A new year welcomes the perfect time to cleanse your crystals for 2020! Try out a few of the below methods we have explored over the years... 1. Meditation: Take a moment to sit with your crystal and focus on clearing your mind and visualising a soothing white light or natural flowing water cleansing your crystal and setting it with your intentions. 2. Smudging: Gently waft the smoke of a sage smudge stick over your crystal and remember to hold the intention of what you are doing in your mind. The smoke cleanses and also represents a blessing or offering to the natural forces these crystals represent. 3. Natural Flowing Water: By simply holding the termination downwards and having the intention of “flushing” the crystal, you will definitely feel a new freshness surrounding the piece. Leaving a crystal near a waterfall or the ocean, will definitely impregnate the crystal with the highly ionised nature of these environments. Waterfalls and waves are Nature’s negative ion generators and given Quartz crystal’s natural affinity for electro-magnetic energies, you are sure to cleanse and enliven both yourself and the crystal. 4. Salt Cleanse: Ideally a couple of centimetres of rock salt on all sides ensures a thorough cleanse. Simply leave it for at least 24 hours (or longer for a more thorough cleanse) and then give it a thorough rinse in flowing cold water. 5. Earth Cleanse: Simply dig a hole deep enough in the earth to house your crystal, and leave it for as long as you feel is necessary to thoroughly cleanse it. Generally, a day, a week, or a cycle of the moon is a useful length of time but consider perhaps a year, or a decade or longer to mark the passage of significant intervals of your life. 6. Toning: Simply singing any sound rich with your intention (Aum/Om etc) to cleanse and purify the crystal towards and through it will serve to restore its freshness. Crystal or brass singing bowls can also be used, with the crystals placed inside the bowls on a piece of fabric as they are played to affect a result. We hope some of our experiences cleansing crystals are useful to you! We'd love to hear any other methods you may have used to cleanse your crystals!