In the whirlwind of life's challenges, anxiety can be a relentless companion, disrupting our sense of balance and leaving us adrift in a sea of unsettling thoughts. As an energy healer navigating my own journey, I've encountered the immobilizing grip of anxiety in recent weeks.
Anxiety can often be triggered by various aspects of our lives such as the holiday season, financial concerns, relationship dynamics, hormonal imbalances, major life changes, periods of intense personal growth, fear of the unknown and more.
Anxiety is a frenetic force that manifests as a low vibration emotion, casting a shadow of ungrounding chaos. It leaves us feeling exhausted, nervous and agitated with racing negative thoughts. Tension, a physical manifestation of anxiety, wraps around us like a tight cloak. Our bodies become vessels of stress, impacting our muscles, digestion, and overall vitality.
Spiritually, anxiety can act as a dense fog, obscuring our connection to higher consciousness, inner peace and the essence of our spirit. This emotional turbulence often disrupts the flow of positive energy, hindering our ability to attune to the subtle vibrations of the spiritual realm.
In the grip of anxiety, the spirit may feel fragmented, as if disconnected from the source of its strength. The relentless waves of worry and fear can drown out the whispers of intuition and the gentle guidance of our higher selves.
Nurturing our spiritual well-being during anxious moments involves a deliberate effort to rekindle that inner flame – to find solace, surrender, and trust in the larger cosmic order, fostering a return to a sense of spiritual equilibrium. During such times, it's crucial to reconnect with our lower body, chakras, and the grounding energy of the Earth.
This is where the profound healing power of crystals comes into play. I've found healing in working with crystals, elevating my vibration to ease and release anxiety, fostering a return to balance. Below you will find a list of crystals that are ready to support you in releasing anxiety and re-creating balance and harmony between your mind, body and spirit.
How To Work With Crystals & Your Chakras for Anxiety Relief
Choose one or several crystals that resonate with you and carry them in your pocket, wear as jewelry or even place them next to your desk or workspace where you do most of your mental work. A great way to connect with the stone is to lay down & place the stone at either the chakra center listed in each crystal’s description below or anywhere you feel drawn to on your body. If it states "All Chakras" then choose the energy center you feel most drawn to place the crystal upon. Then breathe deeply and allow the crystal's healing energy to balance the chakra or body area for several minutes.
Here is a quick overview of the locations of the chakras within the body and where you can place your crystal on the desired chakra center:
Root Chakra (1st): The base of the spine - place the crystal on your pubic bone
Sacral Chakra (2nd): Two inches below your navel
Solar Plexus Chakra (3rd): On your abdomen below the breastbone
Heart Chakra (4th): The center of your chest
Throat Chakra: (5th): The base of your throat
Brow Chakra (6th): The center of your forehead above the eyes
Crown Chakra (7th): The top of your head
Cleansing Your Crystals
Crystals have the ability to absorb, store and transmit energy, including absorbing energies from you, other people and their surroundings. For this reason, it is important to regularly cleanse crystals especially before and after working with them so that they can continue to clearly and effectively radiate their healing properties as you work with them.
When using any of the following cleansing methods, hold a clear intention to cleanse the crystal and visualize a container of white light that will transform any energy that is released back into positive light energy:
Moonlight: Place your crystals outdoors or on a windowsill overnight in the moonlight, especially during the light of a new or full moon!
Sound: Clear your crystal of unwanted or negative energies by using a Tibetan bowl, tingshas, tuning forks, drum, gong, chime or even your voice over the stone to emit the cleansing sound vibrations into the crystal.
Smudging: Run your crystals through the smoke of Sage, Sweetgrass, Palo Santo, or Cedar or incense such as Frankincense, Sandalwood, Lavender or Jasmine for 2 -3 minutes or until you intuitively feel it has been cleansed. A common indication that a stone has been cleansed is when the smoke moves to one side of the stone more than the other.
Light Visualization: Hold the crystal in your hands, breathe deeply, center yourself and visualize a beam of universal white light coming down and infusing your stone, releasing any and all unwanted or negative energy and transmuting it back into positive white light.
Here are 10 crystals that can calm and stabilize our emotional responses, offering respite to an overactive nervous system:
Aquamarine (4th & 5th Chakras): One of the best stones for easing anxiety with its incredibly calming, peaceful and tranquil energy that helps you to go with the flow during challenging times and situations. It encourages optimism, soothes fears, aligns the chakras and promotes spiritual awareness. It helps to quiet the mind and overthinking and increases mental perception while releasing confusion and emotional and intellectual instability. This stone also enhances the connection to our Higher Self. Its healing energies are further amplified when combined with Rose Quartz or Lepidolite.
Blue Lace Agate (5th Chakra): A nurturing, comforting and supportive crystal that helps to calm the emotional body, promote clarity and peace of mind and ease mental stress.
Green Aventurine (4th Chakra): A stone of optimism that instills confidence, lightheartedness and inner peace in challenging situations. It replenishes depleted energy and releases negative thoughts and energy. Green Aventurine is a comforting stone that promotes overall well-being and emotional calmness while helping us live from the heart. It stabilizes our emotions, balances the heart chakra and aligns our mental, physical, emotional and auric bodies.
Chrysoprase (3rd & 4th Chakras): A stone of serenity, calmness and harmony that both activates and opens the heart chakra to connect us with the harmonious energy of nature. It encourages an acceptance of self and adaptability while promoting hope, peaceful sleep, relaxation and deep meditative states. This crystal ushers universal energy into the physical body and instills a positive outlook of situations instead of ruminating in negative impulsive thinking. Instills a feeling of security and trust. Meditating with this crystal creates a deep heart-centered connection with the spirit of Mother Earth and this helps to remain centered in your heart space with a sense of courage and trust as you move through difficulties in life. Pair with Lepidolite to enhance this stone’s stress and anxiety relieving properties.
Hematite (1st Chakra): One of the most powerful stones for grounding and anchoring you in your physical body and in the physical world by drawing your energy down through your meridian system and into your root chakra to create safety and grounding. It promotes willpower, confidence and self-esteem. This stone balances the meridian system which in turn balances and harmonizes the nervous system on both a physical and ethereal level. Hematite is excellent for emotional clarity, for balancing the mind, body and spirit and helping mentally sort out problems.
Blue Chalcedony (5th & 6th Chakras): Excellent during times of stress and anxiety when your inner foundations feel shaky ~ this stone can help to bring calm, peace, balance and centeredness. It brings the mind, body, spirit and emotions into harmony, releases self-doubt and negative thinking, encourages optimism and lightheartedness and a peaceful acceptance of new situations.
Danburite (4th & 7th Chakras): A fantastic stone for releasing stress, anxiety, worries and fears by instilling inner peace as well as peace of mind. It quiets the mental chatter that can spiral into negative and obsessive thinking. It soothes and calms the heart, reminding it that all is well and promotes self-love and helps us to shine our inner light. Danburite brings you out of dark emotions and thoughts encouraging laughter and joy.
Blue Calcite (5th & 6th Chakras): A gentle stone that assists you in relaxation and soothing anxieties, emotions and the nervous system. It releases negative emotions and thinking. Holding this crystal will wrap you in a protective bubble of spiritual Blue Light and shield your aura from the emotional thoughts and energy of others.
Kunzite (4th Chakra): A very peaceful and spiritual stone with a high vibration that sweeps out the lower vibrational negative thought patterns out of our energy field. It opens the heart to unconditional universal Divine Love helping our heart connect and communicate with our mind. Kunzite reduces stress-related anxiety, aids in removing obstacles from our path and finding balance during difficult times. It is excellent for panic attacks and supporting our parasympathetic nervous system. This stone is very supportive stone during major or difficult life changes and events.
Pink Tourmaline: (4th Chakra): A heart chakra stone that envelops you in a soft, loving energy bringing feelings of nurturance, safety, comfort and emotional healing while promoting a sense of wholeness. It helps to release stress, anxiety, worries, fears and depression, instills inner courage, peace and relaxation and promotes understanding, awareness and trust.
By incorporating these crystals into your self-care practice, you can navigate the waves of anxiety, finding a path back to a grounded, centered state. Allow these crystals to be allies on your journey, guiding you towards a deep breath, a re-connection with the Earth, and the assurance that, despite the chaos, you are fundamentally okay. Let the journey toward balance become a celebration of self-care, a harmonious dance of mind, body, and spirit.