Let’s Get Stoned: Using Stones and Crystals to Create a Life That Rocks!

Let’s Get Stoned: Using Stones and Crystals to Create a Life That Rocks!

Enter here to learn how to think about using stones and crystals as tools for your journey. You may have heard the point of our journey is to experience a life of joy. Let's Get Stoned teaches you where stones and crystals can help play a part in living your joyful life. Let's Get Stoned Using Stones and Crystals to Create a Life That Rocks! By Robyn Vie-Carpenter Balboa Press Copyright © 2017 Robyn Vie-Carpenter All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-5043-8201-4 Contents Chapter 1 — No Joints, No Judgment, 1, Chapter 2 — Everything Begins with Gratitude, 4, Chapter 3 — What's Joy Got to Do with It?, 11, Chapter 4 — Is That a Stone in Your Pocket or, 16, Chapter 5 — Decisions, Decisions, 32, Chapter 6 — What Do Stones Eat Anyway?, 51, Chapter 7 — Where Do You Get It, Who Do You Ask?, 77, CHAPTER 1 No Joints, No Judgment Welcome friends! I'm so glad that you've chosen this guide to help you on your journey. Just a bit of housekeeping – as it says above, we have no cannabis. This is not a book about cannabis. If that's what you're here for, sorry. You might as well keep reading since you already bought the book. Secondly, as my mother pointed out when I first told her the title, we will not be judging people or "stoning" ourselves here. There will be no statements about getting better, fixing yourself or being broken in any way. We all have a journey. Yours is yours and mine is mine. We are all the stars of our own stories and no matter what challenges life brings, you can always count on your powerful spirit to keep you going. You can always do a comeback tour. I first started learning about using the energy in stones to enhance my own energy when I was in my late twenties in New York City, in a store in the West Village. I was ooing and ahhing over jewelry when I picked up an amber ring. The woman behind the counter took out a book and started reading the "properties" of amber – Increases life force ... finding inner freedom ... energetic protection from negative forces (Source: The Pocket Book of Stones). I was like "Sign me up. I want all of that. I'll take it." In hindsight, it was a great way to sell jewelry. Salesmanship aside, the experience opened my eyes to the idea that there is something very precious in semi-precious stones. Something more precious than their financial value. Until then, I looked at everything other than a diamond as being a space holder until my diamonds arrived. The day I put on that amber ring was the day my Hippie Diva was born. It was the first day I began to consciously work with the energy of stones. Since then I have learned a great deal more about the power of stones and crystals. I have learned how to find healing of body and spirit. I have learned how to create the life I dreamed of. I have learned to create a life that rocks . It was while sitting in a weekend workshop run by my friend Jenn August, I realized that it was time to write this guide. I decided to write it because of the numerous conversations I find myself in with friends and strangers about stones over the years. It happens no matter where I am: in the security line at the airport talking to a TSA agent, at the farmer's market buying my greens for salad, with the librarian of a school I was touring, at 30,000 feet with the pilot sitting next to me – conversations about stones come up. I'm never really sure how it happens, it just happens. Regardless of where the conversation starts, we inevitably end up talking about stones. Once you get me started, I have a hard time stopping. I think that's why people are so willing to ask me questions. I'm very open about my connection to stones and openly descriptive about the role they play in my daily life. I figure if I have this conversation everywhere I go, it would be more useful to write it down so people can read it for themselves. There are a lot of people with questions and I simply don't have enough time to talk to everyone. So, following is my offering to help you on your journey. It is my hope that you will find it useful, educational and a bit entertaining. I've had a blast working on it! Joyfully yours, R CHAPTER 2 Everything Begins with Gratitude My mother taught me a long time ago that it was important to be grateful for everything that I had. That meant I had to say thank you, this also meant I had to write thank you notes after every Christmas and birthday. I can honestly say I didn't really appreciate the intention behind it until much later. When I got older, that's when I came to understand that when you don't express gratitude, when you take your gifts and blessings for granted, you can, and more than likely will, lose those blessings. For your life to be blessed by gratitude it must be two things – you must be genuine and abundant in your expression. You must find opportunities in every day to feel true gratitude for the moments of grace in your life. Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivi