If you would have told me several years ago that I could use crystals to remove energy blocks, I would have thought you were crazy. I never had an interest in crystals, and always thought they were for new agers and strange rituals, but not for me. Somewhere along my healing journey, though, I began to get a little curious about them. They were, after all, gorgeous to look at.
I was struggling with PTSD after my marriage fell apart due to domestic violence. I was desperate to find something to help me heal. I started reading up on the chakras and how they are energy systems in our bodies that can get blocked. Several articles kept mentioning how certain stones could help clear them, so I started wondering if they could help me.
They say nothing happens by accident, and I absolutely believe that is true. In the midst of my searching and curiosity, a flash sale happened for a chakra clearing necklace and the ad kept popping into my newsfeed every time I got on Facebook. After reading the details and studying the beautiful necklace at least 10 times, I finally decided to make the purchase. I wasn’t expecting much and had the mindset that at least it was a beautiful necklace because that’s probably all it was good for.
Two days after wearing the stones around my neck 24/7, I suddenly had this strong desire to reconnect with my uncle whom I had a falling out with nearly 10 years earlier. I had cut him off because I was so hurt by something he had done that I had sworn I would never talk to him again as if he had died. But oddly enough, this pestering thought kept nagging me that I wanted to talk to him. He had been like a father to me growing up and it had been so painful to lose that relationship.
I decided to message him on Facebook and see if he was willing to talk. His response was less than welcoming, and I felt as if he was putting the blame on me for everything that happened. This had me so fired up I began to ugly cry and couldn’t stop. I spent the entire day going over every detail of what had happened, how I had responded, how I felt about everything, and how angry I was he was not saying sorry. I let it all out. I felt it. I cried until I just couldn’t cry anymore. And then, like a veil being lifted, I suddenly didn’t feel anything anymore.
It was a little shocking, to be honest. I was used to feeling a variety of emotions spring to the surface at the mere mention of him. And now, I had no anger or pain left. I didn’t feel flooded with emotions as I recalled the turmoil I had felt for so many years. I wrote him a short note saying I had spent the day crying and I had forgiven him for everything, and that if I did anything to hurt him in the midst of the incident, I was truly sorry. It felt good to finally put an end to it all. He never responded to the last message I sent, which normally would have infuriated me, but I let it go in peace.
They say you have to sit with your feelings in order to heal from them, but I don’t think I could have spent a whole day feeling these deep seeded feelings if the chakra stones hadn’t pulled the emotions to the surface so I could feel them. The emotions were buried so deep I had nearly forgotten they were still there, just festering under the surface. I had gotten so used to the toxic bitterness I didn’t even know I was still suffering from it deep down.
At the time I didn’t know enough about crystals to understand how this was possible to have such a profound transformation, but over the years I’ve learned more about how crystals help to heal. Everything is energy at its core, including crystals. In fact, crystals absorb energy as well as transmit energy. The law of resonance says that when two frequencies are near each other, they either adapt to each other and meet at a middle frequency, or in this case, the higher energy of the crystal couldn’t be lowered, so therefore it raised my energy to adapt to its higher frequency. Anger, bitterness, sadness are all lower frequencies that needed to be moved at I adapted to something higher. The higher frequency always wins in the law of resonance if the higher frequency (like crystals) can stay strong without adapting.
If you’re new to crystals and stones, I encourage you to research different types and find some that resonate with you. You just never know what will come of it. You can also check out the crystals we have in The Beautiful Healer Shop.