Holistic Healing for Addiction

Crystal Healing Pt. 3: Heroin, Marijuana, Meth, Cocaine

Lepidolite:
Uses: Self-love, breaking poor habits, PTSD, Manic Depression
Lepidolite is the bringer of hope in dark times and promotes trust, serenity, and acceptance. As a stone of transformation, the crystal encourages self-love, patience, and optimism (all traits of successful recovery). The crystal is said to help stabilize emotions, especially for those with PTSD and manic depression.

Lepidoliteis masterful in treating addiction, as the stone helps its user to abscond frombehaviors perpetuating the physical and psychological anguish of addiction. Acrystal of changes, Lepidolite helps to guide the consciousness to themanifestation of aspirations long laid aside. Bringing balance to disquietedminds, Lepidolite stills mental and emotional dependency. Those with bi-polardisorder can benefit from the presence of lithium.

Meditate in the presence of Lepidolite with recovery in mind to help dedicate your mind and body to the tenants of recovery without compromise. Many in recovery struggle with letting go of their substance of choice, because they do not know how else to cope with their feelings. Crystal healing with Lepidolite helps to open up avenues of coping skills, as Lepidolite energizes all chakras, encouraging your ambitions forward to attainment.

To use Lepidolite you may place the crystal directly on scars left behind from years of abuse. Close your eyes and visualize the stone casting a protective sheath around your entire body. When you feel taxed with cravings, turn to this stone to help remind you of your promise of recovery. Placing Lepidolite on the crown chakra (the top of your head) will help align all of your energy centers and cement healthy progression to recovery throughout the entire body.

Rose Quartz:
Uses: Self-love, universal love, emotional healing, acceptance, inner peace, embracing and giving love

Among crystal healers, rose quartz is the universal stone of love, and helps people overcome trauma by teaching them how to open their hearts and communicate with those around them. The pink crystal is an expert in emotional healing, and is said to help soothe a troubled mind, bringing about calm. Rose quartz as a stone of creativity, encouraging recovering addicts to rediscover their love of the arts, music, and writing.

Rose quartzas the master of the heart, with the affinity to re-open the heart chakra,essential in opening up oneself to universal, inner, and outer love. Learninghow to love yourself again during and after recovery may be one of the mostdifficult struggles. Rose Quartz will help to remind you that you are worth recovery. You deserve to live ahappy life, and you are capable of giving and receiving love, without fear.

In dismantling addiction, rose quartz will help you to address the painful underbelly of the disease, which leads many to the brambles of abuse in the first place. Rose Quartz allows us to dredge up the emotional toxins we have kept secret from ourselves, and those around us- allowing the open expression of inner conflicts. Carry rose quartz with you to remind yourself you are worthy of love. When we are bereft nourishment, or if we have only been in relationships where the expression of love was used as a means of power or control, we ourselves become entirely blocked off from the heart chakra; a possible reason for promiscuity in the never-ending search for love.

Rose Quartz helps us to overcome the obstacles placed before us from dire circumstances, including sexual trauma. The restorative energies of this crystal will restore balance and peace in the aftermath of travesty. To use Rose Quartz affix the stone to a pendant laying on the heart. You may activate the heart chakra while visualizing loving energy beaming into your chest through pink rays of light emanating from your stone. Feel free to trail the crystal along your entire body if it feels right. Pay close attention to areas which seem sore- look for something that almost feels like an "inward aching."