1. Place your crystals under running water

One of the quickest ways that you can cleanse your crystals is by placing it under running water. Water works to neutralise any of the negative energy that has become trapped in your stone, returning it back to the earth. You want to fully submerge your crystal in the running water. And with natural water from a lake or river being the best source to use.

While this is a simple cleansing method to follow, it’s best avoided if you’re looking to cleanse soft crystals, such as halite and kyanite. It’s ideal for using to cleanse popular hard crystal stones, including our Quartz.

2. Brown rice for a deep cleanse

If you’re cleansing a protective stone – particularly black tourmaline – you want to deeply cleanse the stone to remove it of all negativities. It’s time to dig into the back of your kitchen and take out a bag of brown rice. Add the dry rice into a bowl before burying the stone deep into the bowl, ensuring that it’s fully covered by the rice.

It’s best to do this method of cleansing for a full 24 hours. Therefor allowing the rice to draw out the negativity in a contained setting. Once you’ve finished cleansing your stone, you’ll want to get rid of the rice as it will have absorbed the negativity that you’ve just cleansed from your crystals.

3. A bowl of salt water

If you happen to live near the ocean or have access to salt water, you can use this cleansing method on hard stones, including Amethyst. For thousands of years, salt has been used to absorb unwanted energies from spiritual objects, including crystals. The next time that you go to a beach, gather a container of salt water to use for cleansing crystals.

If you’re not able to get to the ocean, you can make salt water at home. All you need is to mix in a tablespoon of salt (either kitchen, rock, or sea salt) into a bowl of water. Fully submerge the crystal into the water. Then allow it to cleanse for up to 48 hours before rinsing and drying the crystal when it’s finished.

4. The lunar moon

One of our favourite ways to cleanse crystals is to use the lunar cycle. You can also use this cleansing method to recharge your crystals to give them a pick-me-up. You want to place your crystals outside before nightfall to allow it to cleanse in the moonlight. Place your crystals down onto the earth to make it easy for the negativity to be cleansed from the stone.

Leave your crystals outside until just before mid-day, allowing your crystals to be cleansed and recharged by both the moon and sunlight. You want to avoid leaving the stones out for too long in the sunlight as it can discolour the surface of your crystals.

This cleansing method is ideal for tumbled stones, but you want to avoid using it our Amethyst Cluster and any softer stones, which can become damaged by the weather when left outside.

5. Cleanse with a larger stone

If you’re looking to refresh your cleansing methods, you can use a larger stone that is already in your collection. Larger stones, including Quartz and Amethyst, are ideal for cleansing smaller crystals. This cleansing method works for any type of stone and is simple to follow.

All you have to do is place the stone on top of or inside the larger one. And allowing the vibrations of your original crystal to remove the negative energies from the new one.

6. Sage

One of our favourite things to use to cleanse anything – including crystals – is sage. It’s famous for its healing properties and can clear negative vibrations. And with it also negative energies from your stone to return it to its natural energies. This cleansing method requires a few extra things, including a firesafe bowl, matches, and your sage.

Ideally, you should use your sage outdoors. If you’re not able to go outdoors, open the windows to allow the negative energies to leave your home.

Start by igniting the top of the sage with the flame of your matches. Taking the safe from your non-dominant hand, while holding your crystal. Then moving it across the smoke that comes from the sage. You can cleanse multiple crystals in turn as it typically should only take 30 to 60 seconds per stone.

7. Visualisation

Another quick and effective way to cleanse your stones – and often the safest – is to use visualisation. This process helps you become more in tune with your inner self, allowing you to direct positive energies into the stone.

Before you pick up the crystal, spend a few minutes grounding and centring your energies. Once this is done, take your stone and begin to visualize the idea of your hands filling with a white light. You want to picture the idea of the stone surrounding the light, making it become brighter in your hand.

During your visualisation, picture the impurities leaving the stone, allowing it to shine brighter. You can stop visualising when you feel a change within the stone’s energies.

Once you receive your ‘crystals and healing stones set’, use one of these seven methods to cleanse the stones of any negative energies that they’ve attracted. Don’t have a set yet? Buy it here, it is an All-in-one kit. It has 14 authentic stones, 7 small gemstone bottles, 3 essential oils, 1 crystal pendant necklace, 1 crystal pendulum & board, 1.4oz amethyst cluster, 1 Lava bracelet, 1 velvet storage bag. And a starters guide for all your spiritual reiki needs. Looking for more tutorials? Find them here.

After this is done, you can start meditating and enjoying the benefits of your crystals.