I thought it would be fun to talk about my first time really getting into crystals. if you're just starting to get into crystals, it's such an amazing feeling and a little unexplainable. honestly to like just freely talk about this with like friends and family, you might feel like you're going through this alone, which is it doesn't have to be a bad thing that you're going through alone, but it's just a time of growth, and I'm really excited to kind of talk about my first time getting into the crystal energy, maybe this can help you.
So my journey with crystals really started in january 2017. I was driving to work, I was on my work commute in malibu, and all of a sudden, I had just like this thought pop into my head out of nowhere, and I was driving and thinking, there are so many written texts and books about crystals, and what each crystal does you know metaphysically, and I was like that is so interesting to me, that there's so much knowledge out there, it has to be there, has to be some truth in it, and that's really what sparked my interest, and since like that day like a month or two went by.
I kept talking about it with my boyfriend. luckily he had an open mind, he wasn't like shutting me down, he was interested as well, and that valentine's day he actually gifted me you know my first crystals ever. And I read a lot post about finding crystal shops near me, and I was so excited to get some crystals, and like try them out on my own. so what i kind of learned early on from the beginning of me getting into crystals was that it's really the most important thing is like the energy, and the belief that you put out into your crystals, you're gonna see that transform and the energies are going to admit.
It back to you, you're going to see how that crystal energy affects different areas of your life. for example when I was you know trying to manifest more money, or I was trying to get more work opportunities, you know I was trying to look for more willpower in my diet, and exercise. I wanted more mental clarity, I wanted to be able to remember my dreams more. I wanted to connect more with angels and spirits.
I wanted to really just manifest my desires and enhance my spirituality, and I did all of that with crystals, how did I do that with crystals, I did the research, I read books, I read crystal books, I watched countless videos online, just like this on youtube, and I did a lot of online research. one thing I did notice when I was doing my online research when you're not looking in a book or something that's published, when you're looking online, I think it's really good to just cross reference those online sources.
Because I noticed a lot, when I was first starting out with crystals, it seemed like every crystal I'd look up it would almost say like the same thing, like for example calming energy or positive like promotes positivity like I saw that so much, and it was kind of up to me, to differentiate and really you know cross-reference all those different sources, kind of like when you're writing an essay or something, you want to have a bunch of different sources, so I could kind of make up my own definition, and kind of understand hone in on what that crystal really was meant for. I hope this makes sense.