Crystals! How They Work & Their Use and Meanings

Our body is composed of energy that manifests in different densities and formulations. Our thoughts and emotions are related to our physical bodies and have a frequency of their own. When our patterns of mind-body energy work in a balanced way, then we experience good health. When these energy patterns are disrupted then poor health and disease can result. Crystals and gemstones are also created with similar energy patterns that resonate into the world around them. These energy fields affect our energy bodies and thus can affect our health and mental wellbeing.

How are crystals made?

Crystals and gemstones are thought to be the most stable form of matter in the universe due to how they are formed within our planet. Crystals grow in the Earth's crust over millions of years at high pressures and heat, making them objects with high forms of compressed energy. A crystal's journey begins deep below the planet's surface where lava and hot fluids circulate. Crystallization occurs when layers of the planet's melt and fracture, which allows heated gases and liquids forced by high-pressure rise towards the surface. Elements such as water, oxygen, sodium, and potassium and magnesium are also present and in the process they merge and dissolve with other elements while being pushed to the surface. As this mixture rises and passes through earth’s crust and less active lasers, crystals and gemstones begin to grow in rocks, cavities and crevices. Crystals form depending on the specific environmental conditions and the mixture of the specific elements that are being formed. The growth shape, color, hardness, and insights of the crystals depends on the temperature, water, light, pressure, time and space. Crystals work with the human energy field and are able to diffuse, absorb, move, or shift energy within the body.

Working with crystal energy

Crystals vibrate at different levels depending on their composition and color as to the cells in the human body. They all vibrate on that frequency as do the energy centers in our body, known in the yoga tradition as the 7 Chakras. Crystals are used by naturally focusing in magnifying the body's innate energies dissolving and equalizing emotional, mental and physical stress. They can alleviate suppressed or unrelieved pain and help to make shifts in every aspect of one's being, so when we come into contact with a crystal, its vibration interacts with the specific energy of our cells in the human body. Crystals have very high precise rates of vibration underutilized in modern technology. This includes liquid crystals in calculators and clocks and in the lasers for microscopic surgery.

Working with crystal energy helps the body to find its natural rhythm and restored its energetic imbalance. Crystal healing is basically laying of the stones of different vibrational frequencies on your body in order to affect healing or change. Eats may also involve laying out different energy grades or specific patterns of crystals around the body. That way, by using the combination of stones can enhance that individual properties and direct energy. Crystals are thought to be able to relieve and release stress, stimulate brain activity, amplify your healing power and potential, restore energy and stimulate energy flow through your Meridians and energy centers, reconnect you to yourself, ground you and connect you to our earth. For hundreds of thousands of years, crystals, gemstones, and minerals have been used to heal or enhance physical, mental, emotional, spiritual balance. The ancients must have somehow known that when one, the energies of the crystals would interact with the human body's electromagnetic field and bring about subtle energy changes.

Historical use of crystals

Royalty have worn crystals and gemstones throughout history in their crowns, thrones, rings and necklaces. Interestingly, having a specific gem or crystal in your crown could activate your Crown Chakra. Wearing a necklace on your chest could activate your heart Chakra. Same goes for rings which will stimulate energy flow through your meridians in your hands or earrings to stimulate reflex points in your ears. Thus many believe that all jewelry was created to connect different healing stones to different energetic points on the human body.

The ancient Egyptians used crystals for protection and health, and they even buried people with a piece of quartz on their forehead to help them, guide them into the afterlife. They wore ruby's stones in their belly buttons to enhance their sexuality and believed that wearing a necklace over your heart was also intended to bring love into one's life. Pharaohs carried zinc cylinder and a capped cylinder both filled with quartz to balance their thoughts and energies.

Quartz crystal used in ancient Japan was thought to represent the heart. Ancient Greeks rubbed themselves with crushed hematite before going into battle thinking that it will make them invincible. Amongst the Romans, crystals were used in medical treatment and to attract desirable things, protect in a battle and enhance health. In India, the sacred 5,000-year-old religious texts discussed the use of crystals in different diseases, mental illnesses, and conditions, as well as specific properties of each crystal.

The healing power of crystals

Ayurveda, Yoga’s sister healing science, has also recognized the healing power of crystals and gemstones for hundreds of years. These healers understood the power of using crystals for balance and healing on the emotional, mental, and physical levels. Crystals were also used to diagnose and treat disease. In Tibet, quartz, crystal spheres were thought to be objects with great holy spiritual power, believing that properties could even assist in enlightenment. In both the yoga and Buddhist traditions, mala prayer beads were constructed with gemstones to empower and strengthen the mantra meditation practices of monks and yogis.

The meaning and significance of popular gemstones

Amethyst provides stability, strength, and inner peace is an excellent stone for meditation in enhancing your intuition and psychic abilities with its calming and peaceful energy. Amethyst provides clarity and enhances conscious perception and understanding. It can assist in calming the mind, reduces insomnia, and promotes restful sleep reduces stress, eases headaches, helps with hormone production, strengthens the immune system, cleanses organs in the spiritual system, and reduces bruising and swelling. It also assists in the function of the pineal and pituitary glands, and it's connected to the third eye and crown chakras.

Aquamarine is the stone of clarity and purification. It helps bring closure to unresolved situations, and it's especially good for sensitive people by promoting self-courage and elevating fears and phobias. It's good for sore throats and strengthens the kidneys. Liver spleen in the pituitary and thyroid glands. Aquamarine is good for all of the 7 Chakras, but especially the throat Chakra.

Citrine is a very energizing stone that provides happiness, courage, hope, and warmth. It said to hold the energy of the sun, enhancing our self-esteem, and creativity. Citrine is a powerful, cleansing and revitalizing stone. It awakens the mind, body, and soul also attract abundance and prosperity into our lives. As for healing, it helps the digestive organs, and the hot reduces infection, aids in tissue regeneration, circulation, and detoxifies the physical, emotional, and mental bodies. It's especially good for your solar plexus Chakra.

Clear quartz works on all areas of the mind and the body awakening, amplifying and transmitting energy and clarifying thought processes. It's an excellent strategy for meditation, directing energy with more intensity. It connects to the highest self remotes, negativity, and dilemma. Access to your spirit guides. Clear quartz provided clarity in thinking and awareness, and it's good for old checkers. It's a potent healing stone for any condition. Flew rights, promotes focus, intuition, and understanding, and it's good for your third eye Chakra. It helps to improve stability and free thinking and is a highly protective stone. Rose quartz bring a deep in healing, enhancing self-love, self-trust, self-worth, and self-confidence. It can be used to attract love into your life and maintain happy, loving relationships. It's good for your heart Chakra and helps strengthen the cardiovascular system and fertility and aid healing, chestnut ridge spiritual problems.

Fluorite draws away negative energy and stress, cleansing and purifying the body it sends to be able to strengthen teeth and bones, protects against common illnesses such as colds and cases of flu and helps with emotional trauma and venturing promotes positive and easy going attitude towards life balances male and female energies brings joy, happiness, and emotional tranquility. It purifies our physical, mental and emotional bodies and promotes the health and wellbeing of entering helps compassion and empathy.

Aventurine stimulates mine's creativity, motivation, and independence. It protects us against environmental pollution and is good for the heart Chakra. I've been chewing, encourages healing of muscles and bones, relieve headaches and Migraines, helps blood pressure and cholesterol aids and releasing fear, anxiety and stress aids and sleep disorders and helps protect against hot conditions and inflammation.

Jasper represents the earth and is the grounding stone that promotes stability and balance in life.It's warming and enlivens the whale and enhance as courageous and dynamic energy that sustains and supports in times of stress. Red Jasper brings tranquility and wholeness into your life. Gently stimulating your energy, helping you to face your problems, taking away your worries and calming them motions. As for the healing aspect of it, it's full to stimulate blood circulation and digestive and reproductive systems. Red Jasper is especially useful for your root Chakra.

Labradorite is a highly mystical and to protective stone. It works in all areas of the mind, the body increasing energy and clarifying thought processes. It's an excellent started for meditation, directing energies with more intensity, allowing you to connect to your higher self and seek out spiritual purpose. It helps to clear it and protect your aura. Labradorite stimulates intuition, raises the consciousness and links to the universal energy. It's a stone of transformation, reflection and showing true intentions.It's thought to be able to balance out hormones, low blood pressure, and help with the disorders of the eye and brain. It's good for your heart that I and crown chakras fro squads promotes unconditional love, forgiveness, infinite peace and compassion. It creates harmony in relationships and teaches us about the true essence of love, and it can purify and open up the heart, allowing us to express our emotions. It reduces stress intention, allowing us to show respect, sensitivity, and compassion towards ourselves and others.

This is only a few stones out of hundreds of healing crystals, minerals, and gemstones, so feel free to do your own research by reading books, asking friends, or go online.

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