Crystals for Meditation
Crystals can transform your meditation experience. There are a number of ways and reasons for choosing to meditate with crystals, from helping to quieten your mind and connecting you with your deep inner wisdom to accessing your higher self, manifesting or amplifying your intentions and working to shift your energies if you are overwhelmed, stressed or feeling like you need a little more get up and go. Your crystals will guide and support you in what you need.
Three easy ways to meditate with crystals
Hold them in your hand/s: Feel the energy exchange between you and the crystal and allow it to work with you during your meditation practice. Hold the crystal, close your eyes and visualise it doing the work of helping you to release or draw to you what you need. This comes in really useful during meditation with crystals, as it will help you to direct the energies even more powerfully. If I have been feeling stressed, anxious and overwhelmed and my intention during meditating with my crystals is to release those feelings, I will hold the relevant crystal in my releasing hand and allow it to support me in letting go of anything I don’t need. If I am working on manifesting something, or needing to receive extra energies or guidance, I will hold the crystal in my receiving hand to allow these energies to come into my being.
Place them on your body: You may feel that your heart needs a little healing, that your throat needs opening (if you’ve been struggling to communicate your needs) or that you want to add a little more power to your solar plexus (if you’ve been giving away your power and not maintaining clear boundaries). If so, lie down, place the relevant crystals over the relevant places on your body (see p. 58) and close your eyes, while the crystals do their work. Stay like this for ten minutes, or until you feel a difference in the area/s concerned.
Create an energy field: You might want the energy and support of your crystals, but not want to hold or place them on your body. In this case, you can place them in a circle around you, or just one in front of and one behind you, so they can still hold and support you in their energies. Sit or lie for as long as you would do your usual meditation while you soak in their energies. It’s also powerful to meditate with crystals that you have set intentions on to keep amplifying them, and you may find guidance coming to you through the meditation. You can use any of the above options to do this or sit in front of the special place or altar where you have placed your crystals and tune into their energies before and after the meditation.