Monday, November 13, 2006

Tourmalinated Quarz

Tourmalinated Quartz brings together the properties of Quaartz and Tourmaline. An effective grounding stone, it strengthens the body’s energy field against external invasion and deflects detrimental environmental influences. It dissolves crystalized patterns and releases tensions at any level. This stone harmonizes disparate and opposite elements and polarities, and turns negative thoughts and energies into positive ones. Psychologically, it helps to integrate and heal the shadow energies, alleviating self-sabotage. It is an effective problem solver.

Healing
Tourmalinated Quartz harmonizes the meridians, the subtle bodies, and the chakras.

Selenite

Translucent Selenite has a very fine vibration and brings clarity of mind, opening the crown and higher crown chakras and accessing angelic consciousness and higher guidance. Pure Selenite is a link to the light body, helping to anchor it in te earth vibration.

Selenite is a clam stone that instills deep peace and is excellent for meditation or spiritual work. Telepathy is enhanced by each person holding a piece of pure-vibration Selenite. The purest translucent white Selenite has an ethereal quality and is said to inhabit the place between light and matter. An ancient stone, it is nevertheless one of the most powerful crystals for the new vibration on earth.

Selenite can be used to form a protective grid around the house, creating a safe and quiet space that does not allow outside influences in-use internally in the corners of the house. A large piece of Selenite placed in the house ensures a peaceful atmosphere. Selenite wands can be used to detach entities from the aura or for preventing anthing external from influencing the mind.

Psychologically, Selenite assistas judgement and insight. Mentally, it clears confusion and aids in seeing the deeper picture. It brings about a conscious understanding of what has been occurring at the subconscious level. This is a powerful disperser and stabilizer for erratic emotions.

Healing

Selenite aligns the spinal column and promotes flexibility. It guards against epileptic seizures. This stone neutralizes mercury poisoning from dental amalgam and reverses the effects of “free radicals”. It is an excellent crystal for breastfeeding and nurturing a child. Its finest healing occurs at the energetic levels.

Specific colors and forms
In addition to the generic properties, different colored Selenites have specific properties.

Orange-Brown Selenite
Earths angelic energies and aids earth healing.

Blue Selenite
Placed on the third eye quiets the intellect, facilitates shutting off mind chatter during meditation, and quickly reveals te core of a problem.

Green Selenite
Assists in working toward the highest good. It makes you feel good about yourself and helps to overcome the effects of aging on the skin and skeleton.

Fishtail Selenite
Provides deep healing for the nerves. It is extremely calming, stabilizing emotions and defusing tension. This form f Selenite is often called Angel’s wing Selenite, as it facilitates angelic contact.

Desert Rose Selenite
Helps to dissolve self-imposed programs that have been running for too long. It releases the program and assists in finding an appropriate replacement. It can be used to strengthen affirmations of purpose.

Rhodochrosite

Rhodochrosite represents selfless love and compassion. It expands consciousness and integrates the spiritua with material energies. This stone imparts a dynamic and positive attitude.

Rhodochrosite is an excellent stone for the heart and relationships, especially for people who feel unloved. It is the stone par excellence for healing sexual abuse. Rhodochrosite attracts a soul mate but this may not be the blissful experience you’re hoping for. Soulmates are the people who help us to learn our lessons in life, and although this is not always pleasant, it is for our higher good. Rhodochrosite teaches the heart to assimilate painful feelings without shutting down, and removes denial.

This stone clears the solar plexus and base chakras. Gently bringing painful and repressed feelings to the surface. It allows them to be acknowledged and then dissipated through emotional release. Rhodochrosite then helps to identify ongoing patterns and shows the purpose behind the experience. This is a stone that insists you face the thruth, about yourself and other people, without excuses or evasion but with loving awareness.

Rhodochrosite is useful for diagnosis at the psychological level. People who have an aversion to the stone are representing something in themselves they do not want to look at. The stone urges that they confront irrational fears and paranoia, and reveals that the emotions they have been taught to believe are unacceptable are natural. Theyten see things less negatively. Psychologicaly, Rhodochrosite improves self-worth and soothes emotional stress.

Rhodochrosite is mentally enlivening. It encourages a positive attitude and enhances dream states and creativity. This stone links you into the higher mind and helps you integrate new information.

Emotionally, Rhodochrosite encourages spontaneous expression of feelings, including passionate and erotic urges. It lifes a depressed mood and brings lightness into life.

Healing

Rhodochrosite acts s an irritant filter and relieves asthma and respiratory problems. It purifies the circulatory system and kidneys and restores poor eyesight, normalizes blood pressure and stabilizes the heartbeat, and invigorates the sexual organs. As it dilates blood vessels, it relieves migranes. The elixir relieves infections, imporves the skin, and balances the thyroid.

Rhodonite

Rhodonite is an emotional balancer that nurtures love and encourages the brotherhood of humanity. It has the ability to show both sides of an issue. This stone stimulates, clears, and activates the heart and the heart chakra. It grounds energy, balances yin-yang, and aids in achieving one’s highest potential. It is said to enhance the mantra-based meditation, aligning the soul more closely to the vibration.

A use-ful “first-aid stone”, Rhodonite heals emotional shock and panic lending a supportive energy to the soul during the process. It is extremey beneficial in cases of emotional self-destruction, co-dependency, and abuse. Rhodonite clears away emotional wounds and scars from the past-whenever that might be-and brings up for transmutation painful emotions such as festering resentment or anger. This stone has a strong resonance with forgiveness and assists in reconciliation after long-term pain and abuse. With its ability to promote unselfish self-love and forgiveness, it helps in taking back projections that blame the partner for what is really inside the self.

Rhodonite is a useful stone to turn back insults and to prevent retaliation. It recognizes that revenge is self-destructive and promotes remaining clam in dangerous or upsetting situations.

Rhodonite balances and integrates physical and mental energies. IT builds up confidence and alleviates confusion.

Healing

Rhodonite is an excellent wound healer that also relieves insect bite. It can reduce scarring. It beneficiall affects bone growth ad the hearing organs, fine-tuning auditory vibrations, and stimulates fertility. This stone treats emphysema, inflammation of joints and arthritis, autoimmune diseases, stomach ulcers, and multiple sclerosis. Use the elixir as a rescue remedy for shock trauma.

Rhyolite

Rhyolite ignites the potential and creativity of the soul. It facilitates change without enforcing it, assits in fulfilling quests and facilitates knowing from a soul level. It can access karmic wisdom. Stregnthening soul, body, and mind, Rhyolite is immensely helpful when exploring the full extent of the self.

This stone facilitates a deep state of meditation in which inner and outer journeys may be made. It imparts a sense of self-respect and acceptance of your true self.

Mentally, Rhyolite imparts the strength to deal calmly with challenging life circumstances and brings awareness of one’s own strength.

Emotionally, Rhyolite has a balancing effect, gently facilitating emotional release where this is appropriate.

Healing
Rhyolite fortifies the body’s natural resistance. It treats veins, rashes, skin disorders, and infections, and improves assimilation of B vitamins. It can dissolve kidney stones and hardened tissue. As an elixir, Rhyolite gives strength and improves muscle tone.

Rhyolite processes the past and integrates it with the present. It brings things to a resolution, no matter where the source of difficulties may have been, and actively encourages moving forward. This is an excellent stone to keep you anchored in the present moment rather than harking back to the past.

Psychologically, Rhyolite enhances self-esteem and self-worth.

Malachite

Malachite is a powerful stone but one that needs to be handled with caution. It is best used under the supervision of a qualified crystal therapist. It is toxic and should be used only in its polished form. Avoid breathing its dust. If used as a gem elixir, apply externally ony or make by the indirect method of placing the stone in a glass container and standing this within spring water so that the stone does not touch the water.

Malachite amplifies both positive and negative energies. It grounds spiritual energies onto the planet. It is believed by some people that Malachite is still evolving and will be one of the most important healing stones of the new millnnim.

Malachite is already an important protection stone. It absorbs negative energies and pollutants easily.

Moonstone

Moonstone is a stone of “new beginnings”. As it’s name suggests, it is strongly connected to moon and to the intuition. Like the moon, the stone is reflective and reminds us that, as the moon waxes and wanes, so everything is part of a cycle of change. Its most powerful effect is that of calming the emotions.
Moonstone makes conscious the unconscious and promotes intuition and empathy. It encourages lucid dreaming, especially at the time of the full moon.
Moonstone has traditionally been used to enhance psychic abilities and to develop clairvoyance. It can be worn as a pendant to encourage acceptance of your psychic gifts.
Psychologically, Moonstone calms overreactions to situations and to emotional trigges. Moonstone is filled with receptive, passive, feminine energy. It balances male-female energies and aids men who want to get in touch with their feminine side. It is the perfect antidote for the excessively macho man or overly aggressive female.
Mentally, Moonstones opens the mind to sudden and irrational impulses, serendipity, and synchronicity. Care has to be taken that it does not induce illusions in response to wishful thinking.
Emotionally, Moonstone soothes emotional instability and stress, and stabilizes the emotions. It improves emotional intelligence. Placed on the solar plexus, it draws out old emotional patterning so that it can be understood and then dissolved. Moonstone provides deep emotional healing and heals disorders of the upper digestive tract that are related to emotional stress.
Physically, Moonstone powerfully affect the female reproductive ccle and alleviate menstrual-related dis-ease and tension. It is linked to the pineal gland and balances the hormonal system, stabilizes fluid imbalances, and attunes to the biorhythmic clock. It is helpful in cases of shock and can be used to calm hyperactive children.

Healing

Moonstone helps the digestive and reproductive systems, assimilates nutrients, eliminates toxins and fluid retention, and alleviates degenerative conditions of skin, hair, eyes, and fleshy organs such as the liver and pancreas. It is excellent for PMS, conception, pregnancy, childbirth and breast-feeding. A moonstone elixir was traditionally used for insomnia and the stone can prevent sleepwalking.

Kyanite

Kyanite is excellent for attunement and meditation. It is tranquilizing and a powerful transmitter and ampifier of high frequency energies, stimulating psychic abilities and the intuition. With its ability to tune into the causeal level, this stone can help spiritual energy to manifest in tought. This crystal connects to spirit guides and instills compassion. Grounding spiritual vibrations, it brings spiritual integrity and maturation. It facilitates dream recal and promotes healing dreams. Kyanite is helpful for those making the transition through death.

Kyanite instantly aligns the chakras and subtle bodies, clearing the pathways and meridians. It restores Qi to the physical body and its organs. In healing it stabilitzes the biomagnetic field after clearing and transformation. As kyanite does not hold negativity, it never requires cleaning. Pschologically, Kyanite encourages speaking on’s truth, cutting through fears and blockages. Opening the throat chakra, this stone encourages sepf-expression and communication. It cuts through ignorance and opens to spiritual and psychological truth.

Kyanite slices through confusion and dispels blockages, illusion, anger, frustration, and stress. It increases the capacity for logical and linear thought, stimulates the higher mind, and links into the causal level.

Spiritually, Kyanite assists in detaching from the idea of blind fate or implacable karma. It shows the part played by the self in creating causes and the measures required to balance the past. Kyanite facilitates the ascension process by drawing the light body down into the physical realm and connecting the higher mind to the highest frequencies.

Healing
Kyanite treats muscular disorders, fevers, the urogenital system, thyroid and parathyroid, adrenal glands, throat, and brain. A natural pain reliever, it lowers blood pressure and heals infections. It releases excess weight, supports the cerebellum and the motor reponses of the body. Kyanite helps to balance yin-yang energy.

Jade

Jade

Jade is a symbol of purity and serenity. Much prized in the East, it signifies wisdom gathered in tranquility. Jade is associated with the heart chakra and increases love and nurturing. It is a protective stone, which keeps the wearer from harm and brings harmony. It is believed to attract good luck and friendship.

Psychologicaly, Jade stabilizes the personality and integrates the mind with the body. It promotes self-sufficiency. Mentally, Jade releases negative thoughts and soothes the mind. It stimulates ideas and makes tasks seem less complex so that they can be acted upon immediately.

Emotionally, Jade is a “dream stone”. Placed on the forehead, it brings insightful dreams. It aids emotional release, especially of irritability.

Spiritually, Jade encourages you to become who you really are. It assists in recognizing yourself as a spiritual being on a human journe and awakens hidden knowledge.

Physically, Jade is a cleansing stone, aiding the body’s filtration and elimination organs. It is the stone par excellence for the kidneys. Jadeite and Nephrite have the same healing properties but individual colors have specific attributes.

Healing

Jade treats the kidneys and supra-adrenal glands, removes toxins, rebinds cellular and skeletal systems, and heals stitches. It assists fertility and childbirth. It works on the hips and spleen. Jade balances the fluids within the body and the water-salt/acid-alkaline ratios.

Hematite

Hematite is particularly effective at grounding and protecting. It harmonizes mind, body, and spirit. Used during out-of-body journeying, it protects the soul and grounds it back into the body. This stone has a strong yang element and balances the meridians, redressing yin imbalances. It dissolves negativity and prevents negative energies from entering the aura, restoring peace and harmony to the body.

Flourite

Fluorite is highly protective, especially on a psychic level. It helps you to discern when outside influences are at work within yourself and shuts off psychic manipulation and undue mental influence. This stone cleanses and stabilizes the aura. It is extremely effective against computer and electromagnetic stress. Appropriately positioned, it blocks geopathic stress. Used in healing, Fluorite draws off negative energies and stress of all kinds. It cleanses, purifies, dispels, and reorganizes anything within the body that is not in perfect order. This is the best crystal to use to overcome any form of disorganization.

Fluorite grounds and integrates spiritual energies. It promotes unbiased impartiality and heightens intuitive powers; makes you more aware of higher spiritual realities and can quicken spiritual awakening; and focuses the mind and links it into the universal mind. Fluorite brings stability to groups, linking them into a common purpose. Fluorite is associated with progress on many levels, incorporating structure into daily life. This stone can overcome chaos and reorganize the physical, emotional, and mental bodies.

Psychologically, Fluorite dissolves fixed patterns of behaviour and gently opens the door to the subconscious, bringing suppressed feelings to the surface for resolution. It increases self-confidence and dexterity.

Fluorite improves physical and mental coordination and counteracts mental disorders. Dissolving fixed ideas, it helps to move beyond narrow-mindedness to the bigger picture. This stone dissolves illusions and reveals truth. It is very helpful when you need to act impartially and objectively.

Fluorite is an excellent learning aid - it organizes and processes information, linking what is already known into what is being leaned, and increases concentration. It helps you to absorb new information and promotes quick thinking.

Emotionally, Fluorite has a stabilizing effect. It helps you to understand the effect of the mind and emotions on the body. In relationships, it teaches the importance of balance. Physically, Fluorite assists balance and coordination.

Healing

Fluorite is a powerful healing tool, dealing with infections and disorders. It benefits teeth, cells, and bones and repairs DNA damage. It is powerful against viruses, especially as an elixir. Fluorite regenerates the skin and mucus membranes, particularly in the respiratory tract, and heals ulcers and wounds. It is beneficial for colds, flu, and sinusitis. Dissolving adhesions and mobilising joints, Fluorite alleviates arthritis, rheumatism, and spinal injuries. Stroked across the body toward the heart, Fluorite provides pain relief. It ameliorates the discomfort of shingles and other nerve-related pain, and heals the skin, removing blemishes and wrinkles. It can be used during dental work. Fluorite rekindles sexual libido.

Garnet

Garnet is a powerfully energizing and regenerating stone. It cleanses and reenergizes the chakras. It revitalizes, purifies, and balances energy, bringing serenity or passion as appropriate. It is said to be able to warn off approaching danger and was long ago carried as a protective talisman. Garnet is one of the most plentiful stones. It has severa forms according to its mineral base, each of which have different properties in addition to the generic attributes.

Garnet inspires love and devotion. IT balances the sex drive and alleviates emotional disharmony. Red garnet in particular stimulates the controlled rise of kundalini energy and aids sexual potency. This is a stone of commitment.

Garnet is a useful crystal to have in a crisis. It is particularly helpful in situations where there seems to be no way out or where life has fragmented or is traumatic. It fortifies, activates, and strengthens the survival instinct, bringing courage and hope into seemingly hopeless situations. Crisis is turned into challenge under Garnet’s influence. It also promotes mutual assistance in times of trouble.

Garnet has a strong link with the pituitary gland and can stimulate expanded awareness and past-life recall. Garnet activates other crystals, amplifying their effect. It clears negative chakra energy.

Square-cut garnets are said to bring success in business matters. Psychologically, Garnets sharpen your perceptions of yourself and other people. It dissolves ingrained behaviour patterns that are no longer serving you and bypasses resistance or self-induced unconscious sabotage. Mentally, Garnet helps you to let go of useless or old or obsolete ideas. Emotionally, Garnet removes inhibitions and taboos. It opens up the heart and bestows self-confidence.

Healing

Garnet regenerates the body. It stimulates the metabolism. Garnet treats spinal and cellular disorders, purifies and reenergizes the blood, heart, and lungs, and regenerates DNA. It assists assimilation of minerals and vitamins.

Citrine

Citrine is a powerful cleanser and regenerator. Carrying the power of the sun, this is an exceedingly beneficial stone. It is warming, energizing, and highly creative. This is one of the crystals that never needs cleansing. It absorbs, transmutes, dissipates, and grounds negative energy and is therefore extremely protective for the environment. Citrine energizes every level of life. As an aura protector, it acts as an early warning system so that action can be taken to protect oneself. It has the ability to cleanse the chakras, especially the solar plexus and navel chakras. It activates the crown chakra and opens the intuition. Citrine cleanses and balances the subtle bodies, aligning them with the physical.

Citrine is one of the stones of abundance. This dynamic stone teaches how to manifest and attracts wealth and prosperity, success, and all good things. Citrine is a happ, generous stone and encourages sharing what you have and yet helps you to hold on to your wealth. It has the power to impart joy to all who behold it. Gloom and negativity have no place around Citrine. It is a useful stone for smoothing group or famil discord.

Psychologically, Citrine raises self-esteem and self-confidence, and removes destructive tendencies. It enhances individuality, improves motivation, activates creativity, and encourages self-expression. It makes ou less sensitive, especially to criticism, and encourages acting on constructive criticism. It helps you develop a positive attitude and to look forward optimistically, going with the flow instead of hanging on to the past. This stone promotes enjoyment of new experiences and encourages exploring every possible avenue until you find the best solution.

Mentally, Citrine enhances concentration and revitalizes the mind. It is excellent for overcoming depression, fears, and phobias. Citrine promotes inner calm so that wisdom can emerge. It helps in digesting information, analyzing situations and steering them in a positive direction. This stone warkens the higher mind. Wearing a Citrine pendant overcomes difficulty in verbalizing thoughts and feelings.

Emotionally, Citrine promotes joy in life. It releases negative traits, fears, and feelings at the deepest of levels. It overcomes fear of responsibility and stops anger. This stone helps you move into the flow of feelings and become emotionally balanced.

Physically, Citrine imparts energy and invigoration to the physical body. It is useful for people who are particularly sensitive to enviornmental and other outside influences.

Healing

Citrine is an excellent stone for energizing and recharging. It is highly beneficial for CFS and reverses degenerative disease. Citrine stimulates digestion, the spleen, and the pancreas. It negates infections in the kidney and bladder, helps eye problems, increases blood circulation, detoxifies the blood, activates the thymus, and balances the thyroid. It ha a warming effect and fortifies the nerves. Citrine is an eliminator-it relieves constipation and removes cellulite. As an elixir, it is helpful for menstrual problems and menopausal symptoms suc as hot flashes, balancing the hormones and alleviating fatigue.