Connecting with Crystals

Connecting with crystals can play an important role in establishing a healing relationship.

Have you been ever been drawn to the mystical power of crystals?

Crystals have powerful energies that we may be useful to aid ourselves and in the many situations in our lives.

For some, they are just pretty (or not so pretty) pieces of rock or stone.  For others, crystals have personalities that come to life when you actively connect with them to bring out their best healing potential.

So how do we connect with crystals?

Connecting with crystals is relatively simple. We like to see each and every stone, rock or crystals as sentient beings, with minds and personalities of their own.  When you can remain open to the potential of this statement being true, you can begin to reap the rewards of a loving and fruitful relationship with them.

To connect with each crystal it helps if you can view them as individuals with the potential to love, communicate and connect with you.

Just like people, individual crystals have their own unique properties.  All crystals have healing properties, and these properties are often linked to the type of crystal you work with.  At the end of this article we have included a list of a few crystals with their typical, associated healing properties.

Crystals contain and hold energy

Because all crystals have healing properties, they tend to take on energy.  They’ll take on the energy of the individuals that pulled them out of the earth, and sometimes they hold scaring from the method through which they were pulled from the earth.

They will also hold onto the energy of whomever has come into contact with them, and are particularly sensitive to those individuals who are injured, traumatised or just plain energy sensitive.  It is here that they can become powerful forces of light, support and grounding for others.

It is extremely important to make sure that your crystal is cleansed and cleared on a regular basis. When we do this your crystal will give you the optimum amount of healing energy that it can harness, without any interference from external energies that have been picked up by the crystal.  If they haven’t been cleared, they may reflect negative energy belonging to someone else and this may be reflected back to you.

Clearing & Cleansing Your Crystals

When you connect with crystals, clearing crystals at least once a month will help to ensure its optimal purpose.  If it is a crystal that you use a lot (for example if you wear it every day) then more regular clearing is beneficial to ensure the crystals energetic integrity.

The best ways to clear your crystals:

• White lighting and your intention – hold the crystal in your non-dominant hand and place your dominant hand over the top. Imagine reaching up and drawing down milky white universal light from above down into your hands. Repeat this three times with the intention to cleanse and clear the crystal. You should feel a buzzing or subtle vibration as the energy shifts. If you feel inclined, repeat a fourth time with healing green energy (intent to provide the crystal with a healing). It’ll love your for it, promise!
• Smudging the crystals with sage or frankincense – these are master clearing plants, who will clear the crystal’s auric field, although smudging may not always clear the crystal internally. It depends on how congested the crystal is. Trust your intuition.
• Salt water – allowing your crystals to bathe in salt water is a good way to cleanse, but it is important that the salt is of high quality, like Himalayan or Celtic salt (just please do not do this with a selenite!)
• Seawater – taking your crystals to the ocean and allowing them to be cleared by the naturally salty water of the sea (again, no selenite)
• Earthing – popping your crystal back into the earth for 1-2 days can be extremely powerful and some people swear by this to fully cleanse and clear my crystals. **As crystals are naturally from the earth, it is a great place for them to go to be restored, reset and cleared due to negative ions emitted by the earth. Crystals can be buried together – just make sure you put a marker where you buried them so they don’t become lost!

Another important factor to note is that the sun and moon don’t clear crystals. They do most certainly energise them though! Just remember to clear the crystals first so they have room to absorb beautiful energising energy.

Building an Active Relationship with Crystals

Crystal love to be dedicated to a purpose and directed (or coded) on how you want them to support you.  To dedicate it to a task, clear the energy first, and gift the crystal with a nice green energy healing.  Then, while still holding the crystal tell it that you would be most grateful if it could help you to/with [insert task here].

An example might be I want to ask a clear quartz crystal to assist me keep a high vibration and gather clear insight, or I might ask a rose quartz crystal to help me stay in the heart space when having difficult conversations.

Crystal grids are a great way to harness, amplify and work with the energy of crystals.

Building a relationship with each and every one of your crystals is so important. I frequently talk to my crystals, and sometimes they even answer me back – of course, in their own unique way. You don’t need specialist skills of spirit communication to do this, but it does make things easier!

Here is a great way to attune and programme your crystals:

• Take a few slow deep breaths to centre and ground yourself while holding the crystal in your hands
• Begin rubbing the crystal in between your hands back and forth, so that you are connecting your warm energy with it, acquainting yourself and the crystal
• Call for the Spirit of the crystal to be in the crystal.

Meditating with your crystal of choice can be used as a powerful healing tool.

• Tell it your name and set your intention by asking what you would like it to help you with/how you would like to work with it – this is a great way to programme the crystal, and showing respect and gratitude for the crystal plays an important role in this.
• Continue breathing slowly and deeply into your belly, and as you breathe out allow your energy to move up through your heart, down your arms, and into the crystal from your hands, continue this for a few more breaths.
• While sending your energy down into the crystal, as you breathe in begin to receive the energy from the crystal, feel it moving from the crystal into your hands, up your arms, through your heart, and down into your belly.
• Continue this for as long as you feel inclined, and after a while just sit with the crystal and notice what you feel from it.
• The crystal is now ready to work with you anytime you indicate. As it begins to feel congested with energy (dense/dark/unresponsive), repeat the cleansing, clearing and energising techniques.

What Crystals Work for What?

Here is a short list of suggested crystals to work with for certain purposes:

• Amethyst (purple)– is a very spiritual stone that holds many healing properties, especially emotional healing as it provides a connection between you and the Divine. It has an incredibly high frequency, allowing for purification of the aura from any negative energies. Amethyst works with the Third Eye and Crown chakras helping one to develop intuitively and creatively, while being an extremely calming and soothing stone to the mind. This is a great stone for people suffering from insomnia or bad dreams. Simply stick it under your pillow or next to you as you sleep. It is also excellent for meditation.
• Black Tourmaline – this is an important protecting and grounding stone, as it purifies and protects your energy fromanything that is not yours, providing you with a shield, while also grounding your mind, body and spirit as it works to connect the Root chakra with the Earth. Typically tourmaline comes in a variety of colours. Black tourmaline is the most common and strongest for protection from overbearing situations.
• Rose Quartz (pink)– this is the stone of Love. It works directly with the heart chakra, helping to open you up to unconditional love in all aspects of your life. It is a mothering crystal that helps to nurture oneself. Rose quartz is excellent for meditation, especially those focusing on self or divine love.

• Tiger’s Eye (golden brown) –this stone is also a stone of protection and grounding. It stabilizes your energy and can help with one’s self-confidence and willpower, while also being said to bring prosperity. It is said to be great to travel with due to its protective properties.

• Selenite (white) –this stone is associated with mental clarity, allowing for strong decision making abilities, while encouraging truth and honesty. It is a great stone for removing energetic blocks from the physical and energy bodies, while enhancing the healing properties of other stones as it can help to clear and charge them. Selenite is great to have next to any electronic devices as it absorbs the electro-magnetic fields put out by these devices. You can also use a selenite to help clear your energy field and the energy of rooms of dense and dark energy simply by holding it and white lighting it. It is also an energy expander for meditation.
• Lapis Lazuli (blue) – helps to create a strong spiritual connection, allowing for communication between the physical and celestial planes. It enhances psychic abilities and manifestation, while allowing for emotional resolve as it strengthens the mind. This stone is also has many protective energies – especially from psychic attacks. Another stone that is awesome for expansive and ascension meditations.

Some of these crystals help to expand your energy, while others help to enclose and contain your energy (such as the grounding and protecting crystals).

It is important to know what your crystals are doing with your energy, so that you may pick the best one for you.

I hope that this will begin a harmonious and beautiful connection with you and your crystals.  Working together with your crystals as a team allows you to both benefit from the energies and healing properties that you bring each other.

If you’re resident in Melbourne, we recommend visiting Qi Crystals in Caulfield South to explore their wonderous range of crystals.  You can find them at: www.qicrystals.com.au

Yours in Spiritual evolution,

Written with assistance by Eloise Fielke.