Crystal Instructions

It is believed that crystals have helped both the earth and its inhabitants evolve. Their high vibration raises consciousness and can help us heal as well as bring us back in balance. They transmit, absorb, cleanse, transmute, boost, conserve, and focus energies. Crystals can also protect us from energies and attract us to other energies. Their high vibration raises consciousness and can help us heal as well as bring us back in balance.

CLEansing fOr Your Crystals

Before you use a crystal, cleanse it. Most crystals can be rinsed under running water or placed in salt water or the sea. You can also cleanse your crystals by: smudging them with sage, passing them through a candle’s light, allowing them sunlight or moonlight (some sun + crystals = fire and/or fading crystals, so be careful), or visualizing them immersed in light. As you cleanse your crystals, intend to dispel negativity within them and ask that they be re-energize.

StoRIng Your Crystals

When not in use, wrap your crystals in a silk or velvet scarf. Try to keep smooth stones away from jagged stones.

DedicaTIng YoUR Crystals

After cleansing your crystal(s), dedicate it/them. You want the crystal, you, and the Universe to all be on the same page about what we are intending this crystal to help us with. Hold the crystal in your hand and allow it natural light or picture light around it. State boldly your dedication:

“I hold this crystal with power and with love. I use this crystal for the greatest good of all.” Then get clear on why you’re using this crystal and imagine/envision what you’d like it to do for you in detail. Then state:

“I dedicate this crystal to (PURPOSE).” Then, put it somewhere you know you’ll see it and try to hold it a few times each day. Feel free to repeat the programming or reprogramming as many times as needed.

Cleanse your crystal before each re-dedication.

MedITaITng wiTH YoUR Crystal

It is recommended to create a relationship with your crystal. We can do this by spending intentional time with it, speaking to it and listening to it. You become more attuned to your crystal by meditating with them. Grab your crystal, pick a private quiet place, sit in a comfortable position, hold your crystal, close your eyes, feel its vibrations and be open to what comes up. Your mind will drift and that is ok. Gently bring your attention back to your crystal when you drift and bring your attention back as many times as you need to.

There is no healing journey that does not involve one’s practice of gaining awareness into one’s own mind and thought patterns. And there is no thing like the present moment and being able to be present. Some believe Heaven, Hell, and Earth are three separate things. Some believe all three are simply a matter of where our minds are. Have you ever had a moment of complete bliss? Where you just felt sucked into so much joy and gratitude? Where the leaves seemed to glimmer or the sun seemed to set pink and purple just for you? That’s arguably heaven. Have you ever felt like the world may implode and there was no reason to live? Or maybe your emotions haven’t reached that depth and instead you feel like you’ll never have the things or types of relationships you’ll want? Or maybe you’ve worried about not having enough money or being enough for someone? That’s hellish.

Many things pull us away from ourselves and the present moment. Many things tempt us to prioritize them over our own internal workings. Meditation is the practice of tuning into the present moment, seeing your mind run off, and bringing your mind back to the present moment over and over again. It’s a practice that helps us to remember we do not have to think; we can simply feel, observe, and just BE

Meditation is the practice of making time to just be with our breath and realizing we may never be able to fully be with our breath (because that mind of ours sure does wander). Meditation is the practice of being really kind with ourselves when we drift over and over again, when we don’t ‘meet the mark.’ Meditation is the practice of noticing what comes up or keeps coming up as we "try not to think". We learn what is on repeat. This helps us identify the roots to some of our angst and pain.

Meditation is a reminder that we are the governors of our mind and a tool to help us see who we are governing and what tools we may need to employ to love all that needs to be governed. Meditation is a way to attune to new energies. To call in what we want to receive and offer. We can sit and hold feelings we want to feel more of, or experiences we hope to gain. Meditation is life-changing.

We recommend the Ten Percent Happier app for those who are interested in beginning their meditation practice. There are many meditation guides to use and choose from. We recommend Ten Percent Happier because it is loaded with a stellar crew of mindfulness experts and it offers both education and practice. They explain the why before each meditation and allow you to feel connected to each teacher. The meditations are brief enough to incorporate into each day. We recommend committing to meditation DAILY, even if for one minute.

Here are a few guidelines that may help your meditation practice:

3. Pick the same time to meditate each day. We strongly recommend first thing in the morning. Once things get started, it’s easy to forget to meditate.

4. Pick the same space to meditate each day. This can’t always be done, but making it something you strive for will help with consistency. Your meditation space should be safe and a place where you feel ok closing your eyes and tuning into your inner world.

5. There are many ways to meditate. A few are: metta (sending love), tuning into feelings, observing the breath, mind-clearing, and visualization. These will be elaborated on further as we grow with each healing box and specific instructions for each will be provided.

6. Remember that the goal is not to keep a clear mind and not think. The goal is to try to focus on one thing and know that keeping your focus on one thing is pretty close to impossible. The other goal is to be gentle, kind, loving and accepting of yourself when your mind drifts. Know that your mind will drift; expect it. Just be a mindful observer of the thoughts and feelings that come, distract us, and go.

7. Don’t go too hard too soon. Start with a few minutes and build up to more time. This is at your pace and no one else’s.

8. Do not judge your thoughts or feelings. If certain thoughts come up that are silly or that you don’t want to have, just name them. Ex: “Oh, look – I am worrying about what people think.” or “My mind tends to be thinking about what I have to do next.” Try very hard not to make yourself wrong or bad for feeling or thinking what you are feeling or thinking.

9. What comes up in meditation can be a guide for where your next step of “the work” is. For instance, if during meditation you do notice you are thinking about what you have to do next or that day, you may benefit from completing a to-do list before meditation. A to-do list may help you in general.

Many who are new to their intentional healing journey are taught about affirmations. We are taught that the tongue is powerful and our words and thoughts create our reality. We are told to state out loud to ourselves day in and day out what we want in our lives. We write these affirmations on sticky notes, on mirrors, and on our phone’s home screen. Being surrounded by what you hope to imbibe and live in is important. We must keep reminders around us because the mind can quickly forget what truth we are working toward living out and into.

What many affirmation practices don’t include is time spent feeling the affirmation. This is the most important part. We have to create the energy within that we want to receive from outside of ourselves. Here are some steps to help make your affirmations meaningful and more effective:

10. Keep your affirmations brief and simple.

11. State your affirmations as if you are now living in the reality you want.

12. State the affirmation to yourself outloud.

13. State the affirmation in a mirror, where you can see your own eyes clearly.

14. After stating the affirmation, close your eyes and turn within.

15. Imagine what it would feel like in your body if that affirmation were now true.

16. Imagine what your face would look like if that affirmation were now true.

17. Imagine the things that would be around you if that affirmation were now true.

18. Spend 30 seconds or longer sitting in the reality you want to live in. Feel it, see it, know it.

19. Move on to your next affirmation.

Visualization allows for us to create a new reality within our minds. It allows us to live and feel how we want to live and feel first in our minds, and leads us to the vibration required to attract that life and those feelings to us.

Visualization and the imagination allow for us to not only visit the future we want to walk into but also the past we lived through or the past we wanted to live through. Much of our healing will require that we revisit our past – the good parts and the hard parts. Much of our healing will require we go back to those places and offer ourselves the love, care, time and attention we needed then.

Visualization allows for us to take a break from our current reality and feed ourselves with the reality that is most helpful in that moment. For instance – sometimes when we are stressed, we can close our eyes and imagine floating on the top of water in a beautiful pool or oasis or cenote. We call in relaxation and create an environment where we feel held and like not much else matters.

Visualization can be what you want it to be; just make sure you are really living in the reality your mind is creating. Really be there. Feel how it feels to be there and embody what is happening in the mind’s eye. We are more likely to become what we have experienced or witnessed, so let’s get to creating experiences we want for ourselves.

There are many ways you can utilize journaling and many benefits of journaling. Some people avoid journaling and find it taxing. Some love it and see how it opens them up to themselves.

All things aren’t for everybody, however journaling may be a thing you want to explore as an aid on your healing journey. It really allows us to see what is going on within, how we really feel, how we change, how we think and ultimately allows us to grow in closer relationship to ourselves. It strengthens us and helps us understand ourselves.

One way to use journaling is to free-write. This is where you have no goal as to what you want to write about or what you’re writing for… you just write. You maybe set a timer or don’t and just see where the pen takes you.

Another way is a morning dump or morning notes. This is whenyou take to writing first thing in the morning, before any distractions settle in. Get up, brush your teeth, get a glass of water and sit with your pen and paper and let whatever comes to you come through your pen.

Mornings are a good time for journaling because we wake up with numerous thoughts, dream experiences, or worries/hopes for the day. Morning writing allows you to process all you have within and get it out for clarity and understanding.

Journaling at night is also recommended. It allows for us to review, process, and give gratitude for our day. It’s a nice way to empty the mind so you can rest better while you sleep.

A final way we’d like to share with you is guided journaling. Guided journaling is where you sit down with a journal prompt or question and get to it. You can set or timer or not; totally up to you. Sometimes we don’t like the prompts or the questions, but the practice of trying anyway is helpful. There are no right or wrong ways to journal, so just write. Let the question or prompt take you somewhere.

We recommend journaling as a regular practice, doing it as much as often with a goal of once a day. We don’t beat ourselves up when we can’t do something consistently though, so just do your best and see what happens when you do your best. Our guess is you’ll feel a bit different, a bit freer, and a bit more like your true self. Commit to you and watch what unfolds.