Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume- 3, Issue - 5, 1 November 2018 | Page 24

ONYX AND THE MIND Onyx is a perfect stone for your desk or wherever you perform your work. This stone helps provide mental focus, grounding and the ability to stay on task. Use this stone to deflect negative thought patterns. Onyx is ideal for past life work to heal old injuries and physical trauma that is affecting your present life. Holding a piece of onyx takes your attention to  the site of the previous injury, which can then be released through crystal therapy. Onyx is a secretive stone that assists in keeping your own counsel. However it is said that onyx holds onto the memories of things that have happened to the wearer. It can be used for psychometry, telling the story of those who are sensitive to its vibrations. Onyx is strength giving. It provides support in difficult or confusing circumstances an during times of enormous mental or physical stress. It centres your energy and aligns it with a higher power. Onyx helps you access higher guidance and its connection with the whole. It can take you forward to view the future and with its capacity to impart personal strength, helps you to be the master of your destiny. This stone promotes vigour steadfastness and stamina. Onyx helps you to learn lessons by imparting self confidence and helping you to be at ease in your surroundings. ONYX AND THE SPIRIT Onyx is beneficial to establish a protective shield when offering spiritual counselling, tarot card readings, channeling, automatic writing and any other modality that opens you up to psychic influences. Onyx amplifies telepathic connections with your own higher consciousness and helps you tap into the Akashic Records. Use it when you intend to obtain messages from the angelic realm to open your intuitive ears.  Onyx can enhance spiritual vision and dream experiences. It is useful in stimulating the psychic senses and is often used for spiritual inspiration. Heals grief that has gone on too long; promotes knowing that there is no death; helps in understanding the wheel of birth, death and rebirth; fosters knowing that separation is an illusion and reunion will come; promotes psychic contact with those who have died through seances, medium-ship, and messages from the dead; aids past-life progressions; prevents and