Seven Crystals for Holiday Stress Relief

What better way to celebrate the earth’s energy this holiday season than incorporating crystals into your festivities?

No matter what you celebrate, the energy of crystals is universal. For example, selenite is wonderful for cleansing and clearing, and rose quartz enhances the vibration of love. On the other hand, black tourmaline is the perfect stone for protection and grounding. 

Setting intentions and using corresponding crystals can help with holiday stress relief and promote a peaceful environment. Crystals can powerfully assist in clearing out old energy and manifesting new energy and abundance.

Read further about the seven crystals we have selected to elevate your mood this season. This selection of crystals will aid in holiday stress relief and help you be more present. After all, your authentic presence is the greatest gift of all!

Working with crystals for holiday stress 

Crystals vibrate at their own frequencies, just like humans, our thoughts, words, and feeling. Crystals can assist in tapping into the frequency you desire to be on. Every crystal has its own unique healing properties and vibration, and using this energy is intuitive and easy. Ask your selected crystal to assist you while you hold it or place it around you. This is called setting an intention.  

Commonly, the chakras (your energy centers) correspond to a specific color, and matching up the same colored crystal can be useful if you are aware of imbalances or are simply looking for a boost in a specific energetic area of your life. If you want to learn more about the chakras, check out our beginner’s guide. If you are looking for chakra-specific crystal recommendations, the following blogs offer recommendations for each chakra and 5 easy ways to align the chakras.

• 10 Crystals to Use to Heal your Root Chakra
• Crystals for the Sacral Chakra
• Crystals for the Solar Plexus
• Crystals for the Throat Chakra
• Crystals for the Third Eye Chakra
• Crystals for the Crown Chakra

The good news is there is no right or wrong way to choose crystals. Trust your intuition when choosing a crystal to work with. Hold the crystal in your left hand (your receiving hand) as you focus on something you want to heal, and notice how you feel. If you get a good feeling, use that crystal. Charging crystals with your intentions and carrying them with you is a common, easy way to use their energy.

 

Seven crystals for holiday stress relief

Here are seven crystals to help ease holiday stress and anxiety and bring peace, joy, and prosperity.

1. Flourite

Rainbow Fluorite activates and cleanses all chakras. It is known for its emotional detoxifying properties that aid in relieving anxiety, tension, and stress. It reduces fear of the future and eases anger and depression. Fluorite also improves mental focus, clarity, concentration, and memory. 

Carry Flourite with you whenever you are visiting family during the holidays. Place Flourite in any room on a window sill, table, or floor to help restore balance and absorb negative energy.

Mantra: I am grounded, balanced, energized, and grateful.

2. Black Obsidian

This is a great stone for protection and grounding. It helps alleviate disharmony and restore grounding balance. Black obsidian brings mental strength and helps shield one’s aura, protecting it from negative energies and psychic attacks. Think of black obsidian like a psychic vacuum cleaner, cleansing your aura of negative attachments, old negative habituated behaviors and patterns, and toxic limiting beliefs stunting your spiritual growth. This underrated crystal is believed to aid in releasing addictive behaviors and dissolving emotional blockages.

Black Obsidian Stone is a powerful shadow-work tool since it helps mirror darkness within you. It helps you embrace the darker parts of yourself and learn to embrace and accept them in others.

Carry obsidian with you in your bra, pocket, or purse to keep its energy close throughout the day and holiday season for stress relief.

Mantra: I am grounded and protected. I release all negative energy.

3. Celestite

Besides its ethereal beauty, celestite is a powerful healing crystal. It inspires deep peace and happiness. This dreamy blue crystal connects us with its high vibration to our spirit guides. It is an undebated favorite among crystal lovers that provides calming, uplifting and balancing energy. It is one of the best crystals for providing spiritual strength and fortitude.

Celestite is said to promote purity of the heart and helps one access and communicate with the spiritual realm. Use this crystal in your meditation or self-hypnosis to reduce holiday stress and anxiety, and it will help improve relationships by facilitating communication calmly and peacefully.

Place celestite on your nightstand and hold it before sleep to promote calm and restful sleep. Celestite works its magic best in spaces designed for rest and rejuvenation. If you have a meditation room or an altar, this would be the perfect spot to promote and amplify its properties. Since this mystical crystal promotes clear and compassionate communication, fostering healthy and prosperous relationships, it is a wonderful fit for shared home spaces or potentially stressful holiday gatherings.

Mantra: My mind is at peace. 

4. Citrine

Feel the fear and let it go with citrine! It’s easy to love this cheery, powerful, optimistic crystal that helps one switch doubt, stress, and anxiety for warmth, motivation, and clarity. Citrine unwinds mind, body, and spiritual tension.

Associated with the solar plexus, citrine reminds us to be present, authentic, and true to ourselves.

Mantra: I deserve abundance. I am a powerful manifester of prosperity. 

5. Tiger’s Eye

A stone of courage, Tiger’s Eye can aid in the forward movement in your life. It helps you feel more confident and opens your power center to help you shine your unique light into the world without fear. When it comes to adapting to something new, this is a perfect choice to help you transition into the unknown.

Tiger’s eye can be placed on your abdomen to assist you in opening up your courage and confidence, and wearing it can help anchor these feelings on a deep level. Also, carry it when faced with challenges or when working towards big goals that require you to step out of your comfort zone.

Mantra: I am available to be the most confident version of myself I can be in this moment, and I trust I will be led where I need to go.

6. Rose Quartz

As its calming pink hue suggests, rose quartz is the crystal of love. When we’re under pressure, anxious, or just plain stressed, it’s easy to forget about loving ourselves. Keep a piece of rose quartz where you can see it to honor your self-respect, trust, and self-worth. Open your heart, mind, and spirit to elevated self-care and true self-love this holiday season. Perhaps this is the year to replace holiday stress with self-care.

Open up your heart center to receive changes with love. Anchor in the vibration of compassion and forgiveness. Lovingly leave behind the things that no longer serve you with Rose Quartz. Compassion for the self when transforming your life is key to making a permanent change and working through all the hard stuff you encounter during the process.

Place Rose Quartz on your heart or hold it in your left hand to welcome feelings of unconditional love. Wearing it as a necklace helps to open your heart chakra while seeing people or situations with compassion and kindness. EveryBody in Mind Wellness Center in Sudbury, MA, offers beautiful rose quartz earrings or rose quartz angels for your nightstand. Using a rose quartz facial roller or gua sha in your skin routine is a wonderful way to incorporate this powerful crystal. Love is the highest vibration, and Rose Quartz helps you accept it into your experience and let the lower frequencies fade away.

Mantra: I welcome unconditional love and compassion into my body, mind, and spirit.

7. Rhodonite

Rhodonite is a stone of gratitude, love, and empathy. It has a joyful and uplifting energy that encourages one to engage in behaviors to help others in need. The holiday season is the perfect time to reflect, practice empathy, and take the time to nurture and appreciate others in our lives.

Consider this beautiful, one-of-a-kind rhodonite and amethyst necklace as an early holiday gift for yourself or somebody else on your list.

Mantra: I invite gratitude into my heart.

Final Thoughts on Best Crystals for Holiday Stress Relief

You can use many different crystals to enhance peace, calm, and prosperity and reduce stress and anxiety during the holidays. 

Be sure to check out our blog to learn more about crystal healing. Trust your intuition when choosing what’s right for you. However you choose to incorporate the healing frequencies of crystals to reduce holiday stress is a creative process, and the way you create your practice and traditions is entirely up to you.

Check out our crystal shop for a selection of stones you can work. Consider creating new holiday rituals and traditions incorporating crystals into your meditation, decor, gifting, and even centerpieces and/or place settings. Let crystals elevate your energy this holiday season and give your friends and loved ones the best gift of all, the gift of being present.