Do Crystals Really Have Energy and Power?

The crystal experts say, “You’ll know it’s the right crystal for you when you pick it up and can feel its energy.” How do you know when you can feel it?  In my small collection of crystals, there are only a couple of items that make me feel something.

Let me introduce myself. I am not a crystal expert. I am a plain pedestrian who is curious about sciencey things. I need proof that stuff works and I ask a lot of questions to get to the answers.

Quartz crystals are used in electronics. Think quartz watches. Quartz produces an electrical charge when pressure, like rubbing or crushing, is applied to it. This slow motion YouTube video shows how quartz reacts to friction.  That flashing inside the rock is called triboluminescence.

I have several nice clear quartz crystals. I went into my hallway bathroom, which has no windows, and closed the door. It in pitch blackness I banged the crystals together and saw the light generate inside the crystals. It was nothing short of magical.

But what about “feeling” energy? Do you feel something when you hold certain crystals or rocks? I have a couple of items that give me some type of sensation; my selenite harmonize and my orgone pyramid.

Selenite Harmonizer

I was listening to a podcast about crystals. The guest speaker was explaining the calming effects of selenite. She makes quiet time for herself by going into the bedroom, closing the door, and then relaxing with a selenite harmonizer in each hand. Harmonizers are polished selenite in a cylindrical shape, roughly 1-1/2″ round by 4″ long. She said something in that podcast that I’ll never forget. “Even if you don’t know what to do with it, just hold it and let it work on its own.”

That was year ago and right after that podcast I snagged a couple of harmonizers from eBay. I put them on my headboard and hoped they would help me sleep. I can’t turn my mind off at night. Thoughts play in my head over and over and before I know it, it’s time to get up and I’ve barely slept. The first time I tried using the harmonizers, I was in bed and held one in each hand. Grasping something while I was trying to sleep was unnatural to me. I couldn’t do it. So I put them away.

The following night my mind was a racing mess of chaos. I tried it again, but this time with just one harmonizer. I’m a side-sleeper so instead of holding it, I laid it against my arm. I felt a powerful calmness come over me. It was palpable and immediate. I wasn’t even thinking of anything or forcing any type of reaction. It just happened. I closed my eyes and welcomed the feeling. My mind magically went blank and I slept for hours. I don’t know how or why it works, but it worked. And like the podcast guest said, “Even if you don’t know what to do with it, just hold it and let it work on its own.”

The other night my daughter called me and said she might lose her job during this COVID-19 event. I could not get that thought out of my head for the rest of the afternoon. When I went to bed and my head hit the pillow, it was still playing over and over in my mind. I knew for a fact I wasn’t going to be able to sleep, so I grabbed my harmonizer and immediately the thoughts in my head faded away. It’s like they were replaced with pure whiteness and I didn’t think about again for the rest of the night. I could actually see the whiteness in my mind’s eye. It was like a fog that immediately rolled in and got quickly thicker and thicker and the thoughts just disappeared. If ever I believed in anything that I can’t see, it would be the effects of my harmonizer.

And here’s one more thing. Sometimes it doesn’t work very well for me. It’s almost as if it’s losing its mojo. Crystal people say you don’t have to cleanse (remove negative energy) from selenite like you do with other crystals because it can cleanse itself. But another crystal expert said, oh yes you do! It can’t just keep absorbing all of that crap. She said to smudge it with the smoke of white sage to cleanse it and then place it in sunshine for a few hours to charge it. Just don’t get selenite wet because it dissolves. OMG! That sage cleansing and sunlight absolutely works and at night it’s all charged up and ready to go. There isn’t a single night that I don’t sleep without it and I sleep all through the night like I’ve never slept before.