Which Hand To Wear Your Crystal Bracelet On?

Crystal bracelets have been worn for centuries by our ancestors as a way to promote healing and positive energy in order to create a sense of well-being and calm.

Our hands are strong energy fields that receive and give energy, and that is why it is important to consider which hand to wear your crystal bracelet on, or which to hold your healing crystal in, to provide your desired effect in accordance with your intention.

Left Side - Receiving (Yin): Absorbs energies, the pathway to your subconscious, effective for internal work. Wear your crystal bracelets on your left hand if you want to absorb the crystal's energy into your aura.

Right Side - Giving (Yang): Releases Energy, cleansing and detox, manifesting, effective for communication and speech. Wear it on your right hand when you want to remove negative energies or manifest specific positive energies that resonate with your crystal.

Sometimes there is confusion about which is which if you are left-handed. I have researched this and some thoughts are that it doesn’t matter because the direction of energy flow to the body is left in and right out. Other thoughts are that it does depend upon your dominant hand and therefore if you are left-handed then it’s the reverse so your left hand is the giving, and right receiving.

Choose one that you feel good about and that works for you, but if you do swap sides, make sure you cleanse the crystal first to clear past energies absorbed.

For example, how to wear a rose quartz bracelet in accordance with your intention:

If you wish to receive and absorb the loving healing energies of rose quartz into your aura for yourself, you would wear it on your left hand, or hold it in your left hand. If you wanted to manifest, and radiate more love, compassion, and kindness, or send these loving vibes out to others to attract love, then use your right.

Wearing Crystal Bracelets on the Left Hand (Receiving Hand)

The left side of your body is your receptive side, it represents your “yin” or feminine side, and where we attract and receive energies. It has everything to do with the subconscious, dreams, all things creative, personal growth, relationships, compassion, and nourishment.

It is on this side that you make positive “shifts” that best benefit you emotionally or soothe any internal issues and allow you to focus on your internal self. It is also the side where you absorb the energies from other people, and things around you, and helps to prevent any outside influences from negative sources.

Wear your crystal bracelet on your left hand if you :

• wish to receive, absorb and focus its positive healing energies into your aura, your chakras, and throughout your body

• want to resonate with the crystal’s energy

• wish to receive energy from others

• desire lucid dreaming or attunement

• to receive protective energy

You can also wear your bracelet on your left hand while you are asleep which is when you are more receptive. Ensure your crystal is cleansed and charged before wearing so that any energies absorbed already don’t affect your sleeping quality.

Healing crystals, in particular, as well as the energizing ones that bring healing and recovery, are best worn on the left hand as are those used for calming and relaxing the mind and healing your emotions.

Wearing Crystal Bracelets on Right Hand (Giving Hand)

The right side of your body is the masculine, “yang” side of us. It is the active, manifesting side and is about how you take action, and how you control the energy you put into your outside environment. It is for sending power outwards, how you share with and connect to those around you, in particular giving healing properties to others. It also incorporates our intentions. The right hand is therefore recognised as the ‘giving’ hand,

The right side is also the side for releasing internal energies out of you and is great for detoxing and purifying your energy, removing negative energies from within, and therefore helping to let go of what no longer serves you. Remember this is the hand where energy flows out from within your body.

As such, another important role of your right hand is to communicate and connect with people. When you want to project your energy, wear a boosting crystal like tigers eye stone or black onyx crystal bracelet on your right hand.

You should therefore wear your crystal bracelet on your right hand if you :

• want to release your inside energy

• control the energy you put into your external space.

• want to communicate and project yourself with the external world

• wish to give energy to others

• wish to protect yourself from receiving negative energy

• need to release toxins and negative energies

• want to manifest your intentions

Common crystals used on the left hand are:

• Amazonite - for calming, soothing anxiety, worries, and fear, bringing emotional healing. Encourages self-expression without fear of judgment.

• Amethyst - reduces emotional stress and calms anxiety. Absorbs the positive energy around you to calm and soothe, balance your emotions, and bring inner peace, harmony, and tranquility.

• Angelite - to absorb its calm and peaceful energies and to improve spirituality and awareness

• Aquamarine - helps with persuasive power, affinity, and self-confidence

• Black Obsidian - to get in touch with powerful grounding benefits.

• Black Tourmaline or Shungite - to receive protective energy and build an energetic shield around you.

• Blue Lace Agate - brings inner peace and relaxation

• Chrysocolla - brings confidence to stand in your own power, connect to your own truth

• Citrine to receive bright energy to bring you joy and happiness. It also attracts prosperity and success to your life.

• Clear Quartz - to increase clarity in all areas of your life and to see things more clearly, and past any negativity that might be affecting you.

• Fluorite - stabilise and cleanse the mind, body, and spirit. Promotes mental clarity and benefits concentration and memory

• Green Aventurine - to feel calmer, more optimistic, more confident and to bring mental clarity and promote your creative abilities. Also to attract good luck and fortune.

• Labradorite - removes anxiety and nightmares

• Lepidolite - a natural tranquiliser that soothes irritability and frustration. Stabilises mood swings and promotes deep emotional healing. Helps to cut out the chaos of overwhelm and anxiety

• Malachite - enhances spiritual awareness and personal growth

• Moonstone - calms emotions and brings positivity and inner peace. Also enhances imagination, sensitivity, and creativity.

• Red tigers eye - for self-confidence

• Rhodonite - to invite love and nurturing energy to heal your heart. Invite a fresh start, attract forgiveness, and compassionate and empathetic energies. Come to terms with your own gratitude, starting afresh and resetting.

• Rose quartz - welcomes the energy of unconditional love, and opens up the heart chakra to increase your self-confidence, heal your emotional wounds, and help you achieve an inner state of healing, warmth, and joy. It is also said to be helpful in reducing stress and anxiety.

• Selenite - brings energetic cleansing within

• Sunstone - helps you to receive what you desire to fulfill your needs.

• Sodalite - to benefit from its calming properties, to relieve stress, and reduce emotional strain.

• Golden Tigers Eye - brings strength and power

To bring in the energy of health, wear bracelets such as blue apatite and bloodstone.

For money, prosperity, wealth, success, and abundance, wear Malachite, Garnet, Tiger's Eye, Pyrite, Aventurine, Bloodstone, Citrine, Amethyst, and Clear Quartz

Common crystals used on the right hand are:

• Amazonite - release past trauma, let go of that which no longer serves you.

• Amethyst - provides a calming environment to you and to others.

• Angelite - to let go of feelings of fear, anxiety, and anger

• Black Obsidian - protects your loved ones from negative energies, and releases the absorbed negativity and old toxic patterns from your environment.

• Black Tourmaline - To purify your body or to let go of any negativity

• Chrysocolla - releasing self-limiting beliefs and negative emotions that can hold you back

• Clear Quartz - releases clutter or chaotic energy from your energy field.

• Citrine - to send out a strong feeling of happiness and positivity so you can manifest your desires and be aligned with all the things that you aspire.

• Sunstone aids in channeling, healing, and blessing others.

• Golden tiger’s eye - the stone of strength and confidence helps you project yourself during speech and influence your audience with your energy and intentions.

• Green Aventurine - diffuses the negative energies around you, to deliver powerful high vibrations to your outer state, and to be aligned with the frequencies of prosperity, promising new opportunities, and good fortune. The stone promotes happiness and success.

• Lepidolite - carry positivity, calmness, and inner strength no matter how far you step, release emotional and mental blocks

• Sodalite - supply your external environment with harmonizing, soothing, and uplifting vibrations

• Malachite - is known as a protection stone, it guards against all kinds of negativity

• Moonstone helps to express your personal charm, so it can help to attract love

• Rhodonite - helps to release past baggage, fear, shame, resentment, or regret. Manifest gratitude to others, encourage generosity and giving.

• Rose Quartz - transmits to your outer world the uplifting energies of love, kindness, and passion, so you raise your vibrations to attract love in all its forms and to help the people around feel their best.

• Selenite - used for clearing the energy of physical spaces, like your home and those around you

• Sodalite - used when being around negativity, and to negate any stressful energy in the surroundings. It can remove and clear negativity that may be in our vortex, and not only does it cleanse your aura but can remove bad feelings in your heart.

Wear Garnet, Carnelian, and Red Jasper on the right side to inspire you to take action and stay motivated.

Wear Black Onyx, Black Obsidian, Black Tourmaline, Shungite, Lapis Lazuli, Clear Quartz, Tiger’s Eye, Lava Stone on your right hand, if you want to remove or release negative and toxic energies

Can You Wear Multiple Bracelets?

If you want the best energetic benefit from your bracelets, try to find a balance between your left and right hands.. Try out different combinations on both sides until you find a combination that feels right and provides the benefits you desire.

There is no rule or guideline that limits the number of different crystals you should wear at any one time, however it is important to remember that not all crystals will work well with each other. It may be best to experiment and understand how each crystal affects you individually before combining with others, by wearing one at a time at first and see how the energy affects you. Gradually add to this and pay close attention to any shift in energy, mixing and matching to suit.

Crystals whose energies contradict each other probably aren’t best to wear together, eg carnelian which promotes energy would not be best to pair with one to aid sleep.

The Benefits of Mixed Bracelets

Bracelets holding say five different crystals are as effective as wearing five separate bracelets per crystal as they are directly next to your skin so the energies will flow into your arms. The advantage of this is that you don’t have to wear many bracelets that could weigh your arm down.

On the other hand, using single crystal bracelets allows you to target certain areas each day depending on what your needs are as you can choose which to wear or not wear at any one time.

It's really down to personal preference.

Balance the yin and yang energies

You can also work to balance the yin and yang energies. Do this by wearing your crystal bracelets on your left hand for a period to absorb, accumulate and become familiarized with the crystal's energy. After a while, cleanse the bracelet and wear it on your right hand to help you control and emit those energies. The balance of yin and yang is ideal and can be accomplished with the help of energy crystals

The best combinations of crystal bracelets will be unique to each individual, so just because something works best for us doesn’t mean it feels the best for you! Trust yourself, and most importantly, have fun with it!

It is important to note, that these are guidelines you can choose to follow, but no matter what feels right for you, you should always listen to them. Because that will ultimately be, the most accurate for you. Your intuition is never wrong!

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