Crystals for Everyday Living: 101 crystals to enhance your life, improve your relationships, and reach your goals

Crystals for

Everyday Living

Crystals for

Everyday Living

Bring happiness to your home, achieve your goals, and enhance every element of your well-being

Philip Permutt

Published in 2024 by CICO Books

An imprint of Ryland Peters & Small Ltd

www.rylandpeters.com

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Text © Philip Permutt 2024

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ISBN: 978-1-80065-375-7

E-ISBN: 978-1-80065-393-1

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SAFETY NOTE

Please note that while the descriptions of the properties of crystals refer to healing benefits, they are not intended to replace diagnosis of illness or ailments, or healing or medicine. Always consult your doctor or other health professional in the case of illness.

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1

Crystals in Your World

Chapter 2

Crystals in Your Home

Chapter 3

Crystals at Work

Chapter 4

Lifestyle Crystals

Chapter 5

The Crystal Finder

Further Reading, Resources, and Glossary

Index of Crystals

Index

Acknowledgments and Picture Credits

Introduction

This book grew from an idea. It all just started as a thought: if you do anything with conscious intent, it amplifies the power and efficacy of whatever it is you are doing. And the whole book flows from this simple understanding. Within these pages you will see how consciously welcoming crystals and their helpful, healing energies into your life will bring happiness to your home, enable you to achieve your goals, and enhance every element of your energy and well-being, easily and effectively. You will feel happier, have more confidence, and be emotionally stronger. Your health will improve, you will become more successful, and you will enjoy all life has to offer.

I came to crystals in 1992 following a serious illness. After severing the sciatic nerve to my right leg in a life-saving operation, the surgeon told me that I wouldn’t walk again, so I tried every alternative treatment I could find to heal me. I walked out of the hospital six weeks and two days later. Crystals helped me achieve this and have been with me ever since.

Many people look toward crystal healing as a complimentary healing modality for physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual issues, but crystals can help with so much more, transforming each area of your life with healthy, happy crystal energy.

Crystals are always around me: worn by me, kept by my bed, and placed in my living room, study, and kitchen—in fact, in every room in my house. You will also find them in my garden, my showroom, and my car, accompanying me wherever I travel. They help make life flow better, release daily stress, and even, perhaps, reveal some of the lessons we are on this planet to discover. Everything within the book is real. You will read many examples of my own crystals and how I work with them in a wide range of situations. They become crystal helpers, my assistants in everyday life. They can become yours, too.

Chapter 1

Crystals in Your World

What can crystals do for us?

So, what else can crystals do for us?

Choosing crystals

How quickly do crystals work?

Crystals and astrology

Crystal care

What can crystals do for us?

Crystals are amazing, healing tools. They can lift you up when you’re feeling down, heal physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual wounds, and even help you to make decisions along your life path. They are truly magical.

Crystals, such as labradorite, can fill your world with magic.

Magic is defined as something we witness but cannot yet explain … yet is the key word here. From the invention of controlled fire to space travel, each jump in technological development has led to wondrous new things for mankind. Each one seemed magical at the time, and each time there have been doubters—those stuck in their old ways, resisting new technology. As science opens new frontiers of possibility and understanding, many of the things which were once called magic are now in common usage. They are all around you, every day, packed into what we consider mundane 21st-century living … something our ancestors would have called magic!

All innovations in science and technology, such as space travel, once seemed wondrous and magic.

How old is crystal technology?

Crystals have been at the cutting edge of human technology and possibility since we humans first started walking upright on two legs. The prehistory of human evolution can be witnessed at the Cradle of Humankind, a series of caves north of Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa. Some of the excavations at this UNESCO site take us back to around 3.5 million years go. As each layer of excavation reveals an earlier aeon, from our ancestral prehuman species right the way through to today’s Homo sapiens (that’s you and me), there is one thing each era has in common … crystals.

The earliest humanoid burials date back some 335,000 years. Skeletons, found buried ritually in graves, were discovered by paleoanthropologist Dr Lee Berger in the Rising Star Cave System at the Cradle of Humankind. These are Homo naledi, which are perhaps the last pre-Homo sapiens species from whom we evolved into today’s modern human beings. The ritual markings, carved into smoothed rocks with stone tools, were believed by anthropologists to be linked to belief in an afterlife of some description. Other stone artifacts were also found nearby.

In the Kalahari Desert, Republic of South Africa, Dr Jayne Wilkins discovered crystals collected by humans for spiritual use over 105,000 years ago. Described as non-utilitarian objects (objects which have been fashioned or placed somewhere for spiritual, beauty, or ornamentation purposes), these calcite crystals were found at a sacred site far from their natural environment. In other words, they were moved there by prehistoric man for a specific and special purpose.

The first humanoid tools were made from chert (often the flint variety of chert), which was made into many things, including scrapers and knives. Chert and pyrite also helped to make sparks for fire. Over the millennia, these tools developed in intricacy and efficiency into axes, spearheads, and arrowheads, and have continued to develop throughout the 21st century into technology for computers, cell phones, lasers, and space travel.

Humans have worked with crystals, such as this Stone Age flint knife, since the dawn of humanity.

So, what else can crystals do for us?

The question is never Do crystals work? or What can they do for us? It is always What can’t crystals do!

Each crystal only does one specific thing. Helping that crystal do that one thing—to be as good as it can be—can affect and change so many things in your life. Citrine, for example, balances the cells in the bowel that absorb nutrients. But it can also aid recovery from injury, maintain a healthy body weight, boost the immune system, and so much more (see box, opposite.)

All crystals affect us in different ways and can often help with many symptoms, but it’s in dealing with the cause of a condition that crystals come into their own. For example, if you feel you need to balance your weight, citrine will help if you have a digestive disorder. However, if the cause is emotional, then apatite will work much better for you. If the cause comes from social pressure, then spirit quartz may work better still. In reality, there are often several causes. A bowel disorder such as Crohn’s disease can affect weight loss and weight gain, but the condition itself is affected by stress and emotional and social pressure, as well as diet and a genetic predisposition to the condition. In this way, we may need a collection of crystals to help balance all the different aspects of a condition or situation.

A collection of crystals, such as apatite (left) and spirit quartz (far left), can work together with citrine to treat an underlying cause.

The power of citrine

Crystals help your body, mind, emotions, and soul find balance, making you happier and healthier. For example, let’s look at citrine, which balances the cells in the bowel that absorb nutrients. Sounds simple. But how does this affect your body, mind, emotions, and spirit?

Well, when we absorb the nutrients we need from whatever food we are eating, we end up with more nutrients flowing around our body. These nutrients make it easier for our bodies to repair quickly, whether from a minor bruise or when recovering from a major operation. So, citrine will help your body to repair itself more quickly.

When you are absorbing the balanced nutrients that you need, it is easier to find and maintain your natural weight. There is no perfect weight but a perfect size that is unique to each of us. Everyone is individual and crystals treat us as such. In this way, citrine may be good for weight loss or weight gain.

When there are more nutrients flowing around your body, your heart doesn’t need to pump as hard to get nutrients to where they are needed. So citrine is good for your heart health.

Blood flowing more easily around your body moves more oxygen to your brain, which boosts both logical and creative thought. So, citrine is also good for all mental processes, including mental healing.

The blood flowing around