There is power in loving yourself
Love is the greatest source of power there is. Love and the divine are one and the same. Love makes life worth living. Life without love can leave a person wandering in a zombie-like state, feeling only despair, pain, and misery. Sometimes we can’t rely on others to give us the love we need in a given moment, so we have to give love to ourselves.
If we don’t give love to ourselves, how can we give love to others? Imagine you are a small car and happily drive people everywhere until you run out of gas. Then you can’t take anyone with you, not even yourself. So you have to fill up your tank first, and your fuel has to be self-love.
There is nothing selfish in self-love
Our society often teaches us that loving yourself is somehow selfish. Some people feel this so deeply that they think that breathing is selfishly depriving others of too much air, let alone allowing enough air to flow around! Taking care of yourself is not selfish, it is necessary. Self-care is one of the necessary ingredients for living a joyful, fulfilling, and happy life. Self-love is the basis of self-care. Just the act of focusing on yourself with loving compassion can be incredibly healing.
The world would be a nicer, better place if we gave ourselves as much genuine, heartfelt love as we give to others. Imagine a stone being thrown into a pond and the ripples expanding in larger and larger circles. When we love ourselves, we are more loving toward others, and this extends through our world, through the universe, and into infinity.
Self love with crystals
There are many ways to begin practicing greater self-love. You can start by doing small things every day that you enjoy like reading a good book, chatting with friends, going for a walk, watching an old movie you love, getting enough rest, eating the right food for you eat, play after the day’s work, or one of the best things is meditating with crystals.
Crystals are wonderful for helping you focus on self-love. They carry their own special energy and support you in simple meditation or in creating self-love rituals. Here are some ways to use crystals while being extra kind to yourself:
- Keep a gratitude journal with your chosen crystals close by as you write down your intentions and experiences on how to give more love to yourself.
- Place crystals in your home to empower you energetically with love and to remind you that they have your loving intentions for you.
- Wear your crystals as jewelry or carry your own special crystals in your pocket or purse so they can be close and supportive to you throughout the day.
- Hold your crystals as you meditate and breathe your loving intentions into them so they can radiate loving energy right back to you.
Crystals for self-love rituals
Crystals come in many shapes, forms and sizes to choose from:
- Polished or raw
- Small stones
- Puffy heart shapes (which is especially perfect for rose quartz.)
- Huge slabs
- Huge monoliths (Size doesn’t matter, just intention.)
To help you decide which of the many gemstones to use for the practice of loving yourself more, here is a list of the 12 best crystals for self-love:
1. rose quartz is the master love crystal. If you can only get one crystal for self love and for calling out love to you then this is the one. This soft pink beauty is the stone of unconditional love and is associated with the heart chakra. Rose Quartz is known for penetrating self-love, promoting self-care, releasing feelings of unworthiness, and helping you connect your heart to Divine Love.
2. Clear quartz is the master healer, and this translucent white gemstone is associated with the crown chakra but affects all chakras. It is believed to evoke positive self-thought, inspire loving energies and bring healing to the soul. Clear Quartz is used to dispel negative thoughts, cleanse dark energies, increase calm, provide intuitive clarity, and help you connect directly with Spirit and communicate with your angels.
3. amethyst comes in gorgeous shades of rich deep purple and is associated with the Crown and Third Eye chakras. It is considered the gemstone of spiritual self-love and is said to increase well-being, give self-acceptance, create inner peace, transform negative vibrations into positive feelings and bring about emotional balance. Amethyst is perfect for meditation as it helps you tap into your intuition and align with the divine.
4. Amazonite has a light blue-green color and is associated with the heart and throat chakras. It can give courage, give hope and build healthy boundaries. Amazonite helps you see the loving truth about yourself as it eases anxiety, calms your soul, stabilizes emotions, leads you to caring self-thinking, and helps you speak kindly about yourself.
5. Rhodochrosite is known as the stone of the compassionate heart. Laced with light and dark pink, it is associated with the heart chakra. Rhodochrosite is believed to help you stop self-torment and self-denial, fill you with self-empathy and happiness, help you resolve past trauma, and induce deep emotional healing.
6. rhodonite Considered a stone of self-love and self-forgiveness, it comes in a pink hue with red and black pieces. It aligns with the heart and root chakra. Rhodonite is trusted to help you overcome self-doubt, increase tenderness towards yourself, recognize your self-worth, balance emotions and let go of harsh inner judgements, while calming your inner critic.
7. Dragonstone (Septarian) helps breathe fire into your spirit as it inspires you to rise up and overcome inner pain. Dragonstone comes in brown, yellow, and gray colors and is associated with the solar plexus and root chakras. It is believed to give you emotional grounding and help you feel a strong sense of self-confidence as it increases your insight and perception.
8th. citrine shines brightly with golden yellow-orange color and is connected to your solar plexus and sacral chakras. Known as the stone of joy, citrine is said to help create abundance, optimism and happiness. It helps burn negativity and fear as it boosts your self-empowerment, energy, hope and happiness and allows sunlight to shine into your heart.
9. Rainbow Moonstone is white with rainbow flecks of color and is aligned with the crown chakra but affects all chakras. Rainbow Moonstone is known for bringing motherly love to yourself, stabilizing emotions, increasing self-esteem and intuition, and helping you create new beginnings in your life. It strengthens loving-kindness in your nature as it helps you be gentle with yourself.
10 malachite comes in deep green with dark stripes and belongs to the heart chakra. Malachite is believed to protect your heart and turn heartbreak into self-love as it heals your heart both emotionally and physically. It helps you understand your emotional needs, evokes uplifting feelings, and helps you see your true worth and worth.
11. lepidolite appears in shades of lilac, lavender, and rose violet and belongs to the third eye and crown chakra. Lepidolite, a source of lithium, is used to help you transition from pain to peace of mind as it heals your emotions and calms stress, excitement and anger. It inspires serenity, calm and patience as it helps calm you down and gives you inner peace.
12. Red Jasper is known as the supreme nurturer. It is orange-red in color and is associated with the sacral and root chakras. Red jasper helps you find emotional grounding, increases self-confidence, calms you down in crises, boosts your self-esteem, releases negative energies, lifts your self-esteem, and invokes more self-confidence and courage.
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