straightly over your back as you bend forward. Keep knees straight and allow neck muscles to relax. Remain in this position for 10 seconds.
Slowly come out of this position. When standing upright, unclasp hands and stand with your arms at your side. Rest several moments and repeat movement again.

Good position for people who spend large part of the day sitting.

Poetry

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

"Hope" is the Thing with Feathers

"Hope" is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul

And sings the tune without the words

And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;

And sore must be the storm

That could abash the little bird

That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land

And on the strangest sea,

Yet never, in extremity,

It asked a crumb of me.

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

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

Power Singing Techniques

http://www.voiceteacher.com/sing_dramatically.html

Rosemary Clooney

http://www.rosemaryclooney.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soKB9DBX9Oc&feature=related

Sway

When marimba rhythms start to play

Dance with me, make me sway

Like the lazy ocean hugs the shore

Hold me close, sway me more

Like a flower bending in the breeze

Bend with me, sway with ease

When we dance, you have a way with me

Stay with me, sway with me

Other dancers may be on the floor

Dear but my eyes will see only you

Only you have that magic technique

When we sway I grow weak

I can hear the sound of violins

Long before it begins

Make me thrill as only you know how

Sway me smooth, sway me now

Quien sera el que me quiere a mi

Quien sera, quien sera

Quien sera el que me de su amor

Quien sera, quien sera

I can hear the sound of violins

Long before it begins

Make me thrill as only you know how

Sway me smooth, sway me now

Saturday, 5 June 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 & 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

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

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

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

See http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/ for the new Spring/Summer Catalogue and for the new products in the e-shop. We have started making shaving soaps, solid shampoo soaps, and baby products and there are lots of new fun shapes for soaps, perfect for gift bags and wedding and event favours.

Crystal Healing

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

Candle Crystal Meditation

Kneel in front of crystal, facing north, light beeswax candle, meditate on light beings and light workers to be present with you, draw in white light, image it is filling your whole being, you will feel warmth and vitality passing through you, focus light in heart chakra, hold your hand over crystal and direct the light through you hand into the heart of the crystal. This is the dedication for love, freedom, truth and understanding

Herbalism

Anti-parasitic
Often used as a synonym for Anthelmintic.

Anti-pyretic
A synonym for Febrifuge.

Anti-spasmodic
Herbs that can prevent or ease spasms or cramps in the muscles of the body. Example: Crampbark (Viburnum opulus)

Aperient
Herb that is a mild and gentle form of laxative. Example: Rhubarb Root (Rheum palmatum)

Aromatic
An herb that has a distinctive pleasant smell. The oils are the basis of aromatherapy. Example: Aniseed (Pimpinella anisum)

Astringent
Herbs that that draws tissue together. Example: Agrimony (Agrimonia eupatoria)

Yoga

Full Lotus Position

Provides classical sitting position for meditation for long periods of time.
Provides great elasticity of the ankles, knees and legs.
It is an advanced Yoga posture which requires patience and practice to accomplish.

1) In a sitting position, stretch your legs straight out before you. 2) Bend your right leg at the knee and bring it towards you so that you can take hold of your right foot with both hands. 3) Place your right foot on top of your left thigh. The right foot should be brought toward you as far as is possible so that eventually the right heel touches the groin. The right knee should be resting on the floor. 4) Bend your left leg at the knee and bring it towards you so that you can take hold of your left foot with both hands. 5) Place your left foot on top of your right thigh. The left foot should be brought in a far as possible so that eventually the left heel will also touch the groin, both knees should rest on the floor. Hold the full-lotus for only a few seconds in the beginning. With practice you will be able to keep this position for 20 minutes or longer and it has a therapeutic effect on the ankles, knees and thighs. Yogis have used this posture for meditation for thousands of years. The practice of meditation is the most effective manner of overcoming nervousness, fear and anxiety. When your legs grow tired, stretch them straight out, massage your knees gently with your hands and reverse the legs and resume the posture.

Poetry

http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/famous/thomas/dylan.html

Fern Hill

Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,
The night above the dingle starry,
Time let me hail and climb
Golden in the heydays of his eyes,
And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns
And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves
Trail with daisies and barley
Down the rivers of the windfall light.

And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns
About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home,
In the sun that is young once only,
Time let me play and be
Golden in the mercy of his means,
And green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman, the calves
Sang to my horn, the foxes on the hills barked clear and cold,
And the sabbath rang slowly
In the pebbles of the holy streams.

All the sun long it was running, it was lovely, the hay
Fields high as the house, the tunes from the chimneys, it was air
And playing, lovely and watery
And fire green as grass.
And nightly under the simple stars
As I rode to sleep the owls were bearing the farm away,
All the moon long I heard, blessed among stables, the nightjars
Flying with the ricks, and the horses
Flashing into the dark.

And then to awake, and the farm, like a wanderer white
With the dew, come back, the cock on his shoulder: it was all
Shining, it was Adam and maiden,
The sky gathered again

And the sun grew round that very day.
So it must have been after the birth of the simple light
In the first, spinning place, the spellbound horses walking warm
Out of the whinnying green stable
On to the fields of praise.

And honoured among foxes and pheasants by the gay house
Under the new made clouds and happy as the heart was long,
In the sun born over and over,
I ran my heedless ways,
My wishes raced through the house high hay
And nothing I cared, at my sky blue trades, that time allows
In all his tuneful turning so few and such morning songs
Before the children green and golden
Follow him out of grace.

Nothing I cared, in the lamb white days, that time would take me
Up to the swallow thronged loft by the shadow of my hand,
In the moon that is always rising,
Nor that riding to sleep
I should hear him fly with the high fields
And wake to the farm forever fled from the childless land.
Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,
Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea.

by Dylan Thomas

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

Scales training from vocalist.org.uk

http://www.vocalist.org.uk/vocal_scales_player2.html

Peggy Lee

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/5a2463af-eef0-4a22-bc8f-5865fbe9c78e

Digital Sheet Music of Fever

http://www.ollysguitar.com/peggy-fever-p-509169.html

Fever

Never know how much I love you
Never know how much I care
When you put your arms around me
I get a fever that's so hard to bear

You give me fever
When you kiss me
Fever when you hold me tight
Fever! in the morning
Fever all through the night

Sun lights up the daytime
Moon lights up the night
I light up when you call my name
And you know I'm gonna treat you right

You give me fever
When you kiss me
Fever when you hold me tight
Fever! in the morning
Fever all through the night

Everybody's got the fever
That is something you all know
Fever isn't such a new thing
Fever started long ago

Romeo loved Juliet
Juliet, she felt the same
When he put his arms around her
He said, "Julie, baby, you're my flame

"Thou giveth fever
"When we kisseth
"Fever with thy flaming youth
"Fever! I'm afire
"Fever, yea, I burn, forsooth."

Cap'n Smith and Pocahontas
Had a very mad affair
When her daddy tried to kill him
She said, "Daddy, oh, don't you dare!

He gives me fever
"With his kisses
"Fever when he holds me tight
"Fever! I'm his missus
"Daddy, won't you treat him right?"

Now you've listened to my story
Here's the point that I have made
Chicks were born to give you fever
Be it Fahrenheit or Centigrade

They give you fever
When you kiss them
Fever if you live and learn
Fever! till you sizzle
What a lovely way to burn
What a lovely way to burn
What a lovely way to burn
What a lovely way to burn

Sunday, 30 May 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 & 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

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

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

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

See http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/ for the new Spring/Summer Catalogue and for the new products in the e-shop. We have started making shaving soaps, solid shampoo soaps, and baby products and there are lots of new fun shapes for soaps, perfect for gift bags and wedding and event favours.

Crystal Healing

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

Crystal Uses

Stress reduction: Copper, Malachite, Haematite

Stabilizing Emotions: Sunstone, Kyanite, Dumortierite, Sapphire, Sodalite, Charoite, Rhodonite, Rose Quartz, Clear Quartz

Herbalism

Anti-haemorrhagic

Herbs that are astringent.

Anti-Inflamatory

Herbs that help the body to combat inflammations. Example Chamomile (Matricaria chamomilla)

Anti-lithic

Herbs that help prevent the formation of stones or gravel in the urinary system and help remove those already formed. Example: Parsley Piert (Aphanes arvensis)

Anti-Microbial

Herbs hat help the body to destroy or resist pathogenic microorganisms. Example: Echinacea (Echinacea angustifilia)

Yoga

Half Lotus

Relaxes entire nervous system

Loosens tension and stiffness in the ankles, knees and thighs.

Provides a comfortable position for meditation.

1) Sit down and stretch legs straight out before you.

2) Bend your left leg at the knee and bring it towards you, take hold of left foot with both hands.

3) Place your left foot so the sole rests against the inside of right thigh, the heel of your left foot should be drawn in as far as possible.

4) Bend the right leg at the knee so you can take hold of right foot with both hands.

5) Place right foot in the fold of your left leg. Drop the right knee as far as possible toward the floor. Rest your hands on your knees.

6) When your legs grow tired, stretch them straight out before you ans gently massage your knees. Repeat this position by reversing the legs so right leg is drawn in first and left leg is drawn in first and left leg is on top.

Poetry

http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/famous/emerson/ralph.html

Give All to Love

Give all to love;
Obey thy heart;
Friends, kindred, days,
Estate, good-fame,
Plans, credit and the Muse,
Nothing refuse.

'Tis a brave master;
Let it have scope:
Follow it utterly,
Hope beyond hope:
High and more high
It dives into noon,
With wing unspent,
Untold intent;
But it is a god,
Knows its own path
And the outlets of the sky.

It was never for the mean;
It requireth courage stout.
Souls above doubt,
Valor unbending,
It will reward,
They shall return
More than they were,
And ever ascending.

Leave all for love;
Yet, hear me, yet,
One word more thy heart behoved,
One pulse more of firm endeavor,
Keep thee to-day,
To-morrow, forever,
Free as an Arab
Of thy beloved.

Cling with life to the maid;
But when the surprise,
First vague shadow of surmise
Flits across her bosom young,
Of a joy apart from thee,
Free be she, fancy-free;
Nor thou detain her vesture's hem,
Nor the palest rose she flung
From her summer diadem.

Though thou loved her as thyself,
As a self of purer clay,
Though her parting dims the day,
Stealing grace from all alive;
Heartily know,
When half-gods go,
The gods arrive.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Muse - a channel of inspiration for a poet.

Muses, in Greek mythology, were the nine daughters of the god Zeus and Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory. The Muses were believed to inspire not only poets, but all artist.

Nine Goddesses:

Calliope: muse of epic poetry

Clio: muse of history

Erato: muse of love poetry; also known as the muse of music

Euterpe: muse of lyric poetry

Melpomene: muse of tragedy

Polyhymnia: muse of sacred poetry

Terpsichore: muse of choral songs and the dance

Thalia: muse of comedy

Urania: muse of astronomy

Music

Vocal training

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

Bellows Breath

Sit down with spine straight.

1) Imagine you are blowing a piece of dust out of your nose, sharply pulling in on your abdominal muscles and at the same time blowing air out of the nose.

2) Relax, inhale naturally to fill the lungs again.

3) Once again sharply blow air out of the nose by pulling in on the abdomen.

4) Continue a couple more times, so your abdomen in operating like a bellows.

http://www.jazzblueslyrics.com/index.html

Artist: Billie Holiday
Song: Summertime
Album: The Best of Billie Holiday
[Buy "The Best of Billie Holiday" CD]

Summertime
and the livin' is easy
fish are jumpin
and the cotton is high
oh your daddy's rich
and your ma is good lookin'
so hush little baby
don't you cry

One of these mornin's
you're gonna rise up singin'
yes you spread your wings
and you take to the skys
but till' that mornin'
theres nothin' that can harm you
yes your daddy and mammy
stand and wave you goodbye

summertime
and the livin' is easy
fish are jumpin'
and the cotton is high
oh your daddy's rich
and you ma is good lookin'
so hush little baby
baby don't you cry
don't you cry

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