Selecting your crystal To select a crystal is not all that much different from selecting a pet or a work of art. Handle the various stones and place them, one by one, in your receptive hand. This may not be the stone that looks the clearest or the most impressive, either. Our societies materialistic values and our conditioning to accept them must not enter into our decision, which is very hard for most of us at first. An interesting phenomena often happens to people who are just going into the gem and mineral healing or psychic work.
Most people start off with clear quartz, because it has the most applications.
Many times they bring a bag of various mineral specimens home with them. Later they look up the stones in one of the many reference books on this subject, only to find the stones they were drawn to are exactly the ones they need to deal with issues or illnesses that they need to work on. Researchers in Kirlian photography and other subjects have long shown us that the body is surrounded by a field of electro-magnetic energies, which psychics call the aura . People who have studied this subject tell us that crystals help us by attuning their piezoelectrical charge to the charge of our auras. So we must first remove the charges from the stone that come from other's handling of it.