Rose Quartz and Heart-Awareness
First, color! Rose quartz is pink, and to us the color pink
is powerfully linked with love, tenderness, charm, delicacy, and the heart.
Above: Love Right Now! Amulet
The feminine associations with pink are actually fairly
recent, but some fascinating research has been conducted on the calming,
aggression reducing, psychological effects of this color. David Byrne explores
the topic of pink and summarizes the research elegantly here.
Rose quartz itself is said to aid in all matters of the
heart. It is a nourishing, compassionate, stone of love on all levels, from
divine love to physical lovemaking. It is also associated with enhancing
beauty, inner radiance, and charm.
My mother had two bookends made from rose quartz, polished
on the book-side and bottom but otherwise rough. They were cool to the touch
and I remember being drawn to them and running my little hands over them. She
always told me that “the angels dance on rose quartz”; my intuition has since developed
and I am convinced of it.
I use rose quartz often in my jewelry.
In my experience, heart energy and heart openness is always
compatible with whatever you are doing; there is never a reason to shut the
heart off and many reasons to keep the heart open.
The heart is directly connected with the higher self, that
wise and loving intelligence whose guidance is always available to us. The
intellectual, problem solving, “little mind” should always turn towards and
listen to the heart.
I find that by consciously taking a deep breath and putting
my attention on my heart’s physical location (in my chest, if you’re taking
notes), I receive great gouts of useful information I would otherwise miss. I
learn how I am feeling, how my body is feeling or wants to move, and I see my
environment with keen intuition and compassion.
Above: Love Right Now! Earrings
This is appropriate at any time, in any situation. The
pleasure of simple animal well-being is always being conducted through the
body, but we need the heart to tell us of it. Both important intuitive messages
and a deep pervading sense of all-is-well are clearly visible to me when I take
a moment to “tune into” or “get back into” or even (after a trying day) “crack
open” the heart.
When I was working in an office (read “suffering”), my main
focus became living in my heart, which translated to living in the moment,
releasing the “story” of suffering in favor of organic, ever-changing emotion
and physical awareness. I found I was more open to new experiences, made wiser
choices, was less a prisoner of fears and expectations, and recovered more
quickly from intense experiences.
Wear rose quartz as a marvelous reminder to dip into the
heart in this way. Heart-awareness is extraordinarily empowering, offering
transformation in a single breath.
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