

Now that you have bought your
crystals you need to cleanse them.
Crystals, as well as having their
own vibrations, pick up the
vibrations from all those who touch
them. Many, many hands may have
touched your crystal before you, the
people who have gathered the
crystals, the wholesaler, the
retailer...and of course the many,
many other customers in that shop
who have been there buying crystals
and who have picked up various ones
when buying their own…and so it will
hold the vibrations of all those
people.
You need to make the crystal YOURS
and YOURS alone. It must hold your
vibrations and nobody else’s...and
cleansing will wipe away the
vibrations of all those who touched
the crystal before you.
Crystals record and store
information so they also need to be
cleansed after each healing as they
absorb the negative vibrations from
ailments and you could pass these on
to other people. If you are using
them just for yourself then you can
leave them for however long you feel
is right before cleansing. But if
you have used a crystal for
something like an emotional hurt it
is a good idea to cleanse it
afterwards so you don’t take on that
same emotion next time you use that
crystal. Crystals tend to store
emotional pain far quicker than
physical pain.
So
how do you cleanse your crystals?
Well I’m always being asked how
crystals can be cleansed, I know a
few of you have asked me too, but
the question is not one which can be
answered easily, so you won’t be
surprised to find that cleansing
crystals will take up quite a lot of
this weeks class.
There are many, many ways of
cleansing. One of the easiest ways
is to hold a crystal in the palm of
your hand and visualise a white
healing light of spirit going
through the crystal
but that wouldn’t obviously work
with someone who doesn’t believe in
spirit or the white light or who has
trouble in visualising. But if you
do favour this method, make sure you
wash the crystal first under cold
running water.
Everyone cleanses crystals
differently and it is what they feel
happy with and what they feel works
with them that is most important.
NEVER
use detergents on your crystals as
this will leave a film on them and
they will either not heal at all or
their healing properties will be
compromised.
It doesn’t matter how mild the
detergent is, it will still harm
your crystals eventually. Organic,
eco-friendly detergents are still
not to be used.
Salt or salt water or indeed water
with or without the sun/moon’s help
can be used for cleansing crystals
as well as smudging, the use of
essential oils, burying in earth,
and, if you are a practiser, you can
Reiki your crystals clean.
These are the most common ways of
cleansing:

Burying your crystals in the earth
is an excellent cleanser, but never
use this method for hematite or
tiger’s eye or any of the other
metal-based crystals.
This method is like ‘taking them
home’ as this is where the
originated from…it’s a rebirth if
you like. But remember to place a
marker where you buried them or you
may find them hard to find again!
Lol lol

If you live by the sea the ideal way
for you to cleanse your crystals
would be to put them into a pouch
with a cord attached and let them
dangle in the water overnight.
Although they didn’t use salt water,
but the pure water of a stream, this
is the method which was used by
Native Americans.
If you aren’t lucky enough to live
by the sea then immersing your
crystals overnight in salt water
(using sea salt is better than
‘ordinary’ salt) will also cleanse
them.
Just 2 tablespoons of salt is all
you need in the water. Some people
insist on using filtered water but
many use just plain tap water…I do
myself. The next day rinse the
crystals under running cold water
and put in the sun to dry.
Putting your crystal in the sun (and
also in the moonlight) recharges its
batteries, so to speak, but you can
only do this with crystals which are
not friable and which cannot start a
fire…remember that the light from
the sun moves in an arc as the day
progresses.
Some crystals must never be placed
in water and some of these are:
calcite, carnelian, halite,
hematite, labradorite/spectrolite,
lepidolite, lodestone (magnetite),
mica, moldavite, opal, turquoise,
ulexite, clusters of most stones.
Silver jewellery which has crystals
in should never be put into salt
water either
as salt water leaves a green
oxidisation residue on the silver
and it begins to corrode.

Cover the crystals with sea or rock
salt and leave them overnight. In
the morning gently brush every speck
of salt off as the salt can damage
the crystal, especially if the
atmosphere is damp.
But you must always remember that
some crystals cannot be put in water
or in salt (or both) because they
are ‘soft’ crystals and they can
begin to break down and lose their
healing vibrations. This again, is
where a good book is invaluable.

When you use a smudge stick any of
the following may be used:
Cedar, sage, lavender, juniper, pine
Pass the crystal through the smoke
or if you have a large amount to
cleanse then pass it over a group of
crystals many times. As you do this
‘think’ away the negativity which
the crystal may hold.
Smudging can also be done with a
candle by passing the crystals
through the light of the flame and
visualise them being purified and
energised.

Essential oils can also act as a cleanser
for crystals. The most economical
method of using oils is to place
crystals in a container, fill it
with filtered water as you would for
the salt water method and put a drop
or two of essential oil into the
water.
The
following oils can be used:
Lemon:
This has a purifying effect and, on
a practical level, cuts grease.
Juniper:
Like juniper in a smudge stick,
juniper oil has the ability to help
release any negative vibrations.
Lavender:
If you've been doing any kind of
intense emotional work with your
crystals, lavender oil has a calming
and balancing effect. Put some on
yourself, too.

Some crystals have the ability to
cleanse others. For instance, a
carnelian kept in a bag of tumbled
crystals will cleanse them and you
will never have to cleanse them
again. A small crystal, placed on a
clear quartz cluster and left
overnight will also be cleansed.

The rays of the sun and moon are
energetically very cleansing, as
well as energizing. Placing your
crystals outside where they can soak
up the sunlight or moonlight for day
or night, up to a week is very
beneficial.
Do be careful though, as some the
colours of some stones may fade in
the sun. A few of the stones that
will fade in the sun are amethyst,
celestite, opal, and turquoise. If
you have any doubts at all, be sure
to use only moonlight cleansing

Those of you who practice Reiki
healing will know that you can Reiki
almost anything. It’s not only for
us and our pets but we can purify
our food by using Reiki, our drinks,
our plants and also our crystals.
If you are Reiki Level 1 you can
simply hold a crystal in your hand
and Reiki it. If you are Reiki II
you can also draw the
mental/emotional symbol over your
crystals.

Nowadays there are purpose-made
cleansers on sale. I’ve not used any
of these and I prefer to stick to
the old ways so I don't know much
about them, just that they exist in
the form of a fine spray which you
spray your crystals with. |
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