8 Healing Gemstones to Bring You Health and Happiness

Garnet

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Garnets symbolize physical love and relationships between loving partners, so it only makes sense that it is the gemstone of health and charisma. This earthy and subtle-looking stone can give us the strength to take charge of our lives and take steps towards personal progress and growth as it harnesses the rich, life-giving elements from the planet. Influenced by traditional Chinese medicine, this healing stone supports the flow of Chi throughout the body, boosting the detox of negative emotions.

The easiest way to experience a garnet’s healing properties is to wear it as jewelry. Just as the ancient Greeks and Romans did before us, wearing garnet jewelry as a protective amulet or talisman will shield you from negative energy. This will protect you from getting in your own way, working to balance your mind and your emotions to give way to new paths of abundance, vitality and a higher expression of love.

Topaz

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Topaz gemstones are powerful balancing stones and are known to improve your emotional state by enhancing your spiritual potential. The cool and tranquil blue topaz soothes the soul, balancing emotions, releasing tension and improving mental exhaustion. Topaz is also especially helpful dealing with past trauma. Keeping it with you will bring you peace and will assist and support in expelling any residual pain from a traumatic experience.

Keeping a topaz stone with you will also help with self-awareness, giving you a better sense of your emotions, actions and their karmic effects. You can even place a topaz under your pillow or wear it in your sleep to ward off bad dreams.

Green Tourmaline

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Green tourmaline channels your heart chakra to encourage strength of spirit, and will help calm the mind of nerves. This gemstone is ideal for healing properties as it works to balance your energy, clear your aura and remove personal roadblocks.

You can wear this gemstone as jewelry to harness its healing properties. When worn on the left side of the body as a ring or bracelet, you are soaking up all of its energy for your own personal healing. When worn on the right side of the body, you are sending the tourmaline energy out into the world.

Amethyst

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This lavender and violet-hued gemstone has an abundance of healing properties associated with purifying the mind and ridding its wearer of negative thoughts. This includes clearing your mind of any stress or anxiety, which is especially important during these times of uncertainty. The amethyst is very useful with work-related stress as well, as it is associated with abundance.

This means that while you’re putting in those hours at home, you can meditate with an amethyst to relieve work stressors and emanate prosperity. Amethyst also soothes irritability, balances mood swings, alleviates sadness and grief and dispels anger, rage and fear. This stone’s healing properties also facilitate intuition and communication, two things that can definitely be applied to work efficiency-especially when working from home means more distractions.

To channel the amethyst healing properties, hold the amethyst in the palm of your hand while sitting in a room with soft lighting and calm energy. Take a deep breath in, allowing the mellow energy of the amethyst to instill your soul with confidence and bring you into a state of clarity.

Jade

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Jade, a stone that comes in an array of lush green hues, provides a profound connection to the universe and the essence of life, making it a powerful emotional balancer. This good luck gemstone brings peace and purity into your life as well as prosperity and abundance. Jade’s striking range of deep green stirs a connection with the heart chakra, helping to open your heart to unconditional love and ward off an existential crisis.

Every time you look at and wear your jade jewelry, let it be a reminder of all your deepest dreams and desires. As you meditate with your jade stone, open your heart chakra up to be receptive and grateful for all the good things in your life. For good fortune, light a candle and hold the jade in your hand to enhance your connection to the earth as you visualize your ambitions into reality.

Aquamarine

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The soothing, fluid energy of Aquamarine makes it an excellent healing gemstone. This “courage stone” helps to fight against fears, phobias and stress. As this icy-blue stone harnesses the natural and soothing spirit of the ocean, it washes away any anxiety you might be having, leaving peace and tranquility in its wake. Ride this stone’s positive waves toward closure and a higher consciousness.

If you’re feeling drawn to this stone it could be a sign that you are in need of some Vitamin “sea” and the rejuvenating properties of water. A stone often associated with peacefulness, inner strength and courage, meditating with an aquamarine near water can invigorate the soul.

Moonstone

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This dreamy, ethereal stone helps calm and balance our emotions by channeling the moon. Using this power, a moonstone can push and pull the tides of our oceans and emotions to keep our way of life under control. Sometimes, it can be hard to let go of the things we cannot control and instead, go with the flow-this is where the healing properties of moonstones come in.

Wear your moonstone and feel its flow of energy as it ebbs and flows through the ups and downs of your daily life. Keep a moonstone close by, especially if you’re experiencing some instability in your life, and sit back as the moon infuses your chakras with its brilliant white light. With daily mediation, your moonstone will clear your mind and center your spirit

Turquoise

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Turquoise gemstones are notorious for symbolizing a protective shield. Used for centuries, this protective stone is a spiritual shelter for the heart that has been damaged by emotional wounds and chronic stress. Also known for its healing properties in regards to your respiratory, skeletal and immune system, this healing stone is sure to prove useful now more than ever.

Wear this stone and harness its healing effects, fostering positive, life-affirming thoughts and behaviors.

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