The Crystal Series: Vanadanite

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Today’s featured Mineral is Vanadanite!

Vanadanite vibrates strongly on the navel chakra, aiding in Creativity.

*Vanadanite contains secondary lead deposits so it is important that you handle this crystal responsibly and wash your hands thoroughly after use.

Energetic Influence of Vanadanite:
– Strong spiritual grounding energy
– Promotes deep peace within oneself
– Regulates any type of hormonal imbalance
– Aids with age-related issues such as menopause, bladder dysfunction
– Helps shield against radiation from computer screens and other electronic devices
– An excellent healing stone that is said to be good for breathing difficulties such as asthma or other lung problems.
– Clears writer’s block
– Mentally stimulates and Helps with organization
– It gives you drive and determination, along with the vitality needed to sustain you while taking action

The Crystal Series: Opals

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Today’s featured stone is Opal!

The “stone of happy dreams and changes”. It helps center the mind and is particularly soothing for children and those who have always slept badly or had recurring nightmares with no apparent reason. Opals also relieve any issues a child may have with an invisible or imaginary friend, and is especially helpful before sleep if the child wishes the friend to go away at bedtime!

It is also a water-stone, with the perfect vibration to connect with the spiritual forces of water.

Energetic Influence of Opal:
– Beneficial for the health of the eyes, hair, nails and skin
– May be used in treatments to clarify and strengthen the eyesight & treats disorders associated with the eyes
– Balances the body’s water content, overcoming dehydration or alleviating water retention
– Believed to disperse infections, purify the blood and kidneys, and to regulate insulin production
– Helps reduce fever
– Stimulates memory
– Energetically stabilizes neurotransmitter disturbances, such as Parkinson’s Disease
– Aids in OBGYN issues: female hormones, PMS and menopause, and provides comfort and ease during childbirth

Spiritual Influence of Opal:
– Supportive stone, dedicated to healing and strengthening the emotional body- for those seeking honest self-reflection
– High internal energy brings thoughts & feelings to the surface for examination
– Teaches one to take responsibility for one’s feelings while clearing past wounds, fears and resentments
– Facilitates the letting go of negative behaviors and soothes the emotional body, helping one feel more in control
– Assists one in becoming more positive and loving, more creative and spontaneous.
– Enhances cosmic consciousness and raising one’s level of intuition and insight.
– Traditionally used to invoke visions, increase lucid dreaming
– Attracts angelic energies and increases communications with the Divine
-Great for venturing into dangerous place and works as a shield to keep from absorbing other people’s negative thoughts and energies
– Promotes a sense of calm security, easing stress and depression
-Antidote to restless thoughts and racing minds that rehash the past or anticipate the future

For more detailed information on opals, please visit The Crystal Vault

The Crystal Series: Green Fluorite from the Rogerley Mine

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Today’s featured gemstone is Green Fluorite from the flats in the Rogerley Mine!

This gemstone is dark emerald green in color with a strong blue-purple daylight fluorescence, and an even stronger purple-white fluorescence under long wave UV light.

Energetic & Spiritual Influence of Green Fluorite:
-Fosters growth and healing
-Grounds and absorbs excess energy
-Aids access to intuition
-Heightens mental abilities, assisting in rapid organization and processing of information
-Brings mental clarity and stability to an otherwise chaotic situation
-Allows mental and physical coordination
-Dissipates emotional trauma
-Absorbs negative energy
-Calming effect
-Gives courage
-Used as a bridge for personal growth to be accomplished
-Brings up issues from the subconscious mind, allowing the heart to heal
-Strengthen bones and teeth
-Ameliorates pain associated with arthritis

The Crystal Series: Spirit Amethyst

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Today’s featured Crystal is Amethyst Spirit Quartz!

-Varies in color from pale lilac to deep purple
-The traditional birthstone of those born in February
-Associated with the sign of Pisces

Spiritual Influences of Spirit Amethyst:
-Activates the Higher Crown Chakra, bringing in spiritual information and providing multi-dimensional healing
-Very cleansing to the aura and can dispel negative attachments and entities
-Repair holes to the etheric body
-Assists a soul facing death and provides immense support throughout a terminal illness
-Brings passion and imagination, emotion and logic
-Stimulates creativity: particularly helpful with artistic endeavors
-Utilizes Fire Energy

Energetic Influences of Spirit Amethyst:
-Detoxification and clearing the physical body, aligning it with the energetic bodies so treatments are more effective and longer lasting
-Treats skin problems, especially those related to allergic reactions, melanomas, scars, cysts and growths
-May also be useful for swellings and tumors on internal organs
-Powerful fertility charm, and is also supportive of the problems associated with infertility and difficult pregnancy, especially those issues related to the fallopian tubes, ovaries, and testes

For more detailed information on Spirit Amethyst, please visit The Crystal Vault!

The Crystal Series: Citrine

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Today’s featured Crystal is Citrine!

Energetic Influence of Citrine:
– Opens the higher mind to accept joy in one’s life
– Releases anger & negative feelings, deep-seated fears and destructive tendencies
– Helps with overcoming depression
– Reduces sensitivity to criticism and inspires creativity and self-expression
– Raises self-esteem, aids in letting go of the past allowing one to move forward
optimistically, enjoying new experiences and explorations
– Powerful purifier of one’s will center
– Provides courage and fortitude

Yellow Citrine:
– Brings the power to solidify new interests and new relationships
– Helps you see things in a different light
– Adds clarity, optimism and new meaning to your life and relationships
– Aids in establishing good communications

Light Yellow: Helps you focus on the needs of the person or group you are getting to know
Dark Yellow: Helps aid decisiveness, precision, or persuasiveness

Gold Citrine:
– Brings success, enthusiasm, happiness, and power

Light Gold: Brings cheerfulness and contentment
Dark Gold: A deeper, more pronounced sense of devotion and commitment, providing us with a mature enthusiasm and ability to share a lifelong commitment of care and love.

For more detailed information on Citrine, please visit The Crystal Vault

The Crystal Series: Pink Kunzite

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Today’s featured Crystal is Pink Kunzite!

Energetic Influence of Kunzite:
– Treats hormone-linked migraines
– Influences the Reproductive System in Women: puberty, PMS, and menstrual issues
– Treats skin rashes caused by allergies to chemicals
– Strengthens the circulatory system and the heart muscle
– Treats neuralgia
– Calms epilepsy
– Soothes joint pain
Spiritual Influence of Kunzite:
-Enhances the treatment of depression and psychiatric disorders
-Helps the body recover from emotional stress
-Encourages letting go of fears
-Allows free expression of feelings
-Heals the mind and heart
-Allows receptiveness for great opportunities in life
-Assists those who have trouble connecting with others
-Restores lost trust and innocence
Properties of Kunzite:
-Protective stone
-Dispels negativity
-Provides a centering influence in all situations

Pink Kunzite:
-Brings the energy rays of determination, commitment, and caring
-Calms feelings of anger or resentment
-Increases developing sensuality
-Helps overcome heartache

“Kunzite is a powerful healer of the emotional body, particularly for those who have closed themselves off from life, or from others, to protect themselves emotionally. Kunzite opens the heart to the energies of love – love of self, of others, for humanity, plants, animals, the earth and all it contains.”

“Pink Kunzite crystals reflect the Light of the heart and love, and help stimulate the Heart Chakra. The Heart Chakra is located near the center of the breastbone and regulates our interaction with the external world and controls what we embrace and what we resist. It gives us the balancing ability to be ourselves within the environment, and helps in our relationships. Pink crystal energy is used to resolve blockages and to re-balance the heart chakra, helping us understand our own needs and emotions clearly.”

For more detailed information on Pink Kunzite, please visit The Crystal Vault.

The Crystal Series: Blue Kyanite

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We are happy to announce that we have added many new Crystals and Minerals to our Treatment Space. Our hope is that they will foster spiritual growth and enhance your healing experience at AcuPUNKture. We will be doing a daily blog post featuring each of the Crystals/Minerals, so that you may learn of its energetic and spiritual influences.

Meet Blue Kyanite!

Energetic Influence of Kyanite:
-Instantly aligns all chakras and subtle bodies
-Restores Qi
-Promotes Calming
-Stimulates throat and 3rd eye chakras: encouraging communication on all levels

Spiritual Influence of Kyanite:
-Grounding
-Brings integrity and maturity
-Dispels illusions, anger, frustration
-Increases logical thought

Light blue crystals:
-Great for recovery from bad habits or addictions
-Aid with letting go and grief

Blue crystals: “Bring trust, faith, patience, and respect, lending the focus we need to become more sincere, act more responsibly, and become more trustworthy”

For more detailed information on Blue Kyanite, please visit The Crystal Vault