Gemstones To Help You Set Intention For The New Year

In just a few days we will usher in a New Year. This is a powerful time to think about what we would like to see more of in 2011, and what we would like to leave behind in 2010. If our awareness is the water that feeds the furtile soil of our intention, take some time to set intention and watch it grow!

On New Years day take out some of your stones and sit with them. Just sit, breathe and reflect. See yourself anew, with a fresh start. Now bring your attention on what you would like to bring in for the New Year.

If you are having trouble focusing on what intentions you'd like to set for 2011, check to see if you have Hematite or any black stone in your collection. Stones like Hematite are grounding stones and they can help you to focus your thoughts and desires. When we are grounded we are able to focus our thoughts, desires, dreams and intentions. There is great power in our ability to create when we are focused.

If you have set yourself a New Year’s resolution, but begin to feel it slipping past you, maybe you need to be more grounded and focused on your resolution/intention. Using the gemstone Hematite will offer you this grounding energy. When we're not grounded we tend to be spacey, we can't concentrate or focus attention for very long. One thought after another swirls in our mind. This will prevent us from creating the very thing we are wanting. Holding a Hematite stone will help you find the mental clarity and focus you need to achieve your desires. While holding the stone, begin to think of what it is you are wanting, continue to feel the stone in your hand and visualize what your desired outcome will be. Stay with this for 5-10 minutes, always coming back to the stone in your hand when your mind begins to stray. I find it helpful to write down the intention, using as much description as I can, getting clearer and clearer in my desire while holding the hematite. Connect to the emotion of the desire

Let 2011 be the year you focus on self awareness and well being. While it’s nice to set intention on the outside world of needs and wants, its time to go deeper and look at our lifestyle choices. Are you choosing a healthy life? Focus on setting intentions that will offer you well being.

Here are some gemstones that can help bring specific intentions into your life.

If you'd like to bring a Meditation practice into your life, work with Amethyst

Make 2011 your year of Healing, choose a green stone like Aventurine

To bring more Abundance into your life, choose Citirne

Need help with your Exercise program, choose orange Carnelian. This gemstone can energize and stimulate you to get moving.

Is this the year to start that creative project? Choose a blue stone like Lapis or Sodalite, they open up expression and creativity.

For bringing in Love, choose Rose Quartz or any pink stone, to keep the heart open to love.

Connect to your Soul, inner guides and the Divine, choose the clear stones, like Quartz, Selenite, Apophyllite or Nirvana Quartz.

So whatever it is you’d like to bring into your life this New Year, there is a gemstone that can assist you in setting your intention. All things are possible.

The New Year is a wonderful time to have a Crystal Reading. Take a look at what 2011 may bring. For more information on Crystal Readings or to learn more on how crystals can help you in your life,
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