When Should You Cleanse Crystals?
When you first get them
After people have touched them
After you have not touched them for a month
When you use them
After using for healing on other people
Cleansing and Charging Crystals.
What is Cleansing and Why Do You Need to Do It?
Crystals often travel long distances, from source to seller, before a purchase is made. Each transition exposes the stone to energies that may be misaligned with your own.
And when used for healing, these stones are said to absorb or redirect the negativity you’re working to release.
Regularly cleansing and recharging your stones is the only way to restore your crystal to its natural state. This act of care can also reinvigorate your own sense of purpose.
Clearing and cleanse stones is a way to return them to their original energy, to recalibrate the energy so that the stone is clear.
How Do You Cleanse Crystals?
Water Cleansing – Hold crystal in hand and hold under running fresh water for 5 minutes
Crystals NOT to put in water (they disintegrate or lose color)
Angelite, Apatite, Azurite, Calcite, Celestite, Cinnabar, Desert Rose, Fluorite, Hematite, Kyanite, Labradorite, Lapis Lazuli, Lepidolite, Malachite, Opal, Pyrite, Selenite, Turquoise
Earth Cleansing – Bury crystal in dry ground for one week to one month for deep cleansing (can also place in flower/plant pot as long as soil is dry)
Smoke Cleansing – Hold crystal in smoke of burning incense for 5 minutes (sage and sandalwood are best)
Brown Rice Cleansing – Submerge crystal in bowl of uncooked brown rice overnight
Sound Cleansing – Use sound waves/vibrations to cleanse by holding crystal near singing bowl, drum, triangle, or bells for five minutes
Reiki Cleansing – Place crystal on upturned glass and cup hands around it without touching
Moon Cleansing – Place crystal outside on Full Moon
Sunlight Cleansing – Place crystal outside in direct sunlight (prana) for five minutes (some crystals may fade in sunlight; best for red, orange, yellow ones)
Activating and Programming Your Crystals for Their Use.
How Do I Activate My Crystals?
After cleansing crystals, you need to awaken them and activate them by touching or holding them.
When you touch crystals they enter your aura and pick up your vibrations, becoming attuned to you.
They become charged with YOUR energy and emotions from your personality.
You decide the intention.
Choose each crystal intuitively for its purpose.
If you work consistently with one stone for a particular intention, over time that stone becomes programmed.
Quartz Crystal is good starter stone since it has strong electric components
What is Programming of Crystals?
All crystals are old and some have been around for thousands of years before they came to you. They can be activated and attuned to your particular vibrations and energy. This happens when you touch, stroke, or hold a crystal. When you touch your crystals, they enter your aura and pick up on your vibrations. This way they become attuned to you, and will then work for you.
Our thoughts and emotions that we bring into consciousness have an energetic charge. By programming a stone you put that charge into it. Not all stones in your collection will be programmed. Some are more inclined toward a particular task than others.
Crystals can be charged with energy that comes from you and your personality. Since each stone has unique properties and can do particular things, you can select stones for specific purposes. You can intuitively choose your stones to work for you, and with you. You decide the intention or purpose, and then select each stone. Some stones can be programmed, or made extra special, by working with them.
Do I Need to Program My Crystals?
As your crystal collection grows, you may find that certain stones speak to you more than others. Or perhaps you choose certain stones to work with in a certain way or more often. If you choose to work with a particular crystal for abundance and only for that, you can build up the programming of that stone each time you use it. Then this stone is only used for abundance, and grows stronger for you with each use.
How Do I Choose a Crystal for Programming?
Place all stones in front of you
Pick up first stone
Hold it in hands
Close eyes
What is stone telling you?
Do you feel it would be a good stone?
If yes, place to one side
Continue through all your stones
You can choose to program a particular stone for a specific task.
For example, you can choose one stone for pain relief, and another for abundance. In both cases, you select the stone that seems to you to want to be programmed in that way.
Not all stones in your collection will be programmed. You can choose to have a few special stones that you program with your intentions. Over time, this group may grow as you accumulate more stones.
How Do I Program My Crystal?
Hold crystal in both hands
Look at it as you turn it
Feel the surface
Breathe in through nose and out through mouth
Concentrate on what you want to program into crystal
Focus on your intention
Breath out = import your intention into the crystal
Breath in = visualize what you desire
You can also dedicate, or bless, your crystals for healing.
Hold the stone and say aloud “I ask that this crystal assist me with healing on all levels for the highest good.”
Repeat this affirmation every time you pick up this crystal and after each cleansing.
To program a special stone for a specific energy, simply alter the words in the affirmation of intent.