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Ollie never leaves the house without her crystals. The 28-year-old from Orange carries a chunk of rose quartz and a little slab of black onyx with her everywhere, both gifts from her mother when she first left home. “They are known to activate the heart chakra,” she explains, “healing emotional wounds, removing fears and generating self-love and love for others.” That’s the rose quartz. The black onyx is to ward off negative energy. Pendants of lapis lazuli and moonstone hang around her neck and a smoky quartz ring, a gift from her partner, is wrapped around her right ring-finger. “I immediately picked out the ring when I saw it,” Ollie says. “It was calming and special to me.”
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She’s far from alone in immersing herself in crystals – in fact, they’ve never been cooler. Adele swears by them to combat stage fright; Jenna Dewan handed them out as party favours at her 2009 wedding to Channing Tatum. Gwyneth Paltrow, the doyenne of translating all things woo-woo into common parlance, sells a bag of eight through her lifestyle platform, Goop, for $125. Miranda Kerr might be
