Programming Your Crystals

You've got your crystal home and taken it out of the bag. It's now sitting there in your hand. What do you do with it now ?

The first thing you ought to do with your crystal is to cleanse it, for although Mo and I regularly clean all of our crystals, other people may have handled it before you and it's good to start with a clean slate as it were.

Click here for 12 ways to cleanse your crystals.

The next thing to do depends on whether the piece you bought is a large "specimen" piece (i.e. a decorative piece) or perhaps one or more tumble stones that you have bought to work with.

With a decorative piece all that you have to do is to add it to your collection, but even here there are healing properties that you can use to beneficial effect.

If it is a particularly large piece of Amethyst, you can place this by your bed to encourage restful sleep. If it's a large piece of Citrine, keep it near where you read and study.

Very large pieces can undoubtedly "set off" a collection, but they can also be taken out and worked with from time to time. They are great pieces to meditate with !

However, perhaps the stones you bought were tumbled stones (or something else such as Quartz Points etc - for programming is not limited to tumbled stones only) purchased, and to be worked with, for a specific reason. After cleansing, some people like to "programme" their stones.

So what does Programming entail and what does it do?

To programme a Crystal or Mineral you can simply hold the stone(s) in your hands and in a quiet moment you visualise this stone being used for a specific purpose.

Some people like to undertake quite elaborate rituals when cleansing and programming their stones, maybe doing it at certain times of the day or night, bringing down white light, perhaps using Reiki or other spiritual or healing symbols in the process. All of this is fine and undoubtedly adds a certain something to the energy of the stone, but it is not compulsory !

Remember, that as with so many other forms of spiritual or metaphysical healing, INTENT is everything. By simply working with your cleansed stones, whether or not you have performed a simple or an elaborate programming, you will be bringing an intent to heal that you (or the recipient) will undoubtedly pick up on.

Both Mo and I would much rather that you worked with your Crystals, rather than be put off by the thought that something "terrible" will happen if you don't programme them or if you programme then somehow "incorrectly" … it won't !!

Remember, even if you didn't programme your stones, you will still be bringing some form of a "programmed intent" simply by the placement of that stone on some part of the body. Nobody just decides to place a Crystal on themselves without having a desire to achieve a certain result!

What programming does for a Crystal is that it energises that stone to work towards a particular desired end result. You will also (obviously) know that you have programmed that stone and therefore your own energies will be more focused when you come to work with the programmed Crystal. Much more so than when you work with an unprogrammed stone.

In a nutshell, programming can enhance the energies of a Crystal and of the person working with that Crystal to, in effect, align their energies for greater effect.

Try it for yourself and see if it makes a difference!

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