Holistic Path

• Symbol of purity and serenity


• signifies wisdom gathered in tranquility


• associated with Heart chakra, increases love and nurturing


• protective stone, keeps the wearer from harm and brings harmony


• attract good luck and friendship


• psychologically, stabilizes the personality and integrates mind with body


• promotes self-sufficiency


• mentally, releases negative thought and soothes the mind


• stimulates ideas and makes tasks seem less complex so that ehy can be acted upon immediately


• emotionally, a "dream stone", placed on forehead, it brings insightful dreams


• aids emotional release esp of irritability


• spiritually, encourages you to become who you really are, assists recognising yourself as a spiritual being on a human journey and awakens hidden knowledge


• phsyically, a cleansing stone, aiding body's filtration and elimination organs. it is the stone par excellence for the kidneys

Healing

• treats kidneys, supra-adrenal glands, removes toxins, rebinds cellular and skeletal systems, heals stitches


• assists fertility, childbirth


• works on hips and spleen


• balances the fluids within body, water-salt/acid-alkaline ratios

Position

• place or wear as appropriate


• Chinese believe that holding Jade transfers its virtues into the body

Aura

• Subtle biomagnetic sheath that surrounds the physical body, providing protective zone
• extends 18 inches to 3 feet from the body
• contains information about person's physical, mental, emotional and spiritual state of being

Chakra

• spinning vortex of subtle energy
• comes from sanskrit word "chakram" which means "wheel" because these centres appear to clairvoyant and yogis as whirling disks of light
• system of subtle energy channels and centres is the basis for the Meridians and energy points used in acupuncture, yoga and energy healing
• 8 main chakras located in a line aligned with the spine
• these centres connect the energy of the physical body with that of the subtle body
• when the chakras are functioning properly, the body's physical and subtle energies are in balance and harmony
• malfunctions can lead to physical, mental, emotional, spiritual disturbances
• chakras can be healed by interaction between the vibrations of the crystals and the energies of the body's biomagnetic or subtle energy

Electromagnetic Smog

• subtle but detectable electromagnetic field that can have adverse effect on sensitive people
• given off by electrical power lines, computers, cellphones, tv

Geopathic Stress

• created by subtle emanations and energy disturbances from underground water, powerlines, negative earth energy (ley lines)

Gridding

• placing of crystals around a building, person, room for protection or enhancement of energies

Grounding

• creating a sound connection between oneself and the Earth that allows excess and out-of-balance energies to flow from the body

Homeopathy

• system of healing, first practiced by Greek physician Hippcrates
• stimulates body's healing power by introducing minute, diluted amounts of a substance that can cause the symptoms of a particular illness or disease
• German doctor Samuel Hahnemann, modern founder of homeopathy

Inner Child

• part of the personality that remains childlike and innocent
• can be the repository of abuse/trauma and require healing

Kirlian Camera

• Russian invention, takes photographs of aura surrounding the body

Ley Lines

• subtle energy lines, straight or spiral, that connect ancient sites or prominent points in the landscape

Meridian

• in Chinese medicine, a subtle energy channel that runs close to the surface of the skin and contains acupressure points

Miasm

• subtle imprint of an infectious dis-ease from the past, such as TB or syphilis, that has been passed down through a family or place

Negative Emotional Programming

• "oughts" and "shoulds"along with guilt that are instilled in childhood or past life and remain in the subconsious to influence present behaviour
• they sabotage efforts to evolve unless released or reprogrammed

Pranic Energy

• energy that permeates everything
• particularly useful in healing work as it revitalises and reenergises
• from Sanskrit word "prana", meaning "breath"

Psychic Attack

• direction of malevolent thoughts/feelings toward another person, whether consciously or unconsciously
• can create illness/disruption in that person's life

Psychic Vampirism

• ability to draw or "feed off" the energy of others

Qi

• life force that energises the physical and subtle bodies

Radionics

• method of diagnosis and treatment at a distance, using specially designed instruments
• based on premise that all dis-ease is a distortion of the electromagnetic field surrounding the body

Reframing

• Returning to see a past event in a different light so that the situation it is creating in the present life can be healed

Reiki

• natural, hands-on healing technique that feels like a flow of high frequency of energy transmitted to the patient through the hands of the practitioner.
• comes from "rei" meaning "a supernatural force/spiritual intelligence" and "ki" meaning "qi"

Scrying

• discerning images in a crystal that reveal the future or the secrets of the past/present

Sick-building syndrome

• symptoms including headaches, dizziness, nausea, chest problems, general fatigue
• associated with buildings with actual air pollution, inadquate ventilation, negative environmental energies

Smudging

• purification used by Native Americans
• for preparation of oneself and one's sacred place for spiritual practice
• involves wafting about the smoke of slowburning herbs

Attributes

• highly protective, esp on psychic level


• helps discern when outside influences are at work within yourself, shuts off psychic manipulation and undue mental influence
• cleanses and stabilises the aura
• extremely effective against computer and electromagnetic stress
• appropriately positioned, it blocks geopathic stress
• used in healing, draws off negative enrgies and stress
• cleanses, purifies, dispels, reorganises anything within the body that is not in perfect order
• best crystal to use to overcome any form of disorganization
• grounds and integrates spiritual energies
• promotes unbiased impartiality and heightens intuitive powers, makes you more aware of higher spiritual realities and can quicken spiritual awakening
• progress on many levels, incorporating structure into daily life, overcome chaos, reorganize the physical, emotional and mental bodies
• psychologically, dissolves fixed patterns of behaviour and gentrly opens the door to the subconscious, bringing suppressed feelings to the surface for resolution
• increases self-confidence and dexterity
• improves physical and mental coordination and counteracts mental disorders
• dissolving fixed ideas, helps to move beyond narrow-mindedness to the bigger picture
• dissolves illusions and reveals the truth, helpful when you need to act impartially and objectively
• excellent learning aid - organizes and processes information, linking what is already known into what is being learned, increases concentration, helps absorb new information and promotes quick thinking
• emotionally, has stabilizing effect, helps understand the effect of the mind and emotions on the body
• in relationships, teaches the importance of balance
• physically, assists balance and coordination

Healing

• powerful healing tool, dealing with infections and disorders
• benefits teeth, cells, bones, repair DNA damage
• powerful against viruses, esp as an elixir
• regenerates the skin and mucus membranes, particularly respiratory tract, heals ulcer, wounds
• beneficial for colds, flu, sinusitis
• dissolving adhesions and mobilizing joints, alleviates arthritiis, rheumatism, spinal injuries
• stroked across the body towards the heart provides pain relief
• ameliorates the discomfort of shingles and other nerve related pain, heals the skin, removing blemishes and wrinkles

Position

• wear at earlobes or place in environment
• position as appropriate for healing
• draws off negative energy and stress and need cleansing after each application
• place on computer or between yourself and source of electromagnetic smog (subtle electromagnetic field that can have adverse effect on sensitive people, eg electrical power lines, computers, cell phones, tv)

• extremely powerful and protective stone with high spiritual vibration


• guards against psychic attacks, transmuting the energy into love


• natural tranquiliser, blocks geopathic stress (created by subtle emanations from underground water, power lines, negative earth energy lines) and negative environment energies.


• serenity enhances higher states of consciousness and meditation


• strong healing and cleansing powers, enhances spiritual awareness


• traditionally worn to prevent drunkenness, sobering effect on overindulgence and physical passions, supporting sobriety, overcomes addictions and blockages of all kinds


• beneficial to mind, calming or stimulating


• when you meditate, it runs thoughts away from the mundane into tranquility and deeper understanding


• mentally helps you feel less scattered, more focused, in control of your faculties


• enhances assimilation of new ideas and connects cause with effect


• facilitates decision making process, bringing common sense and spiritual insights and putting decisions and insights into practice


• mentally, calms and synthesises, aids transmission of neural signals through the brain


• helpful where insomnia caused by overactive mind, protects from recurrent nightmares


• enhances memory, improves motivation, set realistic goals


• remember and understand dreams, facilitates visualisation process


• balances highs and lows, promotes emotional centering


• dispels anger, rage, fear, anxiety


• alleviate sadness and grief, supports coming to terms with loss


• one of the most spiritual stones, promoting love of the divine, giving insights into its true nature, encourage selflessness and spiritual wisdom


• opens intuition and enhances psychic gifts


• excellent stone for mediation and scrying (discerning images in crystal that reveal future or secrets of past/present), can be placed on third eye to stimulate it


• sleeping with amethyst faciliates out-of-body experience, brings intuitive dreams

Healing

• boosts production of hormones, tunes endocrine system and metabolism


• strengthens cleansing and eliminating organs and immune system


• excellent cleanser for the blood


• relieves physical, emotional and psychological pain or stress, blocks geopathic stress


• eases headaches, releases tension


• reduces bruising, injuries, swellings, treats hearing disorders


• heals diseases of lungs, respiratory tract, skin conditions, cellular disorders, disease of digestive tract


• beneficial for intestines, regulating flora, removing parasites, encouraging reabsorption of water


• treats insomnia, brings restful sleep


• balances and connects they physical, mental and emotional bodies, linking them to spiritual


• cleanses aura, transmutes negative energy, stimulates throat and crown chakras

• tranquil and sustaining stone


• promotes level headedness, encouraging clarity of thought and a neutral, cool attitude during turbulence. It can be used to decrease nervousness and irritability.


• helps meditation and communication


• within home, draws off negative energies


• help accept with serenity situations that are constantly changing, invoking greater inner strength


• beneficial to relationships that have become rocky, stabilizing and healing both home and personal interaction


• calms, cleanses, reenergizes all the chakras and aligns them with the divine


• at solar plexus chakra, draws out negative emotions such as guilt and reverses destructive emotional programming


• at heart chakra, heals heartache and increases capacity to love


• at throat, improves communication but helps discern when to keep silent


• at third eye, opens psychic vision


• psychologically, encourages self-awareness and inner balance


• imparts confidence and sensitivity


• enhances personal power and inspires creativity


• overcoming phobias, draws out negativity and supplies motivation


• mentally, reduces mental tension and helps keep a cool head


• promotes truth telling and impartiality


• emotionally, alleviates guilt and brings joy


• flexibility, self-forgiveness

Healing

• treats arthritis, bone disease, muscle spasms, digestive tract, ulcers, blood disorders, lung problems


• detox liver, kidneys, intestines


• reoxygenates blood and cellular structure of lungs, giving greater lung and breathing capacity


• regenerates pancreas, regulates insulin, balances blood


• strengthens muscles, alleviates cramps


• cooling action, it heals infections, esp in throat and tonsils, lowers blood pressure, soothes burns


• relieves arthritic pain, strengthens the thyroid and beneficial to metabolism


• excellent for women, treats PMS, menstrual cramps


• on a subtle level, dissolves miasms

In my experience chrysocolla is one of the gentlest of stones. It's not a high-energy stone like quartz, rutilated quartz, or smoky quartz, and. unlike obsidian, malachite, and lapis, it doesn't bring buried emotions to the surface. Its role is to soothe and calm.Its color alone is soothing, a deep blue-green which might remind one of a secluded mountain meadow or the bottom of the sea. It is primarily a fifth (throat) chakra stone, but it can also be used for the heart or solar plexus.

As a solar plexus stone, it helps to ease fear, anxiety, and guilt. In a chakra balancing layout it can be effectively combined with rhodochrosite. Rhodochrosite helps to relax the diaphragm so that full, deep breathing is possible; then chrysocolla helps to release the emotions which accumulate in the solar plexus.

As a heart stone, it is somewhat comparable to rose quartz; however, I have found that it releases emotions far more gently.As a throat stone, it is believed to stimulate not only creativity, but confidence in creative expression by calming and releasing fear.Because of its soothing qualities, chrysocolla is considered by some crystal practitioners to be a feminine lunar stone, with the energies of those goddesses, such as Kwan Yin, who are viewed as comforters. It helps to draw out the characteristics associated with nurturing goddess figures: patience, compassion, forgiveness and tolerance (both for others and for oneself).

Some people have said that chrysocolla looks like the earth as seen from space. This, in combination with its Goddess-like qualities, makes this is a natural stone to use in meditating for world peace. Hold this very special piece of the earth in your hand, and visualize the peace and calm which emanate from it spreading until it circles the globe.So may it be.

• Grapes and peanuts - source of Resveratrol, an antioxidant believed to reduce heart diseases and Alzheimers


• Tomatoes .. source of the antioxidant lycopene that reduces the risk of cancer by 40% -- Tomato eaters function better mentally in old age and suffer half as much heart disease. Concentrated tomato sauces have 5 times more lycopene than fresh tomatoes, and canned tomatoes have three times more than fresh.


• Olive Oil .. reduce death from heart disease and cancer. High in antioxidant activity


• Garlic .. garlic is packed with antioxidants known to help fend off cancer, heart disease, all-over aging, and prolong cancer survival time. Let crushed garlic "rest" for about 10 minutes before cooking to preserve disease-fighting agents.


• Spinach .. Second among vegetables only to garlic in antioxidant capacity and is also rich in folic acid, which helps fight cancer, heart disease and mental disorders. Folic acid may help prevent Alzheimer's disease.


• Whole grains .. contain anticancer agents and help stabilize blood sugar and insulin, which may promote longevity. Whole-grain "dark" breads, cereals such as All Bran, and "old fashioned" oatmeal are an excellent source.


• Salmon , and other fatty fish. Contains high amounts of omega-3 fat that performs miracles throughout the body, fighting virtually every chronic disease known. Without it, your brain can't think, your heart can't beat, your arteries clog, and joints become inflamed. You need one ounce a day, or two servings of salmon, sardines, mackerel, herring or tuna per week


• Nuts .. eating more than 5 ounces a week can cut heart-attack deaths in women by 40% and help prevent deadly irregular heart beats in men. Almonds and walnuts lower blood cholesterol. Most of the fat in nuts is the good-type monounsaturated and/or omega-3. Unsalted nuts are best.


• Blueberries .. High in antioxidants, a half-cup of blueberries a day can retard aging and can block brain changes leading to decline and even reverse failing memory.


• Tea .. Green or black tea has equal antioxidant benefit. One cup a day can cut heart disease risk in half, draink tea made from loose tea or tea bags; instant or bottled tea has little effect.
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• Kiwi: Tiny but mighty. This is a good source of potassium, magnesium, Vitamin E &fiber. It's Vitamin C content is twice that of an orange.
• Cabbage: help heal both gastric and duodenal ulcers, maintain estrogen at healthy level
• Honey: tranquilizer and sedative, mixed with apple cider vinegar good for the throat
  
  
  
  
  

• Use visual guide
• Reduce regressions
• Expand visual bite (do exercises)
• Ok for sub-vocalisation- use to emphasise key-words
• Practise scanning and skimming for things that you read
• Metronome practice

President Thomas Jefferson believed in mapping out his reading into a definite plan of action, defining specific goals for each topic, never allowing himself to deviate from his reading schedule until he had completed his task. No distractions, no dissipation of time by 'scattered inattentiveness'. He believed a good reader should choose a course of reading with a specific purpose:
a) to hunt out specific knowledge
b) to cultivate the mind
c) for recreation
Jefferson described his reading speed as 'always calm, even stately, like the tick of a tall mahogany clock'.

President Theodore Roosevelt was a renowned speed reader, known for his ability to get through far more reading material than his contemporaries. Dickens was one of Roosevelt's favourite authors, yet the president still applied scanning techniques when reading his novels.
'It always interests me about Dickens to think how almost all of it was mixed up with every kind of cheap, second-rate matter.... the wise thing to do is to simply skip the bosh and twaddle and vulgarity and untruth and get the benefit out of the rest'.

-> Benefit of speed reading: Read the fluff fast so that you have more time to digest/re-read the important parts.

Concentration - your eye/brain system becomes laser-like in its ability to focus and absorb.

Mindmap

• Keywords
• As many images as possible
• Codes

Paragraph Structure

• Explanatory Paragraph - first/two sentences gives general idea, last two gives conclusion, middle contains details
• Descriptive Paragraph - embellish
• Linking Paragraph - summarise what has preceded and what follows

Newspapers/magazines:
First and last paragraphs contain significant information -> Concentrate more
Middle paragraphs contain details

Games:
- As you read, make up Memory Words for the paragraph
- Relate, the first sentence to the remainder: introductory, transitional or encompassing

Reconnaissance

• Apply what you already know, mindmap what you already know
• Interact actively with author- two way conversation with author, note down questions/comments in margin
• Be a detective- try to predict what is going to happen next, try to be one step ahead