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The
Power of Crystals - Their Meanings and Benefits |
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Crystals have been
used throughout history for good luck and protection as well
as for healing qualities and beauty many people believe each
stone has its own energy which can have beneficial effects on
a person or animals well-being. By keeping a crystal close to
you it is believed to help regulate your natural body energy
aiding the body to heal itself.
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| Crystals
and Their Benefits - Alphabetical Listing |
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Agate
Composed
of microscopic crystals of Quartz laid down in colorful bands
or ribbons. The appearance of the stone is waxy and soft. Almost
always translucent and occasionally transparent. Agates are
grounding stones. They help obtain a better physical/emotional
balance. They work to raise consciousness. Builds self-confidence.
This is Chalcedony Quartz. Red, orange, yellow, browns: Solid,
Grounding. For stomach, colon, liver, spleen, kidneys. Centering,
taking heart. Blood sugar, anorexia/food issues, lymph nodes,
Balances emotions. Insight, Restores nerve feeling and healing
after injury/burns. Gaze into for meditation. Left/Right brain
balance. Pineal, pituitary; coordination. Patience, peace.
Astrological sign: Gemini |
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Clear yellow or orange, this ancient petrified
resin (possibly pine tree) has electromagnetic properties. Great
for past life work and weight gain. Opens solar plexus chakra
for mental clarity, moods balance, confidence .Stomach anxiety,
spine, Central Nervous System, brain, memory loss, cell regeneration.
Aligns mental and emotional bodies via orange and yellow. Excellent
detoxification and protection from radiation, especially x-rays,
sun, computers, airport, planes and others' energies. Sacred
use (incense/worn) by Asian and American Indians, and worldwide.
Useful on the brain, lungs, thyroid, spleen, endocrine system,
inner ear, and neurological tissue. Draws disease out of afflicted
areas and neutralizes negative energy. It is a grounding healer.
Can add stability to your life. Helpful in clearing up depression
and bringing about a positive mental state. Also useful as a
memory aid. Amber should be cleansed after being used for healing
to dispense the negative energy it has absorbed.
Astrological sign: Taurus and Libra
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The stone of spirituality and dream recall.
Used for contentment and meditation. Provides common sense and
flexibility in decisions. Strengthens and enhances psychic abilities,
imagery and mind quieting. Wear when sleeping or when awake
to reduce anger, impatience, and nightmares. Most effective
on the Brow and Crown Chakra . This crystal is the most recommended
stone for stress relief. Amethyst has a direct link to the mind.
It bolsters the production of the hormones, and strengthens
the cleansing organs, the circulatory system and blood, the
immune system, and body metabolism. Headaches, eyes, scalp/hair,
pituitary, pineal and blood sugar balance. Famous ancient detoxifying
stone. Especially helps in sobriety, as well as alcohol, food,
sex and other addictions. It soothes the nervous system and
assists in the transmission of neural signals.
Astrological sign: Pisces |
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Ammonite
Ammonite is a stone of protection. It provides for insight and
it helps to assist one in seeing the ‘whole picture.’
Gives stability to it's user. Since it is associated with the
Root Chakra, it encourages ones survival instincts and is grounding.
Believed to ease birthing pains and bring relaxation. |
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This stone has the calming, soothing energy
of the sea. This is the stone of courage. Tranquilizing, uplifting,
openness, innocence, lightheartedness, creativity, communication,
self-awareness, confidence, purpose. Throat, Spleen, Heart Chakra.
Used for protection on journeys, especially those who travel
on water Affects etheric and mental levels. Helps stabilize
and harmonize unsettled surroundings. Helps reduce fears. Has
an affinity with sensitive and mystical people. Increases creativity
and sharpens intuition. Excellent stone for meditation. Helps
one attune to nature. Quiets the mind and reduces stress. Helps
bring about a tolerance toward others. Recommended as a purifier
of the throat and helps sore throats. Clears blocked communication
and aids the user in verbal expression. A great stone for stress
relief. This crystal is used to strengthen the immune system,
thymus, lymphnodes, Filters out unnecessary information to the
brain. Calms the nerves. Clarifies perception and strengthens
the body's cleansing organs such as the liver, spleen, thyroid,
and kidneys. Helps the eyes, jaw, neck, stomach, teeth, throat,
mouth and ears. This is a very important stone for the Thymus.
Releases anxiety, fear, restlessness, peaceful stillness.
Astrological sign: Aquarius |
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Aqua Aura. This is truly a `master' vibrational
crystal, as with all energies the conscious use of this energy
towards enlightenment is always the prime goal. Aqua Aura Quartz
has an energy that can enhance one's intuition and communication,
calm one's nerves, and energize one's mental abilities. It is
also said to help one's inner beauty to shine, and to attract
wealth and success. It increases the ability to send energy
& alter consciousness for meditation, telepathy, healing.
Opens/clears throat. The aqua aura crystal can help with the
thymus gland, located between the heart and throat under the
sternum, which is now known to play a vital part in maintaining
the body's immunity against all diseases. Aqua Aura can work
as a shield from psychic or psychological attack, Intrusion
from outside sources are quickly dissipated by transmutation
into pure loving energy, which can work in a healing process
which caused the attack. Aqua aura will help you find your own
space again. The aqua aura quartz crystal will bring wisdom
to expressive communication, encouraging peace and guard against
opposing energies
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Aventurine seems to enable abundance and
brings good luck and money, joy, balance and clarity. Universal
love, truth and prosperity are traits we can gain by working
with Aventurine. Spiritually, Aventurine protects the heart,
enhances creativity and working with spirit guides. Green is
the color of healing and Aventurine, as a member of the quartz
family, has a concentrated ability to dissolve emotional blockage.
It's a particularly effective crystal for emotional healing
and is especially helpful when worn for this purpose or placed
on the heart center during Chakra balancing. It helps to balance
the emotions, and is one of the best stones to wear or carry
during stressful periods. Aventurine works with lungs, heart,
adrenal glands, calming troubled emotions, and sexual organs.
It is known as the "heart healer". Historically also
known to draw out heat of fevers, inflammation, nervous system,
stress.
Astrological sign: Libra
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A great stone for mental exhaustion. This
stone represents both courage and strength and is used for achieving
these attributes. It is associated with honesty and integrity
and is useful in removing obstacles in life. A classic stone
for wealth, it attracts abundance and good luck. Most effective
on the Heart (green) and Root (red) Chakra. This crystal is
one of the most recommended stones for blood and circulation
issues. Bloodstone is an immune stimulator and energy cleanser.
It is believed to neutralize toxins. Believed to be helpful
with menstrual cramps, anemia, blood clots, hemorrhoids, birthing/reproductive
issues and imbalance. It has been used for cleansing heart and
blood circulation, marrow, thymus and lungs. Helps purify toxic
blood and detoxify the kidneys, liver, and spleen.
Astrological sign: Aries |
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Helps to focus on the inner source of love
within you that transforms and heals all wounds. Contains the
qualities of flight, air, movement, and grace. Highly inspirational
when working with the inner self. Works well with not only the
Throat Chakra, but the Heart, Third Eye and Crown Chakra. Strengthens
hereditary skeletal structure, outward manifested growths, Arthritis.
Astrological sign: Gemini |
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This stone represents confidence, boldness,
initiative, dramatic abilities, assertiveness and outgoingness.
Precision, analysis, stimulates appetite, encourages celebration
and brings awareness of feelings. It is the stone of passion
and sexuality and is associated with the Sacral/Spleen Chakra.
This stone helps you feel anchored and comfortable with your
surroundings. Provides a connection to the past or to historical
events. Carnelian can improve motivation. Helps one achieve
greater success in career or personal matters. Helps ground
people who meditate. Carnelian is one of the most helpful crystals
for healing trauma, stress and emotional wounds that have accumulated
in the etheric body or the Aura and are now manifesting as physical
symptoms Carnelian is believed to warm, cleanses and purify
the blood of the liver and kidneys, stimulate appetite, emotions,
passion, sexuality, physical energy, reproductive system, menstrual
cramps, arthritis, gall bladder, pancreas.
Astrological signs: Virgo and Capricorn |
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White, clear, or cool lt. blue cluster crystals.
Gentle. Soothes nerves, stress. Quiets mind. Serenity, harmony,
easiness, stillness for receiving, connection to spirit, overview,
creativity. Helps Throat Chakra. Honesty, openness, stress,
worry, hearing, thyroid, potassium/manganese deficiency, Central
Nervous System, tiredness, fades in sunlight. Letting go (stress,
addictions..) Insomnia, Central Nervous System, coordination,
general healing.
Astrological sign: Pisces
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Chiastolite:
The "Cross Stone"
This powerful crystal balances one's perspective
in both creativity and practicality. It is used as a sign of
devotion towards awareness and dispels negativity. It signifies
both death and re-birth and helps one to understand the realization
of immortality. It is used as a bridge for "crossing over".
It helps one to assimilate during times of change. It provides
insight to answers when problem solving. This stone has a reputation
for astral journeys and is used as a gateway into the mysterious.
This stone allows for the overcoming of fear, the facing of
reality and overcoming of the unknown. Chiastolite is used to
attune to our soul's purpose. During illness, it helps to maintain
spirituality, lessens fever, balances blood flow and increases
secretion of milk in nursing mothers and repairs chromosome
damage. This stone is believed to help heal gout, strengthen
the immune system. |
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