Suffering: A Gateway to Crystal Clarity

All of us, in one way or another, have been there. An unexpected situation crosses our path, and we are literally slammed by reality. The situation can have many faces—the death of a loved one, a serious disease, disability, betrayal, divorce, unwanted exile, parental alienation, bankruptcy, war, and natural disaster, to name a few. It may take the form of an emotion or sensation that becomes unmanageable within us—loneliness, frustration, the feeling of disconnection from others, emptiness, uneasiness, or the sense that something is missing in our lives.

No matter the form your suffering has taken, what many of you don’t know is that our suffering is not really a coincidence in our lives. Its presence is a signal that it’s time to reconnect with something we are not aware of that lives deep within us—within that part inside each of us I call the crystal blueprint that is transparent and pristine.

From the moment of our conception, we receive cues from the outside. (Yes, even in the womb, we are taking in data and beginning to build our learned mind-set.) As we progress through life, this external information becomes further entrenched, especially as we go through the process of socialization and feel pressure to fit into cultural norms.

It’s important to know that this information is not our true reality. What we experience as “shoulds” (what we should do or the way things should be) are simply thoughts inserted by outsiders—thoughts that have been repeated so many times they have become autopilot responses. The process of acculturation has made us believe these stories are also our stories; the cycle has repeated, and the information assimilated by others has become our inner programming too.

The programming overrides the original data we are born with, creating layers of information. Over time, we identify with and come to believe that we are something other than what we really are. But through it all, the original data, or crystal blueprint—from before we were domesticated by society, culture, and religion—never fades entirely. This push and pull, between others’ information and our original information, is constantly clashing inside us without our awareness.

When suffering knocks at our door, no matter what face it has taken, it is cracking all those layers. It is serving as the virus in the system that is breaking open our inner programming, giving us free access to our original crystal blueprint.

Suffering opens the space within us to clear all the accumulated data, to make room for our authentic selves to emerge, and to reconnect ourselves with our real paths and gifts.

Crystal healing works best at these clash points in life. It’s precisely at these moments, when the burden of the inauthentic self becomes unbearable, that crystals have the power to dissolve the layers of false information, heal our deepest wounds, and reconnect us with our true transparency. There lies our true instruction manual. And by reconnecting with it, we are able to explore it and discover who we really are—our crystalline self.

Quartz crystals themselves were formed deep in the earth’s crust over the course of billions of years. Through this process, they withstood extreme pressure and high temperatures. But the severe conditions did not change their true essence. This, together with the properties that enable them to balance and transform energy, more than anything, is the power of quartz crystals.

Human suffering has been with us since the beginning. Just as quartz crystal healing is an ongoing process (I am still very much on this journey myself), so too is the mission of reducing pain and suffering in our lives. Nonetheless, I have seen firsthand as a crystal practitioner, workshop leader, and sufferer the transcendent power of quartz crystal energy vibration and the new awareness that comes with this reconnection to the authentic self. I have seen wounds healed and lives transformed for the better through this ancient practice.

Remember, we are all human beings. Any information that is additional to this fact is learned and gives form to the different layers. These pieces of additional information shape the varied beliefs, wounds, and experiences we have picked up from our surroundings. And these beliefs, wounds, and experiences separate us from the original self that resides at our core, which existed prior to our learned programming.

Each person has a unique and original energetic and psychological blueprint that differs from everything we unconsciously learned and is connected to his or her well-being. We all deserve the chance to recognize who we really are, and working suffering through crystal energy vibration offers us the opportunity to do so.

We all are born whole. But the unconscious information we receive fogs up our perceptual lenses, not allowing us to see our true reality clearly. As I will discuss throughout The Crystal Blueprint, crystals can help us become aware of our inner programming. Their meaning to our unconscious minds and multiple properties recognized by science make them ideal tools to de-clutter our unconscious from false programming so we can restore the wholeness that was lost during our acculturation process and reconnect with who we authentically are.

In our happiness-driven culture, we have learned to avoid suffering at any cost. But in truth, suffering can be a great blessing and opportunity, a master in disguise knocking at our door to show us new worlds and reveal to us who we really are. Ancients knew that suffering wasn’t a threat, as many have come to believe, but a gateway to bringing universal order into our lives and bringing us back to who we really are.

Have you ever asked yourself why suffering has chosen you? Why suffering is knocking today at your door?

I invite you to discover the answer to those questions today and begin your self-exploration journey using crystals as tools.

Crystal blessings!

Beatriz