The Necessary Crystals is a collection that can form the foundation of your collection and assist you in building a meaningful relationship with crystals, gemstones, and minerals. They are useful in your home or office space, supportive while traveling, and perhaps the crystals that you will most often reach for when balancing your own energy field.
Why Crystals
It does not matter if you believe that humans evolved from primordial ooze, were created from earthen matter, or dropped in from a distant star, your physical body is made of the same stuff as Mother Earth. You ingest the gifts of the earth, vitamins and minerals, to keep your physical body healthy. It only makes sense that you would also use the energy of the Earth to keep your energetic body healthy.
Your body is full of energy centers, you may have heard them referred to as chakras. You have 7 main energy centers close to, and interacting with, your physical body in the vicinity of your spine. The following information in the way that it can relate to your energy system.
The Lower Energy Centers and Corresponding Crystals
Your lower energy centers relate to basic things like safety and security, relationships and creativity, and your sense of self. These energy centers are, respectively, the root or base, the sacral or abdominal, and the solar plexus energy center.
Smoky quartz is a stone that supports the root chakra at the base of your spine. It connects you to the Earth, making you feel rooted and grounded.
Smoky quartz is a quartz based stone so it also has a high vibration. This unique combination connects your root to your crown chakra, that goal of “as above, so below” brought into being by smoky quartz. To use it, place it under your seat when you mediate, at your feet when you sleep, or carry one in your pants pocket.
Your sacral chakra is located in your lower abdomen, between your navel and pubic bone. Carnelian has a vibration that balances this chakra.
It can help attract right relationships and may help balance lower abdominal issues from digestive organ to reproductive organ discomfort.
Recline and rest this stone on your abdomen to benefit physically.
Place carnelian above your door, or very near it, to draw the right people through it.
Citrine has a bright sunny energy, like your solar plexus chakra. Your solar plexus chakra is where you feel your sense of self. Citrine can boost self-esteem and self-confidence, stoking the digestive fire and your desire to achieve.
Hold citrine against your solar plexus or wear at your waist or wrist.
To draw abundance to your home, place citrine in the left rear corner.
Your Heart Center and Corresponding Crystals
Just as your heart is in the center of your body, and of physical function, the energy center at your heart is the center of your energetic system.
Two stones in particular support the heart in the most useful ways. The first is rose quartz, the second is prehnite
Rose Quartz is the ultimate stone of compassion. It supports your heart in a gentle, soothing way, reminding you to show this gentle support to all that we meet. Rose quartz also shows you how to be gentle with yourselves, especially if you have a tendency toward perfectionism.
Placed in your home, it works for all who enter. Keep in a heavily used room like the family room, use at the center of the dining room table, or place in the bedroom.
Wear it on your left hand or wrist, as earrings, a pendant or tucked into clothing near your heart.
Rose quartz can also be helpful when meditating. Hold it in your left palm.
Prehnite is known as the stone that heals the healer. It removes clutter, helping you to release things that are weighing you down. This is literal as well as figurative.
In the home, it can help you to avoid clutter, encouraging you to let go of things you no longer need. In the heart, it helps you to clear out residual energy that can be picked up as you offer support to others. If you work as a teacher, care giver or advocate, Prehnite is for you!
Hold at your heart center while at rest or during meditation, wear as a pendant or tuck into your clothing near your heart.
The Upper Energy Centers and Corresponding Crystals
Your upper energy centers relate to higher vibration activities like communication, knowledge and connection with your higher power. These energy centers include the throat, third eye or brow, and crown chakras.
When it is balanced, the energy center at your throat supports clear and comfortable communication. Blue Calcite is an excellent throat balancing stone!
Wearing it at your throat or ear lobes brings a soothing sensation to the throat.
It cools your words when you may feel a little hot under the collar.
Even with all these benefits, Blue Calcite is readily available and affordable.
Blue Kyanite supports your communication center but also brings all of your energy centers into alignment.
Hold blue kyanite in your left hand while meditating, wear at your throat or ears, move through your aura from feet to crown, or place on or near the body while at rest.
Amethyst stimulates your third eye chakra, located at your brow. This helps you to work with your intuition, leading to deeper insights into yourselves and others.
Wear amethyst at your ears or place on your forehead while reclining.
It can be soothing placed at your bedside but everyone is different and for some it can also create more stimulation than is desired.
Amethyst is also known as the sober stone and is said to support those looking to overcome addictions.
Clear quartz is considered the master healer and balances your crown chakra.
Clear quartz vibrates at the highest frequency, bringing everything around it to its highest frequency. It amplifies the benefits of other stones placed near it.
Use clear quartz in areas of your home that could benefit from an energetic boost.
On your body clear quartz can be placed near the crown of your head when you recline, worn on your wrist, at your neck or ears. It is most beneficial kept above your heart level.
A clear quartz cluster sends energy in various directions.
Selenite is also a high vibration stone.
Satin Spar Selenite can be used to clear residual energy from other stones, support your crown chakra and protect your home.
Place other stones on or very near it, hold or rest it near the crown of the head or place one piece in each of the four corners of your home to elevate the vibrations.
Desert Rose Selenite is also known as gypsum. It has all the attributes of selenite with the added benefit of removing patterns in your life that are no longer working.
Use it in grids designed to release an unwanted behavior.
Place it in your workspace to help me overcome procrastination and distraction.
I hope that this information is useful to you as you build your crystal toolkit. What I have included here is based on my experience and the feedback of my clients.
I suggest that you keep a journal as you work with the stones. This will help you to determine the specific benefits they offer you. We are all different. I encourage you to consider what works best for you as you explore the benefits of crystal energy. Your body knows and will tell you if you listen.
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