| Lately I had been having trouble sleeping. You the | | | | most wonderful dream, about summer and the birds, |
| feeling, mind can't shut down, worrying about | | | | flowers and trees. Not the usual one that I had been |
| everything, tossing and turning, bad dreams and | | | | having lately about been trapped alone. |
| looking at the clock a million times. | | | | I new that Hematite was a good healing crystal for |
| I decided to try the usual suspects for helping me | | | | grounding, but had not used it for sleep before and |
| get to sleep like, Amethyst, Moonstone, Lapis Lazuli, | | | | the healing powers of Opal crystals could be used for |
| Howlite and Sodalite, well nothing seemed to be | | | | memory improvement, creativity, but could not |
| working, so I decided to let the crystals decide what | | | | remember why these two healing crystals would |
| I should use. | | | | have helped me sleep (we can't remember |
| I meditated and kept getting vague feelings but | | | | everything that each crystal is capable of as their |
| nothing that I could put my finger on, I figured I was | | | | uses are so varied). I looked up these crystals to see |
| trying to hard to get an answer, we can do this and | | | | if I could pinpoint a reason for their success. |
| I believe that because we are trying to force a | | | | Opal healing crystals also promote happy dreams and |
| result, the answer becomes even more elusive. | | | | allows for the release of inhibitions, I figured that this |
| Anyway by bed time I still had not found a crystal to | | | | is what the Opal had brought to me. The Hematite |
| take with me to help me sleep. I was not looking | | | | which is sometimes called the Crystal for the mind, |
| forward to another sleepless night. I began checking | | | | helps us sort things out, and brings calming to most |
| the house to make sure that it was all locked up and | | | | situations; again these are the healing qualities that |
| windows closed etc. I put my hand in the pocket of | | | | this crystal brought to me. |
| my cardigan and there was a piece of Hematite that | | | | So you see that sometimes, if the traditional or most |
| I had been cleaning on a Citrine Cluster, it must have | | | | commonly used healing crystals are not working for |
| been there for most of the day. I decided that I | | | | you, there maybe others out there that will do the |
| would take this with me and see if helped me sleep | | | | job. There are underlying reasons why a particular |
| any better, as I was checking the room where my | | | | situation is occurring and most often we do not |
| grandson had been playing that day I remembered | | | | consciously know the reason for this. Go with your |
| that he had be playing with some Opal bookmarks, I | | | | intuition when choosing healing crystals to treat the |
| did not remember putting them back, so had a look | | | | conditions, you will find that although the crystals that |
| around and found them under the bed, I decided to | | | | you choose may not be the "norm" that they will do |
| leave the on the desk and put them away in the | | | | the job quite effectively. |
| morning. As I was leaving the room, one of the | | | | I have been keeping these two crystals under my |
| crystals called to me to take it with me, it was the | | | | pillow for about a week now and have been getting |
| one shaped like a butterfly, the urge was so strong | | | | good sleep and lovely dreams; I am feeling that I will |
| that I could not resist. So off I went to bed with the | | | | not need to keep doing this for much longer. Also I |
| Hematite and Opal butterfly which I placed under my | | | | feel much better through the day; I find myself |
| pillow. | | | | smiling at people as I pass them in the street and |
| I must have fallen asleep very quickly that night, | | | | really looking forward to the day, have not felt this |
| because I do not recall tossing and turning or my | | | | good in a few months. |
| mind going over and over the day's events, like it | | | | I hope this helps you in choosing healing crystals next |
| normally would. I awoke in the morning feeling better | | | | time you need them. |
| than I had done in a couple of weeks. I had had the | | | | |