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Healing Stones
People have long associated precious stones with special powers, such as healing, happiness, inspiration, wealth, and love. That’s why stones in feng shui are often used to attract specific energy.
Displaying or wearing the right stone is thought to act as a protective talisman, and to deflect negative energy. Stones often have several different healing properties. and may be used in more than one sector.
Agate
Considered a grounding stone. When used during meditation it may enhance spiritual awareness and stimulate psychic abilities. Along with that awareness comes self-truth and the building of self-esteem and confidence.
Amazonite
Often referred to as the "Hope Stone," the Amazonite is said to release negative energy and restore the hope and joy that may be missing from one's life. It encourages communication and helps individuals speak their truth and follow through with positive actions. A great stone for visualization and manifestation.
Amethyst
Believed to be a powerful stone that can provide healing for the spiritual and emotional body. Its positive energy removes negative energy to potentially provide for better overall health. Keep it in the bedroom to induce more restful sleep.
Aventurine
An energy-amplifying stone that may aid in manifestation. Often considered a good luck stone as it may help attract prosperity and good fortune. Believed to enhance creativity and strengthen leadership skills. Often used as a mood booster that can contribute to better vitality and happiness.
Blue Kyanite
Believed to ease many physical ailments as well as to help achieve better mental awareness and improved emotional state. Those who use it say it calms nerves and helps to improve communication and compassion.
Carnelian
Considered a powerful healing stone that works on all the chakras to balance the mind, body, and spirit. It removes negative energy and allows positive energy to flow through. It may help with the emotional healing of grief and despair, and is often used during meditation to restore feelings of hope and enthusiasm.
Citrine
Believed to provide powerful healing energy to help manifest abundance and wealth. It brings happiness and joy to many users and provides a positive energy force to relieve fear, negativity, and anxiety. It purportedly also offers clarity of thought and improves mental translucence.
Clear Quartz
Helps unlock psychic abilities, increase focus, and release lost memories. Physically, it's believed to energize the immune system and metabolism, which may be useful for those looking to get back in shape.
Emerald Quartz
Believed to detoxify the body from the negative effects caused by stress and mental exhaustion. Believed to help encourage positive energy to flow through the body and restore vitality and drive. May be used to bring a sense of balance and contentment to meet the challenges of daily life.
Fluorite
Believed to stimulate thought and enhance mental clarity. An excellent stone for removing negative energy. May help alleviate stress and confusion and thus provide a more powerful healing action of the mind, body, and spirit.
Hematite
Thought by some to improve the strength of will. Wearing this stone may help one overcome bad habits or negative thoughts while simultaneously increasing self-confidence and courage. The mineral is also associated with calm and balance. Keeping hematite in your home is believed to have a relaxing effect.
Labradorite
Believed to have magical powers that can be used to influence positive changes in one's life. Has a high level of energy that many say works very quickly.
Lapis Lazuli
A powerful vibrating stone used for greater enlightenment and spiritual wisdom. Believed to intensify the connection with the spirit realm, aiding the user in the development of their psychic abilities. Often used to remove negative thoughts and anger, encouraging harmony and balance for greater happiness and well-being.
Obsidian
Considered a protection stone that shields against negativity with truth-enhancing properties. Said to bring clarity to the mind, drawing out mental stress and tension that sometimes leads to confusion. Carry it with you to help ward off negative forces or keep the stone in your home, office, or anyplace you need protective energy.
Onyx
Considered an emotional healing stone, onyx is often used to aid the grieving process and alleviate stress. This stone is associated with strength and stamina as well as the building of self-confidence and self-control.
Petrified Wood
Often used for meditation to uncover and release negative energy from the past. Believed to help boost psychic abilities, enhance transformation and spiritual growth, improve patience, and open the mind to deeper understanding.
Pyrite
Considered a protection stone that shields its user from the harmful effects of negative energy on the mind, body, and spirit. It may enhance mental capacity and provide emotional healing for the believer. It can be used often during meditation to nourish the body with positive energy that encourages well-being.
Red Jasper
Considered a grounding stone that provides the user with a sense of balance and stability. It works to enhance creativity while providing the will-power to get things accomplished. The aim is to afford the user greater insight so that they may see past current challenges and create solutions that will better serve their higher purpose.
Rhodonite
A peaceful stone that helps believers feel more compassionate and forgiving, encouraging harmony in troubled relationships. It has a calming nature that may help with emotional healing. Carry a piece close to the body so your emotions may be more controlled and your reactions more mindful.
Rose Quartz
Often referred to as the "Love Stone" because of strong vibrations of love, joy, acceptance, and emotional healing. It is very helpful to believers when used in the home to heal relationships and bring unity.
Selenite
Said to have high-vibration properties that attract light, calm, and clarity, shifting stagnant and negative energies. Associated with spirituality, selenite can be used to cleanse other crystals.
Sodalite
May help in the development of psychic abilities. It works on the throat chakra to aid in communication, especially in areas of public speaking. Along the way, it may help stimulate creativity and encourage cognitive thinking skills.
Tiger's Eye
Long associated with vitality, tiger's eye is said to boost energy and increase bravery, thus helping combat lethargy and fear. This crystal is also thought to help balance emotions, create positive energy, and clear root chakras while enhancing sacral and solar plexus chakras.
Xiuyan Jade
Believed to heal the mind and body, promoting calmness and a sense of balance and clarity. This stone is linked to regeneration, harmonizing hormones; helps connect to mother earth; and clear blocked energy, allowing the body’s energy flow to be restored and help you find inner peace.