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Harnessing Crystal Energy and Spiritual Transformation with Lynn Jinks

• Stephanie Graham • Season 1 • Episode 13

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Lynn Jinks from Crystal Energy Empowerment is an insightful and compassionate spiritual life coach, Clairaudient, and certified Crystal Healer, with over 20 years of dedicated experience in the world of gemstones and crystals. Driven by a deep passion for crystals and their profound healing energies, Lynn guides clients on transformative spiritual journeys. Through her intuitive use of crystals and her ability to channel Universal energy, she helps individuals connect to deeper dimensions of self, promoting personal growth, positive mindset, and alignment with their highest potential.

Lynn’s bespoke crystal monthly subscriptions, one-on-one consultations, and healing workshops and meditations are designed to foster mindfulness, well-being, and purposeful growth. Whether you are a newcomer drawn to the beauty of crystals or a seeker on a spiritual path, Lynn offers nurturing guidance, insight, and a wealth of knowledge to support you every step of the way.

In this episode of Tranquil Topics, I invite you to journey with Lynn Jinks, who opens up about her remarkable transformation from actress to spiritual life coach, navigating challenges such as IVF and a skin cancer diagnosis, to find her true calling. Immerse yourself in her world as she reveals the power of personal experiences in offering resilience and empowerment to others. Dive deep into the energy systems of the body, understand the role of crystals in healing, and explore how they can unlock and balance energies blocked by negative emotions.

Join us for an enlightening discussion on the art of spiritual life coaching and the pursuit of one's true self whilst we delve into the ethereal realm of aura cleansing and protection, offering practical tips on using crystal grids and harnessing the transformative properties of crystals. Lynn guides listeners on energising and cleansing their aura, highlighting the impact of thoughts on energy. She challenges myths about crystal healing and emphasises trusting intuition when working with these powerful stones.

Embrace the opportunity to recognise your worth and take control of your life through healing and self-discovery, empowered by Lynn's wisdom, guidance and unique coaching approach. Connect with Lynn's world and explore how her insights can help shape your journey toward personal empowerment.

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Steph:

Before we begin, I want to let you know that this episode briefly mentions sensitive topics, including IVF, skin cancer and sexual assault. If these topics are triggering for you, please take care whilst listening and listener discretion is advised. The rest of the episode focuses on crystals and crystal healing. I hope you enjoy this episode and find it both informative and uplifting.

Steph:

Hello, welcome back to Tranquil Topics. I'm your host, Steph, and today we are joined by Lynn Jinks from Crystal Energy Empowerment. Lynn is a spiritual life coach, Clair audient and certified crystal healer with over 20 years of experience. I met Lynn back in November at the Mind, Body, Spirit festival and absolutely loved her energy, and I can't wait to introduce you to her. So welcome to the podcast, Lynn.

Lynn:

Oh, what a lovely introduction, Steph. Thank you.

Steph:

You're welcome. I'm so happy to have you here.

Lynn:

Oh, it's a real pleasure to be here and to talk to you, and one of the nicest things that you just said then is about feeling somebody's energy and connecting, and I always believe in the right moment at the right time, and we just found each other at that space. I heard about the amazing work that you do on your podcast and all the wonderful things you share with your listeners, and it's a pleasure to be here. Thank you for inviting me on.

Steph:

Oh thank you, that's so kind.

Steph:

So let's dive straight in. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got to where you are now?

Lynn:

I can. I'm Lynn, nice to meet you all listening. I'm a crystal therapist and a spiritual life coach, but originally I trained as an actress at Northumbria University in Newcastle. So during this time I created a theatre company and co-founded it with four other members, called Open Clasp Theatre Company. So I was all about theatre transforming the lives of women and young women, creating bold theatre, personal, political change. So I've always been quite passionate about supporting women, listening, advocating women to be brave and empowered and confident in who they are. So that was how the path began being an actress.

Lynn:

And I continued to do that, went into theatre and education, did workshops, and at that time, when I was performing, I actually got invited to go and present on TV and at that point I became a TV presenter. And this TV presenting happened to be on a channel that was all about crystals and gemstones. So I'd always been quite passionate about crystals, but never really knew why. But I suppose all of us are attracted to things as children, aren't we, on the beach, the pebbles and the crystals.

Steph:

Yeah.

Lynn:

So, yeah, so I began working there on TV and it was at that point that they invested in us and crystals and gemstones and said, well, we don't want to talk about how pretty they are, let's delve a bit deeper. So I trained with the Gemological Institute of America and became an accredited jewellery professional, which meant that I understood the properties of gemstones, how they were formed, what they were about. I got to visit mines in Morocco, in Thailand, to experience the extraction of these you know, gemstones.

Lynn:

And it was at that point that I got really interested in what's the difference between gems and crystals. And that's when I began this kind of shift into oh, what's crystals? I was really drawn. And then I went on to qualify as a crystal healer and I obtained a diploma in crystal healing and anatomy and physiology. Because, well, the diploma is in the physiology and anatomy which, to be fair, Steph, is probably one of the most difficult things I've ever done. So kudos to anyone who's learning at the moment, um, a lot more deeper than I thought. And that's how my path started to shift. So I was still working on the tele presenting, really interested in crystals. Um, what happened was I got, I was really successful on TV and everybody would look and go, why would you not want to stay there, why would you not want to continue? But I had this kind of really inside deep feeling that this isn't for me, I don't feel aligned, it doesn't feel right, and I just there was like a deeper sense of a yearning for something more. There's something more. I'm not doing what I should be doing and it was at that time that again just a little trigger moment to anyone who is listening I embarked on an IVF journey and a fertility journey and we had quite a lot of miscarriages, quite a big journey. I found out I'd got skin cancer. There was like lots of things going on. But at that point I felt like this real nudge from the universe that you know, you're here to do something different. This is not what you're here to do. You're definitely here to talk and present, but it's not about you know crystals and buying them, it's about working with them. And at that point that's when it all shifted. So I went from actress performing, presenting crystals into learning about crystals, qualifying and then becoming the crystal healer that I am today.

Steph:

Wow, that is a journey, isn't it? I just want to acknowledge thank you for sharing about the IVF and skin cancer journey, because I know that it's really difficult.

Lynn:

And it's so much power behind sharing stuff, because, whether your listeners have gone through it themselves, or maybe friends and family members that they know, you know that the statistics we're looking at is one in three, and I'm here to say like I said at the start there, to empower others to know that they're not alone as well in a journey, and it is hard and difficult, but speaking and talking is is so helpful about it.

Steph:

Yeah, absolutely, and I agree about being able to feel when you're not on the right path and there's just some sort of um, it's like an inside tug of war, really, isn't it? I totally know what you mean by that. So do crystals differ from gemstones?

Lynn:

Yes, they are. So a crystal is different to a gemstone. But if I put it into perspective, crystals and pebbles are not the same. So often people say, well, isn't it just like a rock? And it's not, because actually a crystal has to belong to one of seven different crystal structures and a gemstone belongs to one of seven different crystal structures.

Lynn:

However, a gemstone gets excavated, then it gets cut into a shape, then it gets polished, a man and women they come in and they start to play with the crystal to make it look beautiful or specific or different, to put in a ring or a piece of jewellery. So what we have here is somebody interfering with the crystal, so it's not just come out the ground as it is being tumbled, perhaps like it would in a river, or in its rough form it's actually being changed. So it's been changed in its rough form. It's actually been changed, so it's been changed in its form. And that's what makes a gemstone a gemstone and a crystal a crystal. So the crystals are still pure. They're still the same atoms, ions and molecules in this three-dimensional lattice, whereas a gemstone has had like work done to it. So somebody sat there with a dob stick and they faceted it to make it beautiful and sparkle and draw out its beauty, whereas a crystal is more in its raw form. So they're one in the same in the fact that they're part of a crystal structure, but they're different in the fact that a crystal often hasn't had anything done to it.

Lynn:

Now there are exceptions. You'll sometimes go into a crystal shop and you might see carvings you know of of rabbits or skulls and things like this, so you can see those carvings. They still have had interference and it depends how much of a purist you are, and they're still going to do their work. They're still going to work but they're more for display, should we say when you collect crystals and you want to display them, you'd lean more into the carvings, whereas if you're working with them and you want them, you'd move more towards the rough or the what we call a tumble, when it feels a bit smooth, or a palm stone. So okay, I hope that answers that question yeah.

Steph:

I was just thinking then, so I bought my partner um, oh gosh, what's it called? Is there a purple one?

Lynn:

Lipidolite?

Steph:

That's the one. Um, I bought him that, but as a carved so now I'm thinking, oh, maybe I should have bought him not carved.

Lynn:

But not the intention when you've bought that crystal for your partner, the lipidolite, which is very good at mind, chatter, calming the mind, coming back home, kind of silencing the the monkey chat we talk. Even in a carving, it's still emitting its energy. It's still doing what you want it to do. It's not going to work any better or any worse. It's carving. It's still emitting its energy. It's still doing what you want it to do. It's not going to work any better or any worse. It's just that it's been changed slightly and again it goes back to being a purist, doesn't it? Do you dye your hair? Do you not dye your hair? You know, do you put lipstick on? Do you not put lipstick on? Your lips are still going to be your lips in that sense, they've just highlighted them a little different, but they're still going to work.

Steph:

Fab. Okay, so you're a crystal healer, very experienced crystal healer. Could you explain what is crystal healing?

Lynn:

Oh, I'd love to. I'm passionate about crystal healing. So in order to understand crystal healing, we first of all need to understand what it's based on. So it's based on an energy system, so that means that it's based on a belief that we are all made up of different energies and when they become stagnant, unbalanced or blocked, it can cause disease within us or an illness within us. And the premise is that crystals can unblock, balance and direct energy to where it's most needed, and it will help and support your body in a holistic and therapeutic way. So crystal healing is a real investment in yourself, because what it's doing is encouraging you to come forward, because, as we know, the body is a great healer when we listen to it.

Lynn:

So what are our old habits, our limited beliefs? Do we want positive changes? Are we actively wanting to heal and learn and grow? So the crystals work with your energy, so your vibrational energy, and the idea is that the crystals can re-channel this energy that may have become stuck within you or stagnant, or old anger, old fear from past traumatic events. You know operations, you've had accidents that may have occurred, grief.

Lynn:

This is all an energy in your body that might just still be sitting there, and what crystals do is they can absorb this energy and redirect it and then put positive energy back in where you need it. And each crystal has its own way of directing that energy or removing that energy. And often you're drawn to certain types of crystals, either because when you read what they're about, or because of their colour, or because you just can't stop looking at them, and that often is because that property of that crystal and what it means. There's something going on in your body that your soul is recognising, saying I don't want this anymore or I need this. And when you use crystal healing, you're working with your energy system. You're doing the work and the crystals are just helping you to remove and shift things that are no longer serving you.

Steph:

Does it relate to chakras?

Lynn:

Yes, yes, we work with your chakras, because there are seven chakras within your body. Chakra is the Sanskrit word for wheel, so you have these seven wheels of energy that are within your body. Now, there are three types of your energy system, y ou have the chakras that you so eloquently talked about, then you have your aura and you have meridians. Now, meridians is very similar to that of the chi, the prana, the life force that runs through you. You may have heard about it in acupuncture, martial arts. They talk about your chi, your prana. This is the tiny little lines that run all the way through your body, your aura, which we can come on to if you want to. And then chakras. So there's seven main, there are more chakras, but for the ease of today of your listeners, we'll focus on the seven main. And these are chakras that should be moving. They should be wheels of light. So when you feel in good form and you feel like you, just you know everything feels good. You're breathing easy, you're balanced, your head's in a good space. This means that the energy is flowing through your body. Now the seven of them begin at your root chakra, which is that space right between your legs, at the bottom, just beneath your navel, is what we call the sacral chakra, t hen we have a solar plexus, which is your stomach, then a heart chakra, which is exactly where your heart is right now. So if you want to put your hand on your chest at home, that's your heart chakra. Throat chakra, exactly where it says the throat. The third eye is just beneath, sorry, just in between your eyebrows and beneath your your hairline, and then your crown is just above your head, and those seven chakras belong to you and we all have them and they each stand for a different thing and they also have a color attached to them. Would you like me to explain what colors attached to each one?

Steph:

Please.

Lynn:

Yeah, so your root chakra, down to the bottom again, between your legs, is red. So if you have any red stones and you're drawn to red stones, often this can mean that you are wanting to be grounded or balanced, so you're attracted to red.

Lynn:

Orange is your sacral chakra colour, your feelings zone, and this is often the time between the age of about 6 to 16 when it mainly forms, and this is an orangey color. You move up to your solar plexus, which is yellow, and now this is your ego space, t his is your personality, t his is when your ego gets, gets likes to have a play, which is the bit where someone cuts you up and you go, 'well, that I was in the line next', or that's your ego coming forward, you know, it's your kind of personality.

Lynn:

Then your heart, which will explain exactly what it is. Now your heart can be two colors. It can be green or it can be pink, throat is an uh blue, and then your third eye, again between your eyebrows, is an indigo color, and then your crown can be to a violet or a white, and you'll hear me talking about those colors. It's very similar to a rainbow. So it's again very similar in the universe how things come together.

Lynn:

And these chakras often are associated to the crystals that you use. So you can either use the colors of the crystals with the colors of the chakras, or indeed you can just work with your chakras and you can understand what your chakras mean, and they all have a different I am. So you know, I am, I feel, I see, and they all have a different affirmation attached to them and often crystals can work with those chakras. So it's quite vital that we understand what they are when we're doing crystal healing, as a therapist, as a healer. But as your listeners are right now and I expect many of them will know so much about crystals and some will know nothing and be really intrigued by this conversation and opening their mind, thinking, oh, this sounds different. What does it mean? So you don't have to have a great knowledge of your chakras, it's just something that will come as you embark on a journey.

Steph:

Yeah, so has crystal healing helped you through challenges in your life?

Lynn:

Yeah, I think, like you explained earlier, you know, when I was talking about sort of the, the things that I'd gone through and and the events that had gone through in my life, um, and I think when the challenges come, I don't know if anybody's watching at home is anybody a people pleaser and thinking well, you know what everybody used to say to me you're so sensitive, Lynn. What's wrong with you? You know these keywords. Let's listen to how they were talking to me. Oh, you take everything to heart. Why are you trying to help everybody?

Lynn:

And this was obviously me, having my skill and my talent as a young child, but not knowing that I had and at that point I didn't really understand holistic work. You know we're talking 20 odd years ago. But when I sort of advanced and started moving into different perspectives in my world, I realised that, as Einstein says, everything's energy. And what I didn't understand is that my thoughts that no one else can hear, that no one else knows, are actually impacting my own health. So when you say out loud, I'm fine or yeah, no, I feel great today, and inside your internal brain goes, no, you don't, you feel really ugly and silly and stupid. Right, that is an energy. You have just then allowed your brain to send out negative energy that your cells in your body pick up on. They don't know what you're saying, but they know what you're feeling and our body goes oh, you feel rubbish. Right, I'm going to make you feel right. We feel bad, we feel low, we feel low vibe, and it was all just because of some flippant comment you made to yourself in your mind. And at that point, when I started to understand that my thoughts had power, I then tackled the miscarriages, the IVFs, the cancer.

Lynn:

I lost my mum two years ago and what I've learned is there will always be an event, Steph, everyone watching. There's always going to be an event. You could be in a really good place, think everything's going well for you, and then something will happen. Then we've got a choice. We can either respond or react to that event, and there are two very different ways in that, and crystal healing and working with my energy system helps me now respond. So a response to a death of a loved one, and we all will respond differently. We could react. It's not fair. I want my mom. Why go? Why? These are not going to help me. They are negative, they are low thoughts. They're not helping me or I can respond. I am so lucky I had my mum for that amount of time. I am so blessed that I had her with me and I'm so grateful for everything she taught me. There is a difference. It doesn't mean I'm not thinking the sad thoughts, because of course you are, but you're combating them. And then have an outcome.

Lynn:

Now, if you react, your outcome is going to be very different to if you respond. If you respond to the event, you'll get a different outcome. And it's that little journey which I have to say. There's a wonderful um empowering group called the Authentic Girls Club and they talk about that quite significantly in their membership, two wonderful women. And again, it's about taking responsibility. We can't change events. They're always going to come, but we can choose how we respond in our minds and crystals and crystal healing and understanding your energy system. It's way more than clinging onto that pink rose quartz going self-love. This said, it would give me self-love. It's not just about that, it's about going. Why is that crystal giving me self-love and why do I need to love myself and how the vibrations of that crystal will work with the vibrations of your body to centre you in. So it's a little bit more of the science behind those crystals really.

Steph:

That's really powerful. Lynn, I'm so sorry to hear about your mum. I lost my dad when I was 16. So I've spoken before on the podcast about being bullied in high school. I had a really bad time in school and then you feel like I just need to get through it, get to the end. Got to the end at 16 and then my dad passed away. And it's that absolute crush of just when life, I don't even know how to explain it, just when you feel like a boulder's landing on you, I guess and then you think, why?

Lynn:

Yeah, why was that my lesson? Why, why is that happening? And this, again, is what's so great about the spiritual life coaching that I do alongside the crystal healing is let's understand your soul came here for a journey and you chose your parents and they chose, depending how deep you want to go, this their journey too, and when we go, I have to let him do his journey. That was his journey and I let him go, rather than we make it about us. Why did he leave me? Why am I left here? But this is a journey. At 16, you are still such a young woman.

Lynn:

You've been through some really painful experiences at school. You know it's hard to process that at that time because you're again, when we talk about those chakras, they were still forming. You know they were still growing at that time. So hindsight's great. But again, your life learned experiences and what you went through, Steph, I guarantee when you've talked about that on your podcast, you will have changed people's lives because you will have spoke to them and they may at that point either have children going through that at the time or they were that child and by you having that learned experience, however painful it was for you because you're now talking about it and using it as for a powerful change of good, that reason you went through it hopefully there is some power that's coming through it now for others.

Steph:

Oh, it's made me feel a bit emotional.

Lynn:

Yeah you have such power in learned experience. You can understand, you can relate, you can empathize to others and now you can support from a place of being there. Now that's great speaking to you now at this age, but I'm pretty confident if I was speaking to 16 year old you, you might not want to have heard those words. So it's all right for her to have felt those things too, and we talk about that in a child often when we talk about going back to love her. And as an adult now, Steph, you go back and visit that 16 year old teenage self and grab her and go you're okay, I'm here and we're all right. It's okay, we do. We go on to do great things.

Steph:

Well, I had the whole thing of why me, the anger, the not being able to understand, and then not having people that I could relate to at my age that had gone through the same thing. Now, going through my spiritual journey, I kind of view it as well. I've come to terms with it now. I think well, my dad is always around me now. He knows exactly what's happening, more so than he did when he was with us, and I can lean on that because I do believe that, like, people cross over, but they're not gone, and I'll just share something with the listeners. I don't know if you remember I did tell you this at um the festival when I met you, but I'm in my final year of uni. I'll graduate this year. I'm doing human physiology, so I can relate with your anatomy and physiology, um, and it is difficult, it's really hard, um, but I found my interest in neuroscience. I absolutely love it and when I was going to the festival, I was in uni on the Friday morning and I was walking down the road and I said in my head to my dad if I'm meant to do a PhD, show me a white rabbit. And I forgot about it, did my day at uni, went home, me and Alan got in the car, drove to Birmingham and it was on the drive there that I remembered. So I told Alan and he's very open-minded and I was expecting, I don't know, I might see a white rabbit on the TV or someone might send me the little white rabbit emoji in a text or something. And we missed a turn on the motorway and added about 15 minutes to the journey. Anyway, when we got to the car park I reversed in the space and Alan got out first and he started banging on the window and I was like what's happened? And he's like there's a white rabbit, there's a white rabbit in the car park. And I was like stop, and I thought what a bizarre place to see a white rabbit. So I was like okay, that was a very quick response, but I'll take it.

Steph:

hen I was really in a place of I'm not sure if I meant to pursue this. I don't know if I should be doing it. And then when I bought, um, a mystery bag off you at the festival because I'm a sucker for a mystery, anything that's mystery I'm like yes, I will have that and I loved it, especially when you said to me they're all different. I was like, okay, I need to pick one. And in my little bag of beautiful crystals that I got from you was a note that said you are smart, and I was like this is so weird.

Lynn:

Oh, do you know I get that word a lot. I should have a plaque made, 'it's going to be weird' because there's no other word that we have, I don't think, in our vocabulary that really explains that feeling. And then your brain starts to come in and go, I'll try and rationalize it and that's when we talk back and go no, I asked for a sign.

Lynn:

And there's a wonderful book actually called Signs forgive me, I don't know the author. I'm reading it at the moment and it just says Signs.

Steph:

Is it Laura Lynne Jackson?

Lynn:

Yes, the blue book, the blue cover, yes. So if any of your listeners want to read that, and it's just about that awareness of opening your mind and asking for the signs and seeing them because we're so busy in our lives, a bit like what you said, then we ask for a sign and then we completely forget we've asked for it and the universe is chucking this sign at you left, right and center but you're like, oh, I've zoned out now I'm off doing my work or I forgot I asked for the sign. But it's so interesting that you say that and I think again, there's so many weird and wonderful things you can ask for, like orange cars, or a giraffe or something, and you will see it. You know it will come.

Steph:

So you're a spiritual coach. Could you explain what it means to be a spiritual coach and the clair audience as well? I'm interested in that.

Lynn:

Yes, spiritual life coaching, I think the key word here is spiritual and a lot of the time people bandy around that word and it means different things to different people, but for me, spiritual means you've got much more mind, body and spirit approach to things. So for a life coach, often when people understand what a life coach means, we're either talking about a specific area in your life or we're talking about your business or a business coach, and there's quite a lot of different ones. But from a spiritual life coach perspective, what I do is I help you and empower you so you get the the skill to do it, to almost understand yourself, who you are, not who your parents want you to be, or your family or your friends, or your partner or your children. Who are you? Because we lose ourselves and what we do is we people please again back to this people pleasing.

Lynn:

When I first started this wonderful journey that I'm on, I couldn't even tell you what my favorite food was. Often I said don't mind, what do you like to do. I didn't know what my favorite color was. Oh, I like all colors. I didn't know what books or genre I like to read, I just like to read everything. I literally hadn't got a clue who I was. I didn't know who I was because I'd spent my world trying not to be sensitive, to fit in, to join in, to have the things to say around the conversation at the table, to consciously make sure that I wasn't you know what we call take up too much air time, which is the people that talk all the time and the other people around the table never get a chance to speak. So I was always, it was always this, I didn't know. So what I help you to do is go. Who are you? Let's find you, and it's okay to be understanding that you have a need to be and find yourself. Rather than it being selfish, let's take that word out of here and then we look at your place in the world. What was it you came here to do?

Lynn:

Often when we feel low, low mood, down, depressed, it's because we've lost our way, we've lost our purpose, we've lost what it was we want to do. The question we get when we're younger what you want to be when you grow up, what you want to go to college and do what you want to do with. This question gets asked to us all the time when we're younger, and personally I feel like that's the wrong time to be asked. I think as a youngster, it should be be healthy, be happy, find out all the different things you like and then, when you get older, go. What do you want to do? Because now you've found yourself, you'll have a greater understanding of what it is you want to do.

Lynn:

So maybe you're in a position or a job or something that's not aligning and you think, well, I'm stuck here, I've got to pay the bills, I've got to, you know, I've got a family to run. We look at what you want to do and then we slowly start to change and shift so that you become more aligned. And then, like me, you can leave a TV presenting job where everyone went what are you doing? And then you pursue a new job and it's prosperous, it's having that faith. So I help you to explore your beliefs, your experiences, what's your wisdom, what's your intuition telling you, because how many times you've thought something or you've done something and it's gone wrong and you go? Well, I'm not trusting myself again because that happened, well maybe that was meant to happen.

Lynn:

Maybe there was a reason, because whatever is meant for you will always come back for you and trusting that is what we do with the spiritual life coaching. So, whatever it is that you want, I go through your chakras. I find out where your blockages are. What's blocking you? It's usually fear, trauma, resentment, anger. We look at what that's doing, why it's holding you back, and we work through it. And the key word is we, I don't teach, I don't tell, I support you, give you the tools you need. We work on positive affirmations, we change around the negative thinking, we work with your energy system and we're all built differently. So from a spiritual perspective, I don't have this right, h ere's your form, w e're going to go through this form, like you would with typical other coaching which is fantastic, by the way. I'm really up for coaching. It just comes from a different perspective, a more slower and nurturing and supportive perspective, and alongside that is the clairaudience that you asked me to speak about and the clairknowing.

Lynn:

Now, there are different types of clairs in the world. You may probably have heard of clairvoyance, whether it's a seeing or a recognising. That's not what I get. I get a hearing. It's a clear hearing. Comes from a source outside. It's either spirit, however people want to call it. I often call it spirit. It's just an easier way to phrase it really, people understand it easier and I'll just get the word. For example, I know it's Alan, but I would just get the word if I was working with you Alan, Alan, Alan. And I don't know what it means. So I write it down and then I'll come back and I'll go does Alan have any significance to you? And that's how it comes to me. It's just a name or it's just a phrase. I don't understand how or what the relevance is, but I just keep hearing it and that information is information that potentially, I don't know or can't know about you. It just comes. Obviously, Alan is an example because you've just spoke about.

Lynn:

However, a clair knowing is an ability to know information about you I can't possibly know. So it could be a teddy that you had as a child, that I was on a specific landing, and I'll go what's the teddy on the landing mean, what's, what's that? And you can, how can you, can't, you can't know that information, and that's a clair knowing, and that often comes when I'm working with you. So I've connected in and it's about being respectful.

Lynn:

I don't wander down streets saying, oh, you know, I've got a message. I'm not psychic, I'm not medium. These are wonderful people in their trades that do what they do. I'm very clear. I know my line, I know my, my um, my area, and it's all significant with the crystals as well. So it all comes as one package for me, and I think that that understanding of how people work is knowing that everyone's different, so we're not all the same, which is very similar to people who work in IT. People go work in IT, but not every IT worker would be the same. They would be different. So it's the same in the spiritual realm.

Steph:

It's very interesting Lynn, i'm not sure an hour is going to cut it today, to be honest. So thank you for clearing that up, because I know I myself with that. Like I've heard of the clairs, I haven't known what the difference between them all. Um, so you mentioned an aura before. What's an aura? Because I know that you've done aura cleansing before. Is that right?

Lynn:

Yes, so often when we work together on a one-to-one which I know we can touch up later. You have this aura, so the three parts to your energy system. We can backtrack on what we were talking about earlier with the chakras. So your chakras, your meridians and your aura. Now your aura is something that's around you. So if you're at home and you're listening to this and you're not driving, if you put your arms right out to the side of you as far out as you can, that is, in essence, your aura. Now it can be a lot bigger. It goes all the way above your head. It goes all the way down to the bottom of the floor. This is your aura and this is something that stores within it a lot of information, a lot of kind of stories about you as a person. People can actually work with auras and they can see your aura. So I'm not an aura see-er, but I can cleanse your aura. But again, in our field there are some people that are fantastic at looking at your aura. They read the colors of it and they can talk you through it. But your aura is something like a low level of electricity, so an electromagnetic field. So again, you've got your arms around you. That's your, if you've ever seen dirty dancing I'm not sure how old people are that are listening, but he goes, this is my dance space and this is your dance space. This is, this is yours, this is mine. It's the same with us, it's our aura, and in ancient systems, such as the Hindu systems, they believe that you've got seven layers to your aura. So it goes out quite a long way in seven different ways and they're subtle bodies. As such, we call them, not to get too, too deep, but it's this luminous body that's around you, like the ready breck advert. He'd eat his ready breck and then he'd have this red glow that went around him again. I'm talking old school here, Steph. You might not know it, but it's this kind of area around you that's yours, so you can often feel it when you come into somebody's aura, you can feel warmth, you can feel an affection, and also you can come into someone's aura and it can feel warmth. And you can come into someone's aura and it can feel icky, uncomfortable and you tend to back away from that person, but you don't know why. You're still talking to them and they seem quite nice, but there's something going on in that energy field. You're picking up on the energy. So trees, flowers, animals, they all have an aura as well and it's this sort of energy that's around you.

Lynn:

So if you're feeling low, lackluster, it's a duller, darker colour. Now it doesn't matter. If those colours are dull and darker, it doesn't mean that you're particularly ill or poorly, it just means that your aura isn't shining. You're not, you know, the Glinda, the Good Witch in the shiny aura. You know, you're just a bit, s omething's going on.

Lynn:

And again, the colors of the auras are matched with your colors of your chakras. Remember those rainbow colors we talked about earlier, reds and the oranges, and those colors are in your aura and they're part of who you are. I often have quite a red and sort of grounding aura, and then I have a lot of green, often with mine, which is the healing and the nurturing and that wanting to, to help people, sort of style aura, that welcoming aura we call it. But some people who are very busy and they're passionate, they're high flyers, they can sometimes have what we call a repulsive aura, and it doesn't mean that they're unkind or they're not a beautiful person, it just means they're busy. I've got stuff on and I don't need you here. So they're kind of pushing you out the way and it's really interesting when we realise that it's not you, it's not, you've not done anything wrong, they're just they've got stuff on. You get out my aura, I've got busy, yeah. So this is your aura and you can cleanse it.

Lynn:

Interestingly, how many of your listeners and you as well, Steph, you've, you've had a bad day, something's gone on. You come and you go. I'm just going to go for a shower. I'm just going to go for a bath.

Steph:

Yes.

Lynn:

That's cleansing your aura.

Steph:

Get it off me.

Lynn:

You're cleansing your aura. I'm going to go for a walk. I'll feel better when I get back. You're cleansing your aura. Aura loves nature, a bath, water, salt baths. Other people, like myself, I use a selenite wand to cleanse it or I do crystal healing.

Lynn:

But even positive affirmations can cleanse your aura, because if you've absorbed a lot of negative energy, you're low. Your brain then goes oh, we're low, oh, I'll do more low then and you're like no, I need to bring myself up, and the way to do that is to speak out positive affirmations, or at least read them, because we go back to what we talked about earlier, thoughts have energy. If you're thinking negative thoughts, that's what you're doing, that's what you're asking in, so we have to either. Brain doesn't know the difference between humor and non-humor, so the brain doesn't know the difference, whether you believe those affirmations or not, because it's hearing them. So it just thinks that's what we're doing. So it's so powerful those tiny little shifts that we can make when we recognize that our aura is is important to us, it's yours, it's your space and look after it.

Steph:

Is that what happened when we met then, when I felt drawn to your energy?

Lynn:

A lot of the time and you can feel I don't like the vibe of this place, but we may not have the words for that, because you're embarking on this spiritual journey or you're embarking on your wellness journey let's even call it that or mindfulness, to see whatever words sit with your listeners, recognise who makes you feel good and recognise who doesn't, and just by standing within their space you can recognise that. Now it might not be that this person's not good for you. It just might be that they need to do some work on themselves because internally there's a battle going on and externally they're doing this, but you're feeling their internal battle and it could be that right now it's not for you to be in that space.

Steph:

Yeah, that makes sense. So just out of interest, do your aura colors change throughout your life?

Lynn:

They do change within moments. Now, please speak to an aura expert on this. I'm a crystal healing expert, not aura. However, say, for example, I'm in my green aura energy, there's red, I'm grounded, everything's good, and then, I don't know, I get an email from I don't know some work, c olleague, I'm doing this tapping on the on the table, everybody who can't see, and it's a horrible email and it's quite nasty and it's quite uncomfortable and it triggers my insides to think why are they coming at me? I haven't done it. Oh, all of a sudden my mind chimps off. All of a sudden, my aura changes and I've gone from this wonderful, nurturing, warm aura and I've just let them come in. I've let them come into my space and completely discombobulated myself and now I'm all of a different colour.

Lynn:

So it can affect you all the time, and that's when you may have heard people say protect your energy, protect your aura, protect your space. And that's the sort of image of putting this big, beautiful cloak on. Put yourself in a bubble of light, put a suit of armour on every morning when you're brushing your teeth, intentionally protect your energy. So when these things come, they bounce off you like a zorb ball or a bubble or a suit of armor. Not my energy, not for me. Let them do what they're doing. This is my space, that's yours, it's my energy and I am so um strict about protecting my energy because I know how much it matters.

Lynn:

And often there's those of us wandering around with, like letting this energy inside and out without even thinking I've got to put a coat on you if you go out in the rain. You wouldn't go out in the rain without a coat. Well, you might if you love being wet and fabulous, but in general you'd put a coat on or a umbrella because you're protecting yourself from the rain. However, this invisible force of energy that's so powerful way more powerful than the rain that wets your hair we just let in no protection at all.

Lynn:

In it comes, out it goes and we absorb it and sometimes you come home feeling amazing because you've been with a certain person. Other times you come home you feel drained and exhausted. I call them vampires or drains when you're with people and you go like, I feel like my energy has been sucked out of me and they're not trying to do it, they just need. But they need your, your wonderful warmth and your loveliness, so they're pulling on it to make themselves feel better, and you've not protected it, so you're just letting them take it. So that's your aura and your energy pattern and how impactful it can be.

Steph:

Makes sense. I hope the listeners can take that away with them and start protecting their energy, because the amount of times I come home from Manchester thinking, oh, I feel totally wiped.

Lynn:

And it could have just been on the bus or the tram or walking through. You know how close you get to people if we think about how tight we are packed in. They're all in your energy field. But if you can imagine like a bubble that comes in and then goes back out again, it doesn't matter how close people have got because your intention is well, I'm within my space anyway, so it doesn't matter, it's mine.

Steph:

Yeah, so aura cleansing, crystal healing. I know you do healing workshops, meditations, one-on-one consultations, so what could somebody expect from their first consultation with you?

Lynn:

It depends which way we're going to work together. So I always say after this session reach out, you know, be interested, have a, you know, a discovery call with me or drop me a message or a direct message and let's just open up a communication first of all, and we can understand which way would be best to work together. The online spiritual life coaching has proved to be incredibly popular because people can do it like we are today talking. It's very easy to do it in the safety of your own home and sort of have a starting process to it. If you're looking for the one-to-one healing which is incredibly powerful and I always suggest at one time in your life, try and find that crystal healer that you connect with, that you feel aligned with, that you listen to or you hear and you go that's my sort of a person and go and have a session with them, because actually, by having crystals laid upon you in a direct order of working with you can be incredibly game-changing and I do that at Bamford Spa up at the Cotswolds. So if you ever wanted to book in a session there, it's a one-to-one session and you come and it's an hour-long session and we also do a bit of chat at the end and an oracle card pull and we'll delve deep. We'll find out what's going on for you, because we don't want to live in dis-ease, because dis-ease creates unease in our body and it's often manifested from anger. It's often manifested from old trauma, guilt, upset, grief, and we don't want that in your body. We don't need that energy in your body because it can manifest in backache, hip ache, knees, shoulders lots of ways that we go to the doctor and the doctor's like I can't really see anything wrong, but I will give you these tablets to help the pain. Let's just look deeper. What else is within there that's causing us pain or disease? And I can work that out quite clearly. When we do a one-to-one I do an online tutorial as well because, going back to my background, in front of the television and camera which I still love I film a tutorial and it's all about, maybe, courage and confidence, positivity, manifesting. It changes every month and I do a tutorial about what it is we're going to be doing. Then I do a meditation and then we post the crystals to you through your door of exactly what you need for that tutorial that month and you get them home, cleanse them and then you can follow my tutorial. We do a facebook live every month with guest speakers and coming up.

Lynn:

We've got Karen Blick, who worked on Emmer dale. She's still on Emmer dale, she plays the part of Lydia and she had a really um difficult storyline. It was the rape storyline. Again, apologies if this is triggering anything for anybody, sensitively, but as an actress, your brain doesn't know whether you're the actress or the person. Because she's such a good actress she had to feel the feels to make her cry, to do the thing, so the body then thinks that's happened to her. So we work with her very closely on crystal healing to align the difference between Karen and Lydia, and we put crystals within her bras, her shoes, when she was on set around her she had a crystal grid in her dressing room, so we were very clear with the universe of who was who.

Lynn:

So that's another different way of working with the tutorials and the Facebook lives and the guest speakers. So there's that way as well. So the three main ways really are the tutorials, the online spiritual life coaching and the one-to-one. But again, direct message me and we can talk about what works for you. You know, and I think that's the journey that I love is that no person is on the same journey, because we can't possibly be. We're all here to have this wonderful life and be different.

Steph:

Yeah, and I will link up all your details in the show notes.

Lynn:

Thank you.

Steph:

So have you learned anything surprising throughout your experiences of working with crystals and people?

Lynn:

Yeah, I think what I learned is that a lot of us are people pleasers and we, i t's a difference between compromising and pleasing others. So what I've learned is that most of us don't know ourselves. And the reason we don't know ourselves is that we change. So adapting and changing is probably one of the most important things to do. Whether you do or don't have children is not a problem, but if you do, it changes again. Whether you do have perimenopause or menopause, it changes you again. In essence, life will change you all the time. You're never, ever going to be healed. So people go am I healed now? And I said, well, actually there's going to be, we'll go back again, Steph, event, reaction, response, outcome there will always be that event. So what I've learned is that this is an ongoing practice.

Lynn:

Whether you use crystals at home and I would love you to you know we have a nervous system, an automatic, automatic nervous system, so you've got your sympathetic. You will know this, won't you now do sympathetic and parasympathetic. That nervous system is what I'm working with as a crystal healer. I'm trying to work out, if you're irritable, angry, negative thoughts. That's, that's what we're having in sympathetic nervous system. That's fight or flight.

Lynn:

Where's your rest and digest? Where's the content? Open mind, positive, because everything's made of energy. We know this, Einstein's everything's vibration. So what I've learned is that this is a journey. Incorporate crystals into your life, carry them maybe in your bag or, you know, look into them, but start with your own energy system. Start with an understanding that feels good for you, and then you can start adding things on top of that, because there's lots of things like we've discussed today. There's you know, you're all a cleansing people, there's psychics and mediums, there's crystal healers, there's potentially Reiki, t here's acupuncture we've touched on it's a wonderful world. All you need to do is embrace it and open your mind and find what you like, what you're leaning into, and then use it as a practice. You brush your teeth every day, spiritual practices every day.

Steph:

So are there any myths in your area of expertise that you'd like to clear up?

Lynn:

Yeah, I, I think it's quite interesting. So, um, a lot of people say you know, is it mind over matter? Is it, is it a placebo? And I, my answer to that is does it matter if it works? I personally believe that it's not a placebo and I personally believe that, scientifically, a crystal will vibrate. You hold a crystal that's a rose quartz, it will vibrate differently to an amethyst because it has different vibrations attached to it and I believe that we're energy and we have an interchangeable energy. So if we're vibrating high or low, we're going to move and that crystal is going to align us. However, even if you think it's a placebo and it works and you feel good and you feel better and you're more positive and good things are coming, then it doesn't matter, does it? Because the outcome's the same, it's a positive outcome. So the myths are does it work? I believe it does, otherwise I wouldn't be doing what I do. However, I think it's one of those things you've got to try for yourself.

Lynn:

I also get, there's only one way to cleanse your crystals you have to wash it in water. That is an untruth. There are many ways to cleanse your crystals. Um, do you want me to mention a few.

Steph:

Yeah, please, yeah.

Lynn:

So a clear way is to wash your crystals as soon as you buy them, and the reason you do that is because, like you came to the stall when we were at the NEC, everyone's touching stuff, everyone's putting their energy on that crystal. What you want to do is get rid of that when you get it home, so always wash your crystal. However, there are some crystals that don't like to get wet, doesn't like that. So celestite, hematite, pyrite, to name a few, don't like to get wet. So maybe you just want to check first before you wash your crystal, is it all right to wash it? If it's not, you can use sage and you can put your crystal in a basket and use some sage and cleanse it. You can put it under moonlight or sunlight, be mindful, not for too long under the sunlight. Some crystals don't really like to be in there that long. You can use a smudge spray, which is a spray you can buy from many different places and it's got sage and smudge in it, and you smudge, spray your aura and your crystals and you can cleanse them that way, and you can bury them in brown rice overnight. That's a really lovely way to do it, but don't eat the rice afterwards, Steph, because it's been cleansing your crystals, so make sure you throw it away and you can bury them in the ground.

Lynn:

If you ever break a crystal, you must have broke my crystal and that's it. Can't use it again. Again, it comes back to being a purist. I believe if your crystal breaks or your bracelet breaks and it shatters, it means it's done. My work here for you is done. Take it to a park, take it to your garden and go and bury the crystal and send them back to mother earth. They've done their job for you. Other people say you can keep them should you wish. I think you've got to trust your intuition on that one um. Another one is um, don't put all your crystals together. They'll somehow stronger than others, but that's not, that's not why you don't put them together. You don't put them together because some crystals are what we call harder than others, so they could scratch another crystal or they could damage another crystal because they are harder. That's why we don't tend to put them all in one big box and shake them around. We try to keep them separate. However, if you've got them in demonstration areas and you've got them in a bowl and they're just sat, then that's different, because you're not shaking them, you're not moving them, you're not kind of aggravating them, you're just leaving them. So that was another myth that I heard, so I hope some of those have helped.

Steph:

Yeah, I was actually going to ask you if there were any crystals that shouldn't be stored together, but I was more so wondering on like an energy level because, I'll be honest, mine are all on the same table in the bedroom.

Lynn:

From my perspective and again, it is just from my, my perspective, what I've learned, what I understand and intuitive. It's not about their energies, that's the problem when they're stored together. It's about what we call the Mohs, the Mohs hardness scale, and that is how hard is a crystal or a gemstone, and that allows you to know that a diamond is one of the strongest, most hardest crystals, whereas fluorite is very gentle and it will scratch and damage easier. No problem all being together.

Lynn:

The one crystal that's great is selenite, because selenite is one of those crystals that likes to charge itself and it's very good at charging and cleansing other crystals. Some crystal healers and some therapists will say you can put other crystals on a selenite stick or a selenite bowl to cleanse them. I agree with that. However, I do also think when you first get your crystals, you should give them a wash or a cleanse, some way like with sage, just as a full power up. So selenite's great to have there because it'll just help your crystals have a bit of a boost really but it's more about laying those crystals upon you, so certain crystals don't work together when you put them on you, like when you're working on a one-to-one basis. Now, this isn't something that people at home would be doing, unless you're following one of my tutorials or you go and see a crystal healer that's qualified and certified, so I wouldn't worry too much about that at home.

Lynn:

Get the crystals you're drawn to, put them by your bed if you want to put them on the the side of your working desk if you want to, enjoy them. Certain crystals don't like to be by your bed, black and brown stones, quite heavy stones, they would be more, y ou'd want to put them lower down your body, going back to your root chakra. The red stones down low. Lighter colors violets, blues, purples, reds, pink sorry, pink s, greens. They're good. Think about the rainbow we talked about. Put them near your head. Just remember the rainbow in your body as to where you might want to position them around you or within you.

Steph:

Great. So, for those interested in starting their crystal journey, are there any specific crystals that you would advise for them to start with, or is it just what you're drawn to?

Lynn:

Yeah, I think you've, w ell, you just said it then what you're drawn to. I ntuition. So the more you start to trust yourself, you could walk into a crystal shop and be completely overwhelmed, because actually there's a lot of energy in there as well. But I think one of the easiest ways is to just allow yourself to learn a little bit about different crystals. But the first one is rose quartz and everybody says, oh, rose quartz, we're back to rose quartz. It is vital that everything starts with self-love. There's no point trying to heal anger or depression or anxiety if we haven't first started to love ourselves and to stand in front of the mirror and say I love you, you're a good person, you are a nice person, you're doing good. It's crippling to some of us. So that's why we begin with rose quartz. It's not because it's the easiest one that everyone knows about, it's because it's the most vital crystal. I still have rose quartz. In fact, I'm showing Steph, everybody at home who's listening, a dowser that's pink, it's a rose quartz dowser. It's the ultimate self-love, because there's always doubt with human, there's always events. As we spoke, rose quartz, rose quartz, rose quartz. Bath in rose quartz, you can put it in your bath, it loves being in the bath with you, rose quartz in candles, rose quartz in your pocket, in your bag. Start with rose quartz, that's the ultimate.

Lynn:

And then there's others, like an amethyst, which is great to connect into spirit. It's got a lovely vibration that hits an anxiety vibration those of you now that have anxiety where does it sit? Remember we talked about the solar plexus in your stomach, that yellow your ego, my anxiety likes to present itself there. So sometimes I'll hold an amethyst on my stomach and it will meet and greet that anxiety and settle it. It just settles it because it's matching that vibration, going back to Einstein. Everything's energy vibration.

Lynn:

If you're thinking about new beginnings, moonstone's a great stone to go for. But look and have a little read as well, because certain crystals, if you go to good, you know ethical crystal shops. They'll have little um signs and it'll say this is for these things. But don't just read and go. That's what I need. Look deeper, because if you're looking for a new beginning, it might not be the new beginning crystal you need. It might be the confidence you need to make the new beginning, which would lead you to citrine. So it's, you know, just trusting yourself a little. Exactly what you said, Steph trust your intuition.

Steph:

I see, yeah, it's important as well to make that link, isn't there? Yeah, that's a really good point. I hadn't thought of that. Um, so does the shape of a crystal have different purposes, because I know some are rough. You said before that some are smoothed out in the process. Does that matter? The shape, size?

Lynn:

No, from my perspective, no, it doesn't if you are working on a one-to-one level. So if you came to see me for crystal healing, it's going to be very difficult for me to put a round crystal on your forehead because it's going to roll off, because it's not going to sit. So we have something called palm stones or flat stones or rough stones. They're great to use when laying upon your body because they're easier to work with. And again, going into purists. You know they've not been messed with, they've not been carved, they've not really had a lot of metal women working with them, so they've not had a lot of intake of energy.

Lynn:

With regards to shapes, if you get a bigger amethyst, will, will it help your amethyst, you know? Will it help your anxiety more? No, it could be the tiniest of amethyst, the smallest of amethyst. The vibration is still happening. So go for what you are drawn to, so the shape of a crystal could be again. I was speaking to a really, really intelligent gentleman the other day. All of our cells within our body are formed in shapes and ways that they form, and if you're particularly drawn to a shape, it could be that your soul is crying out for that shape, to realign the shapes of the cells as they're forming within your body. If you really want a crystal shape, go for it. Like trust it, own it, have it. It's not going to impact the strength or lack of strength of that crystal, because when we buy a crystal there is always an intention. An intention is a thought and a thought has power, and that power is energy, and that energy you're running through your system into your nervous system. So it all stems from trust, trusting and loving yourself.

Steph:

And how about, I have a friend who has said to me um, he has several crystals and he said that he feels that they've stopped working for him.

Lynn:

The key word is stopped working for me, and those key words mean maybe they're not for you anymore. So it's not that they've stopped working, it's that you no longer need the power of those crystals to heal the wounds that you were healing when you bought them. Crystals themselves might need a good cleanse. Possibly give that a try. Go and rejig them, give them a spray or a sage or a wash, selenite wand cleanse. Put them back down. But the question is, do I still need these crystals to serve me? Because if he's no longer feeling the energy from those crystals, it could be he's healed some of the wounds he was trying to heal or work with and maybe now it's time to move on to other crystals. Now you don't need to get rid of those crystals. Maybe they're just crystals that need to just be part of his life and part of his journey. If he genuinely doesn't feel like they reboot and that they no longer needs them, maybe it's time to pass them forward, cleanse them and release them to maybe somebody that does need them, or maybe they just need a good old refresh and a cleanse. But I suggest that if your friend's working with crystals, he's already, or she's already, tried to do that and already tried to give them a good cleanse. My gut, my intuition is saying those crystals are no longer serving him, he no longer needs them. He needs a new path, new crystals, new, new inspiration.

Steph:

Interesting, okay, and you mentioned earlier about the actress that you're working with and that how you use the crystal grid. What is a crystal grid? Because I've heard of it, I don't know what it is and I don't know how that you would go about using one.

Lynn:

Now that is a workshop I often lead when I do some of my workshops all on crystal grids. So crystal grids come in different shapes, but they're often based their design on something from nature. So if I say the flower of life or the lotus flower, possibly trying to conjure up some imagery for people that are listening, a circle, and then it's a stage of repeating geological, geographic patterns. You know that. Go around, they're all the same, and what you do is you get a grid. You can either download them off the internet in picture form or you can go out and buy a grid. They are available to buy from many ethical crystal stores. If I sort of said you had a circle, and then what you're going to do is you're going to ask what's the intention of this grid? So let's use an example of I would like this crystal grid to bring in good health. We could use manifestation, we could use money, we could use abundance, but let's go with good health. So you're going to start with that's the intention. Everything's about intention when you're working with a crystal grid. So this is about good health. And then what you can do is you can research crystals that are good for good health so there could be a white quartz or a clear quartz and you could put that in the centre and then around the edge of that clear quartz you might want to put some green aventurine, you might want to put amethyst and you might want to put a rose quartz again. If you do a little bit of research on crystals that are good for good health and you may have them already within your crystal. Like you said, I've got a bowl of them or you've got them by your bed. Look to what you've got and then you can place them on the grid. The key thing here is there are no hard and fast rules. No one is going to sit with you and say that's wrong. You look at the grid and you put a crystal down and you move away from it and then you go oh, is that in the right. Stop. You've clearly put that crystal where it needed to be. Then you come back, pick up the next one, look at your grid, put it down, move away. It's in the right space. Don't then go making it look pretty or is it in the right area? You are trusting. You can sometimes write a little note, a tiny little note, saying this grid is for good health. Fold it up and put it in the middle of the grid and put the clear quartz on the top.

Lynn:

Clear quartz is great for amplifying grids and you can use them for different things. I have one in my kitchen for prosperity. Prosperity is different to money. It's about being prosperous. Prosperous with drawing, I always say I would love the right clients to come to me, the right people to find me, like you did, Steph, drawing the right people to you. Could it be that you're looking for more abundance? That might be that I genuinely want more money. Well, set your grid out to go, give me opportunities to find more money to come to me. Not, I want more money. In fact, let me have opportunities that I may be able to do that, that can fund more money, and then look for crystals that help with money abundance citrine, green jade, green aventurine, clear quartz great for money, great for drawing in you know that abundance.

Lynn:

And once you've created the grid, you can actually leave it for a certain amount of time. So you could leave it for a week, a month, a year, what feels good to you, and again, trust it and then don't second guess it, and then either make a note of that in your diary or your phone and, when that time comes, see how the grid's worked for you, see how you're feeling.

Lynn:

And often I suggest you journal alongside a grid, because if you you don't, you've got no track record of what changed. So you might go nothing's changed, but that could be because you've not monitored the tiny things. And again, look for the little things we talked earlier about. When we're out and about, we don't look for the signs of the white rabbit. Again, look for the things that are coming, that are actually showing you that the good health is happening or the abundance is coming or the whatever it is you've wished for. And with Karen it was different. Karen Blick, we did a safety, so this was about keeping her safe, so we used crystals that were good for safety.

Steph:

And do you cleanse the crystals whilst they're on the grid, or would you do that when you've finished?

Lynn:

Cleanse them before. Always nice to give them a zhuzh before leave them on the grid, leave them alone. Only time I would cleanse a crystal is if somebody comes in and they don't mean to, but they go over and they go, oh wow, and pick up a crystal. They have then put their energy on that crystal. You would then need to either smudge spray it, sage spray it. Um, you can use also sound bowls and something we call ting char bells. They're like you can use that because it's again, it's vibration. But, um, I would recommend a smudge spray for everybody.

Lynn:

Actually, I think smudge sprays are a game changer. They're brilliant. They just help your aura, cleanse your crystals, that if you've had a, an encounter with someone, you can get in your car and cleanse your or open the open the windows. Key thing as well is to open a window when you're cleansing things like crystals or your space. Otherwise the negative energy has nowhere to go. It has no release. So a door or a window, something like that, just as a side note, that makes sense and cleanse once you've finished. So as soon as you dismantle your, your grid or you want to make a new one, give them a cleanse, because we call them working crystals. They're working for you.

Steph:

I see, so if, I really want to make a crystal grid now. So when I make a crystal grid, does it matter where in the house I put it?

Lynn:

No, all I would suggest is, if you do put it in the house, try to keep it away from people that are going to be really wanting to touch it and also know whether you can knock it with an elbow or a hip or a hoover. So up, try and get it up and mindful of window ledges, because that's a key place people like to put them. Some crystals don't like being in the sun because it can it can take the color away from them and from a health and safety point of view as well. If it's a really sunny day, you don't want your crystals in a window. You know we don't want to cause any any um fires, should we say?

Lynn:

So on top of like units. Um, I've got one on top of a unit. I've got one on top of I call it the tall boy in my bedroom. I've got one on top of there, just kind of out the way and also out of your mind as well, so you're not looking at every day going has it worked? Has it worked? Am I abundant? You know, a little bit of patience as well will go a long way.

Steph:

Yeah, okay. So can I bring the conversation around to moldavite? Because when I started learning about crystals, moldavite popped up and I'm not gonna lie, there was quite a few stories online saying do not get this crystal, it will ruin your life. You know like my relationship fell apart, I lost my job, I lost my house and I was thinking really, anyway, I ignored it and I did buy it. I'm going to show Lynn now, I have got a tiny, tiny piece of moldavite.

Lynn:

Again it doesn't matter on the size. That's a big piece!

Steph:

Is it? It's tiny.

Lynn:

Well, I'll tell you about moldavite and why that's a big piece. It must be about um, three, three centimeters possibly she's showing me. Is that about right there? A couple of centimeters.

Steph:

Maybe two?

Lynn:

Yeah, two centimeters, right. So moldavite was created by a meteorite. So meteorite came smacked into the earth and moldavite happened because it's extraterrestrial gases inside moldavite so it was created because of this huge meteorite explosion.

Lynn:

So the frequency of moldavite is quite different to other crystals that are formed by Mother Earth in our ground, from our Earth. So moldavite has this different type of frequency. So it's highly prized in the metaphysical world but it's also highly prized as a gemstone. To get a big piece of moldavite is extremely rare and if you buy a faceted crystal of moldavite, they're very expensive because all the time our world is creating new crystals and I mentioned before I went to Moroccan mine to see Amethyst mine. Mother Earth is creating crystals all the time. We actually don't want any more Moldavite because the only way we're going to get moldavite is another meteorite hitting our earth. So you can't replace moldavite ever, not like other crystals that we're finding all the time or that are a little bit more abundant, like quartz is very abundant in our world. So it's a very special almost some would say extraterrestrial stone, which means it's got a high frequency.

Lynn:

So it's not uncommon that moldavite will activate some of your deeper emotions, like anger or fear or sadness or frustration, and it will draw them really quickly to the surface. So when people have said my relationship broke down, I lost my job, I lost it, my comment was it was not the right relationship, you shouldn't have been in that job. And the reason you're not having any of those things anymore was because, very quickly, moldavite went, brought all your emotions forward and took everything out of your way that wasn't for you. So all those things that they lost weren't for them anyway. It just happened very quickly and with raw emotion. That's my belief. So the relationships that they now have will now probably be the relationships they should be in, because there's all of this emotion the moldavite released for them to see clearly what it was that they wanted. But at the time, obviously I can imagine that was hugely impactful for them because they were in this relationship having a lovely life and potentially they could now be in this state of disarray in a job that they've completely lost. But because moldavite is so powerful, it really does draw out of you what's not yours. So therefore, you have to sort of build up again from these, who am I? What do I like? What am I about? What? Without fear, without stress, without worry? Who are you? Let's take them away and live your true life is not going to be the same as the one you were living before.

Lynn:

So I find it's quite a dramatic. As you can tell, I'm quite passionate about it, but I find it quite a dramatic stone and it will also help you face your fears head on. It's coming for you. Like I said, we're going to come and face these fears and we're going to address them. It's none of this nicey, nicey, rose, quartz, calm and loving and self-nurturing. It is like incredibly intense and that's why, again, if you're drawn to it, it's either because you're ready for it or because it's ready for you and it wants to be with you. So there will be a reason you've got moldavite and maybe it's one of those reasons to face your fears now and go right. What's the next step for you, Steph? Where are we going? You know, what's the big picture. What are you frightened of, what's the limiting beliefs and smash them away and go no, I'm going big here, this is where I'm going.

Steph:

I'm getting goosebumps.

Lynn:

Yeah, it's exciting.

Steph:

Yeah, I remember when it arrived, um, because I'd heard that it causes dramatic change there was part of me that was like I'm not, am I ready? I don't know, there's some things that I would rather not change. But then I reached a point and I was like do you know what? Cleanse it. And I think it took me about a fortnight, so two weeks, to think I'm gonna sit with this stone now.

Steph:

And I sat with it and I meditated and I can say genuinely with every part of me that when I said to it take away what is not needed in my life, I didn't have any borders, I didn't have any blockages there, I genuinely was like go for it, I want to see what changes. And, interestingly, the following week, um, I'd lost touch with two of my closest friends through like different life stuff. We just drifted and I was it was kind of there in my mind like you know, if it's taken away, then it's not meant to be, you know. And the following week both of them messaged me and I was like is that the stone? Like, even though I asked for stuff to be taken away. Is it making dramatic change where things aren't meant to leave, so you can have them back again?

Lynn:

Potentially, it took away fear, sadness, loss, the feelings you felt when that friendship drifted. So what he was taking away was the blockages of the friendship coming back, because you maybe had some energy within you that was low vibe that was preventing those friendships from reforming. So it took away what you didn't need in order to make space and as soon as the space was given, the energy affected and therefore you got back what was needed.

Steph:

Interesting. Well, if anyone's listening and they want to get moldavite, make sure you get it from an ethical shop, make sure it's real and make sure you're careful what you wish for, I would say.

Lynn:

Absolutely.

Steph:

So, c an I ask you about birthstones, because I know we've touched on gemstones, crystals, but my birthstone is emerald, so I was born in May. Is there a link between you and your birthstone, and are they different, or are they still crystals?

Lynn:

Well birthstones is wonderful and it's quite fascinating and there's quite a lot of different stories about birthstones and how they came into fruition and how they've adapted over the years. Because if we go back back back, some of the crystals that are now in the birthstone list didn't even exist. So in 2002, tanzanite got added to the birthstone list for December, but many, many years ago they hadn't even discovered it. So birthstones can adapt and are adapted. Some people say it's because for the jewellery industry and obviously when I worked in it, I can see why that would be. You have a beautiful emerald as May, but June has like three birthstones. They have like alexandrite, moonstone and pearl. You know I'm, you know I'm August, I had peridot but they've added spinel to the list. So you know a lot of gemstones can keep being added. So I do think that, in the sort of nature of what a birthstone is, I think it's just a really lovely thing to buy to celebrate that birth year and there is a crystal attached to it. I think it's nice to buy as a memory, it's nice to buy as a keepsake. It's a personal touch.

Lynn:

People understand what their birthstones are, but that's not necessarily because of what you need, so you might not need an emerald for its metaphysical properties. It might be that you are good at letting things go. You're not storing things in your body that you don't need, or whatever emerald is doing might not be something that you need, but it's not going to harm you if you wear it, so it's not going to cause you any dis-ease as such. So aquamarine is a great one. You know, aquamarine is a lovely stone for March, but maybe you've got an open throat chakra and you are very good at letting things go and flow, so you don't necessarily need to have an aquamarine to help you. However, it's your birthstone. It means something, it's sentimental and that makes us feel good, and when we feel good, our thoughts are good. Our thoughts are energy. Our energy is running through our body. It helps.

Lynn:

So I think, with regards to birthstones, it's just enjoy them for what they are, rather than buying them from a spiritual perspective, of a crystal's perspective. Plus, a lot of birthstones have been faceted. They've been cut, they may have been heat treated so they might have something in them, like rubies, a lot of the time are fissure filled or they have other components placed in them. Emeralds often have oil put in them to make them look prettier and greener, so they're not pure or real. Um again, same with lots of gemstones. Garnet's good because it's it's a January birthstone and there's lots of different colors of garnet. It's not just red, you can get green and you can get orange. So there's lots of other perspectives attached to birthstones. But from my, my feelings are they're pretty, they're sentimental, they're beautiful and they're never going to cause you any harm. But I wouldn't necessarily go for your birthstone because you need it, because you're an emerald. You therefore need that stone for some sort of healing. I don't think that's the case.

Steph:

Makes sense. Okay, so just to wrap up now, Lynn, what's the most rewarding part of your job?

Lynn:

Oh, meeting people like you, Steph, and all the listeners that have taken the time and spent the time listening to our talk and our conversation today and I hope they've felt very involved in our chat and very warm and welcome to it, because that for me makes such a difference. Watching people have that kind of aha or that moment, that's really rewarding. And then seeing them grow and change and elevating people's positivity in this world, because the more people that are light and positive, the better our world is going to be, the more we're going to want to help one another. And watching the growth in clients, I've seen clients dramatically lose weight and not because of any other reason than they began to love themselves, get rid of the traumas that they were holding, get rid of the the weight they were holding to try and protect themselves from abusive situations they may have found themselves in, to look after themselves, to self-nurture. People that have changed jobs, huge careers, women that have been completely lost in motherhood and now discovered themselves are in doing voluntary work, not even earning money, but have a purpose, finding that purpose, watching people's eyes light up when they go deep and go oh my gosh, I always wanted to do this and I'm like, well, let's do it, let's find that way for you to do it and to support them.

Lynn:

Remove disease. So people that have had ailments for years bad backs, knee pain. My brother-in-law played for england rugby under 18, england rugby union. He had a chronic knee pain and then he had trauma sat in it, not just from the actual physical ailments but there was trauma from life that was holding in his knee and he's now working hard with that to relieve that. So that's been a game changer and just power, giving people their power back, but not from me, they already had it, they just lost it. And healing old wounds, letting things go that they didn't know they were holding on to and being a part of people's journey and going back to that people pleasing. I always wanted to people please, but now I do it with boundaries, with respect, I don't no longer. You know I've always wanted to help, but now I help in a more responsible and caring way for both other people and myself. And again, that connection to the fact that there's something more and that trust and that knowing and that, above all else, is one of the most rewarding things.

Lynn:

And then, obviously, to have a business that is successful based on truth, honesty and integrity. And a lot of people say well, how do you know when you're authentic? You know because your body tells you when you're not. And I think, being authentic for me now, living the life I'm doing, doing what I'm doing with you, enjoy these podcasts, and I enjoy the one-to-one, the subscriptions, the life coaching to get up every morning and when people say, oh, And when people say, oh, when you do a job you love, you know you never feel like work. I don't think that's true. I think everybody knows it's a responsibility to work, but when you're living your purpose, your truth, there is a fire that I just can't explain and it's like when you're doing now this podcast, you add those little tentative nerves before we start. That's excitement, that's belief, that's what we want. We want the flutters. excitement, dull no bother, no excitement. Dull, low vibe, flutters is good. It means you're on the right path, you know you want the flutters. So I think that's rewarding and it makes me a better mum, it makes me a better wife, partner, friend, guide, you know, and I think that that's the reward for me.

Steph:

So, from the conversation we've had today, what's one piece of advice that you would like the listeners to take away?

Lynn:

Vibration, every thought you are having, whether it's a positive or negative. Do not chastise yourself about your thoughts. Just be aware you have been letting your thoughts run around your brain and your body like a three-year-old child, just having free reign, and you can control your thoughts. You can control the energy that you push around your body and, as Einstein said, you know everything is energy and that's all there is to it. And you have your energy field. You are important and you have a purpose. So if there's anything that you've took away this, if there's one nugget of advice, is that you matter and you're important and your thoughts are your energy and you're in control of it. It's not up to anyone else to fix you. No one is coming to save you. It's up to you and you can do it. I believe in you.

Steph:

And how can people find you, Lynn? How can people work with you?

Lynn:

I'm on the website crystalenergyempowerment. co. uk, instagram @CrystalEnergy Empowerment, facebook, same Crystal Energy Empowerment and the email info@ crystal energy empowerment. co. u k. I would always suggest reaching out to me because then we can find out the best way for you, because you might be really drawn to doing a one-to-one but live nowhere near the Cotswolds and think I can't possibly. Well, that's fine, we'll find another way and we'll find a way to work with you and what what works for you will work for me. So that's how you can find me. Obviously, this brilliant podcast with Steph, you know, do re-listen to it a couple of times, because it might be that you want to re-hear something again, something that Steph's talked about or something that's resonated with you, and share this podcast with friends, because it might not be up your street but it might absolutely change someone else's life that you love.

Steph:

Lovely. Well, thank you for coming on the podcast, Lynn. Really pleased our paths crossed and now you're in my life and I hope the conversation we've had today has inspired listeners and that they delve into the world of crystals and healing. And again, if you would like to work with Lynn, please do contact her. I will link all of her socials and details in the show notes and thank you for listening.

Steph:

You can follow me on Instagram at Tranquil Topics and please rate, review and subscribe to this podcast wherever you're listening from. Thanks, and I'll be back again in two weeks time with another episode. Bye, thank you.