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Grandfather Buffalo – Clearing Your Stones and Your Issues

Thanks to our ancestors who were healers and their connections to the mineral kingdom, we are in possession of the energies of stones and how to use them. So, with each gemstone and crystal, we are able to clear, energize, and balance our physical and spiritual bodies.

We first need to have an understanding of clearing the crystals of the energies they bring with them and then of the energies they have picked up from your issues. There are many ways to clear your stones and so we will look at a few.

1. Salt Water: Use a cup of pure or spring water. Add ¼ tsp. of Sea Salt. Place your crystals into the water for several hours or more. You may intuitively decide the length of time or ask your pendulum.

2. Sea Salt: Pour Sea Salt into a bowl and then bury or place your stones in this salt. Intuitively decide the length of time needed to clear the stones or use your pendulum.

3. Sage Stick: Using a piece of Native American Sage, light the sage and put out the flame. Then run the stone through the smoke several times.

4. Other Crystals: To clear your crystals or gemstones, place them on a Quartz cluster, Copper plate, or natural Copper ore. You may use Kyanite, Selenite, Citrine, or other high energy stones by laying your stones on them or around them.

5. Energetic Clearing: You may also use Reiki or other energetic healing modalities to clear your stones.

Now that your stones are clear, let’s look at the issues we may want to clear. If your are always anxious or stressed, you will want to have any of the following stones: Rose Quartz, Amethyst, Kyanite, Kunzite, Lithium Quartz to name a few. Focus on the issue and hold the stones until you are calm, try fifteen to twenty minutes. Wear a stone pendant for a period of time until you are calm. Create an elixir using the stone and pure water. Drink it periodically.

Remember to always clear your stones, clear your issues, then clear your stones.

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Sage is used to clear not only stones, but energy of all kinds in your home and work environment. Offerings -An abalone shell with small cedar, desert sage, white sage and sweetgrass braid is a great combination of tools to clear energy.

If you haven’t ever worked with sage before you might like our Smudge Pack. The Smudge Pack contains the booklet Sacred Sage: How It Heals, an abalone shell, a feather and a sage stick. This is a great grouping of tools to learn why sage is a favorite space clearer, and how to use the enclosed tools to sage your own space.

ISIC – Vesica Balance Grid

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For this grid, the intention was to create a tool that could aid in balancing the body’s various systems. The endocrine and lymphatic systems both run throughout the human body either releasing hormones or recycling blood plasma. The duties of these systems are far more complex than this synopsis. However, for the purpose of this blog, it is most important to understand that they play a large role in regulating your daily life.

With a specific physical target, I find it most appropriate to reference a crystal guide like “Crystal Prescriptions” by Judy Hall. The stones listed for the endocrine system that were decided to be most applicable were Fire Agate, Amber, Amethyst, Citrine, Yellow Jasper, Peridot, and Tourmaline. Tourmaline is also listed for the lymphatic system along with Moss Agate, and Blue Chalcedony. There are other appropriate stones, however these are the ones that intuitively “stuck out.” Blue Kyanite also wanted to be included in the group, as it very nicely clears energetic pathways.

As with most grids, there are different components which serve separate functions to complete the greater, complete function. Not only can crystals be used to map out the energies, but also other various items such as Slim Spurling Rings. Here there are two rings overlaid to create a Vesica Pisces. This works to achieve a couple of goals. First, the Vesica design offers an opportunity to analyze each of our sides, masculine and feminine. It then allows us to see our in-between parts, the places where our two sides mesh together. In this situation, with the directional aid of a few Clear Quartz Points, the Vesica is also being used as a figure eight infinity symbol. This creates a constant and balanced flow of energies. Standing with a foot within each side of the Vesica Pisces, the crystal energies follow the programed patterns (Vesica and Infinity) up, throughout, and back down your body and energy field.

Experiment with logical placements and patterns, and also with intuition and aesthetics. The more beautiful the crystal layout, all the more it will resonate and become beneficial.

Grandfather Buffalo – A Power Within

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There is a power within each one of us that is life affirming. Without its presence, there is no life. This power is the power of breath. The body can continue for days without the nourishment of food. Many religious leaders have gone without food for forty days or more and have survived. But when the body is deprived of oxygen (the act of breathing), it ceases function, and life will cease to continue.

In our modern society, we do not think about breathing, after all it is an autonomic response. The body just does it, right? Why should we think about breathing?

Those who practice Breath Meditation, upon inhalation they bring the breath down to the lower abdomen and hold it there for a count, or pause, and then release it in exhalation. By this process they are engaging the torso from collar bone to navel in the breathing process. This process causes the diaphragm to expand and contract, successfully stimulating the body’s organs. The inhaled breath fills the lungs to capacity, goes into the bloodstream, and provides oxygen to the organs and other parts of the body.

We need today to focus on our breathing habit. We need to increase our intake of oxygen for increased nourishment of the bodily organs and their functions. There are many many medical aspects where breathing is impaired and one needs to rely on their doctor’s advice and treatments above all else. As we are able, we should begin a conscious breathing exercise which will assist the medical treatments. By doing so, we strengthen the lung capacity, revitalize our overall intake of necessary oxygen, and reduce stress levels of all kinds.

Whether by meditation practice, or just conscious breathing, I encourage you to take that first breath. It has helped me greatly over the past month on many levels.

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If you would like to learn more about breath control and stress relief, check out this CD – Letting Go of Stress by Stephen Halpern with Emmett Miller M.D. Dr. Miller’s soothing voice combined with Steven Halpern’s beautiful music will teach you the relaxation response, deep muscle relaxation and breathing techniques. Letting Go of Stress is the world’s most popular stress management CD! Several distinct and different guided imagery and deep relaxation experiences teach powerful techniques for melting away stress and its symptoms.

Cosmic Portal – Moving Outdoors Again

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It’s time to start planning our outdoors living! Here are some natural energy tips from Crystal Life. Got any of your own? Email them to us, and we’ll post them in our library – friend us on Facebook and post there as well!

1. Talk to all the life forms in your yard. Everything in your yard is made of consciousness; it is aware and responds to basic universal energies such as love, and requests to contain one’s energy or to leave an area. So walk around your yard now and REALLY look at its energy. Talk to the insects, birds, plants and trees – send them loving energy. Request harmful energies to please realign, contain or remove themselves. Trees and plants love to know they are appreciated, and will grow better when you send them loving thoughts. An old dowsing tip: if you have invaders such as carpenter ants, select a part of the yard they can live in. Then connect to their energy and let them know they must move there within a week, because you need to spray/protect the house area; they now have the free will to move or suffer the consequences.

2. Introduce items that will enrich the natural energy of your yard. The simplest? Bury a piece of quartz near a plant or area of your yard that needs to be rebalanced. Before you do – program it – that is the great gift of quartz, it can be programmed to hold an energy or thought. So place the thought in the crystal that it will restore to balance and optimize the energy of this area of the yard. Other helpful stones , applying homeopathic protocols of like assisting like, are moss agate (in areas where you want to gentle down the energy) and tree agate (where trees need a bit of a boost).

3. Crystal Catalyst ceramic beads are great for placing in plants – houseplants as well as outdoors – as they are resonant tools that clear energy and enhance beneficial energies. The cobalt blue bead is excellent for general all around health, the turquoise bead for gentler plants. If you have one of our pieces of energy jewelry now well worn, you can return the entire piece of jewelry to the earth in your yard, with wonderful results.

4. Slim Spurling copper rings are powerful sacred geometry tools for providing very healthy, balanced energy to seedlings. The rings are specially constructed even though they look simple and generate a standing wave of healthy balanced energy inside the circle. You can also place them around an ailing plant – just drop it over the plant, it should rest on top of the earth.

5. The hardest case scenarios do well with a Slim Spurling Environmental Harmonizer. If you have powerlines nearby, cell phone towers, a lot of local traffic, plants that need energizing on a large piece of property or a farm – this is the very best tool for you to invest in!

6. And…lastly…for those who have neighbors with whom you are not enjoying pleasant relations: we suggest hanging a simple bagua mirror on the side of your home facing their property. The bagua is an ancient feng shui remedy; it generates a steady, non-fluctuating field of positive energy that helps everything and everyone in its path to be more positive in their energy!

Grandfather Buffalo – The Power of “Word”

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words Perhaps you have listened to a person giving a speech and left feeling uplifted, empowered, even encouraged to take up the banner and move forward. Such is the power of speech.

Perhaps you have heard someone speak and your spirit falls. You are saddened, depressed, even to the point of defeat. Such is the power of speech.

If we look closely, we will see that the spoken word is energy – a frequency that carries specific vibrations depending on tone, inflection, and yes, even emotion. Thought creates the process, then is added to or diminished by the inflection and emotion.

When the word is written down, that word (“No” for example) is held in a container. Depending on it’s context, your thought and speaking of the word causes it to leave its container (the printed word), and may, by its expression, release those frequencies into action.

Ex: If you softly said “No” to a child, he will understand that he should not do something.

If you were to say “Oh NO!” regarding some tragic event, you release fear and sadness.

If you in anger say “NO!!” You have released another frequency altogether. There is a power in the word that affects everyone, and yes, everything around you.

Each one of us are the thoughts and speech we release from ourselves. We are responsible for where they go, for who is harmed, saddened, gladdened, inspired, or deflated by those actions. Most of all we are responsible in speaking of and to ourselves. Is it someone else’s fault that I may have failed? Is it my responsibility that I have misunderstood? Take the words you hear. Learn from them, and make them positive.

If there is judgement, anger, or reprimand, let us each understand the situation and the words we would use. Especially what emotion is behind it before we speak.

You alone are responsible for the energy of “word” that you release in a created life force energy. First think before you speak, and then ask “How can we speak to one another in a way that uplifts us both”?

To help you with the power of correct words, here are a few stones who desire to help you:

Blue Topaz – living your truth

Blue Chalcedony – fluent speech

Chrysoprase – fluent speech

Emerald – mental clarity

Lapis Lazuli – power of the spoken word

Blue Apatite – public speaking

Blue Kyanite – public speaking

Turquoise – public speaking

Grandfather Buffalo – Following Your Path

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First-Step We have all been asked at one time or another, “What is it that you do? What spiritual path are you on?” Some of us have probably said “I don’t know what I am supposed to be doing. Who can show me my path?”

There are many people who guide and teach us on our journeys in life. And yet we may feel “I have all this knowledge but I still do not know where I am going or what my destiny is. Who can help me find the answer”?

In The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings series, Bilbo says: “It’s a dangerous thing going out your door, Frodo. You take your first step and you never know where it will lead you.”

Here, then, is the first step in fulfilling your purpose or destiny. Do not wait for someone to tell you what it is but, rather, just go forward. There may be times you travel off the path, or even seem to go in circles. You might even ask yourself, “What am I doing here, and where do I go next?”

We often seem to be in the Indiana Jones space, where he comes to a cave opening, and there is nothing to step on but air. By faith, he takes that step and a bridge appears. This is the best advice we could receive. Have faith and move forward.

It is almost certain that you will examine all the pros and cons of moving forward. You will say to yourself “I know I need to do this or that, but I also need to know that I can make a living doing this or that.” However, the dilemma is that the core answer is “not-this, not-that.” It is never wrong, then, when puzzling about your life, to move either forward or hold back. As I am often told, you are always where you’re supposed to be, regardless of the circumstance. Let life be your guide. Learn from and utilize the lessons.

Just let me close with this piece of advice.

“Step forward, my child. Your destiny is before you”.

“I know it is there. I just don’t know the way, Great Mother.”

“Here is the way, my child. Lift a foot, it matters not which one. Move it forward in the air. Now set it down firmly on the Earth. My little one, now lift the other foot and bring it forward, past the first one. Do you see, my child, that it is your path. Follow it where ever it leads.”

If you need help, here are a few stones from Crystal Life to assist you on your journey:

Rhyolite, Red Jasper, Lepidolite, Pietersite, Desert Rose Selenite.

The five Master Crystals:

Clear Quartz, Amethyst, Smokey Quartz, Rose Quartz, Citrine.

Grandfather Buffalo – Affirmations

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Affirmations are positive thought forms which we create to change old habits or beliefs. How often have you heard “You did this wrong” or “You did that wrong.” Perhaps you have even said to yourself, “I am not good enough to get that job.” “I just can’t get the hang of it, because I just don’t understand.” Someone says to you that “You are always sick,” and you come back, “I am a very unhealthy person.”

cat-lion These are just a few of the negative thoughts we have accumulated over our life times. They will and do affect our health and well being. Perhaps it is time to take a positive stand and put the positive spin to our lives. Here is how you can do this. First look into the mirror and tell yourself “I am not worth anything.” If this doesn’t apply to you, what phrase have you heard or felt so much that it is a part of you? When you look in the mirror what do you see and how do you feel? You may feel tired and look depressed, bags under the eyes or even pale.

Now create a positive affirmation. “I am a very worthy person, all things come to me because of it.”

Again, look into the mirror. What do you see? Are you the same person you saw before? Do you see a difference in your appearance? Now as you look into the mirror, visualize things coming to you because you are worthy. Look into the mirror again. Now how do you look and feel? Here is a little secret. You deserve to be worthy to obtain whatever affirmation you state.

Everyday, several times a day, say that positive affirmation to yourself. Tape it to your mirror, your car’s dashboard, your work station. Wherever you spend the most time, have that affirmation handy.

Here are a few areas of life that affirmations will be needed:

Health, Fears and Phobias, Criticism, Self Forgiveness, Money, Friends, Self Esteem, Judgement (self or other), Addictions, Work Relations, Prosperity and Abundance, Love and Relationships.

And here are a few examples:

“I am afraid to be angry” — “I am not afraid to be angry”

“My body is weak and unhealthy” — “My body is strong and healthy”

“I Just can’t do anything right” — “Everything I do is perfectly OK”

Try these or create your own and try them everyday for a month and see how you feel.

ISIC – Finding Peace Within

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In this time of change and turmoil, it is important to find peace within ourselves. We need to find and to go this place that is always with us no matter where we are. This place is located deep within our own heart. It is so easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of everyday life and happenings. Sometimes this gets us off-center, making it harder to help those who come to us in need.

peace in chaos At first it may be difficult for some to find and stay in this peaceful heart-centered space. So to begin with, it is suggested to spend time right when you wake up, training yourself to move from your head and down into you heart. Once at your heart, stay there and feel if there are any issues or emotions that may need to be addressed: things that might need to be cleared in order to delve deeper and find the still peaceful centered-ness.

Take as much time as you need to clear that stuff up in a way that feels right to you. You might continue your waking up exercise with these suggestions: writing it down, energetically clearing it out and sending those feelings to source (because it’s just energy any way), or imagining yourself taking a squeegee and literally clearing the windows of your heart. It does not matter how it is done. Keep in mind that the sooner you are able to clear any uncomfortable feelings from the heart, the sooner you have that mobile place of peace to go to any time you want, no matter where you are!

Centering is now more important than ever. Learning how to be at peace within one’s self will help perpetuate that into the environment. A very helpful tool when first beginning to do this is a stone kept in the pocket. Amazonite is a great one for the job as one of its main functions is to help you find inner peace through outer chaos. Integrate the use of the stone by holding it during your morning training of going into your heart. After a while, just by holding it, you will be able to connect with your heart center quickly. Take time today to find that quiet peaceful place.

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Join us March 24 for ISIC’s first public workshop of 2013 - an entire day devoted to working with stones – crystals, gemstones and minerals. Learn how to clear the human energy field using crystals with Atala Toy, make crystal essences with Grandfather Buffalo, use crystal energy to assist your energy with Tammy Johnson & learn beneficial crystal grids with Victor van Slee.

Running from 10 am – 4 pm, this event will be held at the Geneva History Center, 113 South Third St, Geneva, IL. Fee for the event is $50 – or $40 advance registration, up to March 14.

Grandfather Buffalo – A New World

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mountain-path These are, indeed, new days before us. We are being called upon to move forward into new and uncharted territories. Those who have missed being human, are being called upon to understand and utilize today’s very human experiences.

Indeed, there are many life experiences I have perhaps ignored in pursuit of spiritual things. Was that wrong? Perhaps not. Was it wise? Who can know. There are many ways to travel the spiritual path, and none are wrong.

There are many in 2013 who are being called to grow spiritually, and may find it to be a difficult path. Again, there is no wrong or right way to do it. Each path taken is the one we have chosen, either with disregard of the consequences, or with full knowledge of that path and all it requires.

In my situation – I have always been provided the necessities along my path but now I am experiencing needing to handle these myself.

Perhaps we all are experiencing these mountains (molehills) before us. What we must see is that this is precisely what they are: just molehills and pebbles along the path. None are greater or lesser than the other. We are on the path and we are equal. We do not stand alone as long as we are together.

As I am challenged, so are you. The first part of the journey, it has been said, is the hardest. To make each step after is easier.

May I ask you a favor? Will you walk beside me on your journey? We must let go of the past, not wonder what the future holds, but rather hold firmly to the present moment and experience it fully before it passes.

ISIC – Breathing for Peace

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breathe Many aspects of life can cause tension throughout the body. This includes the spiritual body as well as the physical. When our muscles become tense, our breaths fall short and shallow, thus reducing the amount of oxygen that is delivered to our vital organs. From an energetic perspective, we are in turn minimizing the flow of chi through the meridians and to the various chakras and energy centers.

Breath control plays a major role in mindfulness practices, including stress management. When in a scenario that leaves you feeling as though you have a vein about to burst, it is simply incredible what one slow, deep breath can do. As you inhale, you are supporting the natural functions that keep you peaceful and relaxed. An exhale releases any stress and negativity you are willing to let go of. Taking a deep breath in a pressing situation will give you a moment to reorganize your thoughts. It offers an opportunity to detach and reevaluate the emotions that may be building up inside.

Outside of an intense encounter, there are also peaceful practices that focus on breath control. Pranayama is the “extension of the life force”, and is used mostly in accordance with Yoga. Various martial arts rely on breath control in order to manage pain tolerance.

There are a couple crystals that assist in understanding the value and methodology of techniques such as circular breathing. Ocean Jasper, also known as Orbicular Jasper, contains small circles that help you to cycle your breaths. Vanadanite is another that assists in this way. It also comforts and grounds the unwilling soul fully into the body.