The Science Behind Crystal Healing & How it Works
Crystals come in all shapes, colours and sizes and each crystal has its own unique vibrational resonance. This is determined by the crystals mineral content, atomic structure, size and the colour frequency it emits. Every crystal has its own energy vibration, and this can have powerful effects on the energy vibrations within a person.
It’s important to keep in mind that our entire physical universe is made up of pure energy and vibration. But the vibrations emitted by crystals are uniquely different.
Matter vibrates at different vibrational frequencies. Not just crystals, all matter – tables, chairs, you, me, the light – they all have this average resonant frequency. Think of the up and down wave you used to see in maths class. Hibiscus Moon coined this term as the “Dominant Oscillatory Rate” or DOR.
We as humans are a collection of DORs – a collection of frequencies. Our heart has one DOR, our kidneys a different DOR, our eyes, our brain, each organ, our cells, our DNA even right down to our chromosomes all have different DORs. So, we have an average vibrational frequency made up of a collection of varying DORs and it’s not very stable.
In fact, it’s quite easily influenced by all sorts of things in our environment including words spoken to us, our thoughts and emotions; even thoughts and emotions are simply energy. Since we’re all connected to and influenced by everything in our environment, including crystals, our unstable vibrational nature makes it so absolutely anything can interact with our energy field and leave its mark on us. Therefore, our frequency can get really out of balance when we experience any type of intense energy, like stress for instance.
Contrast that with a Crystal
A crystal, in contrast, has one DOR. It’s not a collection of different ones. It has one vibrational frequency that is determined by its specific molecular composition, the elements it’s made of, its colour and its size.
A crystal also has a very precise fixed, repeating, molecular pattern. That’s what makes a crystal a crystal. Unlike us, it’s geometrically perfect. It’s not random at all. In fact, a crystal is the exact opposite of random.
Since crystals are geometrically perfect at the molecular level, they have the lowest possible state of entropy. Entropy is just the tendency to go towards disorder. So, these different qualities play into the stability and vibrational frequency of a crystal.
Why are we Influenced by the Energy of Crystals?
Since we are comprised of all these different DORs (dominant oscillatory rates) we tend towards entropy quite easily. The slightest thing happening in our environment – someone saying something to us or even the weather – can throw us off balance. Our DORs get knocked out of balance quite easily. We are very easily influenced.
In contrast – crystals, being highly ordered, very stable solids have stability, that precision to their atomic structure – therefore they easily maintain their DOR – their vibration. This stability also gives them higher amplitude energy. When energy is more stable, it becomes more powerful; has a higher amplitude. (Amplitude is the maximum height of an oscillation in a wave) When comparing two waves as in which wave is higher or which energy is stronger – it’s the higher amplitude one.
So, the stability of the molecules in a crystal tend to create more stable and higher amplitude energy thereby making it more of an energy influencer. Therefore, crystals can influence or entrain the energy around it. Entrainment is a physics principle that basically says that energy of a higher amplitude will dominate and influence a similar frequency of a lower amplitude.
This is often demonstrated using tuning forks. When two tuning forks are tuned to the same frequency, if I were to ring one with a lot of energy (high amplitude) and then ring the second just gently (low amplitude) the higher amplitude will dominate and influence the lower amplitude tuning fork. Therefore, the second tuning fork will get louder and raise its energy (become higher amplitude) because the higher amplitude will dominate the lower amplitude.
How is this relevant? Because we humans will also entrain with higher amplitude energy. If there is a similar frequency that comes into our environment and happens to be of higher amplitude, it’s going to raise us to match its frequency – until we become a vibrational match. And you guessed it – this is how crystals can influence our energetic field and raise our vibration as well.
Source: Hibiscus Moon
(Former Science Teacher & Department Chair)
Hibiscus Moon Crystal Academy