This directory provides all you need to know about crystals for the chakras, subtle energy bodies and raising kundalini. There are many more chakras than the conventional seven that have traditionally been in use. As the frequency of the human organism is raised, additional chakras are opening up to assimilate higher dimensional energy. This frequency uplift, and overall well-being, can be facilitated by stimulating the rise of kundalini energy, which in turn can be activated with appropriate crystals. However, spontaneous kundalini awakening can be overwhelming. Fortunately crystals have the answer. This new directory in the A-Z series assists you to identify exactly the right crystal to release any blockages and return the chakras to a state of equilibrium. This will enable the higher chakras to open and controlled kundalini rise to occur. An internationally known author, astrologer, psychic, healer and workshop leader, Judy Hall has been a karmic counsellor for over forty five years and is the author of the million selling Crystal Bibles. Her books have been translated into fifteen languages. O Books publish titles in the series Crystal Prescriptions: the A-Z guide to healing crystals. She was recently voted the Kindred Spirit MBS personality of the year 2014 and has appeared four times on the Watkins MBS list of 100 most spiritually influential living writers. Crystal Prescriptions Volume 4 The A-Z Guide to Chakra Balancing Crystals and Kundalini Activation Stones By Judy Hall John Hunt Publishing Ltd. Copyright © 2014 Judy Hall All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-78535-053-5 Contents Part I, Introduction: The Dance of Shakti and Shiva, What is a Chakra?, Chakra Colours, The Personal Chakras, Exploring the Lesser Known Chakras, Opening the Personal Chakras and Integrating the Lesser Known, The Microcosmic Crystal Orbit, Expanding Awareness: The Higher Vibrational, Soul Level, Chakras, Higher Chakra Activation, The Subtle Energy Bodies, Balancing the Chakras and Subtle Energy Bodies with Crystals, Cosmic and Shamanic Anchors, Harmonizing the Entire Energy System to a Higher Resonance, The Earth's Chakras, Earth's Kundalini, What is Kundalini?, The Anatomy of Kundalini, Benefits of Awakened Kundalini, The Downside of Uncontrolled Kundalini Rise, Activating Kundalini with Crystal Assistance, Crystal Essentials: Choosing and Taking Care of Your Crystals, Dowsing, Purifying, Re-energizing and Focusing Your Crystals, Using Your Crystals, Crystal Essences, Case Histories, Using This Directory, Part II: A–Z Directory of Crystal Solutions, The Chakras and Their Activation Crystals, The Subtle Energy Bodies and Their Crystals, Kundalini, Organs, Conditions and Healing Crystals, Footnotes, Resources, CHAPTER 1 What is a Chakra? The chakras or force-centres are points of connection at which energy flows from one vehicle or body of a man to another ... When quite undeveloped they appear as small circles about two inches in diameter, glowing dully ... but when awakened and vivified they are seen as blazing, coruscating whirlpools, much increased in size, and resembling miniature suns. – CW Leadbeater The chakras are multilayered, multidimensional vortexes of subtle energy that radiate several feet out from your physical body. Linkage points between the physical and subtle energy bodies, they are metaphysical rather than physical but they are essential to our efficient functioning in the world and to raising our consciousness. The Sanskrit word means 'wheel' but they act more like a vortex or valve, regulating the flow of energy through the subtle and physical bodies via the meridian, endocrine and nervous systems. They mediate how much energy and what feelings you take in from the world around you, and your response to that outer world. Loosely speaking, the chakras below the waist are primarily physical, although they can affect the endocrine glands and from that the personality. Those in the upper torso are aligned to emotional functioning that can create psychosomatic conditions, as can those in the head that function on a mental and intuitive basis but which may have physical repercussions. The chakras are an ancient concept that appears in many philosophies. Ancient Hindu texts speak of them as do early Egyptian writings. These texts reveal a deep understanding of the effect of the chakras and subtle energy on the body-mind through the endocrine system. An understanding which modern scientists are only just catching up with in their research into the effects of melatonin, picoline, serotonin and DMT. The secretions of the brain that govern metaphysical as well as physical functioning. As Serena Roney-Dougal, who has been researching such connections for many years, puts it: Our knowledge of the endocrine system, the chemistry of our body-mind and emotional system, is still meager ... However, partial as our knowledge may be, it does fit together wi