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Gemstones . . . What are they?
Personalized
prayer beads made for you in the yogic traditional design using semi-precious
stones to enhance the resonance and focus of your meditation practice.
Stone choices include: Carnelian, Amber, Aventurine, Rose quartz,
Turquoise, Lapis lazuli, Amethyst, Mother of Pearl and Moonstone.
Gemstone
Consultations and meditation instruction offered by phone and in person.
How
to use Yogic Prayer Beads for Meditation
This
Mala ( meaning Garland of Flowers) or Prayer bead strand consists of 27
beads strung with one larger bead called the Guru bead (Guru means
from Darkness to Light). The practice is to say one mantra or prayer on
each bead and go around four times for a total of 108 recitations. The
numerological significance of 108 is:
1
stands for One God
0
stands for zero consciousness, void, openness
8
stands for infinity.
Great
Spirit Teachers agree that in order to transmute karma one can vibrate
the Nam (Identity) or the Word of God through prayer repetition and chanting.
By running the mala beads over specific meridian points on different fingers
you can focus the prayer energy in different areas of your life. As you
say the prayers, focus on the third eye center.
INDEX
FINGER: JUPITER - Wisdom, Intuition, Abundance and Prosperity
MIDDLE
FINGER: SATURN - Patience
RING
FINGER: SUN - Health and the physical body. Energizes and strengthens the
nervous system.
LITTLE
FINGER: MERCURY - Communication and Relationships
Semi-precious
Stones and their healing qualities:
AMETHYST:
Stone of Meditation, spiritual healing, opens crown chakra, strengthens
the immune system, helps free one from old addictive patterning.
AVENTURINE:
Activates and clears the heart center. Balance of male and female energies,
enhances creativity. Reinforces decisiveness, amplifies leadership qualities.
CARNELIAN:
prosperity, abundance grounding stone, fertility, blood purifying,
protective, dispels apathy, increases physical energy, personal power,
creativity and compassion.
LAPIS
LAZULI: Like the night sky with stars, Lapis promotes connection between
the physical plane and the celestial kingdom. Clears throat and 3rd eye
chakras. Balances masculine and feminine energies, Assists in attunement
to the Creative Source. Enhances self-acceptance, objectivity,
clarity, mental endurance and organization.
MOONSTONE
and also MOTHER OF PEARL: for new beginnings. Introspective, reflective
and lunar. Helps one acknowledge changing cycles. Balances emotions . Brings
in the energy of the Divine Feminine and enhances loving compassion.
ROSE
QUARTZ: Brings calmness, balance and clarity to emotions and heart. Stone
of gentle love.
Rejuvenative
for the healing of emotional wounds.
TURQUOISE:
Purification stone, for clearing and strengthening of whole body. Helpful
in communication of emotions. Shamen used it for “cloud bursting”, bringing
rain.
AMBER:
Calms nerves, clears 3rd chakra, clears negativity, enhances personal power
and self worth, sun energy, very purifying stone.
Some
mantra examples: (move one bead on each whole
mantra)
Sat
Nam (pronounced Sut -Naam) which means Truth is my Identity.
Wa
Hay Guru: (Ecstasy is my Identity. I move from Darkness to Light.)
I
am the Way, the Truth and the Life or I am the Resurrection and the Life.
(Any of the "I AM" statements of Christ.)
Om
Tara Tuttare Ture Soha (Praise to the Infinite Divine Mother who dissolves
fear and grants all joys. May the blessings of her magnificence take root
in our hearts).
Bead
design and Color Therapy by Carla Mattioli , M.A.
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