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Selecting Crystals as Healing Gifts
By Deborah Bookin
Copyright August 2005

Helping people to select crystals as healing gifts is one of my favorite roles here at the Crystal Bee. For me, this is always an enjoyable task, because crystals have the capacity to continue sharing and revealing their healing gifts for many years after they are given.

Sometimes selecting crystals as gifts can also present certain challenges--especially when the person being “gifted” is not well known to the person making the gift, or when either party has not worked with crystals previously. In this article, I’d like to share some questions/guidelines I have found helpful in helping others to select crystals as healing gifts.

What is Your Intention?
I consider this to be the key question in selecting a crystal as a healing gift, because crystals work in the realm of pure energy and therefore also convey your intention through their energy. Some examples of intentions that people have shared with me are:

• Supporting someone through a difficult time or transition
• Expressing/sharing unconditional love
• Celebrating an important milestone, life transition, or achievement
• Providing comfort and support for healing a physical illness
• Encouraging health, vitality, and a greater sense of well-being
• Creating a nourishing, supportive home or work environment
• Providing comfort and support during grieving
• Helping someone to gain greater insight in moving forward
• Support for deepening one’s spiritual connection
• Help in understanding one’s higher purpose
• Helping one to feel more comfortable with the processes of change
• Moving through a major life transition with greater comfort
• Introducing someone to the energy of crystals and crystal work

Are You Attached to a Particular Outcome for the Person?
An important principle in spiritual healing recognizes that the life lessons and situations we experience are created in order to help us learn, heal, and grow in ways that are for our highest good. What constitutes the highest good in any given situation may not always be clear to us because the contributing factors and number of possibilities open to us are far greater than we can ever imagine. So, the highest and most helpful thoughts we can hold for another person give them the energetic space to heal and grow in their own individual way and at their own pace. When we let go of preconceived notions of what another person has to do or how they have to change, we support them most fully in becoming whole and healthy. Does this mean that we can’t wish them unconditional love, a wonderful new relationship, or a terrific job? Absolutely not! It simply means that we can help them most by letting go of fixed ideas about what that will look like for them or how they will get there.

Is the Person Open to Working with Crystals?
Two other important principles in spiritual healing honor the right of each person to choose the ways they would like do their healing work and recognize that people do have important preferences in what is comfortable or works well for them. While many people find crystals a helpful, life-long support, others may not connect with their energy at all, or come to them for a brief period of time because of a particular healing task. If you sense that a person is open to working with crystals or has worked with them in the past, giving one as a gift is a loving act.

If you are uncertain whether the person is open to crystal energy but would like to share one as a gift, I often advise selecting a gift that can be appreciated for its other qualities, such as visual beauty or pleasing touch. Many people give heart-shaped stones as a way of sharing their loving intention when they are not certain that the person is interested in crystal energy. The stone’s shape is a symbolic reminder of the person’s energetic intention in another important way.

How Do You Know What Kind of Stone to Give?
Once you are clear about the intention of your gift, selecting the appropriate stone becomes much easier. There are many ways to begin. You may already have ideas from your own crystal experience, information from books or classes you have taken, suggestions from healing professionals or others you know. While all of these may be helpful to you in making your selection, your own intuition is your most important guide in making your choice. Crystals encourage and support us energetically in using our intuition effectively, Although we may not always be aware of why we are attracted to a particular stone, the energetic “matchmaking” process that takes place between people and crystals can help us to recognize what is most appropriate. Next time you have the opportunity to give a crystal gift, clarify your intention and see what you are drawn to!

What Do You Give to Someone You Do Not Know?
When people are giving gifts to others whom they do not know, I usually suggest that they think of an energetic quality they would be comfortable sharing with any one, such as optimum health and well-being, greater vitality, unconditional love, joy, or optimism. Selecting a stone that is also visually beautiful can also add another dimension of enjoyment for the person.

Another Dimension of Gift-Giving
One additional aspect of gift-giving that some people like to share is to ask the crystal to hold your intention for the person. Again, an important aspect of this involves letting go of your own personal attachment to a specific outcome for the person and asking for assistance for the person in the way that is for the greatest and highest good. Some people do this in the context of prayer, while others simply take a quiet moment to share their intention and goodwill.
Whatever thoughts, intentions, and actions go into your own process for gifting others with crystals as healing gifts, I wish you great joy in the process!

Copyright August 2005 Deborah Bookin/The Crystal Bee
216/751-5977

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