Crystals are a very special gift to us from mother earth. These gorgeous stones come in beautiful vibrant colors and unique patterns that make them stunning and very appealing to the eye.
Learning to work with them can be a bit overwhelming for beginners. There are so many stones out there, and it’s hard to know where to begin when choosing the most effective ones for your needs.
The good news is that there are a few basic healing stones that any beginner can start with.
In this post, I will share the 7 best healing crystals for beginners, and then explain how to use them.
1. Amethyst – The Nature’s Tranquillizer
Amethyst is a lovely purple healing stone and has a special place in the top 5 healing crystals.
Known as nature’s tranquillizer Amethyst can actually help you sleep better, lower stress, and soothe anxiety, among other benefits. The shape of the crystal is also significant.
The hexagonal structure of Amethyst crystals is said to symbolize balance, and that is a good way to describe the healing properties of this purple stone.
This is a must-have stone in your crystal collection for all beginners. It is also a master healer that will be vouched for by any Crystal Healer.
Amethyst is very popular in gemstone jewelry due to its rich vibrant color and numerous healing properties.
How to use Amethyst?
Amethyst works wonderfully as sleep assistance. A magical and powerful healing stone Amethyst helps you access your subconscious and bring wonderful dreams.
Simply use a few amethyst pebbles in a half-moon shape and put them under your pillow. You will start to feel lighter after a few minutes of laying down and get blissful dreams.
Keeping this amazing stone near you in your most anxious situations will help you keep your mind calm and relaxed allowing you to have better clarity in your thoughts and a direction to follow.
Candle that is placed on top of the stones, and meditate. You will start to feel lighter after a few minutes of laying down.
2. Rose Quartz – The Stone Of Love
Rose quartz is a particularly rare type of quartz that is known for its gentle pink color, and loving energy.
It is associated with the heart chakra, and is an excellent crystal to use when you desire to open your heart to love. Rose Quartz is very popular and no crystal book would go without its mention.
Rose Quartz is a stone of unconditional love and will help to heal your heart and attain inner peace.
Crystal healers believe that Rose Quartz has the ability to attract love and to heal the heart. It does this by helping the heart chakra to open up, and by healing old emotional wounds.
The calming reassuring energies of this stone is especially helpful for those who have been through a breakup, and find it hard to trust again.
It can also be used to heal the heart of those who are suffering from grief, especially the loss of a child or a loved one.
How to use Rose Quartz?
You can simply rub a rose quartz tumble stone or wand on your pulse points and surrounding areas to activate its energy.
It’s ideal to rub the rose quartz directly onto the pulse points because it is a soft stone.
it’s suggested that people who are experiencing pain or headaches should rub a small, fine rose quartz stone directly onto the pulse points on their heads, wrists, and shoulders.
It is also suggested that people who experience depression or anxiety should rub a larger rose quartz crystal directly onto the pulse points on their wrists and shoulders.
This Beautiful polished stone can be best worn as pendant to keep it close to your heart chakra.
Rose quartz rollers and guasha stones are popular as massage tools in facial massage. Use them to regenerate face cells for a younger vibrant look.
Rose quartz mandarin ducks are very popular as a symbol of love. Keep the pair in a crystal bowl in front of your photo frame to foster lasting love and trust in your marriage or relationship.
Rose quartz pointer can be used in crystals grids for love and harmony.
3. Clear Quartz – The Master Healer
The first thing you notice about Clear Quartz is that it is colorless. It is also one of the most popular crystals, and one of the most versatile.
It is clear, so it can be used for any purpose; it is quartz, so it has high energy, and it is multi-faceted, so it can be used for practically anything.
Clear Quartz is often called the “stone of power”, and for good reason. It is very powerful and highly effective in clearing energy and in amplifying energy. Being a high vibration crystal Quartz is very effective in raising your vibrations.
Clear Quartz is one of the most important stones for healing and has a special place in Crystal Bible. This chakra stone is associated with the Crown Chakra and helps to attune to the higher self, and receives, transforms, stores, releases and directs energy.
It is said to aid in meditation and concentration and is also used as an aid for achieving astral travel.
In addition to healing, Clear Quartz is also used to amplify energy and thought, as well as for programming purposes. It is a strong stone for protection and is said to help ease the pain of arthritis.
Clear quartz is one of the most versatile crystals you will ever come across. It can be used for just about any type of healing purpose, while at the same time being a great stone to use for general protection and to keep your environment free from negative energy.
How to use Clear Quartz?
Clear Quartz can be used to enhance your Mental Clarity and Perception. Clear quartz helps you stay in tune with your intuition, and lets you notice when you are starting to lose that connection.
Because of its self-cleansing properties, clear quartz is one of the best cleansing crystals and can be used with different crystals to cleanse them of unwanted impurities, take a look at your crystal, and see if it might need to be cleaned. If so, gently move the quartz crystal over the other stone.
You can use clear quartz chanting beads while meditating or to repeat affirmations. These beads will keep your mental focus clear and directed to your thoughts.
Quartz pointers or pencils are available and can be used in any crystal grid to amplify the energy of the grid.
4. Black Tourmaline – The Powerful Protector
This stone is a must-have in crystal meditation due to its strong protective and grounding energy.
This is a root chakra stone and is used as a powerful foundation during root chakra healing to balance and clear chakras and aura.
It also has a very strong influence on our mind and helps to clear destructive and self-defeating thoughts which leads to a reduction in stress and brings a sense of peace and stability.
Tourmaline is very popular for metaphysical purposes and protects from negative energies of all kinds. It receives negative energy or psychic attack and transmutes it back to its sender thus acting as a shield.
Tourmaline also is a wonderful cleanser. it detoxifies impurities from body and strengthens metabolism and immunity.
How to use Black Tourmaline?
Black Tourmaline is a very popular crystal and is certainly used in most crystal prescription for Crystal Grid Settings. You can also place this stone near electronics to protect us from its electromagnetic radiation.
It can also be worn as jewellery for protection and warding off the evil eye. Use black tourmaline for grounding and for chakra balancing healing sessions.
Place raw tourmaline stones at your entrances and window sills to ward off any negative energy.
Wear a Tourmaline bracelet and pendant is the best way to keep bad vibes away and keep yourself always surrounded by strong protective energy.
Place a Tourmaline pyramid in your home settings to shield from harmful electromagnetic radiation from electronic appliances.
5. Selenite – The Master Cleanser
The name ‘Selenite’ derives from the Greek goddess Selene, the goddess of the moon.
selenite is a beautiful translucent stone that instils deep peace and is excellent for meditation or spiritual work. It works as a wonderful cleanser and clears confusion and aids in seeing the deeper picture.
selenite helps aligns the spinal column and promotes flexibility. It also assists the body in the absorption of minerals and nutrients.
Selenite dispels negative thoughts, negative memories, mental blockages, and even helps against insomnia.
How to use Selenite?
Selenite can be used in meditation to achieve focus and dispel unwanted thoughts and worries. Rub a selenite wand a few times between your palms before the meditation session.
Keep selenite tumble under your pillow for a restful sleep. Like the calming moonlight selenite also calms our mind and brings peaceful sleep.
Use selenite to cleanse other crystals and rid them of any accumulated impurities. Move a piece of selenite gently over the other crystal a few times and then wash the selenite crystal. Selenite wands can be used to charge your crystal grids.
Carry a selenite piece with you while travelling to keep harmful spirits away.
6. Lapis Lazuli – The Healer’s Stone
This is an exquisite healing crystal known as the healers stone. Lapis Lazuli cleanses and purifies the body. It works as a powerful stone to increase your insight and intuition.
A stone of inner truth and inner power It also helps in improving your psychic ability and helping you tap into your hidden talents.
This stone is associated with the Throat chakra and used in Throat chakra healing meditation. It encourages you to be honest and brings clarity and confidence in your communications.
Lapis Lazuli greatly aids in physical wellbeing. It also boosts immune system, purifies blood, lowers blood pressure. It also works as excellent cleanser for our internal organs.
How to use Lapis Lazuli?
Lapis lazuli ornaments are very popular and it is also widely available as tumbled stones. It can be worn as jewelry to guard against psychic attacks.
Lapis lazuli can be used in mediation to achieve a deeper state of consciousness and explore past lives.
Those who have trouble expressing their true emotions must wear lapis lazuli bracelet or pendant it will give you strength and confidence to speak your truth with clarity and compassion.
Keep lapis lazuli raw stone or angel in your home settings to promote bonding in your relationships aiding in the free expression of feelings and emotions.
7. Tiger Eye – The Confidence Booster
Tiger’s Eye represents the power, courage, and fearlessness of the tiger, worshipped throughout history and across the world.
It is used in chakra healing with the Solar Plexus and Sacral chakra and brings you courage and inner strength to overcome any hurdles in your way.
Tiger Eye helps overcome fatigue and discouragement and allows scattered thoughts, feelings and information to come together in a way that makes sense.
Tiger eye brings physical vitality and motivation to those feeling low on stamina and enthusiasm.Tiger eye is also a confidence booster and dispels any fear giving you the confidence to take important decisions in life
Tiger Eye also helps in physical ailments. It treats eyes, throat and reproductive organs, releases toxins, alleviates pain and is helpful in repairing broken bones and strengthening the alignment of the spinal column.
How to use Tiger Eye?
You can hold a tiger eye stone while meditating to center, ground and balance your energies. Also tiger eye chanting beads can be used to focus your attention while meditating on mantras.
You can wear a tiger eye bracelet for protection and courage and as a good luck charm to ward off any negative energies.
Place a tiger eye on your work desk to keep you motivated, focused and energised. Being an abundance stone it will certainly help you reach your goals faster and climb the success ladder.
You can use it in healing grids to amplify and boost the energies of the other stones.
Conclusion
Although all crystals provide some form of healing. We have carefully chosen these 7 best for you because they are popular, widely available and affordable and versatile in their usage making them perfect accomplices for beginners.
Crystals need love and care just like your near and dear ones. Treat them as you would dear friends, in other words, nurture and respect them. A healing crystal especially needs regular cleansing since it absorbs a lot of your energy.
Too much accumulation of this uncleared energy can lead to breakage and cracks in the crystal. Regularly cleanse your crystal and see them sparkle and bring joy to your life.
Like many people, I began to search for answers to the deep questions of life, and the meaning of existence.
I sought out answers to “Who am I,” “Why am I here,” and “What was I sent to do?” The answer I found, and continue to find, can be summed up in 2 words: LOVE and LIGHT.
There is love in everything and everyone, and each of us is here to share that love with the world.
I am a spiritual healer and intuitive who has been using my healing gifts to help others.