As the world around me becomes more stressful and filled with negativity, I realize what a precious tool meditation is in our lives.  Stones and crystals are a wonderful way to accelerate your ability to achieve peace during your meditation!

Recently a customer asked me to teach her how to meditate with crystals and stones.  I guess there are many different ways to do this, and it isn't always intuitive to people.  I will share the way that I like to use stones and crystals in meditation here.

First, please understand that you have seven chakras (actually there are more, but we will focus on the seven main ones). Chakras are a kind of energy center within the body that have been noted since ancient times.  People have also noticed that their location seems to correlate with the location of important glands and nerves within our bodies.  In any case, humanity has been talking about the idea of these energy centers for a very long time.

There are colors of the light spectrum associated with each of the seven chakras.  An easy rule is to pick a stone the same color as the chakra you are working with although there are always some exceptions to the rule.  But you can't really make a mistake.  It is not like something bad will happen and the universe will implode if you use a throat chakra stone on your solar plexus chakra!

The first or "base chakra", located at the very base of your spine, is about wanting to exist in the physical world, survival and passion for life.  Its associated color is red.  Some stones for this chakra would be rough ruby, garnet or red jasper.

The second chakra, sometimes known as the "tribal" or "sexual" chakra is located in your pelvis just above your pubic symphysis.  Its color is orange and this chakra is all about relationships, connection and intensity.  Some good stones would be carnelian or tangerine quartz.

The third chakra, the "solar plexus" is located between your ribcage and your navel.  It is about our sense of self or ego (not in an arrogant way) in the physical world.  It is associated with the color yellow and some stones that resonate with it would be citrine and golden topaz.

The fourth chakra (my personal favorite) is the "heart chakra" located in the center of the sternum (breastbone).  This one is all about emotions and sadly it is where much emotional pain can accumulate.  Now this one is different in that there are two colors associated with it--pink and green.  This means there are a ton of stones for the heart chakra...rose quartz, jade, rhodochrosite, chrysoprase and pink kunzite, just to name a few!

The fifth chakra is the "throat chakra" located at the base of the neck.  It is all about expression of course (not just speaking your truth, but also living your truth, manifesting your truth, etc).  Its color is blue.  Some stones would be aquamarine and larimar.

The sixth chakra is the "third eye" located in the middle of the forehead just above the brow line.  This chakra is all about your innate ability to see and perceive beyond what is in this world!  And here the color system breaks down a bit.  An indigo stone such as iolite is a good choice, but there are many other colored stones good for this chakra, many of them violet and white (amethyst, herkimer diamond).

The seventh chakra is the "crown chakra".  It is focused actually several inches above your head.  It is considered the gateway to all of the chakras in your body and is associated with either violet or white.  Quartz crystal is an excellent choice for this chakra as is amethyst.

Now, when I meditate with stones, I need at least one stone for each chakra and sometimes use several.  I also use a grounding stone at my feet and two pointed crystals to hold in my hands (such as nice sized quartz crystals or celestite crystals...pick whatever you are drawn to!)

The idea of grounding is that it drains any excess energy from us that we do not want there, kind of a negativity vacuum.  Good grounding stones are howlite, hematite, pyrite and black tourmaline.

You should lie down flat on your bed or somewhere comfy like on a yoga mat, with a blanket by you in case you get cold and your stones in a pile by your side.

You place the grounding stone 6-12 inches down from your feet. then you lay the red stone on the base chakra, the orange stone on the pelvic chakra and so on up until you are lying flat reaching up over your head to set the crown stone in place above you.  Now you have all your stones in place--be still or they will wobble off!  Take your two larger pointed crystals. Place one with the point touching the palm of your left hand and place the other with the point facing out in your right hand (arms should be resting out at your sides with the crystals in them).

Basically, once you do this you can then use whatever meditation technique works best for you.  I like to deep breath imagining that I'm getting rid of everything that feels blah and terrible in waves going down to the grounding stone as I exhale. I do that for awhile until I feel a difference.  Then I focus on each chakra and the stone there starting at the base and going up, trying to build the energy towards my crown chakra. 

When I get to the crown chakra, I imagine mine open with white light from the universe, God, whatever you wish to call it, streaming in.  Then I focus upon my hands.  The left hand is for receiving the energy of the stone, so I just focus on letting that in.  Then the right hand is for manifesting in this world what you want, kind of like holding a wand!  That part is fun...I focus on everything I wish to create and manifest in this life (which has a much higher probability of manifesting when you are in a meditative state).  Then I just get quiet and try to still all thoughts so that anything can come in that I am meant to hear.

There you have it!  You can do this for just 15 minutes a day, and it makes a huge difference in your overall well-being.  I know its hard when we get busy, and we all tend to put such things aside.  But in the end, aren't these perhaps the most important things in life?

Peace, joy and hope to you on your path!

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