Crystal Chakra Healing

This chapter presents the complete crystal chakra healing system in practice. Here, discover all the ways of working with this system of healing, from preparation to giving a full treatment and closing the session. There are also sections on self-healing, including aura cleansing, and distant healing, so you can learn to work with crystals to heal remotely.

Before you begin any treatments, you need a special space to work in. In an ideal world, this would be a room set aside for the purpose—in your home, at work, in a clinic, or in a healing/therapy center. Even if it’s not possible to have a separate room, however, there are many things you can do to create a temporary healing space.

Whether it is to be permanent or temporary, this must be a safe space both in practical terms and in how the room feels. It needs to be clean and energetically cleansed, so having a ritual to cleanse and dedicate the room each time you use it is helpful. This can be drawn from your belief system or you can use a traditional procedure for cleansing.

Traditional cleansing can be done using the technique of smudging, which uses four items linked to the four elements—Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. This brings the particular energies of each element into your healing space, to enhance the special atmosphere you are creating.

The herbs in a smudge stick (a bundle of dried herbs such as sage) represent Earth element. Light one end of the smudge stick, blow out the flame, and it will smolder in a similar way to an incense stick. Now use a large feather, representing the element of Air, to direct the smoke, signifying Fire, around the room.

Pay special attention to all the corners of the healing room, where energy has a habit of stagnating. While you are wafting the smoke with the feather, hold a large seashell under the smudge stick, which will connect you to the Water element, as well as catching any falling embers to avoid damage to the floor covering.

Make sure your crystals are cleansed (see page 22), and then arrange them in the room so they can be selected quickly and easily. If this doesn’t offer a pleasing view of them for your clients, then consider arranging a separate crystal display to dazzle them when they first arrive. Add flowers, plants, or other sources of color, such as scarves or cards. If you wish, you could represent the seven chakra colors.

When you have prepared your healing area (see pages 128–129), sit quietly in it for a few minutes and meditate or focus on what you are about to do. Center yourself and feel a connection to the ground, your crystals, and the room.

If you feel unconnected or ungrounded, try holding one or two hematite stones in your hands for a couple of minutes. This is a quick yet effective method of grounding. Keeping hematite in your pocket, wearing it, or having a larger display piece in your healing space will help if you sense you are becoming ungrounded while giving a treatment. Placing two pieces of hematite at your clients’ feet at the start of the treatment is also one way of insuring they feel grounded afterward.

This visualization exercise is another effective way of grounding yourself. Imagine you are standing barefoot on a muddy riverbank. In your mind, feel your feet sinking into the mud, which is oozing around your feet and squelching between your toes. Hold this image and sensation for a few minutes, allowing yourself to feel that you are sinking deeper and deeper into the mud.

Whether you are working with crystals to heal clients, family, or friends, begin with the procedure explained in the Practical Exercise shown opposite to discover where you need to focus your efforts. (If you wish, you can also use the technique when self-healing—see page 141.)

Practical Exercise: Using Your Hand as a Pendulum

You can try using your hand in the same way as you would the pendulum. This will help you to sense the energy of your client’s body and will link in with your internal pendulum (see page 20) and ability to sense energies. Although the technique takes quite a lot of practice, it speeds up the selection and placement of additional crystals, and so is worth persevering with.

First try just sensing the energy of your client. (Let them know what you are going to do and ask for their permission.) Hold the flat palm of your hand 2–4in/5–10cm above your client’s body and pass it over them as you would the pendulum, paying particular attention to the chakras. Look for any change of feeling in the palm of your hand. Over a chakra it may become warmer or cooler, or feel lighter or heavier, or you may be aware of the air above the chakra being dense or “sticky.”

At the same time, be conscious of your internal pendulum and its answers—you don’t have to ask your internal pendulum any questions, as it is part of you and knows what you’re thinking. Do this often enough and your internal pendulum will naturally cut in. Most people will eventually be able to site the additional crystals just by looking and trusting their internal pendulum, without going through the process of gridding.

All the crystals you have placed on and around your client’s body will begin working as soon as they are positioned, but you can help them to work even more by using the following technique.

Activating crystals involves activating the crystals you are working with by means of your quartz master crystal. The healing effect upon the client can be profound.

Practical Exercise: Activating the Crystals

With your dominant hand, hold your quartz master crystal 1–2in/2.5–5cm over the crystal that is highest on or above the body. This is usually the crown chakra crystal, but you may have placed another additional crystal above this.

While pointing your quartz master crystal toward your target, move it slowly in a clockwise circle until you notice a change. Common indicators include:

A warm crystal becoming cool or a cool one changing to warm
Finding it difficult to move the crystal through the air at first, as if it’s going through molasses, but becoming easier as the energy below it clears
Beginning to tingle, or stopping tingling

Once you notice a change, whether it is one of the above indicators or some other change, move to the next crystal and repeat the previous steps. Do this for all the crystals on the body. If you find that you’re not feeling a change at first, don’t be concerned, as it sometimes takes a little practice. In this case just spend a minute or two on each crystal on the body with your quartz master crystal.

For any quartz stars, hold your master crystal in your dominant hand 1–2in/2.5—5cm above them with its termination pointing toward these crystals. If the quartz star is pointing inward toward the chakra crystal, move the master crystal slowly in a clockwise direction. If the quartz star is directed away from the chakra crystal, move the master crystal counterclockwise.

You should have grounded yourself before you commenced the treatment (see page 130), but if you are feeling spacey afterward, hold two pieces of hematite, as above.

During the treatment, your client will have released unhelpful and unneeded energy. Some of this will have been absorbed by your crystals, with the rest being at large in the room. It is therefore important that you cleanse your crystals and the room before you see another client and place the same crystals on them, or close down and put your crystals away. Uncleansed crystals will hold your previous client’s energy, which will be picked up by your next client.

After you finish all your treatments for the day, follow the instructions on page 22 to cleanse your crystals before you put them away, and then cleanse the room with a smudge stick (see page 128). If you feel that your energy is sticky or you feel unclean, stand under a shower and let the water flow over your crown chakra and down your body. Pretend you are a crystal being cleansed under running water.

Crystal Clinic

Rosalie arrived wearing a neck brace which she had had for eight weeks, since having a car accident. She was suffering from whiplash. I explained that although whiplash often causes some minor physical injury, it is rare to suffer any serious damage. (However, this can sometimes occur, so always consult a doctor to make sure that there is no major damage, especially to the spine.) I told her that it was much more likely to have caused a severe energetic “bump” resulting in the throat chakra being knocked out of alignment.

There were many other minor symptoms and issues arising from the accident and from her having to wear the neck brace for so long. She also explained that she often became nervous for no obvious reason and found it difficult to express her feelings. I placed the crystal chakra set so that each crystal was on the appropriate chakra and added two aqua aura crystal clusters, one at each side of her neck. I then activated all the crystals with my quartz master crystal, and left her to simmer for 20 minutes. I prescribed the crystal chakra set, along with the aqua aura crystal cluster, which she needed to keep near her as much as possible and to hold for a minimum of 20–30 minutes every day. She was to follow her program for two weeks and then report back.

After two weeks she said that for the first four or five days she just couldn’t put the aqua aura crystal down. She felt much better physically, and the neck brace was finally taken off. Over the rest of the period, she noticed she felt less anxious and had been expressing her feelings. It really surprised her when she found herself shouting at a colleague who had been upsetting her for years, and saying exactly what she thought of her! Although whiplash was the condition Rosalie saw as the problem, the treatment was for the realignment and balance of the throat chakra, which had a subtle but profound effect on her overall healing.

Whenever you are experiencing discomfort or are unwell, stressed, worried, emotionally upset, or just out of sorts, try giving yourself a crystal chakra self-healing treatment.

This self-healing treatment is also a good way of ending your day even if you feel well. Repeating this treatment daily will help to keep your energies in balance and maintain health. You can work with your crystal chakra set or, if there are specific issues or ailments you wish to treat, replace a standard chakra crystal with one of the others suggested in Chapter 4 or with one of the crystals that work on all the chakras (see page 122).

Simply lie on your back in bed, on a sofa, or on the floor, and place the crystals in the appropriate position on your body (see page 41). Lie still and allow yourself to rest and relax for about half an hour. Play gentle, relaxing music and light some incense if you like.

This is a wonderful exercise to do at home after a hard day at work. It removes the “stuff” you’ve picked up in your aura during the day and aids the release of worrying thoughts and emotions. Stand with your feet apart in line with your shoulders, knees slightly bent, holding your quartz master crystal in your dominant hand. With the crystal pointing to the floor, move it slowly in a clockwise direction for five minutes. You will feel the weight coming off your shoulders as your crystal takes away anything you don’t need. You will feel more centered within just a few minutes.

Keeping crystals with you all the time is simple and effective. A good general balancing set is the crystal chakra set (see page 41), but each morning look at your collection and see if one wants to come out with you today.

Also known as remote or absent healing, distant healing involves projecting healing energy over a distance. Many crystal therapists like to include distant healing in their daily routine. You can work with your quartz master crystal, but some therapists prefer to have a special distant healing crystal. It might be ruby, tiger’s eye, or quartz, but what it is doesn’t matter, so long as it feels special to you.

An alternative method to the distant healing technique explained below is to sit quietly holding your quartz master crystal, with it pointing away from you, and focus your mind on a person, animal, or place in the world that might benefit from healing. Imagine a powerful white crystalline light emanating from the point of the crystal flowing to them. If your mind jumps from one person to another, just allow the light to flow to them.

Practical Exercise: Distant Healing

When doing distant healing, you may like to play some soft, relaxing music, burn incense, dim the lights, and light a candle. Focus your intent on sending healing energies to the person you wish to heal. It may help you to focus on them if you hold a personal item of theirs. Write their name at the top of a piece of paper, and draw a picture of them that fills the page (a stick man or woman will do), or lay a full-length photograph of them on the paper beneath the name.

Place your crystal chakra set over the chakras on the picture of the person.

Take your quartz master crystal and move it clockwise over each crystal for about two minutes or until you feel a change (see page 136). This is much harder to sense than when you are working with someone who is in the same room. You can also ask God, spirit guides, angels, or whatever you believe is out there to help carry the crystal healing energy for you.