Energy healing
We all know what it feels like to have low energy. Lack of enthusiasm for life, illnesses that wont go away, lethargy, these are all too familiar to some. But what does energy that is out of balance feel like?
Do you experience mood swings, headaches and blurry vision, reflux – that burning sensation in your stomach after meals, irregular bowel movements, a menstrual cycle of varying lengths?
We all experience some or all of these at some stage in our lives and for most of us they are of short duration and we dont give them a second thought. But if we did we would realise that this is our energy system being out of balance.
We have seven energy centres, also known as chakras. 
When one or more are out of balance then the flow of energy through our body becomes disturbed and we experience either took much, or too little energy at particular points throughout our body. Left unchecked this disturbance can lead to the emergence of all sorts of conditions.
A quick word about the different "bodies" that together are our "being" and how energy imbalance can affect one of more of these.
The effect of an imbalance on the physical body is the most obvious. This is usually easy to spot and can be any number of the "-itis" or inflammation problems: cellulitis, the inflamed red-spots on the skin, appendicitis, tendinitis, tinnitus, colitis, pharyngitis and laryngitis, to name but a few.
The effect on the emotional body can be harder to discern although we are all familiar with anxiety, unexplained sadness, some may our friends may well have remarked on our excessive and erratic consumption of alcohol or other substances, and of course cigarette smoking. Any, or all of these are indications of an energy imbalance that is affecting our emotional body.
If untreated this imbalance of energy can even effect our ethereal body and influence our essence or soul and possibly our destiny.
So how do crystals and other stones help?
There are different schools of thought on this. Some say it is the subtle energy vibrations caused by the atoms, while other say it is purely self-suggestive. Who cares as long as they work?
Perhaps they work in different ways for different ailments and for different people.
In general the colour of the stone indicates which chakra it works best with. For example: the purple amethyst is good for sinus, headaches, and migraines. Likewise the blue chalcedony works with the throat chakra soothing inflamed throats, tonsilitis, and improving your ability to communicate.