Top Seven Crystals For Sleep
Got Insomnia? See List Of Healing Stones For Better Sleep

Written By Liz Oakes

If you have insomnia there are a number of crystals for sleep that are known to be beneficial to help you to have a more restful night. Read the list below, of the best crystals to help you to sleep well.

There are a number of healing stones that help sleep, and all of the crystals suggested below are quite safe stones to have in the bedroom, so this is another good reason to choose them.
ScoleciteScolecite Helps You To Sleep Better

Learn more about crystals that can help you to sleep better. If you are suffering from insomnia  adding crystals may be simply one more thing to try, but don't despair you may have found the answer.

Some of the healing crystals for you to utilize are known to help you if you have difficulty sleeping, as well as aiding you if you have trouble quieting your mind in meditation.

If you lie awake unable to settle because of those pesky thoughts going round and round in your head, it might be time to take a new approach to the issue. Checkout the list of crystals below.

All of the stones on the list are well known crystals to help these problems. So you may find a solution for both your insomnia and be able to meditate more easily.
What Is Insomnia? Solutions For A Restful Nights Sleep...

People who are not getting the amount of sleep that they require may state that they have insomnia, so lets look at... what is insomnia... as this term is sometimes misinterpreted. 

Lets start with the definition of insomnia:

    habitual sleeplessness 
    inability to sleep 

The word habitual relates to recurrent or frequent, and in many cases those who say they have insomnia may have had problems related to sleep for some time.

For some people its not insomnia, but an inability to get to sleep that happens often enough for it to be frustrating. Those people may also want to work out how to fall asleep more easily.

For others its going to sleep then waking up and being unable to get back to sleep, which is quite disturbing as its usually in the middle of the night.

Some of you may have issues with thoughts going round and round inside your head so your mind cannot settle for sleep. This is the same problem that a number of people find challenging when they sit down to meditate.

So if you find it hard to settle into a state of deep relaxation when meditating, as well as when you are trying to get to sleep, my crystals sleeping guide will help you.

Of course this is an individual thing to some degree, and please be aware that not everyone finds every healing stone on the following list to be helpful.
List Of Top Crystals For Sleep

This is the list of what I believe are the most effective crystals for helping you to have a restful nights sleep. 

All of the crystals on the following list have their own in-depth page so if they appeal to you, simply click on the link below the picture to learn more about them.
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Many of the crystals or stones on the list are fairly easy to obtain but a few are not as well known. These are included as they are good crystals for sleep with other excellent metaphysical properties.

List Of Top Seven Crystals For Sleep

    Scolecite
    Lepidolite
    Amethyst
    Howlite
    Stilbite
    Cookeite
    Unakite.

Scolecite

Scolecite is at the top of the list as it has such an excellent action to help your sleep. It has a deeply calming and soothing energy that is also very effective to help to relieve stress.

It is also a stone that encourages lucid dreaming, so if you wish to have lucid dreams it may also help you with this.

When I first heard about it I was surprised that it was one of the crystals for sleep, as it is one of the high vibration crystals. It resonates within the crown and third eye chakras.
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It is also a great meditation stone, and seems to work well in combination with any of the other crystals, so you may choose to use it with other sleep crystals to create a highly effective result.

My own sleep problem relates to waking up and being unable to get back to sleep so I have a piece of Scolecite within easy reach, so that I can hold it when I need it.

Sleep commonly comes quickly to me when I use this crystal. Remember: if you have a stone either under the pillow or nearby, do make sure you regularly cleanse it.

If you are using it and start to find it is no longer effective, take it out and cleanse it and perhaps give it a break to allow it to re-charge.
Lepidolite

Lepidolite has many powerful attributes that make it a wonderful stone to use, including helping you to sleep better.

If you are anxious, depressed or stressed and need help to feel more calm, this is my top choice of crystals to relieve stress.

This is also one of the crystals for sleep mentioned above that will help you to relax and attain deep meditation, helping you to switch off and get into deep meditation.
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It is helpful to use for meditation and also helps you to get to sleep more easily because of its action to help you to easily sink into the alpha state, where your brain waves slow.

Alpha brain waves are the relaxed state that you attain just before you sink into sleep, and are the brain waves associated with the beginning of stage one sleep.

This lovely stone will also assist you to attain the deeper theta brain waves, a highly relaxed state that is normally reached when you are deeply asleep. 

There are now a number of relaxation systems that assist you to reach theta state and it is also associated with a healing method called theta healing.

Doing meditation with crystals that take you to the theta state helps you to more easily reach the higher realms, and is a helpful method to use if you are working on your spiritual growth.

Lepidolite has so many powerful attributes that make it a wonderful stone to use for all sorts of reasons. It comes in a number of colors from deep purple, to lilac through to pink. All colors are very effective calming stones as they contain natural lithium.
Amethyst

Amethyst is one of the most common stones that are recommended to help you to sleep better. Amethyst Crystals are made from quartz, and quartz has strong amplification properties.

They may also be programmed as well, so you could program it to broadcast calming messages to you. These purple crystals embody the vibration of the violet flame.
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This is a powerful healing energy, so they are strong healing stones. They are crystals for sleep and are also excellent stones for psychic protection. So if they are in your bedroom they will also protect you while you are sleeping.

Please note that not everyone finds that it is comfortable sleeping with them. They can be too stimulating for some people, until you adapt to their energy.
Howlite

Howlite are crystals for sleep that have a calming and quite soothing energy that will assist you to more easily get to sleep.

They are said to be useful to calm angry people, and may be used by placing a piece under the pillow to allow its calming influence to affect the angry person while they are asleep.
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This is another sleep stone that is known to aid stress. It also has a good action to help you to relax fully so that you can attain a deep and relaxed meditation experience.

Their vibration may be beneficial for those in rocky relationships and they are known to aid communication and stabilize bad moods, and these white stones may also boost your patience.

They are recommended to help those in relationships related to domestic violence, where there may be a need to soothe a violent partner. They also have a good number of healing attributes, including helping to heal broken bones.
Stilbite

Stilbite has an energy that is useful for anyone who is having trouble sleeping due to mind chatter that just won't stop long enough for you to get to sleep.

Mind chatter is also one of the most common reasons why many people find it hard to meditate, as they can't stop those pesky thoughts from going round and round in their head.

You can therefore see why they are excellent healing crystals for you to use to assist you to calm your wayward thoughts and more easily get to sleep, and they may help to create clearer thinking.

These crystals not only help to stop the mind chatter but their vibration is also said to balance both hemispheres of the brain which can assist concentration.
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They have a lovely heart based energy that helps to heal grief or loss, and have other excellent attributes as well, including aiding decision making and enhancing creativity.

Regular meditation is also helpful to generally calm you emotionally, which may assist sleep. Their energy may help you to reach a state of deep meditation more easily.

During deep meditation you may travel to the higher realms and make contact with spirit guides. Their vibration also encourages you to make contact with spirit teachers, who may give you guidance on the next steps in life to take.
Cookeite

Cookeite also contains lithium and although it is an uncommon stone, it is included here as it has such a strong action to aid insomnia. It is a one of the more powerful crystals for sleep.

It helps to create a quite tranquil and relaxed sleeping space, and it may be advantageous to grid your sleeping space with pieces of this stone, or to place a piece on the bedside or under the pillow.
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Their energy is very calming and soothing which is helpful to aid you to reach the deep relaxed state needed for successful meditation. These stones are also well known as psychic protection crystals.

A strong protective barrier emanates from them, which prevents negative entities or thought forms from attacking you.

They are also strong healing stones that are known to help muscle pain and allergies and are beneficial crystals to assist problem solving.
Unakite

Unakite is also a helpful stone to relieve stress and has a lovely heart based energy that aids emotional healing.

They assist you to feel greater love for yourself, by helping to boost your self esteem and stimulating feelings of love and compassion.

They are helpful grounding stones and are beneficial to use in your daily meditation as they stimulate the third eye and may assist the birth of clairvoyant ability.
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They are good crystals for sleep that also help to release anger and other negative feelings that may be keeping you awake and that may also make you sick.

They have a number of other healing properties, including helping you to release addictions, and they are known to help convalescents to get better more quickly.

If you are having trouble sleeping it is possible that it could be related to EMF's especially if you have your wi-fi going while you are asleep or if your mobile phone is on, even if its in the other room.

There are a number of crystals for EMF protection you can use to help you, so check out the article on EMF protection crystals as it also has information about the symptoms of electrical sensitivity.
Why Would You Use Crystals For Sleep? How To Use Them...

As you can see there are quite a few stones that you can use to aid insomnia. There are a few common ways to use these crystals for sleep, and these are all known to be very effective methods to help you to sleep better.

The most well known way to use them, and a method that is spoken about quite often is to sleep with crystals under your pillow or alternatively on your bedside table.

This is the way that most people use them, as the closer they are the better. But note that you do need to remember to regularly cleanse the crystals that are under your pillow.

If you are not sure how to cleanse your crystals there is more information on this page about cleansing crystals.

Please remember to take them out every few weeks and cleanse them, or you may find that they are no longer effective, as they will absorb negativity while you sleep.

Another beneficial way that you could choose to use your sleep stones, is to use them to do a crystal meditation before you go to bed, as this will help to calm you.
Onyx - grounding, healing, and balancing stone

Note: Crystals cannot be an alternative for medical attention nor can they be a substitute.

Onyx is a stone with chemical formula SiO2 which means that it belongs to the quartz (rock crystal) family. Its hardness is therefore around 7.

Onyx is an excellent stone for releasing negative emotions such as sorrow and grief, and therefore brings good fortune and helps in recognizing personal strength. This black colored stone helps in relaxation, and in facing various challenges in life, especially if one suffers from a lack of life energy and exhaustion.

The color of onyx, apart from mostly being black, can be white, blue, gray or yellow. It always possesses a characteristic glow. The black specimens can be extremely shiny, with a sateen reflection. Some onyx specimens can be partly colored pink, violet or brown. Onyx stones often have bands of different coloration. Sardonyx is a variation of onyx where the bands are red or white instead of black. Notable occurences are in Brazil, Mexico, USA, South Africa, Madagascar and India.

Onyx is a cryptocrystalline form of quartz. The etymological origin of the word onyx is thought to come from the Asyrian word for ring, indicating any material which can be used for ring producing.

Onyx is often recommended to athletes as it increases strength, endurance, persevierance, and explosivity, especially if placed on the Solar plexus.

Red onyx is connected to the first chakra - Muladhara. White onyx represents a link between the first chakra - Muladhara and the seventh chakra - Sahasrara, balancing the total energy along the seven energy centers - the seven chakras.

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Onyx is good for opening the chakras: black and red onyx for Muladhara, green for Anahata, yellow onyx for the Solar plexus chakra, and blue onyx for the throat chakra - Visuddha.

Onyx has served as a bead making stone for centuries. It harmonizes the physical with the spiritual and helps alleviate fears and worries as well as during periods of strong overwhelming emotions. This mineral helps us in our efforts to be balanced and in maintaining positive outlook at our life and environment. Onyx increases concentration and devotion, relieves tension especially in marital life.

On the physical level in the crystal-healing, onyx helps in healing wounds, and during times of childbirth. It can be used in treating eye and ear problems, and in cellular regeneration. It strengthens the structural systems of the bones and teeth, hair, skin and nails. It boosts general endurance and self-control. This stone is very good in grounding, as well as in elimination and/or control of excess energy.

Onyx can be discharged under running water, twice a month. This stone can be charged together with rock crystal. Black onyx can be charged over night if left in a flower pot where it gains additional strength.
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Onyx is a chalcedony, consisting of fine inter-growths of silica minerals. When banded they are parallel to one another, as opposed to the more chaotic banding that often occurs in agates
It is translucent to opaque and occurs in a wide range of colours including, white, yellow, red, brown, green, and black. The most common colours of this stone are black and white.
ONYX COLOURS
BLACK
This stone heals grief that has gone on too long. It helps you with the knowledge that there is no death by enhancing your understanding of the wheel of birth, death and rebirth. Black onyx facilitates you knowing that separation is an illusion and reunion will come. Promotes psychic contact through seances, medium-ship, and messages from the dead. Black onyx aids past life and .between life regression work. Prevents and removes spirit possessions while it keeps you hidden from evil and protected by the Light. This stone eases loneliness, makes you feel loved and protected.

​BLUE
​This stone carries the energy of Isis. It opens, heals, clears and activates the third eye chakra, mental body and the mind grid. It helps in bringing in your higher self, heals soul fragments and helps with soul retrieval. It promotes ascension, removes obstructions to the mental body healing. Facilitates contact with spirit guides, angels and the Goddess. Blue onyx aids psychic communication with animals and contact with dolphins and whales. This stone quiets the mind.

GREEN
​Green onyx heals karma that it obstructing your life path, clears the path to growth and movement, promotes achievement. It manifests your spiritual growth on this plane, heals confusion or resistance to your life agreements. Facilitates you moving forward in you life. It provides emotional support. Helps painful knees.

WHITE
This stone stabilises you and  promotes steadfastness. It will help you be firm in your resolve not to move or change when it is a positive action. It will also break the pattern of resistance when change is required to move forward in your life. This is an ideal stone for men.
ONYX And physical health
Onyx amplifies your financial strength and ability to stay focused and to achieve financial goals. This is the perfect stone for entrepreneurs and helps the self employed gain confidence and endurance to stay in business. It promotes longevity in business.
Onyx can help lessen symptoms of headache and is used to help strengthen the eyes and optic nerves. Onyx stimulates the the base chakra, assisting you in grounding and connecting with the electromagnetic energy of the Earth. It is an excellent stone for use in scrying and magical work. It has been utilised as a magical stone for thousands of years, and is considered one of the best materials to use for the carving of magical amulets.
​Onyx assists in absorbing from the universe, energies that are required for healing or other purposes It balances the yin and yang energies in the body. Onyx is beneficial for teeth, bones, bone marrow and blood disorders.
This stone can be used to help stimulate the connection between the base chakra and the feet. This can help those suffering from weak legs or who have difficulty grounding, eliminating body wastes or excess energy.
	
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ONYX and your feelings
Onyx is a grounding stone that encourages you to feel safe in its presence. Place an onyx near your bed to stop nightmares or night terrors. Make it your intention that the stone will guard against any negative influences while you sleep peacefully. Onyx is beneficial for releasing any type of fear. Onyx recognises and integrates dualities in yourself. It anchors the flighty into a more stable way of life and generally imparts self control. Onyx is a mental tonic that alleviates overwhelming fears and worries. Onyx conveys the invaluable gift of wise decisions.
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ONYX and the mind
Onyx is a perfect stone for your desk or wherever you perform your work. This stone helps provide mental focus, grounding and the ability to stay on task. Use this stone to deflect negative thought patterns.
​Onyx is ideal for past life work to heal old injuries and physical trauma that is affecting your present life. Holding a piece of onyx takes your attention to the site of the previous injury, which can then be released through crystal therapy.
​Onyx is a secretive stone that assists in keeping your own counsel. However it is said that onyx holds onto the memories of things that have happened to the wearer. It can be used for psychometry, telling the story of those who are sensitive to its vibrations.
​Onyx is strength giving. It provides support in difficult or confusing circumstances an during times of enormous mental or physical stress. It centres your energy and aligns it with a higher power. Onyx helps you access higher guidance and its connection with the whole. It can take you forward to view the future and with its capacity to impart personal strength, helps you to be the master of your destiny. This stone promotes vigour steadfastness and stamina. Onyx helps you to learn lessons by imparting self confidence and helping you to be at ease in your surroundings.
	
ONYX and the SPIRIT
Onyx is beneficial to establish a protective shield when offering spiritual counselling, tarot card readings, channeling, automatic writing and any other modality that opens you up to psychic influences. Onyx amplifies telepathic connections with your own higher consciousness and helps you tap into the Akashic Records. Use it when you intend to obtain messages from the angelic realm to open your intuitive ears. 
Onyx can enhance spiritual vision and dream experiences. It is useful in stimulating the psychic senses and is often used for spiritual inspiration.
Heals grief that has gone on too long; promotes knowing that there is no death; helps in understanding the wheel of birth, death and rebirth; fosters knowing that separation is an illusion and reunion will come; promotes psychic contact with those who have died through seances, medium-ship, and messages from the dead; aids past-life progressions; prevents and removes spirit possessions; promotes the feeling of being hidden from evil and protected by the Light; promotes feeling of being watched over by the angels, feeling loved; eases loneliness; supports going on alone.
Onyx teaches you the appropriate use of power and the focusing of energy into positive force. It is excellent for those who are working to develop their telekinetic abilities.
Crystal Horoscope: Healing Gemstones for Capricorn Season
Crystals of the Zodiac for Capricorn Season
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In our monthly Crystal Horoscope column, spiritually savvy Gemini Chartreuse Tembo Barriere—who is the founder and headMIZtress of The Venus Academy —selects the most powerful stones for the solar season. She teaches us how to use crystals in meditation to stay aligned with the energy of both the heavens and the Earth. 
Tap into the driven and structured energy of Capricorn. By working with the healing powers of crystals and precious gemstones, you will harness your most heartfelt ambitions and put a plan in place to accomplish your goals.

The Capricorn Resonance:
On the zodiac wheel progression, Capricorn season is the manifestation of thoughts into tangible form. Following the high-minded philosophical energy of Sagittarius season, Capricorn energy is the sojourn to the mountaintop—as we take our theories and put them into structure and practice.

Cardinal signs are initiators. Cardinal earth sign Capricorn begins at the winter solstice, and accompanies us through the Gregorian calendar’s next year, until January 20. Earth signs deal with matter and form, so it’s fitting that many people declare their New Year’s resolutions at this time. Physiologically, Capricorn pertains to the knees, skin, and skeletal system—the parts that hold us up to give us inner strength and protection.

When it comes to crystals and the zodiac, our human lives undergo very similar processes as rocks and minerals and the zodiac archetypes. It’s like a geological-spiritual take on the expression: as above, so below.

Just as new habits take about a month to become ingrained, working with a crystal for several weeks helps your body to integrate the new vibration in conjunction with the stone. Working with the 28-day moon cycles is ideal, especially for women. Or you could start working with a new stone at the beginning of the month, or the start of a zodiac season—or of course, whenever it feels intuitively right.

Healing Crystals for Capricorn Season (December 21-January 20)

Crystals form when liquid magma from the earth’s core moves toward the surface, cools down to solidify, then crystallizes over millions of years.

Onyx and Galena are the two crystals I recommend for Capricorn season, for those with strong Capricorn or Saturn in their natal charts and for those who want to tap into their Capricorn energy any time of year.
Properties of Healing Crystals

Onyx:
Black onyx is a stone of the quartz family. It is of the trigonal crystal system, and of the primary mineral formation category.
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Onyx

Primary minerals in particular are about the personal process of self-discovery. Onyx helps us to pursue our goals with steadfast determination, and this resonates directly with the Capricorn energy of the Sea Goat ascending to the mountaintop. Onyx emotionally fortifies self-confidence and builds up a sense of personal duty.

Capricorn is all about responsibility for the community at large, and pertains to our public platforms, our careers—and how we show up and out in the world. Onyx is great for business people and professionals, as it encourages egotism of the healthy kind, and the ability to handle disputes and challenges with calm perseverance.

To work with black onyx, wear it directly on your skin for long periods of time, as its effect unfolds gradually. You can wear it in a bracelet form or as a ring or pendant. In meditation, placing two pieces of onyx on your knees while in lotus position is also highly effective, as the Capricorn-resonant stone can bring energetic strengthening to this body part.

Galena:
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Galena

Galena is a silver-colored, mystical mineral that reflects light like a mirror. This stone resonates with the more enchanted aspect of Capricorn, the sign represented by the mythical Sea Goat—a horned creature that has the tail of a fish (or mermaid, if you prefer). Success IS indeed part of Capricorn’s magic, but this sign gets a bad rap for being purely status-driven. In fact, Capricorn energy is supremely creative. Think about it: Before a goal can be achieved, it has to be visualized. The goal-setter must hold fast to that dream for the long-haul, even when tangible results have yet to emerge. (It’s no surprise that a Capricorn—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.—inspired the world to action with his “I Have A Dream Speech.” )  Galena guides the light to us that contains all possibilities, and it supports and enhances what is waiting to make manifest. 

Capricorn’s cardinal earth energy is very solid and grounded. Working with this reflective silver grey mineral helps to cultivate strength and courage. For those who spend long hours in front of a computer, keeping a piece of Galena nearby can help to absorb and counter the detrimental effects of electromagnetic radiation via Wi-Fi and the general technological nature of our world. Galena is also said to counter addiction, radiation and infection. 
Metaphysical Properties

Onyx:
Black Onyx is the stone of mastering your future—a strong theme for this goal-obsessed sign. Onyx brings the proper grounding to balance flightiness or anxiety. It is wonderful for mental and emotional stress.

When someone with strong Capricorn energy becomes impatient, it can be especially detrimental. This is the sign that builds over time and sticks around for the long haul. It is said that Capricorns age in reverse, meaning that the older they get, the more youthful and free they become. Onyx is great for Capricorn Season because it restores realistic vision (i.e. Rome wasn’t built in a day!) and helps improve our control over our own actions.