5 Best Crystals to Reduce Anxiety
five best crystals to reduce anxiety
Crystal’s natural structure and earthy nature make them perfect tools for helping reduce anxiety. They are a grounding energy allowing us to remember to be calm and connected to the earth, especially when in a state of panic or stress. I recommend these 5 crystals to reduce anxiety. Let’s get into it…
Why so anxious?
Our world is anxiety-inducing.
We are constantly being bombarded by information and messages and ‘to-do’ things — Sign up now! Try this new product! Be better at…everything! Live your best life!…
And so on and so on…we are fed this messaging almost daily about how we constantly need to be on the move, winning, and becoming more. Sometimes this messaging can be very motivating and helpful! At other times it creates this state of constant anxiety about keeping up with the pace of life. The expectations we have for ourselves and sometimes others create this false sense of pressure.
Unfortunately, much of our time gets devoted to this managing of stress, but who could blame us? We live a big chunk of our life online, which has many awesome positives, don’t get me wrong..but it also constantly exposes us to the judgment of others. We end up analyzing and even obsessing over the most minor details about ourselves. This is just one of the reasons for having a plan to combat anxiety and stress is important to health and wellness.
Of course, there are many reasons why someone may struggle with anxiety and I couldn’t begin to mention them all here.
The unknowns in life are a huge part of why anxiety happens, the anticipation that something is about to happen or could happen generates excess energy in the body. This leads one to worry and get stuck in negative thought loops. Luckily, for me and you, we have crystals that can help us channel and root this energy into something useful here in the present. Here is the list of crystals I have curated for ultimate anxiety annihilation. Here we go.
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5 Best Crystals for Reducing Anxiety
The best crystals to reduce anxiety are ones that have dense or heavy earth energy to them. This is because anxiety is metaphysically excess energy in the body and these crystals can absorb it for us.
Holding onto or having grounding crystals around is a great way to combat and anchor the inevitable feelings of anxiety we all have the potential to experience. With that here are the 5 best crystals for reducing anxiety.
Black Tourmaline
Black tourmaline is a rocky black stone with very dense energy. Its vibration is rooted in this earth and it gives off a witchy vibe…think characters from 90s cult classic, ‘The Craft’. Tourmaline comes in brighter greens and pinks, which can also help with anxiety, but the black variety rids anxiety while also re-grounding one to the present.
What can Black Tourmaline do for you?
Absorb your stress
Cleanse your energy
Take on your negativity
Protect you
Black Tourmaline can absorb and transmute negative energies. If you are giving off negative emotions or worried you are empathically absorbing unwanted emotions from others then this is the perfect stone for you. It is a stone of protection and security.
It allows for your overall vibe to be cleansed and re-worked so you are not being weighed down by the heaviness of day-to-day stress. Black tourmaline has strong vibrational power and many people who hold it can feel it working immediately in their auric field. A little spooky…but it totally works!
Ways to Use Black Tourmaline
The best way to use black tourmaline is to keep a piece in your pocket with you at all times, especially when out in public or in anxiety-inducing situations. You can hold onto it when having stressful conversations with colleagues or supervisors. It will allow you to face your fears with strength and communicate with clarity and confidence.
If you are going through any kind of healing work then this is a great stone to have by your side. This crystal is also recommended for spiritual business owners and healers to keep their auras cleansed and energy grounded when working with clients.
Smoky Quartz
Smoky quartz is a variety of quartz that has a grayish cloudy tone to it. It reminds me of a storm inside of a glass gem.
Like Back Tourmaline, this stone also takes on the properties of grounding and cleansing negative energies. When you hold Smoky Quartz it has an intensely dense and rooted vibrational quality to it.
What can Smoky Quartz do for you?
Protect you from overstimulation
Cleanse your environment
Grounds excess energy
I love recommending this stone for reducing anxiety because it is soooooo helpful and easy to work with! Its energy is a tad less intense than the black tourmaline making it slightly more accessible for those who suffer from anxiety.
When you start to get that feeling of overwhelm and panic about life…you know that feeling that rolls around in your gut, giving you all kinds of worry? I like to reach for a piece of smoky quartz. It is perfect for taking on these energies when I cannot hold on to them myself. This spellbinding crystal can metaphysically ‘store’ up what we cannot handle at the moment.
Ways to Use Smoky Quartz
Having a big chunk of Smoky Quartz to hold onto can help in times of increased anxiety. Keep some around your house to grab onto when you need to calm yourself down. It will take in your energy and alter the emotion into something more manageable.
Use your Smoky Quartz by placing it in either hand, close your eyes, and count backward from 10. Keep repeating this while imagining your anxiety going into the crystal…transforming…and coming out as something more inviting or positive for you.
Just make sure to cleanse this crystal regularly as it very efficiently will absorb all of the emotions you put into it. It will need to be left out under the Full Moon… don’t worry it won't turn into a werewolf. But hey I wouldn’t blame you if you wanted to see a certain sexy werewolf character appear in real life.
The Full Moon’s illuminated light can help revive and breathe new life into your Smoky Quartz. It releases the energy it has been storing up, allowing you to fill it back up again with the inevitable anxiety-inducing stress of every day. Enjoy.
Rose Quartz
Another Quartz makes it on the list! Rose Quartz has completely opposite energy of Smoky Quartz but still excels at handling anxiety, just in a different way. This very very light pink to dusty rose and somewhat translucent stone has one of the most gentle vibrations of any crystal.
What can Rose Quartz do for you?
Increase feelings of self-love
Increase feelings of self-worth
Balance your emotions
Help you relax
Allow you to forgive
Rose Quartz has many uses, it assists with relationships, opens you up to self-love, and connects to feelings of acceptance and forgiveness. Its ability to help with feelings of unworthiness makes it the perfect stone for anxiety reduction.
Its vibration of sweetness and unconditional love helps one accept themselves for who they are. Rose Quartz gives you a chance to be okay with where you are at, pause, and experience gratitude in each moment. Okay, it may sound a little cheesy, but trust me this stone is pure magic!
Most of all Rose Quartz can help you RELAX. It allows you to find that calm center within so you can settle your anxious emotions and truly enjoy life, despite the inevitable ups and downs. This rosy stone helps you get in touch with a sense of innocence and naivety so you can feel somewhat better and more balanced regarding the yuck that exists in the world. It helps you, channel love, in order to replace anxious feelings.
Ways to Use Rose Quartz
Rose Quartz does increase sensitivity, therefore, if you are feeling really anxious it should be paired with a very grounded stone such as Smoky Quartz, Hematite, Garnet, Black Tourmaline, Shungite, or Jet.
Rose Quartz can be purchased in big chunks and natural formations. It is best used in a window sill where the light can emanate through it and transfer its loving energy into your home or work environment.
The sultry pink tones will be able to shine into your space and remind you to worry less and experience love more.
Chalcedony
The next stone on my list is a mineral called Chalcedony. Its soothing energy is perfect for reducing anxiety. It has a pale sky blue color with cloudy white stripes running through it. The calming effect of this crystal cannot be stated enough. Just looking at it makes me feel calmer. It emanates with serenity and softness.
What can Chalcedony do for you?
Center you
Help you stay mindful of the present
Align your energy
Help you stay calm
Sooth anxious energy
Chalcedony is powerful, yet extremely mild in its vibration. Like water can erode rocks over long periods of time, Chalcedony is slow and plodding. But the change it can bring to your experience of anxiety is well worth the wait. Trust me.
The best aspect of this stone for our purposes here is its centering effect…
Let’s try a little exercise…
Close your eyes…it is time for the “woo-woo” portion of today’s program…
See if you can sense where your energy field is, do you sense yourself as scattered? Bright? Dim? Or maybe you sense your aura tightly pulled in towards your body, a little stiff and rigid?
Okay back to our regularly scheduled programming…
Open your eyes and just keep in mind how you experienced your energy. Chalcedony can help re-align and center you when you feel out of balance. It brings everything to you in small bites so you can manage one task at a time. This stone softens what is tense and focuses on what is dispersed.
Anxiety can be felt within the body, typically in the stomach area but not always. It feels like an uncomfortable tension, suspended in the wrong places. Chalcedony puts everything back where it needs to go…while going easy on you. Its supportive energy lets you go at a pace that feels comfortable for you.
Ways to Use Chalcedony
Chalcedony can be used in mindfulness meditation. Because of its calming nature and ability to bring you into the present moment. Therefore, it is perfectly paired with this spiritual practice.
Mindfulness meditation is a practice of meditation that brings you into the now by focusing on your breath or a mantra. Holding onto a piece of Chalcedony in your left hand while engaging in this practice can help ease anxiety and tension. Even if just done for one or two minutes a day, it can still help.
Like black tourmaline, it is also great to have when working with clients, to keep your energy aligned and balanced throughout the workday. If you are working through difficult or challenging emotions, Chalcedony can be used in place of a “stress-ball.”
Hematite
The last stone on my list, but certainly not least is….Drum roll…Hematite!
Hematite is a chrome metallic-colored mineral. Its name is related to the word blood, as it has iron in its composition and so does blood. This suggests its metaphysical life-enhancing properties.
Hematite is a grounding stone and connected to this physical world. Its opaque and solid appearance gives it a vibration of support, power, and effectiveness.
What can Hematite do for you?
Concentrate your spiritual energy
Bring you back to reality
Manifest what you need
Increase pragmatism, reasoning, & awareness
Hematite can help you with a lot of things! It is known for its ability to bring heady and ungrounded energies into the physical world. If you have a ton of ideas, anxious energy, or stressful feelings it can anchor them in the present while helping you assess and stay practical so you don’t lose your head.
This stone concentrates the excess, helping you channel your anxiety towards something useful. If there is something you have been wanting to see unfold in your life then this is the stone to move that desire through. Its presence can keep you focused, realistic, and aware.
Hematite helps you bring in what you need and leave out what you don’t need. It shows you where your biases might be and how you can work to re-evaluate what is holding you back. It grounds your anxiety, surrounding feelings of what you ‘have’ to do, instead of opening you up to what you actually want to do with your time and energy.
Ways to Use Hematite
One of the best uses for Hematite is to combat the vibes we absorb from technology. And we are all around technology a lot. The quiet buzzing and humming of machinery have got to have some kind of effect on us!
...From smartphones to laptops…to the kiosks at restaurants. We are constantly being exposed to technological frequencies, which can lead to an increase in…you guessed it — Anxiety.
I like to keep a piece near my computer in order for it to absorb all of the excess energy emanating from here. Let this crystal do the work so you don’t have to worry about it. All tech people and we are all basically tech people in some sense, should consider using this crystal for a life boost.
Hematite can also be worn on the body daily or kept with you in your bag on a regular basis. It has a close connection to your physical energy and therefore acts best when present within your auric field.
Most frequently, you can find Hematite in ring form, typically in a simple band style. You might consider wearing this or making a pendant with Hematite. It will instantly make you feel more competent in handling your anxious emotions.
You will be able to reason more as you go about your day and see the patterns that develop based on your personal choices and decisions. It clarifies the actions you take and will give you a sense that you can make what you want to see happen in your life happen…anxiety and all.
Grounding is Key
The most important thing to remember when using crystals to reduce anxiety is to find ones that help you ground. Anxious energy is raw, misaligned potential. It sits in your body and can make us all feel gross, panicky, and out of spiritual balance. Sounds fun, huh?
Almost everyone experiences some kind of anxiety, in varying amounts and severity. A little bit of tension or stress can be great to motivate us at times…but when we are so weighed down by worry we may become immobilized and cemented to our anxious feelings.
Grounding crystals are able to take on these energies with ease and carry them for us, even transmuting them into something else. Some stones, like Hematite, can re-channel this into feelings that may be of use to us. While stones like Smoky Quartz absorb the anxiety.
Put together a grounding crystal kit so the energies of these crystals can work off of each other for the most powerful effect. Carrying around all 5 of these crystals together or setting them up in a crystal grid in your home or altar space can remind you to stay grounded and present even in the face of worry, stress, and anxiety.