Wondering why your beautiful piece of black tourmaline is starting to crumble into smaller crystals?
Surprised when your favorite piece of clear quartz cracked?
Feeling sad because your silvery selenite crystals literally exploded?
Don’t worry – broken crystals happen to everyone, especially in our most stressful times, when we typically need healing crystals the most.
So, how can you avoid letting your magical stone collection slowly turn into crystal shards?
The answer lies within their energy. Once you know why stones tend to break, it becomes easier to keep them whole and powerful.
There are many reasons that gemstones can break, so let’s start with a little troubleshooting.
Once we’ve ruled out any mundane reasons, we can turn to the metaphysical.
If your crystal fell or was hit by something harder than itself, it broke from force or pre-existing stress fractures.
If your it went through an extreme temperature change, it broke from sudden expansion or contraction from hot or cold.
But if it broke while you held it or it has been safely padded in your pocket or purse for quite some time, chances are your crystal broke from too much negative energy.
If your crystal broke for no reason, it’s time to cleanse your crystals of unwanted energy and help them return to their natural vibrations.
The energy stored within your stones can be used to power spells, strengthen protection through crystal grids, help with healing, and more.
But what happens when a crystal’s energy is used up?
How do you stop negative energy from clouding your stones’ true power?
You cleanse them!
Each crystal in your collection is different, so we’re sharing 11 different cleansing methods to reset your crystals and stones.
Crystal cleansing is an important step for anyone who normally uses a crystal’s energy for spells, protection, healing, and more!
Try each cleansing method and discover which resonates best with you and your specific gemstones.
To cleanse your crystals using smoke:
Why does this work?
When herbs are burned, they release their energy in a burst of power. That power symbolically travels upwards in the form of its smoke.
Which herbs can cleanse my stones?
When these herbs are burned, their vibrations raise the energy levels around them to their highest state. The heightening of low or harmful energies to their highest and most pure form elevates and clears those energy patterns, thus cleansing crystals.
To increase your crystal’s positive energy:
Why does this work?
This method works by increasing the energy of your gemstone.
Think about when you take a moment to step outside and feel the warmth of the Sun; that exposure recharges the crystals just as it gives you an amazing boost of energy!
Can crystals be damaged by sunlight?
Yes, some crystals are light-sensitive and can be damaged by sunlight.
Be cautious with this cleansing method, as some stones, such as amethyst, fluorite, rose quartz, and colored calcite, fade in the sunlight.
To clean your gemstones with water:
Why does this work?
Water is a natural cleanser of deep emotion, and being clean and balanced heightens our connection to the earth.
When we take a step into moving water, dirt is washed off of our bodies, and spiritual “dirt” is removed from our subtle bodies. This is the same for crystals!
Can crystals be damaged by water?
Yes, some crystals are water-soluble or dissolve in water. If you have water-soluble crystals like calcite, gypsum, halite, pyrite, and others, please use another method to cleanse them.
For this method, we also recommend using only larger stones, because a smaller stone can be quickly washed away.
Give your stones a deep clean by letting them thrive in their natural environments by:
Why does this work?
The earth is a natural “vacuum” for harmful and negative energies, sucking them out of our bodies and recycling them into new, healthy energy. By placing crystals back into their original environment, they are naturally attuned to their original states.
Which crystals thrive best with this cleansing method?
Healing crystals and protective stones tend to hold, process, and transmute the highest amount of negative energy; they also give away the most positive energy. By letting them rebalance in Earth, they can gently return to their best selves.
Gently cleanse any stone by:
Reiki is a great, safe way to cleanse soft stone pieces.
To cleanse crystals with sound:
Why does this work?
Science states that the frequency of one item can alter the frequency of an item that’s near it.
By using sound, we can cause the subtle energies around a gem to shift away from their harmful state and into a different, more beneficial state.
To clean your gems in a saltwater bath:
It’s important to note that certain gemstones can be damaged by salt and water; use a different cleansing method for water-soluble stones.
Witches and Wiccans will resonate with the method of using the elements to cleanse their gemstones.
To clear your stones’ energy with the four elements:
Cleansing crystals under a full moon is the most gentle, relaxing way to reset the healing properties of your favorite gemstones.
To cleanse your crystals with the light of the full moon:
It is said that some crystals never need to be cleansed. These gems, such as carnelian or selenite, have strong subtle vibrations that can help elevate the energies around them indefinitely. We call these “cleansing crystals”.
To cleanse and charge things using carnelian:
Keep salt-safe crystals ready to use at all times by:
Be careful, though, if you have softer, tumbled stones, they can easily be scratched by the grains of salt.
What are your favorite methods for recharging your crystals?
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