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Stones for Creative Flow · Remember Why You Are Here

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When we listen, we can make connections from heart to heart,
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person to person, medicine to medicine,
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and we can open ourselves up to what it is that's really there,
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waiting to be given, waiting to flow.
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Hello and welcome back to Remember Why You're Here,
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a podcast for seekers and sensitives where you can relax, receive,
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reconnect with yourself, and remember that most important thing of all,
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why you're here. I'm Asia Suler, author,
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earth intuitive and teacher. And in this episode today,
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I wanted to revisit a recording that I've probably
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made, might have even been a decade ago now,
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but that the information in this recording is something that still guides me
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literally every day in my creative practice.
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So if you listen to the Intuitive Reading for this month,
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I talk about how November has this bridge month feeling where we're
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kind of integrating where we've been the last few months and that we're
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really in this phase right now of in the midst of a creation
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that is coming out into the world,
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but that it's like we're not quite there yet with what's coming to
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fruition. So I see a lot of us in this creatively fruitful,
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but also liminal place. I mean,
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the message for November in part was don't pick the green strawberries,
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let them ripen fully.
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But what I've been seeing as a theme in this intuitive reading,
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but also in my personal intuitive readings I've been doing with folks is that
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there's this sense of more clarity around what the
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creative project is, what they're being asked to pour their soul's energy into.
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But then even within that clarity,
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there's this sense of not knowing exactly how it's all going to turn out or not
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knowing exactly how to do this, how to create the time,
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how to pour one's energy into this thing, how to create
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an environment in which it's actually feasible for you to bring this to
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fruition.
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So I thought it would be potent to revisit
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this recording in talking about these stones for creative flow. I absolutely
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love working with stones and creativity. I work with stones all the time.
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Every morning when I meditate, I work with stones during my intuitive readings.
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And I find that really more than pretty much any other medicine I work with,
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stones really help me get my creative energy flowing,
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help me remember myself as a creative soul,
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help me focus and hone in on what wants to move through me.
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So if you are in a period of time right now where you are actively deepening
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your relationship to your creativity,
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where you are waiting for maybe a new
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rhythm even in your life to come to fruition where you can really focus on
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what you're being called towards,
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then this podcast episode is exactly for you today.
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I also decided this week to release on my Substack for my lovely paid
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subscribers,
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a meditation specifically to help you through this time,
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a meditation to help you focus and hone in,
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and it is called What Your Soul Wants to Create. So when I do these
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intuitive readings for people,
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I find over and over again that their soul is communicating to me about what
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it is they came here to create.
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And sometimes that looks a little bit different than what our brain thinks is
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possible or is plausible for us or the
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ideas that we sometimes get in our own heads. And so for me,
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connecting to what my soul wants to create, not only does it give me clarity,
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but it really clears the pathway for me to figure out how to
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make it happen in life,
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to create that real world space to understand and have support
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in this process of taking what is a desire on a deep soul
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level and really translating it into a way of living my life
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that allows me to have the space for this soul-led creative impulse.
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So if any of this is resonating with you,
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you can check out that meditation over on my Substack. My Substack is $5 a month
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and you receive every paid post,
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every meditation in class behind that paywall. So if you're interested in that,
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I will put the link here in the show notes. And without further ado,
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let's go ahead and get into this recording of how stones can help
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you create creative flow in your life.
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Creativity is a nutriment for our soul.
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It is essential to living a happy and fulfilled life.
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All of us are creative.
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You don't have to be a painter or a musician in order to count
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yourself as creative. Baking is creative.
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Painting a wall is creative.
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Designing new rooms for your house is creative.
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So we all need to find our creative outlets. It's essential to our being.
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Stones are powerful medicine.
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They're some of the most ancient medicine here on this planet.
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And I find that when I work with stones,
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really profound changes happen to me on that deep ancient level,
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the same level that the stones grow and form on.
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So when I'm looking to work with my creativity,
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stones are often the first allies that I go to for help.
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The first stone is garnet. In Chinese medicine,
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garnet is the stone of health, wealth, abundance,
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and prosperity. It's a stone that helps us get super solid in the
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physical palaces of our life.
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Garnet is one of my favorite stones for manifestation.
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So if you've had a creative project or an idea that's been in the works for a
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while,
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and maybe you're feeling like you need just a little bit of courage to step
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forward and really put it out there in the world,
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garnet is so good at helping us to have brave hearts and feeling fully
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supported by the world that we live in.
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Garnet helps us manifest our heart's desires and lets us know
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that it's truly possible. Ultimately,
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garnet lets us know that we're ready to move
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forward.
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It gives us a solid foundation and grounding here and lets you know that the
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well of your creativity is truly abundant.
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The next stone is rhodochrosite. In Chinese medicine,
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we talk about rhodochrosite as dilating and opening
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circulation and blood vessels and it's sort of like dilating and opening the
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portal of ourselves,
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really opening ourselves up to creative inspiration and flow.
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Rhodochrosite is one of my favorite stones for anxiety.
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So if you're having any anxiety wrapped up in your creations,
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perhaps feeling like you're not sure how they're going to turn out or if you're
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up to the task, this is one of my favorite stones to work with.
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This stone particularly shines if you're feeling blocked or
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stagnated in your creativity.
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Maybe you've been a caretaker for years and you've been pouring a lot of energy,
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attention, and time into other people or other people's projects.
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You might start to feel like there's this wall up between you and accessing your
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creativity or between you and the world.
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Rhodochrosite helps us to dilate this portal of our inspiration
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to move beyond these walls,
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to really get the flow of our inspiration going.
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Rhodochrosite is great for writer's block or when you feel like you've reached a
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dead end with a song or a painting. In Chinese medicine,
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we say that it really gets the blood flowing,
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so it gets your life force flowing again so that you can really feel like you
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can be in movement with your creativity once more.
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The last stone is opal.
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Opals are one of my favorites for creativity and we can kind of tap into this
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understanding of why when we look at its chemical structure.
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So opals are basically made up of silica and water,
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silica being what makes up the basis of our technology and what makes quartz
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crystals.
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Silica can hold and encode a lot of information while water
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is incredibly moving. Together,
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opal holds this ability of receiving inspiration
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and creative insight and also moving that insight forward,
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really helping us find this flow.
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I kind of think of opal as getting us from the first
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raindrops that come down all the way into the streams, the rivers,
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the tributaries,
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and finally back out into the ocean where what you've been given as a gift in
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your creativity is finally given back to the world. Some authors talk about opal
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as igniting the holy fire, and I think this is really apt with creativity.
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Creativity is this kind of fire.
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It takes hold of you and when you're really in the flow with it,
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it doesn't burn you, it just ignites you even more.
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So opal helps us to hold and embody the fire of our creativity and really
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have that be a light moving us forward. Lastly,
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opal also increases sensitivity so we can start to notice the
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subtlety of when we first start receiving these creative inputs or messages
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and helps us tap back into states of positivity,
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possibility and hope because really these are the
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composts that feed a truly bountiful garden of creativity.
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Okay,
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I hope that this information about these stones is really helpful for you and
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really creating and building a very nourishing creative practice for yourself
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this season.
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And I felt inspired after re-listening to this to also
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share with you a powerful story of stone healing involving
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opals in my life. Opals have been coming in for me a lot.
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They've been coming in for people and their readings.
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As I said in the recording,
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opals are all about creating flow in your life and that's a lot of us,
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if we just can create the flow, then that creativity will come in,
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then that inspiration will come in.
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So I wanted to share just a really magical story
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called Throwing Diamonds Into Lakes that is specifically about how
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opal medicine came into my life and just feels like a really
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beautiful example of what surrender can look like
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on our journey and how that kind of surrender can create such a beautiful flow
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in our creative life. So this story happened and was told about 10 years ago
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now and it was so fun for me to revisit. So without further ado,
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let's listen to the story about the time that I threw a diamond into a lake.
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Stones and minerals are some of the oldest medicine on earth.
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From the Aztecs to the ancient Chinese,
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stones have been used as medicine for millennia.
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When we begin to work with stones,
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real magic can happen and all we have to do is listen.
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So this is a story of listening. It's also a story of flow,
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opals and letting go. And yes,
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it's also a story of chucking diamonds into lakes.
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So it all began with a Herkimer diamond.
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I had been coveting a large Herkimer diamond for a long time.
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Herkimer diamonds in Daoist medicine are considered to turn up the volume in any
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treatment.
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They maximize the dynamic potential of any medicine
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combination or even just the medicine moment that you're in at this time in your
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life.
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So I had been looking for Herkimer diamond to kind of turn up the volume in my
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life and use my medicine practices. And I was at a conference in North Carolina
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when I came across the perfect Herkimer.
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It was a large one about the size of my palm.
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And if anyone's ever looked for Herkimers,
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then you know it's not easy to find Herkimers that large.
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Herkimer diamonds come from one place in the world and that's Herkimer,
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New York. They are a quartz,
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but they're a little bit harder than normal quartz because they're actually
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formed within a rock formation. So when I found this Herkimer,
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I thought, yes, I'm going to grab this. I'm going to get it.
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I'm going to put it in my collection. But from the beginning,
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I remember feeling very much so like this was something I had kind of forced
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into place, like my mind and sort of my ego was like, oh yeah, girl,
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you need a big Herkimer,
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so let's find one for you instead of just really flowing with my intuition about
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it. But I had found this big Herkimer. It was gorgeous. It was a great price.
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If anyone's ever shopped for Herkimers, you know they are not cheap.
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So I brought it home with me. Fast forward about a year later,
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I was going to another conference in Florida and I was feeling at that time in
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my life a little bit stuck in my spiritual life, but also in my creative life.
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My writing had sort of eked to a stop.
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My meditation practice was having difficulty.
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And what I really felt was that I needed to just turn up the volume on the
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medicine that was already present in my life,
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the ways in which I was already connected,
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already knew how to write and create and express myself. And I was like, okay,
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I think I'm not missing anything major.
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I just need to turn up the volume a little bit. So I always like to choose one
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stone to travel with when I go on a trip based on my intention for that trip.
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So for this trip, I chose the Herkimer diamond. Now,
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the moment I got to the conference, the first thing I noticed was the lake,
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a big beautiful lake right next to where the conference site was.
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And the first night I was there,
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I went down to the lake with my Herkimer to sit and meditate and just soak in
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the Florida evening. And immediately as soon as I got there and sat down,
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I got this feeling that the lake wanted me to toss my Herkimer into it.
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And I'm going to tell you my immediate reaction was hell no. First of all,
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I really like the Herkimer diamond. Second of all,
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it's hard to find big ones like this. Third of all,
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this was expensive. I literally remember thinking, "Yeah,
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I don't think I'm spiritual enough for that yet." But the feeling was so
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strong,
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I literally had to put that Herkimer away in a pouch because it was honestly
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like this bodily vibration that if I kept that Herkimer in my hand,
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I would just subconsciously chuck it into the lake.
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It was one of the strongest sort of unknown bodily sensations I've ever
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experienced. So I remember putting that Herkimer away and thinking, "All right,
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if I still feel this way by the end of the weekend,
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then I'll do it." So that night I went back to my tent and went to sleep with my
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Herkimer, and that is the night that the dreams of opals began.
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So I'm going to talk a little bit about opals in a bit,
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but you can hold onto this little tidbit about opals.
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When the Daoists first started using points on the body for
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acupuncture, before needles were employed,
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they used opals to create flow,
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so you can keep that in your mind. So I'm having these dreams about opals every
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night and the feeling of needing to throw this Herkimer in the lake is just
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growing and growing and growing every day to the point where I actually noticed
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that I'm avoiding walking by the lake.
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So the last day of the conference comes around and I'm resigned at this point.
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The idea of even bringing that Herkimer home with me feels wrong.
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This Herkimer wants to stay here.
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So the same vendor that had been at the conference in North Carolina was down in
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Florida.
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So I went up to the stone vendor and I told her about what I was experiencing
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and she asked me, "Well,
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are you sure the Herkimer doesn't just want a bath or to be dipped in the lake?"
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And I was like, "Yeah, I'm pretty sure.
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I know how that feels and this feels like throw me in the lake and never see
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me again." So I told her that and I said, "Well,
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I'm going home with an empty stone pouch. I'd like to bring a stone home with
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me." So I walked around the stalls and nothing in particular was calling out for
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me, but I saw this small golden Lemurian, which is another crystal,
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which is another quartz. Oftentimes it has an iron oxide inclusion.
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And I thought to myself, yeah, this seems good,
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but in a way that I knew I wouldn't hold onto it forever.
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That ultimately was for someone else,
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but for now it would be a good placeholder in my pouch.
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So just saying yes to what it was I was hearing and picking up on,
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I placed that Lemurian into my pouch.
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I took the Herkimer out and I walked down to the lake. I sat for a moment,
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but honestly, not even that long because the time had come.
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And when I was ready,
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I chucked that Herkimer as far as I could into the lake. And I
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watched as it plopped underneath the surface and I watched as all of
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the ripples disappeared,
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and I watched as I realized that I would literally never see the stone again,
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and I would have no idea even where it went in this lake.
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And I'm going to tell you, it was such a feeling of completion and release.
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It was absolutely incredible to let go of something that I had placed so much
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emphasis on and had sort of wrapped my development around in a
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very ego-based, sort of mind-based kind of way was absolutely incredible.
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So I went home feeling so light, and just a couple days later,
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I was seeing a client. I do on the body treatments with stones,
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and I felt really guided to use this Lemurian crystal and place at the very
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tippy top of her crown.
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Lemurians are sort of renowned for their ability to help us connect into deep
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meditative states and open up to perceiving that light of the divine or of
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our personal divine, our higher selves,
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what exists beyond the realm of our day-to-day consciousness. So after our
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session, she came up to me and she said,
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"What was that stone you put on my head?
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For the first time ever in meditation,
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I saw light and I saw this golden light.
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It was so beautiful." And I said, "Oh,
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it's this Lemurian." And I looked at her and I looked at the stone and I
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thought,
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"This is for you." And so I gave it to her knowing full well that this is why I
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picked it up in the first place. I really had no intention of holding onto it.
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I gave it to her and she was delighted.
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She took it in and then she looked at me and she said,
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"I think I have something for you too." And I was like, "Really?
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What?" She said,
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"A few years ago I was given an opal and it was one of my most beloved stones
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until a couple weeks ago I took it out and I thought this stone is ready to go
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on to somebody else and it's been sitting on my kitchen counter ever since,
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and I think this opal was meant to go to you." Now I was floored because by this
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time I had been dreaming about opals for several weeks and I thought this could
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not be any more perfect. So that weekend we meet up,
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she gives me this opal,
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and the very next day I attend a stone class where, I'm sure you can guess,
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the main stone we talked about were opals.
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I learned so much about opals that day,
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but one of the things that stuck with me the most was opal's ability to create
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flow. As it contains both silica oxide, which is quartz crystals,
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and water,
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opals bridge this amazing ability that is inherent to quartz,
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which is harmonizing, directing,
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and amplifying energy as well as the energy inherent to water,
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H2O, which is really bringing flow, life force, creativity,
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and opening up new possibilities.
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So when this opal came into my life,
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I'm going to tell you I had an amazing surge of inspiration,
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creativity. I was writing like mad.
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I really felt like this path that had seemed obscure just opened right up to me.
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And for me,
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the lesson in learning behind this is just how important it is
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to let go, that really by letting go,
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we can find that inner flow. I think there's a tendency sometimes,
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especially for those of us who are on a path of self-growth or development,
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that when we find things that work or seem like they should work for us,
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we kind of hold onto them, come hell or high water.
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And the reality is that when we can learn to listen and know when it's time to
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let go of those emblems of our growth or our next step,
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we can actually create space for newness to come in.
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I gave energy to that lake and in turn, that lake cycled back,
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gave energy to one of my clients,
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and then this opal came into my life and gave me energy to continue on in my
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path. And if we can connect into and listen to the ways in which this
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world of medicine that we live in is constantly communicating to us about
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receiving and letting go,
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we can tap into what I consider to be our mainstream.
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So a friend of mine told me once,
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"It's not about connecting into the mainstream,
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it's about connecting into your mainstream.
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What is it that's flowing at the center of your being?
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And can you in some way just get out of the way so it can flow even more
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easily through you so you can be carried along in a way?" The
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cherry on top of this entire story was just about a year ago,
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I was teaching a class about plant and stone relationships.
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When someone came up to me at the end of the class and they said,
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"Was that lake you were talking about the same lake at the Florida Herbal
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Conference?" And I said, "Yeah, that was the conference I was at." She said,
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"I went to that conference and brought a stone, and when I went up to that lake,
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I got the same message that this lake wanted to receive this
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stone and that I was blown away. It was
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just incredible to witness two different people at different times receive the
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same messages, but it just goes to show you that when we listen,
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we can make connections from heart to heart, person to person,
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medicine to medicine,
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and we can open ourselves up to what it is that's really there,
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waiting to be given, waiting to flow.
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So no matter where you are at in your creative journey right now,
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whether you are waiting patiently for those green strawberries at the same time
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that you're planting something else,
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at the same time that you're enjoying some sort of fruit of your harvest,
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may there be great flow that finds you in this process and in
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this homecoming that really is reconnecting to the creativity that flows
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directly from our own wider selves, from our own soul.
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And if you are a weekly or regular listener to this podcast,
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I just wanted to make a small announcement that next week I am sharing about my
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own green strawberry,
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strawberry that has been in the works now for a good portion of
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this year,
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a project that kind of came like a comet into my world and that is
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going to be launching to the world next week.
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So if you are interested in hearing about what green
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strawberries I have been very patiently awaiting in my
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life,
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a project I've been putting a lot of my own soul's energy and creativity and
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life force towards this year,
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stay tuned for that announcement next week. I'm so excited to share it with you
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and just really
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in a state of awe and honor over the way in which these cycles in our life,
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they really have a greater import and meaning they are teaching
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us how to be with our creative selves, the standing stone of our own creativity,
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this inner crystal,
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this understanding that within us is this ability to hone and
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bring into translation a sacred aspect of reality,
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that aspect that is our own creation and our own creative abilities.
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So just sending you so many blessings for all that you are planting and
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reaping and sowing and awaiting in your life because your creativity is a source
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of healing for this world.
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And as you step into or deeper into your own creative practice this month,
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may it help you remember that most important thing of all, why you're here.