Meditation is an ancient practice that offers tremendous benefits to the practitioner. Meditation does not require any specific beliefs or metaphysical or spiritual ideas. You do not need any special talent. You only need yourself, your mind, and a few minutes in which you can be undisturbed.

 

Why do people meditate?

 

For relaxation. Meditation will alter your mind state. This is a physical fact. You can actually slow down your brain wave pattern and move from the active beta state to the alpha state. This will relax both your body and your mind.

For creative visualization. In the alpha mode, you can talk with yourself and creatively visualize something you seek. It could be a new relationship, a happier state of mind, improved health, or whatever you desire. You can then see yourself accomplishing your goal. Such affirmations are powerful programmers of the human mind.

Contacting your higher self. Now, this might seem a bit unbelievable, but in meditation, it is just you. With your brain in an alpha state all thoughts, ideas, and inputs are coming from deep within your mind, and you are conscious at the time. This will be sporadic, but meaningful. It does become a bit addictive. Everyone wonders who they really are. We catch glimpses of our deepest thoughts and our dreams.

Allowing outflow. Most people who are truly happy realize that they have what they need within them, that it is essentially boundless, and that they derive satisfaction from sharing it. Meditation allows for focusing on what is within.

Self-Healing. We all know many afflictions are self-induced. We can think ourselves sick, and we can often think ourselves well. Meditation is a direct link to your inner self. Affirmations of wellness during meditation are effective mind control and body control tools for health.

Opening Energy Centers. Meditation will aid you in finding the sources of energy you have within you.

Grounding. Meditation will connect you with the planet, and assure you are seeing things as they truly exist.

Connecting with Angels and Spirit Guides. Prayer is often a form of meditation. The meditative state makes your mind more open to communication with spirits.

 

How do I use Crystals in Meditation?

 

 

Meditation with crystals is a two-step process. First, you must find the crystal that has the Universal Life Force energy that is appropriate to your intentions. Then you must use a meditation ritual with that crystal. Both steps are easy enough for anyone to learn.

In Lesson 1, we learned the five steps to choosing a crystal. In Lesson 2 we learned how to cleanse it for use. So, the first parts of using crystals for meditation we already know.

But let's review a bit and focus the selection on a crystal for meditation. Then we will go on to establish our meditation ritual.

We learned in Lesson 1 that we start by having a very clear intention. For this first crystal meditation example, let’s assume we want to meditate to deal with stress in our lives and become more calm and centered.

We start with the Crystal Vaults' Crystal Reference Guide at CrystalVaults.com. Among the hundred or more guides we find there are guides to "Crystals for Stress", "Crystals for Calm",  and "Crystals for Centering".

We do a quick review of each of these and we feel the information in "Crystals for Centering" fits our needs best. We read there:

When life becomes stressful, we often feel like we are out of balance, out of control, or simply slipping away from ourselves. It can be brought on by long-term stress such as with a difficult job or short-term stress such as giving a speech in front of your peers. In both instances centering one’s self is a useful and viable technique in bringing calm back into the storm raging inside. Centering can help bring you back to the present and ward off the negativity surrounding you. It pulls our inner strength out and calms our nerves, bringing us peace and solidarity. Finding your center takes work to achieve but it is one of the most rewarding practices you can do for yourself.

That sounds like what we are after. The guide tells us that brown crystals bring you earth energy, the energy of relaxation and nature. The central color of the earth helps bring you focus and eases the process of centering yourself.

Modern life seems to disconnect us from the earth; we get caught up in the hustle and bustle. We forget to be human, and we ignore our true nature. Brown can be used when it is necessary to get down from an excited state, or from being "up in the air", undecided, or flighty. It grounds us like the color of the earth it represents. When you need to settle down, regroup, and revitalize, use a brown crystal.

The guide tells us that Smoky Quartz is a powerful grounding stone that is used extensively in healing and meditation work. It is one of the fundamental grounding stones. It is known to be able to establish a clear path to removing negativity by passing it back into the Earth where it can dissipate naturally.

It is also used in praying to ancestors, grounding the spirit, and providing an anchor in the natural world. The natural colors of the earth help ground you and center your being, shaking off the negative energy as you find peace and balance.

That was easy. We can use a Smoky Quartz crystal for our meditation.

Now it is off to the Crystal Inner Circle to see if we can find an article or post about using Smoky Quartz in Meditation. There are over 5,000 articles on how to use crystals there, so we should find one.

A quick search for "smoky quartz" finds exactly what we want… FIND POWERFUL GROUNDING ENERGIES WITH SMOKY QUARTZ IN MEDITATION.

 

 

The article explains

Smoky Quartz is an ideal crystal for grounding the spirit in meditation, relieving barriers between the alpha and beta states of mind in order to set aside the thinking mind and stop the mental chatter that consumes one’s consciousness. It allows one to simply be in the moment, clear all thoughts, and attune to higher awareness.

It continues,

Smoky Quartz refines one’s vibratory energies allows for a deep, prolonged meditative state, and may be used to initiate a powerful force field that can absorb many forms of negativity, both from within oneself and from outer sources.

The Crystal Inner Circle post even has a reference video. It is actually pretty good!

Using the Crystal Reference Guide and the Crystal Inner Circle, we are very quickly finding we can use crystals for meditation and know we have the right one and some ideas of how to use it.

Let’s do a second example. You might want to meditate to gain some clarity or understanding of what you really want in a particular part of your life. You may be looking to find clarity on a particular situation or question; to try and clear the fog and find the correct path. We need clarity to be able to see what is in front of us and find the best way to tackle and conquer it.

Let’s go to the Crystal Vaults' Crystal Reference Guide and see what we find there first.

There is an article "Crystals for Clarity". It is a good beginning. We find there that yellow crystals are recommended, Citrine in particular. We see that some authors also recommend Rhodonite and others Blue Lace Agate.

We are curious and we want to pursue this more, so we go to the Crystal Inner Circle and search for "clarity". We are looking for ideas of stones to use in a clarity meditation. Let’s see what we can quickly find.

There are many articles that are helpful. Here is one that is exactly what we are seeking. It not only tells us which crystals can be used but provides a detailed ritual to use them. We will explore establishing a personal meditation ritual in the next part of this lesson, but let's see what this article offers us.

Meditation Ritual for Focus and Mental Clarity

 

 

You will need a few things for this ritual, and they include:

• Crystals of fluorite, citrine, or clear quartz improve mental focus and enhancement of the third eye chakra.

• Yellow candles, to increase focus and intuition.

• Incense of cardamom, for mental clarity, concentration, and motivation.

• Angel statue or image of Archangel Uriel.

Use Fluorite to clear the mental fog, confusion, or conflicting ideas, or to quiet worried thoughts and anxiety. Citrine opens the higher mind to accept joy in one’s life, releasing anger and negative feelings, deep-seated fears, and destructive tendencies. Clear Quartz acts as a deep soul cleanser, purifying and enhancing the body’s internal structure and surrounding subtle bodies to connect the physical dimension with the mind.

Archangel Uriel can help guide intellectual pursuits. He illuminates our thoughts with pure intentions and creative and artistic innovations. His aura will help us focus and remain focused on what is important to the success of our future.

That is a good summary of what crystals we might use in our meditation.  Now the article continues with a method we might use.

Arrange the items in a circle, and light the candles. Use the flame from the candles to light your incense, and let the aroma waft around your space. Allow relaxation and increased spiritual consciousness into your being, Focus on the angel statue, and invoke Uriel into your life. Hold your crystals close to your third eye chakra, for cleansing and spiritual alignment. You will find focusing more successful and easier if you do this meditation weekly or otherwise regularly.

Using the Crystal Reference Guide and the many posts and articles of the Crystal Inner Circle has allowed us to quickly learn what crystals we might need for a particular meditation.

 

Review

This ends part one of lesson three, Crystal Meditation. In this lesson, we reviewed how to select a particular crystal for meditation. We learned that using lessons one and two, we are able to begin to process of finding our perfect meditation companion.

We also went over the two best tools you can use in your endeavors to find particular crystals for your meditation needs. This includes the resources at Crystal Vaults, including our Crystal Reference Guide, which tells you what crystals to use. While the second tool, the Crystal Inner Circle, can tell you how to use them