Enhancing Beauty and Health from the Inside Out

Everything is vibration-people, plants, animals, inanimate objects, light, sound, and colour. We have energy fields around us, and whatever comes into contact with our energy field affects it. We can restore balance or incorporate healing vibrations by bringing them into contact with our energy fields.

Our bodies, due to the structures and minerals that create them, resonate strongly to gemstones and colour. We can bring necessary vibrations into our field by wearing jewellery. The intention is to bring us-physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually-back into a state of balance and health.

What Colours Mean

Colour is an energy vibration that expresses life force. Each colour has specific healing vibrations, and can restore balance in our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual bodies. One way our bodies take in colour is through what we wear. Choose a necklace based on its colour and the vibrations associated with that colour will come into your being.

BLACK - Protective, Grounding, Brings forth the hidden for examination (specific to black gemstones)

WHITE - Purification, Pure Potential, Cleansing (specific to white gemstones)

RED - Passionate, Powerful, Energizing, Strength, Stimulates

PINK - Love, Kind, Gentle, Soft, Warmth, Calming, Sympathy, Connection

ORANGE - Confidence, Creativity, Friendly, Happy, Independence

YELLOW - Clarity, Personal Power, Optimistic, Discrimination, Joy, Innovation, Information

GREEN -Balance, Harmony, Growth, Abundance, Healing, Compassion

TURQUOISE - Communication especially of true desires, Tranquillity, Immunity, Individuality

BLUE - Communication, Calming, Truth, Openness, Quiet Strength, Flow, Stability

INDIGO - Imagination, Connection, Peace, Intuition, Inspiration, Vision, Understanding

VIOLET - Inspiration, Transformation, Empathy, Wisdom, Integration, Meditation

Healing Properties of Gemstones

Gemstones intensify energy and radiate light. They come in the full spectrum of colours from inky black obsidian to the crystal clear diamond. Each crystal generates a specific energy. Its vibration determines what physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual congestions and conditions it will assist with. Colour is a starting point to determine what healing a gemstone will support, but crystalline energies go much deeper. Gemstones are guides and teachers for us as they reflect and manifest light of all creation and bring out the light within us.

Wearing semiprecious gemstone jewellery brings their healing vibrations into your body. The list below includes some of the healing properties of the crystals we use in our jewellery.

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Agate (assorted colours) - grounding, bring emotional, physical and intellectual balance, calming and soothing, helps one accept oneself, enhances mental function, overcomes negativity and bitterness of the heart

Airslake a form of Jasper (creamy) - supreme nurturer, sustains and supports during times of stress bringing tranquillity and wholeness, reminds people to help each other, balances yin and yang, determination, encourages honesty with self, aids quick thinking, promotes organization

Amazonite (green) - powerful filtering action, extremely soothing, clams the brain and nervous system, maintains optimum health, helps you see both sides of a problem soothes emotional trauma

Amber (yellow) - absorbs negative energy transmuting it into positive energy, calms nerves, energizes, assists one manifest desires, helps one choose and be chosen, purification

Amethyst (purple) - contentment, metamorphosis, peace, clears aura and stabilizes it, stability, serenity, helps assimilate new ideas, brings common sense and encourages flexibility in decisions

Apatite  (blue/green) – inspirational, stone of manifestation, aids communications and self-expression, increases motivation, draws off negativity, stimulates creativity and intellect, clears frustration

Aquamarine (light blue, light green) - courage, accelerates intellectual reasoning, helps you to always be prepared, aligns charkas, emotional and intellectual stability, gentle, compassionate, high quality communication

Aventurine (green, blue, red, peach) - stone of prosperity, reinforces leadership qualities, encourages perseverance, stabilizes mind, enhances creativity, promotes a feeling of well-being

Azurite/Malachite (blue, green, black) - helps meditation, refreshes your outlook, helps you flow and be flexible

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Black Tourmaline (also known as Schorl) - protective, grounding, increases vitality, disperses tension and stress, clears negative thoughts, encourages positive attitude

Blue Lace Agate (blue) - cooling and calming, brings peaceful mind, activates and heals throat charka, allows free expression of thoughts and feelings, gently dissolves old patterns of repression, counteracts mental stress

Bloodstone (green with red or yellow flecks) - excellent blood cleanser and powerful healer, heightens intuition and creativity, grounding and protecting, powerful revitalizer, gives courage, dispels confusion reduces impatience

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Calcite (assorted) - powerful amplifier and cleanser of energy, speeds up development and growth, facilitates opening of higher awareness, enhances emotional intelligence, calms the mind, stimulates insights and boosts memory

Carnelian (orange) - stimulates analytical capabilities and precision, awakens inherent talents, love, inquisitiveness, creativity, compassion

Celestite (light blue) - urges you toward enlightenment, promotes purity of heart, attracts good fortune, heals aura, reveals truth, deep inner peace, calming, gentle strength disperses worries and promotes mental clarity and fluent communication

Chalcedony - nurturing stone, promotes brotherhood and goodwill, harmonizing, instills feelings of benevolence and generosity, eases self doubt, creates open and enthusiastic persona

Charoite (purple, black and white) - stone of transformation, overcomes fear, stimulates inner vision, helps you to accept present moment as perfect, grounds spiritual self into everyday reality

Cherry Quartz - healer for emotional wounds, dissipates anger & tension

Chiastolite (reddish brown with black cross) – protective, creative, dispels negative thoughts, transmutes conflict to harmony, aids problem solving and change, dissolves illusions, calms fears, clears guilt, stabilizes emotions

Chrysocolla (turquoise) - strength and balance, increases your capacity to love, balanced communication, helps you attune to the planet and its needs, vitality, initiative, harmony

Chrysophase (apple green, lemon) - promotes hope and gives personal insights, draws out talents and stimulates creativity, calming, brings openness to new situations

Citrine (yellow) - dissipates and transmutes negativity, wealth, balancing, personal power, creativity, intelligent decisiveness, mental focus, optimistic, clarifies emotional and intellectual problems, dispels anger

Clear Quartz - most powerful healing and energy amplifier on planet, takes energy to most perfect state possible, cleansing and enhancing, works on all levels of the being, helps you to attune to your spiritual purpose

Coral (red) - helps to "tame" the wildness within, helps balance one to the spiritual, good stimulant for the root chakra, protects one from depression and despondency This information comes from http://healing.about.com/od/gemstonesaz/p/p_coral.htm

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Dumorterite (blue to violet) - reduces excitability, eliminates stubbornness, facilitates one standing up for oneself, stone of patience

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Emerald (green) - stone of inspiration and infinite patience, life-affirming stone with great integrity, stone of successful love, enhances unconditional love and promotes friendship, calms emotions

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Fire Agate (red, orange, cream) - calming, brings security and safety, grounding, supports during difficult times, protective, stimulates vitality, dispels fear

Fluorite (banded purple, clear, green) - stabilizes; brings order; impartiality and objectivity; mental achievement; increased concentration; helps you see reality and truth behind illusion; encourages ideal of health, intellect, and emotional well being; purification

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Garnet (dark red and Fancy Garnet orangey red) - health, commitment, energizing, integrate experiences and acceptance of emotions, stabilizes, brings order to chaos

Green Aventurine - comforter and heart healer, protects heart, brings things back into control, settles nausea and dissolves negative emotions and thoughts, all-round healer, brings well-being and emotional calm

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Hematite (silver) - grounding, protecting, harmonizes body, mind and sprit, dissolves negativity, boosts self-esteem, enhances will power, removes self-limitations, stimulates concentration and focus
Howlite (white or green) - extremely calming, prepares mind to receive wisdom and insights, teaches patience, strengthens positive character traits, strengthens memory, stimulates desire for knowledge, relieves insomnia

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Iolite (indigo/blue) - vision stone, stimulates connection to inner knowing, helps you express your true self, freed form expectations of those around you, clears thought forms

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Jade - symbol of purity and serenity, wisdom, protective, brings harmony, attracts good luck and friendship, releases negative thoughts and soothes the mind, , aids emotional release, cleansing

Jade (lavender) - alleviates emotional hurt and trauma and bestows inner peace, teaches subtlety and restraint in emotional matters and sets clear boundaries

Jasper (multi) - supreme nurturer, sustains and supports during times of stress bringing tranquillity and wholeness, reminds people to help each other, balances yin and yang, determination, encourages honesty with self, aids quick thinking, promotes organization

Jet (black) - draws out negative energy and alleviates unreasonable fears, stone of protection, stabilizes finances and protects businesses, promotes taking control of life, balances moods bringing stability and balance

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Kyanite (blue) - aligns charkas, tranquillity, calming, stimulates communication and psychic awareness, dispels anger and frustration, facilitates meditation, orderly growth

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Labradorite (iridescent grey) - keeps aura clear and balanced, helps you understand your destiny, transforms intuition into intellectual thought, strength, perseverance, facilitates transformation, brings in light, reduces anxiety and stress

Lapis Lazuli (dark blue/indigo) - total awareness, intuitive, objectivity, communication, helps you awaken to the perfection of self, helps you understand your dreams, clarity, organization, protective

Leopard Skin Agate (cream, tan, pink and orange) - protective, courage, strength, grounding, helps heal heavy emotional issues, reduces anxiety and worry.

Lepidolite (purpley pink) - reduces stress and despondency, refreshing, hope, acceptance, helps one through times of transition, diplomacy, unimpeded communication, self love, trust, openness and honesty

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Malachite (green and black) - protective, absorbs negative energies, should be cleansed regularly (on quartz in sun), clears and activates charkas, balances and harmonizes heart, opens heart to unconditional love, stone of transformation, goes to the core of the issue, facilitates emotional healing

Mookaite (red, yellow, brown) - useful balance between inner and outer experiences, imparts a desire for new experiences and deep calm to face them, encourages versatility, points out all possibilities, stabilizing

Moonstone (white often cloudy, peach, grey) - balancing, introspection, new beginnings, helps one recognize the ups and downs and gracefully acknowledge the changing cycles, helps understand feelings, insight, helps one apply intuitive knowledge, discernment, alleviates emotional tension, creativity, self-expression, confidence and composure, promotes growth, tenderness, good fortune

Muscovite (pinky/red) - strong angelic contact, reflective stone, releases tension within the body, brings balance, security, self-doubt and clumsiness, eliminates anger, aids problem-solving and stimulates quick wittedness

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Obsidian (brown, black) - very powerful, nothing can be hidden from obsidian, strongly protective, grounding, can draw out stress and mental tension

Ocean Jasper (multi) - soothing and helps to love one's self and others, heals emotions and brings peace of mind, helps accept responsibility, increases patience, help one realize interconnected and nature is a cyclical pattern, protective

Onyx (black) - strength giving, centres and aligns your energy with a higher power, promotes vigour, steadfastness and stamina, alleviates overwhelming fears and worries

Opal (white with iridescence) - stimulates originality and dynamic creativity, helps you express your true self, brings characteristics to the surface for transformation, enhances self-worth and helps you understand your full potential, brings lightness and spontaneity

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Pearl (comes in an assortment of colours can be dyed) - faith, charity, innocence, integrity, helps focus your attention, purity, sincerity, self-reflection

Peridot (green) - protects aura, powerful cleanser, opens, cleanses and activities heart and solar plexus, releases old baggage, clears burdens, guilt or obsessions, reduces stress, helps bring necessary change, sharpens the mind, banishes lethargy

Peruvian Opal (blue) - soft, relaxing, removes tension from communication, helps ideas flow freely, quiets the mind, helps you sleep, helps you release old wounds (source: http://www.bernardine.com/gemstones/perv-opal.htm)

Picture Jasper (browns) - brings to surface hidden feelings repressed and releases them allowing you to see the lessons, harmonizing, brings comfort and alleviates fear, stimulates immune system

Prehnite (green) - unconditional love, enhances visualization, enhances inner knowing, enables you to always be prepared, brings peace and protection

Pyrite (dark metallic, gold) - protective; encourages ideal of health, intellect, and emotional well-being; warmth; promotes recall of beautiful memories of love and friendship; helps you see behind facades; stimulates intellect; information recall

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Rainbow Obsidian (black with other colours swirled in) - brings light and love, helps you recognize the spiritual side of your nature, pleasure, brings gratification and enjoyment of life

Red Jasper - helps you rectify unjust circumstances, helps you remember your dreams, helps you learn to progress

Red Zebra Jasper (red, orange, brown, cream) - compassion, helps you look beneath superficial attributes, energizing, stamina, endurance

Rhodochroscite (pink, cream) - love, balance, energizing, purification, balances emotions, balances male and female aspects of self, encourages optimum health, helps you accept and integrate new information

Rhodonite (pink, black) - calmness, love, helps you achieve your greatest potential, dispels anxiety, promotes coherence, encourages the brotherhood of humanity

River stone (cream) - strength, energizing, helps promote healing properties of other gemstones (source: http://www.marlco.com/healprop6.html)

Rose Quartz (pink) - calming, self-love, no need for haste, brings clarity to emotions, balances yin-yang energy, and helps heal emotional wounds

Ruby (red) - energizing, encourages passion for life, improves motivation and setting realistic goals, balances the heart, encourages you to follow your bliss, promotes positive dreams and clear visualization, stone of abundance, bring positive and courageous state of mind

Ruby in Zoisite (green and red) - activates crown charka, facilitates access to soul memory and spiritual learning, promotes individuality while maintaining interconnectedness

Rutilated Quartz (clear with gold filaments) - intensifies the power of the quartz, helps you get to the root of problems

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Sand Jasper - see Jasper

Seraphinite (green and white) - powerful healing stone, cooperation, connection to angels, centring, protection, love, provides insight into changes required to promote peace and happiness

Smoky Quartz (brown or grey) - helps transform or dissolve negative energies, clarity, grounding, enhances attention to the moment, protective, personal pride, joy in living, cooperation

Snakeskin Jasper (red with cream stripes) - strength during activity, pleasant personality, joy of living, cheerfulness, eliminates mundane worries, promotes self-esteem and self-awareness, energizing

Snowflake Obsidian (grey and black) - calming and soothing, teaches you to value mistakes as well as successes, purity, helps you recognize and release "wrong thinking"

Sodalite (blue and white) - unites logic and intuition, opens spiritual perception, deepens meditation, instills a drive for truth and idealism, helps protect from electromagnetic smog, stimulates trust in groups, eliminates mental confusion, emotional balance and calm

Sunstone (yellow orange with sparkles) - clears and energizes charkas, dissipates fearfulness, alleviates stress, increases vitality, encourages independence and originality

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Tiger Eye (yellow and brown/black) - grounding, stability, clarity, helps you see patterns, promotes intuitive impressions, practical, helps eliminate the blues, optimism, helps stimulate and stability of wealth, calming and soothing

Topaz (golden yellow, brown, blue, pink) - empathetic, promotes truth and forgiveness, highlights goals and taps into inner resources, helps you trust in the universe, releases tension, good fortune

Tourmaline (multicoloured Elbaite) - brings mind, body, sprit and soul into wholeness, excellent for imagery and promotes dreams, inspires creativity gateway to inner self and higher spiritual realms

 Turquoise (turquoise) - efficient healer, protective, promotes spiritual attunement, intuition, allows soul to express itself, purification, instills inner calm, stimulates romantic love

Unakite (green and pink) - stone of vision, balances emotions and spirituality, grounding, reaches to the root cause of disease bringing it to the surface so it can be transformed

Zebra Stone (black and white) - connects us to mother earth and to the infinite energy and love in the universe, helps us to see past illusion, protects aura, stimulates energy, increases stamina.

From www.crystalsandjewelry.com/metaphysicalproperties_u-z.html

Note: Unless otherwise stated, the healing properties listed here come from Love is in the Earth by Melody ISBN 0-9628190-3-4 or The Crystal Bible by Judy Hall ISBN 1-58297-240-0.

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