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About the book

Change your energy and change your life.

This beautiful, modern crystal bible features over 100 crystals to raise your vibrations. Cleanse your mind, body and spirit, heal your home, charge your creativity, achieve your career goals, improve your relationships, or simply bring greater wellbeing and more positivity into your every day. Harness the power to heal yourself and live the life you want.

Includes:

Over 70 crystals and their physical, spiritual and emotional healing powers

A guide to selecting, cleansing and caring for your crystals

Crystal meditation techniques

An introduction to the chakras

Gorgeous lifestyle photography

About the author

Emma Lucy Knowles is a clairvoyant and an intuitive, a hands-on crystal healer and meditation teacher. Emma Lucy has worked with crystals and energy for well over fifteen years, having started her exploration of crystals at the tender age of seven. She became fascinated, ‘quite by chance’, with how they looked and felt – long before she intuitively began to listen to them, discover their magic and explore fully the treasures they held. She suffered a bout of childhood depression as a result of heightened sensitivities and powerful, unexplained senses. She had difficulty learning how to become and understand herself and how to communicate in a world in which she was striving far too hard to be ‘normal’. Subsequently, living a full life made of enriching experiences, Emma Lucy has set about transforming her pain into power, and then sharing this life’s work as a powerful benefit for all. She works with a worldwide base of people, helping them to discover and explore how to overcome and their own pain and transmute this – in their own way, in their own time – into heartfelt success. She has used her own life, her own experience, the power of energy and the power of crystals, to gather and guide a powerful crowd of souls that she lovingly calls ‘The Overcomers’.

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Cover

About the book

About the author

Title Page

Introduction: Life is powerful but so are you

Crystals are for ever

How to select your crystals

Discovering your rocks

Your go-to crystal super set

Crystals for inner peace and calm

Crystals for kicking arse at work

Crystals for feeling great on the inside

Crystals for radiating on the outside

Crystals for self love and care

Crystals for achieving your dreams and goals

Crystals for starting the day right

Crystals for ending the day right

Where to purchase your crystals

Let’s go shopping

Cut some shapes

Crystal quality

How to cleanse your crystals

Ways to cleanse and charge

Crystal meditation and chakras

Working with your chakras

Chakra meditation

Crystals in the home, work and wardrobe

The healing home

Conclusion: Energise your life

Further explorations in the world of vibrations

Index of crystals

Index of healing properties

Acknowledgements

Copyright

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To Team Knowles – THANK YOU x 1000. Without your love, challenge and support I would have never striven as hard to become truly myself. To the great architect in the sky guiding us, to the crystals and the earth gently holding us and to those souls who make this world turn lovingly around me, you know who you are. TSD, Lucie Cave, Chocolate Button, The Ash OP, OG, my Bauer buddies, all those who have found me and bravely committed to the unknown by putting their faith in me and the skies above us – I am truly BLESSED.

This book is dedicated to the loving memory of Paula Bonner, Christopher Boyes, Tom Beard – my earth angels in flight who help guide me daily in spiritual sight.

We’d also like to thank Barry and The Astrology Store for generously lending us their amazing collection of crystals for the shoot.

Life is powerful but so are you

When you harness, change, charge, heal and transform your energy you can change your life. This is an amazing gift. Feeling powerful in yourself is possible for everyone and much more achievable with a little help from some crystal sets.

We don’t ever have to go through life, adventure, heartbreak, work, fear or fun on our own, but we can go through it at our own pace. We can do it loudly or we can do it in silence. And, most importantly, we can harness our own personal magic and allow ourselves to be enlarged, amplified and empowered by the hidden treasures held within nature’s gems – better known to you and me as crystals.

Crystals are the ultimate powerhouses of the Earth, ready to raise your vibrations and share their healing properties – to walk with you, explore with you and teach you, to help you to develop your intuition and deepen your connection with yourself and your own personal energy.

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Crystals are for ever

Crystals are naturally occurring minerals with a unique crystal structure, formed under pressure over millions of years.

Crystals have been gracefully adorning our necks, rings, goblets and temples for years, decades and generations. They were a fond favourite of the Egyptians who turned the reflective magic of the hematite crystal into mirrors; the Greeks used to rub the same stone on their soldiers’ bodies before they charged into battle. The Romans instinctively knew how to use these precious gems to enhance their health, and set in crowns, tiaras and goblets, jewels have been adopted by royalty to radiate their power. Practitioners of Chinese medicine are still using rose quartz on the tip of acupuncture needles to deepen the healing process.

Instinctively we know that there is something special about these colourful and wondrous natural gems – Crystal Meditation is probably one of the reasons you picked up this book, right? Crystals are forever, but this buzz may be new to you.

Perhaps you’ve been given a piece or you’ve got a chunk sitting on your desk as you were told it will stop that ever-growing ‘negativity’ virus. Maybe you wear the most precious of crystals within a ring to reflect the value of your love. Or maybe you’ve read about the beauty of crystals in a magazine, or they’ve danced in their thousands across your Instafeed. Maybe you like the colour and the shape, the way they feel but you don’t really know why. However you use them, however they call to you – it’s all good.

GETTING INTO THE VIBE

We live in a world of constant shift, vibration and energy. The world is powered by a flaming ball of energy at its very core and a flaming ball of energy in the skies. This energy cannot be missed – even when it cannot be seen, it can be felt. And we are the same. We – our spirit, our life force – are all about energy: energy channellers, energy magnets, energy sponges, energy enhancers, energy seekers, energy, energy, energy and then some. The whole world is made of energy – every person, every object is vibrating at different frequencies. When we are happy and buzzing, we emit high vibes, and when we are burnt out and down we emit low vibes. Energy is fluid and changeable, and we can use crystals to change this energy and align ourselves with the vibe we desire.

RAISE YOUR VIBRATIONS

So, how do crystals work? We all know people who hype us up and chill us down, don’t we? We all have a favourite shade of lipstick that gives us that extra zing, that trusted pair of pyjamas that instantaneously makes us feel comfortable and ‘at home’. Well, think of your crystals just like that – a bespoke tool kit – with each piece owning, harnessing, attracting and promoting its own special properties, its own power that resonates with your energy, your vibe, to aid you in a particular life event, moment or situation or to change, align or heighten your mood. Perhaps life is giving you a headache and you need some clarity; perhaps your heart feels broken but you’re toying with jumping back on the dating horse and need some support and encouragement; or perhaps you’re about to give the presentation of your life and are in much need of a power zap of confidence … Happy, sad, empowering, energising – you name it, there is a crystal to support you.

Crystals are truly powerful: they work to heal or realign our energy – that vibe within and without us – when it’s out of swing or to amplify and enhance good vibes – to help us feel more alive and to help bring within reach all those desires and goals we are hoping to fulfil. They are here to help us glow, to shine a light on those features of the self that we wish to heighten and brighten, but they’re also here to teach us, to guide us, to work with us in the lifelong process of letting go of what no longer serves us.

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CONNECTING CRYSTALS TO YOU AND YOUR LIFE

This book will help you to tap into your power by drawing on the energy of your crystals in your own personal practice. You can align yourself to their vibe by gently holding them while sitting in meditation, or adorning your energy centres, your chakras, while lying down. You can carry them with you in your everyday life: skin-on-skin is superbly powerful but crystals are strong enough to vibrate through your jeans or jacket pocket (if you’re not yet ready to walk into a meeting and lay your crystal out with your day book in front of your boss). My pockets, my fingers, even my bra are full of them! My desk, my home, my kitchen sink are all glistening with them. Place them against parts of your body or on energy centres, and in areas of your life and home that need healing.

We can look at them and feel their warmth, much like a photo on the living-room wall that invokes a smile by reconnecting us with a good memory or a treasured time and place. We can take them into the bath and use the water to amplify their vibration; they can join us as a passenger in the car or on a plane when we’re travelling far from home. We can put them on full display for the world to see or we can them keep them hidden away, tucked under our pillow just for us. Any way – as long as it works for you – is OK.

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FINDING THE CRYSTAL THAT’S RIGHT FOR YOU

This book introduces you to over seventy different crystals and their various healing qualities. Each chapter is dedicated to a different aspect of day-to-day life. Together we shall search for the crystal that’s right for you and your current concerns, whether you are aiming to achieve a personal or professional goal, seeking to change your mood, looking to enhance a great workout or just fancy getting a good night’s sleep!