What You Need to Know...
For centuries, civilisations have valued crystals for their beauty as precious and semiprecious gemstones as well as for the unique vibrational energies within each crystal that can help facilitate healing for the body, mind, and spirit. Societies throughout history, including ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, and Greece, used crystals for their healing properties.
This practice continued through the ages, although it lessened during the Renaissance, when people believed the healing properties of crystals came from either good angels or bad angels.
The use of crystals for healing reemerged about 40 years ago and continues to gain popularity as an energetic healing modality.
In a modern age of science, however, it may be difficult to understand how a rock can bring about any type of healing. The answer lies in the vibrational energies found within crystals and how they affect the energy fields all around them, including the human energy field.
What Are Crystals ?
Crystals are natural elements that come from the Earth.
A true crystal has an organised grouping of unit cells that forms a unique lattice pattern called a crystal system.
There are six lattice patterns that appear within healing crystals.
There is also a category of stones known as “amorphous” crystals, even though they are not truly crystals, since they do not have an interior crystalline structure.
Some of these include amber, obsidian, opal, and tektites. They each have their own unique properties.
❖ CRYSTAL LATTICE PATTERNS ❖
The six crystal lattice patterns include the following:
Hexagonal ❖ Crystals have an interior structure that resembles a 3-D hexagon. Hexagonal crystals help with manifestation.
Isometric ❖ Crystals have an interior cubic structure. These crystals can improve situations and amplify energies.
Monoclinic ❖ Crystals have a 3-D parallelogram structure. They are protective crystals.
Orthorhombic ❖ Crystals have a diamond-shaped crystalline pattern. They cleanse, clear, and remove blockages.
Tetragonal ❖ Crystals have a rectangular interior structure. These crystals are attractors; they make things more attractive and they help you attract things to you.
Triclinic ❖ Crystals have an interior structure with three inclined axes. These crystals ward off unwanted energies or help retain energies you’d like to keep.
CRYSTALS AND COLOR
It’s absolutely true that the colour of a crystal can affect how attractive it is to you. But colour also plays a role in the energetic and healing impact of crystals.
There are a few basic things to know about crystals crystals and their colours. The colour of a crystal comes from three things:
How the crystal absorbs light
The specific minerals/chemicals the crystal contains
Any impurities within the crystal
The minerals and impurities impact which light wavelengths the crystal will absorb and the colour that appears as a result.
For example, if a crystal absorbs all of the light wavelengths, it appears black. If it doesn’t absorb any light wavelengths, it appears clear. Different impurities and chemicals/minerals affect light differently.
CRYSTALS, GEMS, MINERALS, ROCKS
It may seem as though people use the terms crystal, gem, mineral, and rock interchangeably, which is common when discussing crystals. In fact, some substances that aren’t crystals, such as amber (which is petrified tree sap), are also referred to as crystals or stones.
Have you ever wondering what are the technical differences?
CRYSTAL ☞ A mineral that has a crystalline interior structure. Agate, which is a hexagonal crystal, is also a mineral and a rock.
GEM ☞ A cut and polished crystal, mineral, or rock. A cut diamond (which is a mineral, crystal, and rock) is also a gem or gemstone. Amber and pearls are organic substances that are considered gemstones, but they are not crystals, minerals, or rocks.
MINERAL ☞ A naturally occurring substance with a specific chemical composition and a highly ordered structure that may or may not be crystalline. Opal is a mineral that does not have a crystalline structure; it’s a gemstone and a rock but not a true crystal.
ROCK ☞ A combination, or aggregate, of minerals. Marble, which is made up of multiple minerals, is a metamorphic rock—a rock that has been subjected to heat and pressure over time.
Are Crystals Found or Made ?
As crystals and gemstones have grown in popularity, they have given rise to an industry of laboratory-created gemstones. These are typically used in jewelry and often are of exceptional size, colour, and clarity. They are less expensive as jewels than naturally formed crystals.
Natural crystals are formed deep within the Earth over hundreds, thousands, or millions of years. Therefore, many believe they have an unaltered natural energetic power. Lab-made crystals are formed quickly without the benefit of the Earth’s energy.
This doesn’t mean they don’t have their own energy. They still have the crystalline structure that retains energy. Some feel this makes the energy less pure.
However, handling any crystal will change its energy, so it’s safe to say all crystal energy is altered the moment it is handled. Best advice is to hold various crystals and see which feels like it has the energy you need in the moment.
The Crystal Electric
Everything has energy. In fact, quantum physics shows that at its most basic, all matter is made up of vibrating strings of electricity.
So is your body, and so are crystals.
Humans are far better gauges of energy than you might imagine.
Even people with little understanding of energy or energy healing might notice they don’t “vibe” with another person.
When you experience this, you are sensing energy and recognising that someone else’s energetic vibration isn’t compatible with your own energy.
Crystals can transform your life... Change your energy and you can change your world.
ENTRAINMENT
Have you ever been around a really negative person and felt your mood dipping just from being near that person ?
Conversely, have you ever been around a highly positive person and felt your mood lift ?
This is entrainment, defined as the tendency of one vibrational system to affect the other so the two move into synchronicity.
Consider your circadian rhythm. Also known as your “body clock,” your circadian rhythm entrains you to cycles of light and dark to communicate to your body when it needs to sleep.
All mammals have what is essentially a master clock located in the hypothalamus of the brain that responds to energetic time-giver signals to help them know when to wake and sleep.
You could have an excellent time-giver signals and avoid using an alarm clock to wake up, if your body clock is highly aligned with the signals it receives.
ELECTRIC EFFECT OF CRYSTALS
Known as "Piezoelectric Effect" occurs when nonconducting crystals (some crystals are conducting and others are not) generate an electrical charge when put under mechanical stress.
Quartz is one crystal that demonstrates piezoelectricity, which makes it popular for use in devices like radios, watches, and other digital integrated circuits.
Pyroelectric crystals such as tourmaline generate electrical current when heated or cooled, according to ScienceDaily.com. The Journal of Physics notes that many applications exist for pyroelectricity, for example power conversion and infrared detection, among others.
EXPERIENCING THE VIBRATION
As with all other matter, crystals have their own vibration. The human body also has its own vibration and is subject to entrainment when it comes in contact with other vibrations.
So, when you work with crystals, they can change your own body, mind, and spirit energies through entrainment; the crystal’s vibration may change a little, as well. Because crystals generally have higher vibrations than the human body, they tend to raise your vibration.
Vibrating at a higher rate is helpful for humans because it allows us to advance spiritually and move in more positive directions mentally, physically, and emotionally.
A crystal in your hand, a rock in somebody else’s Not everybody reacts to the same crystal the same way.
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