You may have received a crystal as a gift or have dabbled in purchasing your own. If you have little experience with crystals it is likely that you won't know what you need to do in order to care for them. Here's a quick beginner's guide for you.

Cleansing
After you buy crystals or receive them as a gift they need to be cleansed before they can be used. A few crystals such as Citrine, Kyanite, Azeztulite never need cleansing, for the rest however you can use one of the following methods;

• Durable tumbled crystals (they have smooth highly polished surfaces) can be held under running water or immersed in salt water. As you do this imagine all the negativeenergy leaving the crystal, either by being washed away or floating out and vanishing into the surrounding water. It is important that you have a still, focused mind as you do this and that you aren't having any negative thoughts yourself.
  
  
  • If the crystal you need to cleanse is fragile, friable (can crumble easily) or can dissolve in water then you can cover it in salt (rock salt is good) and leave over night. After removing it gently brush away any remaining salt, in the long term it could damage the crystal.