Posted by: CS
I almost died 2 times around crystals – once I got a physcial attack – enzymes levels shot up off the charts – and the second tine I could not hold myself in my body. You sent me to a local crystal master. You had told me that it was meaningful and quite significant, but I never really did find out what that meant. Could you shed some light? Thank you.
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Posted by: CS
I almost died 2 times around crystals – once I got a physcial attack – enzymes levels shot up off the charts – and the second tine I could not hold myself in my body. You sent me to a local crystal master. You had told me that it was meaningful and quite significant, but I never really did find out what that meant. Could you shed some light? Thank you. 
You need to learn about crystals and how to properly work with them.
Crystals hold charges from previous people who have touched them; sounds like that is what happened to you. In the first instance, it sounds like someone previously held the crystal or many people did, in a store that does not practice crystal hygene, and it negatively affected you. In the second case, sounds like a clean crystal that cleared you extremely fast and sent you up through levels of consciousness faster than you could adjust.
At our Crystal Life store, we are always clearing our stones, and keep them in a positive environment with a lot of other clearing tools around them. Be careful when visiting stores that you want to work with the energies they are projecting. Some stores have very dirty energy, or don’t understand or value the stones, and this affects the crystals.
Many Westerners do not understand how to contain their own energy so that others cannot affect them, and they do not pull in or leak through tears in their merkaba. You would do well to take some classes in personal energy control, but check around for recommendations for a good teacher.
Lastly: always work with a cleared crystal – clear it by placing it on sea salt overnight before working with it – and learn how to contain your energy. field.
Hi! I am very new to energy work and actually visited your store this past Saturday. I purchased several crystals and know that they need to be cleared of any residual energy. I placed my clear ones in the sun yesterday for 4 hours and want to clear my colored ones with the sea salt. My question to you is where do purchase this sea salt? Is kosher salt acceptable?Also, I have heard that giving them a salt water bath is also beneficial, if so, what is the ratio of salt and water. Does the water need to be distilled or can it be filtered from my tap? Thank you!
Hi Amy.
First, any crystals you purchase at our store are quite clear already: our staff carefully clears them several times a week, and they are living in an environment with a lot of clearing objects.
Second, it depends upon the kind of stone you want to clear. Be careful leaving clear quartz in the sun as quartz is a traditional way to start fires! Better to leave it in the daylight under a tree or somewhere where the direct sun does not pass through it, e.g. to focus to heat. Do not put colored stones in the direct sun as you can fade them, especially rose quartz, amethyst and the calcites. Be careful when placing stones on salt or in salt walter that it is not a soft stone such as lapis, sodalite, malachite, turquoise as the salt can eat away the stone. For the other stones, it is good, overnight is usually sufficient, then rinse off the stone and dispose of the salt down the drain.
You can also clear stones in these ways: place all your stones in the moonlight of a full moon, outside during an electrical storm, inside on a bed of moss (even the kind you purchase at a craft store for flower display making), by holding the stone and passing clearing incense such as sage, sweetgrass, sandalwood over it, by placing it in the palm of your hand and bringing the other palm down over it while imaging clearing energy emitting from your palms, by inwardly energetically clearing it, placing small stones on a quartz cluster.
Most of all: have fun with the stones!
Thank you for all of those helpful tips! I am most grateful that you and the staff are dedicated to keeping them “clean”, I was not particulary worried about your stones, just others that I may come across in the future.