Salt and Salt Lamps: Healing Properties and a Caution
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Salt and Salt Lamps: Healing Properties and a Caution
Sunday, February 22, 2015 (Private/Phone)
Participants: Mary (Michael) and Jean-Francois (Samta)
ELIAS: Good morning!
JF: (Chuckles) Good morning.
ELIAS: (Chuckles) And what shall we discuss?
JF: I'd like to start with a discussion on salt.
ELIAS: Salt.
JF: Yes.
ELIAS: Very well.
JF: I had started to ask you about salt lamps once, but we ran out of time. I'm just wondering, these salt lamps which typically have a light bulb inside which heats up the salt, and it's said that they emit negative ions: I'm just curious about what would be the general effect of such lamps?
ELIAS: And what is your assessment thus far?
JF: I don't really feel anything other than I just like the glow of them. I like how they look. I find it a comforting sort of glow, but I'm just curious if there are actual properties beyond that. Is it more related with beliefs? Is it a little bit more like the stones and the crystals where it has actual properties, the salt?
ELIAS: Yes, and it would be dependent upon what you do with it, but in this situation using it in relation to light or heat… (pause) Salt can be used for creative or aesthetic purposes in conjunction with heating it. It can also generate a calming affectingness with humans and animals.
It generates a type of interaction with the atmosphere and the energy around it which creates a type of energy that actually incorporates somewhat of a physical property – not entirely, but it does incorporate somewhat of a physical property. For the energy that it produces through the interaction with the environment around it – the energy around it – in a manner of speaking binds to the energy around it. It would be very similar to the effect of physical actions in which certain molecules bind to other molecules to create a different structure.
Therefore what it does is when you heat salt in certain manners, the energy of the salt binds with the energy around it in its atmosphere, and that creates an alteration of the configuration of energy. And what that does is it creates an energy that projects outward, generating what you would respond to in a calming or relaxing expression.
Now; it can be tricky also, for this is an action that can generate a very different effect if it is expressed in extreme, or what you would term to be too much.
JF: Of heating it? Or... ?
ELIAS: Too much volume.
JF: Too much volume. Well, see, I went to this salt cave. That was just after Christmas. And it's like this room which is entirely padded with Himalayan salt. It's not all lit up; it's not all heated. There are some parts of it which are heated up through light, but the whole room isn't heated in that way. I went there and I laid down on it, and I could feel like a very strong shimmering of energy all over my body, and in particular the digestive system area was very responsive to that.
It kind of felt like when you put salt on a wound it can hurt, but that's part of the healing process, the healing property of salt. And that was a very interesting experience, because even though it was kind of hurting a bit in my digestive system area, it also felt good at the same time. So I guess what was going on in that cave was a bit different than just heating it up, maybe.
ELIAS: (Pause) Yes and no, for that is in actuality an excellent example, for that is a presentment of a volume of salt. And in that, it is a matter of being aware and being somewhat cautious, for what I would express is that in limited time frameworks, yes, it can very much incorporate healing properties. And it does change the energy, or the structure of the energy, and therefore, yes, it can create healing properties. It can be in some capacities very calming. In other capacities it can be stimulating in a manner that increases the speed of a process.
JF: Oh, okay.
ELIAS: Such as with healing, that it will increase the rapidness of the interaction of physical action that will generate a healing process.
JF: Yeah.
ELIAS: But it can also...
JF: Aggravate?
ELIAS: ...move in a different direction in too much volume or too much time interacting with it. It can generate an irritation; it can aggravate; it can generate a reaction, so to speak, in which rather than emanating an energy it begins to retract and suck in that energy – very similar to breathing, which may be an excellent example of the action of it.
If you were to imagine the configuration of salt in volumes, it generates a very similar action to breathing but much slower. Therefore, it will generate a very long, even exhale in which it is projecting an energy; it is radiating an energy. But it does also inhale and pull back that energy. It creates a circle, and it generates this action in which it will pull back the energy and retract it and suck in the energy in that atmosphere, which does generate a reaction of living elements such as humans or animals. It would be damaging to most foliage, but with humans and animals you can interact with it in moderation and it can be very beneficial. But in too much time – too frequently and too much time in intervals – and too much volume, it can be damaging. It can be dangerous.
JF: I brought back from the cave a little salt slab which is maybe like this size, so it's a good hefty little brick which I sometimes put on my belly, and that feels good. But I have been feeling like I should be cautious with this; I shouldn't like overdo it.
ELIAS: Yes.
JF: Because I can feel the stimulation of energy inside. There is such a thing as it's enough...
ELIAS: Yes.
JF: ...with it.
ELIAS: Yes.
JF: Yeah.
ELIAS: It can be very beneficial, and it can be healing, it can be calming, it can be enhancing in whatever you are engaging, but it also can move in the reverse direction and be damaging.
JF: I sort of have this idea that it can be purifying. Is that accurate?
ELIAS: Yes! Yes.
JF: Like if I engage it in conjunction with healing intentions...
ELIAS: Yes.
JF: ...and my own energy.
ELIAS: Yes.
JF: Yeah.
ELIAS: In moderation.
JF: In moderation. Like when I take that brick, you know I usually wouldn’t do it for much longer than 15 minutes or so, and that would be safe.
ELIAS: Yes.
JF: Yeah.
ELIAS: Yes. And not incorporating the action frequently.
JF: Yeah. It's like maybe once a week, is that still too much?
ELIAS: That may be effective, –
JF: Okay.
ELIAS: – but I would not suggest that you generate that action more frequently than that.
JF: Okay.
ELIAS: For you can easily move into extremes, and in that, it can definitely move in the reverse direction when it is pulling. When it is moving in its own cycle, which is very natural, it can be damaging.
JF: So if it's by the bed, maybe I shouldn't keep it there? Like is it that strong that I should put it away when I'm not using it? Because it's in the room? But maybe that's not a big deal; I don't know.
ELIAS: I would suggest that you move it.
JF: Okay.
ELIAS: That you not be in close physical proximity to it continuously, –
JF: Okay.
ELIAS: – for it does affect the structure of the energy around it.
JF: So does that hold to salt lamps, which are typically always on and in a room continuously?
ELIAS: It is dependent upon the size.
JF: Okay, like something like this?
ELIAS: And it is dependent upon how much volume of that lamp is actually salt.
JF: Ah, okay.
ELIAS: In that, you could incorporate a lamp such as this which would be in an on position continuously if you are not always in the same room with it.
JF: I see.
ELIAS: If you are interacting with it at times, or in the same atmosphere as it at times. I would NOT suggest that you incorporate such an object in a room that you sleep, for you incorporate many hours in a continuous block, so to speak, in a sleep state.
JF: Right.
ELIAS: And therefore you are in a continuous state of that interaction of that atmosphere, and that I would not necessarily suggest. But it can be beneficial in a different room in which you are not generating a concentrated volume of time in any one interval.
JF: I understand. Yeah. Thank you.
ELIAS: You are welcome.
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