Crystal Tips for Getting Through the Holidays

Crystal Tips Time!

Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah and the Yule time holidays are coming up to end off the year and things can get pretty stressful and busy during this holiday time. Here are some quick crystal tips to keep your personal energies in a positive state and your mind released from stress:

1) Stress Relief Crystals

If holiday planning and holiday activities leave you frazzled, carry or wear these crystals as jewelry to help you through the season:

2) Meditation and Breathing

Try to give yourself 15-20 minutes of private time each day during the holidays to get some inner peace and connect with your higher self. There are plenty of short meditation tracks on YouTube if you need some music or guided meditations. Hold on to your favorite crystal in your receiving hand or place it over your heart to assist you with your relaxation needs.

3) Salt Bath with Essential Oils

Taking a salt bath will help remineralize your body to keep you stress free, emotionally stabilized and relaxed. Take some Epsom salt, a few drops of lavender essential oil and a polished rose quartz in a warm bath to get a instant stress relief fix. If you’d like, light some candles and play some soothing music to enhance the ambiance and energy during your bath time.

4) Grounding

An easy way to relieve stress is to practice grounding with the biggest crystal there is…. Mother Earth. Check out this article for some tips to stay grounded during the holidays when things can get too hectic for you.

5) Boost Your Immune System

Here are a few things you can add to your food and drinks to help keep you functioning at 100%:

Organic lemon juice with water
Garlic and/or Ginger in your food
Raw honey or Bee Propolis and Chlorophyll in your smoothies or green drinks
Carry carnelian/moonstone/tangerine quartz in your pocket to boost your sacral chakra
Carry red jasper/garnet in your pocket to boost your immune system and to help you get things done

6) Boost Metabolism with Apatite and Detox with Shungite

Since I’m trying to watch my weight during the holidays, I created this bracelet recently that contains blue-green apatite beads with a shungite bead. Apatite crystals help raise your metabolism to help you keep off the pounds from the excess food intake that usually occurs during the holidays. Shungite helps to purify and detoxify toxins in your body.

7) Hydrate with Crystal Gem Elixir Water

Remember to drink enough water throughout the day. Add a few drops of your fav gem elixir to your water or simply pop in a clean tumbled carnelian or red jasper crystal in your water to give you energy and immune boosting properties.

8) Decision Making & Focus with Fluorite

Carry or wear fluorite to help you with:

making decisions
helping you with gift giving ideas
clarity and memory boosting
remembering your to-do list for your busy schedule

9) Sound Healing – listen to music that makes you happy or relaxes you.

Use the power of sound and healing frequencies to bring you into a state of zen and relaxation. If you need an energy pick-me up, play some music that makes you happy so that you stay in the right mood. If you have a crystal sound bowl, play it for a few minutes to relax you and release the yucky energy from your space.

10) Cleanse Your Space

If you plan on having family and friends over for the holidays, the mix of energies entering your home can get a bit crazy. Remember to cleanse your space before and after people leave your home. Smudging herbs is a popular cleansing method. Also, using a diffuser or lighting candles infused with essential oils like sage, palo santo or cedar wood can help bring constant cleansing while people are over.

11) Crystal Decor

crystal-decor-tips-selenite-lamp-blue-crystal-crystalrockstar — Selenite Rainbow Lamps from my Etsy shop

Create ambiance in your sacred space and home to boost the positive energy in your home. Here are some ideas you can add to different areas of your home during the holidays:

Lepidolite in the bedroom to promote restful sleep and relaxation after your hectic busy days.
Add an amethyst cluster or selenite lamp to your living and dining room to promote purified peace when visitors come over.
Use crystal tea light holders around the home with rose quartz, quartz, amethyst or selenite to radiate harmony.
Crystals like sodalite, amazonite and rose quartz are good crystals to decorate with around the dinner table to promote harmony, love and good communication.
Place black tourmaline, selenite or halite near your home entrance to purify the energies from people coming over.
Place citrine in the kitchen or in other areas of your home where you want to promote positive energy and happiness.

12) Gratitude

Lastly, when things make get too stressful for you, stop and write down a gratitude list. Be specific and notice what specific things, the little things, that you are thankful for. Focusing on the good things you’re thankful for during the holiday season will help bring things into more perspective for you.

See what things bring you joy and why you choose to spend time with those that mean the world to you. Release the things that stress you out during the holidays and perhaps change your routine to only focus on simplicity and things that truly make you happy.