Using Minerals in Reiki Healing Sessions
Due to a minerals ability to increase the rate of chakra healing by adding its own energy or vibrational pattern, reiki practitioners will very often use minerals during reiki healing sessions.
These minerals can be placed on the person or on the floor under the massage table during a healing session, or for distance treatments a crystal grid can be used to help direct the reiki energy and amplify its effect.
Common Minerals Used
Whenever I’m setting up a healing session for an individual I know very little about, I will use the basic chakra stones. They don’t have to be huge, expensive crystals to work. In fact I prefer to use small, smooth pebbles for my general use healing kit.
My general use kit consists of the following small pebbles:
Crown – Quartz
Third eye – Amethyst
Throat – Amazonite
Heart – Green Aventurine
Solar Plexus – Citrine
Sacral – Carnelian
Root – Garnet
I’ll also have a few extra minerals in case someone doesn’t react to the basic charka stones. For instance, it’s always good to keep rose quartz for a back-up heart chakra stone, blue lace agate for a back-up throat charka stone, and lapis for a back-up third eye stone. The kit consisting of small, smooth pebbles should only cost around 5-10$ and will fit in a small bag or pocket for easy transportation. Small pebbles also have the versatility to be place on top of the person or under the massage table. Also if a client really needs one or three of your minerals for further healing, it’s cheap to replace a few minerals in your kit.
Reiki practitioners can also charge the minerals with reiki energy 1-3 days prior to the healing session by turning their reiki on and holding the small bag of minerals in their hands. This increases the mineral’s vibrational pattern and their healing potency.
Laying on Minerals
During a reiki healing session, there are multiple ways to use minerals. My preferred method is to lay the minerals on the floor under the massage table from crown to root chakra. This has the added benefits of not having to shift the minerals around during the healing session when having the client turn over or accidentally knocking the minerals off the client while moving your hands down the charka pathway. The minerals under the massage table however will have to be adjusted for the height of the client prior to starting the healing session. As a courtesy, the reiki practitioner should inform the client that the minerals are under the massage table and at any point if the minerals begin to bother the client, the practitioner should remove them or replace the offending mineral with a back-up mineral.
Laying the mineral on top of the client can make the mineral’s energy more directly available to the client. There are a couple of thoughts to keep in mind when laying the mineral on top of the client. First, the mineral has to be extremely light weight and smooth as not to poke, bother or harm the client. Second, do you reiki the mineral and chakra together or do you reiki the chakra first and then place the mineral on the chakra post reiki? If I lay the minerals on top of the client, I prefer to lay the mineral on first and then reiki the mineral and the client together. This activates the mineral’s energy and syncs it to the chakra’s energy. If the mineral falls off the client on its own volition, it’s a sign that the mineral is not reacting well to the client. You should replace the fallen mineral with another mineral.
As you become more familiar with using minerals, their healing properties and unique energies, you will find that you can become more creative in mineral, colour, and pattern use. It will also become easier to customize the minerals used for each client.
Crystal Grids
For this section, I will use the word “crystal” in replace of “mineral” to imply a mineral that is either in single terminated (pointed on one end), roughly oval, or roughly cylindrical in shape to imply a direction of energy flow in a single direction.
Crystal grids are used to intensify or magnify the reiki energy for distance healing sessions and can be used to send reiki continuously to a recipient. In a grid, the crystals are arranged in a geometrics structure to direct the energy inward toward a representation of the client. The grid can consist of as many crystals are needed or you feel comfortable working with. I feel most comfortable working with five, six or eight pointed stars. The six pointed star is the most popular in both the crystal and reiki worlds as its shape is associated with integration, balance, and the heart chakra. It is also the shape that can include 6 of the 7 chakra stones. Because it is the most popular, the six pointed star is what I’ll use in the following explanation of how to set up and use a crystal grid, but feel free to use as many or few crystals and in whatever combination of colours/minerals you feel comfortable with.
Setting Up a Crystal Grid
Take six crystal points of similar size that you are have already cleansed and charged with reiki energy, and place them where they will not be bumped or moved over an extended period of time. If you are like me, you should place the grid where cats or kids cannot reach them such as a tall shelf or fire place mantel. Arrange them in a six pointed star shape with all the points pointing inward.
In the center of the star, place a representation of the client such as a photograph or an index card with the person’s full name written on it. You many have several recipients represented in the grid that will receive the energy equally. If there are multiple recipients, it’s okay to have one index card with several full names listed on their own line. Full names must include First, Middle, Last names, and Suffix or Title as applicable.
Activating the Crystal Grid
Say a brief prayer over the grid. I usually say something to the effect of, “For the highest good and harming none, I send reiki energy to (name or names)”
Draw the symbols Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen and Cho Ku Rei over the grid.
Then activate each crystal in the grid by cupping your hands to either side of the crystal and filling it with reiki energy. Imagine the reiki energy flowing through the crystal and reflecting energy off of the other crystals in the grid and filling the center of the grid with reiki light.
You can activate the crystals in a clock-wise motion starting reiki at the top center crystal for any number of crystals used.
You can activate the crystals for a five crystal grid by reiki’ing the crystals in a star pattern staring at the bottom left crystal.
You can activate the crystals for a six crystal grid by reiki’ing the crystals in a two triangle pattern
(One triangle: bottom left, top center, bottom right. Second triangle: top left, top right, and bottom center).
Also, you can activate the crystals for an eight crystal grid by reiki’ing the crystals in a two square pattern starting with bottom left.
Deactivating and Reactivating the Crystal Grid
The crystal grid will naturally deactivate itself whenever the person is “full” of reiki energy, or when it is no longer needed.
To re-activate the crystal grid repeat the “activating the crystal grid” steps above.
Crystals Used in Crystal Grids
The crystals used in crystal grids are completely up to the intention or preference of the practitioner. The most basic grid is to use 6 single terminated quartz crystals. Quartz crystals are great amplifiers of energy, and very easy to find in similar size/shapes for a nice balanced grid.
If the practitioner would like to use the chakra colours, for a six crystal grid, use a crystal that works for two chakras to reduce the number of chakra stones from 7 to 6.
Top left: amethyst or lepidolite
Top center: quartz or rutilated quartz
Top right: kyanite or amazonite
Bottom left: rose quartz, jade, or aventurine
Bottom center: garnet or red tiger eye
Bottom right: amber or citrine
Follow the crystal pattern that feels correct for purpose of the grid.