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Crystal healing is an alternative medicine technique that employs stones and crystals as healing tools.

The practitioner places crystals on different parts of the body, often corresponding to the chakras, or places crystals around the body in an attempt to construct an energy grid, which is believed to surround the client with healing energy. The healing is supposed to remove blockages in the aura or the body's electromagnetic field.

When the stones are placed in the area of the chakras, the colour of the stones may correspond to the colour which is associated with the corresponding chakra. Going from the tail bone to the top of the head, the colours are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. Different stones are believed to have different healing vibrations, so a treatment based on the type of stone may be used instead. Stones may also be used at the feet in an attempt at grounding the individual, or held in the hands. Practitioners may also use tools such as crystal wands, which are placed near the receiver's body, or near a certain 'blocked' chakra, or use to perform psychic surgery, normally conducted with laser quartz wands.

Believers in crystal healing may carry crystals around with them, believing that they impart healing powers to them wherever they go, or that they have positive vibrations that attract positive events and interactions with others.

Criticism

There is no peer reviewed scientific evidence that crystal healing has any effect. It has been called a pseudoscience. It is also a historical belief similar to that of charmstones, rather than one based on modern scientific practices and advances. Pleasant feelings or seeming successes of crystal healing can be attributed to the placebo effect, or the believers wanting it to be true and seeing only things that back that up; cognitive bias.

Crystal healing may also be used on animals, but the British Veterinary Association has warned that this is likely a waste of time and money, and causes animals to suffer more by not seeking veterinary treatment earlier.

Cultural uses

Crystal healing has been used in many different cultures throughout history, including the Hopi Indians of Arizona and the Hawaiian islanders, some of whom still use them to this day . In Egypt, jade amulets were found in the tombs and burial chambers because of their supposed power to guide souls in the afterworld. The Chinese still attribute extensive healing powers to jade, and Asians believe that emerald will strengthen the memory and increase intelligence.

Controversial proponents

  • William A. Tiller
  • Marcel Vogel

References

  1. ^ http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gs7bJxNMlBUC&pg=PA129&dq=%22crystal+healing%22&lr= Healing with Crystals
  2. ^ http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg16322007.500.html New Scientist Feedback
  3. ^ http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=76271 Healing powers of a stone
  4. ^ Carey, Stephen, A Beginner's Guide to Scientific Method, California, Wadsworth, 2003 pp 119-123 ISBN 0534584500
  5. ^ Campion EW (January 1993). "Why unconventional medicine?". The New England Journal of Medicine 328 (4): 282–3. doi:10.1056/NEJM199301283280413. PMID 8418412.  
  6. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/uk/7240231.stm Warning about animal 'therapies'
  7. ^ Frank Waters, Book of the Hopi (New York: Viking Press, 1965),
  8. ^ John Kaimikaua, talk at Molokai, HI: 1997, as cited in Joy Gardner, "Vibrational Healing Through the Chakras with Light, Color, Sound, Crystals and Aromatherapy" (Berkeley, CA: The Crossing Press, 2006).
  9. ^ Joy Gardner, "Vibrational Healing Through the Chakras with Light, Color, Sound, Crystals and Aromatherapy" (Berkeley, CA: The Crossing Press, 2006).

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