Experiencing a panic attack can be the most out of control you could ever feel. It’s a sudden, intense surge of fear that produces pronounced physical symptoms including:
- shaking
- feeling disorientated
- nausea
- rapid, irregular heartbeats
- dry mouth
- breathlessness
- sweating
- dizziness
These physical symptoms can last for minutes, hours, or days. It is a completely disempowering experience.
If you have had one, you can use crystals to help ease an attack and promote healing. We focus on 3 specific crystals with unique vibrational frequencies that can help bring harmony to energetic frequencies that are out of tune with your body.
Let’s look at hematite, malachite, and morganite. Each serves a different purpose in dealing with panic attacks.
Hematite
In the midst of a panic attack, it is crucial to become grounded and refocus on the present moment. This can be challenging during a panic attack. This is where hematite is handy to have nearby.
Hematite is an iron oxide compound that offers energetic properties to connect to the secure feelings of the earth’s energy field. Once grounded, you can feel the sense of calm that seems like shelter from the storm. You will feel safer and more able to center yourself and face the truth in peace.
During a panic attack, hold one hematite crystal in each hand. Focus your attention on the dense energy connecting to your base at the root of your being. Feel the weight of your body and the earth’s embrace. Notice where you are sitting, its texture, how it feels to you. Notice the temperature of your skin. Hear the sounds. And breathe in the scents that fill the air. Breathe deeply and become aware of your physical energy and the hematite energy that flows through you. This will help release the negative energy.
Malachite
During an uncomfortable panic attack, your first instinct is to seek escape from the discomfort. However, a panic attack is also a cue to seek out the true cause of the extreme anxiety. It’s more healthy to address the old wounds that tiggered the attack. Malachite can help with this. Malachite helps connect you to the energy of growth and amplifies the green energy of the heart chakra. It encourages you to step outside your comfort zone, while providing centering energy to seek the deeper truth behind the panic attack. Malachite can help promote the healing and transformation that is so necessary.
It encourages stepping outside our comfort zones, while offering centering energy to courageously witness the deeper truth behind the panic attack. With the help of malachite, we are able to begin to process the layers of ourselves that are in need of transformation and healing.
Malachite can help most once you have grounded yourself. You may want to seek assistance from a healer as you move into deeper work. Lie down and place a piece of malachite over your heart. Invite the malachite energy into your heart to help clear emotional blockages and give a sense of clarity. This enables you to address that which is weighing heavily on your heart in order to clear the blockage.
Morganite
Panic attacks feel like reasons to have a panic attack. They are intense and frightening. However, they also point to the need to address old scars and wounds in order to bring about a sense of calm and wholeness.
Morganite connects you to the flow of divine love. It helps disrupt negative patterns from old wounds. It helps you connect to compassion and grace in order to release those negative patterns. The stone helps smooth the rough edges of painful emotions and enables you to see them through a lens of love. This creates a safe space in which you can see deeply into the truth of the situation. You can learn from what needs to be seen and felt. Use morganite to connect to higher truth and wisdom.
Morganite crystals are useful when you choose to offer yourself compassion and grace when a panic attack begins. It offers the energy necessary to perceive the wisdom at the heart of the panic attack. Place the morganite crystal on a dish in front of you in a darkened room. Place a lit candle behind the dish to softly light the stone. Focus your attention on the crystal. Breathe deeply and let everything be released from your mind. Feel a soft warmth gather in your heart and third eye. Relax into that warmth and feel the expanding of your space beyond the panic attack.