How to connect with your new crystal.

So, you have carefully chosen a crystal and brought it home from your favorite crystals shop or unpacked it if it arrived from your favorite online store. You marvel at it's beauty, read about it's properties, but how do you really connect with it? 

A great way to connect with your crystal is with an exchange of energy. Crystals will naturally interact with your energy and this can be used to help you attune with your new addition. 

First, you will want to send your crystal some nice cleansing energy.   Hold the crystal in your dominant hand (the one you write with) and imagine a cleansing energy or white light emitting from your hand into the crystal and clearning it of any negative enrgy that may have accumulated. If you feel so inclined, you can also verbalize your intention. Then send your crystal some loving energy. Take a few deep breaths and imagine a calm, warm, loving energy emitting from your solar plexis, through your body and arm, into you hand, and ultimately, into your new crystal. 

In order to feel and attune to the energy of your new crystal, you can do a short meditation with it. You can meditate with your crystal for whatever amount of time that feels right to you. I usually end up doing anywhere from 5-20 minutes. First, find a fairly quiet and comfortable place to sit or lay down. It can be your favorite recliner, your bed, the ground, a lawn chair, indoors or outdoors. Whatever feels most comfortable to you. 

This time, you will hold your crystal in your receptive hand (the one you do not write with). Holding your crystal in your palm, close your eyes, take a few long, deep breaths and relax.  As you clear your mind, notice the crystal in your hand. Notice how it feels in your hand, and any vibration or sensation coming from it. If you are not feeling vibrations or energy imediately, not to worry, the excercise is meant to subtly notice the crystals energy, not to force it. Some crystals will also have stronger vibrations than others. Just notice any sensations and the feeling of the crystal in your hand to start.

As you notice the crystal more and begin feeling the sensations, imagine the energy channels running along your hand and arm opening and the energy flowing freely inward from the crystal into the palm of your hand and then into your arm and up into your body. There is no need to try to pull the energy, just imagine it flowing freely inward from the palm of your hand where the crystal is sitting. 

Once you feel the energy flowing in (it can be strong or very subtle), relax, clear your mind and see where the crystal takes you. Breathe in and let the energy fill your body. From here, the experience is very individual and personal and also depends on the properties of the crystal. It can range anywhere from feeling an opennness, increased abilities, calmness, wellbeing, etc. to even a past life experience if you are working with the right crystals for it. The idea is to open yourself up so that the crystal can interact with you and impart it's energy.  This will help you to learn about your crystal and to attune with it. 

This type of meditation can be done any time you would like to attune with a crystal or impart it's healing energy on yourself in a big way. 

Namaste.