Your crystal practice doesn’t have to be complicated. If you struggle to choose crystals, remember what you’ve done, or don’t feel confident you may be making this biggest mistake in your crystal practice.

 

In this episode we’re talking about how to build a crystal practice that works for you, one that allows you to see the results, and supports you in developing confidence in the way you work with crystals.

 

You don’t need to memorize endless crystal properties, follow someone else’s methods, or create elaborate rituals to have a meaningful crystal practice. You need a way to see what you’re doing, understand your intentions, and recognize the results of your efforts.

 

YOU WILL DISCOVER:

 

🔮 Why your crystal practice may feel nonexistent, even when you’re working with crystals regularly.

🔮 How documenting your crystal practice helps you recognize the small, everyday actions you usually forget.

🔮 Why reviewing what you’ve done moves your practice forward.

🔮 Why you don’t need a perfect crystal journal or a complicated crystal healing routine to build a practice you trust.

 

Tune in now to start seeing the progress and results of your crystal practice.

 

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00:00 Welcome and Mission

00:40 Why Beginners Feel Stuck

02:12 Everyday Practice Gets Forgotten

03:53 The Case for Documentation

05:10 Simple Ways to Track

06:27 Review and Refine Monthly

07:26 New Moon Ritual Invite

08:22 Wrap Up and Next Steps

 

Episode #122 – The Biggest Mistake in Your Crystal Practice

Welcome and Mission

Welcome to the Crystal Self Healer Podcast. I’m Corissa Weaver. On this podcast, we blend the magic of crystals with the science of psychology to help you break free from chaos, ditch the overwhelm, and master your emotions so you can have more energy, get more done, and feel better every day. Get ready to unlock your intuition and restore your true power as we cover how you can transform your life using crystals and self-awareness.

Are you ready to get started? All right, let’s go

Why Beginners Feel Stuck

There’s something that happens when someone is new or a novice in working with crystals.

They feel they lack information and therefore don’t know what crystals work for what.

They place emphasis on the books or practices of others, and they feel like their practice just doesn’t measure up if they feel like they have one at all.

Quite often, they twist themselves up in knots and create more confusion around what crystals to select and how to work with them.

And with every passing day, it becomes discouraging and embarrassing to feel like you don’t have a practice.

I want to assure you that there is an easy way for you to fix this, and you probably have all the tools you need to do it right now.

I know that many of you have a good memory, capable of recalling a lot of details on a lot of different things.

So this isn’t about suggesting you need to improve your memory or study a bunch of lists.

But when it comes to your crystal practice, how often do you actually remember what you’ve really done?

I mean all of it.

That crystal you popped in your pocket, the jewelry you wore, the grids, the vignettes, or the altars you assembled.

Everyday Practice Gets Forgotten

I think a lot of the time we expect our crystal practice to be filled with big events, like the major holidays or seasonal celebrations.

Like your everyday practice needs to have the same shine and polish as Thanksgiving, New Year’s, the solstice, or equinox.

But let’s be real, everyday life can be a little mundane.

You don’t track what socks you wore what day or that you cleared the table.

Most times, the little things you do are front of mind in the moment, but quickly forgotten.

So what you have going on here is that you’re making mini intentions in the moment by choosing your jewelry or placing a few chosen crystals into a dish beside your bed.

But these moments of aligned action are quickly forgotten, not because they don’t hold meaning or intention, but because they blend into the monotony of your everyday life.

The crystals in the bowl start to collect dust, you aren’t in the same headspace, and you can’t quite remember why you put them there.

When the smaller daily practices are not packing the same punch as the big events in your life, they often get overlooked.

This means that when you look back, you feel like you don’t know what you’re doing because you can’t see or track what you’ve done, the tools you’ve used, and the results your efforts have brought about.

The Case for Documentation

I think we live with a lot of pressure.

Some of it from the rules or methodology of formal lineages for practices.

Some of it from the way we operate on a day-to-day basis.

What I mean by that is that a lot of the time, I hear women say to me they want to have a practice, that they do things, but they don’t know whether it’s working.

I was reading Arin Murphy-Hiscock’s Spellcrafting book the other day where she was talking about having a place where you document and track the spells you’re doing, the tools you’re working with, the results you generate, and the value of reviewing and revising what you have done.

While a spell book or a grimoire may not be directly associated with crystal healing, there’s value in what Arin is saying.

For you and your crystal practice, if you aren’t tracking what your intention is, what you’re working with, and the outcome experienced, you will overlook a lot of the practice you actually have.

Simple Ways to Track

The good thing here is you don’t need anything fancy.

You can use a regular notebook, a calendar, a planner, or the notes app on your phone if you’re more of a digital person.

Personally, I’m pretty chaotic and inconsistent, so you will find my practice in and on all of the above, depending on where I was in the moment or what was available to me at the time.

But being chaotic and inconsistent doesn’t mean I haven’t made note of what my practice has been.

It’s tracked, it’s documented, just not always in the same place every time.

Could it benefit from being in the same place?

Absolutely, but that would mean allowing an external pressure of being picture perfect to rule my actions over actually having the practice, and that’s not what we’re going for here.

I am encouraging you to make a note of the date and time, the intention you had, and what you did.

Utopic is when you have it all in one place, but only do that if it feels natural and maintainable for you.

Review and Refine Monthly

Also, choose a time when you can review what you’ve been doing.

I like to use the new moon as my trigger to review so that when I go about setting my larger intention for the next moon phase, I can adjust as needed based on how things worked out.

So now you have that chance to see if wearing that piece of jewelry shifted your experience or whether the grid you build did the thing you wanted it to do.

And if it didn’t, it’s nothing to stress about because it’s part of the process of understanding how you work and interact with your tools, and you get to refine your practice as you go.

Isn’t it time you felt like you had the practice you’ve been wanting?

To see your practice before your own eyes in a way that builds your confidence?

New Moon Ritual Invite

If you’re looking for a no-pressure way to learn about some crystals, experience a guided meditation, and be walked through the prompts that help you review your practice, join me for the monthly New Moon Crystal Ritual.

It is your chance to take an honest look at what you’ve been doing, what worked, what didn’t, and what you want to do differently.

The link to register is in the show notes, so you will be reminded before we go live on Zoom, or you can find them live and in replay on YouTube.

Today’s episode has been brought to you by documentation.

May we all track and see the practice we have and the value it creates in our lives.

Blessed be, my friends.

Wrap Up and Next Steps

All right, my friends, that wraps up this week’s episode. Thank you for joining me here today on the Crystal Self Healer Podcast. If you haven’t already, hit Subscribe, leave a review, and take the What Crystal is Best for You quiz linked in the show notes. Join me again next week as we continue to demystify crystals, how your brain works, and how you can use them so you can have more energy, get more done, and feel better every day.