Chrystal Path Welcomes You

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APACHE TEAR (solid black but translucent when held to the light)is a gentler cousin to obsidian.  Apache tears bring up negativity so it can be worked through gently then works to absorb it.  This stone is an excellent protector and grounder, thus keeping others from draining you emotionally.   It comforts grief and provides help during times of distress and loss.  This stone promotes deep thought and contemplation and promotes forgiveness.  Tears remove self-limitations and increase your spontaneity.  “Physically” it helps with the absorption of Vitamin C & D (anemia), while removing toxins from the body and calms muscle spasms and cramps, and heals the stomach, digestive, and intestinal systems.  

   Native American legend tells us that during a battle, the US Cavalry came upon a small band of Pinal Apache warriors on a mountain near superior Arizona.   They found themselves faced with defeat and capture, so rather than face disgrace at the hands of their enemies, they chose death from their friend the mountain, and leapt from a great cliff.  The Great Spirit looked down on their grieving loved ones and turned their tears into stones so that all who saw them will remember the lost warriors.  It is said the owners of Apache tears will never cry again.   Apache tears should “never” be drilled, as it damages the soul of the stone. 

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BLUE LACE AGATE  (light blue/banded) is a wonderful healing stone.  Its soft energy is cooling and brings peace of mind while it goes to work finding your pain and soothing it.  It allows free verbal expression of thoughts and feelings and counteracts stress.  Being a supportive and nurturing stone, it neutralizes anger, infection, inflammation and fever.  It also helps with feelings of insecurity and self confidence coming from a fear of being judged by others.  (Very effective in the “parent/child relationship” be you a child or adult)    A super stress reliever, the peace of this stone will clear the throat so feelings of anger are dissipated and truths can be said honestly and with out spite.   “Physically” it is a wonderful throat healer, releases shoulder and neck tension/pain.  It helps thyroid deficiencies, throat and lymph infections, lowers fever, soothes the nervous system, treats arthritic and bone deformity thus strengthening the skeletal system and heals fractures.   It can treat brain fluid imbalance and hydrocephalus as an elixir.  It helps to heal hearing loss.

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MOSS AGATE  (dark green w/clouds/white) is one of the stones of “new beginnings”.  It improves self esteem and positive personality traits, promotes self expression and communication skills, reduces deep seated stress and fear, while encouraging trust & hope.   Moss agate is an aura protector.  It connects the spiritual to the physical.  It is also a medium to one’s “spirit guides”, nature’s spirits and Mother earth (ie. plants & animals).  Sometimes called a prosperity stone, it is highly valued as a gardeners talisman for it increases your plants fertility and ensures a bountiful crop.  Place the stone in water and leave in the sun, then remove the stone and use the elixir created to water your indoor/outdoor plants and watch them thrive.  “Physically”, Moss Agate can speed recovery from illness or injury and can counteract long term illness effects.   It’s an anti-inflammatory and cleanses the circulatory & elimination systems, helps prevent hypoglycemia and dehydration, treats infections, colds & flu and lowers fever, reduces swollen lymph nodes and can treat fungal and skin infections.  (Useful as an elixir to the skin.)

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AMETHYST  (the many colors of purple, dark to light) is an extremely powerful and protective stone.   A natural tranquilizer, Amethyst blocks geopathic stress and negative environmental energies.  Wonderful to use for meditation as it enhances your mental and spiritual awareness, it has very strong healing and cleansing powers.  Traditionally it was worn to prevent drunkenness and does have a sobering effect on overindulgence, amethyst can overcome any addiction and blockages of all kinds.  It can calm or stimulate your mind depending on the need.   It helps with decision making using common sense and insight and helps put those decisions into practice.

Amethyst enhances memory and improves motivation.  It balances out life's highs and lows, promoting emotional centering, relieving physical, emotional and psychological stress or pain.  It dispels anger, rage, fear, and anxiety, alleviating sadness or grief and can support you in times of loss helping you come to terms with it.  “Physically”, amethyst boosts the production of hormones, tunes the endocrine system and your metabolism, helping with weight control.  It can strengthen and clean your elimination organs.  Amethyst relieves physical, emotional and psychological pain and stress.  It eases headaches and releases tension, reduces bruising and swelling.  It can help with hearing disorders, diseases of the lungs and respiratory tract, helps skin conditions (acne), benefits the intestines regulating the flora, removing parasites and helping with the re-absorption of water (diarrhea/constipation).  This stone is wonderful for insomnia or nights when sleep won’t come because your mind won’t quiet...just slip one beneath your pillow.  

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AMETRINE  (perfectly transparent light purple w/some gold) is a powerful combination of two stones, Amethyst and Citrine.  This crystal clears stress and tension from the head, calming the mind and granting focus, thus promoting healing.  An extremely energetic stone, it stimulates creativity and supports taking control of ones own life.  It brings clarity and helps with thinking things through and exploring all possibilities.  Ametrine promotes a feeling of well being that is not disturbed by outside influences.   “Physically”, ametrine gets to the bottom of things, its powerful cleansing gets rid of negative energy in your aura and eliminates toxins from the body.   It’s a powerful blood cleanser and energizer, and will strengthen your immune system, nervous system and help with physical maturation.  It heals chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, fatigue and lethargy, tension headaches and other stress related physical problems including stomach upset and ulcers.  

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AVENTURINE  (I have the green with inner sparkles)defuses negative situations and turns them around.  It is very useful in Feng Shui as it grids against geopathic stress in your home or garden.   It diffuses bad situations and turns them around, reinforcing your thought and leadership qualities allowing you to see both sides of a situation and help you find the answers.  It calms anger and irritation with others.    Aventurine stimulates emotional recovery and enables living within ones own heart.   “Physically” Aventurine relieves  migraine headaches as an anti inflammatory and heals skin eruptions and allergy/sinus symptoms.    Aventurine benefits the nervous system, the thymus gland, balances blood pressure and lowers cholestrol, it soothes the eyes, and heals the adrenals, lungs, sinuses, heart, muscular and urogenital systems too!  Use as an elixir on the skin and to drink for sinus and allergy troubles.

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BLOODSTONE  (dark green with red speckling and spots)is an excellent grounding, protecting, and healing stone.  In ancient times it was believed to have mystical and magical properties to control weather, banish evil and negative energy, and to direct spiritual energies.  It was said that bloodstone was an “audible oracle”.  Today, it heightens intuition and increases creativity while it stimulates dreaming and energizes.  If you place it by your bedside in a dish filled with pure water, it will help with restful dream filled sleep.  Bloodstone calms the mind when needed, clears confusion, and helps with decision making.  It can revitalize a tired mind which is especially helpful if you work too hard, and can reduce irritability, aggressive behavior and impatience with others and yourself.  "Physically" this stone stimulates the immune system to fight infection, helps with the flow of lymph and re-energizes the body and mind when exhausted.  It purifies the blood, detoxifies the liver, intestines, kidneys, spleen, and bladder, improves blood circulation, and reduces infection.  It has been helpful when used for leukemia,  it works to clean the blood and blood organs by removing toxins.  Ancient Egyptians used it to shrink tumors.

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 CARNELIAN  ( translucent and in assorted colors of orange)grounds and anchors you to the present  and reality.   Carnelian has the ability to cleanse other stones!   It restores vitality, motivation and stimulates creativity, gives courage, promotes positive life choices, dispels apathy, and motivates one to strive for success.   It helps you to trust in yourself and your perceptions of life around you, helps you figure out what makes you “tic”.  Carnelian is a powerful protector against envy, rage, jealousy, and resentment, yours or other peoples.   It can calm anger and negative energy replacing it with a positive outlook.   “Physically”, it is full of life forces and can stimulate your metabolism, increases fertility if desired by influencing reproductive organs.  It can overcome depression, especially  for those in advanced years, heals lower back problems, rheumatism, arthritis,  neuralgia pain (fibromyalgia),  accelerates healing of bone and ligaments, and slows bleeding.

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BLUE CHALCEDONY  (light ice blue w/ tan shading)brings mind, body, emotions, and spirit into harmony. A nurturing stone, it eases self-doubt and facilitates constructive inward reflection and increases physical energy.  This is a creative stone that opens the mind to new ideas and helps you accept of new situations.  It imparts mental flexibility and verbal dexterity, enhancing listening skills and communication, stimulates memory, especially good for students and those learning new skills and gives one the feeling of light heartedness and optimism.  This stone is used for weather induced illness, seasonal affective disorder, arthritis and rheumatism, helps with the regeneration of mucus membranes and heals disease caused by weather sensitivity.  ie COPD, asthma, bronchitis, glaucoma.   Blue chalcedony boosts the immune system, stimulates the flow of lymph and banishes edema (swelling).    It has an anti-inflammatory effect and lowers fever and blood pressure, heals the lungs and clears the respiratory system. (ie also the effects of smoking)  It is a powerful cleanser, healing open sores, helps foster the maternal instinct, increases lactation and improves absorption of minerals, keeps build up fromyour veins, good for senile dementia, Alzheimers, heals the eyes, gallbladder, bones, spleen, and blood.

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CHRYSOCOLLA  (electric turquoise blue w/cloudy opaque spots/tan) is one that will help you to accept situations that are constantly changing, invoking great inner strength.  It is beneficial to relationships that have become rocky, stabilizing and healing both the home and personal interaction, helps improve communication but also helps you to know when to keep silent.  Chrysocolla encourages self-awareness, inner balance, and gives you confidence with sensitivity.  It reduces mental tension, helps you keep a cool head, speak with truth, and alleviates guilt.  It draws off any negative energy that is harming you, calms and energizes all the chakras and aligns them.  “Physically” it treats arthritis, bone diseases, muscle spasms and cramps (restless leg syndrome), soothes the digestive tract, soothes & heals ulcers, helps with blood disorders and lung problems, detoxifies the liver, kidneys and intestines.  It oxygenates the blood and the structure of the lungs giving greater breathing ability, it regulates insulin, regenerates the pancreas.  With it's cooling feel, it heals infection, lowers fever, lowers blood pressure, soothes burns, strengthens the thyroid.  This stone is excellent in treating PMS and menstrual cramps.

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CITRINE  (golden/white/clear with sparkles) carries the power of the sun and energizes every level of life.  It is a very powerful cleanser and regenerator and is one of the few stones that never needs cleaning.   It absorbs, transmutes, dissipates and grounds negative energy and is very protective for your environment and it can cleanse the solar plexus and navel chakras, activate your crown chakra and improve intuition.  It is one of the stones of abundance and it teaches us how to attract success and prosperity, it has the power to impart joy on all who behold it and is useful for soothing  dispair and removes destructive tendencies.  Citrine raises self-esteem and self-confidence, helps you develop a positive attitude and look forward, going with the flow instead of hanging on to the past.  This stone encourages exploring every possible avenue until you find the best possible situation, it helps with concentration, revitalizes the mind and overcomes depression, fears and phobias.  It helps you digest information, analyze situations and steer them in a positive direction.  Wearing a citrine overcomes difficulty in verbalizing thoughts and feelings.  “Physically” Citrine reverses degenerative disease, it stimulates digestion, the spleen, and pancreas.  It heals infections of the kidney and bladder, helps eye problems, increases blood circulation while detoxifying, activates the thymus and balances the thyroid.   It has a warming effect and helps fortify your nerves.  Citrine is useful for constipation, and it is helpful for menstrual symptoms, and menopause ie.  hot flashes, hormone imbalance and fatigue.

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FLOURITE      (transparent blue/green)  or RAINBOW FLOURITE (multi colored with aqua, purple and clear) cleanses, purifies, dispels, and reorganizes anything within the body that is not in perfect order.  It is effective against geopathic and computer stress, it can heighten your intuitive powers, making you more aware, and overcomes chaos within the physical, emotional or mental body.  Fluorite dissolves fixed patterns of behavior and gently opens the door to the subconscious bringing suppressed feelings to the surface for resolution, it dissolves illusions and reveals truth, while imparting increased self confidence.   "Physically" fluorite is a very powerful tool dealing with teeth and bones disorders, protecting against viruses especially colds, flu, and sinusitis, it regenerates skin, mucus membranes, the respiratory system, it heals ulcers and wounds.  For mobilizing stiff joints stroke across the body toward the heart, it will clear all body pain and nerve related pain like shingles. (palm stones are the most incredible soothers and healers).   Keep one in your pocket, by the computer or bedside, or in bed, taped or worn close to your body, fluorite will ease soothe.

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GARNET (brilliant cranberry red)

A super energizer regenerator, garnet cleanses and revitalizes the chakras, it balances energy bringing peace or passion depending on the need.  A stone of commitment, it is very useful for relationships.  In a crisis, a garnet will help you center and focus so you are able to see the way through it, while it strengthens your survival instincts giving you hope and courage where there was despair.  Garnet is strongly attached to the pituitary gland.  It can supercharge other stones and crystals magnifying their energy.  It stimulates your metabolism allowing you to feel more balanced, treats the spine and other cellular disorders, purifying and energizing the blood, heart, and lungs.

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GOLDSTONE  (a deep copper color w/ gold sparkles)increases your energy on all levels and helps you keep it, especially during times of great stress and activity.  This stone has the ability to amplify the power of other stones and crystals.  A soothing stone used to calm and protect.  Can be dyed usually in a deep blue.

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HEMATITE  (metallic silver gray)is very effective at grounding you, while harmonizing body, mind and spirit it dissolves negativity and protects any from entering your aura.    A good stone for the timid man or woman, it boosts self-esteem, enhances willpower and imparts confidence helping you come to terms with mistakes and to accept them as learning experiences rather than disasters.  It stimulates concentration, focus and memory.  Hematite has a strong connection to the blood supply, it helps with Reynaud’s disease, anemia, bruises, contusions, burns and blistering...placed on an injury, it will slow bleeding and minimize the bruising, for burns it cools the heat easing the pain, placed at the top of your spine, hematite helps with spinal manipulation by a chiropractor, physical therapist, or Reiki practitioner.

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HOWLITE  (white w/gray-tan marbling)is such a calming stone,  placed under the pillow it helps with getting to sleep, especially when your mind won’t quiet down.  This stone teaches patience and eliminates rage or uncontrolled anger.  (super for temper tantrums)  A stone in your pocket helps you to mind what you say and how you say it and to whom, and not to be hurtful and critical with words.  “Physically” howlite is wonderful for balancing calcium levels in teeth, bones and soft tissues. (ie. bone deterioration, teeth problems, healing fractures) 

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JADE  (I carry the dark green), also known as Nephrite Jade, is a protective stone, it keeps you from harm and is believed to attract good luck and friendship.  Jade promotes self sufficiency, releases negative thoughts and soothes the mind.   Also called the “dream stone”, if placed on the forehead, it will bring pleasant and insightful dreams and helps you release feelings of irritability.  Jade encourages you to become who you want to be as it helps you recognize yourself as a being on a journey through life and helps you find the knowledge you seek to succeed and survive.  “Physically” jade treats the kidney and supra-adrenal glands, it removes toxins and helps rebuild cellular and skeletal systems, heals stitches, improves fertility and aids in childbirth, as it works on the hips and spleen.   

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RED JASPER  (brick red, can include brecciated jasper which has hematite within it) is gently energizing while it grounds and helps with unjust situations.  It supports in times of stress and brings problems to light before they get too big to handle.  It makes a great “worry stone” calming emotions when stroked and held.  Placed under a pillow it helps with good dreams and dream recall, it can cleanse and stabilize your auras and chakras.  Jasper is a stone of good health, strengthening and detoxifying the blood system and the liver.

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YELLOW JASPER  (golden tan/slightly banded) brings determination in all pursuits, granting the courage and confidence to deal with problems assertively while it encourages honesty within yourself, it supports during life's conflicts stimulating imagination and transforming ideas into action.   Jasper brings problems to light before they become too big and provides insight into the most difficult situations whilst  it calms you when held as a worry stone.  Yellow jasper protects during spiritual work and physical travel, channels positive energy while absorbing negative energy and cleansing it.  A stone of the healer, jasper supports during prolonged illness, injury, or hospitalization and re-energizes the person holding or wearing it.  "Physically" Yellow Jasper helps the circulatory and digestive systems, the female organs, and balances the mineral content within the body working slowly but effectively if worn/held often.  Yellow jasper makes one feel energized, it stimulates the solar plexus and endocrine system, releases toxins and heals indigestion.  A useful stone for pain if placed over the site that hurts until it eases.

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LABRADORITE   (gray-green w/rainbows in it like an oil slick) is a highly protective stone.  It can deflect unwanted energies and form a barrier to negative energy.  This one stimulates intuition and psychic gifts, bringing messages from the unconscious mind to the surface and helping to clarify their understanding.   It strengthens ones faith in yourself, banishes fears and insecurities.  This is an excellent dispeller of illusion and helps you see the truth behind thoughts and actions, while calming the overactive mind, it allows for new positive thoughts and ideas, showing their true meanings, and a useful stone if going through change, giving you strength and perseverance.  “Physically”, it helps with troubles with eyes and the brain.  It is a great stress reducer, can treat colds, gout, rheumatism, relieves menstrual tension and lowers blood pressure.

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LAPIS LAZULI  (medium blue w/smoke) possesses enormous serenity, quickly releasing stress and bringing deep peace.  Lapis opens the third eye and balances the throat chakra, and enhances dream work.  A protective stone, it can help you contact your spirit guardians, block negative energy and return it to its source.  A stone that harmonizes the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels within you, it encourages taking charge of ones life revealing inner truths, encourageing self-awareness, and allows for self-expression without holding back or compromising.  This stone enhances the qualities of honesty and compassion.  It is a powerful thought amplifier and helps bring objectivity and clarity to that thought.  It helps you express your opinions and harmonizes conflict, and teaches the value of active listening.  This stone bonds relationships in love and friendship and helps you express your feelings and emotions.  "Physically" Lapis Lazuli is one of the finest pain relievers, especially with migraine headaches, pressed to the area of pain it will absorb it and ease the inflammation and ease the headache and eye pain. (be sure to cleanse and recharge after using it).  Lapis helps with depression, the respiratory and nervous system, the throat, larynx, and thyroid, cleanses the organs, bone marrow, purifies the blood, and boosts the immune system.  It can help with insomnia (put it in your hand or under your pillow), dizziness and lowers blood pressure.  Lapis is a great healer and helper.

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LEPIDOLITE  (sparkly lavender) should be used in front of all computers to block electromagnetic pollution.  Lepidolite insists on being used for the greatest good as it dispels negative feelings, heals the throat, heart, and crown chakras.   This stone is extremely useful in the reduction of stress and depression, it halts obsessive thoughts and relieves despondency, and helps you sleep.  Lepidolite contains “lithium”, and is most helpful with mood swings and bipolar disorders, it's wonderful for overcoming emotional or mental dependency.  Addictions and complaints of all kinds are helped by this “stone of transition” as it induces change, and the breaking of old patterns that can be self destructive with its power of objectivity and concentration, it speeds up decision making.  “Physically”, it can locate the site of disease or illness and will vibrate gently.  Lepidolite relieves allergies, strengthens the immune system,  relieves exhaustion, it numbs sciatica, and back pain, overcomes joint problems, detoxifies the skin, and can help with menopause.  (Also effective with epilepsy and alzheimers.)

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MALACHITE   (dark green striped) is a powerful stone but should be handled with care and caution.  It is toxic (copper) and should be used only in polished form.  Malachite does not like to be wet so do not cleanse it with water but use sunlight and/or sage and it t should be cleansed after each use.  Malachite is one of the most important healing stones of the future, it amplifies positive and negative energy, is an important protector and will absorb any negative energy you feel coming after you.  Life is lived more fully when shared with this stone, as it encourages risk taking and trying change.  Malachite draws forth deep feelings and breaks unwanted ties and worn out patterns, teaching you to be responsible for your own actions, thoughts and feelings.  It helps those who deal with shyness and supports them.  Malachite enhances your ability to get to the core of a problem or dilema and work through it to a solution.  “Physically” Malachite can do almost anything it is so versatile!  It is especially helpful with cramps (including menstrual), helps the childbirth process, it has been called the “midwife stone”, lowers blood pressure, treats asthma, arthritis, epilepsy, fractures, swollen joints, warts, tumors and cysts, motion sickness, dizziness, the pancreas, spleen and parathyroid.  Great for enhancing the immune system and stimulatingy the liver to eliminate toxins andcan treat diabetes when worn around the waist.   NOTE!!!: Malachite may cause slight heart palpitations, if this happens remove the stone immediately and replace with Rose Quartz or Rhodonite.

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MOONSTONE  (milky/translucent, can be in soft color..green,pink,melon, as well as white or beige) is another stone of “new beginnings”.  As the name suggests, it is closely associated with the moon and 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 life and change.  It’s most powerful effect is that of calming the emotions, promotes intuition, empathy and vivid dreaming, and can enhance psychic/intuitive abilities.  It helps balance the male and female energies that are inside all of us, soothes emotional insecurity and stress and stabilizes the emotions.  “Physically”, it provides deep healing  the disorders so often caused in the upper digestive tract that can be caused by a lot of stress.  Often called “the woman’s stone”, it is excellent for PMS, conception issues, pregnancy, childbirth, and breast feeding.  Moonstone can be used to prevent sleep walking and help with sleep disorders like insomnia, night terrors or bad dreams.  Moonstone helps eliminate toxins and fluid retention and heals degenerative conditions of the skin, hair, eyes, and fleshy organs ie. the liver and pancreas.

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ONYX  (deep black, sometimes w/creamy marble bands) is a stone that imparts strength and support during trying or confusing times of mental or physical stress while it boosts your energy giving you vigor and stamina.  By helping you learn, it gives you self confidence and helps you feel at ease in your surroundings.   Onyx holds the memories of things that have happened to the wearer, in that it helps you deal with the good and the bad, a very effective stone at healing old grief and sorrow, a mental tonic to alleviate overwhelming fears and worries.  Onyx is extremely helpful for teeth, bones, bone marrow and blood disorders and also helps the feet with pain and swelling.

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OPAL QUARTZ (irridescent white with rainbows within...I only have horse pendants and some jewelry in this) is a magical crystal that has a paler rainbow produced from platinum being radiated into it.  Opal Aura Quartz is a crystal of joy.  It purifies and balances all of your chakras making you feel more right with the world, opening you to a state of awareness where you may have felt quite "cloudy".  The grounding that this crystal gives us helps the physical body as well.  It can bring about an awareness of thought and cosmic being.  This is an all around feel good crystal, to hold it and feel it warm is to feel better.

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TOURMALINATED QUARTZ (clear but smoky w/ dark strands within)

This I use in bead form.  It brings together the healing properites of quartz and tourmalineand is a wonderful grounding stone, it strengthens and protects the body's energy aura from bad influences releasing you from ingrained behavior patterns and releases tension at all levels.  Great for the bi-polar, ADHD, ADD personalities as it helps balances energy and thought to a better focus, goal and helps as a problem solver.  Tourmalinated quartz harmonizes everything, chakras, body, mind, spirit.

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PREHNITE  (soft glowing green) is a crystal that can heal the healer, helps with meditation and getting in touch with ones inner self, enabling us to always feel prepared, no matter what.  Prehnite calms the environment one lives in and brings with it a feeling of peace and protection, helps one make a home into a healing safe sanctuary.  It can help with bad dreams, nightmares, insomnia, fears or phobias and will heal them.  Prehnite will go to the root of illness or injury and help, heals the kidneys, bladder, thymus gland, shoulders, chest, and lungs, treats gout, blood disorders, repairs connective tissue damage and can stabilize a malignancy.

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RHODOCHROSITE   (berry colored w/ creamy swirls and bands) representing selfless love and compassion is an excellent stone for the heart and relationships as it teaches the heart and mind to absorb and understand feelings without shutting down.  It gently brings repressed feelings to the surface, allows them to be acknowledged then dissipated with a safe emotional release and helps one face the truth without excuses as it improves self esteem and soothes stress.  Rhodocrosite encourages spontaneous expression of feelings as it lifts a depressed mood and brings lightness to life.  “Physically”, it acts a filter to keep out irritants, relieves asthma and respiratory problems, improves the circulatory system, kidneys, normalizes blood pressure and stabilizes the heartbeat, as it dilates the blood vessels it relieves (migraine) headaches.   By placing it on the site of pain it eases body pain and cramping, with some it can also restore poor eyesight.  An elixir can improve the skin, heal infections.

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RHODONITE  (mottled dark salmon pink w/black) is an emotional balancer helping us see both sides of any issue, while stimulating clear thought and understanding.   A “useful first aid” stone (I often refer to it as a boo boo stone with children), it heals emotional shock and panic while lending support energy to the soul in times needed.  *This stone can be particularly effective in dealing with cases of those who are self destructive (cutters, those with pre- suicidal thoughts, alcoholics and drug abusers).   Rhodonite clears away emotional wounds and scars from the past or present and helps to heal those painful emotions, a helpful stone to turn back insults and help with any desire to retaliate or seek revenge because it promotes calm in dangerous or upsetting times and eliminates confusion.  "Physically" rhodonite is an excellent wound healer and can relieve the pain and irritation of bug bites, it reduces scarring, affects good bone growth, improves hearing, can help with tinnitus (ringing in the ears) by fine tuning the auditory vibrations, treats emphysema, joint inflammation, arthritis, autoimmune disease, stomach ulcers, and multiple sclerosis. 

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ROSE QUARTZ  (rose petal pink) is the stone of infinite peace, it purifies and opens the heart at all levels and brings with it deep inner healing and self esteem, in existing relationships, it will restore trust and harmony as it draws off negative energy  while it strengthens empathy and sensitivity.   Rose quartz is an excellent stone for mid-life crisis, keeping it close can help with positive affirmations, emotionally it is the finest healer and releases pent up emotions, and emotional pain.   "Physically" rose quartz strengthens the physical heart and circulatory system, cleanses impurities from your body, if placed on the thymus it helps chest and lung problems, heals the kidneys, adrenals and helps with vertigo/dizziness from travel sickness.  Rose quartz can increase fertility when wanted.  This stone in an elixir can soothe a burn and its blistering.   This stone is also very helpful with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and senile dementia. 

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SERPENTINE  (asst shaded of yellow/green), sometimes called "New Jade", is formed when olivine, or peridot, breaks down and forms in metamorphosed basalts.  (Under no circumstances should you ever use this stone as an elixir.)  Sometimes it will have a glossy or waxy look to it, I use the green, and suggest using this for the 4th or heart chakra and is good for enhancing the meditative state. Serpentine can give assistance to problems in all areas of the person, emotional, mental, as well as the physical.  The green is mainly used for the heart chakra, it stimulates the crown and can clear all other chakras when clouded, and is good to use for enhancing meditation.  The energy of serpentine can help with illness or injury within the whole body.   Serpentine gets its name from the word 'serpent' because it resembles the skin of a snake. It has been used since ancient times to guard against disease and sorcery.  It does come in many colors, but I use green.   Nursing women used it to regulate their milk supply.  It helps with mood swings, and can encourage your natural abilites to solve conflict peacefully.  It has also been known to protect from biting/venomous beings..insects, snakes etc.   Serpentine can be placed directly on the skin. It helps kidney and stomach complaints, relaxes cramps and menstrual pain.  Intuitive sources say Serpentine emits a profound healing vibration and facilitates the energetic activation of cellular regeneration.

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SMOKY QUARTZ  (gray/tan clear smoky see through, sometimes with occlusions) is an incredible stone to help with meditation.  By holding one is each hand it enables you to put aside the world and its problems and see into yourself and become centered and recharged.  Place a point over a pain site to relieve pain.   Smoky quartz has a strong link with the earth and the base charkas.  A wondrous stone to ease stress, it teaches you to leave behind things that make you unhappy, making you stronger and more able to cope, teaches you how to leave behind anything that does not help or benefit you, it relieves fear, lifts depression and brings calm to the mind, body, and spirit.  It can help stop nightmares and bad dreams and help you understand your dreams.  It gently dissolves all negative energy and emotion so that you feel more positive, gives you clear insight, and helps you deal positively with failure so you can try again.  Smoky quartz is excellent for treating radiation related illness or chemotherapy.  Be sure to use a "clear" smoky stone you can see through as opposed to an irradiated one which is not as effective. (those stones are usually very black or dark and not see through)  You will find yourself better able to handle stress with this gentle healing stone.  Smoky quartz is especially effective for illness of the hips, legs and feet.  It relieves pain, including headaches when placed over the pain point, helps the respiratory system, muscle and nerve damage, and the heart, dissolves cramps, strengthens the back and helps the body utilize minerals. 

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SNOWFLAKE OBSIDIAN  (black w/gray snowflakes) calms and soothes, putting you in the right frame of mind to be receptive before bringing to your attention ingrained patterns of behavior then teaches you to value any mistakes as well as successes then balances the mind, body and spirit.   Snowflake can help you understand and release “wrong” thinking and behavior patterns in life promoting an inner finding of self.  With this stone, feelings of isolation and loneliness stop and it will help you by empowering you with deep thought and acceptance of happiness with in yourself, not others, obsidians work extremely fast and with great power.  It encourages you to grow, lends support while we do so, brings negative energy to the surface and cleanses it, a strong protective stone, obsidian shields you.  At your bedside or under a pillow it can reduce mental stress and tension while calming the mind and body for sleep.  Snowflake obsidian is a gentler form of obsidian and very effective for this purpose so you must remember to “cleanse” the stone after each time slept with it.  “Physically”, it improves circulation, treats veins, and is good for the skeletal system, helps digestion, it detoxifies, dissolves blockages and tension in the body as well as the mind, reduces the pain of arthritis, joints, cramps and heals injuries, eases pain, slows bleeding and warms the extremities (accidents w/ injury that cause shock), and can shrink an enlarged prostate.

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 SODALITE  (deep, dark blue sometimes w/cream)is a stone that unites logic with intuition, and can help with meditation as it helps with one’s drive for truth, while maintaining the ability to be true to yourself.  It clears electromagnetic pollution and can be placed between computers and you.  A particularly effective stone for “group” work, it brings harmony and solidarity of purpose, bringing trust and co-operation to the group, while encouraging your own independence.  A stone for the mind, sodalite clears confusion, encourages rational thought and action, while helping you verbalize those thoughts and feelings as it calms your mind.  Sodalite balances emotion calming you in a crisis or panic attack it clears and releases oversensitive feelings, fears, phobias, guilt and the feeling of being controlled by others enhancing your independence, self worth, and self trust.   "Physically" sodalite balances the metabolism, overcomes calcium deficiencies, cleanses the lymphatic system and other organs, boosting the immune system, treats the throat, vocal cords, larynx, and is helpful with hoarseness and digestive disorders, it can cool a fever, lower blood pressure, and stimulate the absorption of fluids in the body.

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SUGILITE  (mottled purple) opens all the chakras and brings them to alignment.   It helps us find answers to all questions in life such as “Why am I here?”, “Where did I come from?”, “Who am I?”, and “What do I need to understand?”   A  useful stone for spiritual quests of all kinds, this gentle stone protects the soul from shocks, trauma and disappointments, relieves spiritual tension and can help you bring light into the darkest of situations helping you find forgiveness.  Truely sugilite is a wondrous stone for relationships, both old and new.  It can help those with insecurity issues, paranoia and even schizophrenia.  It’s an “excellent” stone to help with autism by grounding the user to the present reality, helping with learning and living disabilities.  Sugilite encourages positive thought and reorganizes brain patterns that help with learning problems.  "Physically" sugilite is an exceptional pain reliever, the manganese in the sugilite clears headaches, feelings of discomfort and pain at all levels.  It can treat epilepsy and motor disturbances by bringing the nerves and brain into alignment.  ie. autism, cerebral palsy, stroke.  Light colored sugilite purifies the blood and lymph.

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SUNSTONE  (beige/orange w/golden and brown speckles)is a joyful stone, inspiring that “joy in life” and good feeling we enjoy so rarely.  It can heighten intuition, restore life’s sweetness if lost and help you nurture yourself.  It clears all the chakras and fills you with light and energy, to allow your real self to shine through.  Sunstone has a powerful connection to the sun and with  regenerative power helps with meditation and every day life.  Those days when negative energy is bringing you down, like a hitchhiker of bad vibes draining your energy, hold tight to a sunstone to cleanse and fill yourself with light and purity again.  If you’re a person who has hard time saying “no” and makes constant sacrifices, hold your sunstone it will fill you with power and self esteem, independence and vitality.  Sunstone can be a very effective anti-depressant, lifting dark moods, and is especially helpful with seasonal affective disorders.  Even the most grouchy and negative person cannot resist the sunstone, it switches them from negative to positive as they hold it or wear it.  "Physically" sunstone stimulates your “self-healing” powers, it regulates your nervous system, organs, treats chronic sore throats, relieves stomach ulcer pain, cartilage problems (carpal tunnel, arthritis) and eases your aches and pains.

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TIGER’S EYE  (banded golden brown, red or blue) is a protective stone that was traditionally carried as a talisman to protect against ill will or bad luck, and is a stone of integrity and truth to help you accomplish goals by recognizing your inner resources and promoting clarity of intent.   Tiger eye helps you to see your personal needs and those of other people while it differentiates between wishful thinking and daydreaming about what you want and what you really need.  Tiger eye helps heal your self esteem, recognizes your talents and makes them happen through change.  It energizes the body and emotions helping to lift a sad or bad mood.  "Physically" tiger eye treats the eyes and aids with night vision, heals the throat, female organs and helps with cramps, it is also helpful with broken bones and the pain of arthritis or growing bone pain.

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TIGER IRON (is rusty red with brown and gray, it never fails to tingle when worn) is a combination of golden tiger eye, hematite, & jasper, these 3 combined makes for a VERY powerful stone.  It feeds vitality and helps you pass through changes in life,(menopause, new moves, jobs, relationships) guiding you thru those changes to a place of comfort and peace and is especially helpful for those who are so exhausted at any level, be it injury, severe illness, emotional trauma, family stress, or your job.  It helps motivate change for the better allowing you space to contemplate or meditate, then giving you the energy to move forward.  "Physically" tiger iron heals the blood, balancing your red and white cells, while it cleanses any toxins, heals the hips, legs and feet giving your muscles more strength.  It helps with B12 absorption and should always be touching your skin, it soothes emotional, physical, or mental pain and is one of my favorites!

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TURQUOISE  is one of the most effective healing stones for the body, mind, and spirit, a very protective stone, it has been used for amulets and necklaces for generations.  It dispels negative energies, while balancing and aligning all your chakras attuning your physical levels with your spiritual ones.  Turquoise is very empathic and helps with problem solving while calming and stabilizing strong emotion and stress from illness or injury.   "Physically" I have found that wearing turquoise helps many deal with cancer treatments, serious illnesses and their treatements because it supports your immune system, helps regenerate tissue, cleans viral infection and generally heals the "whole body", especially the eyes (including cataracts), very helpful with stomach upset (chemo), soothes aches and pains (arthritis, injury), this stone is wonderful for all pain and illness.

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  TOURMALINE  (black, but also comes in other colors) cleanses, purifies and transforms dense energy into a lighter vibrational protective shield.  Tourmaline has a strong affinity for nature, buried in the soil it will encourage growth and health in your crops.  For you, tourmaline helps with understanding yourself and others.  It increases self esteem, confidence, banishing fear and insecurity.  A powerful mental healer, tourmaline, in any form or color, balances the left/right parts of the brain helping negative thoughts change to more positive ones as it balances and aligns the chakras.  Black tourmaline protects from electromagnetic smog (ie. cell phones and computers).  It energizes when needed, giving you a feeling of vitality, releasing stress and tension, it defends against debilitating disease and strengthens the immune system, provides pain relief from arthritis and realigns the spinal column.  Place 4 tourmalines at each corner of your bed beneath the mattress to help with pain so you are able to sleep deeply and get the rest your body and mind needs.

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UNAKITE  (mossy green w/salmon pink) is a stone of vision, balancing emotions with your spirit as it opens the third eye and enhances visualization.  A grounding stone, unakite will bring a calm gentle energy, cleanse your home or office of electromagnetic smog.  Unakite can reach back in time to correct and heal past experiences that could limit your spiritual and emotional growth now.   "Physically" Unakite is supportive for those in convalescence, recovering from a major illness or surgery.  It helps the reproductive system, helping with pregnancy or the loss of one, it stimulates weight gain when needed and helps with the regrowth of skin (burns, scrapes, cuts).

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