Having trouble feeling the energy of your crystals?
Longing to be so high vibe that you instantly feel a spark or intuitive hit when one of these sparkling gems (pun intended) catches your eye or touches you?
Have you tried everything to make it work and still can’t feel crystal energy?
Don’t worry. You aren’t alone. I hear it repeatedly in every form, all meaning I can’t feel crystal energy. There are some really great ways to do this listed here and if you have tried these crystal energy techniques and still feel stuck I’m going to teach you some other ways (because just like everything in life, there is a solution that fits you).
Let me start by saying, people who can feel crystal energy aren’t born with special gifts or skills, they have just honed that particular skill so that it happens effortlessly for them. Just like basketball players work on their free throws and kickers in football work their field goals and ballerinas perfect their arabesque. All that means is that you absolutely have the ability to do this crystal energy thing.
Ways to Sense Crystal Energy
Definitely check out these ways to sense crystal energy first. If these aren’t working for you or if you are just looking for more ways to connect to your crystal consider these additional strategies.
Start with the Right Vibe
There are many theories and practices and rituals to cleanse and clear a crystal, many of these are beautiful and powerful and I encourage you to use a method that resonates with you. However, there is one method that is backed by science to reset the vibration of your crystal, and that is sound.
Before trying to connect with your crystal - whether you have cleansed it, or given it a moon bath - whether it has been tucked away with your collection or just arrived - re-tune your crystal by playing a singing bowl next to it, ringing tingshas, playing a gong, setting it in front of a speaker playing music, singing, or otherwise creating loud noise (sound = vibrations) around the stone to reset the vibration and snap it back into its natural vibratory state.
Determine your “clair”
Once your crystal is all retuned it is time to figure out where your gifts naturally lie.
Just like each human and non-human animal has a skill or gift in the physical form, some excel in sports or music or art...the same applies to your senses including those senses beyond the standard 5 senses.
These beyond physical senses are referred to as your “clairs” and generally correspond with your five senses only beyond the physical form. We all have the ability to develop any or all of our clairs but some clairs are enhanced naturally. Like how some people are born with a natural singing voice. Most often, those that can instantly feel crystal energy have a heightened sense of clairsentience or feeling. But that doesn’t mean you can’t develop clairsentience or use your strongest clair to sense crystal energy.
Clairsentience
Clairsentience might be your strongest clair if you are an “experience over objects” person, you enjoy nature and wildlife, you get goosebumps, you are empathetic, or people say your “too sensitive.”
If this is your clair - or you want to develop this clairsentience then using the Give Yourself a Hand exercise here will work beautifully.
Clairvoyance
Clairvoyance is the one most people are familiar with, even if they don’t resonate with the clair. This might be your strongest gift if you notice people’s aura’s and energy field visually, you see mist, fog, light, even colors when others can’t, you see symbols visions, colors, and images. Other hints that this might be where your strength lies include if you can easily visualize your goals or if you day-dream often or if you have a vivid imagination.
If this is your clair - then for sure try the exercise given here start with Part 2 of the Give Yourself a Hand exercise.
Clairgustance and Clairalience
Clairgustance and Clairalience aren’t as well-known as some of the other clairs, but they can be powerful clairs nonetheless. If taste or smell is your superpower, and the thought of grandma’s cookies brings back a flood of emotion then Clairgustance or Clairalience may be your strongest clair and the best way to start your crystal connection.
Don’t worry, I’m not asking you to lick your crystals or even sniff them...instead try connecting with your crystals via crystal water, sometimes also called gem elixirs or crystal elixirs. There are so many ways to do this, but the safest way is the indirect method. The indirect method helps you to avoid potentially toxic stones and ingestion of harmful polishing and cleaning chemicals that are often used on even nontoxic stones.
An indirect gem elixir is where you place the stones outside of the actual water you are drinking BUT near enough that the crystal can help to structure the water to the crystal’s vibrational pattern.
There are many ways to do this using to separate containers or arranging crystals outside of a glass jar - but the most convenient method for this is utilizing a water bottle specifically for this purpose - such as the Gemstone Well crystal water bottle.
Simply choose a crystal or crystals to work with and taste test - do you notice anything different on your palate? Most often people notice an effervescence or texture change to the mouthfeel of the water.
Have you ever tasted fresh mountain spring water or well water? Those are general gem elixir made by nature.
Claircognizance and Clairaudience
Claircognizance is when you get information about people or events that you wouldn’t normally know about. This is generally strongest in people who feel really connected to their inner knowing. You may feel that your mind just works little differently than others or that you are constantly full of ideas. This also may be your strongest clair if you frequently experience deja-vu.
Clairaudient is when you hear things or you receive your intuitive hits from sound. This might be you if you converse with yourself out loud, if music helps you connect, if you hear or speak words in your head very clearly, or if you often have buzzing or ringing in your ears.
If claircognizance or clairaudience is your strength - then follow the steps to the exercise below.
Steps to Connect with Your Crystal
I’m going to give you two variations on an exercise to connect to your crystal in a step-by-step process. One works with the right brain and one more with the left brain, both will connect your crystal with your energetic field and intuition. The steps are similar with one key difference, references.
Intellectual Path
The first way, let’s call it the intellectual path, here are the steps:
Step 1: Select a crystal, doesn’t matter what kind, just one that you want to connect with. It doesn’t have to be some amazing museum-quality specimen or exotic stone, any crystal will do just fine.
Step 2: Look up the crystal’s correspondence in a reference book, I suggest The Book of Stones but if you don’t have it - anything reference or even good ol’ Google will work.
Step 3: Carry that crystal with you for 3-5 days. It seems like a long time, but I assure you, its worth it. You can put it in your pocket or purse, meditate with it, sleep with it in your pillowcase, or on your nightstand.
Step 4: Each day take a few breaks during the day to jot down information that is happening around you. Pay particular attention to patterns and interactions / occurrences that align with your crystals referenced correspondences.
Step 5: You are connected!
Example:
Here’s an example: let’s say you choose Amethyst to work with.
Look up Amethyst in The Book of Stones - notice some of the main points such as:
- Connection to the divine
- Release of negative patterns and addictions
- Improved meditation
- Clarity of the mind
- Balances the nervous system
You then take that same piece of amethyst with you everywhere for 3-5 days.
Intuitive Path
The second way, let’s call it the intuitive path, is almost the same. Only you are going to look up the correspondences at the end instead of before you work with the crystal.
Here are the steps:
Step 1: Select a crystal, doesn’t matter what kind, just one that you want to connect with. It doesn’t have to be some amazing museum-quality specimen or exotic stone, any crystal will do just fine.
Step 2: Carry that crystal with you for 3-5 days. It seems like a long time, but I assure you, its worth it. You can put it in your pocket or purse, meditate with it, sleep with it in your pillowcase, or on your nightstand.
Step 3: Each day take a few breaks during the day to jot down information that is happening around you. Pay particular attention to patterns and interactions/occurrences or anything that stands out.
Step 4: Look up the crystal’s correspondence in a reference book, I suggest The Book of Stones but if you don’t have it - anything reference or even good ol’ Google will work. And see what is a given correspondence. Congratulations - you are connected!
No matter which clair you choose to work with first or which is the strongest for you already, you can develop all of them. And starting with what comes most natural will enhance your ability to add more clairs and further enhance your crystal connection.
If you feel like you have tried it ALL and can’t connect with your crystals, then give these new methods a whirl. Most of all, know that you have the ability to enhance and strengthen whichever clair you choose and that your crystals are working with you even if you don’t “feel” it.
Article by Audrey Christie, MSN, RN, CCP, ACM
Audrey Christie is a Certified Crystal Practitioner and Advanced Crystal Master serving as the Crystal Educator for Gemstone Well. She is a functional integrative nurse nutritionist and energy medicine practitioner in private practice specializing in autoimmune disease.