Crystal healing can be drawn back to 4000 BCE to the Sumerians in Mesopotamia. They were known to use softer crystals like Hematite to create cylinder seals that could be described in images that could be inscribed in cuneiform. These seals often feature one’s life cycle by important events like birth or marriage.
However, the modern-day idea of crystal healing is a modality of energy healing where crystals are placed on or near the body to help move energy where it no longer flowing. The benefits of crystal healing can be physical, mentally, spiritually, chakra related, and so much more.
The best healing crystals include Rhodonite, Shungite, Lapis lazuli, Labradorite, Selenite, Ocean Jasper, Smokey Quartz, Tourmaline, Obsidian, Rose Quartz, Clear Quartz, Iron Pyrite, Tiger Eye, Hematite, Raw Emerald, Citrine, Aquamarine, Desert Rose, and Pink Opal.
Rhodonite Crystal
The Rhodonite crystal is pink in colour and should be included in your First Aid Kit. It is known for its powerful vibrations of pure love. The healing properties of the Rhodonite crystal replaces anxiety, fear, and anger with warm and fuzzy emotions like self-worth, well-being, stability, and all the characteristics that make you feel the real you.
Benefits:
Physical:
The Rhodonite crystal is thought to have the ability to eliminate physical fatigue. It can also be used to reduce stress and can also be placed underneath their pillow to prevent insomnia.
Emotional:
Rhodonite is best used to soothe old hurts and emotional scars. It can prompt the opening of the heart chakra, which increases the capacity for forgiveness.
Those that suffer from self-destructive behaviour can benefit from this stone’s healing properties. It can also help relieve depression and while increasing self-confidence.
Spiritual:
This crystal helps one find a comfortable medium between the physical and spiritual world.
Shungite Stone
The Shungite is a rare black stone made up of 99% of carbon. It is mainly found in Shunga, a village in Russia. This stone is known for killing off bacteria and viruses, as well as reduces inflammation. The Shungite eases physical alignments and can be used by being infused with water. This stone can be used for; sore throats, asthma, gastric issues, kidney problems, liver problems, gallbladder problems, Autoimmune disorder, pancreatic issues, chronic fatigue, relieves stress.
Benefits:
Kills Bacteria and Virus
According to a 2017 review of studies, carbon nanostructures can destroy harmful pathogens. They reportedly work by damaging the cell walls of bacteria and viruses. Additionally, when the carbon nanostructures interacted with the microbes, the microbes lose electrons and die.
Purifies Water
Since ancient times, Shungite has been used to purify water. This is due to its alleged activity against bacteria and viruses. A 2018 study states that Shungite can filter water by removing contaminants and organic substances like pesticides. A 2017 study also found that carbon from Shungite can remove radioactive compounds from water.
Eases Physical Alignment
When water is infused with Shungite, it can be used to treat:
Allergies
Sore throat
Asthma
Gastric issues
Arthritis
Kidney Problems
Liver Problems
Gallbladder Issues
Autoimmune Disease
Pancreatic Dysfunction
Chronic Fatigue
However, research is lacking in these areas, so it is best to follow standard medical treatment protocols as provided by a medical profession.
Lapis Lazuli Crystal
The Lapis Lazuli crystal is one of the most sought out after. Its colour is deep blue, and it remains the symbol of royalty and honour, gods and power, spirit, and vision. It is a powerful crystal for activating the higher mind and enhancing intellectual ability. It stimulates the desire for knowledge, truth and understanding and aids the process of learning. It is excellent for enhancing memory.
Benefits:
Physical
The Lapis Lazuli crystal can be used to relieve general pain inflammation especially effective against migraines headaches. It can be used to be to reduce oozing or septic sites and other eye infections. One would have to rub the area with the Lapis heated with warm water; once cooled, the water can be used for an eye bath. A Lapis can also be heated in sunlight, help reduces bruising, and is suitable for skin problems and skin problems.
Emotional
The Lapis Lazuli crystal reveals inner truth, promotes self-awareness and the acceptance of that knowledge. It provides relief from things that may have been suppressed. It allows them to surface, helping to diminish disease or repressed anger and allow for self-expression without holding back or compromising.
Chakra Healing/ Balancing Energy
The Lapis Lazuli crystal activates the psychic centres at the Third Eye and balances the energies of the Throat Chakra. The Brow Chakra, also called the Third Eye, is called the centre of our perception and command. It directs our sight and everyday awareness of the world. Our consciousness is located here, and we related to ourselves through this chakra. The throat chakra is the body’s voice, a pressure valve that allows the energy from the other chakras to be expressed. If it is blocked or out of balance, it can affect the health of the other chakras.
Spiritual Energy
This crystal is known as the oldest and the most spiritual and is used by healers, priests, and royalty for power, wisdom, and to stimulate psychic abilities. The Lapis crystal quickly releases stress, allowing for peace and serenity. It expands awareness and consciousness atonement to the intuitive self, promoting enlightenment and enhancing dream work. Furthermore, it permits spiritual journeying and tapping into personal and spiritual power. The Lapis crystal provides a connection with dream forces that are working to both guide and counsel during altered states.
Labradorite Stone
The Labradorite stone shimmers in colours of blues. It is the most powerful protector of the mineral kingdom, creating a shielding force throughout the aura and strengthening natural energies from within. It protects against the negativity and misfortunes of this world, provides safe exploration into alternate consciousness levels, and facilitates visionary experiences from the past or the future.
Rarer varieties of Labradorite stones include a transparent gold or champagne colour and Spectrolite and intense variety displaying the entire colour spectrum discovered in Finland in the 1940s.
The Labradorite stone’s purpose is to enhance the mental and intuitive abilities of clairvoyance, telepathy, prophecy, and coincidence control, and assists in communication with higher guides and spirits in accessing Akashic records psychic readings, and past-like recall.
Benefits:
Physical
The Labradorite crystal is beneficial to the lungs and may assist with respiratory problems, bronchitis, and colds. It can further aid in digestion, regulation, and metabolism. Furthermore, the Labradorite crystal could treat the eyes and brain disorders to stimulate acuity and reduce stress and anxiety. It can also soothe menstruation pain and or relieve PMS symptoms.
Emotional
A Labradorite crystal calms an overactive mind and energises the imagination, bringing in new ideas. It is also an excellent tool for returning joy and spontaneity to one’s life. The Labradorite crystal can also help eliminate the emotional drain of the daily routine of being weighed down by responsibility awakens a sense of adventure and change.
Chakra Healing
The Labradorite radiates predominant blue crystal energy that stimulates the Throat Chakra, the voice of the body. It is, in essence, a pressure valve that allows the energy from the other chakras to be expressed. If it is blocked or out of balance, it can affect the health of the other chakras. When the Throat chakras are in balance and open, they express what we think and feel.
Spiritual Energy
The Labradorite’s energy allows one to penetrate the veils of the void, where all the knowledge and the possibility are held. It’s the place of potential and the source of creation, and for shamans, magicians, and lightworkers. This crystal acts as a protective ally in recalling experiences from other realms, other times, and other lives. It assists in moving between the worlds and bringing to this realm in the creation, which is for the highest good of all beings. The Labradorite crystal is a powerful protector of the aura, preventing energy leakage and others from tapping into and draining your energy.
Selenite Crystal
The Selenite is a translucent and white colour crystal. It’s a crystalised form of gypsum that’s made from calcium sulfate dehydrate. There are many different types of Selenite available. You can find Selenite in all corners of the globe. It is heavily sourced from Mexico, where caves are filled with massive selenite crystals. Interestingly enough, Selenite is also available beyond our atmosphere. Scientists have recently discovered the crystal on Mars!
Benefits
Emotional
Most people turn to this crystal for emotional healing. Emotional traumas are one of the most common alignment people suffer with. This one purifies your being and liberates you from the catastrophes that bind you. The properties of Selenite pull that darkness from depths so that you confront it. The crystal teaches your forgiveness, which is one of the most valuable lessons you can learn.
Spiritual
Selenite’s energy and healing properties tap into something that most of us don’t even realise we have. This crystal symbolises angelic realms, and the ethereal energy it produces is said it comes from guardian angels and otherworldly spirits directly.
Physically
Many find that this crystal provides them with flexibility. It is said to make your body more agile and capable by aligning the spine and strengthening the overall skeletal system. It also acts as a natural protector against free radical, which are unstable atoms that can damage the cells in a human body. The theory is that it purifies the body and provides ongoing protection.
Chakra Energy
Harnessing the power of moonlight, Selenite has metaphysical properties that can unlock and activates several chakras. More specifically, this stone is said to support the Heart, Crown, and Third Eye Chakras.
Ocean Jasper Crystal
The Ocean Jasper crystal has a dominant green colour and is a powerful conduit of the Earth’s Life Force of birth, development, creation, and the power of nature’s constant renewal. This crystal is relieved stress and enforces tranquillity. Its cleansing effect eliminates negative energy and stabilises the aura. It makes for an ideal worry or rubbing stone for soothing the nerves and increasing one’s focus and is a beautiful crystal for banishing nightmares or harmful thoughts.
Benefits
Physical
The Ocean Jasper stone is highly restorative for tissue deterioration of the internal organs and helpful in draining the lymph system of toxins that cause body odour and flatulence. It is thought to help stabilise the nutritional absorption of vitamins and minerals, especially balancing sodium and iodine levels and relieving water retention.
Emotional
Ocean Jasper brings to the surface long-hidden unresolved emotional issues and uses its gentle nurturing energies to bring healing. It encourages being honest with oneself when confronting problems, accepting problems, and taking responsibility for one’s actions. Furthermore, it inspires patience, self-love, empathy for others, and a hopeful future hopeful attitude.
Chakra Healing
The Ocean Jasper stone connects to the Earth and may be placed on the Base Chakra to stabilise and energise the physical body. By laying each chakra in turn, it will cleanse, boost and realign the chakras and aura, balance yin and yang energies, and align the physical, emotional, and mental bodies with the heart chakra. When the heart chakra is out of balance, we may feel either controlling or controlled in a relationship and become critical of the little foibles of others.
Spiritual Energy
The Ocean Jasper stone is connected to the lost city of Atlantis and holds its mystic knowledge within its form. This stone’s energies are particularly conducive to meditation and centring and allow access to ancient wisdom and one’s past-life lessons.
Smokey Quartz Crystal
The Smokey Quartz crystal offers rare and beautiful transparency that draws light into shades of black and brown. This crystal honours its connections to Mother Earth. It is a talisman of the Root Chakra, an anchor in the natural world, drawing this white light energy from the Crown down through the body deeply rooted in the physical plane. The Smokey Quartz crystal relieves tension and stress, anxiety, or panic attacks, worsens negative thinking, and eliminates worry and doubt when faced with chaos or confusion.
Benefits
Physical
The Smokey Quartz is a natural irritant and draws upon those frequencies to counter adverse effects of radiation, including sunburn, exposure to radioactive materials, medical radiation and chemotherapy. It can also relieve chronic pain, muscle cramps, headaches, tensions of headaches, shoulders and back.
Emotional
A Smokey Quartz allows one to attune to the light instead of being consumed by life. This crystal gently dissolves these energies as it encourages them, allowing positive frequencies to take their place. It relieves fear, stress, anger, and unspoken resentment lifts depression and fatigue and teaches one how to let go of what is no longer necessary for growth. The Smokey Quartz lends the power to create and change one’s reality and to manifest one’s dreams.
Chakra Energy
The Smokey Quartz is one of the most powerful stone to use in crystal healing layouts to activate and purify the Base or Root chakra. It can balance and direct the energy of the upper chakras to the Base Chakra, making the whole system radiant with light and laying a foundation with the spiritual force that can be manifested in the physical body.
Spiritual
A Smokey Quartz crystal provides a protective barrier of energy around the user. It offers exceptional grounding and stability when working in the higher realms, helping one receive and utilise more high-frequency light energy. This crystal is a remarkable tool for focused prayer and deep meditation, spiritual ceremonies and rituals, and strengthening communication links when contacting other worlds.
While wearing or carrying a Smokey Quartz, one may be more vulnerable to observing phenomena such as ghosts, UFO’s, or spirit guides.
Tourmaline Crystal
The Tourmaline crystal comes in a wide variety of colours and comes colourless as well. These include blue, pink, yellow, red, reddish-purple, dark-forest green, lime green, neon-blue, light brown, bluish-black, and colourless. In some cases, the Tourmaline crystal may come in a rainbow as well. This crystal can be found worldwide, specifically in the USA, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Nigeria, Brazil, Australia, and Africa. The Tourmaline crystal will help strengthen the nervous system as well as the blood and lymphatic systems. It can also offer significant relief from migraines and headaches; it can enhance your stamina and physical vitality. This crystal also can hold the protection quality too, which only emphasises why people choose this crystal for healing.
Benefits
Drawing Out the Negative, Bringing in the Positive
The Tourmaline crystal is the most known for dispelling negative energy and bringing about positive energy as it cleanses and purifies. It has been used in machinery because of its ability to carry a negative electric charge and a positive charge on the end charge. In crystal healing, using a piece of this crystal and pointing one side away from one’s body will help draw out the negative energies and bring positive energies.
A Grounding Stone
Tourmaline is most associated with the base or root chakra; this stone is best for us during a root chakra meditation. When held in hand during meditation, this stone can bring about a sense of awareness and stability.
Protection
Throughout history, the Tourmaline has been known to use as a protective stone. Shamans used this stone for protection during ritual healing.
While the Tourmaline is worn as a necklace, this stone will help the wearer keep out the negative energies of those around them and prevent them negative energies in the environment from seeping in.
Mental Healing
Those suffering from mental health disorders can genuinely benefit from the healing powers of this stone.
Obsidian
The Obsidian crystal properties are known for stabilising and grounding effects, making it an excellent crystal reigning in scattered energies. It is a crystal that can be seen as a trusted companion to carry with you during your healing process, as it will give you the strength and patience you will need to overcome these challenges. The Obsidian crystal is the most powerful for protection, but it works differently from others. An Obsidian stone brings negativity within your energy field to the surface and lets you confront the unwanted energy you have been holding in. There are many variations of Obsidian, and each type has a unique energy. These different types include the Rainbow Obsidian, the Black Obsidian.
The Obsidian crystal can be traced back to the Palaeolithic era, where it was used to make arrowheads and other tools. This crystal wasn’t just a stylish way to accessorise a loincloth during prehistoric times. This warrior stone also protected our ancestors from invaders and the prevails of hunting.
Benefits
Physical Healing
Stemming the tide of oppressive darkness, it takes a polished black crystal to restore the light. As the energy centres in the spiritual form align, physical healing ailments is simultaneously revived. The Obsidian stone strengthens the will of owners and aids troubled users through challenging substance detoxification programs.
Emotional Healing
Many use this stone as an emotional spotlight. Deep healing vibrations are said to reach out and penetrate a hurt heart. The psyche rallies, the strength to recover is accessed and found, and the fear mechanism is brought under control until a formerly emotionally destructive cycle is broken forever.
Spiritual Healing
Obsidian illuminates the self. It protects the bearer from chaos, clarifies and stimulus a need for spiritual and intellectual growth, and the stone has a particular gift for clearing confusion.
Rose Quartz
The fair and lovely Rose Quartz, with its soft colour of pink, is a stone of the heart. Ultimately this is the crystal of unconditional love. It carries gentle feminine energy of compassion, peace, tenderness, healing, nourishment and comfort. The Rose Quartz speaks directly to the Heart Charka, dissolving emotional wounds, fears and resentments, and circulates, Divine loving energy through the entire aura.
The Rose Quartz also referred to as “The Heart Stone”, may have been used as a love token in 600 BC and is still an essential talisman of relationships. It has been rumoured to be quite effective in attracting new love, romance, and intimacy or developing a closer bond with family or friends.
Rose Quartz can also be called Pink Quartz or Hyaline Quartz, from the Greek halos meaning “Glass”, and was referred to in antiquity as Bohemian or Silesian Ruby. Rose Quartz has been recovered from Egyptian tombs, and
The Egyptians and Romanians thought it would clear the complexion and prevent wrinkles of the decreased.
Benefits
Physical
Rose quartz may be used to soothe burns and reduce blisters if rubbed lightly with a polished stone or used as an elixir. It is also thought to help stimulate the proper functioning of the heart and the circulatory system. Furthermore, it can be said that it is incredibly supportive of the female reproductive system, post-partum depression and is thought to help the mother heal after complicated births.
Emotional
The soft emanations of the Rose Quartz comfort and heals any wounds the heart has suffered, penetrating the inner chambers of the Heart Chakras, where emotional experiences are recorded and stored. A deep sense of personal fulfilment forms a news foundation where inner peace and contentment can become a personal reality.
Clear Quartz
Clear Quartz crystal is commonly known as a rock crystal and is a colourless gemstone. However, it can be found in yellow, white, blue, red, green, orange, pink, and black. The Clear Quartz is known as the “master healer” and will amplify energy and affect other crystals. This crystal draws off negative power of all kinds, neutralising background radiation, including electromagnetic smog. It also balances and revitalises the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual planes. The Clear Quartz aids concentration and unlocks memory. This crystal is a 10th-anniversary gemstone.
Benefits
Amplifier
Clear quartz is best known for its ability to amplify and strengthen energy. Having a crystal-like this in a room can help neutralise and power the space with positive energy. It is also an excellent crystal to have with other crystal as it helps strengthen the effects of other crystal if placed near them.
Healing Powers
This crystal is unique in that it can help heal almost any ailment. It boosts and strengthens the immune system along with balancing the body to help clear and cleanse illnesses.
Mental Health
It balances the body and energy around it; it can also help balance the mind and bring calm and inner peace. The calming effects of this stone make it a helpful tool when treating mental health disorders like anxiety, bipolar disorder, depression, and other psychiatric disorders.
Amethyst Crystal
It is derived from the Greek word Amethusthous meaning “not intoxicated”, and comes from an ancient legend. The Amethyst crystal can expand the higher mind also enhances one’s creativity and passion. It strengthens imagination and intuition and refines the thinking processes. The Amethyst crystal can form in nature with other crystals and minerals to create new types and varieties.
The Brandberg Amethyst crystal is a blend of Amethyst, Clear, Smokey, Quartz, together is one high-vibrational crystal. It can only be found in Namibia, Africa.
Chevron Amethyst displays V-shaped chevrons of deep purple and white quartz that “seep” into beautiful layers. It is one of the finest Third-Eye stones for stimulating vision within the self and the physical world, filtering the life force from the cosmos via the Crown in its white layers and opening up spiritual physic channels through the purple.
Cacoxenite in Amethyst mingles dark brown to yellow tufts of Cacoxenite, a phosphate mineral and a significant component in the Super Seven crystal, with the host crystal being Amethyst. It is a calming stone, good in times of upheaval, and raises spiritual awareness of the creator essence in the beauty of nature and the kindness in people.
Ametrine combines Amethyst and Citrine within the same crystal, a harmonious blend of the two energies. It brings spirituality into harmony with the intellect and inspires a profound flow of creativity, new ideas, and insights. It is a remarkable healing stone, removing pain and tension while bringing energy and a sense of well being to the mind and body.
“Rutilated” Amethyst is a rare form of Amethyst that appears to contains Rutilated but contains brownish crystals of Goethite. This is an iron hydroxide mineral also found in the Super Seven Crystal. Goethite is a stone for finding a link between the deep self and Earth, and together with Amethyst, it clears the Earth and the Base Chakras, aligning the whole base chakras. This stone, in particular, purifies the emotional body, and it helps in grief work.
Benefit
Physical
Amethyst boosts the production of hormones and stimulates the sympathetic nervous system and the endocrine glands to optimum performances. It supports oxygenation in the blood and aids the digestive system tract, hearts, stomach, and skin.
Emotional
This crystal is incredibly supportive of the emotional body, bringing those overworked, overstressed or overwhelmed back to the centre. It eases mental anxieties that lead to physical tensions and headaches and is an excellent crystal to calm those hot-headed and easily angered.
Chakra Balancing
Amethyst carries high, sweet energy, particularly stimulating the Third Eye, Crown and Etheric Chakras.
Spiritual
This stone is of spiritual protection and purification. It cleanses one’s energy field of negative influences and attachments. Additionally, it acts as a barrier against lower energies, geopathic stress, and unhealthy environments.
Iron Pyrite or “Fools Gold”
The Iron Pyrite is a strong stone that helps in promoting manifestation and positive thinking. It is a beautiful gold colour, and for hundreds of years, it has been known as “Fools Gold.” Like real gold, it has a lovely lust to it, constructed of many pieces, and has a shiny appearance that is inviting to look at.
Iron Pyrite can be mined in various locations worldwide like North America, Britain, Peru, Chile, and many other countries.
The Iron Pyrite stone has dated backed to around 50 AD. Its property is quite brittle, which is dissimilar to that of natural gold. It also possesses streaks, which are more brownish-black in colour. The Iron Pyrite has the potential to create sparks when it is struck against metal or another stone. This is a stone of willpower, commitment, and action. It may also signify spirit and vitality as well as having the capability to tap into your potential. The Iron Pyrite symbolises the constant flow of ideas as well as working with confidence and determination.
Benefit
For Health and Healing
The Iron Pyrite is an excellent crystal for caregivers and hospital workers due to its prevailing work to protect and heal the body from diseases.
For Wealth
The properties of the Iron Pyrite inspire determination and perseverance that makes it an ideal stone for aspiring influencers, mentors or leaders. In terms of wealth, this crystal may give some favourable energies to the workplace.
This is probably why it is best to have this one sitting on your office desk!
For Love and Relationships
The Iron Pyrite is a powerful and solid crystal to possess in terms of the heart. This is somewhat efficient when guarding yourself in controlling or manipulating a partner.
Tiger Eye
The Tiger Eye stone is the most ancient talisman, mysterious, powerful, feared and an “all-seeing, all-knowing eye”. It is thought to grant a wearer the ability to observe everything, even through the closed door. The Egyptians chose this stone for the eyes in their deity statues to express the divine vision and believed in providing the protection of the sun and Earth combined of RA, the Sun God, and GEB, God of the growing land.
A Tiger Eye stone is made out of various macrocrystalline quartz known for its remarkable chatoyancy and rich layers of gold and brown colours. Though a pseudomorph of quartz formed as layers of Crocidolite, fibrous blue asbestos were replaced over time by Chalcedony Quartz while still retaining the original shape of the asbestos fibres.
The Tiger Eye is a stone encouraging person luck and good fortune. This stone, in particular, is excellent for those who are entrepreneurs, those setting out in business for the first time, and those who are building skills for a significant career change in the future.
Benefits
Physical
Tiger’s Eye is a blood fortifier, increasing vitality and strength and restoring balance into the body on all levels. By placing a Tiger’s Eye on either side of one’s head energetically rebalancing one’s head hemispheres, and as this stone holds the energy of the sun, it may relieve seasonal affective disorder or even depression.
Emotionally
This stone is remarkable for the mind, as it balances emotional extremes and allows scatted thoughts, feelings, and information to come together in a way that makes sense. A Tiger’s Eye is ideal for someone who is consistently spaced out, uncommitted to find a purpose, and for those if find it hard to remain optimistic.
Chakra Healing
Tiger’s Eye grounds the energy of the Solar Ray into Earth, stimulating the first through the third charkas. It supports physical vitality, practicality, and maintaining a balance between the extremes.
Hematite Crystal
The Hematite crystal will make you feel more centred and calmer with its intense but subtle vibrations. Its properties are a gem in clearing and activating the root chakra, the energy centre that anchors us to the Earth and provides a feeling of stability. A Hematite crystal can be found in Brazil, Canada, England, the USA, and Venezuela. The Hematite Crystal is linked to its connection to the root chakra, the centre of security and survival. By creating a strong sense of energy stability, so you feel centre and secure.
Benefits
Physical
The Hematite crystal is linked to its connection to the root chakra, and by creating a sense of energetic stability, this crystal works to align, clear and balance your root chakra so you feel cantered and secure.
Emotional
This crystal is also linked with its ability to absorb any toxic emotions holding you back from your natural state of joy. Using the Hematite crystal can help clear away any negative thoughts or feelings from stress, anxiety or worry.
Citrine Crystal
A natural Citrine crystal is a premier stone for manifestation, imagination and personal will. A Citrine crystal stimulates the chakras like spring sunlight, clearing the mind and stirring the soul to action. This crystal encourages the fullness of life, fresh beginnings, and new pursuits. It is a transparent, yellow variety of quartz, ranging from pale to golden yellow, honey or almost brown and may contain rainbow or sparkle inclusions. The name comes from a French word, citron, meaning Lemon. The Citrine was found in Greece as far back as 300 BC and, because of its colour, is sometimes mistakenly referred to as Gold Topaz, Madeira, or Spanish Topaz or Safranite.
Benefits
Physical
Citrine enhances physical stamina and energy, supports the endocrine system, encourages proper metabolism.
Emotional
Citrine opens the higher mind to accept the joys in one’s life by realising anger and negative feelings, deep-seated fears, and destructive behaviour. This crystal also acts as a natural purifier of one’s will centre, helping to identify and heal issues of power abuse and feelings of helplessness.
Chakra Healing
A Citrine crystal’s colours of yellow and gold energies activate, open, and energise the Solar Plexus and Navel Chakras, directing personal powers, creativity, and intelligent decisiveness to enhance the physical body.
Aquamarine Crystal
The Aquamarine crystal evokes the purity of crystalline waters, the exhilaration, and the relaxation of the sea. Today it protects all who travels by, over, or near water and opens the channels of clear, heartful communication. Its colour, sometimes bluish greenish, is caused by iron oxides within the chemical makeup of the stone.
In the ancient lone, the Aquamarine crystal is believed to have the treasure of mermaids and was once used by sailors as a talisman of good luck and protection. Aquamarine’s name comes from the Latin aqua Marinus, meaning “water of the sea”, and refers to its sparkling ocean-like colour.
Benefits
Physical
The Aquamarine stone is associated with breath, the respiratory tract, and the lungs. It is seen as a cooling stone, countering infections like laryngitis, strep throat, or even a sore throat.
Emotional
Aquamarine is, in fact, one of the water element stones, powerful for cleansing the emotional body and opening communication. This stone holds gentle energy that brings emotional patterns to the surface and assists in understanding the reason for holding on to old thoughts or patterns that limiting a forward motion.
Charka Healing
This crystal is associated with the Throat Chakra. It stimulates energy from the heart to the throat, allowing one’s most profound and heartfelt truths to be communicated.
Desert Rose Crystal
The Desert Rose crystal is the most often the combination of Selenite and Barite and forms through moisture condensation.
It resembles a cluster of rose petals, and it can range from brown, tan, crème to white. It is also sometimes called Gypsum Rosette, Selenite Rose, Rose Rock, Gypsum Rosette, and Sand Rose.
It can be found in many desserts like Algeria, Australia, Spain, Morocco, Mexico, South Africa.
A Desert Rose crystal will help make sense of things if you are going through something, causing you confusion and muddle thinking.
Benefits
Love and Relationships
The Desert Rose stone is as equally as powerful as it is beautiful. This stone is said to act as a good luck charm when it comes to searching for love.
Health
The Desert Rose is said to have health benefits on the reproductive organs such as the prostate, testes, and ovaries. Just place the stone in the room of the person that wants to receive the benefit, and these organs should do particularly well.
Pink Opal Crystal
The Pink Opal crystal is a pastel pink that provides nurturing energy and healing properties that can ease a broken heart and encourage inner peace. This crystal can come in vibrant hues from bubble-gum pink to lavender, creamy whites, and dawn tinted pinks too.
In Ancient Egypt, the Pink Opal often adorned the crowns of pharaohs, while the lone surrounding this blushing stone varied from one culture to the next. It was, however, always thought to be a crystal to have a high value.
The overarching theme of the Pink Opal crystal is love, acceptance and rejuvenation.
Wearing this crystal as a necklace is very useful for emotional cleansing; as a heart chakra, it can align and balance it no matter what.
Benefits
Emotional
The Pink Opal has the most significant impact on one’s well being and is one of the main reasons it became a popular crystal to own. This crystal is all about facing your inner demons and finding peace in yourself. Furthermore, it opens closed hearts, mends old wounds, and pushes you to take in as much love as you can get.
Spiritual
A nickname for the Pink Opal is “The Stone of Spiritual Awakens”. This is because the Pink Opal is said to put the users on the path of discovery and enlightenment.
Chakra Healing
The Pink Opal directly interacts with the heart chakra. Like all other Chakras, it receives life force energy and sways your emotional health. The Heart Chakra governs core emotions like love, compassion, and empathy.
Raw Emerald
The Raw Emerald is a life-affirming stone and one of infinite patience. It is known as the stone of successful love and represents great loyalty and integrity. The green of the Emerald is that of forest green and nature during the period of maximum growth. Raw Emerald is the stone of love and friendships and helps keep them in balance. This precious gem also opens you up to your latent Clairvoyant abilities promotes the gathering of wisdom from mental planes.
Benefits
Emotional
Emerald is an excellent stone when you require mental clarity, soothe tempers, or calm fears. If you struggle to accept love, the Emerald is said to help guide you and protect you from harm.
Physical
The Emerald stone can help in regulating eye pressure and in treating digestive problems. It can also be effective when protecting the heart, controlling blood pressure, reducing inflammation, and preventing infections.
Chakra Healing
An Emerald stone vibrates to the rhythm of the Heart Chakra. When placed on the Heart Chakra, it will activate, cleanse, and clear this energy centre, removing all the negative energy and will release pure unconditional love.
How to Cleanse Your Crystals/Stones
Natural Water
Water neutralises the negative energy stored in the stone or crystal and directs it back to Earth.
Rinse and stimulate your crystals/stones with water by placing them under natural rainfall for 4-5 minutes.
If it is a dry season, you can put them in a colander and rinse them under a faucet for 5-10 minutes.
Important Note: Water does have a physical force, so only clean hard stones like Amethyst or Quartz with this method.
Sunlight or Moonlight
Sunlight and moonlight can charge and clean your gemstone.
The sun will supply a newly harvested gemstone with yang solar energy that balances the stone’s innate ying energy is received from the Earth during the creation.
It is suggested that you put your Amethyst crystal or Rose Quartz out on the lawn at dawn for an hour.
Important Detail: Moonlight is more delicate and (non-colour alternating method) significantly affected with a full moon because the moon is at its brightest and fullest potential when complete. It can increase the vibrations of the stones.
Earth
You can use the elements of the Earth by burying your stones underground for a full day.
Let the Earth soak up all the unwanted energies contained within the stone, so they are cleansed and refreshed.
Fire Power
You can use fire or smoke to cleanse your stones by quickly burning your stones or smudging.
Direct fire immediately burns away negative energy and is done in a matter of seconds over a candle.
Smudging can be done with sage sticks, Palo Santo, or commercial incense-like Sandal Wood or Cedar, which is widely known to remove negatively.
Just wave your stones or crystals over your smoke source for 20-30 seconds to cleanse while simultaneously purifying your home.
Salt Water
A saltwater bath is one of the most common ways to cleanse your crystals or stones.
Salt has been used throughout history for rituals and as a vehicle to absorb unwanted energies.
With these techniques, soak your crystals or stones overnight in the water with a pinch of sea salt.
Make sure to give them a rinse in clear water after the salt bath to remove residue.
Important Note: It is not always advisable to use salt water to cleanse stones as the salt can damage specific delicate stones like Hematite and Iron Pyrite
Other Stones
Certain crystals and clusters like quarts or Amethyst can absorb and regenerate other stores.
One of the most popular cleansing crystals that can purify gemstones of their negativity is Selenite.
To cleanse your stones, lay them on Selenite for at least 6 hours (but the longer, the better).
Selenite and Clear Quartz amplify the energy of the other stones you may own.
They can absorb, neutralise, and recharge your stones with higher vibrations.
Meditation
There are ways to clean and meditate with your gemstones at the same time.
You can balance your energies during meditation by blowing a balanced breath into your crystals.
It is essential to state your intentions so you can refuel your gemstone after you clean it.
If you are interested, try and do a double whammy to do a meditation-cleanse during a full moon.
Important Note: Do not do this in vain. Make sure you practice this with relaxed and proper meditation.
Ways to Use Healing Crystals
Program your crystal with true intentions.
The crystal wants to work for you, but you have to tell it what to do.
Wear your crystals.
Toss them into a purse or a pocket.
You can if use it as a touchstone throughout the day to help ground you.
Meditate while holding your crystals to connect with their metaphysical powers.
Create a crystal layout.