More and more energy healers incorporate crystals into both their practices with clients and their personal healing. Crystals are actually the representatives of Mother Earth. They hold the specific signature frequencies from nature and thus have powerful and benevolent healing properties. Let’s touch on some basic points on how to use crystals in healing for yourself today!

What are Crystals?

Crystals are minerals that form underground with repeating patterns of atoms in three dimensions. The appearance of the crystal depends on the nature of the type and the conditions in which it grows. Some take on strange shapes, some are very small, and others grow very large, growing over thousands of years.

Crystals inherit certain energy patterns and vibrations from the earth that are stable and positive through the test of time. Hence, they can help bring harmony to the energy field of human beings and the environment around them.

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What Gives Crystals Their Distinctive Healing Properties?

Different crystals have different energy properties. For example, Tiger’s Eye can aid one’s search for motivation and manifestation of energy. And Lapis Lazuli is the crystal of clarity, deep inner peace and spiritual insight enhance. Rose Quartz has a calming effect and represents unconditional love. It includes all kinds of love, self-love, friendship, romance, familial love, and more.

In fact, with only some practice and a sense of intuition, you can interpret the immediate features of the crystals based on their colors and shapes. For example, red is the color of action and it can affect the moving energy in oneself. Transparent crystals like clear quartz can help you see better, physically and spiritually. Amethyst can aid transformation and change. You can read the definitions in the book but realize that it is important to form your own opinion. 

The shape of a crystal can also affect the way the energy is emitted out. Cube shape can aid your grounding to connect with the energy of the Earth, especially while meditating. The pyramid that has a strong base and the one apex that collects and projects out the energy into the universe will be a good shape for manifesting purposes. Crystal points can have the same effect as a pyramid. Heart shape obviously helps with anything regarding love and heart chakra, while crystal eggs are useful for fertility, balance and healing. Crystal towers are best to charge other crystals and crystal wands are the best for rituals to cleanse and reprogram others.

How to Choose a Crystal for Healing?

You do not need to know the exact properties of each stone when purchasing, although this may help. If you’re in a store just stand in front of a group of crystals, close your eyes and relax. When you open your eyes, choose the one you find most appealing. Or you can hold the crystal in your hand and feel it, see how your body reacts to its energy. Try not to analyze too much, use your intuition instead! 

When selecting a crystal from an online page where you cannot touch it, you need to be even more intuitive! Browse through pictures of different crystals and note which part appeals to you most. Spend some time browsing through that section. You may experience excitement at the sight of a particular crystal, with a strong urge to touch and feel it, and a sense of frustration that you cannot. If you feel that you really want that crystal to be a part of your life, surely it has something to offer you on some level. For example, you may feel drawn to a rose quartz crystal because you are in need of something in your life that can help you develop love and compassion.

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For beginners, you can start with the Crystals For Beginners The Essential kit which includes rose quartz, amethyst, selenite, black tourmaline, smokey quartz, calcite, and apophyllite. The kit comes in a colorful handmade cotton bag.

Cleansing and Programming for Healing Crystals

The repeating chemical structure of crystals is believed to put in them a kind of memory. This means that crystals have the power to retain energy. You can hold rose quartz with the intention of filling it with your love. This is what it means to program a crystal. You don’t need to do anything special – all you need is intention and focus. The crystal will remember your love, then will permeate any environment in which it is placed. If you know how to use Reiki, just send Reiki to the crystals for them to enjoy the universal life force energy. No doubt they’re gonna love it!

Crystals can remember negative as well as positive energy and therefore need to be cleansed from time to time. For example, amethyst can actually help clear a room of negative energy (e.g. anger), but this means that it does retain some of that negative energy and therefore require occasional cleansing. 

There are many ways to cleanse crystals. One of the most common is to soak them in saltwater (seawater is great!) for a couple of hours or days, then put them under running water to clean away the salt. Other methods include burying the crystals in the garden or in a bowl full of natural salt for a few hours or days, leaving them in a stream (choose a slow-running stream to make sure you’re not gonna lose them!), or leaving them outside for 24 hours so that they can be under both the sunlight and moonlight. Using sage to cleanse the crystals with smoke is also an option. Choose what works for you and the crystals as well! 

You can use this Cleansing Crystals Kit to cleanse and recharge your crystals monthly or more frequently if necessary.

Healing with Crystals

Different crystals have different energies and healing properties, and can affect the mental, physical, mental, and emotional aspects of ourselves. You can read more details on using which crystals to heal our 7 major chakras: root chakra, sacral chakra, solar plexus chakra, heart chakra, throat chakra, third eye chakra, and crown chakra. However, you don’t have to look for meaning every time you want to choose a crystal. Over time you will be able to read and feel the right crystals at the right moment for the right purpose.

Simply holding the crystal at the right time can bring about a change in one’s attitude and happiness. You can use crystals such as amethyst during meditation/yoga or clear quartz for any type of energy healing. Keep it in your pocket (or bra for women, like Miranda Kerr does!) during the day to help protect your energy when you’re out and about. Put abundance crystals like citrine in your purse or wallet. Put rose quartz in your bedroom to envelope you in pure love and gentle care for better sleep. You can place black tourmaline in the corners of any room to bring up powerful protection against negative energies and entities.

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Above are just some basic points about how to use crystals in healing, I’d love to hear more experiences or questions from you on this topic, please feel free to leave your comments below! 

Much love,
Grace
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