I pick up rocks...I look for interesting ones where ever I am...I have found just plain sandstone rocks that call out to me...they feel right in my hand...they make me smile.

Anyone else have this kind of experience?

Hi Cowgirl, welcome to MB, sounds to me like you are starting out on your crystal journey. I bet it won't be long before you collect more and more and then want to understand the properties of each?

Thanks for the welcome.

Actually I have have had collections for years...I am a Reiki master so have and use Chakra stones as well as many other healing stones.

I just found that certain stones found in natural settings opposed to on store shelves bring me more happiness and peace...draw me faster. I'm sure it's because they have not been touched as much and have not picked up other peoples energy (one of the problems I often run into in stores )

You are talking about the harmonics of crystals. When a crystal is mined, sometimes using explosives, with poorly paid miners, in dreadful conditions, then the crystal is blasted with acids and uv light and cut, polished and so on some of the energy is changed. The crystal holds all that trauma inside, the vibration will be different to a natural quartz crystal that is harvested from a cave or found in a rockslide at the beach

I'm not sure that reiki and chakras stones automatically go together? Many reiki masters won't use crystals and don't believe in their uses? Others study and take Crystal Reiki exams

How do you know the difference...how they have been mined???

As for the Reiki and Crystals...they don't normally go together (LOL) but I have found that my attachment(wrong word...but I'm still drinking coffee...sorry) to Reiki energy is stronger when I use the chakra crystals.