crystals – biblioreviews

3/5 stars

My Review:

I know some people might not believe in chakras and find it all a bunch of malarkey. I was always intrigued by the idea. Then, last year, a friend and I did a Chakra Yoga Challenge with Journey Junkie. After the second day, she called me crying and we sat there and both realized we were emotionally a mess. We needed self-care bad and we had been warned that a lot of emotions could come up when activating this chakra. We both experienced it. We were raw. We had to take care of ourselves. Over the next few days, as we activated the other chakras and aligned them, we felt better than we ever had.

I also had the opportunity to take an Energy Healing workshop that was amazing! If you ever have the opportunity to take one and you are at all inclined — just do it, don’t hesitate! We learned about our chakras in that workshop and we worked through healing them and aligning them. We learned about positive and negative energy and people, thoughts and actions that can zap that energy.

All of this is to say that I have some experience with chakra and there was nothing new or exciting in this book. I didn’t care for the way it was laid out. It felt like a textbook, very wordy with a lot of words on each page, not a lot of diagrams or drawings to keep your interest as is the current trend in non-fiction. The exercises were good and well-thought out and easy to follow and I did appreciate that the author included which gemstones, essential oils and herbs went with each chakra and how to use them. I also appreciated the mantra for each chakra. The introduction of tarot I found to be almost off-topic, tarot can be it’s own book.

From the Publisher:

With The Ultimate Guide to Chakras, tune in to your chakras, the power centers connecting your physical body and the world of energy.

Your chakras are the power centers that translate between the seen world of the physical body and the unseen world of energy. First discussed in ancient Hindu texts and studied for thousands of years in numerous spiritual traditions, including acupuncture, meditation, and yoga, chakras hold the key to our well-being. By tapping into the power of our chakras, we can live healthier, balanced, and more abundant lives.

Athena Perrakis, leading metaphysical teacher and creator of the world’s largest online metaphysical resource website, SageGoddess.com, addresses the nine major chakras we can tap into to balance, heal, and manifest. This guide explains how and why different crystals, essential oils, and sacred plants help to support each chakra.

Each chapter of The Ultimate Guide to Chakras includes magical exercises for accessing the energy of each chakra, including meditations, journal exercises, and working with goddesses and spirit guides. Readers will even learn how to create a dedicated chakra altar. Lavishly photographed and illustrated, this guide promises to be an essential volume for beginners and experienced energy workers alike.

4/5 stars

When I was in college, I bought rose quartz earrings at a craft show because the woman from whom I bought them, who sold crystals, said they could help bring love into my life. I met my husband a couple of weeks later.

When my daughter was in school, she had trouble concentrating and became nervous on tests. I went to a jewelry making class with friends and made her a necklace of green adventuring, fluorite and clear quartz, which she wore to school and it did seem to help.

I believe that crystals do have a vibration or frequency and are connected to the earth, just as we all are.

This book doesn’t get bogged down with lengthy geologic discussions as soon crystal books do and although it does have a section that groups crystals by color, it is not an identification guide. Rather this book explains how to use crystals to your best benefit, how to properly care for crystals, how to create nets and dowse using crystals. I think this is a great book for anyone interested in crystals – whether they are new to crystals or have been using them for some time. Crystals are a powerful energy source and can be very helpful in healing and grounding, but there is so much more than just looking up what crystal will help with what ailment, going to the store and purchasing a piece of jewelry with that crystal and this book explains how to best utilize the properties of crystals to get the most out of the benefits they offer.

I am so thankful to Netgalley and Wellfleet for granting my wish to be able to view and read this very informative book.