Friday, June 27, 2025

Guest Post: Balancing Mood Disorders Through Crystal Energy Alignment

 


A person is, at any given moment, an arrangement of forces. Chemical, neurological, electromagnetic. A body conducting itself. A mind arranging itself. The result? Mood. Something that settles in and lingers, shifting slowly or not at all. When it misaligns, you get mood disorders: depression, bipolar disorder, a whole hefty clinical lexicon of imbalances. The conventional arsenal – medications, therapy, lifestyle adjustments – covers the usual ground. But beyond the pharmacological and psychological, there are other methods. It is more ancient and less charted. One of these does its work by balancing mood disorders through crystal energy alignment; it suggests that the right stones, correctly placed, might harmonize a person’s internal resonance and nudge them back toward equilibrium. Let’s take a closer look!

What are mood disorders?

Before discussing mood disorders, we must first define mood, this time with more precision than the introduction above allowed. In simplest terms, mood is a prolonged emotional state that colors how we see the world. Moods shape our perception for days, weeks, or more while refusing to dissipate. Now, if these moods become persistently negative or interfere with daily functioning, we step into the territory of what medical professionals, including Sekhon and Gupta, categorize as mood disorders.

According to their research, we can label a variety of conditions as mood disorders. The most common are major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder. Each condition has distinct characteristics, but they share their ability to distort emotional regulation. Depression can flatten the world into a black-and-gray Rothko painting, while mania can exaggerate feelings and turn the mundane into the unbearable or the euphoric. There is a biological basis for these disorders, certainly. On the other hand, there is also an increased interest in how the body’s energy systems interact with these emotional states – a cue for crystals to enter our modest discussion.

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Thursday, June 19, 2025

Azurite – Don’t be Afraid of the Truth

 



Hello and welcome back to The Schapera Show where Viv and Neil explore this big adventure called Life. This is the part of the show where I, Vivien, talk to crystals and talk about crystals. Today, I’m talking to a long-time favorite of mine, Azurite. Azurite is the most astonishing, intense blue color. Perhaps this is why Azurite is one of my favorite stones – because its color is one of my favorite colors.

It’s a good thing that Azurite is so attractive because it is quite the taskmaster. When you first read what Melody has to say about Azurite, you think: “Oh, that’s fantastic!” For example, Melody says: “Azurite is known as a ‘stone of heaven.’ It stimulates the pursuit of the heavenly self, providing for guidance via the third-eye and allowing for precise verbalization of psychic experiences.” (p. 128) She then goes on to say that Azurite provides for insight into all areas of one’s life.” (p. 128) Sounds fabulous, doesn’t it? Well, maybe not so much. Here’s the rub – getting insight into all areas of one’s life is darn confronting. Yes, Azurite does do all that, and more, but at a cost – the cost of self-awareness. And in case you haven’t noticed this yet, self-awareness can be very, very demanding, plus, self-awareness comes with a big responsibility – the responsibility to do something about it.

You can listen to the recording of the Azurite segment here...

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Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Build a client base from scratch | Get new clients | Grow a customer base

 


How To Establish And Maintain a Strong Client Base by Vivien S. Schapera (New 3rd Edition)

“a handbook for people who want to earn a living doing what they love”

This is the third edition of How to Establish and Maintain a Strong Client Base, a greatly expanded and revised version of the popular handbook that has been used as a textbook on business building in many professional trainings. One of its special features is a new, empowering section on navigating the confusing world of digital marketing. Written in an easy-to-read, narrative style, Vivien shares her knowledge to inspire all client-centered business owners with a systematic way – a blueprint – to earn a living doing what you love. Vivien explores both the mental and entrepreneurial aspects necessary to success, in 13 chapters, giving you an insightful tour of how to generate a client base. The 188 pages include a detailed Table of Contents and multiple charts. Don’t be fooled by how enjoyable it is to read this book! Packed with illustrative anecdotes, this reference is dense with practical, tried-and-tested information, that will demystify and explain how you too can build a thriving business or private practice doing what you love.

What is a client-centered business? This book is written for anyone who needs to draw in customers or clients. From massage therapists to fitness instructors, accountants to landscapers, photographers to interior decorators, and even specialty store owners – How to Establish and Maintain a Strong Client Base is applicable to the whole range of privately owned businesses, professions and services fundamental to our society. If you want to work with or for people, adding your contribution to our world, this book was written for you!

PDF of “How To Establish And Maintain a Strong Client Base” : $18.00

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Thursday, June 5, 2025

Are We Cruel or are We Kind?

 


The March 2024 issue of The Relatable Voice features Vivien’s “Are We Cruel or are We Kind” article explaining the that we can exhibit both the very worst and the very best traits of what it is to be human.

Note that you can now view the magazine easily online, without having to make a purchase or download it. To see this piece, as well as the whole magazine, please click here...

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Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Spirit Report: To Meet a Spirit in Tree Form

 

Sharing with you, my Shamanic Journeys to the Spirit Realm, and reporting back on the guidance I receive directly from the Spirits

The purpose of this journey is to travel to the Spirit Realm of the Lower World to request the Spirits that they have me meet a Spirit in Tree Form

I’m going to travel to the Lower World and my usual entrance way to start going to the Lower World is actually by going into a hollowed out Tree trunk. I step in and on the floor is where I find this energy portal opening that I go through, and immediately find myself floating, down in the darkness of space, to the Lower World.

I land in a familiar lake which has many hippos in it, and I’m able to get on the back of a hippo, and it swims me to the shore. I’m looking into a woods, a wooded area. I walk towards it putting out my request that I meet and interact with a Tree Spirit.

There’s a pathway that’s created by small stones or small rocks, that are guiding me in a certain direction, and I’m reminded that stones or rocks have an intelligence, and a consciousness, and they’re doing something helpful here, That’s a bit of information that’s given to me to understand and appreciate that the Spirit World is a helpful place – it’s a place of assistance. The Spirits are saying don’t be dumb, the Spirit World is there to help, to assist, to guide.

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Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Spirit Report: Be Guided by What You Do Not Want



Hi there!

You are listening to the Schapera Show, and I am Neil, bringing you reports of my Shamanic Journeys to the Spirit Realm, and the guidance that the benevolent Spirits give us.

For today’s show, I did a Shamanic Journey to the Upper World

Requesting important, useful and interesting information, especially pertinent to our historic time period.

Went up along glistening silver blue light beam

Not climbing the light beam, but just going up along side it.

I wanted to meet my beloved Spirit Teachers in the Upper World Spirit Realm and request important, useful and interesting information for the Show.

See one of my Upper World Spirits and get on their back

They take me through the air to a place they say is called “The Cave of Knowledge”

They’ve taken me here before, and they stress that the information they gave me last time is especially relevant today, and I must repeat it.

They say that one of the things that one can see here are all the so-called “mistakes” that one has made in ones life, that we must all look at our lives and understand the “mistakes” that we have made.

And the point is definitely to not be judgmental, but to learn and evolve.

There’s an implication that the “point” of our human existence includes the notion of “evolving”.

The warthog that I have seen previously also appears – unusual in my Journeys to the Upper World,

as Spirits in animal form are usually in the Lower World, and the warthog says it can take me to see all the “messes” I have made in my life.

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Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Vivien in Conversation with Julia Wignall: The Extraordinary Power of Fireflies

 


Are You Shining Your Light as Brilliantly as You’re Meant To?


If you yearn to create positive change in the world and have a larger impact, this book is for you.

Working to transform the world shouldn’t feel like wading through mud.

It also doesn’t mean taking a vow of poverty or sacrificing your personal life.


A Firefly is someone who sees past the way things are to the way things can be and takes action to bring about a better reality… each transforms the world for the better in a unique way.


In The Extraordinary Power of Fireflies, award-winning educator Julie Wignall shows you how to move past worn-out beliefs and chart your own path to create the life you desire and the change you want to see in the world. Let this book:

1. Help you gain clarity

2. Show you how to overcome obstacles

3. Teach you how to rise in the “spaces between”


Meet fireflies like you who are illuminating new pathways for the environment, social justice, business, and the arts.

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Guest Post: Balancing Mood Disorders Through Crystal Energy Alignment

  A person is, at any given moment, an arrangement of forces. Chemical, neurological, electromagnetic. A body conducting itself. A mind arra...