Integrating crystals into your daily life can help create more balance in your life. Try wearing jewelry made with crystals, placing them around your home or using them for meditation practice.

Even without scientific proof to substantiate their benefits, crystal healing shouldn’t hurt as part of your self-care arsenal.

1. Clear Quartz

Clear Quartz is widely recognized as an energy stone that amplifies intentions, and may serve as an effective aid for healing, manifesting, and meditation.

Energy workers and crystal enthusiasts often utilize this stone to balance chakras, increase healing frequencies, unblock negative energies from both physical and spiritual realms, enhance psychic abilities and deepen meditation and spiritual practices by connecting to spirit guides or their higher selves.

Clear Quartz can be safely stored in water, and many choose to keep it close other high-vibration crystals such as Amethyst or Selenite to promote healthy energy flow. You can easily cleanse Clear Quartz by running it under running water, or smudging with sage or palo santo for cleansing purposes.

2. Amethyst

Amethyst is an extremely well-known crystal, recognized for its healing abilities in supporting emotional health, balance and tranquility. It can help soothe grief-inducing emotions as well as alleviating fears that arise with grief and loss; ultimately promoting spiritual connection.

Amethyst has an ancient and storied past, dating back to ancient Egyptian royal crowns and scepters. Today it stands as a symbol of wealth and is believed to enhance intuition and psychic ability as well as helping bring calm to home and work environments.

Amethyst gets its color from radiation exposure and impurities in its crystal lattice, such as iron or silicon (SiO2). Alternatively, natural copper or lead coloring could have contributed to its hue.

3. Citrine

Citrine is known for being an energetic source, believed to dispel negativity and encourage emotional healing while manifesting abundance and success – thus earning itself the nickname “Merchant’s Stone”.

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Place raw citrine near the entranceway of your home or work space, as its energy can reach farther. Since most commercially available citrine is heat-treated amethyst or smoky quartz, natural crystals should always be preferred.

4. Hematite

Hematite is one of the most frequently utilized crystals for energy healing. It can help balance and calm people when feeling stressed or overwhelmed, while at the same time helping people stay focused – an attribute often sought by individuals looking to increase concentration at work or school.

Hematite (also referred to as haematite) is an iron oxide mineral found in many environments, including metamorphic rocks. Hematite is commonly recognized for its distinctive red streak that marks its presence. Metamorphic rocks with high temperatures typically host Hematite deposits.

Hematite occurs as massive ore, specular hematite, kidney ore or botryoidal hematite; with opaque to steel-gray hues. Some varieties also exhibit red to brown hues with metallic lusters.

5. Selenite

Selenite is known to promote clarity and balance in mind and spirit. With its soft glow, soothing energy, ability to support intention, and amplify vibrations; Selenite crystal is often included on wellness practitioners’ toolsets.

Selenite, one of the more abundant minerals on Earth, often takes on a wand-like shape due to how it develops in nature – crystal fibers break off, creating long wand-shaped pieces of rock that eventually lead to long wand-shaped formations.

Moroccan selenite is prized for its clarity and delicacy, often being formed into towers, lamps, spheres, hearts or bowls that display its natural translucence and soft glow.

Selenite is the transparent variety of the sulfate mineral gypsum. Also referred to as satin spar gypsum, desert roses and alabaster, its name stems from Greek word selene (moon).