Cleansing & Using Crystals
Everything is connected, and everything is energy. Spiritual work involves working with energy to create harmony and positive changes. Crystals vibrate with very specific healing and harmonizing frequencies and are very effective tools.
1. Keep a crystal with you throughout the day. After choosing a crystal according to the type of healing or vibration-shifting you desire, and cleansing it in cold running water, sea salt, sage smoke, and/or sunlight, hold it in both hands and bring to mind the feelings and conditions you’d like it to help bring into your life (this is setting an intention or programming your crystal). Feel as if they’re already present for you, and inwardly thank the crystal for supporting you in experiencing them. Then keep the crystal in your pocket, or on your person, each day until you feel you’ve adopted its vibration into your energy field.
2. Sleep with a crystal at night. I sleep with a garnet under my bed at my feet and lepidolite next to my bed. Other crystals that can be healing to sleep with include amethyst, spirit quartz, jasper, and selenite combined with shungite.
3. Place a crystal in a certain area or room. Create a very clear and organized vibe in your office by placing a cleansed fluorite on your desk. A citrine or opaline in a retail store can help maximize the vibrations of wealth and happiness, and a white quartz can generally cleanse and uplift the vibration in any room.
4. Put a written intention or list of goals under your crystal. When you write your intentions or goals in the present tense, as if they’re already true (e.g. “I am vibrantly healthy and strong”), you can cleanse and empower a white quartz point (or another crystal that matches the energy of your goal) in bright sunlight, and then place it on top of the folded intention(s) or goals(s). If you have an altar, it would be a great place for this, or just anywhere where it won’t be disturbed. This way, the crystal acts as a battery and channel to clearly hold that intention and direct it toward its most ideal manifestation in your life.
5. Cleanse your personal energy with a crystal (or crystals). Selenite wands are excellent crystal tools for removing negativity from your personal aura. Think of them like a lint brush that snags challenging patterns or energies, pulls them out of your field, and instantly neutralizes and dissolves them. Simply move the wand around your body, a foot or so away from your skin, as if you are brushing your aura like a linty suit. Another way to cleanse with crystals is to hold a black crystal, such as a tourmaline, obsidian, or smoky quartz, and to consciously direct any harsh, excessive, or unhealthy vibrations into it. Afterwards, set the crystal in the sunlight to evaporate and neutralize what it has absorbed.
6. Put crystals or shungite in your drinking water. The crystal will charge the water with the vibration of a crystal. Just be sure the crystal is safe for use in water (for example, malachite can not be placed in water). We offer rose quartz and shungite charged water in the retail shop.
7. Make a crystal grid. If you have a number of crystals in your collection, creating a crystal grid can be a very powerful magical act. Like all magic, simply putting in the effort begins to shift vibrations, which reverberate back to you in the form of positive change. But added benefits of creating a crystal grid include the creative aspect, which instantly opens you up to Divine Energy, as well as the vibrational properties of the crystals themselves. The sacred geometry of the mandala (or whatever shape you choose) also adds its considerable power to the mix, and the emanations from a crystal grid in your space can be quite palpable.
8. Use a crystal point as a wand to direct energy. When a crystal is pointed, you can use it like you would use a wand, to direct Divine/Universal energy through your body and out through the wand. To do this, consciously connect with the energy at the core of the earth coming up through your feet and tailbone, as well as the energy of the cosmos coming down through the crown of your head. Hold the crystal in your right hand, and feel this Universal energy flowing through your crown and feet, into your heart, down through your arm, and out through the crystal. You can direct energy in this way activate energy or to send someone healing energy and love.
9. Bury crystals to empower a property or create a protective boundary. To empower a property with positivity and/or to create a protective boundary around a space, bury quartz crystal points at the four corners of the lot. In this case, the bigger the crystal the better. Be sure to cleanse the crystals in bright sunlight first, and to empower them with your intention to increase positivity and create a protective aura around the space. Then bury them, point side up.
10. Use a crystal to heal, open, and/or activate a chakra. If you know that one of your chakras could use some healing, choose a crystal that corresponds with that chakra color: red for the root chakra, orange for the sacral, yellow for the solar plexus, green for the heart, blue or turquoise for the throat, indigo or royal blue for the third eye, and purple, lavender, or white for the crown. Set the crystal directly on your body at the desired chakra. Relax and allow the crystal to create the shift and change.