Crystals and Stones

For most people, however, simply wearing a piece of jewelry made with a specific gem is sufficient. Some people use gems as part of their spiritual practices. They incorporate gems into rituals to restore energy fields, gain peace, and promote love and safety. In some belief systems, practitioners actually place gemstones on certain areas of the body to promote healing. A few years ago, crystals were not a big deal. Now, powered by the lucrative combination of social media-friendly aesthetics, cosmic spirituality, and the apparently unstoppable wellness juggernaut, they have gone from a niche oddity associated with patchouli and crushed velvet to a global consumer phenomenon. Believers say crystals conduct ambient energy – like miniature phone towers picking up signals and channeling them onto the user – thus rebalancing malign energies, and healing the body and mind.