Besides just the programming of crystals (see the sticky thread for more info), I've done the following things:
- used ulexite, aka TV Stone, to help boost my efforts to make something become true. Ulexite is a natural stone that works like fiberoptics, as it can bring the image of whatever's under the stone to the top of the stone. So, in effect, it makes a two-dimensional image have three dimensions. Putting the thing I want (via written word or picture) under the ulexite is an exercise I do to help make it more "real".
- I have two matching halves of a small geode. I also have a few tiny quartz points that will fit into the halves of the geode. If I want to make a person feel better or improve a situation, I program them accordingly. For example, if I have someone who needs confidence, I might program the geode (which is full of quartz) for confidence, then program one of the small points to be a stand-in for the person. Then I put the point into the geode. Bingo -- the person is, figuratively, surrounded by confidence.
I say these things and immediately need to follow them up with "I don't do magickal things", per se. I certainly don't use any form of ritual. But I do believe that INTENT is all we really need, when all is said and done, and these are a couple of ways that I use to help me focus, and realize, that intent.
Edit to add: Ah, yes. I forgot optical calcite. As ncharge posted, that can be used to double the effect of one's actions.