How Does Crystal Healing Work to Heal? (Crystals #1)

Archaeological discoveries have shown that healing, by the application of crystals (stones containing predominantly one mineral, and a crystalline structure), existed and flourished in the earliest of human civilizations. This trend continued until the age of Enlightenment, when rational thinking was revered, and traditional healing methods were viewed as valueless superstitions. Therefore, even with thousands of years of success being used to ease the maladies of humans, crystal healing was tossed aside for lack of a plausible explanation of how it worked, and because its effects could not be measured with the rudimentary scientific instruments of the time. Fortunately, science has now developed equipment sophisticated enough to measure the subtlest of energies, and this ancient practice is currently enjoying a renaissance in popularity.  However, the question of how crystal healing actually works to heal, is still a question held by many.

How Do Crystals Heal?
Science has now proven the theory that all things, either living (animate), or non-living (inanimate) are bodies of vibrating subtle energies, and that each body exchanges energies with other bodies within its environment. Thus, it can be said that crystals promote healing in the human body through an energetic exchange between the two.

Each physical organ of the human body vibrates with a particular energetic frequency. When an organ is healthy it emits a strong, consistent vibration, but when diseased, it emits a weak, erratic vibration. Crystals also vibrate with their own individual energetic frequency. In contrast to the varying vibratory patterns of a human organ, a crystal always emits a consistent, harmonious vibration.  

Therefore, if used on the body, a crystal with a similar vibration of a healthy organ, due to the method of its geological formation, molecular structure, mineral makeup, and color, will affect a diseased, erratically vibrating organ in a positive way. Even though, a crystal’s vibration is low in intensity compared to that of a human organ, it is so continuously harmonious; it will bring the diseased organ into resonance with itself. In other words, the diseased organ will entrain, and adjust its vibration to resonate with the vibration of the crystal that is in close proximity. The organ’s newly restored healthy vibration now stimulates a spontaneous healing response within itself. Another example of entrainment and resonance can be observed in a music store, when the strings of only one guitar are plucked causing a vibration, the strings of other guitars in close proximity, will eventually entrain and resonate, with a similar vibration. Therefore, a simple explanation of how crystals heal is that they use the natural processes of entrainment and resonance to promote healing in the human body.

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The Tao of Everything - (Chinese Medicine #1)

What is the "Tao," really? We see many things today labeled as, the Tao (pronounced Dao) of this, or that, even a popular book entitled, The Tao of Pooh, by Benjamin Hoff (Penguin Group, 1983). Winnie-the-Pooh, is an exceedingly simple, yet lovable, bear starring in a series of children's stories, written by A. A. Milne in the 1920's. Since the "Tao" is a Chinese term that translates roughly as the "Way," The Tao of Pooh can be translated as, "the Way of Pooh." Author, Benjamin Hoff, conveys, for Spiritual seekers, that Pooh's "Way" is his strong inclination of going with the flow of Nature, while tending to his business, in a simple manner. Pooh is well known to conduct himself in a "Wei Wu Wei" fashion. "Wei Wu Wei," is a Chinese expression translated as, "Doing non-doing," and meaning, "Doing without great effort," which is just so, Pooh.

In Chinese Medicine, the "Tao" refers to a philosophy based on the "Way of Nature." Taoist philosophy has a prevailing theme that there exists a unified field into which all life is born, evolves, decays, and inevitably dies. Within this field, all living things are interconnected and dependent upon one another, the Earth, the Sun, and the Moon, as if entwined in a universal web. 

Phenomena within the Tao follow universal laws. One such law is that everything in the Universe is vibrating energy, or Qi, that follows cycles or phases of transformation, in set patterns of continuous motion. In the Tao, the only thing that doesn't change, is that everything does change.

Another law of the Tao is that the Universe possesses two polarities, Yin and Yang; with the Earth being Yin, and Heaven being Yang. Humankind exists between these two polarities as a juncture where the two meet with their dual influence rendering humans both Heavenly, and Earthly beings. Yin and Yang are complimentary opposites, each possessing a seed of the other. Yin tendencies are cold, damp, dark, structural, and passive, while Yang tendencies are warm, dry, light, functional, and active.

Taoists believe that the human organism is a microcosm that mirrors the macrocosm of the Universe. They believe that the innate processes of humans are a reflection of the innate processes observed in Nature, such as the Earthly phenomena of seasons, natural elements, weather climates, and polarities. For example, Taoists equate the progressive stages of human development of birth, youth, maturity, old age and death to the Earth’s seasons of spring, summer, Indian summer, autumn and winter. Additionally, Taoists correlate the elements of Nature such as wind, fire, earth, metal and water to various human personality traits, as well as physical and emotional states. Taoist also correlate the weather climates of wind, heat, dampness, dryness, and cold to the causes of human pathologies. Furthermore, Taoists connect the negative (Yin) and positive (Yang) poles of the Earth, to the feminine and masculine qualities found in humans; with Yin being feminine and receptive, and Yang being masculine and assertive.

Since the Taoist view is that all illness is caused by a blockage somewhere in one’s Qi flow, a Chinese Medicine practitioner’s aim is to restore and maintain Qi balance in their clients’ mind, body, and spirit throughout the various stages of human life. The Qi flow is harmed when there is imbalance with the Tao’s seasons, natural elements, weather climates, or polarities. Conversely, when balance with the Tao is consistently maintained within the human organism, the Qi flows freely, and the body does not become ill. When a Qi imbalance has occurred, and illness has set in, the Chinese Medicine practitioner will use corrective measures to restore balance and proper Qi flow enabling the body to rid itself of its pathologies.

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