There are many ways to clean crystals of negative energy. Here are some suggestions:

Outside Method: Place in Sunlight (See Sunlight chart below), Moonlight or Rain (See Water Method) for up to a day. Placing the stone on or near a plant often quickens the process.

Crystal Method: If small, can place on a Quartz or Amethyst cluster. Great way to clean necklaces. Clusters could be dedicated for this purpose with a clear intent. Clean Cluster every month or two in rain or sunlight if possible. An amethyst geode works great for this purpose.

Sage Tea Method: This method is effective with less possibility of damaging the stones. Take a sage (fresh is always better but not mandatory) and brew a pot of light tea and allow it to cool. Place your crystals in a bowl (use glass bowl) and pour the cooled tea over them. Leave them overnight. Then remove them and rinse with clean and pure water. Since they are chemicals in most water systems you may wish to buy a gallon of distilled water for this purpose.

Smudge method: Pas stones through smoke of scented incense such as sweetglass, frankincense, sage or Dragon Blood of passing them though a candle flame.

Water Method: Place stones under alternating hot and cold running water for 5 minutes (or in rain for many hours. It is preferable to have water filter system on your tap to filter out some of the chemicals if possible. This is quick and easy but the drawbacks; some stones lose their coatings when they get wet such as Lapis, Malachite and Sodalite. They often are stronger after this is done, though, but they get damaged faster. Cleaning these stones in the sun and moonlight works fine. Stones really like rain. It cleans them much better then the sink method if the weather is conducive. Cleaning stones under running water is the quickest and most convenient method especially if you have just bought the stones from a rock shop, and need to use or wear it immediately.

Sea Salt Method: Use about 1 cup of sea salt to 2 cups of natural spring water, or distilled water. Place stones in the salt and let them soak for the better part of the day, or overnight. If the day is sunny, let them dry in the sunshine for a few hours, or if they are lunar stones, lay in the moonlight on a window sill through the night.

Sand Method: When all else fails, or you ar having a hard time cleaning something, bury it in moist sand (or soil). No wrappings. Beware, polish is often removed doing this method, though the stone will certainly get cleaned. Of course must remember where you bury the stones. My friend Stellar_Gate, who used to lived on the upper floor apartment, buried her stones in the soil in the pots of plant.

Refrigerator Method: Put stones, especially jade, in the freezer compartment in your refrigerator. Just make sure they are separated from those frozen meat which often gives off denser and unclean energy. I know of a person who bought a small refrigerator for the purpose of cleaning stones.

Mantra Method: Hold stone with your right hand and chant a mantra. Om Ah Hum or Om Mani Padme Hum. I use the Mantra of Light of the Buddha Mahavairocana. Before chanting form an intention to cleanse the stones.

White Light Method: Hold stone in your right hand and visualize a beam of pure white light descending from above on to stone. Hold your attention for as long as you can, though I take about a minute to clean it using this method. This is a very good method of training to bring down the white light for healing and protective method. Can also use in conjunction with mantra chanting method.

Solar Plexus Method: Hold stone with right hand about six inches in front of your solar plexus chakra. You should adjust the distance between the stone and your solar plexus chakra until you feel a tagging sensations there. Visualise a white flame burning and cleaning the stones. Hold it for around a minute.

Crown Chakra Method: Hold stone in your right hand and connect your Crown Chakra through your Heart Chakra and your right hand. The high vibrations of your crown chakra would neutralise the impurities in the stone. (Purging Negative Energy From Drinks And Food)



Stones that are damaged in Sunlight:

Aventureine, translucent types often lose colour.

Amethyst: bcomes paler.

Apatite: pink variety fades.

Aquarmarine: becomes paler.

Beryl; brown or orange types may change to pale pink.

Citrine: may change colour.

Fluorite; Green and purple types change colour.

Moonstone: of course as its name implies.

Rose Quartz: becomes paler.

Smokey Quartz: becomes paler.

Kunzite: becomes pale or loses colour.

Sapphire: much happier in moonlight.

Hi Diamond,
Thanks for the info on cleansing. I have nearly a 100 crystals in my collection, we had a thunderstorm not so long back, and I put them all outside overnight in the storm and brought them in next day. The energy from the cleansed crystals was amazing. Nearly gave myself an `hernia` lifting an Amethyst Geode.
Blessings
Whiteowl

Whiteowl, thanks for your response to my post. Just to add on to what I have written.

The bringing down of the white light method can rekindle the sparkle or what I call the inner fire in gemstones. It not only cleanses away negative vibrations, but it also removes the cloudiness from most transparent or translucent stones. You would have to adjust the diameter of the white light to fit the size of the stone you are cleaning but I find that the narrower the beam the stronger it is in cleansing. I could will the beam of white light to be laser thin.

There is another method which I have failed to mention - the use of your right projecting hand to perform clockwise circular movement about 6 inches over the stones. Like another method I already mentioned, I also connect my right hand chakra to my crown to tap the highly pure and powerful crown chakra vibration. Since you are into higher level Reiki, you should be able to use this method without any problem. I find that using this method not only clears the stones of unwanted energy implants but it also makes them becoming more shinning like as if you have applied a coat of wax over them. I am able to bring back to life most of the stones dulled by prolonged period of being kept away in closed drawers or cabinets.

Once I went to a rock stall run by a memeber of this room and cleansed and polished those stones displayed on the shelves by using my etheric version of this method, conjuring up image of an enlarged etheric right hand and circulating it over the multiple stones simultaneously.


Blessings

Diamond

I have almost forgotten one more method of cleaning:

Breathing Method: The breathing method, which I have tested out with crystals. What I do is to connect my crown - concentrate on my crown chakra - hold the crystal in hand and blow my breath into it thrice. You must learn how to control your breathing out - in a stream of smooth air coming out from your mouth. You should feel the change in vibration of the crystal after you have breathed into it. So, you have now magnetised or charged up your crystal with the high vibration of the crown chakra. It serves to cleanse the stone and also confer on it a pure vibration of the crown. The stone can be used as a talisman to protect one against lower vibration elements. How long the vibration will stay depends on how you programme it. The programming comes in the form of composing your thoughts, your intention. and how you project them into the stone as you are breathing the energy into it.

Diamond, I do `Reiki` my crystals and you are so right it does make them shine. Most of my crystals are in a south facing room, I've hang facetted crystals in the windows so the room is filled with rainbows on sunny days and if I am using the room at night for readings or meditation with friends, I light tea lights around the large crystals, the energy is amazing, people are reluctant to leave.
Blessings
Whiteowl

Diamond...I hadn't realized there were so many options. I have smudged crystals with sweetgrass when newly purchased and used salt baths...seems to clear away the energies of the previous handlers.

Like Whiteowl, I have also hauled all of mine out to enjoy the rains during full moon...sort of a double whammy...lol...a beautiful energy from them afterwards.

About the breathing...is this method also a way to set one's intentions...programming...for use of the crystal in healing?

This past Sunday, I took a few crystals with me up to the mountains where I often visit my favorite waterfalls. At the bottom, 2 miles below the falls, the water was still strong, but able to stand in it without force..."feels" like a sacred spot to me...I placed my celestite and laboradite spheres in the stream. As I watched to make sure they didn't swim further, I noticed the Laboradite becoming almost a milky light fog color, like freezing water. When I removed them after a few minutes, the Celestite was definitely glistening and the Laboradite returned to its former shade, but with the brilliant "lights" uniformly covering it where before it had only been on one side of the sphere. I assume this was a major cleansing in this area of the mountain I feel is sacred.

I will continue to read on the crystal/mineral board to learn more of my crystals....I'm embarassed to say I know so little of their properties, as I obtain them only on "feelings" rather than knowledge. In some ways I feel as if they are my family from somewhere in my past.

Thanks and blessings..............Moon

Yes, moon, breathing method can help you programme your crystal for healing. Just compose a thought, an intention, and as you breath into the stone you programme it to serve whatever healing purpose you will it to be. How long the programming will last depends on your level of attainment. This is how some Thailand monk magnetise talismans and amulets, by breathing into them and by chanting. When you hurt your fingers, try breathing into them and see how fast they help in suppressing the pain. Add some imagination to your breath by visualising they come out from your mouth in blue colour (lapis blue).

Blessings

Diamond