Crystal healing is an ancient and renowned practice, transcending cultural and religious boundaries. Quartz crystals are most commonly utilized for spiritual and healing properties. However, crystals and gemstones are powerful healing tools and can be used to clear and balance chakras, divination, energy healing and to raise the vibrations of the energetic bodies. 

 

Composition of Crystal and the Human Body 

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The human body is made up of crystalline structures that are essential to each and every function. Our bodies stand erect thanks to the deposits of calcium phosphate crystals within our skeletons. Also, our balance is attributed to calcite crystals located in the inner ear, and our teeth contain microscopic apatite crystals that help us to chew and break down our food. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why some of us have such a great affinity with these powerful healing tools.  

 

It is possible to pick up on the vibrational frequencies of crystals, and in doing so, they can take the position of intermediary, in order to assist in raising the vibration to connect us to a higher state of consciousness. Healers and energy practitioners compare the karmic journeys we make and lessons we play out with that of crystals. They, like us, are living entities and a reflection of ourselves. If you find yourself drawn to a particular crystal, at a particular time, bear in mind that this may be because your own body may have picked up an imbalance within, and the crystal you are attracted may have the ability to restore balance.  

 

Crystal Healing  

 

Healing with crystals is a holistic treatment that involves the placement of crystals on specific areas or meridians of the body, in which they most correspond with. A client will typically lay face-up on the floor or massage table, and the practitioner will arrange crystals upon meridian points, chakras and/or organs. The client should expect to receive healing, cleansing and purification of the physical, emotional, energetic and spiritual bodies upon completion of the crystal healing session.  

 

Meditation and Dream-work  

 

Crystals can also be used to enhance the experience of meditation, raising one’s vibrations, to ascend into the spiritual realms of existence. Holding a crystal of choice in the left hand, or both hands during meditation is a simple but effective way to incorporate the healing properties of the crystal's energy into your auric field. Use crystals during meditation to assist in shifting consciousness. Your mind during meditation is still and free of mental clutter, making you all the more open to new and improved realities of your own creation and the vibrational frequencies of the crystal. 

 

Placing a crystal, like Amethyst, underneath your pillow at night can enhance your dream time, allowing you to receive, remember and understand messages more clearly. Moldavite and Herderite are excellent stones to work with for lucid dream-work and meditations. Be sure to keep a journal of your dreams to get the most out of the experience.  

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Crystals, like Black Tourmaline and Black Obsidian, can provide protection against psychic attacks and negative vibrations, while Quartz crystals help to amplify the energies of crystals they are paired with. 

 

Crystal Jewelry  

 

Wearing your crystals, on or close to chakras and organs in the form of jewellery allows the wearer to receive the healing properties throughout the day. Aside from healing and aesthetic value, crystal jewellery makes a bold statement and can reflect personality and creativity.

 

Lapis Lazuli is a good stone to wear as a choker/pendant against your throat chakra, while a Rose Quartz necklace, can bring balance to the heart chakra. Take a look at my selection of gemstone jewellery available to purchase at my online store Chakra Adornments. 

 

Gemstone waist beads have gained popularity over the past few years but these healing adornments are rooted in Africa and have been worn for thousands of years from women across the continent. In ancient Egypt, also known as Kemet, female danders would wrap their waists with precious and semi-precious crystals in the form of waist bead and in other African countries women still wear them.

 

Waist beads serve as a symbol of fertility, protection, and a rite of passage from puberty to womanhood. Women of West Africa infuse their beads with incense and aromatic fragrances, wearing them under their garments, while North African belly dancers present theirs on naked waistlines, with crystals placed within the navel, to activate the Sacral Chakra. 

 

Waist beads are admired for their beauty and healing qualities and many African diasporic women wear them proudly, reconnecting to their great ancestral heritage.  Orange Calcite, Carnelian and Amber gemstones are excellent choices for the healing and activation of the Sacral Chakra.  

 

Crystals in Home and Office Space 

 

Use Feng Shui and the placement of crystals around your home and office, to help cleanse, protect and heighten positive energies. Amethyst crystals help to generate positive vibrations within the home, citrine attracts prosperity, and clear quartz is said to improve business transactions while transmuting negative energies emitted from computer towers and laptops.  

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If you are new to crystals, why not gift one to yourself. Remember, the crystal that you most need in your life will be the one that you find the most captivating. 

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