A beginners guide to healing with crystals

Healing with chakras is an ancient practice that is centered on the idea that the body contains seven energy centers. When these are open and balanced, you feel aligned; but when they are blocked, you might feel sluggish, anxious, or just “off”. Having blocked chakras could negatively affect manifestation and meditation practices, cloud your mind, and make it harder to block negative energy. 

Each chakra aligns to a specific place on your body; as such, there are seven chakras:  

1. Root Chakra: responsible for your sense of security, stability, and safety. 

2. Sacral chakra: responsible for sexual and creative energy and linked to how you relate to and connect with others. 

3. Solar plexus chakra: corresponds to confidence, self-esteem, and helps you feel in control of your life. 

4. Heart chakra: all about our ability to love and show compassion

5. Throat chakra: has to do with how we communicate verbally 

6. Third eye chakra: linked to intuition and imagination 

7. Crown chakra: represents your spiritual connection to self, others, and the universe. Also linked to your life’s purpose.

The only way to fix your blocked chakras is to heal them; and healing them is easy. One of the easiest methods is to meditate. If you already have a daily meditation practice, it’s easy to include to the ritual that you created. To heal your chakras through meditation, simply sit quietly and close your eyes; then, imagine a glowing light in the chakra you want to focus on. As you breathe in, imagine the light becoming brighter as any negative energy leaves your body. 

Another way to heal your chakras is to use incense. This is an effective way to cleanse your chakras and your crystals. To heal your chakras with this method, simply light an incense in your workspace or while you meditate. This is our favorite way to heal chakras, which is why we sell incense to help cleanse your space and your crystals. 

A few tips for using incense: 

• Open any windows and use a fireproof container to catch burning ash 

• First, cleanse yourself and the room with incense before moving to your crystals 

• To purify the crystal, either move it through the smoke or use your hand to direct the smoke towards it (this works best for larger statement pieces)
  
  

Another method to heal your chakras is through crystals. Two crystals, selenite and clear quartz, align all chakras, meaning they can heal all chakras. If you don’t have time to heal individual chakras, you can just hold either of these crystals in each hand while you meditate. 

To use other crystals to heal your chakras, lie down and place a stone on the corresponding chakra point to help focus your healing more easily. Each crystal is associated with a chakra; for example, red jasper or obsidian are associated with the root chakra, while rose quartz is associated with the heart chakra. If you already have a few crystals and you are unsure what their corresponding chakra is, you can search for that specific crystal before you start. 

Here is a small guide to popular crystals and their corresponding crystals: 

• Root Chakra: obsidian, black tourmaline, carnelian, hematite, honey calcite, jasper
• Sacral chakra: dalmatian jasper, mookaite, moonstone, red aventurine, sunstone, bumblebee jasper.
• Solar plexus chakra: calcite, chrysoprase, malachite, ocean jasper, tiger's eye, yellow fluorite
• Heart chakra: agate, jade, rose quartz, pink amethyst, pink tourmaline in quartz, pistachio calcite
• Throat chakra: amazonite, angelite, blue apatite, blue lace agate, larmimar, orca agate
• Third eye chakra: amethyst, apophyllite, celestite, labradorite, lepidolite, sodalite
• Crown chakra: Yttrium fluorite, white opal, pink mangano calcite, pink opal, peach moonstone, moldivite