Crystals & Accessories
Wealth Corner on Renee’s Desk:
The crystals below are ones that Renee Lindstrom, Founder of the Inside Awareness Center for Integrative Somatic Learning, enjoys. Beside each picture is a link to the same type of crystal on Amazon. Renee also recommends and supports Energy Muse. Energy Muse is an online Crystal retailer that shares beautiful crystal products. Their site also shared recommendations for placements to benefit a healthy lifestyle. These suggestions align with Renee’s placement and use suggestions. Hit the link below to Energy Muse or each individual link to Amazon beside the crystal pictures below.
Crystal Catelogue at Energy Muse
- Blue Apatite
Throat Chakra
Communication, Dreams, Perception & Understanding
Renee has this stone placed in the wealth area of her desk.
Here is an affiliate link to Blue Apatite on Amazon
Throat Chakra – Communication
- Blue Kyanite
Throat Chakra
Communication & Self Expression
Blue Kyanite encourages communication and self-expression. It is said to cut through fears and blockages, to support speaking one’s truth. This makes it valuable for public speakers and performers. It is suggested that it strengthens the voice and heals the throat and the larynx. This piece of blue kyanite was given to Renee in 2001 by a peer who partnered with her to open the first compassionate communication circle based on Dr. Marshall Rosenberg’s model and patterns as described in Nonviolent Communication.
Here is an affiliate link to Blue Kyanite on Amazon
Throat Chakra – Communication
- Labradorite Sphere
Throat & 3rd Eye Chakras
Clarity, Empowerment, Epiphany, Energy Cleanser & Generator, & Spirituality
Renee has this stone placed in the wealth corner of her desk with the intention of tapping into its generating qualities. This intention expands into having clarity, increasing energy and clearing the life area of negativity.
Here is an affiliate link to this Labradorite on Amazon
Throat & 3rd Eye Chakras – Communication & Insight
- Lapis Lazuli
Throat and 3rd Eye Chakra
Communication, Creativity, Friendship, Intelligence, Intuition & Truth
One of the ways Lapis Lazuli is used is for the support of stepping into one’s power and authentic self.
Here is an affiliate link to Lapis Lazuli on Amazon
Throat and 3rd Eye Chakras – Communication & Insight
- Obsidian
Root Chakra
Stability & Protection
Obsidian is used in meditation to ground and soothe the mind, absorb negative energy, and furnish stability during turbulent times. It is also employed in healing rituals to release emotional traumas and encourage overall physical well-being. Renee has placed this in the wealth corner of her desk.
Here is an affiliate link to this Obsidian on Amazon
Root Chakra – Groundedness & Roots
- Pyrite
Sacral and Solar Plexus Chakras
Strength, Determination, Confidence, Good Luck
Pyrite enhances one’s strength of mind and willpower. Renee has it in her wealth corner. It reflects wealth and abundance. Sometimes called fool’s gold.
Here is an affiliate link to Pyrite on Amazon
Sacral and Solar Plexus Chakra – Creativity & New Life
- Quartz Crystal
Crown Chakra
Manifesting, Balancing, Healing, Meditation, Protection & Channeling
Quartz crystals reflect balance. It is excellent for harmonizing and stabilizing one’s environment, health and spiritual wellbeing. Also known as Rock Crystals. Renee has this one placed in her wealth and abundance life area on her desk.
Here is an affiliate link to Quartz Crystal on Amazon
Crown Chakra – High View
- Ruby
Creativity, Loyalty, Honour, Compassion & Wealth
Rubies have long been associated with love and commitment. Other associations have been with improved energy and concentration, creativity, loyalty, honour and compassion. They are believed to promote health, knowledge and wealth and to be protective of home, possessions and family. Renee uses this stone to add fire (passion) and has it placed in her wealth and abundance life area.
Here is an affiliate link to Rubies on Amazon
Selenite
Crown Chakra
Cleanliness, Light, Peace & Mental Clarity
Selenite is a Greek word for gypsum. It means ‘moon rock’ in Greek. Renee uses selenite for clarity, cleansing and protection. It also reminds her to be a better version of herself.
Here is an affiliate link to the Selenite in the top picture on Amazon
Crown Chakra – High View
Here is an affiliate link to this picture of Selenite on Amazon
Sacred Space
Ceremony
- Sage
Sage is popular for clearing or cleaning the environment. This intention has been around longer than organized religion. As a practitioner of creating sacred space, this is a natural tool in Renee’s toolkit. Renee uses sage to clear energetic heaviness in a space, surrounding her and to bring clarity of mind before meditation. Pictured above are the different sages available she has been curious about when not using the sage she has grown. After clearing with sage Renee will burn sweetgrass in the space. Sacred Tobacco is offered at the end of a formal ceremony or meditation to connect with a higher self or spirit. In Renee’s formal meditation practice the use of incense is used to bring smoke and a sweet smell during the ceremony of sitting practice. She will burn incense during her personal space-clearing ceremonies to tap into this intention of mindfulness.
Here are affiliate links to Sage, Sweetgrass & Sacred Tobacco on Amazon:
- Palo Santo Sticks
Ever curious, Renee began using Palo Santo sticks upon hearing how they were used by Indigenous peoples in South America for healing practices. Growing her own plants for healing purposes she wanted to explore the differences in burning locally grown healing plants and Palo Santos. It was love at first experience and as it cleanses the space and fills the space with the sweet aroma she will burn Palo Santo when time is limited to replace her more formal practice of Sage and Sweetgrass.
Here is an affiliate link to Palo Santos on Amazon:
Feng Shui Accessories
- Bagua
This Baqua is a traditional cure of Feng Shui that Renee still uses today. This trigram is designed from the back of a tortoise and is the origin of the IChing. With the mirror at the center of this Baqua style, Renee uses it to deflect any negative thought projections that come her way. Thoughts create energetic projections much like secret arrows. If there is ongoing possibility of negativity in the environment she will put this up about her front door. In a recent situation of sharing space, she put it up outside her bedroom door. If used with intention it is a practical tool to create greater calm and groundedness within the space.
Here is an affiliate link to a Bagua for this purpose on Amazon:
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- Convex Mirrors
Renee uses convex mirrors on the outside of her windows to deflect negative projections outward. The shape of the mirror deflects it in many directions versus a flat mirror which may create a forceful direct projection. When on the windows, it looks like a security system. Etherically it is!
Spiritual Tools for Connection
Oracle Cards
- Spirit Animal Oracle
These animal oracle cards are designed by Canadian Colette Baron-Reid. Colette is a writer, speaker, medium and oracle. I enjoy these cards as they bring focus to the value of animal spirits and drawing a card each day it brings me into connection with them. This card is the Badger and its affirmation brings a smile, “be fearless and bold.”
Here is an affiliate link to Collettes Animal Spirit Oracles cards on Amazon:
- Messages from your Angels
These cards were designed by Author Doreen Virtue. Doreen has a number of books published on the topics of Angel numbers, Clearing the Chakras, and Crystal therapy, etc. The volume of her interests in her work that she produced before coming a born again Christian is still used frequently by those not attached to religious community groups. I enjoy the connecting to the energies that reflect the Angels in these cards as a surprising number of students inquire about them!
Here is an affiliate link to Doreen Virtue’s Angel cards messages on Amazon:
- Crystal Angel Cards by Doreen Virtue
A deck of 44 creative cards for popular crystals and minerals with their universal oracle qualities. Renee enjoys connecting with these cards to integrate the different crystal names and their meaning. Their meanings align with the universal values she focuses on as intentions.
Here is an affiliate link to Doreen Virtue’s Crystal Angel cards on Amazon
- Crystals
A deck of 50 cards introducing different crystals and stones that include facts and qualities that I call universal values. These cards are an educational tool for learning names and unique facts about each one. However, for Renee, she enjoys the added component of how the value qualities married to each stone is relatable to expanding a connection to universal values. It is a huge opportunity to connect to intention.
Here is an affiliate link to these Crystal Cards on Amazon
Cards for integration, learning and play
- Moonology
These are great cards to track the moon’s journey and interpretations to integrate the environmental influences they have in our relationships to people, places and things. On a trip to the Yucatan on a tour, Renee learned that the Aztecs began standing on the highest point at night to observe the universe. She learned the intention was to integrate the relationship of the movement in the sky to stimuli surrounding them. After this, she began paying more attention to the significance of this as a source of environmental influences. As a dominant somatic visual interpreter, she began to use these cards to touch in and observe shifts.
Here is an affiliate link to Moonology on Amazon
- Tarot
Arthur Edward Waite (2 October 1857 – 19 May 1942), commonly known as A. E. Waite, was an American-born British poet and scholarly mystic who wrote extensively on occult and esoteric matters, and was the co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck. As his biographer R. A. Gilbert described him, “Waite’s name has survived because he was the first to attempt a systematic study of the history of western occultism—viewed as a spiritual tradition rather than as aspects of proto-science or as the pathology of religion.”
Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
In 1909, artist Pamela Colman Smith’s involvement with the Order of the Golden Dawn led to a commission from Arthur Edward Waite to create a 78-card tarot deck. Originally known as the Rider deck, it was the first to include full pictorial scenes for the Minor Arcana pips. Pamela’s varied mystical influences are evident throughout the deck. Once considered revolutionary, The Rider-Waite deck has set the standard for hundreds of other decks and has inspired a myriad of different versions available from U.S. Games Systems, Inc.
Renee has had this Rider Waite deck for approx., 35 years. These cards are for her personal use only and she doesn’t offer specific readings for others herself. One of the uses is for developing her interpretation skills and using them is a novel way for her to marry together and balance her empathic or somatic abilities with her cognitive organizational ones. It’s her personal form of balancing right and left brain function while expanding her viewpoint.
Here is an affiliate link to the Rider Waite Deck on Amazon
Learning Tarot, Chakra, Planet, Affirmation, Reversed, Zodiac
This tarot deck expands on the original information of the original Rider Waite Deck. It meets a need for exploration, discovery and connections for Renee. It it a focus of attention for learning and may possibly increase cognitive abilities in aging.
Here is an affiliate link to the Learning Tarot on Amazon
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