10 Ways to Purify Your Semi-Precious Stones
Purifying your crystals should be part of your routine to ensure you benefit from their full potential.
Your skincare routine can be divided into four stages: purification, recharge, activation and programming. All these steps are detailed in another blog article which you can consult here .
Purification, for its part, can be carried out in different ways.
- Immersion in running water
- Immersion in salt water
- Burial in brown rice
- Natural light
- Sage
- Her
- Using a larger crystal
- Using a Smaller Crystal
- Breathing
- Visualization
Find out how right here.
Immersion in running water
By completely immersing your stones in running water, you neutralize the negative energies they may carry and return them to the Earth. When you are finished, gently dry your stones.
⌛ One minute per stone
✅ Hard stones, such as quartz and amethyst
🚫 Friable stones, like kyanite
Immersion in salt water
When you submerge your stones in salt water, it absorbs unwanted energies and banishes negativity.
If possible, use sea water, otherwise mix a tablespoon of sea or table salt in a bowl of water.
Submerge your stones completely, then rinse and dry them gently.
⌛ Up to 48 hours
✅ Hard stones, such as quartz and amethyst
🚫 Porous stones or stones with traces of metal such as malachite and lepidolite
Burial in brown rice
This technique allows you to remove negative energy and disperse it to a safe place. Fill a bowl with dry brown rice and bury the stone in it. Dispose of the rice as soon as you are finished.
⌛ 24 hours
✅ All stones, although particularly beneficial for protective stones like black tourmaline
Natural light
Natural light can be used for two types of purification.
- Ritual purification: During certain specific moments of the solar or lunar cycle
- Purification and recharge: At any time during the solar or lunar cycle
In either case, place your stones outside before dark, and bring them inside before 11 a.m. This way, your stones will be able to bathe in the rays of both the moon and the sun. If possible, and for deep purification, place the stone directly on the earth. When finished, rinse it and dry it gently.
Prolonged exposure to direct sunlight can erode the surface of the stone. This is why we advise you to bring in your stones before 11 a.m.
In addition, some crystals concentrate the rays to the point where they can set fire. Always be careful when doing this. Remember that the rays of the sun or light move from hour to hour and be strategic in your choice of where to place your stones so that they fully benefit from the rays.
⌛ 10-12 hours
✅ For most polished stones
🚫 Vibrant stones like amethyst and soft stones, which can be damaged by the elements
Sage
Sage is a sacred plant that has several healing properties. For this purification method, you will need a bowl, matches, and sage. Preferably outside or in front of an open window to let the smoke and negative energies disperse, set the sage tip on fire. Hold the sage in your non-dominant hand and hold your stone in the other hand. Slowly, pass your stone through the smoke.
⌛ 30 to 60 seconds
✅ All stones
Her
Frequencies and sound waves have the ability to repair and bring your stones into the same vibration as them. Sound healing can be accomplished through chanting, using singing bowls, a tuning fork, or a bell. The sound itself doesn't matter. What matters is that it is strong enough so that the vibration surrounds the crystal.
⌛ 5-10 minutes
✅ All stones; ideal is you own a very large number of crystals and semi-precious stone jewelry.
Using a larger crystal
The vibrations of amethyst geodes, crystal clusters or even selenite blocks remove the non-harmonious energies that they find in the stones to be purified. Simply place your stones to purify directly on your crystals.
⌛ About 24 hours
✅ All stones
Using a Smaller Crystal
Carnelian, quartz crystal and hematite all have properties that allow them to purify other stones. Because they are generally smaller, you will need a large number of them to be able to effectively clean your other stones.
Place your stones with purifying properties in a bowl and add the stones to be purified on top of them.
⌛ About 24 hours
✅ All stones
Breathing
Your breath can also be used to purify your stones to bring them to their highest vibrations.
Hold your stone in your dominant hand and focus your attention on an intention. Breathing through your nose, inhale and exhale in short, powerful breaths directly on the stone, which you will have brought to your face.
⌛ Approximately 30 seconds per stone
✅ For small stones
Visualization
Visualization is considered the safest method for cleaning your stones. The more in harmony you are with yourself, the easier it will be for you to redirect this energy onto your stones.
Take a moment to center your energy, then pick up your stone and visualize your hands filling with radiant white light. See this light surround the stone and feel it become brighter in your hands. Imagine the impurities coming out of the stone, allowing it to shine brighter with renewed purpose. Continue until you feel a change in the energy of the stone.
⌛ Approximately 1 minute per stone
✅ All stones
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