Crystals for Chakras

Before you can successfully heal your body, mind, or spirit, the chakras must be opened, aligned, and activated. Depending on the problem you’re having or the reason behind your turning toward chakra healing, you’ll want to find specific healing crystals for different areas of the body, mind, and spirit. Below, we’ll discuss the best crystals for chakras, how to use them and what to expect from chakra healing with crystals. 

Root Chakra

Located at the base of the spine, this is the energy center responsible for your health, vitality, stability, and overall sense of security. It’s relative to the elimination (or excretory) system in the body. When this chakra is unbalanced, you’ll experience feelings of discomfort both spiritually and physically, such as exhaustion, fear, anxiety, or diarrhea. To alleviate these issues and activate the root chakra, try incorporating the use of these crystals:  

Red Jasper gathers healthy and positive energies, as well as vitality from the earth and lends it to the root chakra. 

Smoky Quartz is the most powerful crystal for the root chakra as it protects, grounds, and transmutes negative energy entering the chakra system. 

Hematite grounds and protects, removing negative energy and replacing it with positive and revitalizing vibrations. 

Sacral Chakra 

This energy center is located just below the navel and is responsible for creativity, sexuality, and happiness. It’s also relative to the function of the kidneys, bladder, and reproductive organs. When this chakra is unbalanced or blocked, one may experience feelings of guilt, fear, insecurities, sensitivity, and obsessive thoughts. To open and activate the sacral chakra, look to these crystals: 

Carnelian lends its properties of sexuality and creativity to the sacral chakra, making you more receptive to passionate and intimate energy.

Orange Aventurine inspires intimacy and imagination while helping to heal sexual trauma so you can experience the pleasure of healthy relationships. 

Solar Plexus Chakra 

Located at the center of the navel, this energy center is correlative to the digestive system and adrenal gland. It’s the chakra responsible for one’s personal identity, willpower, strength, courage, and self-esteem. When it is misaligned or blocked, one may feel powerless, controlling, competitive, extremely exhausted, or even experience indigestion (depending on the level of misalignment). To unblock and activate the solar plexus chakra, try meditating with these crystals for chakras:

Citrine focusses and aligns your desires with your own personal willpower, allowing you to step into the shoes of your authentic self.

Tiger’s Eye is a stone of the sun and lends its energies to transformation, growth, and feelings of confidence.

Honey Calcite empowers, strengthens, and relieves feelings of fear, anxiety and stress so you can claim the life you desire.

Heart Chakra 

This particular energy center is located at the middle of the chest and is relative to the physical heart as well as the thymus gland. It is the chakra responsible for love, harmony, and acceptance on all levels. When this chakra is blocked or closed, one may experience feelings of jealousy, ignorance, arrogance, lack of empathy, or bitterness. To open and align the heart chakra, incorporate the use of these healing crystals:

Rose Quartz promotes harmony, universal love, and compassion, opening up the heart chakra and helping to build strong foundations in all your relationships.

Green Aventurine comforts and heals both the physical heart and the spiritual heart. It balances the emotions and allows loving energy to flow throughout your entire being. 

Throat Chakra 

This energy center is responsible for communication, self-expression, honesty, and truth. Its relative organs are the thyroid gland and vocal cords. When this chakra is blocked or misaligned, one may feel unable to properly or clearly express their thoughts and feelings. They may criticize, overshare or experience hyperthyroidism. To balance and open the throat chakra, seek the help of these crystals for chakras:

Lapis Lazuli stimulates the creative centers in the body to allow for healthy and honest self-expression, while activating the throat chakra. 

Blue Lace Agate opens and clears the throat chakra while allowing the other energy centers to express their energies and perform their functions freely. 

Sodalite stimulates the throat chakra to bring confidence in self-expression and raise the overall vibration of your being so you can let go of negativity. 

Third Eye Chakra 

Located on the forehead and between the eyes, this is the energy center responsible for intuition, insight, visualization, and lucid dreaming. Its related organs are the pituitary gland, brain eyes, and nose. When this chakra is unbalanced or blocked, one may experience headaches, nightmares, feelings of being distracted, or a lack of creativity. To open and balance the third eye chakra, turn to the healing properties of: 

Amethyst optimizes the vision of the third eye chakra and enhances intuition, strengthening the spiritual self on your journey to enlightenment. 

Crown Chakra 

Located at the top of the head, this energy center is related to the pineal gland and is responsible for feelings of enlightenment, awakening, higher consciousness, wisdom, and understanding. When this chakra is blocked or imbalanced, one may succumb to negative feelings such as arrogance, skepticism, or being unrealistic. To open and align the crown chakra, try meditating with:

Clear Quartz clears the mind and spiritual body of any negativity and energetic pollutants to help you become closer to your higher self in pure divinity. 

A simple and effective way to balance the chakras is by meditating, but to add some extra power to your practice, incorporate the use of healing crystals for chakras. Place these crystals on their corresponding chakras and allow their energy to flow through you, while visualizing healing light emanating from each chakra. The more often you do this, the more refreshed and balanced you’ll feel. Find yourself these crystals and get started today!