are crystals better......
 

in their 'raw' form or tumbled, does tumbling them damage their 'energies'

Not in my opinion. It depends on the particular stone, but i have several tumbled and raw stones, where ive found that the tumbled have more potent energies than the raw form.

I think that as long as you clense and programme your stone when you buy it.. the energies are fine :)

There are some that will tell you until they are blue in the face that tumbling and polishing will damage the internal meridians of a stone but I've never felt so. Some stones come into their own when polished (like blue apatite) and I've never seen a discernable difference between the many forms.

Programming is a personal thing, I sometimes don't do it but agreed about the cleansing side, a clean stone is a happy stone! :D

Kind blessings,
Whisp

i suppose it depends on what you believe really then ie if you think tumbling damages then it will, thanksx

Considering how most crystals are mined with either dynamite or pick axes, a little roughing up with some sand paper really isn't going to make a lot of difference!

lol great point

rofol, definately! :D

lol that makes sense.

yeh.. i tend to programme the ones i have if i want to use them for specific purposes, but otherwise, i just clense :D

Ditto! Thats exactly how I work :smile: