For many people healing crystals and Shiva Lingham stones can be a little confusing, which is why we have compiled a beautiful collection of crystal sets, and accompanying guides to help you on your journey of healing and self improvement. Most people are aware of the incredible power of crystals, each offering unique powers and energies which can help heal, cleanse or energise the body, but when it comes to how to use crystals, or even how to choose them, it can seem quite confusing at first.

One of the easiest ways to start understanding the healing power of crystals is to consider traditional medicines, and how we see them working. You can have a dozen boxes of tablets, all of which look reasonably the same – perhaps differing in colour, shape or size. But each has tremendously different healing powers – one to wake you up, one to help you sleep, one to help you digest food more quickly, one to slow your digestion down, one to target pain, one to quicken the body’s healing powers. So much variety, yet so apparently similar at first glance.

In the same way, the energies which crystals generate can affect the body and mind in quite different ways, and just as you wouldn’t take a tablet without knowing exactly what it was going to do, and whether it was suitable, so it’s important to have a reasonably good idea of how crystals can help you, and the best ways to use crystal healing techniques.

I’m very much an advocate of alternative therapies and healing crystals – stuffing my body full of manufactured chemicals and drugs I don’t understand doesn’t always feel right. Of course, I would never suggest abandoning traditional medication in favour of alternative therapies. But at the same time there are often times when using Shiva Lingham stones or healing crystals can prove very effective as complementary treatments, as well as sometimes offering healing, strength or energy which simply can’t be offered by traditional drugs and medicines.

One of the first things to appreciate is exactly how crystals interact with our body, and how they help to ease pain and allow the body to heal itself more quickly. Many people become confused, believing the crystals are somehow directly interacting with the body, but in fact the crystals are interacting with the body’s aura. The aura is the energy field which surrounds every living thing. Just as a mobile phone is constantly sending out unseen signals, and the air all around us is full of signals, broadcasts and energies we can’t see, so our living bodies have an energy field which most of us never see.

However, the aura is often detected unconsciously by many of us, and with practice it is possible to read, and even see, these auras. I once met a man who had been blind since birth – but he could see auras. Just by looking at a person he could tell their mood, their energy level, and even identify pain or illness. A quite remarkable gift, and yet another example of how we can too often take for granted that what we see represents the totality of what exists. In truth, there is a very great deal we overlook in our busy, day to day lives.

Different aspects of the aura which flows in, around and through our bodies are connected to specific points known as chakras. Each of these areas has its own harmonic frequency, for some people identifiable as a colour. Indeed, many of the meditative exercises recommended suggest focussing on each of these colours whilst working on a specific chakra. By placing a specific crystal on, or near, specific parts of the body, the vibrational energy of the crystal can harmonise with the aura at that point, helping to restore balance, increase energy and strength, and allow the body to heal, energise or cleanse more quickly.

Imagine if you will, making waves in your bath! If you swirl your hand around clockwise you’ll create a fairly strong wave. How do you stop that wave? Three ways: you can either sit and wait, which could take a while, turn your hand the other way, which creates waves twice as high for a while, or you could turn your hand more slowly, which helps harmonise the waves, settling them in a more controlled way.
This is one, very simplified way of understanding how healing crystals and Shiva Lingham stones work – by sending out vibrational energies which harmonise with your auric energy in calming ways, to help restore balance and flow. Our healing crystal sets include seven types of crystal, one for each of the chakra points in your body, and we even provide a guide so that you can start to use these wonderful crystal sets straight away.

If you would like to buy Healing Crystals or Shiva Lingham Stones, you can do so from our Moonrust Shop.

The truth is that no one really knows for certain. The cause of the effect cannot be measured, but the degree of success most certainly can. The easiest way of thinking about crystal divination or pendulum dowsing is to consider the aerial on your radio. Flying through the air, quite unseen to any of your senses, is a multitude of radio waves and radio signals. Passing through your body, through your head right now are many dozens of radio channels, voices, songs and adverts. Fortunately for us all we can’t tell!

But simply by using a little aerial, our radio can detect these unseen signals, and interpret them as meaningful sounds, words and music. In just the same way of course, our televisions also pick up the many other signals flying thorough the ether. When you stop to think about it, at any one given moment there may be dozens, scores – perhaps even hundreds of programs and signals, all man-made, passing through every cell in your body, every second of the day.

But these unseen signals all around us aren’t just man-made. Think about the earth’s magnetic field. We can’t feel this ourselves, at least, not many of us can. But birds and many other animals rely on being able to detect these fields. It’s one of the main ways that birds and other migratory animals are able to navigate their way with pinpoint accuracy across journeys of thousands of miles. Some people seem to have an uncanny natural ability to tell which way north is, even when blindfolded in a room, and it may be possible that there are vestiges of this internal compass in some of us.

Crystal dowsing using a pendulum is believed to be a way of tuning our bodies and minds into these unseen signals which are all around is, but which we cannot detect using our normal senses alone. It isn’t known precisely how we manage this, or in what form these energies or signals may be, but proof, if any is needed, is in the undeniable fact that using a pendulum works, and has been seen to work in all manner of fields.

You may not be looking to identify the exact location of enemy submarines, nor locate murder weapons, gold veins or blood clots, but one of the reasons why pendulums have proven to be so popular is that they can be used for almost any purpose. We all have questions, every day – many of them seemingly trivial, but often we find ourselves debating which course of action is right, which way to tackle a problem, or who to trust.

Perhaps deep down we have an inkling of an idea, a subconscious gut feeling, which many perceive to be a very low quality method of tuning in to the energies around us, picking up on the positive feelings, the right energies, and turning away from potential negative energy. If so, then it is clear to see how using a pendulum or crystal dowsing chain can help calm and steady our bodies, helping them to tune in to these subconscious feelings and guide us in the right way.

Although many pendulums incorporate a crystal within the base, there are many different types of pendulum, and many jewels, crystals and metals which can be used. Some have even used wood, or water. It seems that certain natural elements have an added ability to tune in to the energy and signals around us, and crystals have long been known to have the ability to tune in to vibrations – which is one of the reasons they’re often used in watches.

We sell onyx and quartz pendulums which are very beautiful and tactile. We’re also very excited about being able to offer a new range of pewter pendulums. These have a very classic look to them, and because pewter is quite heavy, the pendulum’s swing is much more precise. This means that readings taken using our pewter pendulum are far more accurate and much easier to interpret. Whether you have an interest in using crystal dowsing as part of Reiki, Feng Shui or healing, or whether you wish to use explore the art of pendulum divination, we are sure that our pendulum will prove to be both beautiful and effective. As many people use pendulums to help find lost items, why not buy two – then if you lose one you can find it with the other!