It is important to cleanse a crystal after you first receive it, or after you’ve used it for healing. Crystals naturally absorb energy and cleansing them removes energy it has picked up along the way before reaching you. It is especially important to cleanse your crystals after you have been working energetically with them, such as in healing work or meditation, as they absorb the persons energy you have been healing and it can be passed on if you don’t clean it out of the crystals.

There are several crystals, like Citrine, Azeztulite and Kyanite that don’t need cleansing. These don’t accumulate negative energy.

You will know when a crystal you have been working with needs to be cleansed. Quartz crystals may become cloudier, where they were bright and clear before, other crystals will lose their lustre. Some crystals physically feel denser or heavier, like they are carrying a burden or extra load.

The crystals you wear or have around the house will need cleansing regularly, depending on how much you wear them or how much  is going on in the house.

Cleansing Methods

• To cleanse your crystal you use your energy to work directly with the crystals’. This is done through your intention – a focused mind. While holding your crystal in your hands, visualise it immersed in white light, clearing it of any unwanted energies and re-energising it. Hold it for several minutes or as long as you feel inclined. Ask “that all the energies within the crystal are transformed into divine light and love, and that it is clear and activated to its full potential”.

• Most crystals love running water. Hold your crystal under the tap and allow cold water to flow over it. As you do so, visualise all negative energies dissolving and washing away, transforming into positive healing energy.

Never use warm or hot water. Water is not recommended for soaking calcite, opals, pearls, celestite, unpolished malachite or turquoise as due to their composition they can dissolve or be permanently damaged.

• Visualise a flow of clear, pure mountain water going through the crystal, washing away all impurities and seeing them transformed into positive healing energy.

• Rinse or bathe your crystals in rain-water, water from a spring, a stream, the beach, a river or sacred source, even in a waterfall. Dry them naturally in gentle sunlight.

• Morning sunlight gently cleanses your crystals and moonlight is a softer way to let light filter through your crystals and cleanse them. The best time for this is a full moon.

• Place your crystals on a bed of rock salt for 24- 48 hours to purify the crystal’s energetic matrix.

Amethyst is a very powerful and protective stone with a high spiritual vibration.

It is often referred to as the spiritual stone because its colour purple is the same as the crown chakra.

As a healing stone, Amethyst contains sobering and calming qualities which is why this stone is commonly associated with peace. Amethyst is known to calm and protect the mind.

If used while sleeping, it helps you to interpret dreams, and to ward off nightmares, just leave a piece under your pillow. It enhances intuition and inspirations, giving you clarity and insight. An excellent stone for meditations.

Amethyst has been identified as a crystal that aids in clearing certain types of blockages and in aligning the chakras. By transforming energies on all levels Amethyst also has the ability to balance and stabilize energies located within certain chakra areas.

Amethyst is related to and found to heal and align ailments of the 6th and 7th chakra, which are the Third Eye and Brow. In doing so it balances out highs and lows, promoting emotional centering. At a subtle level Amethyst balances the physical, mental, and emotional bodies, aligning them to the spiritual.

Amethyst should never be cleansed with the sun, as sunlight will cause the beautiful purple to fade. Instead run under water and leave in the moonlight.

Amethyst Points