obsidian

azurite & apatite

tanzanite & larimar

calcite & sugilite

herkimer diamond

boji stone & celestial quartz

charoite & fluorite decahedron

? & fluorite from china

? & quartz from the swiss alps

fuchsite & lepidolite with morning sun shining through

orange calcite & peridot with morning sun shining through

? & rhodonite

perlmuet & peridot

antlerite (malachite/azurite) & kunzite

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Crystals and Crystal Bowls

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Crystals are magnificent beholders and facilitaters of healing energy. The pictures shown here are copyrighted, however, they are also a gift from me to you, should you wish to make your own gem essence from one or more of the specimens that are on display here.

They are of a very high frequency and wish to be used by you in this way, with the highest good in mind putting your heart and soul to work. Remember, energy follows thought and becomes matter. If all is one, then we are part of all that is the one. So there is no separateness; and the limitation of physically not owning something becomes obsolete.

Crystal Bowls are a wonderful and powerful means to re-energize essences. Over time some essences can become a little tired. Perhaps they have been sitting in the dark for too long, waiting patiently for their turn to be used actively. Some may feel a bit ungrounded or even disoriented depending on where they are and how they got there. They may feel jet-lagged, as we would, after a long journey on a plane.

Re-energise by placing them on a soft cloth inside a G# pure quartz singing crystal bowl, and gently tap the outside of the bowl, just three times is enough, in a triangular fashion. Let it sound out, leaving the essence to rest and recuperate for a while.

You can put an entire box of essences in together at the same time if you like, and if your bowl size allows it. Always go with your gut feeling on what is appropriate for you, your essences and your given circumstances. If you have no such bowl, you can simply Reiki your essences to give them extra energy.

Muscle testing, Dowsing and Intuiting are all very valid and important ways to get an idea of what is called for, in order to bypass the ego and with it our own strong willpower. Remember that sometimes less is more. A homeopathic approach to any energetic healing modality is good advice. Use the Feather approach instead of the MacTruck approach.

Find your own unique way of doing things. The simpler your methods, the more mobile and flexible your practices become. To avoid unnecessary baggage, you can call upon the support of all your favourites and place them in an imaginary or real, pouch or pendant, to be with you at all times. That way you never have to worry about your powers not being there when you need them most.

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What you need to make an essence (Some basics)

• A clear, clean glass bowl. Not pirex, not engraved, not lead crystal. Or, to be truely decadent, an optically clear pure quartz crystal bowl in the note of G#, which is connected to the colour Magenta, mother of all colours, and unconditional universal, earthly and heavenly love.
• Clean filtered water, fresh rainwater is prefered. Or water from a clear spring, river or waterway nearby.
• A gauze cloth, or filter of any kind, clean.
• A clean funnel.
• One or more glass bottles for the mother tincture with a screw top, or cork.
• Dark brown glass is preferred, these should be half filled with a good Brandy.
• Pen and paper for any notes, and Labels.
• One or two clean spoons, or chop sticks, or scissors.
• All tools should be designated for the sole purpose of essence making. So if the bowl was home to your pasta last night, or has been used as a fishtank for the past seven years; and the funnel helped fill up your car last time you used it, think again.

If you are comfortable with dowsing you can find out the exact energetic synergy to come together for the making of your essence. Or simply follow your intuition. You may like to ask:

• Which day or night do I start?
• What time? Morning Sun 4-9am? 7-10am? Or under the Moon? 7pm - 7am? or other?
• The rising Moon? the full Moon? the waning Moon? or a New Moon?
• For how long? a minimum of 2-3 hours is good, sometimes more time is required. One day and one night? Two, Three, Four days/weeks?
• Does my essence have to be in the same position at all times or can I move it to a different position?
• Where am I making my essence? on the meadow, in the shade, near where the same fresh flowers grow in the wild? In my garden or a sacred place in the nearby forest?

When you are ready, and on site, fill the bowl with the water and place your clean Crystal in the bowl. If you are making a flower essence, pick the flower heads with minimal or no finger contact, using some branches or twigs, the spoons or scissors, carefully placing the flower heads, face up, on the water surface.

Use only what you need to cover the water surface. Avoid drowning the flowers, letting them overlap only slightly. You can invite the the energy of the surrounding flowers to join in the fun and help to further potentise the essence, which gives it a greater depth of field.

If you are using the picture of a crystal, or flower, god, master or colour simply place those directly underneath the bowl. So the sun and moon can see them clearly.

Intent

For a final act of purification I hold the cluster in my left hand and bless it with a prayer as I pour the water of each colour of the rainbow over it, from my coloured glass bottles filled with filtered water. Each colour of the rainbow is filled with its own promise, true onto itself. Blessing it with a prayer of purity, I surrender the crystal to the Divine Will, calling for protection with the white light placed around it in a bubble like fashion, reaching around it at about 1 foot in diameter. This is to last for the entire duration of the drawing/making of the mother tincture.

You may take this further, and ask for this protection, integrity, purity and strength to last from this moment on until it has reached its final destination and completed its work when taken orally by a client, days, weeks, months or even years down the track. Trust that it will hold.

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Take note

As you are near while the essence is being made for you, listen to and feel for any impressions that may arise from this special sacred moment and write them down. How ever irrelevant or trivial they may seem at the time, write them down anyway. They offer valuable clues to the nature of the healing properties inherent in the essence.

When you feel it is time, and the essence is ready, ask or dowse again just to make sure. Ask the essence if it is complete, if it is a good essence and has reached a state of completion. Does it need anything else? Maybe time away from the sun, or away from the day light!? To find its feet in the new element, now that it is immersed in water.

With a clean special spoon or two, you can carefully remove the crystal or gem before pouring the Mother Tincture through the filter via the funnel into the clean brown bottle which is half filled with brandy to suspend and hold the vibrational value of this newly born essence, ready for labeling.

From Mother Tincture to Stock-bottle to Dosage-bottle.

The Mother Tincture will last you a very long time. If you have a circle of very good friends, and you all trust one another with your essence making habits, it may be a good idea to each make different essences to share.

Fill a 10 - 25ml dropper bottle with 2 parts filtered water and one part Brandy. Between 2-7 drops of the Mother Tincture is enough to make a Stock Bottle. Again, you may like to dowse the right amount of drops from the Mother Tincture for this purpose. Whatever you decide, it is a good idea to become consistent in your habit, if for no other reason than simplicity's sake.

'magic happy drops'

The Stock bottle is the one the practitioner will use to make dosage bottles for his/her clients as may be required.

For this purpose you need to take another 10 - 25ml dropper bottle and fill in the same manner as above, with one part brandy and two parts filtered water. Add between 2-7 drops of any one essence to the brandied water solution.

Here you may like to combine different essences together as a personalised mixture for the unique needs of your client. This is the part where the magic happens. The putting together of various energies create intent and purpose of a refined nature and can help make a huge difference to the health and wellbeing of a client's quality of life.

Often very subtle, the effects of taking the 'magic happy drops' , as my younger clients have come to know them, are best captured if the practitioner has the gift to capture a before and after picture by way of note taking. This helps the client to see how far they have really come.

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Colour and Sound

Colour and Sound have the mysterious ability to transform. . . You enter THEIR world as one type of person, and you leave as someone else!(Che-usa)

Michele has found, over the course of facilitating many guided colour & sound meditations, that these two healing modalities in particular can work miracles. The body responds more openly to the vibration of the sounds emitted by the Singing Crystal Bowls, especially when played with the added awareness of ones particular Aura-Soma Balance bottle (colour combination), and the Archetypal message inherent in it. Together they can bring about change of great magnitude.

On another level just hearing the beautiful sounds of the Singing Crystal Bowls being played is relaxing and refreshing for mind, body and soul.

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Intent & Prayer

It is my understanding that for Prayer and Intent to be effective in their most radiant forms we need to draw on our innermost spirit, where the motivation for any demand we have needs to come up spontaneously.

For example, when threatened in her car by armed protestors in a street demonstration, I remember Caroline Myss saying that her words in that moment were somthing like 'You must be joking'. Her voice was strong in protest and free from fear, leaving no room for doupt. Though this may not sound like a prayer, it was absolutely heard and took immediate effect. Her car was spared from being hit and smashed, as though she had suddenly become invisible to them, and the demonstrators moved on.

Your prayers need not be long, nor eloquent. They need not be perfect prose. In fact pray as though your prayer has already been answered, giving thanks to having been spared, 'Thank God I'm still alive.' In a moment of intense pain you could keep breathing and say or think 'Thank you God for helping me bear this pain and halving it for me, for letting me faint when it becomes too much to bear.'

I know it all sounds good in theory, but if you are building a rapport with your creator, these words won't feel so strange. If you can grasp the idea that All-That -Is is in you and you are in All-That-Is, you understand that you only ever speak to God.

So whatever your intent and prayer, whatever you call out to the forest wall accross the meddow, it will answer with an echo of equal merit. Whenever you create ripples in the water, they first reach the other side of the lake, then bounce back to you. However small and trivial it may seem to you at the time. If you don't like what you hear back or get back, pull yourself back from projecting it in the first place.

In his book"The Prophet" Kahlil Gibran writes: "And one of the elders of the city said, Speak to us of Good and Evil. And he answered: Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters."

We once knew how to pray well, instinctively. To help remember you might like to read what Caroline Myss Ph.D. and Gregg Braden have to say on prayer and intent.

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Structured Water

The fast and easy way to "structure" tap water, and add the benefit of sunlight infused colour vibration to your drinking and cooking water, is with my beautiful Chakra-Coloured Water Bottles. Just fill your chosen coloured bottle with filtered dinking water and place in the sunlight for one hour. If you can, use the morning sun, just as you would when making any other essence. (Or you could try moonlight - any feedback on that would be fabulous!) When bubbles start to rise in the bottle your structured water is ready for you to drink.

So how does water lose its structure in the first place?

It is my understanding that the water we drink has been through the system a few times - rushing through the water pipes, both big and very small, and made of different materials, such as copper, and other metals used in the process of "cleaning" our drinking water and getting it to your taps.

During this process the water becomes distorted and disoriented, in a molecular sense, to the point where it cannot recognize itself as H2O.

By simply pouring the filtered water in any clean glass container, and placing it in the sun, the water gets 'time-out' to both recharge and reorient itself. For the water this means finding perfect 'molecular-holding-hand-bodies' to once again feel complete and back in its intended mathematical position, by divine design.

And because our bodies are all made up of crystalline structures, just like water has its own structure, our body prefers and makes better use of structured water vs the unstructured sort.

Now, I just happen to be passionate about colour.

So when working energetically I like to capture the colours of the rainbow. Re-structuring water with the aid of the chakra coloured water bottles enables you to drink at any time, from a specific colour of your choice. In the case of a clear glass bottle, this means all the colours at once, as a general full colour spectrum tonic.

This practice brings a whole new meaning, awareness and intent to our humble but all so precious drinking water. As a bonus. . . the health of your entire family can benefit greatly from the colour vibration of structured drinking water.

You can also play classical music, written in a particular note, to further enhance the quality and intent of the water. Or, if you have a Quartz Singing Crystal Bowl, you can place the water directly in the bowl. Now sound the bowl and watch with your own eyes, the beautiful, mandala-like patterns of the sound vibrations. The water dances, bubbles and re-structures before your very eyes.

Whatever your means, always bless the water before you drink it, and bless all food before you eat it.

Want to try a fun thing?

Copy the picture of the coloured bottles using a photo shop editing program. Then hightlight the picture to get a negative/positive colour effect. See the complementary colour for each of the colours on the picture appear. This gives you an important key to better understanding colour when working with it from an energetic or chakra angle.

Interesting, isn't it!

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On Essences

There are many thousand natural essences available in, on and outside of the earth. They are all available to us, if only we knew of them. They exist everywhere, in all the natural kingdoms.

• The Plant Kingdom, reaching from the proudest of Trees down to the smallest piece of moss, and more.
• The Mineral Kingdom, with all its beautiful crystals made from water, salt, gases, minerals, light and time.
• The Animal Kingdom, where we see and feel a sudden familiarity, or have an affinity with a particular creature, that seems to speak volumes to us, which we may invoke the essence of, for our own personal empowerment, in what can then be termed 'your Totem Animal'.
• Archetypal Essences, which assists you to more fully "come into your own".

Whatever your imaginings can call upon holds value and can be a supporting essence for you. When asked to make an essence I listen and feel for clues to better understand and see what is required to create and put together the essence that best assists you now.

For practical reasons and by divine design, most of the local flowers available in your part of the world hold more than enough capacity to best assist you with current ailments and ills. Having the same sun and moon shine upon them, a similar firmament passing over, it is safe to say that looking for a suitable essence close to home, is very possibly close to perfect.

Sometimes essences that grow further afield may be called for. It is always best not to limit yourself in the preparation of essences. This is where dowsing is particularly useful in guiding your choices.

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In Nature

One day, whilst walking along the rugged coastline near Gerringong, my son wanted to know if my belly button got hurt when he was born as the umbilical cord got cut to separate us. Moments later I saw this stone formation filled with tidal sea water, and was able to explain to him the nature of his belly button, why he has one, and what it was attached to, during those nine months. I see a belly with a fetus and a placenta, with the umbilical cord reaching from the placenta to the growing baby. I didn't have to draw a picture, and his thirst for knowledge was quenched there and then.

The playfulness of nature can intrigue us and invites us to see, feel and think beyond the square we live in. It needs no reason. It just is. Worlds within worlds. What seems to be a large sandstone marble, is also a welcome shelter and home to some crabs. 3D Mandalas everywhere. Perfectly placed and waiting to be admired by a passerby with open eyes and heart.

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In Solitude

I have been walking for what seems like hours. I can hear my breath, the fallen leaves under my shoes, and a woodpeckers beak against a tree in the distance. My skin is cool and moist, I have taken on the temperature, mood and rhythem of the forest. My footsteps bounce off the path in a soft rhythm. Like a dull drum beat, treading ever so gently. My heart beat and that of the forest are the same. I feel I have always been here. I belong here. My body recharges best in its company. But how did I get here? Where was my point of entry? I have no longing to ever leave here. I got here when the fox went to bed and the fallow deer rose.

Now I can hear the owls' gliding wings just overhead. There is a clearing, and a field comes to view. The trees stand tall, strong and proud . The paths here are well defined. There must be many like myself, in love and admiration of solitude and being one with nature. I feel satisfied and fully charged again. But the moon is not out tonight and I must be heading home soon, before it gets too dark.

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