Welcome to “Healing From Within” I am your host Sheryl Glick (http://sherylglick.com) author of
The Living Spirit a story of spiritual awakening spiritual communication
healing energies and ways to know your intuitive soul guidance system.
Sheryl is delighted to welcome Sue Lilly (https://www.lilly-lilly.co.uk) author of The Practical Guide
to Crystal Healing co-authored with her husband Simon to discuss the
story of crystal throughout the centuries loved by many for their beauty
and healing balancing renewing energies for living with greater harmony
and well being.
In today’s episode of Healing from Within Sue Lilly will share her
expertise about crystals and the way they have been admired used and
understood almost from the beginning of time. Sue and her husband Simon
have been involved in many aspects of healing for over thirty years.
They have both studied crystal healing, color healing flower essences
and kinesiology. Sue also practices soul and medical astrology.
Sue first encountered crystals being used by her yoga teacher and goes
on to tell us her studies lead her to know that Crystal healing works
through the interaction of the stones and your body’s natural subtle
energies. Unlike modern medical treatments, these techniques have no
obvious scientific rationale or data. For some, this lack of logic and
clear cause and effect can be disorienting, particularly when, as in
this volume, many of the healing processes do not even involve direct
physical contact between human and crystal. Sue and Simon ask you, the
reader of The Practical Guide to Crystal Healing to be an explorer, to
take the same stance that we encourage in every one of our new students
on crystal healing courses: be alert, be skeptical, but be open to new
experiences.
Mankind’s use of crystals and gemstones has always straddled the gulf
that appears to exist between science and magic, practical rationality
and poetic imagination. Thousands of years ago crystals were used in
magic and ritual as well as for practical purposes such as metal-making
and creating pigments. Similarly, in the modern world, the parallel uses
of stones for spiritual healing and as popular “good-luck” charms
contrast with the vital role they play in our advanced technology.
Nothing has changed over the millennia in that regard, except for the
emergence of different world views and belief systems. One great
difference from the past is in the accessibility of many more gems and
minerals. Crystal collecting was once the quirky hobby of a few
gentleman scientists who sourced curiosities from commercial miners. Now
it is a huge industry that caters to a fascinated general public.
Sue first used crystals as a way for healing certain physical symptoms
and saw some amazing results. Crystals offer a way to help specific
illnesses or situations from insomnia to migraines, depression to the
upheaval of moving from a house and also help with spiritual development
along with visualizations and meditation.
Holistic healing addresses the underlying weaknesses that have allowed
physical symptoms to arise. To treat the same set of symptoms, one
person may require balance at a physical level, while another might find
it more effective to work on emotional stress. For true healing of a
condition to take place, stress will probably need to be released from
several different areas of your being over time. Like unknotting a big
ball of string, or opening a combination lock, for healing to be
permanent and effective it must be carried out in the order appropriate
to each individual. Sometimes small steps are needed before big issues
can be addressed; sometimes work in an apparently unconnected area of
the self unexpectedly releases a great tangle of stress. Regular crystal
healing ensures that as much stress as possible is lifted from our
energy systems, and prevents it from reaccumulating. If we can stop new
