Announcer (00:00:04) - This is Dream Power Radio, the place where your dreams turn into reality. Here is your host, Debbie Spector Weisman.
Debbie Spector Weisman (00:00:13) - Hello, hello, hello and welcome to Dream Power Radio. I'm your host, Certified Dream-Life Coach Debbie Spector Weisman. This is a place where we talk about dreams, both daytime and nighttime dreams, and how you can use them to make the internal shift to a life you love and rediscover the truth of who you really are. It was about 20 years ago or so that I first became aware of the power of crystals. I was aware of crystals themselves, of course, but my understanding was limited to the clear or near clear prisms I'd seen in bookstores or the white quartz crystals that abound on the property I live on. I thought they were pretty, but that was it, as far as I was concerned. Then I went to my first conscious awareness event, and as I passed through aisles and aisles of books dream catchers, essential oils, sage sticks, singing bowls and the like, my husband and I felt ourselves drawn to a table full of rows and rows of colorful crystals and stones.
Debbie Spector Weisman (00:01:14) - We ended up buying about ten of them, more out of curiosity than anything else. We did some research when we got home and discovered they actually had some practical uses. My husband found that putting the rose quartz on his back eased the tightness he felt there. I experimented with some of the other crystals to ease stress. And then when I got into Dreamwork several years later, I learned that Herkimer diamonds help promote sweet dreams. But rather than me go on and on about this, I'm happy to call it an expert to share some more light on the magic of crystals. Michelle Welch is the accomplished author of several books, including a Crystal Oracle deck, owns several crystal stores, and is a noted psychic intuitive, all while also being a practicing lawyer. Welcome to Dream Power Radio, Michelle.
Michelle Welch (00:02:04) - Thank you so much for having me. I'm so glad to be here.
Debbie Spector Weisman (00:02:08) - Okay, Michele, I just have to start off with this. Do you use crystals in your law practice?
Michelle Welch (00:02:14) - Yes, actually, the interesting thing is we started our business, me and my husband, by making bracelets. I would never wear jewelry. I used to be a tennis player. And then for jury trials, I'm kind of demonstrative with my hands and whatever amount of things would fly out of my hair. My very first jury trial, I think a barrette, or something went flying across the room. And so I would never wear much jewelry because also I couldn't ever do the clasp on the bracelet. You know how that's hard. So we started making stretch jewelry because we loved crystals, and that's how I started to wear them every day, because a bracelet with beads is a crystal grid on your arm, and you can use it to form mantras and affirmations. So a lot of different things I use to wear the crystals on it. But it started with that because I could put on a stretch bracelet and get it off really easily, and usually they wouldn't fly across the courtroom. It was certainly a good thing.
Debbie Spector Weisman (00:03:19) - Was that your first interest in crystals, or did you have an interest in it before that?
Michelle Welch (00:03:24) - I had an interest before that. I always had an interest, really, in rocks of any kind, and I always liked it when we got to science or were studying geology and things like that. I went to Texas A&M University for my undergrad, and I sat with somebody in the library who was studying geology for oil and gas and was like, oh, that's really complicated, and I'm going to stick to business. So I didn't major in it. But I really, really love the rocks and looking at the things that crystals can do for us from not only a kind of a woo aspect is what people say a lot of times, which I do believe in, but also just a scientific aspect, how they can help us.
Debbie Spector Weisman (00:04:05) - Okay, so tell me about the scientific side of it. So what makes crystals so powerful for us?
Michelle Welch (00:04:11) - So crystals have a fixed dominant oscillatory rate. So they move at about the same rate as they oscillate. Or they vibrate because everything's energy and everything moves. We have chaos. We have disorder.
Michelle Welch (00:04:24) - We're not stable in our oscillation. Let's just say that in the rate at which we move and vibrate and go about life, we're up and down. So we entrain to the crystals as opposed to the crystals entraining to us. So if we had a crystal that is maybe really good for, let's say, focus, which I need, those have a cubic internal structure. And so if you think about a cube that's a square, right. Pretty much a square. And so it's stable. It's its structure. So I a lot of times I'm drawn to those kinds of crystals. So that's kind of the science behind it is we do try to entrain to them. There are some--and I will tell you a lot of things that are crystals that really aren't technically crystals like amber, pearls, obsidian, but they will settle under an amorphous. They're a little more chaotic. They don't have a structure to them, but I really believe in connecting with the crystals in so many different ways.
Michelle Welch (00:05:26) - There's one, it's a carbon called shungite, which is incredibly good, and it has a thing called the science fullerenes in it, and it's complicated. I'm not that great at science, actually. Like knowing the science of it. And fullerenes kind of look like soccer balls. And shungite will help meet you where you are. If you feel kind of down, it'll help you kind of be picked up and vice versa. But also, it's a purifier and it helps with the 5G. The other. Technology and things that were radiation, and it was used after Chernobyl. Actually. So it's probably the most to prove scientifically that crystal's help would be the best example.
Debbie Spector Weisman (00:06:07) - And what would you use shungite for?
Michelle Welch (00:06:11) - So me, for a lot of things. I'll show you shungite. I'm holding a bowl. It's a shungite bowl that you can put things in. There's a palm stone. Which palm stones are great. Like I said, it's a carbon so you can use it. And this is one of our bracelets and it's called an empaths necessity.
Michelle Welch (00:06:31) - So it helps you just not absorb everything that maybe isn't good for you to absorb where it every day except for today. Because I don't want to make too much noise on the podcast, but you can use it. You can even drop one in your water. Now you have to be careful with crystals. You always want to look up whether or not you should drop something directly in your water but showing that you can. It's a purifier and so we can use it in so many different ways. Elixirs. You can wear the bracelet; you can put your other crystals or your rings or things down into like a bolt to clear numbers show something really neat and I'm going to tell everybody listening what it is. This it's heavy. I put my phone in this. I set my phone right in this. It's not a charger, but it's shungite, and I set my phone in it when I'm not using it. There's a lot of good things. And so that's a great example of using that, using the crystals in our daily lives.
Debbie Spector Weisman (00:07:27) - So I was very interested in the way you're using this shungite for the phone. So does that work in the same way that like a Faraday bag would?
Michelle Welch (00:07:36) - Yes. And can I tell you, can I guarantee that it's blocking everything? No, but you set your intention. It's not all about intention. It actually works scientifically. Shungite does. But to purify and to block out this, the five Gs. And when you're going through the airport and all those kinds of things. But can I guarantee that 100% works? No, but yes, I will say it works. It's the one that I always it's always laughing myself or everybody else to this because I always say, well, it's my favorite. Well, I really can't choose a favorite crystal, but shungite is the best one to talk about that it's proven that even Peter the Great used shungite, that it's proven that it actually has the internal structure and things in it that are good for our health.
Debbie Spector Weisman (00:08:22) - So when you say that all crystals have frequencies and that when we get in contact with them, we adjust to those frequencies then?
Michelle Welch (00:08:32) - Yes, we do. We do. We entrain to that or adjust to that frequency. And because they all have there's eight categories of internal structures other way from cubic which is very stable to do that amorphous that I talked about, that's just no structure whatsoever. So it's interesting because I have a quiz with my crystal deck that kind of figures out where you fall. There's hexagonal, there's trigonal and this quiz and you can kind of see am I picking crystals that will help me. Or if I'm picking crystals that are already like me because I like how I feel, and I'm drawn to this crystal. So it's really interesting to see how we then the internal structure and then to see what kind of crystals people pick. And if it goes with their internal structure as also as a person.
Debbie Spector Weisman (00:09:28) - So in other words, you're saying that you can use crystals to enhance what you already have, or you can use them to adjust something that you want to adjust.
Michelle Welch (00:09:39) - You can. And I've not done this yet, but I always say I want to do it. I always wonder about homeopathic medicine. And sometimes even essential oils. They'll say a lot of times you're drawn to the one you most need, but you're also not drawn to the one you most need. So like, I don't like to smell vetiver. It smells like old nasty tobacco. But it also helps you sleep. It helps you relax. So sometimes I need that. But the essential oils are homeopathic. Sometimes you're drawn to something you need. Sometimes you're not drawn to what you need. It's like the opposite. So I just wondered with crystals, does it work in the same way? I really want to do a scientific experiment on that, an official one, and have people come in and say, okay, pick crystals and see if they're drawn to what they need or what they already are resonating. And I think I would find it's a little bit of both, but it's really fascinating.
Debbie Spector Weisman (00:10:38) - It is. And something that occurred to me -- and tell me, if you think this is crazy, or maybe you would agree with it. What would happen if we put a crystal in the hands of every single person on earth? How would that change us?
Michelle Welch (00:10:55) - A lot of people say you have to believe in the crystal for it to work. I don't think you did it. I think that it can. Of course it's going to ramp it up when we do. We're matching our thoughts with and creating our reality and our thoughts with that crystal. But that's a great question. I've never heard that, and I love thinking about it. I think that it would be wonderful. And it can't -- they can't hurt you to sort of answer that question. So let's say we gave everyone an amorphous meteorite of the term tektite, which is moldavite.
Michelle Welch (00:11:31) - There's a lot of false information on TikTok about moldavite but it's a high ascension. So if we put that in the hands of everybody, there might be some people who are like, could get jittery from that because you can get a little jittery. But if we put a crystal, a clear quartz, and maybe one other crystal for peace and kindness in the way we speak to each other, maybe a blue crystal, or from our throat chakra at maybe a or a crown and amethyst. I think it would make a big difference because we're coming together. And putting all of our energies into one big thought form or source with our crystals. So it's very interesting.
Debbie Spector Weisman (00:12:13) - Because I think because we're all energy and the crystals have energy, if we all had the same energy going at the same time and it was a positive energy, what could happen?
Michelle Welch (00:12:23) - Yep. Something for peace. You know, I'm thinking about right now, I think something for peace would be a beautiful thing in unity. Do you know that at the moment, if I can get this right, there's two places I want to say that are near the equator. I'm not sure that the Reiki Association has a grid set at like 2 or 3 places in the world that they've set up crystal grids, and they're for peace. And I always find that really interesting. So it's somewhat of the same concept, but that would be a great thing. I think if we got anything that we could all agree on that we would all hold in one hand to that was uplifting to us, that whatever that was, that would be great, so that we could maybe communicate with everyone a little bit and more diplomatic kind way. That would be wonderful.
Debbie Spector Weisman (00:13:17) - It would. So let's say you have a crystal that you say promotes calmness. Doesn't work the same way with everybody?
Michelle Welch (00:13:29) - Great question. Not always because of whatever's going on with this. So again, I put a light. So I'm showing this beautiful purple. Can't show how beautiful this is. It's a heart and it's called lepidolite And I've got a raw one here.
Michelle Welch (00:13:50) - So one of my favorites. They get lithium from this. It's purple. This one's more raw. It's got a lot of mica in it. And lithium comes from lepidolite. So to answer your question. Let's say we gave everyone lepidolite which is great for anxiety. If somebody really was already just so super chill and they needed maybe a little more umph, maybe we'd want to give them a red calcite. Give me just put a coat of armor of this on me, little light, and let me calm down and be a little red calcite. But I do think we respond in different ways because we are different. We're unique even though we're all one and part of the collective. But I do think that we do respond differently. But I've never seen anybody have a super adverse effect from any crystal. And I do a lot of work with crystals like crystal healing. That's especially and I love thinking about this.
Debbie Spector Weisman (00:14:51) - That is all fascinating. We do have to take a short break now. We're speaking all about crystals with Michelle Welch, and we'll be right back.
Announcer (00:15:36) - Welcome back to Dream Power Radio with your host, Debbie Spector Weisman.
Debbie Spector Weisman (00:15:42) - Yes. Welcome back to Dream Power Radio. I'm your host, Debbie Spector Weisman. And we're talking all about crystals with Michelle Welch. Well, Michelle, is it important to clean or recharge the crystals?
Michelle Welch (00:15:57) - So I'll answer that in two parts. I think it's important to clean the crystals, actually clean with soap and water. Even the ones like selenite, which I'm holding up -- a big wand of this white selenite. It's gypsum. Everybody will say, well, it will fell apart in the water. You know, it dissolves in the water. Well, we've done tests with this, and it takes a really long time. So you could wipe this and clean it. . But to energetically clean your crystals, you can do all kinds of things. You can put them in a singing bowl or next to a singing bowl and play the singing bowl. You can clap, you can sing yourself. Other crystals can clear crystals. I do not really recharge my crystals. Let me put it this way. I do recharge them some. I love them getting moon baths, or if I know which ones can go in the sun and you don't leave them after too long getting that sun energy into them. But as far as programming, which you didn't ask me this one, that I'll just say I don't really program crystals and I'll tell you why.
Michelle Welch (00:16:59) - I think that it's just like totems. So let's say the wolf, we don't say that a wolf or something. We said wolf because it's the wolf group. And then there's individual wolves that we work with or that we actually know. I used to know a wolf in Tucson, and I always looked forward at the gym and mineral show, seeing the wolf. The particular wolf crystals are that way too. So let's say we have a malachite. So this there would be a malachite, this beautiful green, but it also has its own personality. So how would I feel if somebody said they were going to. It's a being. And I used to not say that. I was like, oh come on, it's not a thing. Well yeah, it's energy. Everything's energy and it never goes away. It just changes form. So it's a form of energy. It's a form of a being and I wouldn't want somebody programming me. It already comes with traits and characteristics and properties. The only thing that might suggest reprogramming would be a clear quartz.
Michelle Welch (00:18:02) - You didn't really answer that question, but yes, think it's important to clear them. But I don't live a lot in fear. So my crystals -- we have a lot because I have three stores, and if we were taking them out to the moon and putting them back every full moon and putting them in the sun and doing all that, it'd be, we would never be able to work, probably except for doing that. And so I think a lot of intention setting is something really good too. If you can't do that kind of thing, it's okay. And crystals tend to clear themselves a lot too. They take on things for us and people will get worried. Oh no, now it means it's negative and I just haven't found that to be my experience. But if you feel like, hey, I want to clear this because I feel like it's picked up some ache on it, then sure clear it. But I don't. I don't program as much or do those things as much as some other people do.
Michelle Welch (00:18:59) - Just because I work with them so much, I know that they can take care of themselves sometimes a little bit better than they think. You know, we think we always know better than other beings and really think sometimes no better than us.
Debbie Spector Weisman (00:19:09) - So a little bit related to that. Let's say if you've got a crystal, let's say your mother had a crystal and she gave it to you, would it have your mother's energy in it?
Michelle Welch (00:19:19) - I believe so now I you know, another great question. I've thought about this one a lot. I think, like anything else, because the clothes are going to have their energy in them, their favorite items. So the crystal, as much as she held that crystal or worked with the crystal, I did believe it would have that energy in it. Let's take that as beyond. If somebody really had put a lot of negativity into a crystal, do I see that or what? Crystal just has a bad, you know, it's like a possessed crystal or something. I really don't see that.
Michelle Welch (00:19:57) - But I do believe because they keep their own characteristics. But I do think that it could have those residual effects, just like for tangency and feeling that it's a commentary, just like articles of clothing and furniture could do, just because everything's energy.
Debbie Spector Weisman (00:20:13) - Absolutely. You talked earlier about the bracelet that you made to wear on your wrist is your way of wearing crystals. Is it the best way to get the most out of them or what are their ways?
Michelle Welch (00:20:25) - So there's so many ways. You are a dream expert and you talked about things. Dreams in your life, dreams in your in your sleep. An amethyst, for example, I have a beautiful one here and a geode in the back, but a beautiful purple amethyst is great for kind of warding off nightmares. And so you could put this beside your bed at night. I put black moonstone. Yeah. This one. I'm holding up a black moonstone. It's got a little peach in it too. It's beautiful and they'll calm me down. So that's one thing you can do.
Michelle Welch (00:21:02) - You can wear them. But that's just because for convenience for me. Because when I was carrying around a lot of crystals, I set him up, purses getting heavy or so that if you pin them on your clothes inside your clothes gets a little heavy. And so it just made it a lot easier to wear. I mean, I usually wear ten bracelets on each arm because they're so easy to take on and off. But also do we have here at the store we have water that is infused with different crystals, and it's in the little spigots so that some like which you put to your lemonade in. And so we have one that's carnelian infused, maybe from the new moon. And then we hit with different kinds of water. It's distilled water because you don't want to use anything mineral, because you don't want to make your minerals but distilled water and would have like carnelian. Or they can choose black tourmaline for protection, carnelian for ramping for energy and their sacral chakra. And we have clear quartz. We have rose quartz.
Michelle Welch (00:22:02) - We change them out. We show that. And you can add that to sprays that we have. So we already have sprays kind of pre-made. And then you get to choose the water to dilute it that you want to put into that spray. And you can make your own too. And so there's so many ways I'll tell you a funny one for sleeping and snoring. So pyrite. I don't see pyrite around here but pyrite's cube. So it helps. It helps with organization and with math. And so pyrite -- fool's gold a lot of people call it -- will help with two things that are really interesting. And I've tested these because people repeat things and you're kind of going, did that. Just read that somewhere, and then everybody just repeats the same thing over and over again. It helps people not snore as much. Seriously. I've given it so many friends and they put it. I'm not saying it's just men who snore, but they put it under their husbands’ pillows. Also, if you have trouble with a neighbor, let's say you're living in an apartment and the neighbor of baby is just really noisy and it's not been a great relationship. You could take pyrite to the top of your ceiling, and so it would be a good barrier in between just to calm things down between you and that neighbor or the neighbor next door. Just put it on the fence or put it on their property. But that that'd be a great way to use crystals also.
Debbie Spector Weisman (00:23:25) - Fabulous. Nice. Nice to know you could do that and have that little separation there. One of the major issues I think everybody faces at one time or another deal to with one time another is stress. So how can we use crystals to help alleviate stress?
Michelle Welch (00:23:42) - Well, one of the ways -- the lepidolite later showed you and the shungite. There's so many. First of all, I would hold them in my hands. I won't get all into the dominant and the receiving hand just nice and not too complicated. I would just hold them in our hands. The nanis in our hands that are the little bitty chakras and ley lines and meridian points. And the ones that connect to our hands are the ones that connect to our heart.
Michelle Welch (00:24:10) - So you could hold it and get that lepidolite and just get it in your hands. You can feel the energy, really can. And then you could put that down and you could bring your hands up to your heart chakra, and it really would just calm you down. It works. Calm down the energy. You could do this without a crystal, by the way. The ones in your feet connect to your root chakra. Now that'd be a little harder. I'm not that good at yoga. I don't know if I'd be able to do that one, but for the hands going to the heart, it really will calm you down. There’re so many crystals for that, so many different crystals. A great one again is this. I use this wand of selenite. It's a white piece, for everyone listening, of gypsum, and it comes in different varieties and they're smaller and larger. I use it for pain. You mentioned pain or soreness, I believe, with your hands.
Michelle Welch (00:25:07) - And I use it l going through an airport. I'm waving it like a wand, like going or when I go to the courthouse. I'm going in the courthouse, but you almost use it like you're going through. You just want to clear your whole auric field with this. Sealed with this in, I call it the sage of crystals. And I actually had somebody asked me one time, well, how do I light it? And I was like, no . Instead of sage you use the selenite. So it's a great one to calm you down. And it's just so many ways to use them after another thing I will tell you after you use this, and I don't care how the black kyanite over here, but it looks like a broom. And you use the black kyanite to kind of sweep away anything. I don't like to scare people, but you’ve heard of maybe psychic vampires, people who maybe are just kind of leeching your energy out of you.
Michelle Welch (00:26:05) - They may not even mean to. They're just always calling and whining and complaining and you want to be their friend. And afterwards you feel fatigued. You can just sweep that black kyanite over you and then seal with this, this selenite. And it really is as great and comes down very quickly and gets you. And also that black kyanite will balance all of your chakras. If you just go up and down, it'll balance them until you need it again, but it'll help a lot.
Debbie Spector Weisman (00:26:31) - Okay, we just talked about calming down. What about if you want to increase your energy.
Michelle Welch (00:26:37) - So it's interesting because you can go with colors a lot of times okay. So to increase your energy that's really, we look at our sacral chakra our passion, our vitality that's orange around our just below or enable right. So red calcite is great. And the thing about calcite is it's not expensive at all. I mean calcite, you can walk out in some areas where people live and you can find calcite, but red calcite is just really, really good to give you energy.
Michelle Welch (00:27:06) - Carnelian will give you energy. Sunstone. So that orange and the red stones, really the orange stones will give you that energy. And then if the energy also comes from maybe a little bit of not feeling worthy, you could go up into the yellows for your solar plexus. You know I am worthy, and you could get that yellow aventurine, the citrine and those and add those in and just to boost your energy. And that will say the calcite I work with a lot, and I recommend them a lot because it don't want people to think unless they want to collect specimen crystals. You don't have to spend a lot of money on them. You really could get very affordable crystals. There's always a high end and expensive kind of gift, but that doesn't mean it works it really any better than one that’s extremely affordable. And so the oranges and the reds are really, really good to increase your energy. Now they're going to be others of different colors because of that an internal structure again. But you can keep it simple by going with color.
Debbie Spector Weisman (00:28:16) - Oh Michelle, I have so many other questions asked you, but we're just about out of time, so I just have this final one. How could people find out more about you and your work?
Michelle Welch (00:28:26) - It's really easy. You can just go to Michelle. That's what two L's am I c h e l l e Welch like the grape juice. So Welch. Michellewelch.com. And you can find out about my store, about my books, my readings and other different activities that we do at Michellewelch.com.
Debbie Spector Weisman (00:28:48) - Wonderful. Michelle. Thank you so much for being on Dream Power Radio today.
Michelle Welch (00:28:53) - Thank you so much for having me.
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