Although crystals are said to have innate healing properties, taking the time to set an intention for your stone can help you connect with its energy and restore your own sense of purpose.
You may feel comfortable holding the stone in your hand as you meditate, or placing it on your third eye. You can also lay back and allow the stone to rest on the corresponding chakra, or area of the body that you wish to work with.
Envision the stone’s energy merging with your own. Speak to the stone — silently or verbally — and ask for assistance in working through your current endeavor.
Thank the stone for its presence then spend a few minutes in meditation.
How to activate your crystal
If your stone feels heavier than expected — like it’s lost its shine — it may benefit from a little energetic activation.
Try lending it some of your own energy by speaking to it, singing to it, or sending it some vital life force energy through your breath. A little interaction can go a long way!
If you have plans outside, consider taking the stone out with you. Many people find that allowing the stone to soak up natural energy at the park or beach has a powerful effect.
You can also create an activation grid by surrounding the stone with its more energetic counterparts. Popular choices include ruby, clear quartz, apophyllite, kyanite, selenite, and carnelian.
You can use whatever stones you’re drawn toward. Just make sure they fully surround the main crystal so that it can completely bask in their vibrations.
If you’re new to crystals or have received one as a gift, you may be wondering, “What do I do with this thing now?” Hopefully I can help make it nice, simple and clear!
There is a whole process involved in preparing your crystals to vibe best with your energy and intention. As a gift from Mother Earth, the process of cleansing, charging and programming your crystals involves--you guessed it--nature! Often times these processes are drastically over-complicated and result in people just not doing them. I’m here to tell you it’s super important that you do these things for your crystals. I wanna lay it out for you with lots of options to choose from so you can find one that works best for you and your crystal journey!
After you’ve chosen a crystal...
FIRST STEP: CLEANSE YOUR CRYSTAL
Cleansing your crystal is one of the most (if not THE most) important steps in this process. No matter where or how you acquired your crystal, it has been absorbing the energy around it. I’ve been in many a crystal shop where the energy felt “off.” Even if the crystal was given to you by a loving friend, it still needs to be cleansed. Think of how you sometimes get overwhelmed and you need to just be by yourself, take a walk in nature, or take a nice cleansing bath. In this same way, crystals can get overwhelmed or full of energy that makes their abilities slightly muted. So it’s up to us to cleanse our crystals on a regular basis.
SIDE NOTE: Darker crystals like obsidian, black tourmaline, or hematite need to be cleansed more often because they are absorbers of lower vibrational energy. I try to cleanse all my crystals at least once a month, but more often I listen to my intuition to guide me rather than a time frame.
Here are some of my favorite ways to cleanse your crystal:
Start by knowing and stating your intention. You can speak it aloud or mentally:
“You are cleansed. Your energy is cleansed for my Highest Good.” (or some variation that speaks to you. The intention for cleansing is what matters!)
SAGE: It’s an ancient practice to use the burning of herbs or woods to cleanse the energy of a space in preparation for ritual or just to give a nice reset. You can use this same practice to cleanse and “reset” your crystals. This is super simple.
Light your sage (be sure you have a fireproof bowl to catch any pieces of the sage or ash that falls). Run your crystals through the smoke that rises from the sage while speaking the mantra/intention aloud or in your head. You will be surprised how lovely this actually feels during and afterward.
PALO SANTO: “Palo Santo” means “holy wood,” and it works very similarly to sage. You use the same process as before--remembering to hold the intention of cleansing. Light the wood, then wave the crystals through the smoke. If you have a lot of crystals to cleanse, wave the wood around while fanning the smoke toward the crystals with your hand or a feather (humanely attained please!).
BROWN RICE: Have you ever dropped your phone in a pool of water, and in a panic submerged the phone into rice? The same way that rice absorbs moisture from objects, it also absorbs negative energies from your crystals.
Just take a bowl of appropriate size, place the crystal into the bowl and cover the crystal with the rice. Leave the crystal submerged in the rice for at least 12 hours (or overnight). Do not eat the rice afterward, but rather discard it. You don’t want to take lower vibrational energy into your body!
WATER: If you can get to a beautiful stream or river, do that! If you can’t, I have used my running water from my sink many times. Yeah, it’s way better to get to a stream without strange chemicals, but sometimes that’s not practical for some of us!
Allow the water to run over the crystal(s) to be cleansed for about 10 seconds. It may take longer or less time. Tune into your intuition. When do you feel the energy of the crystal shift? You will know in your gut when it’s done.
Remember to be sure your crystal isn’t water soluble if you’re using this method!
SELENITE: There are some crystals that help to cleanse and recharge other crystals. One of the most popular crystals for this is Selenite. Selenite is a beautiful white gypsum that has such a beautiful and high vibration. It is said that selenite doesn’t need to be cleansed--that it is a self-cleansing crystal. I still cleanse my selenite using one of the aforementioned methods. But just remember, selenite is water soluble, and may dissolve under running water. So use a different method for that!
Take your crystals and place them around a selenite tower or any shape of selenite. You can use clear quartz points around the piece of selenite to magnify the direction of the energy--creating a crystal grid of sorts. More on that in another blog post!
You can also, if you have a smaller selenite stone, place your crystals in a small velvet or fabric bag with the piece of selenite. Remember your intention. Leave the crystals near the selenite for at least 12 hours.
Now that your crystal is cleansed...
SECOND STEP: CHARGING YOUR CRYSTAL
Charging your crystal is such a lovely thing--and it’s SUPER simple. In a way, it’s the way to take your crystal “home” for a bit so that it is revitalized and freshened up. There are a few ways to do this but here are my favorites:
SUNLIGHT AND MOONLIGHT: Place your cleansed crystals out in the sunlight or the moonlight for at least 3 hours. If charging by the energy of moonlight, pick either the Full Moon (releasing, and taking in change), or the New Moon (manifestation) based on the energy you want to use.
Also, leaving some crystals out in the sunlight for too long may cause them to fade! So take care with that!
RETURN IT TO THE EARTH: You can bury your crystal in the Earth for a day to revitalize that energy. Be sure to put it in a box so they aren’t dirtied up or lost! Be sure to mark in some way where you’ve buried your treasures so they are easily found again.
THIRD STEP: PROGRAMMING YOUR CRYSTAL
This is a way to get your crystal to work for your specific intention. Programming the crystal is the way you unite your energy with the crystal’s energy. There are many ways that crystal users have used before, but I like the Positive Affirmation version that I learned from Judith Lukomski:
Hold your cleansed and charged crystal in your hands. Close your eyes, and take some deep breaths focusing on the crystal in your hands. Say aloud, or in your head, “Thank you (name your crystal) for helping me with (name the situation you need help with).”
A specific example would be something like:
“Thank you, Amethyst, for helping me stay calm in the face of things that make me feel anxious.”
After completing these steps, your crystal is ready for use! It’s united with your energy, and you with its energy! You can wear it in a necklace, carry it in your purse or pocket, or just hold it in your hands when you need to be reassured that you are connected to The Divine!
I hope this post has been useful for your crystal journey. It’s not hard to unite with the energy of crystals! Invite crystalline energy into your life. You won’t regret it!
It is necessary to program crystals. Crystals can download any information or purpose you give or speak into it. To program a crystal you can simply just talk to it (there are other ways to charge a crystal too but we’ll get to it in the next series). Think of the crystal as a microphone. The crystal reacts to the vibrations to the body and in the hand you are holding it in. It functions on the energies from the physical body of the programmer. It receives the vibrations, amplifies them and then broadcasts outward in spiral waves.
However, after programming, it is best to keep close to the body such as worn as a necklace or put in the pocket unless it is used for specific places like home or business or other purposes.
Crystals are like tape recorders, they repeat programmed vibrations, therefore constantly reminding the body and its components of the original intent, keeping the goal constantly active while you may be occupied with other tasks.
Erasing/Cleansing the crystal
Orally order the crystal to cleanse itself and erase all memories. This would help while holding it directly in sunlight.There are many ways to cleanse and charge a crystal that we will also get into in the next series.
*key note-Light passing directly through the crystal aids in a flushing action.
so i have a rose quartz and i have tried everything to cleanse it. but somehow there are still some negative energies and no matter what method i adopt they wont go away. so right now the crystal is sitting in my witch box and i am not able to use it. can you suggest me anyway i can cleanse it and just fill it with good energies please? thanks!!! :) have a good day/night
Have you tried programming the crystal? By the sounds of it the crystal could be in a “reverse” mode (i.e only absorbing negative energies).
My Method: To program the crystal hold it in your dominant hand and focus on the energies of the crystal. Envision the negative energies being pushed out and warded away by positive loving energies of the Rose Quartz’s original energy set. Continue to envision the energies change and imagine a sort of switch being flipped. This switch will prevent it from holding onto the negative energies like it once was.
Something else to try is to maybe sleep with it? If you have any potted plants you could put the crystal in time out for a little bit. Try these things and let’s see what else my followers have to add and if that doesn’t work shoot me another message and we can from there.
Is someone you know working on forming a new habit or letting go of an old one? Wearing a crystal programmed to support that intention may help them make that change more quickly and effectively. Clear Quartz is the most versatile of crystals and tends to hold programs longer than other crystals. Blessings, Debbie Elaine
Link to Quartz Point Pendants available at our online metaphysical store.
Video of the Day: Intro to Cleaning Spaces with Crystals
One of crystal expert Lourdes’ favorite crystals to help clear the energy from a a space is Selenite. Program the crystal, leave it in your space for a about a week, and then clean it. If you have several pieces you can even swap them out so one is always energetically cleaning your space!
Crystal Card of the Day: Blue Fluorite, "I am clear, focused, and protected."
Blue Fluorite helps to amplify healing potential by tightly focusing brain activity. Used with the Throat Chakra, Blue Fluorite aids in orderly communication of intuitive insights. When used with the Third Eye Chakra, Blue Fluorite enhances spiritual awaking and clear communication between the physical and spiritual planes, which can enhance clairvoyance and clairaudience. The calm, serene energy of Blue Fluorite brings inner peace.
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