clearing and cleansing your stones

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Clearing Crystals

 

You will probably want to clear your crystals after you get

them.

This is done to remove unwanted energy and restore the crystals

to their natural innate energy state so that the stone is at its

maximum effectiveness and cannot possibly pass on imbalances

or energetic static. You also clear crystals after they have been

used in healing sessions, when they seem dull or lifeless

or they have been exposed a lot of ambient negativity .

(arguments, sorrow, etc. ). Stones are also cleared to remove

old programing and before new programs are done . If the energy

of the stone feels wonderful to you it may not need clearing,

but if it feels heavy or unpleasant in some way. Then you will want to

clear it.

 

Stones can be programmed to be largely self clearing . Some

stones are said to never need clearing Usually authorities list Three

 

or four stones that never need clearing however the lists often differ

 

Citrine and Kyanite are often on lists of stones that do not need to be

cleared .

I've seen Smoky quartz, amber and jade on these lists too .I figure if

I'm going to clear any stones I might as well clear all of them . It

does not hurt to clear a stone

that does not need to be cleared . The 'never need cleared " stones

seem to benefit from clearing sometimes anyway. Maybe they enjoy the

attention.

 

Please remember that it is common for the mind to amplify the energy

received, and sometimes high vibration positive energies can feel

prickly and

uncomfortable if you are not ready for them. Some people also tend to

refuse to

recognize that stones have been cleared to the point of returning

undesirable

energies to the cleared stone with their own mental intention.

 

During or after clearing your stones you can restore programs and

personalize the energies of the stones so that they are their best

energetic condition and harmonize with the work they will be doing .You

can also set an intention or program a stone to convert negative

energies or to beam them away to spiritual entities or the Earth for

transformation and clearing. .Energy which belongs to someone can be

cleansed and returned to its owner. We will cover this in detail when we

get to programming crystals .

An energetically " dirty " stone will eventually clear itself but in

the

mean time it might be holding absorbed energies that decrease

its effectiveness as a healing tool and could in theory transmit

another

person's pain to the next person who holds the stone.

Very intensely used stones may even self destruct break or get lost

..

( that's not the only reason stones break or get lost though)

Uncleared pendulums might lose some accuracy.

Once you have been working with your crystals a while you will

probably keep them clear and will only encounter unclear stones from new

or

other people's stones. and occasionally from doing intense work on

yourself

or other people and situations you are working with.

Some Crystal healing practitioners do not let anyone touch their

crystals

except during treatments . I strongly disagree with this and encourage

people to touch and hold any crystal that interests them provided it is

not too fragile.

 

Some crystal healing teachers do not think clearing stones is ever

 

really needed. That it is just a way for the practitioner symbolically

prepare for the crystal work. I find that clearing stones can

sometimes be a big help

because everything can pick up energy impressions..

Sometimes crystals do soak up a lot of pain energy and this can be

felt or can effect the energy of the people in the area

and the. surrounding environment itself

 

There are many ways to cleanse or clear crystals and you will want

to try

out several methods to find those that feel most effective to you. .

To some extent this can be a matter of personal preference.

The best choice of method will also have something to do with the

use or history of a particular stone . A rock used as a murder weapon

or

from a place of great tragedy / horror will most likely need a far

more serious cleansing than a newly mined stone

or a favorite Great Aunt's doorstop.

Many of us find that our needs and preferences change over time.

If a method that worked for you before seems less effective now

please try some of the other options You can use clearing methods

in combinations too as some methods have slightly different effects than

others.

 

There are some popular methods that can be drastic or even

physically

damage some crystals. Be careful which stones you immerse in water .

I do not usually pass stones through fire or freeze them because the

potential for damage is great.

 

 

SHAKTI - ENERGY

The principle way I clear my crystals on the run is with an energy

shakti

I most often use a specific crystal clearing shakti but also use other

energies

to clear crystals .Reiki ,Huna energies , Spiritual light energies

Rainbow Light ,

and other subtle energy shakti can be used for this Using energy is

very effective. Most general purpose healing energies and universal

chi etc. work quite

well if you are attuned to them or have done a little practice work

with

those that come in without attunements . Generally just run the energy

into the stone until you feel that it is cleared. This is

effortless once you learn

how to call in or turn on shakti you just allow it to flow .

While some shakti require that you be attuned to them before

you can use them many other subtle energies will come in by request

and. intention..

This method is available to anyone even without specific attunement

to an energy work system. It can be thought of as a way of having

a spiritual agent do the clearing To activate a shakti you would hold

or touch the stone to be cleared and turn the shakti on .allowing it to

run

until it is done.

The specific crystal clearing shakti I work with needs only

be turned on it will run to completion without further intention

or attention. People who have the ability to do remote work

and group or area work can use shakti to clear many stones at

once even from a distance .

I use shakti on a daily basis and clear the stones I work with

before and after I use them . A principle advantage

of shakti clearing is that when you are doing treatments during

a healing circle or demonstration. A deep clearing can take less than

a minute and therefore you can do treatment for large numbers

of people at a healing circle or demonstration with a relatively

small number of crystals. You can clear the stones between each

person treated so that you do not run out of crystals suitable to work

with.

and you always have the means of clearing at hand .

I also usually clear and charge my stones in moonlight each full moon

and with Sunlight and frequently by smudging quite often and use more

intense methods periodically .

Crystal clearing shakti if you have one, is autonomous and once

you have

started it running on a stone or group of stones it will work until done

 

without further attention or intention on your part. Holding the

piece between

both hands while running energy or beaming a flood of spiritual light

into it also

works. With most intelligent energies you can add the intention that

the crystal

become self clearing.

The energies of the Stones can also be run as shakti and you can

clear a stone by running the energy of the particular stone type .

This is seen as a Devic gift . This energy is also very good for

charging

stones to amplify their natural abilities .

 

INTENTION- Mental Focus

 

Using your mental focus or the directed emotional energy of Love

by direct intention can be very effective if you are able to focus

your intention and are not distracted by doubt or other side events.

 

Hold the stone in your hand or palm or place your hands on or

over it and focus your Attention on it with the intention of

clearing it,

for most stones a minute should be long enough to clear it. If you are

skilled at remote work or have an aptitude for it you may not need to

actually touch

the stone. Some people imagine a beam of light from their heart or

third eye

while they focus on the stone.

To Clear a stone with the emotional energy of love you simply hold

the stone in your hand and beam love at it from your heart you may

visualize a beam of soft pink light glowing from your heart but the key

is to feel love and project into the stone .

 

Intention is also used to place a filter or shield around stones

that you wish not to clear but only prevent from broadcasting

generally, These may be stones with programs for a specific person

only, such as a stone programmed for sexual enhancement in a bedroom

..You would not your young children or repairmen to respond to. it so you

shield it from them.

The Most common use of shield filters on a stone is usually for

Teaching Stones or Witnesses . Stones which carry an energy or message

of some importance that they need to share But which might be too

intense or painful for constant exposure .

Objects From German Concentration camps and the site of massacres are

sometimes shielded in this way. They can then share their witness via

the painful memory and information ` and message to those who need to

know and recognize a truth and/or feel compassion but the stones will

not continually bombard the people who work around them . Someone has

done this with many of the objects at the Museum of Tolerance in Los

Angeles . ( I think Irving Fuerst, but I am not positive )

 

When using energy and intention based methods to clear your stones

you

can program the crystal to retain or restore its ideal state and or

previous

programming and memories rather than totally erasing them. Consult the

crystal intuitively for a sense of how much it needs to be cleared .

 

 

EARTH

Bury your crystals in Earth for a few days to give them a rest and

clear them

Stones that you feel carry extremely negative energy can be buried

in earth for an entire moon cycle. or longer . Some rocks and minerals

such as hematite and other iron rich stones can rust or fall apart in

the earth. You will need a sure way to mark the location of buried

stones to make sure you can find them again .and Animals have been

known to dig them up and carry them off.

 

DRY SALT AND VINEGAR SOAKS

Leaving the crystals in dry sea salt overnight or longer is a

somewhat heavy duty clearing method.

Soaking the crystals in a solution of 1 quart of warm water with

one tablespoon of sea salt and a quarter cup of apple cider

vinegar for 20 minutes to half an hour is a quick clear technique that

is

not too drastic and seems quite thorough .. A similar solution

with distilled vinegar actually seemed to work well with just a quick

dip in the water .Use a glass or lead crystal bowl for these immersion

methods and before putting the crystals in place your hands

on the side of the bowl and intend that it be empowered to cleanse

your crystals.

Salt can be harsh and many stones are water soluble or otherwise

potentially harmed by water. some of these include Halite (salt),

Sylvite, Desert Rose Selenite, all Selenite, gypsum angelite , Azurite

,Talc. calcite may dissolve in water as may Alabaster ,Sulfur dissolves

in salt water. I have been told that any stone that has a name ending

in ite can possibly be damage

by water though I am not sure of that.. I have one stone that fizzes and

leaches a white mineral if you touch it with vinegar .

 

SMUDGING

You can also smudge your crystals with sage, sweet grass, cedar

, sandalwood epsom salts incense or other clearing smoke or incense

,fanning the smoke over them or holding them in the smoke make sure that

all sides of the stones are

placed in the smoke. This works well and can be used on delicate

crystals that

can not be placed in water or salt without damaging them.

 

CRYSTALS

Small crystals can be cleared by leaving them on a large crystal

cluster,

either clear Quartz or amethyst or using a Selenite wand . Other

crystals will

work for this too but quartz amethyst and Selinite are the most used

It is preferable that the cluster have points in many directions if

possible as it is said to be the multiple steams of energy that

clear the resting stones ..

 

BREATH

Breath techniques are very effective for small pieces, hold the stone

to be

cleared in your dominant hand, (the one you use to write with) take a

deep

breath in through your nose and focusing your intention on clearing

the stone

expel your breath firmly onto the stone from your nose , repeat until

you have

covered all sides of the stone either a long slow exhalation or

short quick

bursts are effective choose the way you prefer.

You may take a deep breath through your nose and holding the stone in

either

hand with your mouth slightly open expel your breath through your

mouth

slowly over the stone while making the " ha " sound .

 

 

LIGHT

White light and rainbows either from actual light or energetically is

also used white ,gold, violet and blue light are commonly but not

exclusively used . Visualizing a purple flame is more often used for

self clearing but has been used for crystals too.

You can visualize the color or white light flooding the crystals or

actually expose them to the light you can use gels or colored glass as

a color source

Holding the crystal in the rainbows cast by a prism is a gentle way to

clear and charge a clear quartz

 

SOUND

Toning , bell ringing, drumming , chanting and other clearing with

sound can also be effective and enjoyable Aum, AH El EE Oh, Ha ,eee-

ah- O and ah- eee -Oh . being only a minute fraction of sounds that

work for clearing playing healing music and chants of various kinds

vowel sounds are often used . Some sources suggest that you use a pitch

pipe and use the tone that is assigned to the chakra that you would use

the stone for.

 

SUN AND MOON

Placing stones in Sunlight or Moonlight is also good for clearing and

charging them .Some stones are faded or otherwise distressed by

direct

sunlight. This may include Amethyst, rose Quartz, Citrine, Celestite

(particularly blue), Aquamarine, Moonstone and Fluorite. Some turquoise

may

fade. A chunk of blue calcite faded after a while I have also heard

hat Realgar and pyrope can dissolve in air rather than sunlight.

 

RUNNING WATER

Running water works well for clearing stones that are not harmed

by water

.. A spring or stream or the ocean waves is best though you must be

careful

not to lose your stones to the ocean or river. Holding crystals under

the tap

will do in an emergency . Some people like to leave their stones out

during

rainstorms too. Many people also bathe with their waterproof crystals

 

which not only clears and charges the stones it is very refreshing and

healing for the bather as well.

 

flowers, feathers and sand

Gentler and slower methods include immersing the stones in rose petals

or

lavender petals or sage, thyme or Rosemary leaves or in feathers or

charged

sand. Putting the stone on a sacred altar or in a place with healing

energies

will also work over time.

 

Angels

There are angels and Deva and other spiritual beings who can and will

 

clear crystals when you ask them learning to connect with your high

self and

Companion Angel will help you learn to work with the " stone people "

in a

deeper way.

 

Mists

Essential oil mists and flower essences will also work as will the

aura cleansing

mists that can be bought or made .just a drop or two in an atomizer

misted softly

over your water safe stones , Sandalwood ,.citrus ,Ylang Ylang ,

lavender, Cedar

are among the oils that have been used

 

DRASTIC METHODS,

salt water and fire and Ice

Probably the most commonly used clearing method is soaking

them in saltwater this is not really recommended for general

use any more because it is rather drastic and can harm many kinds

of crystals both physically and energetically. You can save that for

really

heavy duty cases. The Proportion I was taught is a half cup of

sea salt to one quart of pure water soaking times vary from

three minutes to overnight.

Placing stones in fire may damage or destroy many crystals and is

not recommended . Some people pass the stones over the fire in the

smoke

this is certainly preferable to leaving them in a fire over night.

Putting stones outside in the winter or in the freezer has been

suggested but there is a real possibility of having the stones crack or

even shatter

So that is also among my not recommend methods .

 

This covers a rather wide range of ways that are used to clear stones

Please try several and let us know what your results are.

Perhaps what determines whether these methods work for you is your

belief system and your intention . Any of these methods will work it

is up to

you to find those that feel most effective to you..

 

Solarraven

 

 

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I have heard some people express concern about mined stones, that

having been " ripped out of the earth " they are environmentally

unsound, and may also be traumatized and need special cleansing to be

useable. What are your (the collective " you " ) feelings about this?

 

Love, Estara Korai

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MM I have a few friends that feel the same way.I eat

meat ,so I guess that is probably damaging the balance

of nature .I love diamonds to much .BB..Luna

 

--- Estara Korai <estara2 wrote:

> I have heard some people express concern about mined

> stones, that

> having been " ripped out of the earth " they are

> environmentally

> unsound, and may also be traumatized and need

> special cleansing to be

> useable. What are your (the collective " you " )

> feelings about this?

>

> Love, Estara Korai

>

>

 

 

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[Guest guest]

> I have heard some people express concern about mined stones, that

> having been " ripped out of the earth " they are environmentally

> unsound, and may also be traumatized and need special cleansing to be

> useable. What are your (the collective " you " ) feelings about this?

>

 

That is the conventional wisdom and I guess I've always presumed it's

correct

I cant say that the stones I have that were found or gathered rather

than mined are any happier better than the ones that were mined .I

clear all stones and restore them when I get them. Certainly I've been

called by both mined and harvested crystals

as well as found in the wild

I cant say that I have noticed any more difficulty clearing mined stones

either

Certainly respecting The Earth and harvesting " ripe " crystals gently

seems like it has to be better

but from the crystals stand point I don't how much difference there is

between a rock slide or volcano and a man made blast .

I actually spent a fair part of my youthful summers in Eastern Oregon

hanging out around old quarrys and abandoned mines (gold and iron

mostly ) and I do not recall picking up nearly as much sense of

energetic trauma from them as from clearcut forest areas with the

exception of some places where there was a lot of chemical contamination

 

Peggy

 

 

 

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, Luna <starsluna> wrote:

> MM I have a few friends that feel the same way.I eat

> meat ,so I guess that is probably damaging the balance

> of nature .I love diamonds to much .BB..Luna

 

Yeah, some people feel that way about meat too. I don't personally;

there are creatures that are designed to eat some meat, and IMHO as

omnivores, we're among them. I do sometimes worry about mining

procedures (coming back to stones) and prefer stones I find on the

surface of the ground when I can get them, but I'm not particularly

gung-ho about it.

 

Love, Estara Korai