Hi, my name is Melissa Urban, and you're listening to Do the Thing, a

podcast where we explore what's been missing every time you've tried to make a change and make it stick.

Today my guest is Magdalena McCleen, a personal friend and the one I most often choose to help me navigate my own energy work. Magdalena uses her intuitive gifts and various energy modalities to help you redirect your current life course to health, happiness, and spiritual fulfillment.

She uses crystals and their properties as tools to help her clients tap into their truth, heal from past hurts,

move toward energetic balance, and find deeper purpose.

Today's episode is not a Crystals 101. You can find all kinds of information

about the various stones and their physical and energetic properties from any

number of texts or Magdalena's website.

Instead, we'll explore how we use crystals in our own lives,

Magdalena's philosophy on keeping it simple

and not over complicating your energy work and at the end I'll

share the five stones I use the most in my own personal growth work.

Before we begin our discussion however however, a history lesson.

Crystals have been used as long as history exists in as many cultures as imaginable,

from the ancient Sumerians to the Romans, to the Maori, to Native Americans, and have played a part in all religions.

Cultures have used crystals, rocks, and gems in talismans and amulets, for health and healing,

for their mystical properties, and for decoration.

In the 1980s and the rise of the New Age culture, the use of crystals and gemstones began

to re-emerge as a healing method.

Much of the practice was drawn from old traditions shared via books published in the 80s or 90s.

As with any culturally significant practice, it's important for those outside of that culture

to appreciate, not appropriate.

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