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Can anyone tell me why seasalt in particular is good for cleansing crystals? Is it to do with the osmotic effect, that it draws the negativity ect out? and if so, could epsom salts be used, or soda crystals?
I have a big bag of epsom salts for my other therapy work, and sea salt is quite expnsive, especially as it has to be discarded after use.
Look for ward to hearing your comments,
thanks you,
Penelope
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Hi Penny
Sea water doesn't cost much though does it ;)and they so love the sea!
xx
aaahhhhhhhhhh, but I was thinking of buying seasalt and putting the crystals in that! oops.
Hadnt thought of actually using sea water. What about the pollution?
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Akkkk Nooooo, poor crystals! Please don't use salt, it can damage and literally burn and leach out chemicals from stones. Using the sea is ok for a quick sluush on some stronger crystals, but still rinse them in pure water after or that can cause problems too.
Best way to cleanse is to use fresh water from a mountain, waterfall or stream, if thats not available then use the cold tap and hold the stone under that for a few minutes visualising all the negative energy going being washed away to be healed by mother Earth.
I have some sea salt i bought from spain...I tend to just bury them in it...I don't use salt and water as I did at one time withcelestite or celestine pale blue crystal think that's the name anywayand my crystal..faded and shattered. I then took the pieces and placed them into a blue candle for healing. [/align][/align][/align]I know bits and pieces about crystals basic uses but it's so extensive as what does what that it will take me years to understand them...yetI have a fascination from them steming from childhood. [/align][/align][/align]I don't have the candle anymore though.[/align][/align]I have just purchased another cande and left a post as to what the meaning of it is...but don't think anyone found the post lol.[/align][/align][/align]
Hi there, I've heard so many contradictions as to how to cleanse crystals that I'm really getting confused. I know every crystal is individual and has had its own individual experience, and I'd like to be able to pick up on what each individual requires eventually. I'm quite new to this, relatively speaking, and still feel I have a lot of practicing to do before I getto that stage:).
I have read quite a few books that suggest burying a crystal in sea salt to cleanse it. I've just started an introductory course to crystal healing, and the tutor also said this was an effective method and one he recommended. However, I read a book recently that said this was one of the worst things you could do as it created a hole in the crystals elecromagnetic field, but the author didn't explain how this happens. I explained this to my tutor, and he said he, and many people he knew, hadbeen using the salt technique and had good results when using the crystals for healing.
The author of the book did say that a salt water solution was, in his opinion, the best way of cleansing a crystal, saying that the negative ions created by disolving salt in water draw what needs to come out. I remember from my chemistry at school that dissolving salt in water does create ions. If using the salt water technique, I would rinse my crytals afterwards in pure water (well as pure as you can get these days ;)) as I know that salt crystals can still form in cracks and grooves of crysals which may cause them to fracture or shatter.
'Crystal', you say "Please don't use salt, it can damage and literally burn and leach out chemicals from stones." Can you or anyone else tell me how this happens and why?
Overall, I guess it all comes down to the crystals individual needs, but as I'm not intuitive enough yet to decern what an individual crystal needs, I could really do with some more advice :).
Thank you,
weever~
On the SVA crystal healing course which I took about 7 years ago we were told to put the crystals in Salt and then bless the salt and throw it out.
I stopped doing that years ago and have cleansed my crystals in the moonlight, under running water and even in the sea (a quick dip). But now I just breathe on them asking for them to be cleansed, or Reiki them if you have Reiki.
Thanks for that Antari :). It's always nice to hear someone else'sexperiences. I'd love to think I could cleanse a crystal someday using just my own energies!
I guess I'd still like to know how, in different people's opinion, salt can damage crystals?
Thanks again!
I'd be interested in this too.
Speaking scientifically rather than with any experience of crystals, salt is hydroscopic, which means it sucks moisture from its enviroment. This is why after a while table salt gets clogged up and doesn't run through the holes of your salt-cellar properly. I would think that this property would mean that if you placed a crystal which was composed of a substance involving water, as a chemical constituent with only weak links, into salt of any kind you would run the risk of part of its water being sucked out and the crystal would then be wholly or partly transformed into a different substance.
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I have a big bag of epsom salts for my other therapy work, and sea salt is quite expnsive, especially as it has to be discarded after use.
Look for ward to hearing your comments,
thanks you,
Penelope
[sm=bouncy.gif]
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Hi Penny
Sea water doesn't cost much though does it ;)and they so love the sea!
xx
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aaahhhhhhhhhh, but I was thinking of buying seasalt and putting the crystals in that! oops.
Hadnt thought of actually using sea water. What about the pollution?
[sm=1syellow1.gif]
Answers:
Akkkk Nooooo, poor crystals! Please don't use salt, it can damage and literally burn and leach out chemicals from stones. Using the sea is ok for a quick sluush on some stronger crystals, but still rinse them in pure water after or that can cause problems too.
Best way to cleanse is to use fresh water from a mountain, waterfall or stream, if thats not available then use the cold tap and hold the stone under that for a few minutes visualising all the negative energy going being washed away to be healed by mother Earth.
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I have some sea salt i bought from spain...I tend to just bury them in it...I don't use salt and water as I did at one time withcelestite or celestine pale blue crystal think that's the name anywayand my crystal..faded and shattered. I then took the pieces and placed them into a blue candle for healing. [/align][/align][/align]I know bits and pieces about crystals basic uses but it's so extensive as what does what that it will take me years to understand them...yetI have a fascination from them steming from childhood. [/align][/align][/align]I don't have the candle anymore though.[/align][/align]I have just purchased another cande and left a post as to what the meaning of it is...but don't think anyone found the post lol.[/align][/align][/align]
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Hi there, I've heard so many contradictions as to how to cleanse crystals that I'm really getting confused. I know every crystal is individual and has had its own individual experience, and I'd like to be able to pick up on what each individual requires eventually. I'm quite new to this, relatively speaking, and still feel I have a lot of practicing to do before I getto that stage:).
I have read quite a few books that suggest burying a crystal in sea salt to cleanse it. I've just started an introductory course to crystal healing, and the tutor also said this was an effective method and one he recommended. However, I read a book recently that said this was one of the worst things you could do as it created a hole in the crystals elecromagnetic field, but the author didn't explain how this happens. I explained this to my tutor, and he said he, and many people he knew, hadbeen using the salt technique and had good results when using the crystals for healing.
The author of the book did say that a salt water solution was, in his opinion, the best way of cleansing a crystal, saying that the negative ions created by disolving salt in water draw what needs to come out. I remember from my chemistry at school that dissolving salt in water does create ions. If using the salt water technique, I would rinse my crytals afterwards in pure water (well as pure as you can get these days ;)) as I know that salt crystals can still form in cracks and grooves of crysals which may cause them to fracture or shatter.
'Crystal', you say "Please don't use salt, it can damage and literally burn and leach out chemicals from stones." Can you or anyone else tell me how this happens and why?
Overall, I guess it all comes down to the crystals individual needs, but as I'm not intuitive enough yet to decern what an individual crystal needs, I could really do with some more advice :).
Thank you,
weever~
Answers:
On the SVA crystal healing course which I took about 7 years ago we were told to put the crystals in Salt and then bless the salt and throw it out.
I stopped doing that years ago and have cleansed my crystals in the moonlight, under running water and even in the sea (a quick dip). But now I just breathe on them asking for them to be cleansed, or Reiki them if you have Reiki.
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Thanks for that Antari :). It's always nice to hear someone else'sexperiences. I'd love to think I could cleanse a crystal someday using just my own energies!
I guess I'd still like to know how, in different people's opinion, salt can damage crystals?
Thanks again!
Answers:
I'd be interested in this too.
Speaking scientifically rather than with any experience of crystals, salt is hydroscopic, which means it sucks moisture from its enviroment. This is why after a while table salt gets clogged up and doesn't run through the holes of your salt-cellar properly. I would think that this property would mean that if you placed a crystal which was composed of a substance involving water, as a chemical constituent with only weak links, into salt of any kind you would run the risk of part of its water being sucked out and the crystal would then be wholly or partly transformed into a different substance.
wibble
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