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Gemstone glossaries, therapeutic properties of various rocks, cleansing and charging crystals, resources helpful inchoosing the right healing stone for your needs... and more!
What is Crystal Therapy?
Holistic healers utilize the spiritual and healing properties in gemstones and crystals to bring about balance and wellness for themselves and for their clients. You can intuitively choose what crystals are appropriate for you.
Cleansing and Clearing Gemstones and Crystals
There are many different ways to clean your gemstones. Choosing the best cleaning method depends on the type of stone you are wanting to clean.
Popular Healing Gemstones
There are literally hundreds of different types of stones. Listed here are ten popular gemstones that have wonderful healing energies.
Rose Quartz Meditation
The love energy of this heart-centered meditation is soothing and energizing. Feel free to read it out loud into your tape-recorder and experience it for yourself by listening to the healing words in your sacred space.
Amethyst Gemstones
Amethyst is a highly spiritual/healing stone associated with The Christ Consciousness and the Violet Flame of Transmutation. Amethyst helps individuals tune into a higher awareness of knowing.
Turquoise Gemstones
Turquoise is a teaching stone can be used to help one learn spiritual lessons through meditation and/or dream visions.
Lapis Gemstones
Egyptian energy. Lapis is a stone that has been said to unlock mysteries as it helps one move through confusion and emotional blocks and dig through fog/muck to the root of problematic issues.
Jade Gemstones
Jade teaches acceptance and carries a serene and calming energy. Jade helps a person become less critical of self and others.
Obsidian Gemstones
All varieties of obsidian are good utilized as grounding and protective agents. The snowflake in particular helps us surrender or let go of negative habits or past pathways that no longer the present condition. It will bring about opportunity for change, serenity, and clarity.
Hematite Gemstones
Grounding stone. This silver-gray metallic gemstone is often used as a grounding tool to aid those who tend to avoid worldly tasks/events by out-of-body flight.
Citrine Gemstones
Citrine is a wonderful yellow stone. It helps to manifest your goals. Also keeps one cheerful. Citrine attracts abundance and personal power. It also balances the solar plexus chakra.
Rose Quartz Gemstones
Rose quartz has a gentle energy and is a heart healer of physical heart ailments as well as emotional heartbreaks. Rose quartz is a timely gift to offer someone who desires to learn self-love.
Fluorite Gemstones
Fluorite comes in a variety of colors. Fluorite is a beneficial stone to help guard one against picking up negativity or negative energies from those nearby. Basically, this stone absorbs any negativity, keeping it at bay. It is important to cleanse fluorite at least once a week when you are using it as a protective helper.
Healing Gemstones
The healing properties of gemstones add to the natural beauty of the stones themselves. Being able to adorn yourself with beautiful gemsstone jewelry is icing on the cake.
Crystal Therapy: Books
Favorite healing texts about gemstones and using crystals for healing
Affirmative Healing
Toni Silvano, Reiki Master and certified aromatherapist describes the steps she takes while facilitating a healing session using both Reiki and crystal therapy. She calls this energywork modality "Affirmative Healing."
Are Benefits in Korean Citrine Tea the same as in a Citrine Gemstone?
Reader Questions: Can I get the same benefits by drinking the tea that I can if I had the stone?
Rock Chat Transcript
Healing Chat - Power of rocks explained by White Horse Woman. Chat Moderator: Stones77HOST
You and Your Crystals: A Magical Partnership
Healing Chat - Log transcription of crystal chat session held in the Healing Chatroom - Hosted by ElfSpirit and Joyette.
Crystal Healing
The application of crystals and stones upon the body within specific energy centers do have their effect.

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