Crystals For Grounding

Today we are going to discuss which crystals you can use for grounding. The crystals for grounding are:

• Smokey quartz
• Black tourmaline
• Black kyanite
• Dalmation jasper
• Red tigereye
• Bloodstone
• Red jasper
• Jasper
• Picture jasper
• Desert jasper
• Garnet
• Pyrite
• Petrified wood
• Hematite
• Leopardskin jasper
• Apache tears
• Prehnite
• Aragonite
• Bronzite

What a list! You don't have to get all of these crystals in order to ground. You just need at least one crystal from the list. So let's get into what grounding is.

What Is Grounding?

Grounding is connecting your energy to the earth. We do this for a few reasons. Sometimes you can have an excess of energy that can be a bad thing, and in that case you would want to ground it out. You also need to ground at times when you feel too spacey and like you can't focus on anything. Grounding can help if you meditate often because it can bring you back to earth.

I've noticed especially air signs tend to need grounding more often. If your Sun, Moon, or Ascendant signs are air signs you may find that you need to ground a lot more than others. There are some signs you can look to in order to find out if you need to ground.

Signs that you need to ground:

• Feeling spacey
• Having  trouble staying focused
• Day dreaming a lot
• Feeling floaty
• Trouble with taking care of life responsibilities

How To Ground

To use these crystals to ground, you just take the crystals in your hands and stand or sit on the ground. You can also wear the crystals in a necklace. A technique that I like to do is to is to sit cross-legged on the ground and place the palms of my hands on the ground. You will feel the effect almost immediately. It's a very sobering feeling. You will feel better after you do this.

Crystals For Clarity

Today we will discuss some crystals you can use for bringing clarity to your life. Crystals for clarity include:

• Yellow quartz
• Quartz point
• Fluorite
• Amethyst
• Mookaite
• Azurite
• Hematite
• Tree agate
• Dumortierite
• Serpentine

You can pick and choose which ones you use from the list. If you only have one crystal from the list, that's perfectly fine. You don't have to go out and buy all of these crystals. As you can see, I personally have 6 of the crystals listed, so I don't even have all of them.

Clarity is clear thinking. It can be very helpful in all matters of life. People use crystals to bring clarity when there is confusion.

Maybe you have a big decision to make and you don't know which decision would be the best for you. Meditating with a stone that brings clarity can help shed light on which decision is the right one.

These stones can also be used to help you during a test. If you are a student, you know that having a clear mind and clear thinking during a test can help you out a lot. When you are distracted in school, it tends to lead to poor grades.

Sometimes we want answers to life's questions and these stones can help bring clarity into those situations as well. You are not always allowed to know the answers to your questions in life, because part of life is not knowing. But when you are able to know, these stones can help bring that about.

Having clarity can help you make sound decisions, help you focus better, and help you plan out your life so that you aren't too scattered. It has many uses.

Using these crystals to meditate daily will help increase your clarity. Make sure you hold the crystals in your hands when you meditate and clear your mind of any distractions. You don't have to meditate perfectly in order to benefit from meditation, so it's okay to mess up. That's why it's called a "meditation practice." You are just practicing.

During your meditation, information may come up about what decisions you should make or what you may need to know at this time. Let the information flow to you.

Crystals For Happiness

Today I want to talk about crystals that increase happiness. The crystals for happiness include:

• Yellow quartz
• Dalmation jasper
• Turquoise
• Citrine
• Sunstone
• Rhodochrosite
• Rhyolite

Light colors, especially yellow tend to represent happiness, but there are many colors represented in this list of crystals. You don't have to use every crystal from this list to benefit. Just pick one or a few if you have them.

All of these crystals have other properties as well. If you want more benefits than just happiness, then choose a crystal that will give you other benefits you would enjoy as well.

Citrine is a stone of money and abundance. Rhodochrosite can help you attract love. Turquoise is a good luck and abundance stone.

If you have a lot of sadness, you will want to cleanse these crystals regularly. This is because the crystals will soak up some of the sadness and negative energy and you will want to get that out of there so that the crystal can be light and clear again.

You can place them in the sun to cleanse them. Some people choose to use moonlight, especially the full moon. I personally choose the sun, although the sun has been known to cause some crystals colors to fade. What I've learned is that you don't have to place them outside for hours and hours. Even just a few minutes in direct sunlight will work. That isn't enough to really damage a stone.

After cleansing your stones, meditate with the stone. In the meditation, you will want to ask yourself where is the sadness. You might start to feel a certain body part or sense that the sadness is located in a certain place on your body. Then you will want to clear that area of sadness and send light to that area.

Holding these crystals during your meditation will increase your happiness and help you replace your sadness with good feelings.

Saying the following affirmation daily will help bring you more happiness in life: "I am happy."