In such a fast-paced world, being calm is never easy. It’s hard to find peace if you’re constantly stressed with your job, your finances, your health, or your family.
Over time, persistent exposure to stress can put significant strain on our mental and physical health, and leave us feeling burnt out.
If you can tap into your inner peace, your other worries will start to melt away.
Even in the face of adversity, you’ll probably find that you’re more confident and stable, and you’ll find joy in things you never used to notice.
If you need to reconnect with your sense of inner peace, these 14 crystals are here to help.
What Are The Benefits Of Using Crystals?
Crystals are more than just pretty stones. They’re a popular alternative medicine that has been used for centuries to offer protection, improve mental and physical health, and much more (see also ‘13 Beautiful Crystals For Mental Health‘).
Some believe that by placing crystals on specific areas of the body (chakras), you can heal certain illnesses, and manifest your desires.
Crystals are said to interact with our energy and balance it out to create a sense of peace.
Although there’s not enough scientific evidence to prove crystals work, many people find them helpful. Here are just a few reported benefits of using crystals:
Relief from stress, anxiety, depression, and insomnia
Prevent bad energy
Release blocked energy
May help with digestive issues
Increased strength and vitality
May ease aches and pains
1. Kunzite
First on our list is Kunzite. Kunzite is a pink or purple gemstone with a flat shape and a slightly translucent appearance.
Kunzite consists of aluminum, silicate, and lithium, and it’s said to have strong connections with the heart and love. Kunzite can also be used to help make sense of your emotions in times of stress.
Kunzite is believed to be a potent emotional balancer that promotes self-love and encourages you to prioritize your self-care.
Kunzite is usually used to stimulate the heart and crown chakra, giving you a high spiritual vibration and attunement.
If you’re experiencing tension in a personal relationship, this stone can encourage a positive outcome and clear the emotional blockages that come from the heart.
Its roots in compassion and unconditional love can encourage you out of your own emotional blockages, and help you be a better person to those around you, too.
It also inspires a sense of tolerance and a willingness that helps you connect with higher levels of empathy and expression, so you can maintain your own strong boundaries while facing the ups and downs of life.
2. Citrine
Now, let’s take a look at Citrine. Citrine is a type of yellow quartz stone, and its name comes from the old French word for lemon (see also, ‘Types of Yellow Birthstones‘).
Citrine can be found in yellow, amber, or gold, and it’s a variety of the silica mineral quartz. Just as its color suggests, this crystal is rooted in positivity and love.
It can be used for manifestation, boosting confidence and personal power, and it can even be used with the solar plexus chakra.
In ancient times, Citrine was used to flush toxins from the body, improve blood circulation, and boost the immune system.
However, it’s more commonly used to help people connect with their own intuition and spirituality.
The solar plexus chakra, which it’s strongly connected to, is associated with willpower, confidence, and self-esteem.
Using citrine can give you the confidence you need to stand on your own two feet, face the world, and manifest your desires – perfect for finding peace.
3. Selenite
Next up, we have selenite. Selenite (see also ‘Can Selenite Be In The Sun?‘) is a popular type of spiritual gemstone that’s often referred to as ‘liquid light’.
This calming stone is made from calcium sulfate dihydrate, and it can be brown green, gray, white, yellow, or brownish-yellow.
This variety of the gypsum mineral is an energetic cleanser that’s often used on a person or in a home to clear away negative energy.
Selenite can release blockages and encourage a more positive flow of energy into your life.
If you’re feeling troubled or weighed down with life, selenite can help set you free, and pull you out of your shell.
Selenite has high-vibrational properties which are said to provide clarity, positive energy, and a sense of calm.
Selenite is said to activate your higher chakras (particularly the crown chakra) and relieve blockages. The crown chakra is at the top of the head, and it’s all about focusing on your higher self.
When it opens, you’ll have access to higher consciousness and greater spiritual growth, which can help you find your sense of peace.
4. Amethyst
Amethyst is one of the most popular healing stones in the world. Amethyst is a type of semiprecious stone that’s a member of the quartz family, and it’s known for its distinctive purple coloring.
Amethyst is strongly considered to be one of the most powerful protective stones out there.
Amethyst isn’t just a great crystal for protection. It can also heighten spiritual wisdom, relieve stress, and offer humility.
Amethyst is often considered to be a natural mood stabilizer, and it may help reduce irritability, anxiety, mood swings, fear, and more.
Amethyst is another crystal strongly associated with the crown chakra, which makes it an excellent stone for finding inner peace, manifesting desires, and relieving negative emotions.
5. Rose Quartz
Now, let’s take a closer look at rose quartz. This pink form of quartz, also known as hyaline quartz, is made from silicon dioxide molecules and it can be found in places like Brazil, South Africa, India, Sweden, Germany, and Madagascar.
Rose quartz shares an intricate connection with the heart chakra, so you’ll often see this crystal used for affairs of the heart, and to keep negative energy away.
Although rose quartz can be used to inspire new friendships, relationships, and attraction, it’s also a powerful emotional healer, and it can be used for deep inner healing.
If you’ve been through traumatic experiences that have left you with little confidence and self-love, rose quartz can bring you back to yourself, and help you learn how to prioritize your feelings and find peace.
6. Green Jade
Green jade is famous for its associations with good luck and positive vibes. As the name suggests, this crystal is usually green, but it can also be white or yellow.
Green jade is usually made from calcium and magnesium, or a silicate of sodium and aluminum.
If you struggle to remain in the present and you’re always worrying about the future, green jade can help you ground yourself in the here and now.
If your inner peace has been disrupted by your self-sabotaging behaviors, green jade can snap you back to reality.
This crystal can highlight these behaviors, and make you aware of which ones you need to work on as soon as possible.
Once you rid yourself of these obstacles, green jade can also help you see what positive behaviors you can replace them with, and you’ll be wondering why you didn’t do it sooner!
7. Tree Agate
Tree agate has long been considered one of the best crystals and stones for inner peace.
This crystal, sometimes known as dendritic agate, are beautiful crystals that develop with a pattern reminiscent of foliage and branches, hence the name!
The tree agate often has a white base, with a spotted green pattern. Agate usually consists of cryptocrystalline sillica and alternates with microgranular quartz.
If you need to increase your mental, emotional, physical, or spiritual strength, tree agate is the ideal personal talisman to have with you.
Tree agate also has an intense connection with mother nature, and is said to heal geopathic stress.
When combined with clear quartz, tree agate can help calm your nerves and give you a greater sense of focus, which you can use to strengthen your inner peace.
Most agate gemstones are associated with the heart chakra, so they’re also ideal for improving your confidence and self-love.
8. Angelite
Now, let’s explore the benefits of Angelite. Angelite, sometimes called anhydrite, is a form of crystal made from calcium sulfate.
This lilac and pale blue crystal (see also, ‘17 Blue and Gray Crystals‘) is better known for its connections with spirituality and self-awareness and can help improve communication and your sense of self-awareness.
This makes Angelite a great crystal for improving your inner peace.
Angelite is also a healer of intense emotional pain. Its energies are thought to help those suffering from guilt, loss, and grief.
If you keep this crystal near you, you may find it brings you a deeper sense of calm, and can help relieve you of the stress and negative energy you carry.
Angelite (see also ‘The Meaning, Healing Properties, And Powers Of Angelite‘) is aligned with the third eye, throat, and crown chakras. This makes it an incredibly potent crystal that can help you heal, speak your truth, and improve your mental and physical well-being.
9. Clear Quartz
Clear quartz, also known as crystal quartz, is a crystal or mineral composed of silicone and oxygen atoms.
This transparent and entirely colorless crystal is known for omitting high vibrations, helping you align with your true purpose, and clearing your mind and body of emotional clutter.
It’s also thought to physically relieve the body of toxins, which makes it a great choice for boosting your immune system.
Clear quartz is most beneficial to the crown chakra, as it can unblock your memory, improve concentration, and even enhance psychic abilities (see also ‘14 Beautiful Crystals For Memory‘).
If your peace is being disrupted by your tendency to procrastinate, or a blockage of negative energy, clear quartz can help.
10. Calcite
Next on our list is calcite. Calcite is a carbonate, rock-forming mineral that’s extremely common, and can be found throughout the world.
Calcite is thought to be able to absorb and transform your negative energy into a positive force.
If your mind is always racing, you may benefit from calcite, as it can enhance your mental clarity and help you connect with, and understand your deepest emotions.
Its links to higher consciousness make it a powerful crystal to use if you’re searching for inner peace.
If you feel like diving deeper into your own history could help you on your journey, calcite can even be used in past life regression to help you connect deeper with your previous lives.
If your chakras are out of balance, calcite can calm them and help you find your inner peace.
11. Lepidolite
Lepidolite is a type of mineral that contains lithium, and it’s usually found in either gray or lilac. This crystal is known for its beauty, as well as its powerful healing properties.
Lepidolite is known to be a stone of transition. It’s calming and soft, and it can help ease those intense, racing emotions, anxiety, and stress.
If you find yourself stuck in the habit of repeating unhealthy patterns and mechanisms, lepidolite may help you identify and correct them so you can find your peace.
This crystal is associated with the heart and third-eye chakras, making it a great choice for offering clarity, better concentration, deeper self-awareness, and greater emotional intelligence.
Connecting with your higher self is key for finding peace, and lepidolite can help you get there.
12. Howlite
Howlite is a type of borate mineral found in the deposits of evaporite. It’s a type of calcium borosilicate hydroxide that’s usually light grey or white, and it’s often intercepted with marks of black, grey, or dark brown.
Howlite is a powerful crystal that can eliminate intense emotions like stress, anger, and even pain, and its calming properties also extend to your emotional expression.
Howlite is thought to enhance our self-awareness and encourage authentic communication. If you’ve always struggled to speak your truth, howlite may help you.
Because of its associations with wisdom and emotional expression, it’s no surprise that howlite is connected with the third eye chakra, and it can also offer much deeper intuition.
13. Amazonite
Amazonite, sometimes known as Amazonstone, is a form of green tectosilicate and it’s usually a green or light blue color.
Amazonite is often considered the stone of truth, and it will provide its user with a renewed sense of hope, serenity, and clarity.
It can be used to treat trauma and fatigue, and any other physical or emotional issue that interrupts your energy.
This potent emotional balancer allows you to focus on you and you alone.
If you’re struggling to find your purpose or see the positives in your future, carrying Amazonite on your person can help you reconnect with those feelings of hope and positivity, making you feel more confident and at peace with yourself.
Amazonite is thought to benefit the throat and heart chakras, making it the ideal choice for promoting harmony, balancing masculine and feminine energies, and improving calmness and tranquility.
14. Moonstone
Last but not least, we have moonstone. Moonstone is a type of gemstone found in the orthoclase feldspar group, and it’s made up of aluminum and potassium silicate.
If you need to reconnect with your creativity and intuition, moonstone can help you tap into your true emotions, so you can work through them and find a sense of balance and peace.
Its peaceful energy is also thought to boost creativity, emotional restoration, and even motherly protection.
Moonstone is symbolic of inward vision. This crystal will invite you to search within yourself for peace and serenity while guiding you softly on your journey.
Just like the moon, moonstone will illuminate the darkest parts of yourself, and encourage you to confront them.
Moonstone can sometimes be an intense crystal, but it’s particularly powerful, especially when used in meditation or in crystal healing.
How To Cleanse And Charge Crystals
If you want to make the most of your crystals, you’ll need to cleanse and recharge them.
Cleansing and recharging your crystals will release them of any negative energy and help them function to their full potential.
There are many ways you can cleanse or charge your crystals. There’s no right or wrong way to do it, so we’d encourage you to try a few suggestions from this list and see what works best for your crystals.
Here are a few ways you can recharge and cleanse your crystals:
Clean Them With Water: Water is thought to neutralize any of the negative energy found in your crystals. To clean them, place them under running water for 3-5 minutes. However, you should check your crystal can be submerged before attempting this: not all crystals are water resistant, so don’t risk damaging them!
Charge Outside or Under a Full Moon: Some crystal users prefer to recharge their crystals out in nature, or under a full moon (see also ‘What Happens When You Charge Your Crystals Under the Full Moon‘). Leave your stone anywhere with access to moonlight – this can help encourage the energy lost in your crystal to come back out. You can also place it beneath the soil for a few hours to charge up its potential.
Use Selenite: If you have selenite in your collection, you can use this to cleanse your other crystals. Although selenite is naturally self-cleansing, it may require a recharge and cleanse with running water, moonlight, or sunlight.
The Bottom Line
If you’re struggling to find your inner peace, these crystals are here to help.
Whether you’re battling with past trauma, an emotional blockage, stress, or anxiety, carrying these crystals with you or meditating with them could help improve your mood, give you confidence, and offer you the peace you deserve.
Hi, my name is Andrea Daehma and I have been collecting and using crystals in my everyday life for just over six years now.
I have my own collection of crystals gracing my house, several for every scenario I could think of.
Learning about crystals has truly changed my life, and I want to help others turn their life around too. Please enjoy my website and find your own small stone to begin your crystal journey with!
