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Gemstones and crystals have been used in the art of healing for centuries.
Evidence of gemstones and crystals being used to heal can
be found from the most ancient civilizations and dates
as far back as the fourth millenium before Christ. Gemstones
and crystals are also considered to have protective and
talismanic properties to keep away negative energies. Native
American Shamans and Medicine Men frequently used the power
of crystals in ceremonies and rituals.
The
following contains crystals, gems and minerals various
healing properties and their relation to the Chakras:
AGATE:
A variety of chalcedony. Tones and strengthens body and
mind. Imparts a sense of strength and courage. Facilitates
ability to discern truth and accept circumstances. Grounding,
but energetic. Powerful healer. Works with chakras and attitudes
according to color of stone.
ALEXANDRITE: A variety of chrysoberyl.
Aids internal and external regeneration. Has positive influence
on nervous system, spleen, pancreas. Helps to align mental
and emotional body. Spiritual transformation and regeneration.
Reflects highest potentials. Joy, oneness with life. Chakra:
Crown.
AMAZONITE: A variety of feldspar. Soothes
nervous system. Strengthens heart and physical body. Aid
alignment of mental and etheric body. Brings joy and upliftment.
Creative expression. Facilitates clearer vision of one's
own harmful tendencies, making them easier to release. Chakra:
Throat.
AMBER: Fossilized resin from prehistoric
pine trees. Exerts positive influence on endocrine system,
spleen, heart. Healing, soothing, harmonizing. Electrically
alive with solidified golden light. Stabalizes kundalini
awakening. Activates altruistic nature. Spiritualizes the
intellect. Chakras: Navel, Solar Plexus, Crown.
AMETHYST: A variety of quartz. Strengthens
endocrine and immune systems. Enhances right brain activity
and pineal and pituitary glands. Power blood cleanser and
energizer. Helps mental disorders. Purification and regeneration
on all levels of consciousness, Transmutes one's lower nature
into the more highly refined aspects of their higher potentials.
Physical representative of the Violet Ray of alchemy and
transformation. Cuts through illusion. Enhances psychic
abilities. Excellent for meditation. Aids channeling abilities.
Calming, strong protective qualities. Healing, divine love,
inspiration, intuition. Chakras: Third Eye, Crown.
AQUAMARINE: A variety of beryl. Calms nerves,
reduces fluid retention. Strengthens kidneys, liver, spleen,
thyroid. Purifies body. Enhances clarity of mind, aids creative
self-expression. Physical/Emotional/Mental balancer. Helps
banish fears and phobias. Excellent for meditation. Inspiration,
peace, calmness, love. Chakras: Throat, Solar Plexus.
AVENTURINE (Green): A variety of quartz.
Purifies mental, emotional, and etheric bodies. Aids in
releasing anxiety and fear. Stimulates muscle tissue. Strengthens
blood. Emotional tranquility, positive attitudes towards
life. Brings one into alignment with their center. Independence,
health and well-being. Chakra: Heart.
AZURITE: Enhances flow of energy through
nervous system (because of copper content). Helps body utilize
oxygen. Strengthens blood. Facilitates clear meditation.
Cuts through illusion. Enhances psychic abilities. Initiates
transformation. Cleanses mental body. Inspiration, creativity,
intuition. Chakras: Third Eye, Throat.
BLOODSTONE: A variety of chalcedony. Strengthens
and oxygenates bloodstream. Enhances physical/mental vitality.
Strengthens heart, spleen, bone marrow. Aids in balancing
iron deficiencies. Reduces emotional/mental stress. Powerful
psychic healer. Stimulates movement of kundalini. Links
root chakra with heart. Inner guidance, altruism, idealism.
A highly evolved mineral. Chakras: Root, Heart.
CALCITE: Aids kidneys, pancreas, spleen.
Balances male/female polarities. Alleviates fear, reduces
stress. Emotional balancing. Grounds excess energy. Increases
capacity for astral projection. Joy, lightness. Works with
chakras and attitudes according to color of stone.
CARNELIAN: A variety of chalcedony. Very
highly evolved mineral healer. Energizes blood. Aids kidneys,
lungs, liver, gallbladder, pancreas. Aids tissue regeneration.
Vitalizes physical/emotional/mental bodies. Aligns physical
and etheric bodies. Enhances attunement with inner self.
Facilitates concentration. Opens heat. Warming, social,
joyous. Chakras: Navel, Solar Plexus, Heart.
CELESTITE:
Enhances thyroid functions. Reduces stress. Relaxing, peace
of mind. Accelerates growth. Aids personal creative expression.
Helps one adjust to higher, more rarefied states of awareness.
Truth, reliability. Clear speech. Chakra: Throat.
CHRYSOCOLLA: Aids in preventing ulcers,
digestive problems, arthritic conditions. Strengthens lungs
and thyroid gland. Enhances metabolism. Excellent for female
disorders. Alleviates fears, guilt, tension. Helps clear
subconscious imbalances. Activates feminine qualities. Amplifies
throat chakra - creative expression, power, communication.
joy, emotional balance. Chakras: Heart, Throat.
CHRYSOPRASE: A variety of quartz. Balances
neurotic patterns. Eases depression and sexual imbalance.
Fertility. Calming, balancing, healing for physical/emotional/mental
bodies. Helps one see clearly into personal problems. Brings
out inner talents. Lightheartedness, joy. Chakra: Heart.
CITRINE: A variety of quartz. Good for
kidneys, colon, liver, gallbladder, digestive organs, heart.
Tissue regeneration. Detoxifies physical/emotional/mental
bodies. Enhances body's healing energy. Diminishes self-destructive
tendencies. Raises self-esteem. Powerful alignment with
High Self. Lightheartedness, cheerfulness, hope. Warming,
energizing. Attracts abundance. Chakras: Navel, Crown.
COPPER: Influences flow of blood. Supplies
strong energy to body/mind. Aids metabolism. Helps detoxify
body. An aid for exhaustion and sexual imbalance. Aligns
physical/emotional bodies. Raises self-esteem. Strong conductor
of energy.
DIAMOND: Enhances brain functions. Aids
alignment of cranial bones. Breaks up blockages in crown
chakra and in the personality. Master healer. Dispels negativity.
Purifies physical/etheric bodies. Reflects will and pwer
aspects of God. Enhances full spectrum of energies in body/mind/spirit.
Alignment with High Self. Abundance, innocence, purity,
faithfulness. Chakras: All.
EMERALD: A variety of beryl. Strengthens
heart, liver, kidneys, immune system, nervous system. Tonic
for body/mind/spirit. Aids alignment of subtle bodies. Enhances
dreams, meditation, deeper spiritual insight. Represents
the potential of divinity within us. Prosperity, love, kindness,
tranquility, balance, healing, patience. Strong emotional
balancer. Chakras: Heart, Solar Plexus.
FLUORITE: Strengthens teeth and bones.
Improves absorption of vital nutrients. Beneficial for blood
vessels and spleen. Grounds excess energy. Excellent for
advancement of mind, greater concentration, meditation.
Helps one grasp higher, more abstract concepts. Facilitates
interdimensional communication. Powerful healer. Works with
chakras and attitudes according to color of stone.
GARNET: (Red) Strengthens, purifies, vitalizes and regenerates
bodily systems, especially the bloodstroom. Has strong affinity
with root chakra, helping to harmonize the potent forces
of the kundalini. Stimulates pituitary gland. Aligns subtle
bodies. Love, compassion. Enhances imagination. Chakras:
Root, Heart.
GOLD: Purifies and energizes physical body. Improves circulation,
strengthens nervous system. Balances and develops heart
chakra. Balances hemispheres of the brain. Aids tissue regeneration.
Attracts positive energy into aura. Amplifies thought forms.
Aids personal illumination. Solar energy, male aspect. Chakras:
Navel, Heart, Crown.
HEMATITE: Has positive effect upon bloodstream.
Activates spleen. Increases resistance to stress. Helps
circulate oxygen throughout the body. Strengthens physical
and etheric bodies. Energizing, vitalizing. Enhances personal
magnetism, optimism, will, courage. Grounding. Powerful
stone for those attracted to it.
HERKIMER DIAMOND: A type of quartz crystal.
Cleanses subtle bodies. Reduces stress. Balances and purifies
energy within body and mind. Similar qualities as clear
quartz. Powerful amplifier. Enhances inner vision. Increases
awareness of dreams - "dream crystal." Stores
thought forms and information. Chakras: All.
JADE: Strengthens heart, kidneys, immune
system. Helps cleanse blood. Increases longevity and fertility.
Aids eye disorders and female problems. Power emotional
balancer. Radiates divine, unconditional love. Clarity,
modesty, courage, justice, wisdom. Peaceful and nurturing.
Dispels negativity. Healing affinity will correspond to
particular color of stone.
JASPER (All Colors): A variety of chalcedony.
Strengthens liver, gallbladder, bladder. Powerful healer;
main impact on physical body. Represents earth element.
Works with chakras and attitudes according to color.
KUNZITE (Pink): High lithium content makes
Kunzite beneficial to individuals with addictive behavior.
Strengthens cardiovascular system. Aids manic depression.
Excellent balancer for physical/emotional/mental bodies.
Powerful stone for opening/healing heart. Helps one surrender
to Higher Self. Enhances self-esteem. Tolerance, acceptance.
Soothing, calming. Chakra: Heart.
KYANITE: Strengthens throat chakra. Enhances
creative expression, communication, truth, loyalty, reliability,
serenity. Connection to casual plane. Facilitates astral
travel. Chakras: Throat, Third Eye.
LAPIS LAZULI: Strengthens skeletal system.
Activates thyroid gland. Releases tension and anxiety. Energizes
throat chakra. Augments strength, vitality, virility. Facilitates
opening of chakras. Mental clarity, illumination. Enhances
psychic abilities and communication with Higher Self and
Spirit Guides. Creative expression. Chakras: Third Eye,
Throat.
LEPIDOLITE: Aids muscles, strengthens heart,
beneficially influences blood. High lithium content aids
emotional/mental balance and stability. Aids sleep. Enhances
expression of one's inner light and joy. Chakra: Heart.
MALACHITE: Aids functions of pancreas and
spleen. Reduces stress and tension. Aids tissue regeneration.
Strengthens heart, circulatory system, pineal and pituitary
glands. Aids sleep. Vitalizing for body/mind. Reveals subconscious
blocks. Excellent balancer on all levels. Chakras: Heart,
Solar Plexus.
METEORITE: Helps reveal past lives from
other planets and galaxies, Enhances connection with extraterrestrial
energies. Expands awareness. Similar to obsidian, but denser.
Chakra: Root.
MOLDAVITE: A deep green, silica based tektite
(meteorite) that fell to Earth about 15 million years ago.
Aids alignment with Higher Self. Balancing and healing for
physical body/mind. Aids in channeling extraterrestrial
and inter-dimensional sources. Chakras: Heart, Third Eye.
MOONSTONE: Has healing affinity with stomach,
spleen, pancreas, pituitary gland. Unblocks lymphatic system.
Relieves anxiety and stress. Aids birthing process, helps
female problems. Emotional balancer; helps lessen tendency
to over react emotionally. Flexibility in attitudes. Aligns
emotions with High Self. Chakra: Heart.
OBSIDIAN: Beneficially influences stomach
and intestines. Connects mind and emotions. Slightly masculine
energy. Grounds spiritual energy into physical plane. Absorbs
and disperses negativity. Reduces stress. Helps clear subconscious
blocks. Brings and understanding of silence and detachment,
but with wisdom and love. Powerful healer for those attuned
with it. Chakra: Root.
ONYX: A variety of chalcedony. Relieves
stress. Balances male/female polarities. Strengthens bone
marrow. Aids detachment. Enhances emotional balance and
self control. Higher inspiration. Works with chakras and
attitudes according to color of stone.
OPAL: Stimulates pineal and pituitary glands.
Aids eyesight. Emotional balancer. Enhances intuition. The
full spectrum of colors resonates with all chakras. Helps
conscious connection with highest aspects of being. Chakras:
Heart and others, depending on color.
PERIDOT (Olivine): Balances glandular system.
Aids tissue regeneration. Has beneficial influence on heart,
pancreas, spleen, liver, adrenals. Purifies body. Enhances
bloodstream. Overall balancer and tonic for body/mind. Aligns
subtle bodies. Increases intuitive awareness. Reduces stress.
Stimulates mind. Accelerates personal growth, opens new
doors of opportunity. Chakras: Navel, Solar Plexus, Heart.
PYRITE: Aids digestion, improves circulation.
Strengthens and oxygenates blood. Enhances brain functions.
Influences a more positive outlook on life. Enhances emotional
body, strengthens will. Helps one's ability to work with
others harmoniously. Practicality. Chakras: Root, Solar
Plexus, Heart.
QUARTZ CRYSTAL (Clear): Enhances the crystalline
properties of the blood, body and mind. Activates and enhances
pineal and pituitary glands. Emotional balancer. Stimulates
brain functions. Amplifies thought forms. Full spectrum
energy activates all levels of consciousness. Dispels negativity
in one's energy fields and in environment. Receives, activates,
stores, transmits and amplifies energy. Excellent for meditation.
Enhances inter-dimensional communication and communication
with Higher Self and Spirit Guides. Chakras: All.
RHODOCHROSITE: Aids spleen, kidneys, heart,
pituitary gland and circulation of blood. Enhances memory
and intellectual power. Emotional balancer. Helps heal emotional
wounds and traumas. Aligns subtle bodies. Red/pink color
helps to blend courage/will/passion aspects of lower chakras
with loving expression of the heart. Divine love, acceptance
of self and life. Powerful healer for those attuned to this
stone. Chakras: Root, Heart.
RHODONITE: Aids central nervous system,
thyroid gland, body reflexes, pituitary gland, pancreas.
Strengthens immunity,. Improves memory. Eases physical/emotional
trauma. Reduces stress, calms mind. Aligns root and heart
chakras for bringing love into action and manifestation
(red and black variety). Self esteem, confidence. Enhances
energy levels in body/mind. Pink variety (without black)
helps impart understanding of strength within vulnerability.
Great stone for light workers serving in cities. Chakras:
Root, Heart.
ROSE QUARTZ: Aids kidneys and circulatory
system. Increases fertility. Eases sexual/emotional imbalances.
Helps clear stored anger, resentment, guilt, fear, jealousy.
Reduces stress and tension, cools hot temper. Enhances self
confidence and creativity. Aids development of forgiveness,
compassion, love. "Love stone." Chakra: Heart.
RUBY: Aids regeneration of physical/spiritual
heart. Enhances ciculation. Vitalizes blood and entire body/mind
system. Strengthens immunity. Activates sluggish or dormant
conditions on physical/spiritual levels. Refines lower passions.
Courage, integrity, selfless service, joy, spiritual devotion,
power, leadership. Helps banish sense of limitation. Chakras:
Root, Heart.
RUTILATED QUARTZ: Regeneration of tissue
throughout body. Enhances life force. Strengthens immune
system. Stimulates brain functions. Eases depression, facilitates
inspiration. Increases clairvoyance. Highly electrical,
more intensity that clear quartz. Pierces through layers
of physical/emotional/mental density. Transmutes negativity.
Enhances communication with Higher Self and Spirit Guides.
Very powerful healer. Chakras: All.
SAPPHIRE: Strengthens heart and kidneys.
Activates pituitary gland, thereby aiding entire glandular
system. Aligns body/mind/spirit. Stimulates psychic abilities,
clarity and inspiration. Creative expression, loyalty, love.
Aids connection with Higher Self and Guides. Strengthens
will. Expands awareness. Dispells confusion. Excellent for
meditation. Chakras: Throat, Third Eye.
SELENITE (Gypsum): Strengthens bones, teeth.
Soothes nerves. Has positive effect on brain, aiding power
of concentration and clarity. Enhances willpower. Grounded
white light. Chakra: Crown.
SILVER: Enhances mental functions. Aids
circulation. Strengthens blood, physically and etherically.
Strengthens pineal and pituitary glands. Relieves stress.
Relates to the moon, subconscious, female aspect. Emotional
balance. Speech improvement. Excellent energy conductor.
SMOKY QUARTZ: Strengthens adrenals, kidneys,
pancreas. Increases fertility, balances sexual energy. Aids
depression. Mildly sedative and relaxing. Initiates movement
of kundalini. Dissipates subconscious blocks and negativity
on all levels. Grounding, centering. Excellent for meditation.
Enhances dream awareness and channeling abilities. Chakras:
Root, Navel, Solar Plexus.
SODALITE: Aids pancreas, balances endocrine
system, strengthens metabolism and lymphatic system. Balances
male/female polarities. Alleviates fear. Calms and clears
the mind. Slightly sedative, grounding. Cuts through density
and illusion, bringing clarity and truth. Enhances communication,
creative expression. Similar qualities as lapis lazuli.
Chakras: Throat, Third Eye.
SUGILITE (Royal Azel): Enhances functions of pineal,
pituitary and adrenal glands. Activates and balances brain
hemispheres. Strengthens heart. Airds physical healing and
purification of bodily systems. Emotional balancer, reduces
sress. Brings higher spiritual awareness into physical reality.
Enhances sensitivity. Strong protective qualities. Excellent
for meditation. Enhances channeling abilities. Chakras:
Third Eye, Crown.
TIGER EYE: Variety of chalcedony (quartz).
Beneficial for spleen, pancreas, digestive organs, colon.
Emotional balancer. Enhances connection with personal power
and will. Grounding, centering. Helps soften stubbornness.
Enhances clear perception and insight. Slightly masculine
energy. Chakras: Navel, Solar Plexus.
TOPAZ: (Gold) Tissue regeneration. Strengthens
liver, gallbladder, spleen, digestive organs, nervous system.
Detoxifies body. Warming, awakening, inspiring. Abundance.
Chakras: Navel, Crown. (Blue) Tissue regeneration. Strengthens
thyroid gland, enhances metabolism. Emotional balance. Cooling,
soothing, peace, tranquility. Creativity, self expression.
Enhances psychic perception, communication with Higher Self/Spirit
Guides. Chakras: Heart, Throat, Third Eye.
TOURMALINATED QUARTZ: Clear quartz with black tourmaline
crystals inside. Balances male/female polarities. Aids in
balancing extremes. GRounding, very protective, dissipates
negativity. Combines forces of clear quartz and black tourmaline.
Chakras: Root, Crown.
TOURMALINE (All colors): Aids balance of
endocrine system. Aids sleep. Strengthens, vitalizes body/mind.
Activates and enhances crystalline properties of body/mind.
Aligns subtle bodies. Dispels fear and negative conditions.
Strong protective influence. Concentration, inspiration.
Enhances sensitivity and understanding. Powerful healer,
highly electromagnetic. The various color will activate
and align corresponding chakras. (Black Tourmaline/Schorl)
Root chakra. (Watermelon Tourmaline/red/green) Root, Heart
chakras. (Green Tourmaline) Heart chakra. (Blue Tourmaline/Indicolite)
Throat, Third Eye chakras. (Red/Pink Tourmaline/Rubellite)
Root, Heart chakras.
TURQUOISE: Tones, strengthens entire body.
Tissue regeneration. Aids circulation, lungs, respiratory
system. Vitalizes blood, nervous system. Aligns chakras.
Enhances meditation. Creative expression, peace of mind,
emotional balance, communication, friendship, loyalty. Chakras:
Throat.
VARISCITE: Soothing, calming, blanceing
for body/mind. Aids blood, heart. Emotional stability. Helps
one recall past lives. Self confidence. Abundance. Chakras:
Heart, Solar Plexus.
ZIRCON (Hyacinth): Strengthens the mind. Aids bowel
problems. Balances pituitary and pineal glands. Aligns subtle
bodies. Emotional balance, self esteem. Aids sleep. Similar
properties as diamond and quartz crystal. All around healer.
Chakras: All. |
