{"title":"Strength","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStrength is not the absence of vulnerability. It is what moves through you anyway.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePower · Resilience · Endurance · The Core\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStrength is what remains after everything that was not essential has been stripped away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot hardness. Not armor. The deep, quiet power of a self that has been tested and has not broken.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the shamanic tradition, strength is not taken from the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is drawn up from the earth beneath your feet, from the ancestors who survived what you are surviving now, from the stone itself, which has endured longer than any human grief.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Reiki practice, strength is held in the first principle: \u003cem\u003eJust for today, I will not anger.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot the suppression of fire. The mastery of it. The strength to feel what moves through you without being destroyed by it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStrength stones work with your core first.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith your spine that has been carrying more than it should. Your jaw that has been clenched since you cannot remember when. Your hands that have been holding on when everything in you wanted to let go.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey do not make you hard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey make you rooted. And from the root, everything else becomes possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStones of Strength\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTiger's eye, black onyx, garnet, red jasper, and pyrite.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach carries the frequency of strength in its own register.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the fierce, focused courage of tiger's eye to the deep, enduring groundedness of black onyx.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo choose a strength stone is to choose yourself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo say: I have what this requires.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI always have.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/intustones.com\/collections\/strength.oembed","provider":"Intu Stones","version":"1.0","type":"link"}