I am going to describe the best healing crystal you buy first. This is my personal opinion.
What a lovely question! I think foremost is to make sure they are accurately and sustainably harvested, if you will, from the Earth to the degree that you can oversee that.
I start with quartz crystals. I got some master level crystal that sometimes I take for sleep. One of those steps crystal helps me to take further necessary steps in my life.
After that, I bought amethyst and then rose quartz, Shaman stones which are not technically “crystals,” but I went to rock, and gem shows and talked with the people selling them, asked questions, things like that.
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