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<h4>Abalone Shell</h4>
<p>Abalone Shell stimulates our intuition and imagination. It increases our ability to be more emotionally expressive and encourages co-operation between ourselves and others. Abalone is very much an emotional healing stone and is invaluable when working through emotional issues with someone as it encourages calmness and soothing in emotional situations, but still allows us to be unique individuals and to be expansive.</p>
<h4>Amber</h4>
<p>Amber has long been honored for its energizing and healing properties. It is a purifier, acting on the energetic, emotional and physical levels to transform negative or stagnant energies into clear, usable frequencies. Amber is an excellent “stone” for protection because it transforms negativity into a source of clear energy. It is recommended for anyone recovering from illness or injury because its warm and nurturing energies activate the life force, as well as one’s own emotional desire for wellness. Due to its light-carrying properties amber can help those who become depressed in winter due to light deprivation. It assists in stimulating metabolism, physical energy and the flow of energy along the meridians of the body.</p>
<h4>Amethyst</h4>
<p>Amethyst is a powerful stone for spiritual protection, expansion and purification. It is an aid to meditation and can help to still one’s thoughts. It can help curb overindulgence and assist one to give up unhealthy habits. It balances the nervous system and the brain. Amethyst builds a cocoon of light around one’s aura or presence, creating a powerful resonant field that helps one remain clear and centered in the midst of negativity, while staying open to spiritual direction and intuitive information.</p>
<h4>Aquamarine</h4>
<p>Aquamarine is good for all types of calming and cooling, from hot flashes to anger and hysteria. It also assists one in activating the throat chakra, assisting one in the clear communication of one’s highest truth. <strong>For women,</strong> aquamarine lends the courage and clarity to express one’s inner knowing, while enhancing intuition. <strong>For men,</strong> aquamarine helps dispel emotional numbness and the difficulty men sometimes experience in communicating their feelings. It is a stone of empowerment and is excellent for teachers and presenters. It is an excellent stone for children who have been through traumatic situations and have disassociated from their emotional bodies, or who are acting out their emotions in an aggressive way.</p>
<h4>Blue Topaz</h4>
<p>Blue Topaz enhances one’s mental processing and speaking skills, as well as improving one’s attention span and ability to concentrate on mental tasks. It has a calming, soothing effect on one’s emotions. Blue topaz helps one to integrate lessons and gain knowlege from one’s experiences. It can assist those who wish to attune to inner guidance, as well as those who hope to serve others through doing readings or spiritual healing work.</p>
<h4>Carnelian</h4>
<p>Carnelian is usually smooth and often translucent, a durable stone and a dependable lifetime gem. Known to have electro-magnetic properties to help ground the wearer, feeding energy directly through the skin, instilling a feeling of well-being and inflowing power. It assists one to take action to manifest their highest goals, dreams and destiny. In communication it helps timid speakers become both eloquent and bold. Gives courage. Helps overcome fear of taking action or fear of doing the wrong thing. A symbol of the warm vitalizing and positive energy of the earth. When used in meditation it can help one understand how to bring a concept into being. Can assist those who procrastinate or are unable to decide on a course of action. It can lend physical vitality and energy to the body, personal power, creativity and compassion.</p>
<h4>Citrine</h4>
<p>Citrine opens the inner doors to increased clarity of thought, enhanced creativity and magnified powers of will and manifestation. Citrine enables us to open more fully to the energy of Divine Will and the path of love. By resonating with citrine, we are reminded that we are loved and supported by the Universe in our efforts towards manifestation. It supports us in bringing forth what is truly beautiful. Citrine enables one to be more assertive and outgoing. A great stone for people who can’t say no, helping them clearly state what is acceptable and what is not. It brings optimism, playfulness and happiness into one’s energy systems, and gives one a “second wind” to face difficult situations.</p>
<h4>Diamond</h4>
<p>Long held in the treasuries of kings and queens, diamonds were believed to offer access to the Divine energies. This is one reason why diamonds have been set in crowns. Putting such a stone near the brain, particularly at the forehead, can enhance one’s inner vision and intuitive connection with the higher Spirit realms. Worn in everyday life, diamonds can intensify one’s ability to focus consciousness on manifesting one’s goals, dreams and destiny. They seem to emanate more energy for their size than any other stone, and may amplify the power of any emotional state, from uplifted to depressed. They can work therapeutically to “burn through” underlying emotional issues. Diamonds encourage us to see the Light within and to radiate that light outward, illuminating ignorance and illusion. Diamonds often carry the energies of angelic beings who are aligned with both courage and light. They encourage us to express our most sacred self.</p>
<h4>Emerald</h4>
<p>Emerald is the stone which most purely represents the energy patterns of the activated heart chakra (energy center in the body.) An open heart allows the cornucopia of universal blessings to flow into one’s life and perhaps why emerald is known as a stone of prosperity. Wearing emerald helps attune one’s vibrational pattern to the spectrum of abundance, allowing one to attract what one needs and desires. It will support shifting scarcity consciousness to prosperity consciousness. It is also a stone of courage – another emotion that emanates from a strong and open heart. It helps one move forward on the “path with heart” regardless of any threats or danger. Emerald is a wonderful emtional healer allowing one to display one’s compassionate, caring nature without fear of vulnerability. It is a strong heart healer and can assist the physical heart in recovering from all manner of imbalances or diseases.</p>
<h4>Fire agate</h4>
<p>Fire agate assists one in taking decisive action in unclear circumstances. It allows one to manifest Divine guidance through action and can help in all aspects of manifestation work. Fire agate opens the channels of creativity, so that Divine inspiration can flow through one into all one’s activities and artistic expressions. It helps one find the courage to take risks in order to fulfill the inner promptings which call one more fully into passionate involvement with life. It is a ‘stone of eternal youth’ bringing a new sense of vitality to ones overall health.</p>
<h4>Fluorite</h4>
<p>Fluorite can assist in clearing away mental fog, confusion and conflicting ideas. It is a powerful stone to use in balancing the brain. It’s energy acts to quiet worried thoughts and anxiety caused by fear of the future. It aids one in making order out of chaos, structuring one’s energy to accomplish one’s goals and dreams. Assists in organizing energies on many levels of body, mind and spirit.</p>
<h4>Cultured freshwater pearls</h4>
<p>Cultured freshwater pearls are symbolic of prosperity and beauty and are thought to enhance integrity. They are used in the treatment of digestive disorders and for increasing fertility, vitality, and understanding.</p>
<h4>Garnet</h4>
<p>Garnet carries the energy of prosperity producing expansiveness in awareness and manifestation. It balances and stimulates the development and movement of the Kundalini energy. It energizes the total system to vitality and controls and dispenses the amount of energy that is best for the system. Garnet helps one align the emotional and intellectual bodies with the perfection of “All That Is.”</p>
<h4>Gold</h4>
<p>Gold revitalizes one’s physical energies and magnifies the power of most gemstones. It supports openness and integrity and builds confidence in the wearer. It is related to worldly knowlege and an understanding of manifestation. It carries the energy of the Sun, stimulating one’s will to grow and stretch beyond ones current experiences. Can assist one in overcoming paralysis and fear allowing one to move through difficult circumstances. It evokes strength, determination and will. Gold can augment low physical vitality and depressive tendencies.</p>
<h4>Green tourmaline</h4>
<p>Green tourmaline is a premier stone for self-healing. It assists in aligning the hearts electromagnetic field with the electromagnetic field of the Earth, helping to strengthen the heart itself. It helps calm the nervous system and emotions, and it facilitates the proper flow of healing energy through the body. It brings an invigorating energy of growth and expansion to the emotional body. I t can help one become less inhibited and more expressive. It is useful in overcoming fear of change or the over-regulation of one’s life and habits.</p>
<h4>Jade</h4>
<p>Jade is prized for it’s healing and protective qualities. It harmonizes and balances the heart, aiding in both emotional and physical well-being. It helps strengthen and soothe one’s nervous system. It assists one in learning to enjoy physical life. It reminds one to “smell the roses,” touch someone you love, and share your abundant heart with others. Jade is good for attracting abundance and prosperity and for broadcasting peace and loving-kindness to all in one’s surroundings. It helps one to receive Divine abundance on all levels and to share that abundance with others, in affirmations of plenty. Helps heal scarcity-mindedness, fear of money and poverty and other symptoms of belief in money as a measure of worth.</p>
<h4>Jasper</h4>
<p>Jasper is known as the “Supreme Nurturer.” It acts as a reminder that one is not here, on this physical plane, just for oneself, but is also to bring joy and service to others, assisting them in releasing their bonds of constraint. Jasper protects against negativity and helps one to be grounded to the stabilizing energies of the Earth. It steadies ones presence, providing a cleansing effect to smooth dysfunctional energies, and remove negativity. Jasper is a healing and sustaining stone and can assist in keeping ones energy high, in difficult situations. It supports tissue deterioration of the internal organs and is good for soothing the nerves.</p>
<h4>Labradorite</h4>
<p>Labradorite transforms intuition into intellectual thought. May help provide patience and clarity of insight, and the dissipation of disturbing thoughts, instilling strength of peace. Enhances faith and self-reliance, and may help one to realize one’s destiny. It has been used in the treatment of disorders of the brain and to stimulate mental acuity while reducing anxiety. May assist in digestion, regulation, and metabolism. Has been used to clarify the eyes and encourage restful sleep.</p>
<h4>Lapis Lazuli</h4>
<p>Lapis Lazuli augments strength, vitality, virility, mental clarity and illumination. It is associated with expansion of awareness and intellectual capacity, and allows for conscious attunement to the intuitive and psychic aspects of ones nature, as well as the powers of love and healing. It has been used in treatment of conditions related to lymph, inflammation, and pain (especially in/on the head). It supports the psyche and helps relax an overactive mind. Releases tension and anxiety. Strengthens skeletal system. Activates thyroid gland, and stimulates emotional, mental and physical purity and clarity, supporting ones courage in activities culminating in the advancement towards universal wisdom. It assists in balancing the yin-yang energies.</p>
<h4>Larimar</h4>
<p>Larimar helps relieve stress and its physical and energetic effects. It helps calm excessive fear and diffuse explosive anger. It soothes and cools both the physical and energetic bodies, facilitating healing and a return to balance. Larimar is a powerful stone for the throat chakra (energy center in the body.) It assists one in effectively communicating one’s emotions and one’s boundaries in a way others can hear and repsect. Larimar teaches one to respect, love and nurture oneself, so one can have the inner resources to give these gifts to others. It supports a state of confident well being and relaxed knowledge of one’s capacities.</p>
<h4>Mother of Pearl</h4>
<p>Mother of Pearl enhances mental clarity, intuition, sensitivity, imagination, adaptability, cooperation. Helps those in need of loving care; calming and sedating in nature. Also associated with the powers of wealth and protection.</p>
<h4>Ocean Jasper</h4>
<p>Ocean Jasper is a stone of joy and high spirits. It is soothing and centering and can help us from overreacting. It is useful in facilitating a meditative state, and can help an experience of presence in the moment. It banishes complacency and the habit to take ones loved ones, health, prosperity or security for granted. Provides helpful relief from depression by shifting ones focus on the positive, wholesome aspects of life. Beneficial to wear in social situations, as its positive vibrations are amplified and spread through ones energy field to everyone nearby. Supports the regeneration of tissues in the body, the healing of organs and balancing of the glandular system.</p>
<h4>Opal</h4>
<p>Opal is helpful to the pineal and pituitary glands, and aids in the conscious connection to the higher realms. Helps one to recognize and feel the creativity within the Self, providing inspiration and imagination to all situations. Strengthens the memory, and may instill faithfulness and loyalty with respect to love, personal affiliations, and business relationships. Good for blood purification, eye and vision disorders and circulation problems.</p>
<h4>Paua shell</h4>
<p>Paua shell aids creativity and helps to dispel depression and tension. It is an excellent gemstone for healing conditions with the spinal cord or problems with the bones. It is also helpful for ear canal disorders and hearing loss.</p>
<h4>Peridot</h4>
<p>Peridot may help one in the understanding of life’s changes as they occur, and in recognition of the harmful patterns detrimental to growth. May be used to cleanse and stimulate the heart and solar plexus chakras (energy centers in the body,) encouraging openness and acceptance with regard to relationships. Helps to regulate one’s life cycles: physical, mental, emotional, and intellectual. May help lessen anger or jealousy by helping to inspire happiness within the self. Considered an excellent healing stone, peridot may act as a tonic for strengthening and regenerating the body.</p>
<h4>Quartz (clear)</h4>
<p>Quartz (clear) is a versatile and multidimensional stone. It’s key properties are amplification, programability and memory. It’s structure and range of resonance allow it to amplify any energy with which it moves into resonance. It will amplify the energy of any other stone and help make the effects of smaller stones more easily felt. Clear quartz can be “programmed” by one’s focused intention to assist one in achieving virtually any goal whether in the inner or outer realms. This can be amplified by consistency in one’s prayer, feeling or “broadcast,” to penetrate throughout the earths electromagnetic field and into the etheric realms. Clear quartz is excellent for meditation, healing and prayer work. It encourages clarity on all levels.</p>
<h4>Rainbow moonstone</h4>
<p>Rainbow moonstone emanates great vitality, life force and exuberant joy. It offers the gifts of inner peace and harmony, emotional balance and strength, purification and transformation of negativity, as well as psychic protection. Rainbow moonstone facilitates the alignment and activation of all of the chakras (energy centers in the body), while helping one maintain a centered and grounded presence. These gems are powerful healers of the emotional body. They are recommended for anyone who encounters daily stress or who carries old emotional wounds or grief. They aid one in kindling the inner light of the heart and Soul.</p>
<h4>Rhodocrosite</h4>
<p>Rhodocrosite is a stone of joy. It emanates one of the most tender and loving energies of any stone. It soothes the heart and comforts the soul, helping one claim one’s rightful powers and be everything one was meant to be. It vibrates to the frequencies of inner peace and self-forgiveness, allowing one to fully blossom. Rhodocrosite is the foremost ally in healing the inner child, especially where deep emotional traumas have left one unable to feel joy or express one’s creativity. It is ideal for nervous system imbalances. and can be a great aid in withdrawal from caffeine and other stimulants. It is an excellent anti-anxiety and anti-stress stone.</p>
<h4>Ruby</h4>
<p>Ruby stimulates the flow of life-force energy or <em>chi</em> through the body, strengthens one’s ability to meet one’s needs and manifest one’s desires, and can be a catalyst for the activation of the kundalini energy. It is particularly good at attracting prosperity. Rubies eliminate feelings of hopelessness or defeat from one’s thoughts, and they open the wellspring of optimism and determination needed to accomplish difficult goals. Ruby is a stone of courage. It assuages doubt and assists one in dealing with anxiety. It helps one become comfortable with the unknown and teaches one not to fear death. Ruby inspires the protective aspects of one’s character. It encourages one to step forward and stand up for those who are threatened, whether they be friends, children, animals, trees, a homeless stranger or victims of war in another country. Ruby helps one to manifest the attributes of the spiritual warrior.</p>
<h4>Sapphire (blue)</h4>
<p>Sapphire (blue) is a stone of mental and psychic activation, an enhancer of insight and mental agility. It assists one to see below surface appearances to underlying truths and to speak clearly and wisely. Blue sapphire is a royal stone that can be used to evoke wisdom in difficult situations. It lends discipline, strength of mind and greater learning ability. It helps one access deeper levels of consciousness, promoting a fuller understanding of self. Blue sapphire assists those who are easily swayed by the opinions of others, by becoming more secure in one’s opinions and knowledge.</p>
<h4>Sapphire (yellow)</h4>
<p>Sapphire (yellow) has long been recognized as a stone of prosperity. Those who embrace the metaphysical, often use yellow sapphire not only to assist in bringing financial abundance, but also to manifest any vision one wishes to realize. Yellow sapphire stimulates the 2nd and 3rd chakras (energy centers in the body), allowing one to put one’s creative energy to use through action. It assists one in formulating plans and following them to completion. It also will assist to develop and align one’s personal will with Divine will. It can help one see where perserverance is required to overcome obstacles, or where obstacles may be pointing to a misalignment with Divine will. Yellow sapphire can help one distinguish when one is being called upon to overcome a problem from when one is being asked to go in a different direction. Yellow sapphire carries a joyful, exciting energy that can stimulate visions and one’s desire to manifest them. It is a wonderful ally for overcoming procrastination or fear around taking action. It can help one feel more bold and willing to take risks that may allow one to reap much larger rewards than if one “played it safe.” Yellow sapphire assists one in feeling delight in the process of creation – not only in the attainment of one’s goals. It sitmulates creativity and artistry and can bring new ideas of what is possible.</p>
<h4>Silver</h4>
<p>Silver encourages self-containment and inward reflection. It provides one with patience and perseverance and can be a window to the Soul. It supports one’s efforts to go within and explore the deepest aspects of the Self and Nature. It assists one in perceiving the truth behind surface appearances. It aids one in exploring the deep inner realms of emotion and intuition. It is a favorite of those who honor the feminine aspect of nature. Silver bring attunement to the emotional self. It can assist one in embracing mystery and surrendering to the unknown. Can aid in cooling excess heat in the body and bolster the immune systems ability to fight infection.</p>
<h4>Sugilite</h4>
<p>Sugilite is one of the premier stones for this age, because of its numerous beneficial properties. Among them are protection from negative influences in ones environment, awakening the “third eye” and crown chakras (energy centers in the body), and strong influences for healing. Sugilite can be particularly beneficial for those on a spiritual path, as it can assist in “burning” ones karma, removing negative attachments and karmic influences. When one begins to wear or carry sugilite, an energetic cleansing process is initiated. This process can speed up one’s inner development and help one to be a spiritual beacon in the world. When one meditates or dreams with sugilite, it can help realign and begin to manifest what one’s Soul is/has been yearning for in this lifetime. It assists one in finding one’s true spiritual passion and following that passion to abundance and wholeness. It helps one believe in life’s possibilities and offers hope and optimism for a better future.</p>
<h4>Turquoise</h4>
<p>Turquoise is considered to be a healer of the spirit, provider of calm and peace of mind. It induces wisdom and understanding. Thought to combine the energies of the sky and earth, and considered Earth-grounding. Considered to provide strength and protection during vision quests. May enhance trust and kindness. Stimulates the throat, heart, and navel chakras (energy centers in the body). May bring communication and creative skills to emotional situations. Opens communication, expression, mental relaxation. Used in the treatment of headaches, regeneration of tissue, and relief to skin disorders related to stress.</p>
<h4><strong>Many of the intuitive insights shared in the above gemstone descriptions have been borrowed from <em>“The Book of Stones,”</em> by Robert Simmons and Naisha Ahsian.</strong></h4>
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This list includes the natural gemstones, exotic shells and precious metals currently utilized in the items on this website.
h4. Abalone Shell
Abalone Shell stimulates our intuition and imagination. It increases our ability to be more emotionally expressive and encourages co-operation between ourselves and others. Abalone is very much an emotional healing stone and is invaluable when working through emotional issues with someone as it encourages calmness and soothing in emotional situations, but still allows us to be unique individuals and to be expansive.
h4. Amber
Amber has long been honored for its energizing and healing properties. It is a purifier, acting on the energetic, emotional and physical levels to transform negative or stagnant energies into clear, usable frequencies. Amber is an excellent "stone" for protection because it transforms negativity into a source of clear energy. It is recommended for anyone recovering from illness or injury because its warm and nurturing energies activate the life force, as well as one's own emotional desire for wellness. Due to its light-carrying properties amber can help those who become depressed in winter due to light deprivation. It assists in stimulating metabolism, physical energy and the flow of energy along the meridians of the body.
h4. Amethyst
Amethyst is a powerful stone for spiritual protection, expansion and purification. It is an aid to meditation and can help to still one's thoughts. It can help curb overindulgence and assist one to give up unhealthy habits. It balances the nervous system and the brain. Amethyst builds a cocoon of light around one's aura or presence, creating a powerful resonant field that helps one remain clear and centered in the midst of negativity, while staying open to spiritual direction and intuitive information.
h4. Aquamarine
Aquamarine is good for all types of calming and cooling, from hot flashes to anger and hysteria. It also assists one in activating the throat chakra, assisting one in the clear communication of one's highest truth. *For women,* aquamarine lends the courage and clarity to express one's inner knowing, while enhancing intuition. *For men,* aquamarine helps dispel emotional numbness and the difficulty men sometimes experience in communicating their feelings. It is a stone of empowerment and is excellent for teachers and presenters. It is an excellent stone for children who have been through traumatic situations and have disassociated from their emotional bodies, or who are acting out their emotions in an aggressive way.
h4. Blue Topaz
Blue Topaz enhances one's mental processing and speaking skills, as well as improving one's attention span and ability to concentrate on mental tasks. It has a calming, soothing effect on one's emotions. Blue topaz helps one to integrate lessons and gain knowlege from one's experiences. It can assist those who wish to attune to inner guidance, as well as those who hope to serve others through doing readings or spiritual healing work.
h4. Carnelian
Carnelian is usually smooth and often translucent, a durable stone and a dependable lifetime gem. Known to have electro-magnetic properties to help ground the wearer, feeding energy directly through the skin, instilling a feeling of well-being and inflowing power. It assists one to take action to manifest their highest goals, dreams and destiny. In communication it helps timid speakers become both eloquent and bold. Gives courage. Helps overcome fear of taking action or fear of doing the wrong thing. A symbol of the warm vitalizing and positive energy of the earth. When used in meditation it can help one understand how to bring a concept into being. Can assist those who procrastinate or are unable to decide on a course of action. It can lend physical vitality and energy to the body, personal power, creativity and compassion.
h4. Citrine
Citrine opens the inner doors to increased clarity of thought, enhanced creativity and magnified powers of will and manifestation. Citrine enables us to open more fully to the energy of Divine Will and the path of love. By resonating with citrine, we are reminded that we are loved and supported by the Universe in our efforts towards manifestation. It supports us in bringing forth what is truly beautiful. Citrine enables one to be more assertive and outgoing. A great stone for people who can't say no, helping them clearly state what is acceptable and what is not. It brings optimism, playfulness and happiness into one's energy systems, and gives one a "second wind" to face difficult situations.
h4. Diamond
Long held in the treasuries of kings and queens, diamonds were believed to offer access to the Divine energies. This is one reason why diamonds have been set in crowns. Putting such a stone near the brain, particularly at the forehead, can enhance one's inner vision and intuitive connection with the higher Spirit realms. Worn in everyday life, diamonds can intensify one's ability to focus consciousness on manifesting one's goals, dreams and destiny. They seem to emanate more energy for their size than any other stone, and may amplify the power of any emotional state, from uplifted to depressed. They can work therapeutically to "burn through" underlying emotional issues. Diamonds encourage us to see the Light within and to radiate that light outward, illuminating ignorance and illusion. Diamonds often carry the energies of angelic beings who are aligned with both courage and light. They encourage us to express our most sacred self.
h4. Emerald
Emerald is the stone which most purely represents the energy patterns of the activated heart chakra (energy center in the body.) An open heart allows the cornucopia of universal blessings to flow into one's life and perhaps why emerald is known as a stone of prosperity. Wearing emerald helps attune one's vibrational pattern to the spectrum of abundance, allowing one to attract what one needs and desires. It will support shifting scarcity consciousness to prosperity consciousness. It is also a stone of courage - another emotion that emanates from a strong and open heart. It helps one move forward on the "path with heart" regardless of any threats or danger. Emerald is a wonderful emtional healer allowing one to display one's compassionate, caring nature without fear of vulnerability. It is a strong heart healer and can assist the physical heart in recovering from all manner of imbalances or diseases.
h4. Fire agate
Fire agate assists one in taking decisive action in unclear circumstances. It allows one to manifest Divine guidance through action and can help in all aspects of manifestation work. Fire agate opens the channels of creativity, so that Divine inspiration can flow through one into all one's activities and artistic expressions. It helps one find the courage to take risks in order to fulfill the inner promptings which call one more fully into passionate involvement with life. It is a 'stone of eternal youth' bringing a new sense of vitality to ones overall health.
h4. Fluorite
Fluorite can assist in clearing away mental fog, confusion and conflicting ideas. It is a powerful stone to use in balancing the brain. It's energy acts to quiet worried thoughts and anxiety caused by fear of the future. It aids one in making order out of chaos, structuring one's energy to accomplish one's goals and dreams. Assists in organizing energies on many levels of body, mind and spirit.
h4. Cultured freshwater pearls
Cultured freshwater pearls are symbolic of prosperity and beauty and are thought to enhance integrity. They are used in the treatment of digestive disorders and for increasing fertility, vitality, and understanding.
h4. Garnet
Garnet carries the energy of prosperity producing expansiveness in awareness and manifestation. It balances and stimulates the development and movement of the Kundalini energy. It energizes the total system to vitality and controls and dispenses the amount of energy that is best for the system. Garnet helps one align the emotional and intellectual bodies with the perfection of "All That Is."
h4. Gold
Gold revitalizes one's physical energies and magnifies the power of most gemstones. It supports openness and integrity and builds confidence in the wearer. It is related to worldly knowlege and an understanding of manifestation. It carries the energy of the Sun, stimulating one's will to grow and stretch beyond ones current experiences. Can assist one in overcoming paralysis and fear allowing one to move through difficult circumstances. It evokes strength, determination and will. Gold can augment low physical vitality and depressive tendencies.
h4. Green tourmaline
Green tourmaline is a premier stone for self-healing. It assists in aligning the hearts electromagnetic field with the electromagnetic field of the Earth, helping to strengthen the heart itself. It helps calm the nervous system and emotions, and it facilitates the proper flow of healing energy through the body. It brings an invigorating energy of growth and expansion to the emotional body. I t can help one become less inhibited and more expressive. It is useful in overcoming fear of change or the over-regulation of one's life and habits.
h4. Jade
Jade is prized for it's healing and protective qualities. It harmonizes and balances the heart, aiding in both emotional and physical well-being. It helps strengthen and soothe one's nervous system. It assists one in learning to enjoy physical life. It reminds one to "smell the roses," touch someone you love, and share your abundant heart with others. Jade is good for attracting abundance and prosperity and for broadcasting peace and loving-kindness to all in one's surroundings. It helps one to receive Divine abundance on all levels and to share that abundance with others, in affirmations of plenty. Helps heal scarcity-mindedness, fear of money and poverty and other symptoms of belief in money as a measure of worth.
h4. Jasper
Jasper is known as the "Supreme Nurturer." It acts as a reminder that one is not here, on this physical plane, just for oneself, but is also to bring joy and service to others, assisting them in releasing their bonds of constraint. Jasper protects against negativity and helps one to be grounded to the stabilizing energies of the Earth. It steadies ones presence, providing a cleansing effect to smooth dysfunctional energies, and remove negativity. Jasper is a healing and sustaining stone and can assist in keeping ones energy high, in difficult situations. It supports tissue deterioration of the internal organs and is good for soothing the nerves.
h4. Labradorite
Labradorite transforms intuition into intellectual thought. May help provide patience and clarity of insight, and the dissipation of disturbing thoughts, instilling strength of peace. Enhances faith and self-reliance, and may help one to realize one's destiny. It has been used in the treatment of disorders of the brain and to stimulate mental acuity while reducing anxiety. May assist in digestion, regulation, and metabolism. Has been used to clarify the eyes and encourage restful sleep.
h4. Lapis Lazuli
Lapis Lazuli augments strength, vitality, virility, mental clarity and illumination. It is associated with expansion of awareness and intellectual capacity, and allows for conscious attunement to the intuitive and psychic aspects of ones nature, as well as the powers of love and healing. It has been used in treatment of conditions related to lymph, inflammation, and pain (especially in/on the head). It supports the psyche and helps relax an overactive mind. Releases tension and anxiety. Strengthens skeletal system. Activates thyroid gland, and stimulates emotional, mental and physical purity and clarity, supporting ones courage in activities culminating in the advancement towards universal wisdom. It assists in balancing the yin-yang energies.
h4. Larimar
Larimar helps relieve stress and its physical and energetic effects. It helps calm excessive fear and diffuse explosive anger. It soothes and cools both the physical and energetic bodies, facilitating healing and a return to balance. Larimar is a powerful stone for the throat chakra (energy center in the body.) It assists one in effectively communicating one's emotions and one's boundaries in a way others can hear and repsect. Larimar teaches one to respect, love and nurture oneself, so one can have the inner resources to give these gifts to others. It supports a state of confident well being and relaxed knowledge of one's capacities.
h4. Mother of Pearl
Mother of Pearl enhances mental clarity, intuition, sensitivity, imagination, adaptability, cooperation. Helps those in need of loving care; calming and sedating in nature. Also associated with the powers of wealth and protection.
h4. Ocean Jasper
Ocean Jasper is a stone of joy and high spirits. It is soothing and centering and can help us from overreacting. It is useful in facilitating a meditative state, and can help an experience of presence in the moment. It banishes complacency and the habit to take ones loved ones, health, prosperity or security for granted. Provides helpful relief from depression by shifting ones focus on the positive, wholesome aspects of life. Beneficial to wear in social situations, as its positive vibrations are amplified and spread through ones energy field to everyone nearby. Supports the regeneration of tissues in the body, the healing of organs and balancing of the glandular system.
h4. Opal
Opal is helpful to the pineal and pituitary glands, and aids in the conscious connection to the higher realms. Helps one to recognize and feel the creativity within the Self, providing inspiration and imagination to all situations. Strengthens the memory, and may instill faithfulness and loyalty with respect to love, personal affiliations, and business relationships. Good for blood purification, eye and vision disorders and circulation problems.
h4. Paua shell
Paua shell aids creativity and helps to dispel depression and tension. It is an excellent gemstone for healing conditions with the spinal cord or problems with the bones. It is also helpful for ear canal disorders and hearing loss.
h4. Peridot
Peridot may help one in the understanding of life's changes as they occur, and in recognition of the harmful patterns detrimental to growth. May be used to cleanse and stimulate the heart and solar plexus chakras (energy centers in the body,) encouraging openness and acceptance with regard to relationships. Helps to regulate one's life cycles: physical, mental, emotional, and intellectual. May help lessen anger or jealousy by helping to inspire happiness within the self. Considered an excellent healing stone, peridot may act as a tonic for strengthening and regenerating the body.
h4. Quartz (clear)
Quartz (clear) is a versatile and multidimensional stone. It's key properties are amplification, programability and memory. It's structure and range of resonance allow it to amplify any energy with which it moves into resonance. It will amplify the energy of any other stone and help make the effects of smaller stones more easily felt. Clear quartz can be "programmed" by one's focused intention to assist one in achieving virtually any goal whether in the inner or outer realms. This can be amplified by consistency in one's prayer, feeling or "broadcast," to penetrate throughout the earths electromagnetic field and into the etheric realms. Clear quartz is excellent for meditation, healing and prayer work. It encourages clarity on all levels.
h4. Rainbow moonstone
Rainbow moonstone emanates great vitality, life force and exuberant joy. It offers the gifts of inner peace and harmony, emotional balance and strength, purification and transformation of negativity, as well as psychic protection. Rainbow moonstone facilitates the alignment and activation of all of the chakras (energy centers in the body), while helping one maintain a centered and grounded presence. These gems are powerful healers of the emotional body. They are recommended for anyone who encounters daily stress or who carries old emotional wounds or grief. They aid one in kindling the inner light of the heart and Soul.
h4. Rhodocrosite
Rhodocrosite is a stone of joy. It emanates one of the most tender and loving energies of any stone. It soothes the heart and comforts the soul, helping one claim one's rightful powers and be everything one was meant to be. It vibrates to the frequencies of inner peace and self-forgiveness, allowing one to fully blossom. Rhodocrosite is the foremost ally in healing the inner child, especially where deep emotional traumas have left one unable to feel joy or express one's creativity. It is ideal for nervous system imbalances. and can be a great aid in withdrawal from caffeine and other stimulants. It is an excellent anti-anxiety and anti-stress stone.
h4. Ruby
Ruby stimulates the flow of life-force energy or _chi_ through the body, strengthens one's ability to meet one's needs and manifest one's desires, and can be a catalyst for the activation of the kundalini energy. It is particularly good at attracting prosperity. Rubies eliminate feelings of hopelessness or defeat from one's thoughts, and they open the wellspring of optimism and determination needed to accomplish difficult goals. Ruby is a stone of courage. It assuages doubt and assists one in dealing with anxiety. It helps one become comfortable with the unknown and teaches one not to fear death. Ruby inspires the protective aspects of one's character. It encourages one to step forward and stand up for those who are threatened, whether they be friends, children, animals, trees, a homeless stranger or victims of war in another country. Ruby helps one to manifest the attributes of the spiritual warrior.
h4. Sapphire (blue)
Sapphire (blue) is a stone of mental and psychic activation, an enhancer of insight and mental agility. It assists one to see below surface appearances to underlying truths and to speak clearly and wisely. Blue sapphire is a royal stone that can be used to evoke wisdom in difficult situations. It lends discipline, strength of mind and greater learning ability. It helps one access deeper levels of consciousness, promoting a fuller understanding of self. Blue sapphire assists those who are easily swayed by the opinions of others, by becoming more secure in one's opinions and knowledge.
h4. Sapphire (yellow)
Sapphire (yellow) has long been recognized as a stone of prosperity. Those who embrace the metaphysical, often use yellow sapphire not only to assist in bringing financial abundance, but also to manifest any vision one wishes to realize. Yellow sapphire stimulates the 2nd and 3rd chakras (energy centers in the body), allowing one to put one's creative energy to use through action. It assists one in formulating plans and following them to completion. It also will assist to develop and align one's personal will with Divine will. It can help one see where perserverance is required to overcome obstacles, or where obstacles may be pointing to a misalignment with Divine will. Yellow sapphire can help one distinguish when one is being called upon to overcome a problem from when one is being asked to go in a different direction. Yellow sapphire carries a joyful, exciting energy that can stimulate visions and one's desire to manifest them. It is a wonderful ally for overcoming procrastination or fear around taking action. It can help one feel more bold and willing to take risks that may allow one to reap much larger rewards than if one "played it safe." Yellow sapphire assists one in feeling delight in the process of creation - not only in the attainment of one's goals. It sitmulates creativity and artistry and can bring new ideas of what is possible.
h4. Silver
Silver encourages self-containment and inward reflection. It provides one with patience and perseverance and can be a window to the Soul. It supports one's efforts to go within and explore the deepest aspects of the Self and Nature. It assists one in perceiving the truth behind surface appearances. It aids one in exploring the deep inner realms of emotion and intuition. It is a favorite of those who honor the feminine aspect of nature. Silver bring attunement to the emotional self. It can assist one in embracing mystery and surrendering to the unknown. Can aid in cooling excess heat in the body and bolster the immune systems ability to fight infection.
h4. Sugilite
Sugilite is one of the premier stones for this age, because of its numerous beneficial properties. Among them are protection from negative influences in ones environment, awakening the "third eye" and crown chakras (energy centers in the body), and strong influences for healing. Sugilite can be particularly beneficial for those on a spiritual path, as it can assist in "burning" ones karma, removing negative attachments and karmic influences. When one begins to wear or carry sugilite, an energetic cleansing process is initiated. This process can speed up one's inner development and help one to be a spiritual beacon in the world. When one meditates or dreams with sugilite, it can help realign and begin to manifest what one's Soul is/has been yearning for in this lifetime. It assists one in finding one's true spiritual passion and following that passion to abundance and wholeness. It helps one believe in life's possibilities and offers hope and optimism for a better future.
h4. Turquoise
Turquoise is considered to be a healer of the spirit, provider of calm and peace of mind. It induces wisdom and understanding. Thought to combine the energies of the sky and earth, and considered Earth-grounding. Considered to provide strength and protection during vision quests. May enhance trust and kindness. Stimulates the throat, heart, and navel chakras (energy centers in the body). May bring communication and creative skills to emotional situations. Opens communication, expression, mental relaxation. Used in the treatment of headaches, regeneration of tissue, and relief to skin disorders related to stress.
h4. *Many of the intuitive insights shared in the above gemstone descriptions have been borrowed from _"The Book of Stones,"_ by Robert Simmons and Naisha Ahsian.*