Calming crystals for anxiety

Has your life reached a boiling point? If the constant, chronic cycle of stress has threatened to compromise your health and spirit, you should consider healing on a spiritual level. Using calming crystals for anxiety helps to soothe and heal your mind, body and spirit, truly getting to the root of the problem.

One thing is certain – the pace of life isn’t slowing down. Modern living can quickly crumble the calm, composed spiritual harmony that resides in all of us. And when things get too overwhelming, our stress and anxiety levels are heightened. Anxiety disorders are one of the most common mental illnesses in the United States, affecting nearly 40 million adults in the US alone! Although they can be treated with over the counter medication, many people do not want to be constantly taking medication and are searching for natural remedies for anxiety. This is where adopting a practice of using calming crystals for anxiety can be very beneficial.

Think of using crystals for calming as deep exhale breathing for your soul. Crystals and stones for anxiety can help unlock the door to inner peace. Find a much-needed refuge from modern life by taking the time each day to meditate and escape from the stresses of everyday life. By combining the soothing and relaxing frequencies of crystals with meditation and yoga, you create the perfect conditions for healing on all levels. Meditating with crystals helps you connect with their high vibrational frequencies, which can open up your chakras to a deeper level of healing. Before beginning any therapeutic session with healing crystals, practitioners often use a grounding technique, which helps prime the mind and body for openness and transformation.

During meditation, it can be a challenge to keep your mind from wandering, which is why a grounding session is essential. Start by saging your body, healing crystals, and space to clear away any negativity from your energetic field. Then, hold grounding stones like Hematite or Red Garnet in each hand while imagining your scattered energy coming together in a peaceful wave of relaxation and calm. Once you feel anchored and grounded, you are ready for your healing energy session!

There are many different calming crystals for anxiety and stress relief, so experiment with different ones and find the “personal formula” that’s right for you. Once you find your formula, use your calming crystals in a meditation for anxiety.

Calming Crystals for Anxiety & Stress Relief

Blue Lace Agate

Blue Lace Agate is one of the best crystals for anxiety and stress relief, in our opinion. Its beautiful periwinkle color emits calming and soothing vibrations that bring peace of mind to help you relax. Holding and meditating with these crystals daily can help to calm your nerves and reduce your anxiety. If you are someone who suffers from anxiety every day, try wearing a bracelet made of blue lace agate or carrying one of these healing stones in your pocket, so that if you feel yourself becoming too overwhelmed, it can help bring a little comfort throughout the day. Blue lace agate is also a wonderful stone to use to help calm overly hyper or anxious pets.

Lepidolite

One of the most effective crystals for anxiety is Lepidolite. It naturally contains lithium within it, which is often used in anti-anxiety medication. Connecting with this gentle stone brings balance during times of stress and chaos. It is especially wonderful to use during meditation. Place it over your third eye or hold a piece in each of your hands to bring comfort and harmony.

Selenite

Selenite holds an extremely high vibrational energy, and acts as a source of light for you to plug into. When you are plugged into the energy of light, darker or heavier energy like anxiety cannot enter. That’s why Selenite is such a powerful stone for releasing stress and anxiety. In addition to filling your spirit with light, Selenite also purifies your energy field of any heavy or dense energy so you can raise your vibration to a higher frequency.

Smoky Quartz

Smoky Quartz is a highly grounding stone that helps you release any unwanted energies stored in your energy field. By letting go of anything that leaves you feeling anxious, you can hand over the lower vibrations to your stone so you don’t have to carry them with you any longer.

Shungite

Shungite is believed to help relieve anxiety and also insomnia. It is a very old, ancient healing stone, said to be around 2 billion years old. It helps to detoxify and purify your body and energy field, helping to get rid of negative energies and anything health hazardous to the body, like anxiety. Many people in Russia use it in their drinking water, because of its documented health benefits.

Black Tourmaline

When you find yourself overwhelmed with worry and fear, reach for your Black Tourmaline as your “security blanket.” Hold a chunk in each of your hands and imagine your fears, worries and anxiety being sucked into the black crystals. Having the weight of the crystals in your hands makes this visualization easier, relieving your anxiety at a much quicker rate.

Fluorite

Called the “Rainbow Keeper,” Fluorite brings vibrations of peace, bliss, and calm into your life, making it the ultimate chill pill of the mineral kingdom. The formation of Fluorite is what contributes to its powerful properties of relaxation. Made up of common minerals with strong purifying effects like Quartz and Calcite, this multi-colored stone is one of the best for healing and rejuvenating the mind and body. When you meditate with Fluorite, imagine your energy body being filled with an incredible white light that puts you at ease with yourself and the world.

Angelite

Angelite, the stone of guardian angels, reminds you that you are never alone. . When you connect on a deep level with Angelite, it allows you to bridge the gap between the physical world and the celestial realm, where you can access the support system of your angels watching over you. When you are plugged into the support and guidance available to you, all of your feelings of worry, anxiety or fear will fall away. The comforting properties are what make Angelite such  an excellent anxiety reliever. Ease away feelings of stress with the reassuring energy of your Angelite crystal.

Amethyst

Amethyst is a gentle stone that helps to open and active the third eye chakra, the energy center associated with your mind. By infusing your head space with peaceful and relaxing energy, this stone works to clear away any chaotic, worried, or anxiety-ridden thoughts. With a clear mind, you can move through any stressful situations with a sense of peace and calm. With its deep purple color and attractive geode formation, Amethyst has an instantly calming effect on everything around it, whether it is featured in crystal jewelry or as a large cluster placed in a room.

Rose Quartz

Rose Quartz is a stone of love and support that helps you tap into the energy of love, one of the highest frequencies. The soft and gentle yet powerful energy of this stone helps to elevate your energy and shift from a state of anxiety to a state of love and light.  

Agate

Agate helps you get back into a state of balance. This grounding stone helps you get centered and find your equilibrium when life throws you off balance, which allows you to address anxiety from a more grounded place.  

Ocean Jasper

Ocean Jasper has a nurturing energy that reminds you to take care of yourself. Often when we are anxious or overwhelmed, our well-being and self-care goes out the window. Ocean Jasper guides you to re-prioritize your life so you can make sure your own needs are met.

How to Use Your Calming Crystals for Anxiety

Program Your Crystals

Now that you know what crystals help with anxiety, make them work for you by setting your intention. Before starting any therapeutic practice, we recommend maximizing the healing properties of crystals for anxiety by programming them with spiritual goals that resonate with your life. There are many famous quotes about how intention creates reality, and this is definitely true when working with crystals for anxiety and depression. To support an intention for soothing anxious feelings and a worried mind, write down a mantra that aligns with your crystal healing program. Then place them underneath your stones and every time you work with them, whether in a therapeutic session or a cleansing practice, remind yourself of the special programming you’ve set for your crystals that help with anxiety.

Cleanse Your Crystals for Anxiety

Another important step in getting the most out of your therapies with crystals for anxiety is to cleanse their energy before and after each use. Crystals that help with anxiety are wonderful to have on hand when you need their calming energy, and keeping them cleansed and charged will enhance their healing properties even more. There are many ways to do this but one of our favorite cleansing methods is to recharge your calming crystals by enveloping them in the sacred smoke of Sage or Palo Santo. This cleansing smoke instantly carries away any negative energy, leaving your crystals revitalized and cleared of any previous programming. Your collection of crystals for anxiety are now cleared and open to programming your intention for bringing peace and calm vibes into your life.

Your crystals for anxiety can also be easily cleared and cleansed by placing them on a Selenite charging plate. One of the most powerful crystals in the mineral kingdom for its purifying properties, Selenite is the only crystal that doesn’t need to be charged or cleansed, making it an excellent energy cleansing tool. To charge and clear your crystals that help with anxiety, simply place them on the Selenite for at least 4 hours or more. You can also recharge and renew the energy of your crystals that help with anxiety by bringing them back to nature. Place them under the sunlight for 4 hours or more and their frequencies will be sparkling with new energy. The light of a full moon can also have a powerful cleansing effect on their healing properties. 

Healing Practices

Create a circle of crystals for anxiety by choosing your favorite stones and placing them in a circle. Then, sit down in the middle of your crystal circle to surround yourself with the energy of the Earth. Choose a stone or a few stones to lay on your body, place Smoky Quartz at your feet, and hold a Smoky Quartz stone and Hematite stone in each hand. As you sit in your circle, breathe in the energy of sound Om. Hold the energy of Om. Breathe out Om. Repeat the Om/breath combination as many times as you need until you feel anxiety leaving your mind, body, and spirit. 

Another way to use crystals for calming anxiety is to place them by your bed on your nightstand or underneath a pillow. If you are reaching for your collection of crystals for anxiety, connect with their soothing energy to release worrying thoughts from your mind, which can keep you from a good night’s rest. To boost the calming effects of your crystals, try incorporating them into a nighttime ritual using relaxing aromatherapy. Rub some soothing and calming essential oils like Frankincense or Lavender on the soles of the feet to ground your energy and get you into a sleepy mode.  

There are many different calming crystals for anxiety, and everyone will resonate with different ones. Trust your intuition when choosing the best healing stones for you to use. If you find yourself being drawn to a particular one, trust your gut and go with that one. If you are able to touch and feel the calming crystals in person, hold each one in your hand and see which one feels good with your energy.