What's Behind All the

Crystal and Aroma Therapies?

Crystal Reiki

The use of stones, minerals, and crystals in the arts of healing date tackle literally to the Stone Age. Evidence of such healing is found in the traditions of shamanism as well as in documents dating back to ancient Egypt, Sumer, and Greece, which list different stones and their metaphysical properties when carried or worn. These cultures all had traditions of Magick, crafting talismans, and charms from the stones and empowering them with divine blessings to catalyze their natural spiritual properties .The art of Crystal healing found his way into the New Age movement and eventually into the healing traditions of Reiki. I'm not surprised, as the two systems are very complementary and compatible.

Plant Reiki

Reiki is compatible with our allies from the mineral world, and it is equally helpful with our green allies in the plant world. The Magic of herbs and trees is powerful for healing and transformation. The first healers were the medicine folk who knew the herbs, medically and spiritually. Some Reiki treatments from the green world involve herbal medicine, aroma therapy, and the essential oils which are made from the base of flower essences.

Both of these therapies are widely used throughout Hospice and in many hospitals. Its easy to get "sucked in" to crystal Reiki because the stones are so beautiful. Its equally as easy to get involved in the pleasing scents of aroma therapy and essential oils. On the surface, nothing may seem wrong with enjoying these elements of nature but if we understand the spiritual origins of these therapies we will want to be very careful as believers how we participate in them. I Peter 5:8 reminds us, "Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour."