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Adding a few healthy habits to your daily routine will do wonders for your long-term health. These tips may even boost longevity!

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People typically start the New Year with the best intentions of improving their health. Whether it is exercising more often, limiting alcohol consumption, or cooking at home more, most resolutions come to an unhealthy end by the end of January or early February. That big game day celebration was also an obstacle that most likely tripped up a lot of people as well.

The most important thing you can do is to not beat yourself up if you slip up on your New Year’s health goals. Nobody ever said that the road to a healthier lifestyle would be easy. In fact, it takes consistent hard work and determination! If you find yourself cheating on your diet or missing workout days, perhaps you need to dial back your resolutions and add little habits, which can drastically improve your health, to your daily lifestyle. Use the health-boosting tips below and you may even add some years to your life!

Avoid Screens Before Bed

Watching your favorite show or checking your Instagram in a dark room exposes you to artificial blue light, which is actually brighter than natural sunlight. This confuses your internal circadian clock, meaning you will start to feel more awake than sleepy. Don’t mislead your brain into thinking that it shouldn’t be making melatonin to help you sleep. Avoid screens about one to two hours before bed.

Ditch Artificial Sweeteners

A lot of zero-calorie and low-carb artificial sweeteners are marketed to be healthier than regular sugar. Put down the artificial sweetener and slowly walk away. This is not a drill. They are synthetic sweeteners that can increase your body mass index (BMI) and your risk of developing mood disorders, headaches, or type 2 diabetes. Beneficial sweeteners to use include raw honey, coconut sugar, monk fruit, pure grade A maple syrup, blackstrap molasses, stevia, or raw agave syrup.

Don’t Put Ice In Your Water

Don’t feel weird about drinking room temperature water, even if it seems abnormal. According to Ayurvedic medicine, your digestive fire or agni (the power that helps your body digest food) is dampened when you consume cold water. This can decrease your internal energy and impair digestion. Ask for water with no ice when eating out or serve yourself room temperature water at home.

Eat Some Raw Cacao

A little chocolate never hurt anyone, unless it came packaged in a bar with artificial sweeteners, colors, and processed ingredients. Raw cacao, on the other hand, is the natural form of chocolate, and it is full of phytonutrients and antioxidants. Containing anandamide (what has been deemed a “bliss molecule), raw cacao can help to boost your mood, memory, and fertility. Add raw cacao to smoothies, homemade energy bites, chia pudding, or other breakfast bowls.

Be Still

We are no strangers to stress because life can get a little crazy. We find that it is beneficial to take a few minutes every day to be still, silent, and secluded from all of your surroundings. If you find it difficult or stressful to be silent and alone, try guided meditation or take a yoga class. Stillness works to boost your mood, relieve stress, and improve sleep.

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FEATURE: Concentration is Everything https://www.dherbs.com/articles/emotional-and-mental-health/feature-concentration-is-everything/ Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:25:54 +0000 https://www.dherbs.com/uncategorized/feature-concentration-is-everything/

“The mind, in meditation must be so perfectly still that not a ripple of thought enters it. God, the Subtlest Reality, cannot be perceived except in utter silence.” -Swami Kriyananda, The Ananda Course in Self-Realization Perfect peace...

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“The mind, in meditation must be so perfectly still that not a ripple of thought enters it. God, the Subtlest Reality, cannot be perceived except in utter silence.”
-Swami Kriyananda, The Ananda Course in Self-Realization

Perfect peace requires perfect stillness of mind, just as the surface of a mountain lake requires complete calm if it is to reflect the sky. Only in deep concentration can you discover the hidden depths of your spiritual nature. Fortunately, concentration is like a muscle-the more you exercise it, the stronger it becomes. To increase your ability to concentrate, strive to make each meditation deeper than the one before. When you meditate with this kind of intensity, you will find your practice helped tremendously.

Concentration Is a Work in Progress

Knowing how important concentration is, people sometimes become discouraged over their inability to hold their minds steady in meditation. We need to realize, however, that completely quieting the mind is the goal of meditation, and not something we will necessarily experience right away. No one expects to master the guitar the first time he plays, and this is true for meditation, whose very mastery reveals Infinity to us. For countless lives we have allowed our minds to run free and undisciplined, like unruly children. How do badly behaved children act when you try to discipline them? They rebel, just as the mind does when we first try to meditate. So we shouldn’t feel surprised if we experience a sense of restlessness or rebelliousness in the beginning. Our mind, however, will learn to behave-just like children do-once it realizes we’re serious.

Meditate with Interest and Energy

Paramhansa Yogananda said that most people do everything only halfheartedly and use only one-tenth of their concentration. To be successful in meditation it is essential that we concentrate with our full attention, otherwise our efforts will be mechanical, diffused, and lack power. Spiritual awareness depends on two things: the amount of energy and how that energy is focused. You can increase your level of energy and focus by commanding your mind’s attention with such practices as chanting, prayer, yoga postures, breathing exercises, and the Energization Exercises. These practices generate a strong flow of energy, which then can be used for meditation.

Meditation Tips for Concentration

Swami Kriyananda offers the following suggestions on concentration from his book, Rays of the One Light:

The devotee, to protect the candle flame of his concentration from the gusts of restlessness, must try to banish from his mind all images, all worldly scenes, the words of others, the remembered episodes in his life, all thought of physical pleasures, his plans for the future. Nothing must tempt him to stray from his fixed purpose while his soul calls to God.

To protect his concentration from sensory invasion, he must first control his response to outward stimuli. He should train his will not to respond to sensations of heat or cold, comfort or discomfort, restlessness or fatigue.

With a little discipline of the body at the beginning of meditation, and with the strong determination not to move or fidget about, the body’s demands will grow weaker. After even five minutes of this discipline, one may find it easy to sit for a long period without even wanting to move.

Most of the difficulty encountered in meditation is due to physical tension. Once tension is removed by the practice of deep relaxation, one finds meditation itself becoming increasingly enjoyable.

Again, with a little mental self-discipline at the beginning of meditation, one finds it increasingly easy to remain without thought.

Tell your mind firmly the moment you become settled on your seat to meditate, “This is my time for God.” If restless thoughts try insistently to engage your attention, reassure them, “We’ll discuss these things later!”

When True Concentration Comes

Yogananda said, “[While] directing your conscious mind from the material world, you must realize…that effort is not enough…You cannot withdraw your mind successfully from anything unless you withdraw your energy also.” Deep states of concentration are possible only when our life-force is interiorized, because the mind follows the direction of the flow of prana in the body. When the energy flows outward, our attention goes outward, too, while reversing it interiorizes the mind.


Bharat Cornell is the director of Ananda’s Meditation Support site, www.ananda.org . He has taught and practiced meditation for over 35 years. Bharat is authorized by Swami Kriyananda to give Kriya Yoga initiation, the most advanced meditation technique brought to the West by Paramhansa Yogananda. He has lectured internationally for many years, and is the author of the highly acclaimed Sharing Nature Books, which have been published in 20 languages.

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Levels of Stillness https://www.dherbs.com/articles/emotional-and-mental-health/levels-of-stillness/ Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:25:37 +0000 https://www.dherbs.com/uncategorized/levels-of-stillness/

When you are able to relax and quietly suspend all your firmly held false ideas and limiting beliefs about who and what you are, only what is true will remain.

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There are two levels of stillness. The first level involves learning to relax, become centered, and meditate. The technique involves sitting or lying down and being absolutely still – without reading a book, talking, watching the television, or listening to the radio. It involves deliberately pausing, stopping all physical movement, becoming relaxed, calm, and quiet inside, and just being – consciously being conscious. It’s about being centered and still in the moment you are presently in.

For a few minutes, every form of external activity stops. Then, in that physical quietness, you turn your attention inward and focus on yourself. Focus on what it feels like to be you. Experience you. Immerse your conscious awareness in your own unique feeling-tone, the feeling-tone of the Universe expressing Itself as you. Do this deliberately in order to consciously experience the truth of who you are.

LEVEL ONE

The first level of stillness is about being with yourself in order to know yourself. This is accomplished by being wide awake and aware as you deliberately relax into yourself. The idea is to consciously enter into a state wherein you temporarily suspend everything you think you know about who you are, including anything you have ever been taught, and simply be attentive to what’s going on right there where you are. You practice being quiet, both physically and mentally, as you pay attention to the sensations in your body, the various thoughts in your mind, and your current experience of being conscious and alive. You practice simple body-mind awareness, being conscious of the moment you are now in, and thereby experience with clarity the energy of you. You consciously experience yourself as you actually are. In this way you open yourself to a new, truer, less distorted experience of you and the world.

When you are able to relax and quietly suspend all your firmly held false ideas and limiting beliefs about who and what you are, only what is true will remain. You will then experience your ever-existing truth for yourself. This is like polishing a mirror – removing the grime – and seeing yourself clearly for the very first time. And though this is not as easy as it sounds, it is also not particularly difficult. Let me clarify something first, however. In order to let go of the false beliefs you have about who and what you are, it is not necessary to know which beliefs are true and which are false. In fact, you probably don’t know, and this is the problem. If you knew, you would not be uncertain about your true identity. If you knew, you would not be experiencing conflict and inner turmoil; you would be experiencing peace. Therefore, let go of them all! Let go of everything you think you know about who you are, and see what’s left.

When you let go of everything you think you know about yourself and stay with what’s left, when you willingly abandon the contradictory evaluations of who you are and courageously reach deeply into yourself in order to experience yourself directly, you will come upon a new experience of who you are. You will sense the creative energy that is the life of you, and you will then define and think about yourself in a new and expanded way. And since the way you think about and define yourself is central to your perception, behavior, and experience of the world, your world will spontaneously change as your self-concept changes and comes into closer alignment with what’s really true.

LEVEL TWO

The second level of stillness involves living your daily life with this new and growing inner certainty of who you really are. In other words, meditation in action. This is not always easy, and it takes a little getting used to, for it means staying in touch with the deepest truth about yourself in the midst of daily life. This involves continually letting go of the judgments, evaluations, and contradictory opinions about yourself that arise in your mind throughout the day and in your relationships with other people. You do this by staying centered in your peace. You thereby learn to be suspicious of any suggestion – from yourself or others – that speaks of your guilt, your unworthiness, or your unlovableness. You learn it is appropriate to disregard any remaining inner self-criticism because in Level One you experienced yourself in a new way: as fundamentally lovable, innocent of all blame, and therefore deserving of every good thing.

Having experienced the truth about yourself in Level One, albeit momentarily, you had an insight – a glimmer of clarity, a moment of experience – about an inner truth that you can’t quite ignore. You experienced yourself in a new way and now know your deepest truth, even though you may not yet fully believe it. Part of you knows the truth, but you’re not totally convinced, and understandably so. Besides, when you are surrounded by others who are instead convinced of other things, it is doubly difficult to overcome your doubts.

This is similar to what it must have been like for Copernicus when he first suspected that the world was round. He had an insight into the way things are, yet part of him probably still believed the flat-world theory. And because he was surrounded by other flat-world theorists, and because he couldn’t yet prove the world was round, it would have been difficult for him to be fully convinced or convincing to others.

The way to experience the truth of who you are (Level One) is by letting go of all your learned preconceptions about yourself and then staying present and open-minded for the experience. The way to stay in touch with your truth (Level Two), and confirm it to yourself over and over until there is absolutely no doubt, is by continuing to do what you did in Level One, but doing it now moment by moment during the day. This means, essentially, letting go of pretense and self-critical judgment and allowing self-acceptance – letting yourself be who you truly are. Again, you do this by staying centered in your peace, for only when you are at peace will you have the clearest perspective. By staying centered in your peace in the midst of daily life, you will validate your new perception of yourself and gradually become fully convinced. As a consequence, you will then be convincing to others.


How to Start

Let’s look at two excellent techniques for developing stillness and peace of mind. Both of these use your breathing as the primary focal point and both involve learning how to sit absolutely still. Sitting absolutely still – practicing conscious physical immobility – can teach you how to be in the conflict-free, higher-energy, “stillness” state for more of your daily life. You can learn what it feels like to have all your energy perfectly aligned and in harmony, like the spinning top. You can learn to participate fully in your experience of the now and still be relaxed. You can learn to be perfectly centered. And, of course, the more familiar you are with the feeling and experience of being centered, the easier it will be to stay that way. And since moving away from your center has been the source of all your suffering, the sooner you notice yourself going off, the better.

The importance of Level One (meditation) as an aid to the stable attainment of Level Two (meditation in action) cannot be overemphasized. The more familiar you are with the feeling-tone of your own centered being when you are “home” and alone, the more obvious it will be when you move away from it, and the easier it will be to find your way back to center in the midst of a busy life.

Counting Backward

In this exercise you will be counting backward from fifty to zero, synchronizing the counting with your breathing. You’ll count the even numbers as you exhale and the odd numbers as you inhale.

Sit with your back straight and your eyes closed. If you can sit comfortably on the floor, do so. Otherwise, use a chair. Be comfortable.

Begin by breathing in gently, fully. As yell exhale, mentally say “fifty.” As you breathe in again, mentally say “forty-nine,” exhale “forty-eight,” inhale “forty-seven,” exhale “forty-six” … and so on.

Count backward on both the in-breath and the out-breath until you reach “twenty,” then count only on exhales. Silently count “twenty” as you exhale. Then, instead of counting “nineteen” on the in-breath, do nothing, just inhale. With the next exhalation count “nineteen” … and so on until you reach zero.

When you reach zero, stop counting, but stay aware of the natural flow of breath in exactly the same way as when you were counting. Watch the breath as though you were going to count, but don’t count. As you do this, practice sitting absolutely still. But don’t hold yourself still. Simply be so relaxed that no movement occurs.

Be very aware of how you feel as you do this–how peaceful, energized, calm. Notice how pleasantly alert you are, how serene, fearless, at ease. Familiarize yourself with this feeling, with the feeling-tone of being centered and at peace, and rest here another two or three minutes. Absorb the stillness. Then prepare yourself, open your eyes, and return. This will take six or seven minutes.

As you do this exercise, breathe normally. Do not do deep breathing or control the breath in any way. This is important. You are learning not to be in control. You are learning to get out of the way. Therefore, rather than controlling the breath, allow it to flow freely in and out at its own natural pace. Yet, stay aware of the breath. Keep track of the numbers. As the breath comes in, count. As the breath goes out, count. And when you reach zero, stay aware of the breath nonverbally. There should be no strain in your breathing as you do this. Keep it soft and easy.

As you count backward, you may be more aware than usual of your mind darting rapidly from one object of attention to another. You may be unusually aware of sounds, physical sensations, or thoughts. You may lose count altogether. None of this matters. All of these things are evidence that the technique is working. You’re becoming more aware.

The value of this technique lies in its ability to help you notice where your attention is from moment to moment, what’s in your mind, and the contents of your consciousness. The counting is not only a centering device and a way of developing concentration, of training your mind to focus, it also acts as a backdrop on which your thoughts become very apparent.

For now, however, do not do anything with the various thoughts or sensations that arise. Simply be aware of them and continue counting. Gradually become more aware, more quiet within yourself, and increasingly dynamically still. As you immerse yourself in your stillness–and this is something that improves with each attempt–you will experience an unexpected and immensely satisfying sense of contentment and ease. Feel the peace.

Mindfulness of Breathing

Sit on the floor with your back straight and eyes closed. If you are unable to sit on the floor, use a chair. Be comfortable.

Begin with a somewhat deep and gentle inhalation. Hold the air for a moment, then release it slowly in a long, thin exhalation. Do this three times. Then, focus your awareness in your body and feel yourself breathing.

As attentively as you can, note the changing sensations throughout your body that accompany each breath. Tune in to the subtle differences in sensation between the inhalation and exhalation. What does it feel like to inhale? What does it feel like to exhale? How do you know which is happening? And where in your body do you actually feel the breathing taking place? The most obvious sensations will be in your abdomen, chest, or nostrils, but you can feel the movement of breath elsewhere, too. In fact, there may be nowhere in your body that you cannot feel it. Experience what’s happening.

Make no attempt to regulate or control your breathing as you do this. Again, practice letting go of control. Allow the breath to flow in and out on its own without your intervention. Some breaths will be deep, some will be shallow. Every breath will be different. All you need to do is be aware. You will experience the unbroken flow of breath when your mind is in an unbroken state, your attention continuous and one-pointed. That is the quality we want to cultivate, undivided attention to the instant of conscious experience you happen to be in.

Sit motionless, experience your whole body breathing, and then ride the breath into the sensation of yourself. Feel you. Experience the feeling-tone of the vibrating energy in your body, the overall sensation of “you.” Practice becoming still and familiarize yourself with the actual feeling of stillness and peace.

If you find it difficult to concentrate on the subtle sensations that accompany breathing, say “in” to yourself as you breathe in and “out” as you breathe out. When your attention strays, notice this and then return it to the constantly changing sensations throughout your breathing body.

Be thoroughly relaxed as you practice this technique. Sit tall and be absolutely still. Give yourself your own undivided attention, ride the breath into the feeling-tone of you, and concentrate on that feeling. Immerse yourself in it. Feel you. Do this for five or ten minutes. Do it for a few moments whenever you can. Do it now, if possible. This will prepare you for the next chapter.

Coming Back to Center

Motionless sitting is probably the easiest way of learning to be centered. Being centered, however, does not require that you be physically motionless. You learn to be centered, and you become increasingly familiar with the energetic feeling-tone of stillness through the practice of motionless sitting, and you immerse yourself in it as fully as you can when you can, but you then carry that feeling-tone with you into the motion of your life.

For as many moments of the day as you can, come back to center. Relax into where you are, breathe, and consciously be present in the now. Do this as you are driving, working, in the midst of a conversation – anything, everything – all day long.

And think of it like this: The feeling of stillness is peace, and the feeling of peace is joy. Therefore, come back to center and feel the joy. Do this frequently throughout the day. Come back to center as many moments of the day as you can, and let the joy you feel permeate everything you do.


Erich Schiffmann (born 1953, Los Angeles, California) is an accomplished American Yoga Master widely known for his award-winning video, Yoga Mind & Body, featuring actress Ali MacGraw. He is the author of a best-selling book, Moving into Stillness. He has been teaching yoga for more than twenty years. At age 18 Schiffmann sent a handwritten letter to Krishnamurti and was accepted to study with him in England.

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FEATURE: Unstillness https://www.dherbs.com/articles/emotional-and-mental-health/feature-unstillness/ Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:25:37 +0000 https://www.dherbs.com/uncategorized/feature-unstillness/

When you look at people around, rarely do you see human beings in stillness. People are endlessly in motion and this endless motion seems to gain speed every year. We cannot be still. We are on the...

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When you look at people around, rarely do you see human beings in stillness. People are endlessly in motion and this endless motion seems to gain speed every year. We cannot be still. We are on the go, with no breaks. We all know how hard it was to still the body when we first started practicing meditation. Maybe you still struggle with this simple, but yet often almost impossible, action of sitting still.

The legs were falling asleep, the back muscles were aching, we felt itchy everywhere…and much more. Once we were settled with the body we faced even bigger challenges by trying to still the mind. Who said nothing can go faster then the speed of light? We know how fast the mind races when we force it into stillness. We can be in different parts of the world in one moment, we can travel through time in a second, we can move between extreme emotions in an instant.

So why, for most of us, is being still so difficult?

Because nothing, inside or outside us, is still. Every molecule in our body is a trace from the dust of the stars. The stars were born from a powerful explosion known as the big bang. Since the big bang, the universe never stopped moving. Every thing is in constant motion: from the largest objects in space, to the smallest subatomic particles that form our bodies.

We exist in a world that is in continuous motion. Even when you look at an unmoving object, it is an illusion, as it moves with the motion of earth. Space itself keeps expanding rapidly, moving everything within it. As in space, everything in your body is in constant motion. Your muscles, joints, organs, nervous system, blood and cells are all in continual movement.

So here we are, vibrating entities, composed of particles in motion, hovering in an environment in perpetual motion.

If everything from the largest objects to the smallest particles moves constantly, where is the stillness we are trying to achieve on the path of spirituality? Is it possible to reach such a state?

Stillness exists outside of the mind’s dominion, where all concepts cease. Stillness is present where the fragments of reality unite to be the whole picture in no time or space.

In other words, to exit the boundaries of the mind and the universe it shapes, we have to unite with the higher self, the Source of stillness.

Imagine the higher self as a complete picture of a still reality that has been reflected by an infinite mirror. Imagine the immeasurable mirror exploding to endless pieces (each piece is a metaphor for you and me and everything you see around you). Each piece reflects only a fragment of the whole picture. All pieces are in constant vibrating motion towards unification that will bring them into their original state of oneness. Each piece captures the sparkle of the original stillness from the original unbroken reflection of reality. This is the sparkle we are connecting with in our meditation.


After nearly 30 years of personal practice and teaching thousands of students around the globe, shakti mhi has made yoga her passion and her life’s purpose. She is the founder of the Prana Yoga Teacher College in Vancouver, B.C., and is the author of The Enigma of Self-Realization.


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Meditating With Crystals https://www.dherbs.com/articles/emotional-and-mental-health/meditating-with-crystals/ Fri, 10 May 2013 14:06:32 +0000 https://www.dherbs.com/uncategorized/meditating-with-crystals/

Meditation is like opening a door to another world, especially if you choose a crystal that has fault lines and occlusions within it.

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Meditating with a crystal is one of the easiest ways to attune its energy. Cleanse your crystal before beginning so that its energies will be pure. Meditation is a way of shutting off the mind chatter. It has many benefits—alleviating stress, lowering blood pressure, etc – but it also allows you to get to know your crystals. In the stillness of meditation, the crystals talk to you.

Meditation is like opening a door to another world, especially if you choose a crystal that has fault lines and occlusions within it. You lose yourself within the crystal. In the peace that follows, solutions and insights rise up into awareness. It is beneficial to meditate with each of your crystals in turn, taking a few days to tune into each one and come to know it fully.

Some people like to have a “crystal day” when they tune into each of their crystals. Start with the red crystals to energize and awaken, moving through the rainbow spectrum into orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, violet, and clear. This brings you to the highest crystal vibration and you could well feel blessed out. You may need to earth your energies again with one of the black crystals. Earthing, or grounding, your energies after meditation is important as you may otherwise feel floaty and quite here. Boji Stones are excellent for this as they settle you into your body instantly but gently, and immediately bring you fully present. – Judy Hall, The Crystal Bible, pg. 32

How To Meditate With Crystals?

Step One

To meditate, one must break away, however briefly, from the world. Turn off your cell phone and pager, disconnect the fax machine, shut down the computer and turn on the answering machine allow no interruptions during this special time. Place a “Do Not Disturb” sign or “In Meditation” sign on your doors (especially front door of your home). Also if possible wear simple loose fitting clothes.

Step Two

Making sure that you will not be disturbed, especially by a phone, settle yourself comfortably with your crystal. Hold it in both hands or place it on a low table in front of you.

Breathe gently, letting each out-breath be a little longer than the in-breath. As you breathe out, let go of any stress or tension you may be feeling. As you breathe in, let peace flow with your in-breath passing right through your body. Allow your breathing to settle into an easy rhythm.

With softly focused eyes, look at your crystal. Notice its color, its shape, its weight if you are holding it. Feel its vibrations passing into your hands. Allow yourself to wander within the crystal, exploring its inner planes. When you are ready, close your eyes. Quietly contemplate the energies of the crystal and let it teach you about itself.

When you have completed the meditation, open your eyes and put the crystal aside. Place your feet firmly on the floor. To ground yourself, hold a Smoky Quatrz or Boji Stone. – Judy Hall, The Crystal Bible, pg. 33

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List Of Crystals For Corresponding Chakras

Red Crystals (good for First Chakra):

Red Garnet, Ruby, Raspberry Quartz, Red Jasper, Cinnabar, Red Sardonyx, Ruby Aura, Rubellite (Red Tourmaline), Red Jade, Red Chalcedony, and Red Aventurine

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Black Crystals (good for First Chakra)

Black Tourmaline, Jet, Black Obsidian, Onyx, Covalite, Black Spinel, Nebula Stone, Black sapphire, and Black Kyanite

Orange Crystals (good for Second Chakra)

Carnelian, Amber, Citrine, Jasper, Orange Calcite, Fire Agate, Apricot Quartz, Peach Quartz, Imperial Quartz, Sunstone, and Fire Opal

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Yellow Crystals (good for Third Chakra)

Yellow Jasper, Golden Herkimer, Sulfur, Yellow Kunzite, Yellow Phenacite, Yellow Jade, Yellow Apatite, Yellow Spinel, Yellow Zincite, and Yellow Sapphire

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Green Crystals (good for Fourth Chakra)

Malachite, Green Aventurine, Emerald, Diopside, Green Agate, Green Fluorite, Bloodstone, Seraphinite, Green Quartz, Gaia Stone, Chrysoprase, and Green Chiastolite

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Pink Stones (good for Fourth Chakra)

Rose Quartz, Rhodochrosite, Rhodonite, Strawberry Quartz, Danburite, Eudialyte, Pink Topaz, Pink Carnelian, Kunzite, Pink Agate, Muscovite, Morganite (Pink Beryl), Thulite, Pink Chalecedony, Pink Tourmaline, and Mangano

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Light Blue Crystals (good for Fifth Chakra)

Blue Lace Agate, Angelite, Celestite, Dolphin Stone (Larimar), Blue Calcite, Apatite, Turquoise, Chrysocolla, Blue Chalcedony, Tanzanite, and Kyanite

RECOMMENDED: Crystal Elixir #5

Blue-Indigo Crystals (good for Sixth Chakra)

Lapis Lazuli, Azurite, Blue Quartz, Dumortierite, Iolite, Blue Aventurine, Blue Fluorite, Lazulite, Sapphire, Sodalite, and Blue Jasper

RECOMMENDED: Crystal Elixir #6

Violet-Purple Crystals (good for Seventh Chakra)

Amethyst, Charoite, Purpurite, Purple Fluorite, Purple Sapphire, Lepidolite, Lavender Jade, Sugilite, Purple Tourmaline

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To learn about the specific qualities of the Seven major Chakras, order our downloadable Chakra Sheet ($15)

The DHERBS Chakra Sheet is an extensively detailed sheet that explains the metaphysical attributes of each chakra (which pertain to human qualities and emotions), the various names the chakra is known by; balanced and imbalanced characteristics of the chakra; the body parts that are affected by the chakra; the location of the chakra; the statement of the chakra, and so much more.

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