When cutting your nails, say something like:
"In the Name of the Lord, I – your name here – ask for permission and assistance to cut away – poor health or financial want – as I cut away these nails."
plus whatever request appropriate to the day you would like to make. Do not leave the clippings around; it is best to dispose of them with cold running water.
By the way, don't use fingernails for anything – picking, scraping, prying, and so on – because nails are the place where the low entities and worse operate.
Use natural fibers like cotton and linen. Choose these for pillows, sheets, towels, too. Two synthetic fibers which are acceptable are viscose and rayon, because both are made from cellulose, not petroleum.
Don't use any fiber which has caused pain or suffering to an animal by its collection or manufacture.
Don't wear black against your body. It may be acceptable for a particular event, but do not make a habit of it. Black against the skin makes you depressed and brings your energy down, for it is a very negative color. There are people who like to wear black (a black jacket, say), but if a healer were to do that, he or she would have to neutralize it by wearing any shade of green; purples neutralize black, too.
Nina says, "The closer you are to nature and to what God put on this earth, the better results you will have with your spiritual work."
The eucalyptus has exceptionally positive energy. Some of those with good to very good energy are pines of any kind, weeping willows, lilacs, magnolias, camelias, orange trees, peach trees, bamboo, sycamores (tilo, in Spanish), and poplar or aspen (alamo, in Spanish).
The favored material for candles is beeswax, which has a wonderful energy; it is, of course, expensive and may become increasingly difficult to obtain if the present precipitous decline in honeybee colonies continues.
A healer must pay attention to the colors of the candles that he or she burns. Briefly, white, pink, green, and purple are beneficial, while brown means division and loss and should only be used knowledgeably and in specific situations. Black is not to be considered under any circumstance; never light a black candle.
Never light a candle in front of a mirror or anywhere it can be reflected. We shall not go into the reasons in this book, which only describes the constructive uses of spiritual work.
Coral has a wonderful energy.
Do not have a salt-water aquarium with fish; only seaweed would be allowed in the aquarium. However, there still would be all that salt water to deal with; if it broke or spilled, you would have a real problem.
A few more words about salt: Be very, very careful with salt. Salt turns things being done for good into things for badness. Salt is used for bad purposes, to harm people. If you spill salt around the house, it brings negativity, and a healer who is working 24 hours a day will find her work impaired. So, wipe up all traces of salt water that spill, be very careful with the salt that falls off snacks, and Heaven help us all with the crazy amounts of salt that are spread over roads and parking lots in some regions whenever there is a trace of snow! Do not track that stuff into the house! Also, wash your car frequently in winter (underside, too) to get off the road salt.
Electricity and most electromagnetic radiation interferes with a Healer's energy, too. Toss out your microwave oven. Watch as little television as possible, and then not from close up.
Digital clocks are not good, and do not under any circumstances have one on your night table. The ideal alarm clock is the old wind-up kind.
Healers try to avoid numbers: your clock should have hands that indicate the time, but without numbers. Roman numerals are somewhat less bothersome, but not by much. Nina's wristwatch, if she even wears one, will have no numbers except perhaps for the date.
Computers are bad news. Unavoidable bad news, perhaps, but still bad. Do not lose yourself in work when using them. Take breaks.
Video games are even worse than, for example, writing a book on a laptop using a simple text editor. Computer games would ruin a healer's energy for the whole day. At least.
You will find a healer measuring with handspans, distances between knuckles, strides, and the like.
The idea is that numbers specify and fix, while for healing to work there has to be a realm in which things are unmeasured, slightly ambiguous, and free to change. It seems to be rather like the classic one-photon/two-slit interference experiment in photon physics, where a photon could have gone through either of the slits until you perform the measurement: only at the time of the measurement does the photon "decide" which of the slits it went through previously. It is as though that strange submicroscopic behavior were being applied to everyday sizes, which every quantum theorist will tell you does not happen, as the standard view of phenomena maintains that there is a break between the behavior of the very small and that of everyday objects around us. It is as though, in the process of healing, the body being healed "forgot" that it was large.
green: The color for healing: any shade, palest to darkest, even turquoise, just as long as it has to do with green. Green is good for everything, actually, but its strongest association is with healing.
purple, lilac, any shade of purple: This is the color of the High Masters. Purple is good to attract good souls, master souls. It was considered a holy color.
white: White is neutral. It has no effect.
pink: Pink means affection and tender feelings. Use it between people who are not married.
red: Red is for passion. Use it, however, only between people who are married. Refrain from its use otherwise.
orange: Use orange for energy.
brown: Normally, avoid the use of brown. However, sometimes brown is just what you need, for it signifies "going away" and can destroy addictions. Avoid brown when you have difficulty with love.
blue: Blue means money; use blue for business and career.
gold, silver: These are also for money.
yellow: Yellow indicates jealousy. Only use if you know how to use it correctly.
It is in the nature of spiritual work that meaning and effect or action can be tightly bound to each other, and the glue apparently is intent. Thus, a woman might wear a blue dress without any thought that she was seeking to draw money to her, and there would be little of the spiritual activity associated with the color blue. On another occasion she might don the same dress, but say "In the Name of the Lord ..." and a prayer for financial help, and spiritual acticity might be set in motion. In these spiritual affairs, "meaning" seems to mean "a potential action which may be realized by intent". There also seems to be a "background level" of effect of action associated with simple presence, though. Thus, the green of growing plants will always tend to heal.
Silver is for the Moon, the Mother, the Healer.
Gold is for the Father, the Sun, the energy.
Healers are supposed to wear both all the time.
Platinum is for money and prosperity.
Iron is similar to platinum.
Titanium also similar to platinum.
Copper: Use copper for energy.
Aluminum, lead: These are bad metals; avoid them.
Brass, bronze, the rest of the metals: They are neutral, neither helpful nor harmful.
A note: A healer should wear sterling silver against the skin on the left side of the body, as this helps protect the spleen chakras. XXX ringing in ears, tongue to metal
Best: turquoise, diamond, jade, moonstone, agate, malachite, blue sapphire, ruby, emerald, garnet, tourmaline, rose quartz, lapis lazuli, hematite, lodestone, coral.
Bad: topaz, opal, onyx, pearls, citrine, galena, bauxite, shells (forbidden).
Useful for various purposes, but not to be worn as a piece of jewelry all the time: jasper, bloodstone (for problems with the blood), cats-eye, goldstone (for money).
A healer should wear a diamond, as the gemstone affords protection against low entities during his or her work.
Monday: Nothing special.
Tuesday: One of the two high energy days; Friday is the other.
Wednesday: The day with lowest energy. Ex.: if doing separation or cleaning, hold on to the same souls that came Tues on a Wed, there won't be any new souls on Wed.
Thursday: Nothing special.
Friday: The other high energy day.
Saturday: Nothing special.
Sunday: Never do anything to earn money on a Sunday; if you do, the money you gain will slip through your fingers. You can do work around the house, the garden. So, if charging by the day for separations or cleanings, don't charge for the work done on Sundays. Don't charge your neighbor for doing work in his garden on a Sunday, either.
If you are a dancer, do not let your slippers touch the floor except when you have them laced onto your feet. That way, they will not be inclined to let you slip or fall. Don't drop them, either!
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