As the long hot summer days roll on and the sun deepens, the effects of its presence can sometimes be more profound and effective than you might imagine. During heat waves, the body has to work much harder to maintain a normal temperature. Excessive heat can not only result in serious health threats by pushing the human body beyond its limits, but it can also have an effect on your mental, emotional and spiritual states. Heat cramps, exhaustion, and strokes are among the possible physical challenges you may experience, but the most common is dehydration. However, heat can also increase the chances of irritability, stress, frustration, tendency to intolerance, aggression and confrontation, lack of energy, lack of interest in startups, and overstimulation that draws you outward and away from your inner needs. . .

There are many steps you can take to prevent heat-related illnesses, such as avoiding too much sun and extreme temperature changes, slowing down and avoiding strenuous activities, staying indoors as much as possible and keeping your space cool, wearing loose-fitting clothing, lightweight and light-colored. clothes that cover as much skin as possible, protect your skin with SPF and protect your face and head with hats, plan your main activities for the morning or evening, and especially drink plenty of fluids during the day, avoiding alcoholic beverages. However, another support tactic can be found by wearing and surrounding yourself with crystals that contain within them cooling elements to help adjust more than just your physical temperature, but your general state of being. These crystals maintain a calming and beneficial effect that helps restore harmony and balance during the summer months.

Crystals can and have been used to heal or improve the environment for millennia. They possess unique properties and subtle vibrations that affect the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels of being. Since ancient times, healers have been familiar with the fact that crystals possess varying energies and can be energizing or more calming; sedative or stimulating. Therefore, choosing a crystal for its calming properties can help calm the experience of summer heat and help restore balance and harmony to your life.

Crystal guides, such as Judy Hall’s The Crystal Bible, can be used to decipher the properties of crystals and help you find what you are looking for, but sometimes simply the color of the crystal can be very revealing, as in the color of the crystal. aquamarine ocean that expresses its calming elements. The following crystals are among several that would be beneficial in creating that watery experience when hot, dry days seem to have no end:

Blue Lace Agate – Provides tranquility with its gentle, refreshing and calming energy

Amazonite: extremely relaxing and calms the brain and nervous system.

Amethyst: mentally calm

Apatite: reduces irritability and overcomes emotional exhaustion

Apophyllite: calm and strengthen the spirit

Aquamarine: calming, reduces stress and calms the mind, harmonizes, invokes tolerance.

Blue Calcite – soft stone for recovery and relaxation, lowers blood pressure, calms the nerves.

Blue Sapphire: tranquility, calm mind and tension

Chalcedony: harmonizes the mind, body, emotions and spirit.

Chrysocolla: calm, serene, calming and reduces mental tension.

Chrysoprase: inspires tolerance, calms overexcitement, refreshes, takes the heat out of situations

Lapis Lazuli – cool and calming, stress reliever, balance

Larimar: radiates peace, promotes tranquility, brings calm and balance

Moonstone – calms overreactions to emotional triggers and situations.

Rose Quartz: infinite peace, calming, refreshing, sedative

Selenite: calming, deep peace, calming.

As we approach the hot summer months and continue to navigate these times of change, it is crucial to find ways to help support the return to peace and harmony. Keeping your body and emotions from getting “too hot” becomes essential and there are many ways you can help facilitate a “cool down” that can not only benefit you personally, but also on a collective level. Crystals are one of those tools that can promote calming tendencies on a physical and emotional level, thus promoting general well-being.