How to Use a Crystal: 50 Practical Rituals and Spiritual Activities for Inspiration and Well-Being

by Richard Webster

A World of Possibilities with Just One Stone All you need is one crystal to deepen your magical practice and reach your goals. Bestselling author Richard Webster presents an accessible and inspiring guide filled with practical rituals and spiritual activities that can be performed with a single stone. Discover how to choose, cleanse, and energize your crystal. Once you've prepared your chosen crystal, you can explore fifty ways to use attract love, control stress, bless your home, enhance creativity, deal with regrets, communicate with spirit guides, recall past lives, make crystal elixirs, find forgiveness, and much more. How to Use a Crystal is the ideal guide to greater health and happiness through crystal work.

Genres: Spirituality

312 pages, Paperback

Published November 8, 2018

About the author

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Richard Webster is an author, ghostwriter, mentalist, hypnotist and magician.

Reviews

[Angie on Books · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are many ways to cleanse crystals which is much appreciated, like "breath" and "visualization"; as well as come easy, overnight ways to cleanse that doesn't waste water like putting your crystals in brown rice or salt. There's also a lesser-known way to cleanse a crystal: to freeze it for three to four hours. 

I'll be trying the latter first because that's easier to do in bulk. Energize by putting in the sun is the only option given to energize your crystal. However, there are some crystals that I know of that fade in the sunlight, like Rose Quartz so I prefer to energize them, or charge them, under moonlight.

Chakras are addressed

How to Use a Crystal goes over all the main Chakras and the colors, elements, desires and crystals that match up with your over or under active Chakra. That is the extent of the section of Chakras, however. While I expected more, this was just enough. At the very least I now know what kind of crystals to wear around my neck when necessary.

Ways to Use a Crystal

Meditation and written meditation script to follow are provided in this book. Centering and balancing yourself is something I do for air travel and the meditations include ways for me to do this. Additionally, and I was very excited about this, there's a walking meditation to try. Rituals with colored candles and rope and a ritual to release regret.

Crystal healing 

Using crystals to infuse water to make an elixir and crystal massages are easy and fun ways to incorporate crystals into your mental and physical health.

You also learn how to Harmonize water. I was excited to find three different ways to use crystals to manage migraines. At the time of writing this, I haven't been able to use those methods, but I will eventually try them all to minimize the amount of medications I have to take.

Harmonizing your water can allow more mindful drinking; something I've only ever thought can happen with food.

Plant health with crystals is also addressed. I've been putting crystals in a dish of salt on the soil of my plants to cleanse the crystal, not realizing that this is also a way to maintain plant health.

I'm also reading a book on animal healing healing that goes more in-depth when it comes to working with your pets but this book nevertheless has a short section on it, with ways to get the crystals to your animals. For example, I worry about putting a crystal on my dogs collar but I'm fine putting one in the lining of her bed.

Finally, a seance. A freakin' seance. That's something I've never considered until now and it can be done with just one person, according to this book. I've always imagined seance's as ways to contact the dead but from what I understand in this book, it's akin to a more complicated prayer ritual.

All-in-all

I loved this book because it opened up so many more possible ways to both use my crystals and expand both my psychic abilities (which are poor) and regulate my mind and body.

[Sheryl · Rating 5 out of 5]

RTF “I’ve got spotty internet service” arg...

[Ami Elizabeth · Rating 2 out of 5]

Lengthy descriptions of different ways to use a crystal, from plain old stress relief to telepathy with your pet 😜

[Marie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book about crystals and how to use one, starting with how to pick your crystal or stone. There are many ways to make them work for you. Finding the right crystal will work for you with guidance and protection . This book touches on healing, using harmonizing water and how to do a crystal séance. There are so many ways that I never knew about. The book is easy to read and very interesting. I received this book from Net Galley and Llewellyn Publishing for an honest review and no other compensation.

[Cozy Reviews · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great book to acquaint yourself with the use of your crystals and or to start a regular crystal practice. I enjoyed the author's sections on : meditations and exercises to bring you closer to the life you want with your crystal and how to use relaxation techniques. The sections on finding the right crystal and guidance and protection . This author includes healing, using harmonizing water and how to do a crystal séance. The book is easy to read and very interesting. After reading this I definitely will be utilizing the techniques in my crystal practice. I always thought I needed a crystal collection to utilize the techniques but the author shows us how we can use even one crystal to start our practice .
Thank you for the ARC that does not influence my personal opinion.

[Zanereads · Rating 4 out of 5]

How to use a crystal walks you through the basics of using a crystal. It’s informative if you’re completely new to crystal healing, a great beginner book! It’s full of meditations and exercises to bring you closer to the life you want with your crystals. However, I found that it was extremely repetitive, as most of the meditations consisted of the a lot of the same relaxation techniques. I found myself skimming through a lot of this book because of that. Even so, t was insightful and packed with ideas to get you started using crystals, so for that I gave it 4 stars.

[cherry trzxj · Rating 4 out of 5]

Příjemná knížka, ke které se budete rádi vracet, pokud se zajímáte o široké využití krystalů.
Knížka nejde přečíst na jeden zátah, protože je strukturována stále stejně.
Mění se pouze obsah sdělení, který může být v některých případech vhodný pro pokročilé i pro začátečníky.
Je však důležité míti na mysli, že pokud nás zajímá spirituální cesta, či tíhneme k čarodějnictví, musíme si v každém rituálu zachovat svou osobitost.
Proto jsem Richardovy rady brala pouze jako vodítko a v mnohých z nich jsem našla zalíbení.

[The Bibliophagist · Rating 5 out of 5]

Crystals...such beautiful things unearthed from the depths of the Earth. Their properties and benefits have been used for ages. So, let's say you but a crystal because you are drawn to it...now what? Well...grab this book, sit down with your crystal and get to work!




The book begins telling you how to choose the right crystal and goes in-depth on cleansing and caring for it once you have chosen. With a very easy readable text, this book teaches methods of using the crystal. Methods range from healing to crystal seances. This is a great beginner book for anyone looking to expand their knowledge of crystals and what benefits they could bring to their lives by using them.




I think I want to work on crystal grid work and meditation using crystals.

[Alyssa · Rating 5 out of 5]

The grounding portion was my favorite

[Dawn Thomas · Rating 5 out of 5]

How to Use a Crystal by Richard Webster

312 Pages
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd.
Release Date: November 8, 2018

Nonfiction (Adult), Religions & Spirituality, Crystals, Magic

The book is broken down into two parts with the following chapters.

Part 1: Some Crystal Basics
Chapter 1: Crystals and Gemstones
Chapter 2: Choosing Your Crystal
Chapter 3: Looking After Your Crystal
Chapter 4: Your Subtle Energies

Part 2: 50 Ways to Use a Crystal

The author provides historical information along with modern uses of crystals. He gives suggestions on how to select a crystal and take care of it. Mr. Webster advises that you should take your energies into consideration before working with a specific crystal since they all have different purposes. He goes into detail of the body’s chakra system and energy fields.

In part 2, he covers in detail fifty different ways to use crystals. Meditating and grounding are the two most common uses. He also provides rituals for many entries. If you are looking for a book on the basics of crystals, this would be the one for you. It is an excellent book for beginners.

[Mary · Rating 5 out of 5]

"A World of Possibilities with Just One Stone". How To Use A Crystal is a good Crystals 101 book by Richard Webster. It is an accessible and easy to understand guide of with rituals and activities that can be performed with a single stone. Webster tells the reader how to choose, cleanse, and charge your crystal then gives us fifty ways your crystal can be used in your life and home. How to Use a Crystal is the ideal guide for someone who is new to Crystal magic as it doesn't go on and on about hundreds of stones. It simply helps you choose one to start with and then goes from there.
#netgalley "howtouseacrystal

[April Gray · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good overall guide to using crystals. It goes over many different basics, like how to choose a crystal, how to cleanse and charge it, etc. There are lots of ways to use crystals listed- chakra work, various rituals and meditations, and I liked that none of it was specific to a certain crystal; you can use whatever you feel comfortable with. The instruction for meditations and relaxation techniques do get pretty repetitive- perhaps some basic techniques could have been outlined, then referred back to and added to as needed. While there is information on different types of crystals and gemstones in the back, this is not meant to be that type of book, so don't expect to find a lot of information on what crystal has what properties. Bits of the book can feel overly "new age-y," but it is a good, easy to use guide for people interested in trying out crystal work.