Cleansing your Crystals

Cleansing your Crystals

• Hold them under running water (except those that are water soluble – see below). Boost this process by thinking of the running water as a waterfall that is washing all the negativity out of your crystal and away, down the plughole.
• Bury them in the ground overnight, but mark the spot well
• Use other crystals – put a small crystal on top of a quartz or amethyst cluster overnight, or keep a carnelian in with your crystals
• Use sound vibrations, either tingsha bells, turning forks or sings bowls
• The power of the moon – leave your crystals overnight bathing in the moonlight
• Bury them in brown rice overnight, and then throw the rice away
• Hold over the flame of a candle
• Hold in smoke from an incense stick
• Smudge with a feather
• Sacred Breathe – Blow the negativity away with intention
• Placing it in a bowl of pot pourri
• Using a coloured silk you feel will charge the crystals
• Use your intuition

Charging your Crystals

• Water can both cleanse and energise at the same time
• Put them in the garden to bathe in the sun or moonlight, being careful that they will not fade in the sunlight
• Use sound vibration, tingsha bells, burning forks or singing bowls
• Place them in a copper pyramid
• Put them on top of a quartz or amethyst cluster, all those points of energy zapping through them
• Spray them with essences
• Physical contact – hold or rub them
• Use Reiki or other healing energy

Crystals that don’t need cleansing

• Kyanite
• Azulite
• Diamond
• Phenakite
• Apophyllite
• Citrine

Crystals that don’t like water

• Angelite
• Turquoise
• Kunzite
• Selenite
• Kyanite
• Malachite
• Calcite
• Labradorite (though a quick rinse is ok)

Crystals that don’t like sunlight

• Aventurine
• Amethyst
• Aquamarine
• Beryl
• Citrine
• Kunzite
• Sapphire
• Fluorite
• Rose quartz
• Smokey quartz