Crystals can be an invaluable aid on your meditation journey, particularly for those experiencing difficulty focusing or anxiety.
Place a crystal in front of you, close your eyes, and focus on an intention. Imagine its energy absorbing it and reinforcing it during meditation.
Celestite
Celestite’s celestial energy helps create an intimate bond with your Guardian Angel and helps develop deeper spiritual ties. Additionally, it enhances intuition and psychic abilities, and opens you up to divine guidance as well as intuitive insight.
This soothing crystal encourages Librans to speak their truth and release any emotional restrictions that prevent you from fully expressing themselves. Furthermore, it “cools down” heated emotions that contribute to dysfunctional relationships and helps find peaceful resolutions.
To use Celestite during meditation, hold it in your non-dominant hand and imagine blue light emanating from it and washing over all aspects of your energy field to dispel stagnant energies and leave your mind clear, calm, and focused. This meditation technique is especially effective at balancing Anja chakra.
Aquamarine
Aquamarine encourages gentle communication and channeling of divine wisdom, helping bring your truth forward in an orderly fashion. It supports inner peace while dissolving karmic patterns that prevent you from fully enjoying life and expressing yourself honestly.
Anxieties and promote rational thought, making this stone beneficial in alleviating work-related stress. Furthermore, this stone helps recognize negative patterns of reactivity or judgment that arise within you; helping to release them with compassion while welcoming more understanding, openness, consideration and playfulness into life.
Discovering true power through alignment with Life’s soft yet resilient vitality helps us learn that true strength lies in softness rather than hardness, especially beneficial when supporting relationships of all sorts – friendships, romantic partners and family relationships alike.
Tourmaline
Black Tourmaline is an invaluable stone that provides protection and balance, clearing away negativity from one’s environment. Absorbing external negativity while providing emotional healing and clarity for those with sensitive souls.
Crystals can also help strengthen healthy self-esteem and grounding feelings, providing stability to those feeling like their lives are off balance or disjointed. Virgos especially can benefit from using crystals for healthy communication with internal emotions while supporting them to enjoy life even further.
Different hues of Tourmaline work to harmonize with various chakras, but black is believed to be especially powerful at activating the root chakra and providing a sense of security and grounding. Use Tourmaline on your meditation altar or crystal grids for protection and energy boosts.
Jade
Jade is known to bring prosperity and abundance. Additionally, its protective crystal properties help soothe heartache while creating peace.
When using crystals as meditation aids, set an intention (healing, balance or clarity). Close your eyes and breathe deeply as you visualize these intentions being transferred into the crystal’s energy.
As your meditation concludes, thank the crystal for its support and take any positive vibrations into your day! Meditation is an integral component of self-care; make sure to practice regularly for maximum benefits! For beginners looking to start meditation for themselves, please refer to our Beginners Guide to Meditation; for further insights into its health benefits read Verywell Mind.
Rose Quartz
Rose Quartz is an emotionally soothing crystal known as the stone of love. This gentle pink crystal is believed to open up the heart chakra and promote love, compassion and forgiveness; in addition, its therapeutic powers may help heal past emotional wounds from relationships or past lives.
Meditation with a rose quartz sphere to connect with the energy of your heart chakra can be very rewarding. Visualize a soothing pink light enveloping every part of your body with healing and loving energy.
Rose quartz is said to help promote self-love and forgiveness. It has the power to balance emotions while dispersing negative energies like anger, resentment and jealousy from our lives and relationships – an ideal choice for anyone hoping to add more love into their lives or repair damaged relationships.