Crystal Healing Energy

How crystals work and their healing potential

Crystals, interest in them, use of them, their beauty, positivity, and appeal has become increasingly popular in recent years, with more and more people being drawn to them, their intrigue and mystique. Crystals are wonderful natural gifts (from the earth and universe) that hold the potential to support and bring about change and increase positivity for a person, a community of people, for buildings, homes, and the environment.

It is important to recognise the power of crystals and how they work, to maximise their usage and potential for healing people and places. Crystals, in my opinion, aren’t a quick fix to problems but are an aid to bring about healing, change and transformation over time. I wanted to write this blog to help people deepen their understanding of crystals and learn more about how they can use them to greater effect personally and for others.

Crystals hold positive pure energy and radiate this out to their surroundings. A crystal’s role is to emit positive energy and absorb, remove, transmute negative energy. This all might sound quite far-fetched to some but when you remember that we are energy and can be influenced by other people’s energy, then we can understand that people and places can be and are affected by crystal energy (energy inhabited in a stone).

Energy is everything. You are energy planted into a physical body and you use and apply your energy in a certain way. It is the same for a crystal; it is energy planted into a physical body, and, like you, the universe has given each crystal a unique job to do.

Awakening Your Crystals: Sharon McAllister

Each crystal has energetic properties unique to their being. They vibrate and emit what their qualities are. For example, rose quartz has a vibration of peace and healing, and so emits this energy into its surroundings.

Personal Healing

People are drawn to specific crystals because of the energy vibration they hold and radiate. A crystal seeks to connect with a person who is deficient and imbalanced in some area and works to show it how to change and become more like the energy of the crystal. So, for someone needing to be calmer and more peaceful, rose quartz would work to nurture and show that person’s energy the pure vibration of peace and healing. Sharon McAllister in her book Awakening Your Crystals describes how a crystal is ‘magnetized’ to your energy and seeks to correct it, ‘to “heal” you’. The crystal goes where it is needed, it senses ‘a gap in your energy makeup’ and looks to fill it.

Crystals can be selected and used to facilitate healing in relationships. For example, the crystal unakite, promotes the energy of harmony and unification, so is well placed to work as a healer in relationships that are difficult or where there is dispute and disharmony. It is also known as the ‘team’ stone, as it can work to unite teams of people working towards a common goal. It will seek to instil greater harmony, enhanced performance and cohesivity.

Placing a large piece of unakite in a home or workspace, for example, and asking that it works for the people involved to unite towards ‘common unity’ and greater peace and harmony, will work to help all the individuals’ involved.

Unakite will help facilitate the energy of harmony where there has been discord and it will strengthen your capacity to create the energy of peace and harmony where perhaps you have previously struggled.

Awakening Your Crystals: Sharon McAllister

All healing is a personal endeavour, if you find yourself in a challenging situation or difficult relationship, it is reflecting to you something that you need to either learn or resolve within yourself. Crystals work to encourage change by providing a blueprint of pure energy to follow. All challenges in life are opportunities for personal growth. You can only ever work on yourself and change your perspective or ways of dealing with the challenges you face.

Crystals are useful and powerful in personal healing and a crystal therapist can work with a person to align their energies and work on specific physical, emotional, or spiritual issues. For example, crystals can be used to help in the process of healing broken bones or to help clear the mind, or encourage clear speaking, or bring balance to emotional energies.

Cleansing Crystals

Crystals are working to absorb negativity or magnify energy continuously, so actively cleansing them helps to keep them operating at their optimum. If not cleansed, crystals will saturate and start leaking back the energy they have absorbed. By cleansing and working to keep your crystals operating at their best you are showing respect for crystals and the power they hold to help you heal.

The easiest way to cleanse crystals is to place them in fresh cold water overnight. Keeping the same or similar coloured crystals together when cleansing is the best. For example, cleanse all rose quartz crystals together in one bowl and all yellow-coloured crystals in another.

Home Environment Crystals

In personal healing or use, working with one or two crystals at a time is preferable – so you can focus on specific problems and issues. In the home environment there are specific crystals that can be used to generally enhance the feel and energy in your home. Rose quartz can be used, in any room, to bring peaceful and calming energy, for example.

I have created a purchasable PDF on Crystals for the Home. It includes how to create a cairn in your garden and has more information on how you can cleanse your crystals in different ways, as well as all the crystals useful around the home. To purchase the downloadable PDF please visit the shop on the Shewa Living website. www.shewaliving.co.uk/shop