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Crystals and colours : Can they heal ? by Jayanthi Liyanage Have you ever entertained the idea that colours might heal you in distress or in illness? Did you ever think that wearing the right colours of clothing, gems, natural stones or crystals could be a form of energy healing?
Marvy del Rosario-Simmon-Schuman, a healing consultant who wrote the book "Choices: How crystals and jewels can heal you", (Phillipines, 1992), is currently sojourning in Sri Lanka, with plans to begin "Recapture" sessions for both women and men in December. Marvy, a Philliphino based in the USA, now married to an American human resource adviser working in the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, calls her sessions a way of recapturing "one's lost energy, laughter, joy, creativity, passion, sensuality and peace" through the alternative healing of colour and crystal therapy. Marvy, an award winning jewellery designer and a public speaker who has held many workshops on crystal, colour and aroma therapy, energy balancing and attitudinal adjustment, says that Sri Lankans can use colour therapy with whatever natural mineral and semi-precious stones that are available to them, without resorting to buying very expensive gems. In fact, Marvy says that she cured her own daughter from steroid-dependent asthma through crystal healing and attributes her current positive outlook and prosperity compared to previous marital distress, to the healing powers of colour. Asked whether colour therapy is an off-shoot of Ayurvedic healing, she replies that, "It is different because Ayurvedic healing comes from treating doshas. Colours influence our mood and energy vibrations which also affect the doshas. There are colours that one likes, and one dislikes, which indicate where the imbalances lie. A balanced personality will not have extreme favouriticism. Colour healing is all about feeling better about yourself, of what you wear and what surrounds you."
At her workshops she talks about the "colours of rest" and the "colours of activity." "The colours we wear, or surround ourselves with, can aid in raising or lowering our energy levels. I point out how one might pick up more energy by wearing warm colours, or how some colours can bring in more sales, enhance romance and sensuality or stimulate the mind. Many parents have told me of how a simple change in the colour of clothes of their children for rest or activity, has made such an impact in their behaviour." Crystal healing is said to come through the property of piezoelectricity stored in crystals. "They are like battery packs that store and transfer energy to the weakened or afflicted parts of our bodies," says Marvy. "They accelerate our own healing ability. For example, rose quartz, amber, tiger's eye and hematite are effective for those with asthma." Looking beguilingly fresh and young, speaking in Sinhala, Marvy hovered over her client who lay on the couch. In her hand, she held a green pendulum hung on a chain, saying reassuringly, "You can even use a rosary, or anything with a natural stone." "I am analyzing the chakras of her body," said Marvy. "By the manner the pendulum swings over each chakra, you can see whether the chakra is open or whether it is spinning in the wrong way." From the direction and the width of the arc of the pendulum's oscillations, she hoped to discover the chakras in which the physical, emotional or mental imbalance of her client lay. The chakras, she described, as spinning vortices of energy which govern different parts of the spiritual, emotional, mental and physical segments of the human body. A body layout usually had the seven chakras of crown, brow or third eye, throat, heart, solar plexus, navel and root. "If the chakras are not 'opened' or spinning in the wrong direction, they can affect us by manifesting illnesses, lethargy, depression and an overall feeling of malaise," reasoned Marvy. "They can be tuned and re-aligned by wearing the right colours and using the correct gemstones and meditating on them." Held over her client's seventh chakra, Marvy's pendulum swung in an anti-clock wise direction, in a wide arc. Similar swings were experienced at her crown and stomach. "She needs to wear red and yellow colours, and eat foods such as carrots, to get the chakras spinning the other way," advised Marvy. "The busy person that she is, she is giving too much, and not getting back enough!" "Red resonates to the colour of life and vibrates at the lowest chakra of our energy system which controls survival," Marvy explained. "Yellow governs the stomach, the power centre, and stimulates the drive to accomplish goals." But Marvy insists that, "you have to believe in yourself for healing. I am not a healer and it has to come from within you." |
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