Crystal healing, healing crystals, and a healing crystal guide are important if you want to start using crystals in your life to help encourage spiritual, emotional and physical healing in your life. Using crystals for healing is an idea that has been around for centuries. Cultures as far back as the ancient Egyptians have used healing crystals in amulets to help protect them. Crystal healing is based on the idea that everything is made up of energy. All objects that have mass are made up of atoms and these atoms are always vibrating and moving. The goal of crystal healing is to have the vibrations found in crystals help to transform the vibrations in your body so that it can begin to vibrate or create healing energy. Healing crystals are used to do everything from open the seven chakras to heal a migraine to help lesson anxiety. In general there are three ways that crystals help to heal you: clearing, energizing and balancing. Clearing involves helping to remove bad energy from the body, energizing involves boosting your energy, and balancing involves using crystals to help balance your energy and bring everything back into harmony.
How Can I Benefit from Crystal Healing?
There are a few different ways to use healing crystals. You may chose to wear them in things like necklaces or even just carrying a healing crystal in your pocket. During meditation you could choose to set a healing crystal on an area of your body that happens to be in pain. You can also meditate with your crystals close by to get a general clearing or balancing effect from them. You can also sleep near them in order to benefit from their energy while you are sleeping; this can be especially effective since our body uses sleep to heal itself naturally anyway. Many people may use a healing grid in which the crystals are set out in a pattern that helps to boost their natural energy. You can also keep them in your car and home to make both places restful and healing places.
Which Crystals Should I Use?
When choosing crystals you will want to know what each type of crystal is most useful for and the best way to cleanse them before using them. Different stones are more useful for different issues, and crystal shape can also affect quality. Gems that have a single point and a rounded, rough end are known as single terminated wands and are most often used in healing, cleansing and meditation. Chunks are used for enriching a room, holding during meditation, and for carrying in the pocket. Clusters are perfect for enriching places like the workplace as they can cleanse, invigorate or calm. Cut crystals have been cut and polished, they are usually very attractive, and if they are well-cut this can amplify their natural energy. Tumblestone are small crystals that have been tumbled and look like rocks. These are most often carried around in the pockets.
When choosing a crystal it is best to handle it. Handling a crystal allows you to connect with its energy and see if it will work for you. Picking crystals from the internet can be difficult and you should always go with your gut instincts. Once you have picked your crystals, you will want to cleanse and program them. Cleansing a crystal involves submerging it in salt water, sea water is best if you can get it, for a couple of days. Then you will run them under fresh water to wash all the salt off. You can also bury them in the garden for a few days, leave them in a slow moving stream, or allow them to bask in moonlight overnight. Once they have been cleansed you will want to program them by holding them while you focus all your energy on a positive intention. We cover a lot about this topic on our New Age category page which you can find at this link: Astronlogia.com/new-age/
Common Healing Crystals & Their Purposes
Different crystals have different uses and benefits. Here is a quick breakdown of the most common crystals and their healing purposes.
Color: White or Clear
Used for: Clearing
Suggestions: Quartz, Moonstone
Properties: Absorbing, cleansing, clearing the mind
Color: Brown
Used for: Allowing
Suggestions: Tiger’s Eye, Halite
Properties: Grounding, guiding, protecting
Color: Red
Used for: Energizing
Suggestions: Ruby, Garnet
Properties: Used for sudden pick-me-ups because they give a quick infusion of energy
Color: Orange
Used for: Releasing
Suggestions: Sunstone, Aragonite
Properties: Soothing, energizing, releases negative energy, boosts healthy energy
Color: Yellow
Used for: Aligning
Suggestions: Amber, Mookaite
Properties: Reorganizing energy patterns, best used when trying to create a new habit
Color: Green
Used for: Balancing
Suggestions: Jade, Malachite
Properties: Physical healing, redirecting and balancing energy flows
Color: Blue
Used for: Communicating
Suggestions: Sapphire, Soladite
Properties: Openness, communication, revealing truth
Color: Indigo
Used for: Calming
Suggestions: Azurite, Lapis Lazuli
Properties: Soothing, relaxing, helps to mellow out fragile, anxious energy
Color: Violet
Used for: Uplifting
Suggestions: Amethyst, Iolite
Properties: Vibrates at a high frequency, connects to a higher plane, helps uplift, encourages spiritualism
Color: Black
Used for: Protecting
Suggestions: Apache Tears, Obsidian
Properties: Deflecting, strong, resilient, used to drive negativity away
Color: Pink
Used for: Loving
Suggestions: Rose Quartz, Rhodonite
Properties: Compassionate, deflects anger, draws in romance, encourages romantic and loving feelings
