✳ Clear Quartz: Clear Quartz resonates with the upper chakras and is therefore good with issues of the mind and emotions. It can also be easily enchanted to heal issues of the past, so if your anxiety was brought of my a trauma (especially along with PTSD), then clear quartz is perfect for you.
✳ Rose Quartz: Well known at the stone of love, this crystal is also very soothing and calming. Hold it to your chest, over your heart, and take deep breaths as if sucking in its energy as you calm yourself. When placed in a room, rose quartz transmits an aura or harmony and peace.
✳ Black Tourmaline: A top protective stone which blocks the negative energies of others and shields wonderfully. This stone is perfect for those with social anxiety.
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Lepidolite:This stone is a natural source of lithium, an anti-anxiety and pro-meditation medication. It also brings forth happiness and a sense of safety, even is stressful situations.
✳ Blue Lace Agate: Blue Lace Agate is a highly calming and slowing stone, best for those with hyper anxiety and anxiety accompanied by increased blood pressure, heart rate, and so on.
The best way to work with crystals magickally, is to simply carry them in your pocket or touch them. You can also wear them as jewelry as a single crystal or combined with other complimentary crystals on places such as: over your heart or at your wrists, etc, to disburse the energies throughout the body.
Cleansing Crystals
Many people often handle the crystals before they are bought by you, so aligning and cleansing them is recommended for purest energy.
Crystal Alignment Meditation
Stand before your crystals and close your eyes and focus on the moment
Take three slow breaths: inhale to the count of four, hold for count of four, and exhale for count of four, and then hold for another four counts
State firmly in your mind “My spirit vibrates in harmony with (insert crystal type here)” (Robbins & Bedell, 2017).
Continue to mentally recite the chant until you feel an energetic shift in yourself
Open your eyes and start to feel the crystals before you
Hold them, touch them
The crystal that is right for you will feel like its humming in your hand–the sensation of your energy and the crystal energy aligning
Boosting Crystal Power with a Simple Cleansing Ritual
Materials:
Your crystals
Bowl of soapy water
Sea salt (in small bowl)
Bowl of cold water
Ritual:
Take all the crystals and put them in the bowl of soapy water. Use your hands to rub them clean
Chant as you wash clean: “Water, cleanse and clean. Remove the negative unseen” (Robbins & Bedell, 2017).
When the crystals feel lighter, individually place them in the bowl of salt. The salt will ground them in your energy and their energy, and remove any remaining energy
Next, dip them in the bowl of cold water to rinse off the salt, but keep the energetic process. As you remove them from the cold water, say “By the water, no more negativity. By the water, blessed be” (Robbins & Bedell, 2017)
Your crystals are now blessed and cleansed and ready for use
Color Associations
White: Pure spirit, innocence, blank slate (any purpose)
Red: Love, life, sex, romance, power, element of fire
Orange: Success, memory, gaining energy
Green: Money, fertility, success, growth, life-earth element
Fluorite: Relieves arthritis, aids concentration (note: do not use in an elixir or crystal water)
Garnet: Relieves arthritis and depression, improves circulation, aids fertility
Hematite: Relieves anxiety, arthritis, headaches, and insomnia; improves circulation; aids sleep
Iron Pyrite (Fool’s Gold): Relieves asthma, improves digestion
Jadeite: Relieves depression, balances the nervous system
Jet: Relieves headaches and depression
Labradorite: Improves digestion, relieves stress
Lapis Lazuli: Relieves depression, headaches, insomnia, and stress; boosts immunity
Malachite: Relieves asthma, boosts immunity (note: do not use in an elixir or crystal water)
Moonstone: Relieves anxiety, aids fertility
Moss Agate: Relieves depression, boosts immunity
Red Jasper: Improves circulation, aids concentration, relieves constipation
Rose Quartz: Relieves anxiety, headaches, and stress: aids fertility
Ruby: Improves circulation, relieves constipation
Smoky Quartz: Relieves anxiety, stress, and headaches
Sunstone: Relieves depression and fatigue
Tigereye: Relieves anxiety, asthma, and depression
Crystal Water
This is an energetic healing-water prepared in a glass or jar, with the correct combination of crystals. To make your water:
Place the crystals in the bottom of the glass or jar
Set outside in the sun, or by a sunny window
Let sit for 2-8 hours
Once done, strain the water into a clean glass and store
Dosage is 2-3 drops in a glass of water or juice 3-4 times daily
Note: Some crystals have metallic components and may contain iron or other substances that you should not drink or touch. These minerals include malachite, azurite, fluorite, jet, sulfur, serpentine, tigereye, tiger iron, and turquoise. To still obtain the crystal water energies from these crystals, you should use the No-Touch Method.
No-Touch Method
What you will need
Small bowl
Large bowl
Crystals
Water
Bottle or jar
Place the crystals in the small bowl
Place the smaller bowl within the larger bowl
Fill the larger bowl with enough water that the water level is above the height of the crystal(s) in the smaller bowl (BUT DOES NOT OVERFLOW INTO THE SMALL BOWL)
Place the bowls outside in the sun or on a sunny window for 2-8 hours
I know the Amethyst works because my daughters have issues with bad dreams and I placed an amethyst in between their mattress (because didn’t want them playing with a ‘pretty rock’ as they were sleeping). I may have to get me some new crystals though and try making a sleep sachet for myself!
Citrine - does not retain negative energy, thus never
needs to be cleansed; creativity, motivation
Clear Quartz - a power stone used to provide extra energy and
can be used to charge other items; healing, protection, power, banishing, charging
Fluorite - stability, peace and calm, impartial reasoning, responsibility, concentration, meditation, protection from psychic attacks, self love
Hematite - grounding, deflecting negative energy
Jasper - protection, relaxation, tranquility
Jet - eases grief, protection, banishing
Kyanite - does not retain negative energy, thus never
needs to be cleansed; cleansing other stones, tranquility, removing energy
blockages, channeling energy
Cleansing and Charging Crystals - a good rule of thumb is that if you’re not sure if you can place your crystals in water, salt, or direct sunlight because it might damage the stone, use moonlight or starlight instead. You can also place your crystals in a dry bath of herbs and flowers, or pass them through incense smoke.
Crystal
form: most often protruding clusters of pyramids on a matrix base. Also occurs as tall prismatic crystals, as short stubby crystals, in druzy aggregates, massive, and in geodes.
Transparency: transparent to translucent
Luster:
vitreous
Cleavage:
indiscernible
Fracture:
conchoidal
Tenacity: brittle
Group: silicates, tectosilicates, silica group
Environment: occurs in all mineral environments, especially igneous
◊ A type of quartz, the purple colour is caused by impurities of iron or manganese compounds
◊ The colour is due to high energy radiation (gamma
rays from radioactive sources), and the presence of iron built into the lattice
◊ The
irradiation causes iron Fe (+3) atoms which replace the silicon in the centre
of the SiO2 tetrahedra to lose another electron and form Fe (+4) - an unusual
oxidation state of iron.
◊ Iron
needs to be Fe3+ and not Fe2+ to be built into the quartz
◊ Colour fades in UV rays if exposed for a long time
◊ Mostly found in volcanic rocks
◊ Found in igneous and certain metamorphic rocks -
those that contain enough radioactive trace elements for a sufficient
irradiation of the crystals.
◊ Amethyst from sedimentary rocks is very rare -
usually very pale in colour.
◊ Can’t form in watery solutions that contain lots of
reducing agents (like H2S or CH4) - would stabilize Fe2+ or reduce
Fe3+.
◊ Oxygen
present in a watery solution will cause the formation of Fe3+
