4 top tips on how crystals can help Hongkongers stay positive and ‘chill out’
Duo from Australian crystal online retailer Stoned Crystals chat to STYLE while in the city to launch range of stones at Lane Crawford
The use of crystals in healing is a controversial form of alternative medicine.
Although many people discredit its effectiveness – arguing that there is no scientific evidence to support its use, and that it is simply woo-woo nonsense – many others believe in its use as a way of healing ailments and promoting positive energy in the body.
Ashley Bellino and her boyfriend and business partner Jeremy LeBard never regarded themselves as hippies and were never crystal enthusiasts in the past.
LeBard’s background in technology and start-ups means he has developed a keen eye for businesses with large potential.
The couple’s Stoned Crystals – an Australian online retailer selling crystals – is one of them.
We met Bellino and LeBard, co-founders of Stoned Crystals, when they were in Hong Kong to launch their line in Lane Crawford and they told us how crystals can work positively in our lives and which crystals they would recommend to busy Hongkongers.
“Crystals have a very stable atomic vibration due to their crystalline lattice structure, which is why they are used in watches to keep time, and in radios to conduct frequency,” Bellino says.
“We, on the other hand, are a very complex mix of vibrations that can easily be disturbed, become unbalanced, which makes us sick and unwell.