Working and Healing with Crystals
by Robyn M. Fritz
Perfect Crystals and the Right Mindset
Curious about working with crystals but don’t know where to start? I have good news! It can be easy for even a ‘crystal newbie’ to collaborate with crystals. In fact, they are useful for so many things that many people miss out by not exploring how to work and heal with them. It all begins with the right crystal and the right mindset.
Most people think of crystals as tools, which is treating them like servants. Instead, collaborate with them as partners. Like all things, they are alive—they have souls, consciousness, rights, responsibilities, free choice, and opinions. Treating a crystal as a partner, just like we would humans, put us on the practical and spiritual path of doing great things together as we each grow as souls.
How we regard crystals affects how we choose to work with them—and how they choose to work with us. Crystals are ancient beings we have partnered with for eons to promote physical, emotional, and spiritual healing. There is a perfect crystal for any need we have, and often more than one.
How to Purchase the Right Crystal
Mining, transporting, and storing crystals can be shocking and toxic to the crystals and the energies they hold. So, when purchasing, choose quality over quantity and price. Buy from merchants who are reputable and kind to their crystals; this will be evident. Damaged crystals may never function properly to help themselves, let alone us. They can take months to recover if they ever do. Even the most damaged crystal may look pretty, but it will not be able to partner with our work fully.
Begin searching by doing research with a good book on crystals, like Judy Hall’s Crystal Bible series. This helps to determine the types of crystal we need for its intended purpose. For instance, if grounding and protection are the goals, research the given properties and uses of different crystals, look at pictures, then examine them intuitively, either in person or online. There may be a large variety to choose from, but some crystals have even more refined uses. It would help, for example, to know wulfenite is good for energy, while apophyllite helps vision.
Clearing the Crystal, or Preparing for Use
It is good practice to clear our crystals first after purchase, then after each use. Energy clings to crystals in much the same way it clings to us. So, clean or clear the crystal to prepare it for use. Check them regularly to monitor the health of your crystals, and get to know the crystal’s physical properties.
Methods of clearing the crystals include rinsing them in cold water or setting them in the sun, or in sea salt. Do this only if you are sure they will not melt or be damaged. Incense, clearing sprays, and energy healing can also work—using kyanite, a clearing crystal, rapidly clears anything and anyone.
Intention and Working with Your Crystal
In researching, you may uncover directions or advice on how to program your crystal. There can be elaborate ways to do this, but crystals carry their own opinions. It is easiest and most effective to set an intention to create an effective and respectful partnership, and go from there, much the same process as its purchase.
When there is alignment between our intuition and the crystal, we intend to use, simply pick it up or sit next to it and invite it to join in whatever the intention is. Yes, it is really that easy—assuming, of course, that have full awareness of how your intuition works. Some of us intuitively “know” how to work with a crystal and what it would like to do. We sense its energies, see mental pictures, or feel its power. Experiment a bit; a healthy crystal will help indicate how best to use it.
Crystals for Grounding and Protection
Continued use of crystals often draws us to the ones we need to use most. Grounding and protection are two needs most of us have. Everyone and everything on Earth has a need to be solidly in our bodies, so we are clear-minded and healthy.
When we are scattered, anxious, ill, or otherwise ungrounded, we do not feel or act well and can make mistakes. Frustrations, like getting stuck in traffic or having a tough day at work can affect us negatively. Counteract difficult situations by carrying or wearing grounding and protection crystals.
Columbite: Columbite is one of the most powerful grounding and protection stones available, and is sometimes hard to find. It is an ore and heavy for its size. Columbite rapidly clears chakras, clearly convincing us what “grounded” means. It also protects us from unfriendly energies and entities.
White Quartz with Tourmaline Wands: White quartz is a grounding and clearing stone enhanced by naturally occurring black tourmaline wands. White and clear quartz are obtained easily. These may be some of the first pieces to buy because they are effective, all-around helpers.
Crystals for Clearing and Healing
Clearing and healing crystals work in mind, body, and spirit, sometimes all at once. This includes emotional and mental health, from setting boundaries to self-esteem; physical health, from eye issues to arthritis or chronic disease; and spiritual health, from clearing attachments and negativity to advancing on your spiritual path, including past life regression and spiritual purpose.
Carnelian: Since most crystals have multiple uses, experiment to discover their unique abilities. For example, carnelian is an orange-red stone traditionally considered to be a root chakra stone. Yet, it also works largely as a heart chakra stone
Auralite: Many people adore amethyst for its ties to the heart and love, but it is often too sensitive to support deep, healing work. It is an emotional stone and shatters easily. Consider auralite instead, which is a type of amethyst mined in Canada and contains as many as 23 different minerals. Auralite often includes strong grounding crystals, like hematite, so it is tough and facilitates deep healing.
Kyanite: Raw pieces of Kyanite are gorgeous, and co-workers will admire their beauty and may not realize they are being cleared— bonus! Consider buying small tumbled pieces to carry with you. Everyone should have kyanite to keep themselves, crystals, possessions, and spaces cleared. It quickly sweeps away stuck energy.
Crystals are fascinating and useful partners in the business of living. In my webinar, Working, and Healing with Crystals, we explore much more and explain how to work with them. I guide participants through a working session with a chosen crystal.
You will also enjoy Crystal Clusters
About the Author
Robyn M. Fritz, MA MBA CHt, is a tested and certified intuitive and spiritual consultant and past life regression specialist with an international practice based in Seattle, Washington. An OM Times Expert and award-winning author, teacher, and speaker, she hosts “The Practical Intuitive: Mind Body Spirit for the Real World” each Monday at 2 pm PST/5 EST on OM Times Radio. http://www.robynfritz.com
