How do Crystals heal people?
Crystals or semi-precious crystal stones have unique chemical formulas – think of a cake recipe, the basic ingredients are always there but by adding different quantities and/or additional ingredients you will end up with a different cake. It is the same concept with crystals.
By changing the minerals (ingredients) of crystals when they are formed you can end up with completely different crystal structures. The structure (shape) of the crystal will determine the resonance (vibration) of the crystal and this resonance is then fine-tuned by the vibrations given off by the combination and amounts of minerals that are contained within the crystal.
There are seven crystal shapes that all mineral crystals are formed from:
- Cubic crystals are formed by minerals which have a cubic molecule shape, eg diamonds, fluorite and pyrite. These cubes can then fuse and grow together as the crystal forms into Octahedrons, Tetrahedrons, Dodecahedrons and Pentagon-dodecahedrons to give such structures as garnet or lapis lazuli magnetite
- Hexagonal structured crystals, displayed by crystals such as apatite, aquamarine, emerald and morganite
- Trigonal crystal systems are crystals with a triangular inner structure such as amethyst, rock crystal, citrine, ruby and tourmaline (among others)
- Tetragonal structured crystals like zircon and rutile structures have rectangular inner domains
- Monoclinic crystals have parallelogram/inclined structures and include crystals such as jade, lepidolite and malachite
- Triclinic crystals have an inner shape or structure in the form of a trapezium, able to form a double where two trapeziums come together. Examples include labradorite, turquoise, rhodonite and sunstone
- Orthorhombic crystal structures have inner shapes as rhombuses – crystals like topaz, aragonite and olivine
Modification of the mineral amounts of a crystal will affect how hard the crystal is and there is no set formula for how the composition sets itself. Crystals can form at different speeds, affecting what minerals are included. Different environments (temperature, pressures) will determine the physical state of any mineral included into the crystal and these will have effects on the final colour of the crystal. The colour of the crystal can then have an effect on its final healing properties. The reflection of light radiation that the crystal gives off also has a vibration and if the crystal is mostly red, it is absorbing the wavelength of blue light and reflecting wavelengths in the red region of the light spectrum, affecting its final use in healing.
So how are crystals used in healing therapies?
Crystal therapists have a huge reservoir of knowledge that has been accumulated over many hundreds and thousands of years. This knowledge allows them to choose a certain crystal for a particular type of healing. For example, the healing may be energetic in nature (if the therapist has diagnosed that your health issue is to do with your energy system or Aura). It may be purely a physical problem that needs resolving and an appropriate crystal, or even a combination of crystals, can be administered.
Practitioners and therapists are likely to provide a holistic healing treatment as it is readily assumed that physical medical problems usually start at the energetic level, so when treatment is provided a therapist will use a combination of crystals and other treatments as they feel is required. Using crystals to balance the Chakras or Aura itself is a common use of crystal therapy.
So how does it work on the human body? In the main it is the crystals resonance that provides the healing. All creatures whether flora or fauna contain large amounts of minerals – taking away the water content of the human body leaves you merely with a pile of minerals. Those minerals exist inside the cells of your body and are used to produce energy and essential life-dependent molecules – this is the cells “food”. The minerals inside a cell will enable enzymes to catalyse reactions, converting and creating molecules in conjunction with excess energy used by the cell. Minerals are also important effectors in the process of osmosis, that which allows chemicals or water to enter or leave the cell.
The crystal will have a certain resonance which is in tune with certain minerals within its range; the crystals potency is its ability to provide a resonance to affect the minerals in your body. Think of two tuning forks both tuned to the note of C, if you set one tuning fork resonating and move it towards the static tuning fork, the static fork will begin to resonate in harmony with the vibrating one. In other words the ENERGY is transferred from the singing tuning fork to the static and this is what happens in crystal therapy.
The energy of the crystal gives fresh impetus and extra energy to the minerals in your body. The minerals in your body are now able to work at peak efficiency and the tasks they are required to do are done much better than before, giving your cells new life. This in turn allows your whole body to increase and improve its ability to heal itself at a faster rate. This is how crystals affect and help to heal the physical body… but what about the energetic health of the living organism? How do crystals heal from an energetic standpoint?
Part two of this Crystal healing therapy article HERE
You can find Crystal healers and therapists in the Holistic Healing Directory HERE
