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[00:00:00] Well, hello and welcome back to the Crystal Clarity podcast. You never know when One of these episodes will drop, so surprise. And welcome to episode 45. So my name is Sarah Thomas, of course, and I am taking you through a medicinal and spiritual journey with stone medicine and crystal healing from ancient Taoist perspectives and beyond.
And today's episode is all about coming back after something really hard. It's about the way that you support yourself and tonify yourself after you've gone through something difficult. So if you or someone you know is in a place where they've gone through a hard journey, or maybe you're in the middle of a hard journey or at the end of a hard journey, and they're back, but they don't...
They survived it, but they don't quite [00:01:00] feel like themselves anymore, and they don't have substances and resources like they used to, or maybe they have some strange symptoms now, and they're on that journey of coming back and rebuilding. That's what today's episode is all about. I wanna offer you some clear and simple ways to rebuild yourself with the most foundational, and in many ways, the most powerful Earth medicine that we have available to us, stone medicine.
So stay tuned. I'm gonna talk to you about all of, uh, the stones that I wanna highlight as primary stones, and I wanna talk to you exactly how to use them to feel yourself coming back. So I would love to say before I dive in, just thank you so much to those of you that are following this journey. Thank you to you all that have watched the podcast and who have commented.
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So please join the waitlist. I'll put the waitlist link here in the description to join the waitlist so that you know this certification training is coming up, and you can [00:03:00] tune in and hear all about it and potentially, um, take a real training with me this fall. That would be wonderful. Okay, so I just...
Back into episode 45, I just... You know, I wanted to do this episode because I was just texting with my friend. He, he's a guy that does not ask for help a lot, um, but he was texting me if I can help him with tinnitus or tinnitus, however you say it, 'cause it's one of the many things that's come up for him after a difficult journey with cancer that he took about a year ago.
And it was a very intense year, and he survived and came through it. But the year that we're in now, ever since then, he's been, you know, kind of battling his way back to feel like he used to. And the medical treatments that he received saved his life, and the way that he took care of himself saved his life, but it was still an enormous amount of stress on the body.
Um, he was really worried about leaving his wife and child especially and not making it through, and then also all of the chemicals that the body and the [00:04:00] liver have to endure, um, for the treatment can cause long-term effects that need support and cleaned up. So I was talking to him, and he was asking how I can help him with just one of these symptoms, and I was explaining really how I can help him come back in, in a bigger way than just treating one symptom, and I wanna share that with you all.
So the, the first thing to really remember, and I'll keep this really simple, guys, is, is your kidneys are the foundation of all of the energy in your body. Your kidneys are the foundation for all of the energy in your body. Every part of you from your brain to your heart to your skin is getting energy to live and thrive and move and be alive from your kidneys.
So your kidneys are foundational. They're the grandmother of all of the energy in your body, and that's very holographic and parallel with the stones in the earth They are [00:05:00] foundational. They are supplying the life and all of the mineral life that the plants need to live, and then the plants supply us with everything, like from the clothes that I'm wearing to the food that I eat to the wallpaper on my walls, the plants are supplying.
And the stones are even deeper under that, and the kidneys are very much like the stones. It's a deep, deep well. It's a deep resource of energy. And sometimes it feels like it takes more time to get to that level, to build it back, like to get deep and reach it and build it back. It can feel like it takes more time, but it's one of those things that once you do get it rolling, once you do get it going, it has this staying power.
It has this resilience. It's like getting a small snowball to roll down a hill. It's like it takes a little bit at first, but once that baby's going, it's like very powerful. So there's a subtlety and a power to your kidneys in your body and also the stone medicine on the earth, and there is a correlation then that [00:06:00] we can use stones and crystals to really treat the kidneys.
In fact, as a Chinese medicine practitioner, when you know all of the medicines on the earth and all of these formulas that have been saving people's lives and giving people life and getting people better, um, when you know Chinese medicine... For, for you guys who have received it, uh, and given it in, in all forms from shiatsu to medical qigong to acupuncture, we are really good at building people back.
We're really good at tonifying. We're really good at slowly building people back. And if you had access to all of the Chinese medicine modalities and all of the earth medicines, and you knew all of them, if you were really trying to build someone back up from a deep loss, from like a deep journey, you would use stone medicine out of all of them to build them back.
Okay? All right. So this is really important. Now, now that we know, we remember that the kidneys are the foundation of everything. For all of your organ [00:07:00] systems, nothing can grow if your kidneys don't have energy. To all of your vital substances, all of the qi of your whole body, all of the blood in your body, every vital substance that you can think of that is making your body work, it's all coming from the kidneys.
And let's look at the stones of this grandmother earth level. Let's look at the stones here at this grandmother level. So I wanna... You know, guys, I've always been I've always been giving you some fish, but then teaching you how to fish, and that's what this podcast has always been about. It's I want to give you the stones to use and just give you knowledge and information, and I wanna tell you why it works.
I wanna tell you why. I want you to know why. It's so, so important for getting your belief on board and just continuing to build your knowledge, and it's just huge. So here's some why about all the stones that I'm gonna share today. Color-wise, [00:08:00] building back, supporting the kidneys, the color of stones that will work are black stones and dark blue stones.
Color-wise, the vibrational information in those colors goes to the kidneys, and it generates energy and regenerates energy, okay? So those are the color stones you wanna look for in your collection to build yourself back. Chemical composition-wise, stones that have sodium, calcium Beryllium, boron. Beryllium and boron are number four and five on the periodic table.
And zinc. Those are some big honorable mention elements. There are more of them, but those are some real primary elements that will go to the kidneys and build that grandmother, grandfather back up for you. So we wanna look with stones that have some of those chemical elements in them. And then I also wanna [00:09:00] talk about crystal system because it's so unique to stone medicine.
We don't have crystal system in plant medicine or anything. And there's seven crystal systems. And the crystal system that I wanna talk about today is the hexagonal crystal system. It is gonna go to the kidneys, and it helps us build back and come back. It helps us reclaim the new self that's actually even stronger than the self that was there before we went through it.
It, honestly, it helps us reclaim the wisdom from the whole journey too. And I wanna... There are other crystal systems that we can correlate to the kidneys, but I want to talk about the hexagonal one 'cause it's the strongest one. It's, it's, like, the most impenetrable strong, as, like, bees make their hives out of hexagons because it's so strong.
So it just correlates perfectly. We wanna look at hexagonal crystal system. And you all can take this and find as many stones as you can with some of these, uh, with some of these classifications behind [00:10:00] them. The other one is igneous level stones. If a stone is formed at the deep, deep level of the Earth, way down there in the depths, it's gonna go to your depths.
It's gonna go to the kidneys. So sometimes, I've said this a lot, I'll keep saying it, sometimes these classifications seem, like, arbitrary, but it's actually resonance. It's actually quantum resonance, that something that forms very deep will have a quantum resonance with something very deep in you. Okay.
So those are things I wanna hold. Okay? Black and dark blue, hexagonal crystal system. I wanna hold sodium, calcium, beryllium, boron, and zinc, and just, like, hold this picture together, and then I just want to also hold, yes, igneous level formed stones. Yes. Okay. Sometimes I look down at my paper. Here's my paper Just so you know, because I just take a few notes, and then I start [00:11:00] rolling.
Okay, so where do we land with this? So I wanna g- I wanna give you some honorable mentions, but these are some primary stones that we'll just always pull through for you. Black tourmaline. Black tourmaline fulfills all of these boxes, except one little thing. It actually has a trigonal crystal structure, but it, it's becoming a hexagonal crystal structure.
It looks like a hexagonal crystal stru- it looks like a pillar, right? How that hexagonal crystal structure, they, they grow in these pillars. Like, if you look at a aquamarine, right, it grows in that pillar. Tourmalines grow in that pillar, and they're technically trigonal, but it's almost like they give you that backbone.
They give you that pillar. So it's, it's close in chemical composition, and it matches every other criteria. It also repairs DNA and goes really deep into the body. It can repair DNA level issues. The boron in it is so [00:12:00] strengthening. And I know people think black tourmaline, and they're like, "Oh, that's just, like, a beginner stone," or, "It doesn't-- it's not really actually gonna do anything for me," or they just think all that does is protect.
Isn't just black tourmaline protective and grounding? It's actually one of the biggest tonics in the stone kingdom because all tourmalines are massive tonics. We wanna pick stones that build you up. Tourmalines are incredible tonics, and they get overlooked as, as tonics, and I think black tourmaline does the most 'cause people just think about protection.
So keep that in mind. You probably have black tourmaline, and it's sitting there as this medicinal piece that has probably been all around you, but it could really be helping you if, if you apply it in the right way, and I'm gonna talk about that in a minute. Another thing I wanna bring to your mind...
Actually, I just used black tourmaline for a friend going through a very difficult initiation. Very difficult. And I was bringing her stones for this, and she's, like, in bed sick, and, um, [00:13:00] I brought her these stones, and I brought her three stones, and two of them were black tourmaline. And Some people were there, and they were just like, "Oh, black tourmaline, like don't you wanna wear something so amazing?"
And I'm like, "This is, this is it." And I, I told her to put them on kidney 20 and kidney 21 through The Valley and Dark Gate, and I'll teach you treatments like this in the certification course Enter the Cave. You know, we learn things like simple ways to apply things. If you think about it, guys, you have these energy centers.
These acupuncture points on your body are very vital ether scalar energy centers, and they tap into the void. They tap into all possibility. Think about putting a stone on that energy center, a living stone on that energy center. It's like, it's more powerful than just doing a stainless steel needle, right?
It's very powerful, and it can [00:14:00] generate energy quite a bit when you tap it into the right places. So we will talk about that, a couple of the right places too before I end this episode, so stay tuned Okay. Another thing I wanna talk about is emerald, aquamarine, morganite, bixbite, goshenite, and heliodor, which is the family of stone known as the beryls.
And these are called beryls because they have beryllium in it, and beryllium is very important for us for getting to the kidney. They have a hexagonal crystal structure, and they are igneous level stones. And where these stones have a little shiftarooie in the four classifications that I'm mentioning is that there's really no black beryl.
Now, there is a dark blue beryl that has been discovered, and I have a piece of that from, um, I believe it's from Pakistan, there was some discovered. But there is a dark blue. Mostly what we have accessible to us is a light blue, an aquamarine. But [00:15:00] all of these stones, if you, if you let the color slide a little bit, they all go to the kidneys, and they all go to this deep level of the DNA where we're rebuilding back something that happened very deep.
I really want you to think of these stones if you're going through or have gone through something that relates to constitutional or genetic issues, something that's, like, kind of been programmed in your DNA for a while or was ignited in your DNA, like it was kind of tripped on, like an epigenetic issue.
Like, I went through this and my mom had also gone through it. Really think about this for DNA. The tourmaline and the beryls can repair DNA and genetic level issues. But also really think about these beryls for glandular issues. If you went through anything that had to do with any of your glands, thyroid, thymus, et cetera, pituitary, you really wanna think of these beryls.
These are gonna be very generative for you. And another big word is [00:16:00] hormonal. If what you have gone through is hormonal depletion from adrenal to thyroid, anything, please think of the beryls, too. That is a perfect stone to rebuild, okay? So DNA, constitutional, genetic, endocrine, or hormonal, if that had to do with your issues, you really wanna bring in these beryls, okay?
They're perfect, and they're tonics. They can really strengthen you at this level. I wanna give some big honorable mention to lazurite, which is the main ingredient in lapis lazuli. So this is a sodium calcium stone. It's dark blue, which is really potent for regenerating, for coming back, and it's just, like, one of the great stone tonics in the stone world.
So if you like lazurite or you have lapis lazuli, put this in the bucket of building you back And, and you can count on it. It will have your back and building you back. And another one that I wanna bring up is sphalerite. [00:17:00] Sphalerite's, uh, uh, not known a lot. If you follow me, you've probably heard about sphe- sphalerite a lot.
I love it. Um, I love it. It's just one of the most medicinal stones out there. So this is an iron and sulfur and zinc stone. So here we're getting the zinc, and it does come in a black color, like a, a metally black color, and then the crystals can be, like, red. And red is also a great color, by the way, as, like, a secondary color to rebuild.
If you look back to episode one, red can be a very strengthening color. Um, but the, the sphalerite you get will probably be, like, a dark black color, and it is very tonifying. It's a very rich tonic. So if you have any of that, keep that in mind and keep that handy. A tiny segue. I'm gonna do a little series for you.
I'm gonna come back next week, and next week I wanna talk about Coming back when it's heart related. Like, how do we come back [00:18:00] when it's taken a lot of emotion or it's very, been very heartbreaking? And so we're gonna move into that next week, and that's an awesome discussion, too. Uh, yeah, there's just been a lot going on with, like, emotional depletion and just going through a lot on a heart level.
But what we're gonna segue with is, so remember garnet is always a great stone for convalescence, for coming back. Garnet will always help you come back. And opal is a really great stone for coming back when it's... It feels like also a spiritual rebirth, like, like new hope and, and a new spiritual, um, phase is being birthed or needs to birth.
Okay? So how you're gonna do this, if, if you really wanna rebuild your kidneys, I wanna offer a nighttime treatment because kidneys are very yin, and yin is nighttime. And so we do yin building treatments in the nighttime when we can. And [00:19:00] before you go to bed, get a collection of these stones, whatever resonates with you, and just get three of them.
Three is a easy number. And on your inner ankles, you have that malleolus bone, which is like a little hillside bone on your inner ankles. Looks like a little hillside. Not a hillside, a whole hill. It looks like a little mountain. And that inner malleolus, behind that inner malleolus, like towards your heel, there's like a, a meridian line that runs right behind that inner malleolus towards your heel.
Just stay close to that inner malleolus on the heel side, not on the toe side. And there's an energy line that runs up there. It's like a soft energy line, and that's your kidney meridian. And so if you tape two of the stones right behind that malleolus, right behind it, more towards the heel, not below it, but behind it If you tape it behind it, like if you're looking up a human body [00:20:00] straight on, it would be right behind the malleolus in this little soft trough of meridian line on both of your ankles.
Tape two of the stones there, and then it's always wonderful to do a grid of some kind. When you get to three stones from two, they really work together in a beautiful way. The number three is pretty powerful for activation and change. Um, and so you wanna take a third one, and you can just put that third one, um, on your lower back, so just right in the center of your lower back, kind of like between your kidneys, right?
You can lay on it. You can tape the two on your inner ankles. Just use some medical tape or whatever kind of tape that you have. Sensitive skin tape or Scotch tape or whatever. Put that, those two stones on your inner ankles, tape those on, and then put the third stone on your lower back between your kidneys, and let those all talk and work together.
And lay there with that for 20 minutes before bed, [00:21:00] receiving the energy. Even feel the energy of the earth, just, which is, like, infinite. It's really eternal energy coming out of the earth. Feel that coming up into the stones if you wanna imagine that too, and just breathe and let, like, the medicine of the earth touch the stones and fill in that grid and fill in your kidneys.
If it's too much for you to put it on your low back, just put it on your heart, that third stone, and just breathe in and let the energy of the earth come up and fill you and fill in that grid. And let those stones go right into these meridian places and topical places, right between the kidneys. There's a point called Ming Men.
It's just a really powerful point for the kidneys, and you'll be filling, like, your whole foundation back up. And when I was talking to my friend today who was saying, "Can you help me with this symptom?" I was like, "I can," but it's not just like we do one treatment, and it's gone. It's like we're building back is a bit of a process.
Building back is [00:22:00] like, think of a step pyramid. It's like one brick at a time. And by giving yourself this treatment before bed every night for 20 minutes or so, you can build back every night or every other night over time and actually feed yourself with one of the most timeless medicines on earth, stone medicine, and one of the most living medicines on earth, and one of the most foundational medicines on earth, and truly one of the most powerful.
Think, um Part of it is just sinking into and relaxing and receiving something that the Western mind is... You know, we didn't grow up with billboards about stone medicine all around us. Like, "Do you have back- do you have a headache? Take your aquamarine." We didn't grow up with that, so it's like, it's a big shift for us in our programming to do this, and I would love for you to do this.
I would love for you to try this, and use this episode as something to start building back if you've had something difficult. Share this episode [00:23:00] with somebody that has had something difficult, and I really wanna send many blessings your way on getting some of the stones off your shelf and into action with you, and, um, yeah, bring you back to life.
So I'll see you next week, and we're gonna move a little bit to coming back after big heart things. So please subscribe, join the newsletter, and maybe even join that Enter the Cave waitlist if you're thinking of potentially becoming a student in a certification course. With so much love, thank you guys for coming.
I'll see you soon.
