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ISIC – Vesica Balance Grid

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.

Blue Papaya – Grounding & Time Machine Guided Meditations

A time of quiet, peace and inner reflection is healthy for everyone. Whether you have expanded perceptions or not, scheduling time in our busy world to meditate allows the individual to stay centered, and in touch with their inner voice and guidance from their team, as well as a wealth of medically proven health benefits.

We’ve heard from many Blue Papaya parents over the years, asking how to introduce meditation to their youth. Like them, if you have never meditated before, you’re probably wondering HOW to meditate, or you’ve at least searched the internet or the bookshelves for information on how to begin meditation and what to expect. We were fortunate to have Tammy Johnson, children’s meditation facilitator, at our last Blue Papaya meeting, in which she shared some simple and fun meditation practices. While Tammy’s schedule did not allow her time to write a blog for our group, she did suggest these two meditations for beginners. We especially had fun listening to the different experiences with the time machine meditation.  If you have a child you’d like to teach meditation to, or are curious yourself, here are two simple meditations that you may calmingly, and soothingly guide your child or a friend through.

guided-meditation-2Choose an area and time where you will not be disturbed. Have the individual listening to the meditation find a comfortable position. Some people like to sit up, while others like to sit with their back against a chair or in a chair, even laying down. I would suggest for these meditations that you sit on the ground with your back supported against a chair or a sofa. If you are guiding the meditation, find a position in which you will be comfortable for the duration of the meditation, and movement will not disturb those you are assisting. Do your best to speak in low tones, and do not rush through the meditation. Make sure you take enough time between each step so proper exploration can occur for those experiencing the meditation. There are questions in each meditation that don’t need to be answered out loud, but it is fine if they are. Please let the individual who is participating in the guided meditation know this. At the end of each meditation is a list of questions, you may wish to write the answers down or draw what was experienced.

Grounding Meditation

onegen-attunement-225x300Close your eyes. You may find it more comfortable to place your hands over your eyes. You choose what’s best.

Take ten deep breathes, letting all the air out as you exhale. Each time you take a breath, your body becomes more relaxed.

Your legs are relaxed.

Your torso is relaxed.

Your arms and shoulders are relaxed.

Your tongue is soft, and your mouth is slightly open.

Every part of you is relaxed.

Breathe in, and as you exhale imagine a beautiful golden ribbon running along your spine.

This ribbon is fluid, and can move outside of your body.

See the cord extending downwards, coming out your tailbone, and twirling downward like a slide until it reaches the very center of the earth.

 Feel yourself attached to this cord, and the center of the earth.

Let any unnecessary energy fall down the cord while Mother Earth is sending good, positive energy to you through this cord.

Perhaps you see this as particles, or as images in your mind. Can you hear, feel or see the energy?

I’m going to remain quiet for a time as you experience this.

Notice how clear and clean you feel.

Thank yourself for releasing all unnecessary things.

Take some deep breaths, and open your eyes when you are ready.

After meditation questions.

1. What did your cord look like?

2. Did you see anything go down your cord? Did you hear it?

3. Did you feel anything in your body while you did this?

4. Do you feel different?

5. Do you think you could do this meditation on your own?

Time Machine Meditation

 14169277-spaceship-with-astronaut-approaching-a-planetClose your eyes. You may find it more comfortable to place your hands over your eyes. You choose what’s best.

Take ten deep breathes, letting all the air out as you exhale. Each time you take a breath, your body becomes more relaxed.

Your legs are relaxed.

Your torso is relaxed.

Your arms and shoulders are relaxed.

Your tongue is soft, and your mouth is slightly open.

Every part of you is relaxed.

See a time machine with a door on it.

What color is the time machine? Do you know what it is made of?

What color is the door?

Open the door to the time machine and step inside, making sure to shut the door behind you.

Look all around the inside of your time machine.

If there is a seat, sit in it and fasten your seatbelt.

There is a button in front of you that turns on your time machine – push the button to on when you are ready to lift off!

Feel the time machine start take off! Relax and enjoy the ride.

The time machine has come to a stop, bringing you to the perfect time for this journey. Undo your seatbelt,  open the door, and step out to this new time and place.

Look downward – notice where are you standing, what does it look like?

What do your feet look like?

Now look at your hands and arms – do you look like yourself, or do you look different in this new place?

Listen, what do you hear?

Look around you and take in your surroundings. Are they familiar, or are they very different?

If you are able, explore the area a bit, see what you learn. Go to where you are instinctively drawn.

Do you know what year it is?

Are there people? If you feel comfortable, greet them and ask where you are.

When you feel ready to leave this place, go back in the time machine and go inside. Fasten your seat belt, set the control dial to HOME, and press the start button.

You are now safely home.

You can open your eyes whenever you are ready.

After meditation questions

1. What did you see?

2. Did someone guide you, provide information and guide you?

3. What were you wearing?

4. What did you look like?

5. Do you know where you were?

6. What year was it?

Cosmic Portal – When Do We Lose?

There is a lot of talk lately about how our world civilizations are “losing” so many things… jobs, investments, opportunities.

I’m thinking of all the people who’ve come into our store looking for a stone or energetic information to help them because they recently lost their job. Instead of feeling overwhelmed or a victim, the customers have very often expressed gratitude because now they can go in a new direction, one they may have dreamed about but felt they needed to be responsible instead. Some want to study yoga, martial arts, massage, chiropractic or naturopathic disciplines. Suddenly free of all their “oughts,” and having discovered that doing what they should do has only made them unhappy, they are giving themselves permission to do what they love. They tell us what a sense of freedom they now feel – it may be less money in their pocket – but money seems to come and go anyway – and now they wake up each morning glad to be alive.

Did these people win or lose?

Something similar happened to me, back in 1995 when I started Crystal Life. My inner team kept –literally – nagging me until I agreed to quit my comfortable job with steady pay at the United Nations and set up a company that would work with subtle energy and healing gemstones. I told them if I did this, I would end up on the street – and I wanted them to know it would be all their fault! Finally, unable to deter the nagging, I jumped. Instead of a free fall into the void, I found my team knew better than I did, and I found solid ground very quickly under my feet. And a level of happiness I had not known before.

Sometimes winning can mean losing. Such as when we pretend to be something to win our goal, such as a specific type of job – then we find we can’t enjoy the goal because it does not really suit us. Or we win by making someone else look bad – and find out our own energies have changed so much that we can no longer be free and open in our relations with others.

So if you feel you are losing right now – as if things aren’t going your way – learn to talk with your inner guides. They can help you immensely for they can see into the future, and above the physical world into the world of energy that forms matter.

We at Crystal Life are here to help. We offer free classes every Saturday morning in which you can learn some new aspect of subtle energy. There is a free download on our website of exercises to help you learn to center and communicate. You can purchase my book We Are Not Alone, which explains how to contact your guides. You can surround yourself with healthy energies – good food, real stones with helpful earth energies. Our trained staff is happy to assist you with your selections!

We want you to truly win at life, which means leading a life of contentment and satisfaction that comes from knowing who you are and what you are meant to do. When this happens, winning and losing are no longer topics of concern.

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Tomorrow, Saturday, April 27, Grandfather Buffalo and I will be holding a free workshop at Crystal Life on Spirit Guides: How to Work with Your Team. If you live nearby, please join us – 9 to 10.

Grandfather Buffalo – Connecting Heart & Soul

I believe we are in the time of the Soul, and by that I mean that we are in a time when we are reconnecting with our soul journey. We find that the Soul travels in what we will call the Soul Stream. This is the energy path of our Soul from its beginning to the present. On this journey of the Soul we will encounter the usual rapids or blockages that we would encounter in a normal waterway. The soul stream is then carrying our different lifetimes and in the present life we will have this Soul lifetime intent (why we are here now).

p004cc3w_640_360There are then many ways in which we can connect to the Soul, through past life regression, between life where we are forming the intent of the present life, and also future life progression. Our interest now is to begin reconnection to the many lifetimes to clear and to also have a conscious recognition of those times. Here is how we will proceed.

I have a couple of heart meditations, the Heart Chakra Meditation and the One Heart Flame meditation. Either of these is excellent in connecting to the heart. Once we have the heart connection and begin living through the heart, the next process is to bring the Soul into the equation.

Begin by focusing on the heart and be centered there. Now visualize a thread of light coming into and connecting to the heart. Pull on this thread that is connected to the Soul until the heart is enveloped in the Soul’s energy stream. Merge the Heart and Soul energy and allow it to flow freely through out the body.

Begin now to focus on an area either emotional, physical or spiritual that has a strong pull for you. Send the Heart/Soul energy to this area and allow a few moments for it to connect. What are you feeling, or sensing? What thoughts are coming into focus for you? This process enables you to understand a particular Soul lifetime experience and to then work toward clearing it. By doing this process and understanding the lesson involved we will strengthen our soul’s lineage, understand our purpose of the many lifetimes, and consolidate that into the present life.

By doing this we are more grounded in this life, and our purpose is supported. And who knows we may propel ourselves into the possibility of completing what our Soul needed to learn. This is only one process as we are developing many other approaches to this Heart /Soul Connection.

Stones to assist in this meditation with Heart and Soul:

Apophylite – Activates the heart.

Kunzite – Calms and activates the heart.

Magnesite - Opens and activates the heart love.

Clear Quartz – Cleanses the soul.

Clear Calcite – deep soul healing .

Chiastolite – Soul purpose .

Herkimer Diamond – Brings the Souls purpose forward.

 

Grandfather Buffalo – A Power Within

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.

 

Grandfather Buffalo – Heart Chakra Meditation

As we move beyond the end of the Mayan Calendar and into 2013, hopefully we are noticing that we are each moving at a higher vibration. This is necessitated by the ending of Kali Yuga, the age of darkness, and the Aquarian Age. Everything that we connect with is or should be at a higher frequency.

heart_chakra_green-300x300For those who use a pendulum, here is an exercise for you.

Using the yes/no response and the May I, Can I, Should I questions, connect with your personal frequency. If you do not get or feel a response do this: Very clearly say your name three times (Ex. Gary-Gaaaary-Gaary). How do you feel? Did you feel a change of vibration within you? This is who you are and connects to your personal frequency. Some one with the same name will experience it differently.

Now ask your pendulum (a brass one would be excellent, preferably a Mer-Isis), or what ever you are using, to connect in with this frequency. Ask questions like:

1. Is this my personal frequency?

2. Is it a higher frequency than 6 month ago, 2 months ago?

3. Do I need to focus on raising it higher?

A “yes” to any of these will give evidence of the concept that everything is increasing upward. If, however, the answer is no, then you should spend some time getting to know your personal frequency. Practice connecting to it, and increasing it even higher. You will find that you are more centered and have more clarity in decision making with this process.

The Mer-Isis is an excellent pendulum to connect with your frequency in order to raise it and seal it (have it last for a period of time).

A breathing meditation is also an excellent way to connect and increase your personal frequency.

Here is a short meditation that will help you as well.

Breathe deeply three times and exhale

1. Visualize your Heart Chakra in front of you. Spin it until it is a bright and shiny transparent green.

2. Move into it. Feel yourself relaxing as you move deeper into it’s center.

3. Up ahead of you, you see a pin dot; move toward it. Relax even more, as it increases in size, you see that it is a pink sun with solar flares.

4. Move into it. Allow the Solar Flares to envelope you (there is no heat, only deep relaxing peace).

5. As you enter into the core, you see a meadow and a pathway. Walk down the pathway as it slowly rises up on a  mountain. At the top of the mountain, there are thirteen steps. Climb them, each one more relaxing than the last.

6. At the top you see a Crystal Temple. Go to it. Find the doorway and enter. Observe the room and how it is decorated.

7. Go to the next doorway. Do the same thing. Keep doing this, going from room to room. You notice that each room leads into an upward spiral until you reach the last room.

8. When you open it up, you will notice that it is a room filled with light. You can only see the light. This is your true connection to Source.

9. See a chair just inside. Sit in it and allow it to take you to the center of the room (it may take a while).

10. Now breathe and experience this place. Ask that your frequency be increased. Feel it. Know it.

11. Come out of this room and travel back until you exit the Heart Chakra. Feel your increased frequency. Know that you can reconnect anytime.

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teardrop pendulumThis brass teardrop pendulum is an excellent neutral device to use for this exercise. There are a wide variety of pendulums on the Crystal Life website.

 

 

Grandfather Buffalo will teach his next free class at Crystal Life on Saturday, April 6. The topic, Body Dowsing – Frequency Dowsing. Learn how to connect to your personal frequency and to energize areas of the body by balancing and regulating the body organs or systems. Class begins at 9 am and runs for one hour. For a full listing of our free Saturday classes, visit our events page.



Grandfather Buffalo – Following Your Path

First-StepWe 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

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-lionThese 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

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 chaosAt 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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quartz-generator-sqJoin 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

mountain-pathThese 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.