But First, You may be wondering…

How Does Meditation with Crystals Enhance our Efforts to Reduce Stress.

What can using crystals do to help me?

Crystals are overall boosters to meditations. If you suffer from hazy memory, mind fog or an overclouding of thoughts, these 5-minute stress reducing techniques are for you. Crystal meditation can help clear the mental fog, allowing you to navigate through life's challenges with unwavering focus, leaving you with a heightened sense of mental clarity and enhanced cognitive function.

If you experience anxiety and physical stress symptoms, crystal meditation and mindfulness self-care can transport you to this state of relaxation by soothing your nervous system and releasing tension that accumulates from the demands of your busy schedule. Using increased oxygen flow to cleanse the nervous system and increase productivity of our bodily functions.

And most of all, people who are experiencing outbursts of frustration or irritation can value immensely from reducing stress through crystal meditation techniques. Quieting the mind allows our emotions to be felt and expressed internally allowing us to take control of our reactions. Calming feelings of anger, irritation or frustration.

Incorporating crystals into your self-care and calming rituals is a relatively easy and simple process. So, Lets dive into practical techniques that can guide you towards grounding, chakra balancing, and embracing profound inner peace.

Things you’ll need:

• 5 Minutes (or sometimes even less!) of time preferably alone
• A quiet space: this could be anywhere. If you’re at home you can use your yard, bedroom or even a small study or area where you feel safe. If you’re at work this could be a anything from a park nearby, your car, a spare meeting room to a supply closet or bathroom. If you need to chill the heck out as soon as possible, any space alone will do!
• A crystal: it can any crystal you desire. For the best results, use our “How to find the best crystal for You” guide here.

Grounding Crystal Meditation How to: Sama Vritti

Find a quiet space, take a seat (or lay flat on the ground, which ever feels most comfortable) and hold your crystal in your hands on your lap. Now, close your eyes. (you may like to set a timer on your phone)

• Take 3-5 long and deep breaths to settle into the present moment. Try to breathe the full capacity of your lungs and belly. You may find exhaling through the mouth helpful for extra release during these breaths.
• To move into Sama Vritti breathing technique, Inhale deeply through your nose for a count of four, filling your lungs completely.
• Hold the breath for a count of four.
• Exhale slowly and completely through your nose for a count of four.
• Hold the breath out for a count of four.
• Repeat this pattern for several rounds. Focusing on your breathing and bring it back to the pattern when you feel your mind beginning to wander or stress.
• As you settle into this breath pattern, visualize roots extending from your body into the earth, anchoring you firmly. As you breathe deeply, feel the presence of the crystal in your hands, its energy flowing through you and pulling down towards the earth into your roots.
• Keep this cyclic rhythm of breath for the rest of the 5 minutes. You may like to take another set of deep breaths as you exit your stress reducing mindfulness practice.

The chakras, our body's energy center's, play a pivotal role in our emotional and physical well-being. While irritability and anger can be cause by a many number of things, it is important to recognize that it is, at its root, caused by a conflict between your internal world and the external world. Usually driven by our egos, calming and centering the mind helps us to override these instinctual emotions and return to our surroundings with a sense of control and clarity. After all, you may not be able to control your situation, but you can control how you react and resolve it.

Nadi Shodhana, or "Alternate Nostril Breathing," is a balancing breath technique that harmonizes the left and right energy channels in the body. This technique promotes equilibrium and clarity as well as a sense of peace and wisdom allowing us face our experiences with a calm and collected demeanor.

Nadi Shodhana Calming Meditation: How to...

1. Lie or sit down comfortably, hold your crystal on your Third-Eye chakra point (between your brows) with your right hand using your middle and index finger, use the cool surface of the crystal as a focal point.
2. Close your eyes and take a few slow, deep breaths to center yourself and begin the ritual. Begin to clear your mind and focus on the breath.
3. Use your right thumb to close your right nostril and inhale deeply through your left nostril. Pause briefly, then use your right ring finger to close your left nostril as you release your right nostril.
4. Exhale slowly and completely through your right nostril.
5. Inhale deeply through your right nostril, then pause briefly, closing both nostrils.
6. Release your left nostril and exhale through it.
7. This completes one round. So, the pattern is: Inhale Left, Exhale Right. Inhale Right, Exhale Left. Repeat.
8. Continue alternating nostrils for several rounds, focusing on the energy of the crystal seeping into your mind and flowing through your body as your breathe flows cyclically

Amidst the chaos, finding inner peace becomes a treasure beyond measure. When we are emotionally volatile, we want to connect to the heart as this is where we feel our emotions. Selecting crystals associated with the heart or self-love and compassion are great for this technique.

Ujjayi pranayama, often referred to as the "Victorious Breath," is a calming and centring breath technique that harmonizes the mind and body. When combined with calming stones such as selenite, this technique becomes a powerful tool for cultivating inner peace you you can access it more easily in your daily life.

Helpful meditation tips: For our amazing beginners.

learning to meditate can be very challenging for some and it might take you a few goes before you get the hang of these simple practices. That is normal and totally okay. The important part about these stress relief techniques is the intention of doing a practice with a desired result. Even if you forget what you're doing half way through, you are here to be with yourself and create space for yourself and your feelings. And that in itself will subconsciously bring your mind some peace.

Here are some struggles beginners may face when starting their crystal meditation self-care journey as well as some tips on how to resolve and move past them?