Cleansing your Crystals
When Should You Cleanse Your Stones?
Begin right after you buy or receive it. Then after that, if you wear a stone for healing purposes, it needs cleansing and “recharging” after each use.
If worn as jewelry, you can opt to cleanse them daily or weekly, especially after they start looking dull. Crystals that are used to cleanse our environment (such as Selenite in your home) should be cleansed monthly.
Healing crystals, or gemstones, are part of a category called “vibrational healing.” They both absorb and give energy, so it’s important to discard any built-up negativity.
How to Cleanse Your Crystals
Here Are 7 of the Most Effective, Convenient Ways to Cleanse and Recharge Your Crystals:
1. Natural Water
- Water neutralizes the negative energy stored in the stone and directs it back to the earth.
- Rinse your stones with water by placing them directly under natural rainfall for 4 to 5 minutes. You can also place your stones in a colander and run your stones under water from your faucet for around 10 minutes.
2. Sunlight or Moonlight
- Sunlight and moonlight can charge and cleanse your gemstone.
- The sun will supply a newly harvested gemstone with yang solar energy that balances the stone’s innate yin energy it received from the earth during its creation. For stones that are susceptible to discolouration under the strong sun (such as Amethyst, Rose Quartz or Amber), you can opt to put them out at dawn for an hour.
Important to note: Moonlight is a more delicate and non color altering method that is especially effective with a New or Full moon because of their heightened energy it can increase the stone’s vibrations.
3. Earth
- You can use the elements of the earth by burying your stones underground for a full day. Let the earth soak up all the unwanted energies contained within the stones so they are cleansed and refreshed.
4. Smoke
- You can use smoke to cleanse your stones by holding the crystal in a smoke stream to smudge away any negative energy, this is done in a matter of seconds over a candle. Smudging can be done with sage bundles, palo santo, or incense like sandalwood or cedar, which is known to remove negativity.
- Wave your stone over your smoke source for 20 to 30 seconds to cleanse it while simultaneously purifying your home.
5. Salt Water
- A salt water bath is one of the most common methods to clean your gemstones. Throughout history, salt has been used in all religions for rituals and as a vehicle to absorb unwanted energy.
- With this technique, soak your stones overnight in water with a pinch of sea salt. Ideally, if you have access to sea water, you can bring them back to nature and let them sit in the sea in a mesh bag. Make sure to give them a rinse in clear water after the salt bath to remove any residue.
- Important to note: It is not always advisable to use salt water to cleanse stones as the salt can damage certain delicate stones, such as Hematite or Pyrite.
6. Other Stones
- Certain crystals and clusters have the ability to absorb and regenerate other stones. One of the most popular cleansing crystals that can purify gemstones of their negativity is Selenite.
- To cleanse your stones, lay them on Selenite for at least six hours but the longer the better. Selenite and Clear Quartz clusters actually amplify the energy of your other stones. They have the ability to absorb, neutralize, and then recharge your stones with higher vibrations.
7. Meditation
- Yes, you can meditate your way to cleansed stones! There are ways to clean and meditate with your gemstones at the same time.
- You can balance your own energies during meditation by blowing balanced breath onto your jewels. It’s important to state an intention so you can refuel your gemstone after you clean it. If you practice this form of crystal cleansing regularly, it will come naturally. And the calmness of your being will allow for true stone sterilization.
- Make sure you practice this with relaxed and true meditation. A double whammy is to do a meditation-cleanse during a full moon!
