By Adam Barralet
The many varieties of crystals available to us today dazzle us with their colour as well as their properties for healing, manifesting and connecting us with anything we desire.
Their potential excites us, making it is easy to acquire a hefty handful of new and intriguing finds.
Then we get home, add them to our collection and they make up the new ingredients of our ever-expanding crystal buffet. Unfortunately, with so many crystals to choose from we can end up flitting from one new favourite to the next. In effect, we are ‘crystal speed’ dating, which prevents us from getting to know each crystal intimately and to its full potential.
Through my years of work with crystals I have learnt what needs to be done to extract the best from them; how to make them work well.
Like a person, each crystal has within it a multitude of talents.
These talents will appear beyond the initial impression as you develop your relationship with the crystal.
One example is Selenite, the great cleanser of the crystal world.
Selenite is often placed around a space to remove low vibrational energies. In healing it quickly dissolves grudges, judgement and other negative feelings, removing erratic moods or behaviour. However, as your relationship develops it supports you to move towards a state of ‘personal purity’. Each day, the opinions of others impact you less. You trust your own perception of who are, and find yourself living your life in line with your own inner guidance.
There are many ways to deepen your relationship with each crystal.
Start by limiting yourself to just one, and work with it for a day, a week, or longer until you feel that you’ve had a chance to experience its full potential.
During this ‘dating period’ apply the following three practices to nurture the relationship;Â
1: Cleanse your crystal
We cleanse our crystals to allow them to release all unwanted and unhelpful energies they have picked up from previous experiences, enabling them to return them to a state of balance. There are many ways to cleanse crystals including candle flame, smudging, water, the moon, lightning storms and placing them on the earth. Try using a natural element that has a similar energy to your crystal. Placing a sunstone or ruby under the soft, nurturing energy of the full moon is not energetically compatible with these fiery crystals and will not allow them to cleanse to their full potential.
2: Connect with your crystal
Like any healthy relationship, communication is vital. But before you start programming a crystal or telling it your intent take time to listen to it. Treat it as you would a guide, or friend. This can be as simple as sitting outside, remaining quiet while holding it, or focus on it, keeping it near you while in deep meditation. Crystals can communicate in different ways. You may see or hear something within your mind’s eye, or your body may simply start to feel different.
3: Use ‘correspondences’
Animals, plants, planets, each have an energy ‘identity’ of their own. You can learn which ones have similar energies to your crystal. When you combine your crystals with other items that possess a correspondingly similar and compatible energy, you will generate a mass of energy where the sum of the whole is greater than all the parts used separately.
The crystals you have chosen are a gift from Mother Earth and have come into your possession to support you upon your life path.
When you allow your relationship to develop with each one, you enable the virtues and rewards of ‘crystal monogamy’ to emerge
Adam Barralet, author, healer and crystal alchemist based in Perth, Western Australia- Read more in his book Crystal Connections – A Guide to Crystals and How to Use Them. For further information, visit www.adambarralet.com
