Crystals for spiritual awakening can be incredibly handy. They serve as little spirit guides that you can actually touch and feel. Crystals can make uncomfortable transitions easier, help you re-center when you feel you’ve lost your way, and will allow the ego to gentle fall away so that your third eye can open as you head upward to your higher self.

Let go of what you think you understand about crystal and instead experience them. Once the unbound beauty and energy of sacred geometry integrates into your ability to manifest anything--there’s no going back.

A viral pandemic has caught the world by surprise, news of its spread has flooded all media outlets, it’s brought economies to a painful halt and worst of all--has taken the lives of thousands, many have lost their livelihoods, and others are crippled by fear and anxiety. 

So, what can you do in the midst of what feels very much like worldwide chaos? 

Besides being responsible and staying home as part of quarantine measures, managing your own emotional, spiritual, and physical well-being during times of sudden change is the most effective measure you can take. Remaining grounded in the face of a pandemic will positively impact your life and the lives of those around you. 

Here are ways to maintain your critical role in lifting the healing power of the collective by healing and strengthing yourself.

Manage What You Focus On

Thoughts create feelings and feelings create behavior that leads to action. Your thoughts will be what you make of, not only this testing situation but the entirety of your life. A major step in managing your thoughts and the results they bring about is by being hyper-aware of what you focus on, including the input that’s coming through your screens.

Filter your focus by

• Choosing your source of news/information wisely
• Limiting how often you spend watching or thinking about what’s going on outside of your home
• Creating daily activities (and schedules) for yourself and your household to focus on. These could include exercise, games, creative activities, reading, movies, and other enjoyable distractions
• Take an online course
• Binge a TV show
• Learn a new hobby

If you’re one of the millions who have had to leave work and can’t do so from home, now is not the time to shame yourself for not being productive. After weeks of quarantine, there are only so many times you can clean the house and rearrange your closet. There may be a few days where you’ll have to be okay with doing nothing and give yourself permission to rest.

When You Can’t Go Out, Go Within

Self-isolating is going to bring about internal triggers that you may have been dodging for a while. Whether you’re single and loneliness sets in, or in a home with toxic energy, or confined to be in the presence of your significant other with whom you have unresolved issues...everything you’ve ignored is likely to come to the surface at this time.

Pay attention to how you’re thinking and feeling. Are old patterns re-emerging? 

With significantly fewer distractions to fill your headspace, now is a better time than any to face yourself. Take this time to re-evaluate the direction of your life and plot out a few course-corrections. Is this the relationship you want? The career? The neighborhood you want to live in? If you’ve been in autopilot for a while, now’s the time to sort through goals and ideas you’ve put on hold.

Coping With Fear in A Time of Uncertainty

Low vibrational thinking will make you believe all of this is happening TO you. High vibrational thinking will help you realize life is happening FOR you. 

Will positive thinking alone cure a pandemic? Perhaps not immediately, but it will greatly shift how you experience this and future situations that are scary and completely out of your control.

The first step in turning times of chaos into a growing and learning opportunity is managing your fear. There is plenty of that going around and it’s causing people to react in ways that are harming all of us. Maintaining hope and a positive perspective is proven to stimulate thought processes that bring about solutions, boost the immune system, and enhance your overall psychological and physical well-being.

Here are a few ways to overcome the “fake news” your mind feeds you when you feel overwhelmed with fear and anxiety:

• Phone a friend, and if possible video call with them. We are all in this together and social-distancing doesn’t mean breaking our connections.
  
  
• Gratitude journal. If you’ve ever been one to roll your eyes at the idea of keeping a journal, now’s the time to jump on the bandwagon. It’s a saving grace and can pull thoughts out of your mind, onto paper, and help you see how you have so much more control over them than you’ve ever had before.
  
  
• Get fresh air. There are ways to leave your house at this time and remain socially responsible, and getting exercise is one of them. You should aim to get at least 30 minutes of fresh air every day.
  

Release guilt, fear, anger, and anxiety as soon as they arise by initiating mantras that will replace unwanted feelings.

Grounding mantras to keep you sane during quarantine:

I am safe and my safety is unconditional and unwavering

Centering my self is as easy as each breath and I am doing it now

As my feet are planted firmly in the ground my heart and mind are anchored in a happy reality

I am protected by energies that I can’t see but I can feel

When you decide you want to feel good, everything around you will appear as you wish. Despite what media says and what your egoic fear is raving about, it is possible in the face of a viral pandemic to be happy.

Discover how you can use crystals to dissolve trauma, experience true happiness, and create harmony in all areas of your life.

Stress and anxiety are two words that we hear so much in today’s world. We have so much stimulation out of control, we get attracted to many low-level frequencies, without even knowing it. If we can’t control what’s happening to us in externally, we can always guarantee to control what’s going on in external. If we don’t find practices to reduce our stress and anxiety then our bodies pay the price, and it will manifest in all sorts of ways from sleeplessness and irritability to digestive distress and reproductive issues.

Just because anxiety and stress are the most common mental disorders in America, does not mean it has to be normalized. We should not rely on an over-the-counter medication to reduce the symptoms but focus on alternative, natural methods we can mindfully practice and do whenever we feel triggered. Remember it is our divine right to make our choices from love and peace, rather than fear. 

I know that when I started combating my stress I have been able to think more deeply about what I really want in my life and get momentum on things. If you are ready to move away from the dark places stress and anxiety bring you and become more conscious of the things that trigger you then consider the following techniques.

1. Walk Barefoot! 

We all know connecting with mother nature is a great way to boost serotonin, but if you want to experience a deep connection and bliss, let the dirt touch your toes by grounding. 

Grounding is the process of direct barefoot contact with Earth, which gives off natural energy and negatively charged electrons to balance the free radicals the body produces. 

As unconventional it may sound, try putting your bare feet into some dirt or any natural earth surface and experience this for yourself. Feel a sense of warmth rise up from your feet into your body. Close your eyes and let out a deep sign to experience the deep pleasure and charge mother earth is giving out to you. The best part, you can ground anywhere!  You can ground in your backyard, in a park, at the beach and for optimal results stay for 30 minutes! By grounding ourselves, we can find inner balance, peace, and even proven health benefits! 

2. Aromatherapy with Essential Oils

Essential oils are one of the most powerful tools when it comes to stress relief. When we inhale the aroma of essential oil, its molecules travel through the olfactory system into our brain affecting our senses and functions. One strong whiff of concentrated essential oil can instantaneously trigger our bodies into a serene state of producing feel-good neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine. Make sure 

You can fill any room in your home with the scent of oil using a diffuser. Certain offices and health care facilities have even found that diffusing essential oils helps alleviate anxiety in the workplace.

And if you experience stress and anxiety behind the wheel, you can add a drop of calming lavender, ylang-ylang, or bergamot to a clothespin and place it on your air vents or on your wrists to ease your nerves during a tense commute. 

The healing power of plants is truly remarkable and if you can even spray some refreshing rose water and take a deep breath in, you will feel a relief coming in through your senses!

Positive Affirmations That Work For You! 

Positive affirmations are a great way to shift your internal talk. If you feed your mind with healthy foods, why not do the same with your mind? Create your own mantras/affirmations to start ingraining in your mind that you are powerful, love, beautiful, loved, in peace, and happy. Your mind is a garden, your thoughts are seeds, you can grow flowers or you can grow weeds. 

To get started writing down your affirmations with whatever you want to manifest in your journal or wherever you will see them every day. The best way to use them is to see them and repeat them to yourself right before bed and right when you wake up. It’s been proven that whatever your mind consumes at the time it’s at its most hypnotic state. To create affirmations for anxiety feel more powerful in times you are stressed, make sure they are rooted in reality. For example 

You may find it helpful to learn positive affirmations ahead of time so you're prepared when triggering situations occur.

I'm going to focus on things I love to get me through this. 

When faced with a situation that generates fear, such as traveling or meeting new people, try repeating positive affirmations that acknowledge your negative thoughts or emotions and let them go:

• Anxiety isn't dangerous. I'm just uncomfortable. I'll make it through this.
• I am now in control,
• I am OK, I am ENOUGH
• I control my breathing, breathing in, and out
• If I take deep breaths, that will help soothe me
• When this is over, I'll be so proud of myself
• Anxiety isn't dangerous. I'm just uncomfortable. I'll make it through this
• I breathe deep and all is well I feel myself relaxing as I deep breathe
• I am in control
• Breathing comes to me easily and effortlessly
• I am free from the need of panic
• With each breath, I regain more calmness
• I am safe
• I am now releasing my panic attack
• I am naturally calm now,
• I am relaxing more and more

Sound Healing

Sound healing uses healing sound frequency to bring our bodies and nervous system back into balance. The best way to induce healing sounds is with Tibetan singing bowls. Sound from Tibetan Singing Bowls entrains the brain to move into the Theta brain wave frequencies that induce deep meditative and peaceful states, clarity of mind, and intuition.  The sound vibrations impact our nervous system, engaging our relaxation reflex and inhibiting the stress or pain response.

Through listening to Tibetan Singing Bowls one’s internal dialogue, the ’inner critic’ is quietened. Their sound synchronizes brain waves and enhances awareness of the mind/body connection.

If you don’t have a singing bowl then any need to worry, because there are endless amounts of healing sound frequency videos on youtube. Aim for 528 hz, 440 Hz or search to balance your chakras

So, let’s say you have a headache. A sound can be played that will override the pain brainwaves.

Or, let’s say you’re in a bad mood after a poor night’s sleep. Playing a relaxing song might lift your spirits and help you forget you’re aggravated.

Create a happy and living space

I love creating a cozy space that makes me feel safe and peaceful. A great way to do this is to have a Himalayan salt lamp near yours. It helps release negative ions and its just very peaceful to doze into. I also like to burn sage, candles, or palo santo to let any negative energy lingering in the home. If your space can be your sanctuary/womb, then you will always be surrounded by peace. Read more about creating a sacred space here.

Do you feel like you may be out of rhythm? I don't mean while dancing or even singing, but out of rhythm with life, in general.
I've felt like this often in my life but didn't have the words to explain the lack of rhythm that I felt. 

Our bodies operate to the rhythm of our heartbeat. When we have the cohesion of the brain and heart, things just seem to go our way.

• Doors open easier
• Opportunities come knocking.
• People are kind and loving.
• We feel good about ourselves, our relationships, our careers, our choices...
• But too many of us DON'T have that brain-heart cohesion.
• We're out of sorts, out of whack with the heartbeat of life.
• To get back on track, we have to return to our individual rhythm.
• This can be done in so many ways - and the best part of it all, is that's honestly kind of fun.
  
  Here are my favorite ways to get back into the rhythm (I just did one of them this morning, which is what inspired this post)

1. Follow your internal circadian rhythm

We have an internal clock within us that relies on the seasons and light and darkness. Our ancestors would wake up with the sun and go to sleep with the sun....but with the addition of bright lights in our homes and offices and spending too much time indoors, we have lost our connection to that internal clock.


2. Dance

I know I said this has nothing to do with dancing, but omg, YES IT DOES. If you are trying to add movement into your day, or are already really active, I urge you to wake up a little earlier in the morning and get some dancing in.

I like to put on Ayla Nereo or Ayla Schafer super loudly (or in my headphones) and just move my body.

3. Breathwork.

This morning, I got up and put on "shamanic drumming" on YouTube, put an eye cover on my face, laid down, and got to business.

Within 5 minutes, I had raised my vibration, let go of an annoying issue that was bothering me, brought more CHI and PRANA into my body, and I was ready to take on the day.

If you don't know how to do breathwork, there are so many super helpful guides out there.

4. Listening to 528 Hz Music 

The most elemental state of vibration is that of sound. Everything has an optimum range of vibration (frequency), and that rate is called resonance. When we are in resonance, we are in balanced. Every organ and every cell in our precious body absorbs and emits sound with particular optimum resonate frequency. 432hz and 528hz tuned music creates resonance in our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual body.