Energy Crystals
Healer Michelle Roques-O'Neil, who has worked with crystals for more than 20 years, explains that "crystals are different combinations of minerals that help purify, balance and realign by working with our bioenergetic systems".
Judy Hall, in her work, The Little Book of Crystals, writes that crystals are said to "have a stable and unchanging energy pattern, each with a unique frequency and energy field, or resonance" that gives them special properties. As a result, "they act like tuning forks," helping bring "harmony" to the "very unstable energy field of the human body".
Put simply, crystal healing involves using gemstones to bring balance to an individual's life and mind.
How to Use and Clean your Healing Crystals
It's important to keep in mind that some crystals benefit from different types of cleansing and charging. During a Full Moon's phase it can empower self - reflection, inner awareness, and can enhance intuition.
Lunar energy is an accumulation of many powerful energies, that also correlate with the same energies that our human bodies have. During different phases of the moon and when energies are at it's max, it opens gateways into exploring the full depth of ourselves. Crystals aid in this.
Because crystals pass and store energetic information much like our human bodies do it's important to regularly cleanse and recharge them so they can continue to heal us with their full potential. As we need to cleanse our bodies from stored energies when our energy centers/ chakras become closed off or "too full" we also need to be cleansing our healing tools.
When crystals become packed with too much energy they will no longer work as effectively due to them having no more room to absorb, move, process or store anymore energetic information. So, in view of this fact recharging & cleansing your crystals often is crucial, doing so releases all of the emotions they have helped you process and transmute through rituals like meditation or body point healing.
You can charge your crystals with moonlight, sunlight, with other crystals, specific intentions, feelings, or even with ideas you want to manifest. You'll want to place the crystals that you're cleansing and charging outside or by an open windowsill under the moon's light in a safe place, in a spot where they won't be disturbed. As well preferably If you can place them directly on the earth - whether on the grass, dirt, rocks, whatever's available that's the best recommendation as then they'll also be able to benefit from the earths powerful magnetic energies to help them drain out whatever unwanted energies they have accumulated over time.
Burning Sage & Smudging
The act of energy cleansing, smudging, and burning sage originated centuries ago with many indigenous cultures. Many Shamans still use the process of burning sage to help connect with the spirit world. The smoke from the these rituals purifies and releases negative energies or illnesses from the energy field of a person or space. Sageing is also practiced during ceremonies to help in the aid of getting rid of dark, bad spirits. You can smudge your home, your body, and really any wanted spaces to help clear out unwanted energies. Burning different type of sages is known to clear certain energies and also bring forth good ones.