Crystals Calling. Choosing your Crystal Connections.

Something that I am asked quite often is, how to choose the crystal that's right for you? So I wanted to share some hints and tips that i've picked up along the way during the last 16 years that I've been working with stone medicine and crystal healing.

Firstly, it is really important to say that crystal teaching is not just about information. It is about a deep sense of presence, a feeling of wonder and curiosity, being able to explore a variety of possibilities and (most importantly) learning to trust your own embodied experience.

In my experience, crystals have their own silent language and they each hold a unique resonance that calls to those willing to listen.

The following are a variety of ways that I often rely on when choosing my own crystals, feel free to take what resonates with you and leave the rest.

Hints and Tips When Choosing Crystals:

(*signs, feelings and signals that help you to know when a crystal is right for you.)

~ Feeling a very strong initial connection to a crystal, this may feel like a magnetic pull, a strong intuitive sense or a clear inner knowing (claircognisance.)

~ Being drawn to a crystal that is very different, unusual or unique. It is not something you would 'usually go for' or is outside of your usual 'go to' crystals.' Sometimes this can be as extreme as a crystal you once strongly disliked and becoming suddenly very drawn to it and feeling a strong need to have it near.

~ Feeling a connection that goes deeper than the initial one of 'that's pretty.' This can be a good place to start when scanning crystals to see what captures your attention but after this initial reaction, sit with it, we are trying to get to what lies beyond and beneath this attraction.

~ Choosing crystals with your heart and not your head. Take some time to meditate and drop into this heart space before you know you're going to be choosing crystals, it helps to filter out the noise of the mind.

~ When we start choosing based off a strong physical and soul level sense of connection, we find that we are no longer going off properties from a book alone. With this one, I like to be guided to the stone first and then later find out the properties and often I'll find this is something that I needed but didn't know at the time. (I want to touch more on properties and when they can be very helpful and times they can be unhelpful, more to come on this soon...) Crystal first, properties later, always. 

~ You can feel an undeniable sense of presence and a silent companionship from the crystal almost like you are being witnessed or held in its presence. 

~ You start to have a feeling that something has shifted within you. These shifts can be subtle and over time or huge and all at once. There is no right or wrong way for this to happen. 

~ A feeling that the crystal has awakened your own inner knowing. It's spoken to a core truth within your being.

~ Being repeatedly drawn to certain stones/frequencies. You find yourself thinking about them even when they are not close by or even dreaming about them.

~ Being drawn to crystals that are imperfect. Chipped, raw or oddly shaped crystals or a misfit of the bunch. You're not searching for a physical perfection, you're searching for the feeling, the frequency and the personal energetic resonance.

Crystals are companions, guides, teachers, way showers and supporters. For those drawn to the Earths more subtle energies, the crystals we hold are more than mere objects they are partners in our unfolding journey.

When we slow down enough, we are able to listen and interpret their subtle language.

Try some of these out and let me know how you get on.

Love and crystal blessings, Lottie xxx