01 Dec Your Perfect Guide: How To Meditate With Crystals
As people continue to seek ways to feel connected to themselves and their role in the universe, crystals for healing meditation are seeing a new rise in popularity.
Crystals are beautiful, found across the world, unique, and powerful. It is no surprise that people enjoy spending time in their presence.
Many who are new to crystals are left to wonder how to use their crystals to improve their health.
Those with meditation experience may also want to know how to use meditation crystals to enhance their meditation experience.
Today we will look together at how to use crystals for meditation and healing. Let the journey to self-connection and inner healing begin.
The Science Behind Crystals
Crystal healing and meditation is a metaphysical (mental/emotional) connection and healing that has a little scientific measure.
The effectiveness of healing and purification with crystals is quite subjective. Meaning its effectiveness is open to interpretation by the person who possesses and uses the crystals.
As a result, scientific studies have not been able to reach any major supporting conclusions for crystal healing.
Modern science aside, there are accounts of people believing in and experiencing benefits from crystals since the height of many ancient civilizations.
Crystals have played an important role in the spiritual and healing rituals of the Egyptians, ancient Chinese, and many other cultures.
Beginning Crystal Meditation
Beginning to meditate with crystals takes an open mind and practice. Optimal crystal meditation does not typically occur in the first few sessions for someone entirely new to meditation.
Meditation thrives in situations of regular practice. Our lives are cluttered with to-do lists, distractions, and other mental fog that we must learn to push aside to allow for deep meditation.
When deciding where to meditate, pick a place that has a comfortable temperature for sitting or lying still, turn off harsh lights that may interrupt your focus, and try to avoid interruptions, loud noises, and distracting scents.
Some people find that taking the time to prepare a space specifically for crystal meditations before beginning a session is useful. Preparing a room might include:
- Burning incense
- Using candles for lighting
- Placing images of important people or inspirational figures and places nearby
- Applying essential oils to specific body points
- Keeping other spiritual objects nearby
Once you have found an appropriate space to meditate and taken the preparation steps that feel right to you, you are ready, to begin with, your crystal.
Preparation: Cleansing Your Crystals
Before you can receive the full benefits of healing meditation with crystals you will want to make certain that your crystal has been properly cleansed.
Part of knowing how to use crystals is knowing how to cleanse your crystals.
Cleansing your crystal rids it of any impurities, previously-stored negative energy, and another build-up that may interfere with your connection when meditating.
Crystal cleansing and charging can be done in several ways:
- Run your crystal gently underwater. This purifies the crystal and is a gentle method suitable for almost all types of crystals.
- Letting your crystal lie buried in a bowl of brown rice. This method is believed to draw out negative energies that have built up within a crystal. This is typically used with protective stones such as Smoky Quartz, Clear Quartz, Onyx, and Black Tourmaline.
- Expose your crystal to moonlight for a night. This is said to recharge and energize your meditation crystals.
- Pass your crystal through incense smoke such as Sage or Juniper to help break apart low lying negative energies and cleanse the crystal before meditation.
Prior to choosing a method for cleansing your crystal, research your specific crystal type. Some crystals may benefit from one type of cleansing more than another. Some types of cleansing could bring harm to certain crystals.
Grounding: Finding Your Highest Self
To begin your first ever meditation sessions you will want to focus on relaxing your mind, pressing away distractions, and connecting with your crystal through grounding.
First, set yourself down in a comfortable position in your meditation space. Choose a position you can remain in comfortably for some time without the need for major movement or adjustments.
Hold your crystal in your non-dominant hand either on a flat palm or with your fingers curled around the crystal.
Relax your eyes and focus your energy on your crystal, picturing it in your hand as you ask your crystal for permission to use the energy and vibrations it gives.
During this time focus on your breathing. A few deep breaths with a steady rhythm often helps people to connect with their crystal.
Some people are surprised at how energized they begin to feel during a session. This is a normal and often desirable response to meditation. This energy should feel positive and flowing, not jarring and alarming.
It is okay if you find it hard to focus at times. Life is distracting and meditation is a practice and art that takes time to show us how to truly let the world slip away and focus on ourselves and the power of healing meditation.
Visualize yourself pushing away distractions and worries, use this as a time to rid your mind of all excess, and let the crystal’s energies fill and heal you.
Completing The Cycle: Ending Your Meditation Session
It is best to end a meditation slowly and intentionally, just as you started.
If your eyes have closed, slowly open them. It may help to flex your toes or fingers as you begin to send yourself out of your core and back through the rest of your body.
Thank your crystal for sharing its energy with you and let yourself take your time transitioning into the next part of your day.
After a meditation session tries to avoid immediate electronic interference in your life and drink waters and teas that help keep your body balanced and cleansed.
Avoiding Overuse
While meditation is a wonderful daily practice, it is in your best interest to only use crystals once or twice a week at first.
Crystals add a level of energy and spiritual connection to your meditation and overuse could serve as a disruption to your body’s natural rhythms.
It is also wise when using crystals for meditation to keep your meditation sessions slightly shorter than non-crystal sessions so you do not overdue your energy intake.
How To Meditate With Crystals in Other Ways
As a beginner, the traditional meditation practices already described are often the best method for achieving healing meditation results. Over time, you may want to extend your meditation practice to new methods or have your own personal meditation style to keep your routines and connection fresh.
Here are a few meditation methods to try when you want to change things up!
Soak in a Crystal Bath
Always start your meditation rituals with properly cleansed crystals.
A crystal bath is a simple way to relax your body and mind as you soak up energies from your crystals. Turn down the lights, burn some candles, and fill your tub with water at a warm and relaxing temperature.
Crystal bathing can be done with crystals in your bath water, or simply placed around your bath perimeter where you can easily touch your crystals as desired.
Before adding any crystal to water, be sure to research that water is safe for your crystal. Some crystals dissolve in water and others may give off unwanted chemicals when soaked.
Many crystals do well in water and can give off wonderful energies as you bathe.
Lay Crystals on Your Chakras Instead of In Your Hand
Chakras are energy centers in your body that have close connections to our internal structures and nervous system.
By laying flat during meditation, a person can lay their crystal directly against their skin in a selection of chakra positions as they meditate either through body movement meditations or mindful meditation.
Moving your stone from your typical hand-held position to a chakra location allows vibrations to center and flow differently through our bodies.
Take a Break From Physical Touch With Crystal Grids
There may be times where the energy from physical touch with a crystal is overwhelming or unappealing. This can happen to even the most experienced meditators.
When you want to connect with your crystals without needing physical touch, crystal grids are a helpful tool.
A crystal grid layout is simply created by intentionally placing your crystals in a specific pattern or design in front of you while meditating.
You can find suggestions for grid positionings online and different positions are known for helping us focus our meditation on different areas of our lives and inner selves.
Meditation Is For Practice Not Perfection
The biggest key to knowing how to meditate with crystals is realizing that this is not a skill designed around perfection. Every person’s meditation journey is unique.
Meditation should be a slowly built practice that develops with an individual. Practicing how to use crystals in meditation will deepen your practice and allow you to experience your own enhanced energies and healing.
Allow yourself to be accepted where you are and as you are while enjoying all that crystal mediation has to offer.
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