Crystals and gemstones are all the rage nowadays. You see celebrities and people from all walks of life wearing crystal jewelry and even meditating with these stunning stones.
But when it comes to finding a sense of emotional balance, what crystals can you use and how can you use them?
Which Crystals to Use for Emotional Balance
You may be wondering how crystals “work” in terms of healing. Crystals can heal or “work” due to their vibration and energy; when you place a crystal near you or connect with it, this vibration can influence your own energy in certain ways, depending on each crystal’s qualities. There are certain crystals, for instance, that help you gain emotional balance, calm yourself, and feel positively grounded.
To gain such emotional balance, we recommend the following crystals and stones:
- Blue crystals, which quieten the mind and may also help you express your feelings, like lapis lazuli, sodalite, kyanite, blue chalcedony, and blue lace agate. Use these crystals when you feel mentally blocked, are experiencing disharmonious emotions, or are too scared to speak up.
- Pink crystals, which restore loving emotions and alleviate anxiety, like rose quartz, kunzite, rhodochrosite, and rhodonite. Use pink crystals when you feel sad, neglected, unsafe, unloved or lacking self-love.
- Green crystals, that function as harmonizers and soothe the heart energy, like aventurine, jade, green agate, chrysoprase, green fluorite, and malachite. Opt for these crystals and stones when you feel exposed to negative energy or in need of emotional protection.
- Dark crystals and stones, that ground and purify your energy to bring harmony and stability, like smoky quartz, brown agate, mookaite jasper, tiger iron, black onyx, tourmaline, jet, shiva lingam, and petrified wood. Work with these stones whenever you feel you have lost your foundations or connection to your body.
Whatever crystals or stones you choose, make sure to first cleanse them under clear running water (unless they are raw stones that aren’t part of the quartz family, or stones like malachite and tektites). You can then program each stone by holding them between your palms and imbuing them with your intention.
How to Use Crystals to Gain Emotional Balance
Once you have selected the stones you wish to work with, use the following techniques to connect with them and acquire a sense of balance on an emotional level:
Tip #1: Wear Crystal Jewelry
It’s that simple! Wearing a crystal pendant over your heart or a crystal bead bracelet can help calm your mood and make you feel centered throughout the day.
Tip #2: Heal your chakras.
You can use tumbled stones or palm stones on the chakras that associate with emotional balance. You don’t need to fully understand how chakras work – simply follow any one of the following tips:
- Third Eye Chakra: This chakra is located between your brows and is associated with your thoughts and intuition. Add one or more blue crystals or stones to this area for a mentally balancing effect.
- Heart Chakra: This chakra is located in the middle of your chest area and relates to the heart and emotions directly. Place any green or pink stone on this area for emotional relief and even release.
- Root Chakra: This particular chakra starts from the genital area and reaches down to the feet. For a relaxing, emotion-balancing effect, place a few of your darker stones under the soles of your feet to relax and ground yourself.
Tip #3: Create a crystal healing pouch
Another way to keep crystals close to you is by adding them to a pouch that you can carry around with you. Simply add three or more crystals of your choice, but do make sure their energies do not contradict one another or have vastly different properties. For finding emotional balance, for instance, you can combine any of the crystals listed above, even if they are of different colors.
As you can see, there are several ways that crystals can help you feel emotionally balanced, relaxed, grounded, and calm. The way you choose to work with them is up to you.