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Just like people, every crystal is different. No two are the same. Therefore, there is no ONE WAY to take care of your crystal jewelry. However, all crystals have natural facets and layers to them that can separate upon blunt impact. In order to keep your crystal from shattering, please be gentle with it, avoiding hits and bangs while wearing. Some crystals are salt based and can start to disintegrate when they are immersed in water. For this reason, I recommend you don't swim or shower in your jewelry. Metal can be brightened with a jewelry cleaning cloth. Set crystal jewelry under the full moon to cleanse and recharge. It can also be saged or set on top of clearing stones such as kyanite, hematite, selenite or clear quartz clusters. The Salty Moon is not responsible for broken crystals. Please wear with care.

Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. It is administered by "laying on hands" and is based on the idea that an unseen "life force energy" flows through us and is what causes us to be alive. If one's "life force energy" is low, then we are more likely to get sick or feel stress, and if it is high, we are more capable of being happy and healthy.

The word Reiki is made of two Japanese words - Rei which means "God's Wisdom or the Higher Power" and Ki which is "life force energy". So Reiki is actually "spiritually guided life force energy."

A treatment feels like a wonderful glowing radiance that flows through and around you. Reiki treats the whole person including body, emotions, mind and spirit creating many beneficial effects that include relaxation and feelings of peace, security and wellbeing. Many have reported miraculous results.

Reiki is a simple, natural and safe method of spiritual healing and self-improvement that everyone can use. It has been effective in helping virtually every known illness and malady and always creates a beneficial effect. It also works in conjunction with all other medical or therapeutic techniques to relieve side effects and promote recovery.

While Reiki is spiritual in nature, it is not a religion. It has no dogma, and there is nothing you must believe in order to learn and use Reiki. In fact, Reiki is not dependent on belief at all and will work whether you believe in it or not. Because Reiki comes from God, many people find that using Reiki puts them more in touch with the experience of their religion rather than having only an intellectual concept of it.

When given as complete treatment to the full body, yes, it is always safe. There are no contraindications when the healing energy is used in this manner. The therapy is adaptogenic in nature meaning the “cells” inside the body receiving the energy are able to decide whether to accept the energy or not.

1. Helps in stress reduction and promotes relaxation Stress reduction and relaxation are the best proved health benefits of Reiki. Actually, this Japanese energy healing therapy is designed to trigger your body’s relaxation response and reduce stress. Most ailments today are somehow linked to the stress factor, be it environmental stress, work stress, or emotional stress. In fact, most of the therapy’s health benefits are based on these factors. • Stress can lead to irregular heart rhythms that could result in angina or stroke. •Stress triggers gastrointestinal problems because common hormones such as leptin and ghrelin regulate the brain and stomach. •Eating disorders are a common consequence of stress, since you tend to overeat when you are stressed out, or you have an aversion to food. •Mood disorders and many psychological problems arise because of stress. Stress can lead to sexual problems in men.

2. Reduces depression and anxiety by changing your mood Changes in mood are very much associated with anxiety and depression. A number of studies have demonstrated overall mood benefits with Reiki. The benefits are specific to those with negative mood. The studies showed that once your mood improves, the improvements are accompanied by reduced anxiety. Not only does your anxiety reduce, you can also see significant decrease in depression, anger, and confusion. Your positive energy increases and the loss of vigour that comes with depression also improves. 3. Increases mobility in case of shoulder pain, wrist pain, lower back pain An interesting study published in the journal Evidence Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine which compared the effectiveness of improving range of motion through physical therapy and Reiki, found that both showed the same effect in improving the range of motion (ROM) of the affected part. These results suggest that the beneficial effects of Reiki and on ROM may arise from alterations in local joint or muscle structures rather than the pain system. 4. Heals infections and inflammations 5. Improves indices of metabolic syndrome Metabolic syndrome, a cluster of symptoms associated with the risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and other chronic conditions, affects a substantial and increasing percentage of the world population. Physical activity is perhaps the best way you can improve the outcomes of metabolic syndrome, but Reiki too has shown to be equally effective. ‘Many individuals, such as those who are overweight and sedentary and at highest risk for the metabolic syndrome, may be unable or unwilling to participate in conventional types of physical activity such as strength training and gym-based exercises. Mind-body modalities are simple, economical, noninvasive therapies, easy to learn, and can be practiced easily by individuals who may experience potential limitations in mobility,’ according to Joel Anderson and Ann Gill Taylor at Center for the Study of Complementary and Alternative Therapies, University of Virginia School of Nursing, Charlottesville, USA. Although the researchers did not specifically mention Reiki, they supported the potential clinical effectiveness of mind-body therapies as supportive care modalities for management of metabolic syndrome, especially insulin resistance and high blood pressure. 6. Treats symptoms associated with cancers Reiki, or for that matter, any mind-body therapy cannot cure cancer. But they can effectively treat associated symptoms of cancer such as depression, pain, and fatigue. For example, in a study published in the journal Integrative Cancer Therapy, researchers reported that treatment with Reiki for 5 consecutive days, followed by 1-week no treatment, then 2 additional Reiki sessions, in various cancer patients could significantly decrease tiredness, pain, and anxiety, and improve quality of life. In the same vein, Reiki relieves pain from migraine, sciatica, and arthritis. It also helps reduce symptoms of asthma, menopause, and insomnia. 7. Enables emotional clarity and spiritual growth Reiki not only heals you physically, it also heals you emotionally. One of the most endearing effects of Reiki is that it can enhance your capability to love, to empathize as it enables you to deeply connectwith people. It can strengthen your relationships. It can heal your personal relationships. Reiki brings about inner peace and harmony, the essential qualities of spiritual growth. It ‘cleans’ and clears your emotions. Reiki is thus fast becoming an accepted presence in hospitals and clinics maybe because the healing approach is non-traumatic and easily integrated with conventional therapies. Reference: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3847956/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3092553/ http://www.reiki.org/ReikiStories/ReikiStories.html#ReikiHelps http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3239316/#!po=3.33333 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3136147/#!po=96.8750 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17351024

No matter where you are located in the world, I can psychically connect with you using distant Reiki. Energetically we are together in a sacred healing space. I work with Reiki, my spirit guides, your healing guides, Archangels, and your ancestors to realign your energy, reignite your body’s self-healing abilities, and tune up your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual energies. If you choose a Full Distant Reiki session you will receive a personalized Reiki report. Your Reiki report comes full of insights, light-filled words of guidance and details of what I noticed during your session. BENEFITS OF DISTANT ENERGY HEALING: • Increased energy • Decreased pain and stress • Feeling more open and loving • Ease and joy in facing life’s challenges things seem to work out better • Better sleep • Improved relationships • Speedy recovery from surgery or illness • Improved emotional state • Mental clarity • Inspired creativity • Weight loss • Fertility • Relaxation

• Confidence

• Grief support • Immune system boost • Ease and grace for death and dying • Release addictions • Financial improvement • Clear anxiety and depression and so much more …

Integrated Energy Therapy® (IET), developed by Stevan J. Thayer at the Center of Being, sessions use angelic energy to work directly with your body’s cellular memory and energy field to get the “issues out of your tissues” for good. IET helps you to safely and gently release limiting energy patterns from your past, empower and balance your life in the present, and embody your full potential as you move into your future.

IET helps to safely and gently release limiting energy patterns from the past, empower and balance your life in the present, and embody your full potential as you move into your future. Each primary human emotion (joy, fear, innocence, shame, etc) correlates to a specific physical region of the body. The IET process accesses the limiting emotions, releases them, and replaces them with their empowering “flip side” (fear into safety, for example). In person or at a distance, the IET practitioner channels different frequencies of energy (correlating to the various angel vibrations of Angel Raphael, Gabriel, Celestina, Faith, Cassiel, Daniel, Sarah and Michael) depending on which part of the body she is focused on or drawn to. A session begins with you, the client, answering this question: If you could bring balance to, have clarity about, get insight on, or heal any part of your body or life, what would that be? Stating your intention is like putting your intended destination into your GPS. You have to at least have an idea of where you want to go in order to focus your journey in that general direction. An IET session is deeply relaxing and the effects continue long after the session is over and are accumulative with each new session. You will begin to notice subtle changes in your life: outdated patterns that begin to change, avenues that begin to open, tensions that fade, joy that creeps in, physical releases, new ways of being that emerge…

IET Sessions start by focusing on clearing physical and emotional energy blockages from your cellular memory and leave in their place positive empowerment energy imprints. In addition to clearing your cellular memory, continued treatment focuses on clearing physical, emotional, mental and karmic energy imprints from your human energy field and leave in their place positive energy imprints. After clearing your cellular memory and your human energy field, IET can help you to discover your soul’s mission and attract members of your soul’s cluster to help you live your soul’s mission and bring your dreams alive.

Benefits are:

• Can painlessly release your suppressed feelings and your limiting cellular memories. • Supports you in enhancing your health, life purpose, prosperity and creativity. • Empowers you to experience fulfilling loving relationships in all areas of your life. • Provides gentle yet powerful support for survivors of childhood traumas such as physical and sexual abuse, alcoholic and dysfunctional families. • Supports your self-healing at all levels, physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. • Increases your connection to your angels and helps you work with them in your life. •Helps you to discover and live your Soul’s mission in life.

Tuning Forks Therapy is a very gentle, yet powerful modality to treat the body and the mind and restore inner balance and health.

It works with the nervous system, the tissues and the more subtle energies of the body. It is deeply relaxing and restoring and it can offer long-term benefits.

The nervous system is our interface with the outside world, an incredibly sophisticated and wonderful instrument that deserves good tuning as often as possible!

Tuning forks are set to multiple frequencies to impact different chakras or auric levels. I use the Solfeggio range of nine forks (which includes 528 Hz). Solfeggio notes are similar to those in “The Sound of Music’s” Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do.

The Solfeggio scale is symbolic as the frequencies relate to numerology from the bible’s “Book of Numbers.” The lower two frequencies impact deep emotional wounds which may, or may not, present as physical pain. The next three forks prepare a fresh vibrational field for the body, including the 528 Hz fork which can reset DNA, and thereafter, the forks lift the being into greater harmony in all relationships with life and spiritual growth.

It can also help with a variety of issues such as:

• Chronic pain

• Exhaustion

• Hypersensitive nervous system

• Fibromyalgia

• Anxiety

• Physical and mental tension

• Headaches

• Pain caused by physical trauma

• Insomnia or low-quality sleep

• Joints problems

• Cramps

• Digestive problems

Besides being a deeply effective form of treatment itself, Tuning Forks Therapy can also be a powerful support to integrate other healing modalities such as Reiki and IET. Sound’s ability to interact with the more subtle structures of our beings can assist the shifting of stuck energies at many levels.