Little Book of Crystal Tips & Cures

By Philip Permutt

Let the energy of crystals transform your life with this handy illustrated guide. Beautiful, mesmeric, tactile, and easily available, crystals are natural and powerful tools for bringing health, wealth, love, success, and spiritual harmony into your life. This illustrated guide introduces 101 crystals, uniquely arranged in 12 sections by colour, for easy identification. Discover each crystal's healing qualities, star sign, and chakra point, and how to work with it to benefit body, mind, and spirit. Follow the tips to enhance everyday living, including how to wear crystals for energy, display stones at home to bring in harmony, or place one under your pillow for sweet dreams. You can learn how to choose the crystals that are right for you, discover your birthstone crystal, and ask a question with a crystal pendulum. As more and more people are becoming aware of the power of crystals, this timely guide will help you find the right crystal for every need.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small
• Release date: Oct 8, 2015
• ISBN: 9781782495208

Philip Permutt

Philip Permutt discovered crystals around fifteen years ago after a severe illness; he has been practising as a crystal healer and teacher ever since. He owns and runs iSiS Crystals, the largest and most successful crystal store in the UK, with its integral healing centre. Philip is also a dowser and uses this ability, together with the magic of crystals, to change the energies in homes, offices and shops. Philip has lectured on crystals and crystal healing, and runs workshops on crystals and associated subjects. He is the author of The Crystal Healer, which has sold over 50,000 copies worldwide, and The Little Book of Crystal Tips and Cures, both available from CICO Books.

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THE • LITTLE • POCKET • BOOK • OF

CRYSTAL TIPS & CURES

Let the energy of crystals transform your life

THE • LITTLE • POCKET • BOOK • OF

A crystal gift of health, harmony and happiness

PHILIP

PERMUTT

CRYSTAL TIPS & CURES

This edition published in 2015 by CICO Books

an imprint of Ryland Peters & Small Ltd

20–21 Jockey’s Fields, London WCIR 4BW

341 E 116th St, New York NY 10029

www.rylandpeters.com

First published in 2008

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Text copyright © Philip Permutt 2008

Photography and illustration copyright © CICO Books 2008

Design © CICO Books 2015

The right of Philip Permutt to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright holder and publisher.

A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress and the British Library.

eISBN: 978 1 78249 520 8

ISBN: 978 1 78249 261 0

Printed in China

Editor Samantha Gray

Designer Claire Legemah

Photography Roy Palmer and Geoff Dann

Illustrator Trina Dalziel

Safety Note

Please note that while the descriptions of the properties of some crystals refer to healing benefits, they are not intended to replace diagnosis of illness or ailments, or healing or medicine. Always consult your doctor or other health professional in the case of illness.

Contents

How to Use This Book

What Are Crystals?

How Crystals Work

Choosing Crystals

Cleansing Crystals

Placing Crystals at Home or at Work

Healing with Crystals

Crystals on the Move

Meditating with Crystals

Elixirs

Birthstones

Crystals by Color

Red

Orange

Yellow

Green

Pink

Blue

Violet

Rainbow

Multicolored

White and Clear

Black and Gray

Brown

Resources

Index of Crystals

General Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

How to Use This Book

This gem of a guidebook presents more than 100 different crystals, with at-a-glance tips on their uses and benefits...

In the first part of this book, discover how to choose, cleanse and work with the crystals that appeal to you, and understand how crystals can bring about healing when placed on your body’s chakras, or energy points (see pages 18–19). You’ll also see how simply placing the right selection of crystals can change the energy in your home and workplace to bring health, happiness, abundance and spiritual connection into your life. In the second part of the book, you will find a profile for each crystal, including its astrological association, ruling planet, element and chakra, plus lots of tips for employing crystals at home or at work to ease emotional ailments or enhance your life in a variety of ways.

You can also use this book for daily affirmation. Open it randomly at any crystal page and see which aspects of the chosen crystal you relate to. Contemplate this as a message for you for that day or, if you have the crystal at home, carry it or wear it, if possible, to start enjoying its benefits straightaway.

Having the nurturing, positive energy of popular, readily available crystals such as rose quartz and amethyst in your home will benefit your pets and plants too.

Whether this book marks the start of your journey with crystals, or another step on your path, take a bold leap and enjoy the experience of change as it happens.

. Identifying Crystals .

For easy reference, the crystals are divided by color, with 12 color-coded sections helping you to locate them quickly (there’s also an index of crystals at the back of this book; see page 157). However, these color sections can really help whenever you have a crystal you can’t identify. We’re often given crystals as gifts, inherit them from friends, find crystals on holiday, on the beach or elsewhere in nature, and may have no idea of their names or special benefits – and the only obvious attributes are a crystal’s color and shape. Of course, crystals vary incredibly in their texture, shape and color, so you may not find a crystal in this book that matches yours exactly. Hopefully, though, it may act as a useful starting point for identification.

♦ RED CRYSTALS (pages 30–39) go from blood-red garnet to red jasper.

♦ ORANGE CRYSTALS (pages 40–49) include marmalade calcite and flaming sunstone.

♦ YELLOW CRYSTALS (pages 50–59) range from honey-colored citrine to pure gold.

♦ GREEN CRYSTALS (pages 60–73) encompass lime-green peridot and emerald.

♦ PINK CRYSTALS (pages 74–83) embrace candy-pink kunzite and fuchsia-pink eudialyte.

♦ BLUE CRYSTALS (pages 84–95) bring together crystals that include intense lapis lazuli and gray-blue celestite.

♦ VIOLET CRYSTALS (pages 96–105) vary from lilac lepidolite to vibrant amethyst.

♦ RAINBOW CRYSTALS (pages 106–115) present iridescent labradorite and watermelon tourmaline.

♦ MULTICOLORED CRYSTALS (pages 116–125) introduce calcite rocks and pretty banded fluorites.

♦ WHITE AND CLEAR CRYSTALS (pages