Charging and Cleansing Minerals
Minerals are similar to a computer flash drive. You have limited amount of space on a flash drive to save programs, files, or music. However, they are incredibly useful portable devices that you can carry with you and access your home programs, presentations, or private operating systems. Minerals especially in jewelry format can speed up healing, energy re-patterning, or increase psychic abilities. But like a flash drive, you need to save the programs or intentions that you’ll need on the minerals by charging them and remove the random junk files or viruses by cleansing the minerals regularly.
Charging Minerals
To charge a mineral, first it is wise to select a mineral that has a pre-existing innate ability similar to the programs or intention you would like to write onto the mineral. For instance if you wanted to cleanse the blood, you would pick either bloodstone or hematite which already have a high concentration of iron in the mineral for this purpose. If you wanted to increase psychic abilities, you would select minerals that work well with the third eye and crown chakras.
Now that you have selected a mineral that agrees with the intention or purpose, all which is left is to charge or upload your program onto the mineral. Since almost everyone I have met at one time or another has needed to heal their heart chakra, the following example will be how to use minerals to heal the heart charka.
If your heart chakra is in need of healing because you went through a nasty divorce, then the minerals you would probably use are that of green aventurine, malachite, or blood stone. If your heart charka is need of healing due to the passage of a family member or loved one, then the minerals you would probably select are that of rose quartz, green jade, or rhodochrosite.
Hold the mineral you would like to charge in your dominate hand. Begin to imagine everything that symbolizes “love”. This can be the first time your baby smiled at you, your first kiss, your mother’s warm embrace, the smell of pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving, or cuddling with a loved one on a cold winter’s day. Image this love filling your heart and making it whole again. Now either, visual all the healing energy flowing down your arm and into the mineral, or you can gentle blow on the mineral in your hand and visualize all of the love healing energy imbuing into the mineral with your warm breath. It also helps when first learning to charge minerals to vocalize your intention.
Cleansing Minerals
Cleansing is needed for minerals that have not yet been charged, for minerals that have been worn constantly for a week or more, for minerals that were gifted to you by another person, or at least once a month to remove all the stray energy that might have built up. Cleansing minerals is similar to removing viruses or random bits of potential negative energy off of your flash drive. It’s a good practice to do this regularly especially with an often worn or used mineral.
There is no right or wrong way to cleanse a mineral, so I’m going to break the following cleansing rituals down by element. Follow whichever cleansing practice you feel is correct for your mineral.
Air
When you spring clean your house, the first thing you do is open all the windows to bring in the fresh air and sunlight. The same thing applies to minerals. Minerals can be cleansed using the element of air in the following ways. This list is not all inclusive.
- They can be hung in front of an open window to let the natural breeze cleanse the mineral.
- They can be smudged by burning sage, cedar, sweet grass, frankincense/myrrh, sandalwood, eucalyptus, or other cleansing plant/incenses and having the smoke drift over the mineral.
- They can be placed in a pouch with fragrant cleansing herbs such as lavender, cedar, rosemary, juniper, mint, or sage.
Fire
Fire is really good at consuming unwanted energies. Just imagine how fire burns everything it touches to ashes. The same is true for negative energy.
- Pass the mineral over a candle flame at a safe distance above the flame where you are not burning yourself or the mineral. Imagine the negative energy being consumed by the candle flame.
- The sun is one big ball of constant fire, and because of this is serves the same purpose as a candle flame except more powerful and safer to use in mineral cleansing. Set the mineral in a windowsill that receives the strong afternoon sun for at least one bright sunny afternoon.
Earth
Earth is used when ‘grounding’ unwanted energies off of a mineral. Be careful will burying minerals as you can lose them without a proper marker.
- Bury the mineral in the ground next to a tree for one to three days.
- Bury the mineral in the soil of a thriving potted plant for seven days to a month.
- Place the mineral in a bowl of dry sea salt for one to three days.
Water
Soaking the minerals in clean, clear spring or distilled water washes away the negative energies much in the same way that an herbal bath will wash about body aches and pains. Do NOT use water to cleanse water soluble minerals like selenite or carbonate rocks like limestone or dolostones.
- Soak the minerals in a bowl of water, changing the water daily for three to seven days.
- Hold the minerals under running water or a fresh water spring or river for as long as necessary.
- Soak the minerals in salt water for one to three days. This can be quite harmful to jewelry clasps and wire, so I would only suggest this for raw, undyed, non-water soluble minerals.
Mineral Storage
There are no special storage requirements for minerals. However, here are some multipurpose ideas that I hope will inspire you.
I personally prefer to store my small, loose minerals in colored bags where the color of the bag and the color of the minerals correspond to each other. This serves several purposes. The first purpose being that like colored minerals are happier when stored together. Secondly, it makes it easier to find the mineral I’m looking for if it is color coded. The exception to the rule is my general chakra mineral bag that has all of the chakra colors present.
I also find that minerals that stay in close proximity to people stay charged for a longer period of time. For instance, the citrine crystal on my nightstand stays constantly charged. The exception to the rule is any black mineral that absorbs negative energy. These will have to be cleansed more often when stored closer to people.
Some minerals such as rose quartz will lighten with prolonged sun exposure, so it’s something to be weary of when selecting your display or storage areas.
Lastly, my absolute preferred method for jewelry storage is hanging in the open air and available to receive sunlight from an open window. I personally have my necklaces and bracelets that I wear often, stored on a wall hanging in my living room. This serves several purposes. First, the jewelry is constantly cleansed the elements air and sunlight. Second, it helps display many of my masterpieces, and lastly, it just makes it easier to find my most commonly worn items.