Crystals can provide an extra level of focus and peace when used during meditation, and also serve as an avenue for spiritual expansion, connecting you to the universe’s energy.

Choose a crystal that reflects your meditation intention (such as amethyst for serenity or citrine for positivity), trusting in your intuition to select it. Cleanse it regularly so as to remove any built-up energies.

Benefits

Crystals offer many people a soothing ambience and can help stop wandering thoughts while aiding self-healing and strengthening connections to spirit. Some crystals are known to offer energy boosts while others have been utilized by yogis, shamans and energy healers to facilitate intuition and deep meditative states.

Selecting an ideal crystal for meditation requires following an intuitive process based on your intentions and the goals of your practice. Amethyst may be ideal for spiritual or intuitive practices while citrine may work better when looking towards abundance and positivity in meditation sessions.

Once you have chosen a crystal, hold it in your left hand (the receptive hand). Focus on setting an intention for this meditation session and visualising transferring that intention into its energy; creating a dynamic relationship that supports and amplifies your efforts – helping you gain greater clarity and peace, both during meditation sessions as well as throughout life.

Preparation

Crystals with calming energies–such as amethyst and rose quartz–can help to relax the mind, center the senses, and foster spiritual development and strengthen relationships to spirit.

Your meditation environment plays an integral role in its effectiveness and success, so creating a serene space is paramount for effective practice. One effective ritual to do so may include smudging it with smoke from burning herbs such as sage.

Infusing water with the energy of crystals is another simple way to use them in meditation, providing both sustenance and an atmosphere for deeper thought. You can either consume this infused water directly or mist your meditation area with it; alternatively, crystals may be placed directly into it or placed inside a glass container to avoid contact with toxic substances that could dissolve or release into it.

Create a crystal grid is another effective way of using crystals for meditation. Stones can be arranged to align with specific intentions or held in your hand to promote positive energy flow.

Intentions

Setting intentions with meditation crystals can be an empowering practice, creating an ever-strengthening synergy that supports you on your path toward self-discovery and manifestation.

To program a crystal or mala beads, repeat your intention out loud or silently and imagine the stone absorbing and amplifying it. Carry or place it somewhere prominent for daily reminder of your intention.

Rose Quartz is an effective crystal for encouraging love and compassion by helping release feelings of resentment, negativity, self-criticism and criticism in favour of love, kindness and understanding. Citrine on the other hand can align you with abundance, positivity and manifestation; clearing blocks to personal power as well as clearing away blockages to the solar plexus chakra; this makes citrine perfect for meditations that focus on prosperity and success.

Cleansing

Crystals can be powerfully resonate with positive energies, yet can pick up on negative ones from their environment and users. Over time this buildup of negative energy can cloud its natural properties and diminish effectiveness; to maintain their effectiveness it’s vital that regular cleansing takes place.

Cleansing can be accomplished using various techniques, including rinsing the crystal with running water, smudging with sacred smoke (palo santo or cedar), submerging them in water infused with their energy, or visualizing bright white light enveloping and dissolving any negative energies. It is recommended to do this both prior to each use as well as regularly thereafter.

Once your crystals have been cleansed, they’re ready for charging! A charged crystal is more effective at clearing negativity from meditation; to charge it efficiently you can use sunlight or moonlight, place them on a selenite charging plate or simply harness your own personal energy to charge them.