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What is Vibrational Energy? Crystals, Energy, Vibration, and Healing

If you are turning to crystal healing to help relax or experience wellness, you may already have a good footing in the Law of Attraction, and you may have already used crystals to set intentions and help you with the reminding aspect of attraction. Many times, though, our energy work clients come to us missing a step in that process. “I don’t understand it. How am I supposed to feel love before I have love in my life? How can I create that feeling so that I can attract it? If I already had love, I wouldn’t need help attracting it, now, would I?” If you think about it, it’s a valid question. You need love to attract love? How does that work? We have found that the missing element in this process is the Principle of Vibration and how that principle can help us to shift our inner dialogue, energize our goals and desires, and become solution-focused so that we may target our truest aspirations with crystal clarity.

Have you ever experienced déjà vu, the notion that you’ve experienced something before? Or perhaps you’ve had a premonition when your gut was screaming at you to slam on the brakes even though you couldn’t give a clear reason why? Or perhaps you met a person for the first time who just gave you the heebie-jeebies and you couldn’t offer a reason at all other than to say, “That person’s vibe was slimy”? What if these experiences are simply our evolved body’s way of sensing vibration?

Human senses evolved to keep us alive, to survive the stress of a tiger attack all the way to the stress of corporate downsizing. What if your senses achieve this through a complex series of body functions that early humans had no way to observe? Now imagine that you can sense things before you observe them cognitively. Does that sound like magic? Or could it be just a highly evolved sense of intuition?

People have a much less concrete nature than gemstones and crystals. Your vibration, energy, and mood all can potentially change from moment to moment. Your thoughts and actions can be influenced by your environment or by being around other people. Being in a stressful workplace or with people who regularly complain are common examples of outside influences affecting your energy. Because our energy is not fixed, if we are not aware of the way we feel when we interact with that stressful workplace, we will easily succumb to misalignment and the vibration of stress and discord.

At the most basic level, the Law of Attraction suggests that your vibration can be most effective in a frequency which will attract to you the experiences you desire. Luckily for you, we are equipped with the ability to read our own vibration and assess where we stand in relation to our goals. We are emotional creatures. These feelings can act like a barometer to indicate the weather of our internal experiences. When you are feeling joy or cheer, things seem to just go “right.” When you are feeling frustrated or sad, it may feel like the day goes from bad to worse. Your emotions can offer a way to measure your metaphysical pulse on the types of experiences you may attract or reject during the day. To shake off the vibration of frustration, you will need some kind of intervention, like a crystal meditation, because now that frustration is what’s in your head. It takes a lot to get out of a negative mood. In the field of positive psychology, some studies suggest that negative emotions or “bad vibes” take longer to dissipate than the good vibes, and it can take as many as four positive emotional situations to rebalance a single negative one2. Abraham Hicks has stated that the best thing you can do on a day like that is go back to bed.

At any time in your day that you are feeling uncomfortable emotions such as fear, anxiety, jealousy, rage, sadness, guilt, or frustration, you might see it as a signal that you are starting to go off track or moving away from what you desire to attract. It is important to feel our feelings all the way through and even lean into them, such as when grieving the loss of a loved one, and these emotions can also tell us where we are along the path. If you feel sad, it’s okay to feel sad; it also might be a signal that you should make a change. For instance, if you find yourself feeling gloomy when you first wake up in the morning and your thoughts go to the drudgery of your workplace, maybe that sadness is trying to tell you it’s time to look for a new job. On the other side of the spectrum, when you feel content, joyful, happy, or peaceful, this might be a signal that you are moving toward the goals you have set for yourself either internally or externally. When you feel good, it can be a sign that you are making choices that support your greatest good. If you wake up and feel happy and ready to start the day, perhaps your home or your workplace are the best they can be right now and that joy is a signpost reflecting that.

Of course, this is an oversimplification, because there are so many ways that emotions may behave differently than you expect or ways that circumstances beyond your control can influence your emotions. Fundamentally, though, the emotional center is a compass—an instinctual, internal guiding system. As you move in the direction of your dreams, you should begin to experience harmony. Things should feel easier, and your desires and values should become clearer. Learning to master your vibe is a discipline and a practice. In other words, it doesn’t happen overnight; you have to keep at it, bring awareness to it daily and mindfully, and use the tools available to you that will help you regain that frequency of comfort and ease.

Gemstones and minerals each have their own frequency and can be those very tools. You can learn to work with them to stabilize your vibration by aligning your own movement with the frequency or subtle movement of the stone you are using. Hold a stone in your hand which resonates with you personally. If Quartz Crystal does nothing for you, don’t use it. Even if this book suggests that Pearl might be a great mineral to use for generating peaceful emotions, you might have an aversion to Pearls and gravitate to another stone instead. That’s fine. What matters is how you feel about it, not what some book or expert says. There are no “right” stones. There are only stones that resonate with you or that don’t.

Heart Crystal Vibration Exercise

For example, Rose Quartz is known to have a vibration of love, comfort, romance, beauty, peace, and compassion. To sit for a few minutes with one nearby or, even more effectively, in your hands may help you bring your energetic vibration into the frequency of those qualities. If you hate pink, though, and holding this stone makes you twitch slightly with resentment, then Rose Quartz is certainly not going to help you bring in love and comfort. If you do experience an aversion to a stone, set it aside. It may serve another purpose on another day, but, for now, you need to trust yourself. Try holding different stones until you find one that does make you smile with self-love and compassion when you hold it. Who knows? Maybe for you, the stone of self-love is Jasper or even Petrified Wood. Go with it. This is your vibration. You’re the only one who can possibly know if it’s the right stone for you and your goal.

Since we know solids, liquids, and gasses are composed of moving particles, imagine all the subtle ways you pick up on vibration. As we covered in the History of Crystal Healing, all of your senses are interpreting subtle vibrations, sometimes beneath your conscious awareness. Picture the sound wave or feel the rattling sensation of a drum. Gemstones can be used as a vibrational tool and energetic support. Music and sound therapy, aromatherapy, color therapy, and bodywork such as yoga, massage, and reflexology are also easily accessible tools with which to develop a practice to raise your vibration.

There is a purpose to raising your vibration. When your vibration is humming at a frequency which serves your needs, you are able to move in ways that do not limit you. Decisions you make out of fear are made without clarity of purpose from a thought that something is too difficult. You must be proactive about your vibration. In this disempowered state, you may feel that you are a victim of circumstance and begin to see yourself as these emotional states. In no way are we minimizing the impact of mental health concerns, any more than we would wish to minimize physical health concerns. Conditions like depression and anxiety require qualified intervention, in the same way as conditions like cancer or multiple sclerosis do. Having said that, when you start to believe we are our conditions—“I’m just a depressed person,” or “There is no known cure for MS, so I’m only ever going to be sick,”—you start to internalize this belief, and it can impact your energetic experience as well. Anxiety, for example, can take over and become part of a person’s identity, impacting how she sees herself and the world around her.

In addition to medical and therapeutic interventions to support positive health when experiencing anxiety, a person might consider also working on her energetic body and vibrational state. When she internalizes anxiety, she is also sending out a frequency throughout the day. Because anxiety is at the top of her mind, she will see her anxiety everywhere around her—a bit like a projection, which we describe in more detail in the chapter on meridians. Because she is projecting a vibrational energy of anxiety, it will be harder for her to see things which are not resonating at an anxious frequency. Even people who interact with her are likely to sense the vibration of her anxious energy and may unintentionally return that energy to her. It might make them uncomfortable even if they can’t pinpoint why in their conscious minds. As we said previously, our senses can subtly experience what our conscious minds may not register, and so other people may be encountering someone’s anxiety even if she never says a word aloud. Have you ever been in the room with someone who you could just sense was furious or disengaged, even if that person didn’t speak to you? You might say, for example, that you sensed the “vibe”? This experience may occur when you are in the presence of a person who has internalized her mental or emotional state. Many individuals are highly empathetic and pick up on other peoples’ vibration or that of an environment, and we can help others and ourselves by operating from a place of nonjudgment.

Nonattachment Crystal Meditation

Quartz Crystal is an excellent tool to assist with the process of nonattachment. In short, nonattachment refers to a practice of objective observation of our own experiences. When you feel something because someone does something awful to you, it’s time to practice nonattachment. For example, let’s say you packed a special lunch of leftovers and put it in the fridge at work labeled with your name. Later in the day, you discover that the sandwich is missing and the wrapper is in the trash. Now you are hungry and hurt that your lunch is gone, and you might also feel violated or betrayed by someone who works with you. It would be natural to feel sad and angry in this moment. Nonattachment, though, can transmute your feelings of sadness or anger by allowing you to observe them rather than become them. To do this, you imagine you have a third-party observer—your perfect judge, wielding their gavel and adorned in their robes. This observer steps back from you and your experience and remains objective. In this case, the observer would tell you that you have a right to feel sad and angry and that there are lots of different reasons why a person might take your lunch—perhaps a member of your office misread the label and thought she brought the sandwich last week. Perhaps the person who took it was overwhelmed and so distracted that he didn’t see the label before he was eating it; or perhaps the person who took it was food insecure and didn’t have enough food to pack her own lunch.

The point is that the objective observer steps away and interprets the vibration of the experience in a safe way for us. We can use crystals to accomplish this practice. You might carry a point of Quartz Crystal in your pocket. When you encounter an emotional moment, pull the crystal out and set it on a tabletop nearby. Take a moment with the crystal to set your intention that it will help you process your emotional state. Take five deep breaths: breathe in through the nostrils for a count of four, pause for four seconds, and then out through the mouth for a count of eight. Now, move your perception into the crystal. That is, use your imagination to see yourself from the “eyes” of the crystal; another way to put it is to imagine that the crystal is a benevolent being that is observing you and your surroundings to offer a new perspective. Ask the crystal what it sees, how it feels, and why it feels that way, and ask how can you consciously disidentify from those feelings and the situation without dishonoring the emotions you are feeling. Take a few minutes with this process. Some people may even choose to talk out loud to the crystal and imagine the responses they receive. Others may have a dialogue in their heads, and still others may experience this entirely as impressions or sensations. There’s no wrong way to do this. You’ll know this crystal exercise has been successful if you feel a sense of relief or calm. Lastly, it bears noting that, most of the time, our Crystal Judge will tell us that the answer to the situation is to practice compassion. This process of moving perception into a crystal often triggers an increased ability to feel and express compassion.

This same practice of compassionate nonattachment with a Crystal Judge can be used for ourselves, though many people find it easier to begin with an external event such as the great office sandwich theft. Take a moment to reflect back on the woman who has internalized her anxiety and is seeing, feeling, and experiencing her anxiety in every environment. What if she were to do this exercise at the first inkling of anxiety? Could it help her reframe and perhaps alter her vibration? Not becoming attached to even the feelings or the beliefs we have about ourselves can help us to vibrate in tune with our greatest good. Ever feel like the world is out to get you no matter how hard you try? In these moments, we tend to squeeze harder when what we may really need to do is loosen our grip. Try this crystal exercise the next time you feel disappointed by an experience. Bring in your objective Crystal Judge, move your perspective, and look at the situation through this alternate lens. What changes? Are you able to feel more compassion for yourself?

Compassion is an emotion and supportive concept that we should exercise as much with ourselves as with other people. It seems we all tend to be hardest on ourselves—we expect more from ourselves than we do from others, and we may forget that this process can also help with our own situations. Remember that you are inclined to pick up or sense the vibration of other people. Remember, too, that other people are inclined to sense your vibration. One of the simplest ways to improve your day and bring joy to others is to remember this inclination and practice compassion as you tend to your vibrational energy. All life is interconnected whether we want it to be or not, and our choices have a cause and effect ripple that is immeasurable. Having a bad day? Snapping at the clerk behind the counter spreads your bad day to him, and then, when he goes home and snaps at his daughter, it spreads it to her. Because we all share experiences, it is critical that we raise our collective vibration by staying in alignment with our personal goals and values as much as possible so that we can resonate in tune with our vibrational energy.

As you go through your day and encounter the stress or joy of other people and situations, these experiences may not be in alignment with your personal desires. Or perhaps more accurately, the way you feel about or respond to these experiences may not be attuned. As a novice vibrational energy worker, it is not practical to think that you will navigate your day to day unfazed by any stressors, obstacles, or others’ energy. In an ideal situation or after many months or years of vibrational practice, you can identify the cause of the stress and transmute it into a lesson or some type of benefit. Often, for example, the Crystal Judge exercise may help you identify a reason for gratitude for your situation as well as compassion. Gratitude helps us to recognize what we are working to transmute from negative to positive through positive psychology and crystal healing. At the same time, even at your most diligent, you are still subject to emotional triggers which have the potential to derail the positive momentum.

Thus far, we’ve been exploring the notion of transmuting or objectively observing so-called “negative” experiences and how crystal meditation can assist, but it is worth mentioning now that the types of language used for discussing energy, vibration, spiritual concepts, and wellness are not exactly unified. The terms “negative” and “positive” reflect the science of magnets, but the terms themselves have a connotation of “bad” and “good,” even though this is not how they are intended here. A negative pole is the side of the magnet that pushes outward while the “positive” pole draws inward. Another way to view the negative and positive poles without judgment is to conceptually align them with the yin and yang concepts of void and substance. Both states are necessary for creation and manifestation. For example, negative is associated with yin energy, receptivity, and intuition. This is the state of possibility. Positive is linked to yang energy, action, and expression, or the state of form. These two forces are at play within us every moment of the day, and they are only “bad” or “good” by virtue of how we choose to interpret and respond to them. Together, they are the inner thought or feeling as well as the outward action or reaction; they are the ability to receive as well as to give. These forces which seem so opposite are in fact simply the movement of energy and vibration along the spectrum of one pole to another, just as the tides ebb and flow or the Moon seems to disappear and be reborn with each rotation of the Earth. It is a dance necessary for movement.

Now apply the same principle to the polarity of our energetic experiences, such as emotions, physical states, or thoughts. Many spiritual and lifestyle teachers agree about the importance of a nonattached view of both positive and negative poles. These poles may seem dualistic at first glance, but they are poles at either end of a spectrum with an infinite number of states in between. With this acknowledgment in mind, you may find it easier to shift from discomfort to comfort or from dissonance to attunement with practices like the Crystal Judge. Practicing these concepts can fortify your trust in your agency, and it can help you transform an uncomfortable situation into one that serves you. Your ability to master your vibrational interpretation of these experiences is the key to ensuring that your experiences, whether they are void or substantive, can help move you toward your highest good.

You might imagine that every situation you experience should be pleasant or just or righteous. Why not? So-called unpleasant experiences cause pain or discomfort. Nonattachment and the Crystal Judge can help you separate from the desire or “need” to control. Engaging in objective observation can help you move your perspective from what is narrowly in front of your face at the moment to the larger picture of what is happening around you or what may occur in the future. Shift your perspective to take in the bigger picture rather than only witnessing the “bad” or “good” of an experience. Then you can create the change you need to propel yourself along your path.

You may experience loss, pain, or even anger when a relationship ends. Love can even turn to hatred, but it is important to remember that these are two poles of the same spectrum and the energy may make a pendulum swing back to love at times. The opposite of love is indifference; the energy you choose to spend on feelings is a value you transfer onto someone else. Hatred is just the other side of the love energy spectrum—after all, why expend energy hating someone unless you want to spend that energy? When focused on the end of a relationship, you might get stuck on the details of who was right or at fault, who put in more work, or what your partner should have done.

By taking a step back and witnessing with gratitude and compassion, you can take a new vantage point and realign with your intuition and logic, or what Dialectical Behavior Therapy refers to as your “Wise Mind.” In this place, both logic and emotion work together to help you arrive at your best outcome. It is the perfect space from which to vibrate as it is one of clarity and understanding. Zoom out of the experience to see how the experience can serve your highest good and realign your vibrational frequency. Relationships often end when neither partner is able to support the other’s goals any longer, or when two people stop growing together in the same direction. The ending of a relationship creates space for support, love, or taking time that you might need in order to feel fulfillment of your truest goals. And sometimes, in this place of reflection and openness, you may realize at your core that you always sort of knew this relationship needed to end in order for both of you to grow and experience your truth. Relationships are not limited to our chosen romantic partners but can include family, coworkers, and friends.

It can help to retune our energy with a crystal ritual to release the energy, forgive yourself and your partner, practice compassion, and open yourself up to new experiences. It can also be helpful to process grief for the relationship’s ending, whether that relationship was ended by someone’s behavior or by something we cannot control, such as death. Choose any crystal that resonates with you. It should feel peaceful and calm when you hold it in your hands. It might even be warm to the touch or cause you to smile when you touch it. On a slip of paper, write yourself a note to release and reopen. You might say something like, “I am sad that this relationship has ended. I am grateful that this relationship allowed me to learn something, and I will carry that lesson with me. I forgive myself. I feel compassion for you and for me. I release you and all the thoughts and feelings I have about this relationship, and I now open myself to new and joyful experiences.” Fold the paper and place it beneath the stone you selected. If you are so inclined, light a candle nearby and watch the light flicker over the stone. Soften your gaze as you observe how the flame dances over the stone’s surface. Focus your vision on the stone and focus your sensation on your breath. Stay here as long as you need to feel complete. When you are through, snuff out the candle and tear up the paper, or burn it if you are so inclined and can do so safely. This releases the energy of the note. Now, carry the stone with you as long as you need to remind yourself of your release.