Healing Crystals 101

Selecting Your Stones

Identify what you feel you need before looking into what stones can provide you. Allow your intuition to choose which stones are best for you. If a stone catches your eye or you feel a physical pull toward one, allow your subconscious to guide you to the crystal that’s right for you.

Caring for Your Stones

Please, cleanse away any negativity your stones may have picked up. Many people have handled your crystal prior to reaching you. Wipe down your crystals with soap and water or use sea salt and water. Please, do not soak your stones unless you know this will not ruin your crystal. You may also cleanse your crystals by burning sage. Burning sage really helps get rid of unwanted energies. Run your crystal through the smoke of sage for cleansing.

Charging Your Stones

Leave stones in the sunlight for at least 6 hours to energize. Some choose to charge by moonlight as well. Try to clean and charge once a week especially after anyone has handled your crystals. Focus on mentally removing the negative energy or any skepticism you may have about the capabilities of crystal healing. It’s very important to respect what they can do for you.

There are several types of healing crystals and each crystal has its own healing powers for the mind, body, and soul. It is believed to promote the flow of good energy and help rid the body and mind of negative energy for physical and emotional benefits.

Ancient Egyptians mined crystals and used them as jewelry. Healing crystals are sometimes referred to as semi-precious gemstones. Crystals emit energy like everything else in the universe. When the energy emitted from crystals is absorbed it provides healing benefits. The healing properties help to calm and assist with resolving issues like anxiety, depression, negativity, and stress. Healing crystals also assist with protecting the owner, attracting wealth, good luck, prosperity, and abundance. Check out our jewelry and find something you really like. You will find that piece of jewelry actually selected you. When you are attracted to a stone, that stone is drawing you to aid in your area of need.

Here’s a list of some of the more popular healing crystals.

Clear Quartz - Energizing

Clear Quartz is known as a powerful and universal healing stone, it works on all areas of the mind and body, awakening, amplifying, and transmitting energy and clarifying thought processes. It is an excellent stone for meditation, directing energies with more intensity. It connects to the higher self, removes negativity, and allows access to your spirit guides. Clear Quartz provides clarity in thinking and awareness. Improving your memory and providing clarity of mind. Healing: Known as the Master Healer, a powerful healing stone that can be used across the whole body on its own or to amplify the energy of other crystals. It stimulates and balances the energy of the whole body, boosting the immune system. It is also excellent for soothing and healing burns, balancing emotions, and activating the pineal and pituitary glands.

Amethyst – Calming and Intuition

Amethyst is the stone of spirituality and contentment, it bestows stability, strength, inner peace. It is a great stone for meditation and enhancing your intuition and psychic abilities with its calming and peaceful energy. Amethyst provides clarity and enhances conscious perception and understanding. Healing: Assists in calming the mind, reduces insomnia and allows restful sleep, reduces stress, eases headaches, helps with hormone production, strengthens the immune system, cleansing organs, and respiratory system, reduces bruising and swelling. Assists in the function of the pineal and pituitary glands.

Tiger Eye – Personal Power

Tiger Eye brings confidence, strength, courage, protection, and good luck. It sharpens the senses, promotes intuition, and helps one to be practical, centered, and grounded. It enhances personal power, allows clarity, good judgment, clear perception, and insight, aiding in good decision making. Tiger Eye can be used to stimulate wealth and maintain it. Tiger Eye balances emotions, reduces headaches, aids the digestive organs, spleen, pancreas, and colon. Helps the reproductive system, relieves asthma attacks, and enhances night vision.

Lapis Lazuli – Stone of Truth

Encourages self-awareness, allows self-expression, and reveals inner truth, providing qualities of honesty, compassion, and morality to the personality. Stimulates objectivity, clarity and encourages creativity. Lapis Lazuli assists to confront and speak one's truth and inspires confidence. Use this powerful stone to support and help heal the throat, larynx, and vocal cords. Due to its strong ties to the brain, it is believed to ease Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) by helping the mind to focus and let go of unnecessary thoughts.