Crystals are an empath’s best friends


As a highly sensitive person and empath, I used to get overwhelmed by the dissonant energies of this world. It affected me at all levels of my being. Sometimes I would feel pain in my body or have tummy troubles or it would manifest as flu-like symptoms and fatigue. My mind would race with thoughts that I didn’t realize were not all my own, making it hard to concentrate during the day and hard to fall asleep at night.

The hardest was the emotional pain. I would literally feel the pain of the world only I didn’t know that a lot of the sadness and anger and stress and lonliness were coming from outside of myself. I couldn’t discern what was mine and what was coming from outside myself. The worst part for me was the fear and anxiety. There is a tremendous amount of fear in this world. I was constantly feeling afraid.

An empath's sanctuary

The stone beings were my sanctuary. I always felt soothed and comforted in their presence. I didn’t really know why I loved being around the stones at first. I just loved their energy. Of course now I understand that they were helping me to soften the energetic noise that was everywhere. That peaceful quiet is a sensitive person’s happy place. So I surrounded myself with crystals.

Being in the presence of crystals—holding them, meditating with them, sleeping with them, travelling with them—brings great relief. Their gifts are many, but when you are overwhelmed by the loudness of life, it can be impossible to feel the subtle energy signatures that the crystals emanate. First order of business is to get calm and quiet—to be able to listen to the self and to feel your own feelings. Then you can will begin to notice the nuances of crystal energy. Then you can begin to connect with the crystals consciously and intentionally. Then the real magic starts to happen.

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4 stones for empaths

These are four stones for empaths who were singing today. These are just a short list of crystals that can potentially help us empaths. Please trust yourself in choosing your crystals. It can be challenging as an empath to tune into one crystal’s energy when you are feeling the feelings and energies of everything around you. Just pick one to begin with and once the noise of the world starts to soften, you’ll be able to choose more intentionally and more from your intuition.

Rhodochrosite

This beautiful stone was one of my first favourites. It is itself a sensitive being, deepening in tone when we hold it—or even when we are nearby. It is a stone of self love—which is imperative for empaths to have loads of in order to be able to navigate the worlds seas of emotions.

Once we are do start to get in touch with our feelings, we find that emotions can be uncomfortable—especially during the transition time between knowing what is ours and what is not. Rhodochrosite can help us to accept our emotions without judging them. They encourage us to give ourselves time and space to get used to what’s coming up for us. This loving pink stone can help us to keep from being carried away by our emotions. With Rhodochrosite as guide, we can see that our feelings are there to help us to understand who we are and they don’t need to rule over us.

Peruvian Opal

Opal is a really good friend to the sensitive soul. It is also has a sensitive nature. It is a water stone—and water is where the emotions are. When our sensitive nature causes us to be overwhelmed by emotions (ours and others'), Opal can help us to make friends with our feelings. To soothe and calm them.

Opal holds the colours of the rainbow. Rainbows are always around us. The rain helps us to see them. The water diffracts the colours into the 7 single colours so that we can see each one. Opal does with feelings what rain does with rainbows --allow us to see them. Opal can show us how to separate and see the emotions we are feeling. So we can figure out what’s what.

Thulite

Thulite is another sensitive stone which deepens when it is near us. They help us to connect to angelic love. Being the presence of angels is magical—we are suddenly in the centre of this expansive love—a state of bliss—and we don’t really think about what it is we’re experiencing until it’s gone. Then the difference between being in their presence and not, is striking.

The empathic experience is similar. It’s not until it gets quiet that we realize what it was we were feeling. Thulite can help us to soften the noise so we are not drowned out by it. They also help us to connect to the Angelic realm and feel that divine love--the type of love that soothes the empaths heart.

Garnet

Garnet has a very deep, saturated colour. You often have to hold Garnet up to the
light to see it’s translucency and gemmy-ness. It’s also a heavy stone (relatively speaking). The sensitive soul can sometimes lose themselves in the thick fog of energy around them. With the amount of fear and suffering in this world, that energy can get quite heavy. Garnet can teach us how to rise our light up through the heaviness. 

Choose the one that sparkles most

These are great crystals for empaths, but allow that to be a starting place. If there's a crystal that you keep thinking about or one that looks more beautiful or sparkly or shiny than any others--that crystal is singing for you. Choose that one!