A unique book for beginners to crystals, that helps you identify your feelings and guides you towards crystal choices to enhance your mental wellbeing. As human beings we all experience a myriad different emotions that have a profound effect on how we live our everyday lives. The awareness of our emotions, or emotional intelligence, is an important skill to cultivate as it is inevitably connected to personal wellbeing and the vitality of all relationships in life. Crystals and minerals are teachers who can guide us through their specific energetic signatures how to maintain, enhance, or alter our moods. When we are aware of our current mind state and work consciously with crystals, we can find practical yet deep practices to help evolve our emotional wellbeing. This guide to crystals for beginners and beyond, will give you practical exercises for engaging with the right stones at the right time and in the most effective way. Perhaps you need to give yourself courage? Or reduce your anxiety levels? Or make yourself more open to feeling compassion? There are all sorts of situations where you may want to control or regulate your frame of mind, and crystals are a powerful tool to help with this. This book will not only guide beginners in choosing the most appropriate stones but also how to work with them in different ways. It describes in detail practices that can help you unlock the stones' power, including meditations of various kinds including movement, sound and touch, journalling exercises to record your experiences and discover patterns in the ways the crystals have helped you, and conscious crystal dreaming which activates the sensory and medicinal qualities of support you associate with dream time. Organized by emotional states, Mood Crystals will help you to cultivate your emotional intelligence as you develop greater awareness of your current mood and practice consciously with crystals. A questionnaire at the back of the book allows you to assess what you're actually feeling and decide which crystal (or crystal combination) will be most beneficial to you at any given moment and which of the practices you should try with each particular crystal.

* Explores 455 crystals, minerals, gemstones, and their metaphysical energies, including vivid color photographs for each stone * For each stone, shares its scientific information, its element and chakra correspondences, its history, and its physical, emotional, and spiritual benefits * Includes guidance on how to work with crystals and stones and also explores the concept of crystal resonance Offering an illuminating alphabetical journey through the mineral kingdom, this comprehensive reference guide takes you deep into the world of crystals and their uses for spiritual awakening and self-healing. Exploring 455 gemstones and their metaphysical energies, the encyclopedia includes vivid color photographs for each stone to aid identification and showcase its beauty, as well as listing each gem's physical, emotional, and spiritual benefits. The book begins with two introductory chapters by authors Naisha Ahsian and Robert Simmons detailing how to work with crystals and stones and exploring the concept of crystal resonance. Each stone entry includes the mineral name and photo, its elemental and chakra correspondences, keywords that indicate its properties, and a description of the crystal structure, hardness, history, and known locations of each mineral, plus any relevant legend or lore from the past. Each author then offers personal insights on the subtle energy properties and spiritual applications of the stone. The entries conclude with the spiritual, emotional, and physical healing qualities of the stone and an affirmation for evoking its potential benefits. This edition also includes an index of the stones' healing and energetic properties, making it easy to find the stone best suited to your needs.

In Search of Wisdom is a book born of the friendship of three gifted teachers, exploring the universal human journey and our quest for meaning and understanding. This translation of the French bestseller brings readers an intimate, insightful, and wide-ranging conversation between Buddhist monk and author Matthieu Ricard, philosopher Alexandre Jollien, and psychiatrist Christophe Andre. Join these three luminaries as they share their views on how we uncover our deepest aspirations in life, the nature of the ego, living with the full range of human emotion, the art of listening, the temple of the body, the origin of suffering, the joy of altruism, true freedom, and much more. "We don't pretend to be experts on the subject matter or models in accomplishing the work or overcoming the obstacles involved in it," they write. "We are only travelers in search of wisdom, aware that the path is long and arduous, and that we have so much still to discover, to clarify, and to assimilate through practice . . . Our dearest wish is that when you cast your eyes on these pages, you will discover subjects for reflection to inspire you and brighten the light of your life."? In Search of Wisdom Highlights * Discovering our deepest aspirations * The ego: friend or impostor? * Learning to live with the full spectrum of our emotions * The art of listening * The body: burden or idol? * Suffering and its origins * The joy of altruism * The school of simplicity * Guilt and forgiveness * True freedom * Daily practice

In this new 2020 edition, this unique volume reveals how the vital energies of nature can be harnessed to enhance your emotional peace of mind, your physical health, happiness, well-being, and even living environment. The first part of the book explores the innate power of crystals, with in-depth analysis of the power and qualities of over 60 individual crystals, and guidance on which stones to use. There is advice on how to use the vibrational energies of light and colour, and how to harness the power of the chakras. The second part looks at the home and how to banish negative forces and welcome pro-active energies. Utilise the ancient principles of feng shui and space clearing to reduce psychic clutter, disperse negative energy and enhance your living environment. Nurture the spiritual aspect of your home with altars and shrines, and with rituals, meditations and visualisation routines for releasing health, peace and well-being. Use this book to bring mental, spiritual and emotional harmony into your life.

The Sunday Times bestseller 'Your book is absolutely amazing, Kirsty. You're one of the best 10 guests of all time.' - Chris Evans, The Chris Evans Show on Virgin Radio Are there certain days when you feel overly emotional for no apparent reason? Do you have days when you feel exhausted, close to burn out and like you want to hide away from the world? Lunar Living could be just the answer that you are looking for. Working with the constantly changing phases of the moon helps you to understand yourself like never before, to realign everything in your own life, to understand when you need to rest and self-care and when you need to shine and make things happen. Living back in tune with this natural flow and taking care of you and your needs, even if that's just twice a month will make the biggest difference to how you feel, act and react the rest of the month. Lunar Living will help you to: - Feel empowered to make big life decisions - Understand yourself better - Tune into your natural cycles - Improve your sleep, mental health and relationships - Live a happier, more intentional life A beautiful hardback, complete with a blue foil finish, this is the perfect toolkit for understanding the moon and the effects it has on us. Lunar Living helps us to work with the moons phases to understand the ever-changing landscape of our emotions and the inner world of our purpose, goals and dreams and tune into this deeper wisdom to make profound shifts in our lives. If you've ever felt stuck, meaningless, overly emotional for no apparent reason or want to come back into alignment with a natural cycle to help you to move forwards in life and achieve your dreams and goals this is the book for you. 'One to watch. It's the perfect toolkit for understanding the moon.' - Cosmopolitan 'Could the moon change your life? How it holds the key to your health, happiness and even your wealth. Meet the expert who can prove it.' - You Magazine 'In her new book ... Gallagher expands on the idea of using moon days for self-care, by exploring how by combining moon cycles with astrology, you can use the year's moon days to focus on specific issues in your life.' - The Independent 'Absolutely fascinating. This is going to be worth giving to your kids.' - Chris Evans 'This book has changed my life. I can't explain how much it's changed my perspective on work and views on my current lifestyle.' - Steph Elswood

Through yoga, meditation, and visualization exercises, Jilly Shipway shows you how to tap into your chakras and enhance your creativity. Working with these seven energy centers helps you bring more success into all areas of your life, including art projects, business endeavors, scientific pursuits, and more. Your improved self-expression can even help heal trauma. In this journey through the chakras, you will learn how Mountain Pose can ground your creative focus and therapeutic writing about the sun can build confidence. Discover how to send love to yourself and others with a walking meditation and unblock stagnant energy by visualizing light. With this book s simple techniques, you can access a deep source of inner wisdom that is the wellspring of all creativity.

Chakras are the centers of energy in our body that profoundly affect our well-being. Through this exquisitely designed volume, newcomers to this alternative form of spirituality can understand every aspect of chakra power. In addition to an illuminating introduction, a detailed guide covers each chakra, with their associated colors, Indian deity, healing stone, and emotional and physical actions. One by one, go through the base, sacral, solar plexus, heart, throat, brow, and crown chakras, as well as some newly discovered ones and chakras from different traditions. There's also invaluable information on connecting chakras with aura reading and healing, and yoga exercises and meditations to strengthen each chakra.

From the creator of the Crow Tarot, a richly illustrated 80-card tarot deck and guidebook perfect for cat lovers. With one paw in the human world of catnip toys and belly rubs and another in the animal world stalking prey and disappearing into the landscape, cats exist in a liminal space between domestic and wild, captive and free. They are mysterious shapeshifters, loyal familiars, and self-appointed rulers over the humans they deign to grace with their company—and many of us will happily submit to their rule for a few cuddles. From scrounging alley cats to well-fed fat cats, and hairless cats to giant puffballs, Grimalkin's Curious Cat Tarot is a pawsitively purrfect deck for any cat lover. Each of the Rider-Waite-Smith style cards in this deck depict cats along their own furry fool's journey—the good, the bad, the graceful, and the goofy.

Take control of your own health using this guide to true, holistic healing. In Heal from Within, medical intuitive and professional counsellor Katie Beecher shares a customisable step-by-step approach to holistic health that encompasses physical, emotional and spiritual health. Each body is different and often our physical ailments are connected to emotional and spiritual traumas. Readers will learn to be led by their own intuition as they move towards healing that encompasses body, mind and soul. Each chapter focuses on a specific chakra, providing insight into the issues associated with that energy centre along with healing techniques and suggestions that start at the root cause of those problems. The second part of the book includes a comprehensive glossary of specific conditions along with tailored treatment suggestions and looks further at Katie's own struggle and healing journey. Filled with practical advice, from suggestions for supplements to exercises, mantras and dialogue prompts, Heal from Within empowers readers to confidently take control of their own wellness. 'We've never had an experience quite like being read by Medical Intuitive Katie Beecher ... all of this was eerily accurate.' - GOOP 'This is a very empowering read and guide. Katie dives into helping you be more intuitive and more spiritually, emotionally and physically aware of what is going on in your life.' - Yvette LeBlowitz, Host of #Spaitgirl Podcast and Book Club.