Cleaning and Purifying Crystals

Cleansing and Tuning Your Crystals

Cleaning and Purifying Crystals

First use - Before using a crystal the first time, bathe it in sea salt, spring water, and cider vinegar to cleanse it. Then hold it, talk to it, and use it to get better acquainted with it.

Running water - Cleanse your crystals by holding them under running water. As you do so, think about a beautiful waterfall or imagine the waves lapping over your crystal on a tropical beach.

Sunlight - Re-energize your water-cleansed stones in sunlight for 24 hours before dedicating them. You may want to put them in a ceramic or earthenware bowl of dry sea salt or in the earth.

Resonating sound - Purify your crystals with the resonating sound of a bell. You can cleanse a roomful of crystals by ringing the bell above them, but the best way is to purify crystals one at a time.

Smudging - Burn a wedge of dried herbs, waving the smoke over and through the crystals.

Crab Apple and Sea Salt - Soak crystals in a non-metallic container filled with water to which some purifying sea salt or crab apple bach flower remedy has been added. Clean seawater is another option. Some people suggest leaving the container on a window ledge for three days before the full moon.

Earth burial - If you feel they are safe enough, you can bury your crystals in the ground. This is recommended particularly if they have been negatively influenced by someone. You may even want to give them back to the earth so they can rest and circulate in nature.

Amethyst bed - Put your crystal in a bed of amethyst clusters.

Mountain crystal bed - Put small stones on a bed of mountain crystal which cleans without needing cleaning itself. It can heal all other stones. Thought visualization - Blow on the stone while you visualize light clearing the fog in it and restoring its brightness.

Caution: Some stones are better cleaned without water.

Halite, while it looks like rose quartz, will flake apart like scales off a snake.

Okenite is said to vanish completely.

Salt water may irritate tiger's eye just as it would your own eyes.

Dedicating Crystals

Imagine a bright star pouring pure white light through an opening in the top of your head. Guide it down through your body, sensing it being cleansed. Feel negative energies draining out of your feet. State the following to focus your intention: "I dedicate this crystal to love and for the universal benefit of all."

Tuning Crystals

Remain in a relaxed, alert state. Hold your crystal in one hand and place the other over it. Visualize an energy connection between you and the crystal. Decide on the crystal's purpose. Then say: "I intend this crystal to be an effective tool for ..." (whatever your purpose is).

Crystal Focus Meditation

Choose a crystal cleansed, dedicated, and tuned for meditation and hold it or place it before you. Or take three similar crystals and position them in an equilateral triangle big enough to sit within.

Sit on chair with feet flat on the floor or sit on the ground. Ensure that you are comfortable and that your spine is straight.

Center yourself with retention breathing.

Half close your eyes and gaze at the crystal.

Concentrate on its color, shape, and size, but do not try to make sense of or "analyze" what you see.

Breathe deeply and slowly.

Whenever an unconnected thought comes, let it float away like a cloud and redirect your attention back to the crystal.

Don't battle with your thoughts...Just acknowledge them and let them go. Thoughts are natural and can never be eliminated...But remember that you are more than your thoughts, your emotions, or your feelings...You are more than any aches, pains, or disease...

As you continue to breathe slowly and deeply, resting your gaze on your crystal, allow yourself to open up to higher levels of consciousness.

Without expectation, without judgment, and without trying to influence the experience, open your mind to the Universal Life Force. (Spend the next 5-10 minutes in silent meditation.)

Now you are ready to come out of meditation.

Take several deep breaths. Continue to focus on the crystal but open your eyes gradually. Colors may be enhanced, the edges of objects sharpen, and you may have temporarily lost all sense of time. These are natural "side-effects" of meditation.

Take another deep breath and "ground" yourself.

Source: Liz Simpson's The Book of Crystal Healing and other individuals