Crystal Healing Properties
There are numerous crystals around but for the purpose of keeping it simple we
are going to focus on the most commonly used crystals in healing. Crystals heal
on all 4 levels: Physical, Mental, Emotional and Spiritual. Crystals can be
chosen for the stones specific healing property of a physical illness, disease
or disorder or they can be chosen for their healing properties on a Mental,
Emotional or Spiritual level. In addition crystals can be selected purely on the
basis of their colour. Colour Therapy and Colour Healing is very effective and
Crystals can also be used in this way.
The Main Crystals used in Crystal Healing
Agate - Agate is good
protective energy stone, especially for children, and is very
calming and soothing. It also can help strengthen the body's
connection to the earth. It can give courage, energy, strength, and
dispels fears, all of which increase self-confidence. It can also
lessen feelings of envy by grounding the emotions. It is a stone of
harmony, and by bringing the elements of one's being into harmony it
greatly enhances healing. Agate also enhances creativity and
stimulates the intellect. Agate is considered a stone that brings
good luck. It works with chakras according to stone colour. Agate is
said to help with issues of the teeth and gums.
Amazonite - Amazonite is a mint
green to aqua green stone of truth, honour, communication, integrity
and trust. It is said to enhance intuition, psychic powers,
creativity, intellect, and psychic ability. Amazonite is often
associated with the throat chakra, and as such, can be beneficial to
communication. It aligns the physical and astral bodies. It can
lessen stress and self-defeating behaviours by calming and building
self-esteem. Amazonite can assist with peacefully making the
transition out of this life. Amazonite is said to heal emotional
disturbances and the after effects of emotional trauma. It is
reputed to have spiritual energy healing powers of preventive energy
that's good for one's health in general, decreasing heart problems,
benefiting the muscles, helping the nervous system, lessening tooth
decay and osteoporosis.
Amethyst - Amethyst has long
been called the "sobriety stone." In ancient Rome, crushed amethyst
was added to wine cups to prevent drunkenness. It is said to assist
with healing alcoholism, compulsive behaviours, and addictions of all
kinds. Amethyst brings energies of stability, peace, calm, balance,
courage and inner strength. It has been used to protect against
psychic attacks. On the spiritual level, amethyst can help open to
communication with angels, telepathy and other psychic abilities. It
is an excellent stone for meditation or dream work, past life work,
and can help you see your path. It has also been used to help ease
the pain of grief, and promote happiness. Amethyst is reputed to be
beneficial when dealing with legal problems, and money issues, which
can lead to prosperity and abundance. Amethyst is also used as
protection for travellers. Physically amethyst is said by spiritual
healers and mystical lore to heal the withdrawal symptoms of any
sort of addiction, help with headaches, insomnia, arthritis, pain
relief, circulatory system issues, endocrine system problems,
chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, immune system deficiencies, and
general healing. Amethyst is associated with the brow and the crown
chakras.
Aventurine - Aventurine is said
to benefit one in all areas of creativity, and imagination, as well
as intellect and mental clarity. Lore says that it enhances
prosperity and brings career success. It is a gentle stone
energetically that gives a sense of calm and balance and enhances
happiness. It also helps one to see alternatives and potentials in
all situations, giving a positive outlook, courage and inner
strength. It is also said to bring luck, especially in games of
chance. Green Aventurine is also a mystical stone of prosperity.
Aventurine bring friendship to one's life. It is also a stone of
protection energies. Folklore and metaphysical lore say that
physically it is beneficial for blood, circulatory system,
headaches, general health, and sleep disorders. Aventurine is
associated with the heart chakra.
Black Onyx - Onyx is associated
primarily with the root chakra. It assists with challenges in life,
especially those caused by a drain of energy. It prevents the
draining away of personal energy and can be used for protection from
such. It also helps with grounding and controlling or eliminating
excess or unwanted energies. It has been used for wound healing,
childbirth and to increase stamina and self-control. Black onyx and
red onyx are associated with the base (root, first) chakra. White
onyx is associated with linking the base and crown chakras to have
balanced energy throughout the chakra system.
Black Tourmaline - Black
tourmaline, also known as schorl, is associated with the root or
base chakra, and is excellent for grouding excess energy. It is a
well known as a purifying stone that deflects and transforms
negative energy, and thus is very protective. It can transform and
remove negativity from an individual or an environment. It is often
used as an aura cleanser, and can help one attain higher levels of
awareness. Black tourmaline is also used for repelling and
protecting one from black magick, and is often said to return the
negative spell to the sender. Some claim that black tourmaline
deflects all kinds of energy, but my personal experience is that
it's not so. It is possible that the black tourmaline's effect of
grounding excess energy gives this impression. Black tourmaline has
also been used to deflect radiation energy from tv's and computer
monitors. Emotionally, black tourmaline is excellent for dispelling
fears, obsessions, and neuroses, bringing emotional stability.
Physically, black tourmaline can strengthen the immune system, help
with heart disease, arthritis, and gout.
Blue Howlite - Howlite is a
very practical mineral. It allows us to be calm in our
communications, increase our awareness and express our emotions. It
is a spur to achieve our goals, eliminating inaction and gives us a
desire to learn and increase our knowledge. Physically it is said to
ease pain, stress and rage. It can calm and dispel criticism and can
also bounce off negative energy back to the sender! It is said to
balance calcium levels in the body and is therefore good for the
treatment of teeth and bones. Please note that blue howlite is not
natural and is therefore dyed.
Blue Lace Agate - Blue lace agate is a gentle,
calming stone that engenders tranquillity. It assists in flight,
grace, reaching higher Spiritual planes, communicating with angels
and activates the throat chakra. It can ease the harsh edge off
communication in difficult times, enhance public speaking, and
smooth discussions. It is an inspiring stone that can assist in
inner attunement, and has been used to perform miracles. As with all
agates, it is a protective stone. Physically it has been used to aid
with arthritis, headaches, digestive issues, growth, and bones. Blue
lace agate is related to the element of Air.
Orange Carnelian - Carnelian is an agate class of
chalcedony that is a stone of creativity, individuality and courage.
Like all agates, it has protection energies. It can aid memory,
including recall of past lives. It can assist one in finding the
right mate. It is also a stone of protection in general and from
anger, jealousy and fear. In addition it can help with manifestation
of one's desires, and brings good luck. Carnelian can help ease or
remove sorrows. It also helps stabilize energies in the home. It is
sometimes called the "actor's stone". Carnelian is associated with
the root and sacral chakras. Physically, carnelian has been used to
heal open sores, rejuvenate tissues and cells, rheumatism, kidney
stones and other kidney problems, gall stones, colds, pollen
allergies, and neuralgia.
Citrine - Citrine is known as a
"success" stone because it is said in folklore to promote success
and abundance, especially in business and commerce. Its lore also
says that it enhances mental clarity, confidence, happiness and will
power. Citrine is purported to bring good fortune, sometimes in very
unexpected ways. Citrine is also a good general protection stone
according to crystal healing lore. It is said to alleviate
depression and self-doubt, and diminish irrational mood swings due
to the effect of mental clarity it has. In traditional folklore and
crystal healing lore it is said to aid the digestion and eliminate
nightmares that disturb one's sleep. It is associated with the solar
plexus chakra.
Clear Quartz - Clear Quartz is a power stone that
harmonizes and balances. It enhances energy and thoughts, and
purifies the spiritual, mental, and physical. It is also a
powerfully protective stone, bringing the purified energy in.
Historically this crystal has been used to counter black magic, to
perform diagnostic healing, and to communicate with spirits and
other worlds. Clear quartz, as opposed to coloured quartz, is
associated with the crown chakra, but also works well on all
chakras. Clear Quartz is considered to be the only crystal that can
clear other crystals. You can place your other crystals on top of
the Clear Quartz and this will cleanse them of any negativity.
Fluorite - Fluorite promotes
spiritual and psychic wholeness and development, truth, protection,
and brings peace. It protects psychically and in the physical realm.
It helps one meditate and learn to go past the "chatter" that our
minds tend to generate when first learning to meditate. It can help
get rid of mental blocks and similar mental issues. Physically it
helps general health throughout the body's main skeletal and
muscular systems. All colours are also good for auric cleansing.
Mixed colours bring enhanced protection in the areas enhanced by all
combined types. Clear fluorite guards against psychic attack and
strengthens consciousness. Blue fluorite has the quality of
protecting the emotions and restoring emotional balance. Purple
fluorite strengthens mystical insight, psychic awareness, and can
open the third eye. Green fluorite is an excellent all purpose
healing stone that promotes healing on all levels. It also promotes
self-love.
Fuchsite - Fuschite is
sometimes called the "stone of health" in part because it can help
access information on health. Fuschite can also help one bounce back
after emotional or physical problems. It can also help get
information on daily routine, stress, pets, and career. Fuschite
also can bring friendliness, compassion, and lightheartedness. It is
said to speed deep healing by assisting with recovery and immunity.
It also increases energy transfer when multiple stones are used for
healing.
Hematite - Hematite is known as a "stone for the
mind". It brings mental organization and is very grounding and
calming. It helps with original thinking, logical thinking, and
mathematics. It decreases negativity and can help balance the
body/mind/spirit. Physically it has been used to keep the body cool,
to decrease blood disorders, nervous problems and insomnia, as well
as align the spine and mend broken bones. Hematite is associated
with the root (base) chakra. Hematite
is good at grounding out excess energy and acting as a stabilizing
force.
Kyanite - Kyanite is a stone of channeling,
altered states, vivid dreams, dream recall, and visualizations. It
gives protection during these states. It brings loyalty, honesty and
tranquility, and diminishes anger and confusion. Kyanite does not
retain negative energy and never needs energetic cleansing. It does
align and balance all chakras, often very suddenly. Kyanite can
remove energy blockages. Blue kyanite is associated with the throat
chakra and is a boost to meditation. Black kyanite is also a boost
to meditation, and is associated with the root chakra. Black kyanite
is also very protective and deflects negativity.
Pyrite- Pyrite is a stone of
intellect and protection. It enhances intelligence, mental
stability, logic, analysis, creativity, memory, and psychic
development. It can help you tap your own latent mental talents and
abilities. Pyrite is a powerful protection stone, and is very
grounding. Pyrite is also known as Fool's Gold and Healer's Gold.
Red Jasper - Red jasper is called a stone of
fairness and justice because mystical lore claims that it decreases
unjustness and helps in unfair situations. It is also said to
enhance responsibility, choice, and compassion. Used in mystical
dream work, it can enhance dream recall. It is said to assist in
protection and rescue from danger. Red jasper is associated with the
first and second chakras. Metaphysically, it is purported to have a
stabilizing effect, and help one take all one's energy and use it in
a balanced manner. It is also said to be a stone that helps in all
areas of survival, and is a very protective stone. Red jasper said
in gemstone lore to be a stone of controlled passion and used to
help control one's own passions. Crystal healing lore says that
physically it assists in healing by maintaining positive movement
with all types of disorders and disease.
Red Jasper Healing Crystals are available in our Shop.
Rhodonite - Rhodonite is a stone of grace and
elegance. It decreases anxiety while increasing attention to detail.
It works beneficially on the heart chakra, opening one to
unconditional love and increased service to mankind. It is also a
calming stone. Rhodonite is also a stone of contrasts. The bright
pinks indicate energy that enhances passionate love. The shiny black
indicates grounding energy. This stone can help one have a
passionate love that is also grounded. Physically it has been known
to help with emphysema, joint inflammation, light sensitivity, strep
throat and heart disorders.
Rose Quartz - Rose quartz is a stone of
unconditional love. It opens the heart chakra to all forms of love:
self-love, family love, platonic love, and romantic love. Rose
quartz has excellent protection energies during pregnancy and
childbirth. The elevated energy of quartz gives rose quartz a
property of enhancing love in virtually any situation. It also
brings gentleness, forgiveness, and tolerance. Rose quartz is also
said to be helpful with weight loss. Rose quartz is associated with
the heart chakra.
Smokey Quartz - Smokey Quartz is a grounding and
stabilizing stone. It brings calm and centering, lifts depression,
enhances practicality, and generally removes negative energies,
bringing happiness. Smoky quartz is also a good luck stone. It can
also assist in tapping subconscious wisdom. Smoky quartz is a
protective stone, particularly for physical protection, protection
from negativity, and psychic protection. Physically, smoky quartz is
helpful for kidneys, abdomen, pancreas, reproductive organs,
menstrual cramps, fertility issues, water retention. Smoky quartz is
associated with the root chakra.
Sodalite - Sodalite is a stone of logic,
rationality, and efficiency. It is helpful for work in groups and
stimulates thought. Sodalite is a stone that is good for healing
breaches in communication. It is a stone of truth, and brings this
to all communications. It can help end arguments or other
disagreements. It is particularly useful for honesty of emotions. It
increases intelligence, knowledge and learning, and can unite the
logical with the spiritual. Physically it is beneficial for the
glands, digestive system, relieving insomnia, and decreasing calcium
deficiency. It can also be useful for quicker healing of head colds.
Sodalite is associated with the throat and brow chakras.
Tigers Eye - Tiger's Eye is a stone of protection
that is also very grounding. It enhances integrity, willpower,
practicality and correct use of power. It is a stone that enhances
good luck, and brings prosperity, often in the form of money.
Tiger's eye is also a very protective stone which is especially
protective during travel. It can also help one see clearly without
illusion. Tiger's eye brings a special boost to the solar plexus
chakra and to one's personal power.
