Crystal Healing from Nature Part 2

The first six crystals that can be used for self healing.

Topaz - Self 

Topaz is a mellow, empathetic stone that directs energy to where it is needed most. It soothes, heals, stimulates recharges, demotivates, and aligns the meridians of the body. Topaz promotes truth and forgiveness. It helps shed light on the path, highlights goals, and taps into inner resources. This crystal brings about a trust in the Universe that enables you to “be” rather than to “do”. It cuts through doubt and uncertainty.  

Topaz’s vibrant energy brings joy, generosity, abundance, and good health. It has traditionally been known as a stone of love and good fortune, bringing successful attainment of goals. It is extremely supportive for affirmations and manifestations, and for visualisation. It is said that the facets and ends of a Topaz crystal have both positive and negative energies though which a request to the Universe can be focused and then manifested on the earth plane. Excellent for clearing the aura and for inducing relaxation.

Topaz releases tension at any level and can speed up spiritual development where it has been laborious. Psychologically, Topaz helps you to discover your own inner riches. It makes you feel confidence and philanthropic, wanting to share your good fortune and spread sunshine all around. Negativity does not survive around joyful Topaz. This stone promotes openness and honesty, self-realisation, self-control, and the urge to develop inner wisdom.  

Mentally Topaz aids problem solving and is particularly useful for those engaged in the arts. It helps you to become aware of the influence you have and of the knowledge you have gained through hard work and life experiences. This stone has the capacity to see both the bigger picture and the minute detail, recognising how they interrelate.  

Topaz assists in expressing ideas and confers astuteness. Topaz is an excellent emotional support – it stabiliser the emotions and makes you receptive to love from every source. HEALING Topaz can be used to manifest health. It aids digestion and combats anorexia, restores the sense of taste, fortifies the nerves, and stimulates the metabolism.  

POSITION - Ring finger, solar plexus, and brow chakra. Position or place as appropriate for healing. The elixir can be applied to the skin.  

SPECIFIC COLOURS In addition to the generic properties, certain colours have addition attributes: Blue Topaz – placed on the throat chakra or third eye, aids those chakras and verbalisation. It is an excellent colour for meditation and attuning to the higher self, assisting in living according to your own aspirations and view.  

This colour attunes to the angels of truth and wisdom. It assists in seeing the scripts you have been living and to recognise where you have strayed from your own truth. Clear Topaz – aids in becoming aware of thoughts and deeds, and the karmic effect that these have. It assist in purifying emotions and actions, activating cosmic awareness.  

In healing, Clear Topaz removes stagnant or stuck energy. Golden Topaz (Imperial Topaz) – acts like a battery and recharges spiritually and physically, strengthening faith and optimism. It is an excellent stone for conscious attunement to the highest forces in the Universe and can be used to store information received in this way.

It reminds you of your divine origins. Imperial Topaz assists in recognising your own abilities, in stills a drive towards recognition, and attracts helpful people. This stone is beneficial for those seeking fame as it bestowed charisma and confidence with pride in your abilities while remaining generous and open-hearted. It assists in overcoming limitations and in setting great plans afoot. In healing, it regenerates cellular structure and strengthens the solar plexus and is beneficial for nervous exhaustion and insufficient combustion of nutrients.  

It treats the liver, the gallbladder, and the endocrine glans. Pink Topaz – is a stone of hope. It gently eases out old patterns of dis-ease and dissolves resistance, opening the way to radiating health. This stone shows you the face of the Divine. Rutilated Topaz – is rare but is extremely effective for visualisation and manifestation. It is an excellent stone for scrying, bringing deep insights when properly programmed and attracting love and light into one’s life. 

Lapis Lazuli - Awareness & Influence 

Lapis Lazuli opens up the third eye and balances the throat chakra. It stimulates enlightenment and enhances dream work and psychic abilities, facilitating spiritual journeying and stimulating personal and spiritual power. This stone quickly releases stress, bringing deep peace. It possesses enormous serenity and is the key to spiritual attainment.  

Lapis Lazuli is a protective stone that contacts spirit guardians. This stone recognises psychic attack, blocks it, and returns the energy to its source. It teaches the power of the spoken word, and can reverse curses or dis-ease caused by not speaking out in the past. This stone harmonises the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels.  

Imbalances between these levels can result in depressions, dis-ease, and lack of purpose. In balance, the harmony brings deep inner self-knowledge. Lapis Lazuli encourages taking charge of life. It reveals inner truth, encourages self-awareness, and allows self-expression without holding back or compromising. If repressed anger is causing difficulties in the throat or in communications, Lapis Lazuli releases these.  

This stone brings the enduring qualities of honesty, compassion, and uprightness to the personality. Lapis Lazuli is a powerful thought amplifier. It stimulates the higher faculties of the mind, bringing objectivity and clarity. It encourages creativity through attunement to the Source. Lapis Lazuli helps you to confront truth, wherever you find it, and to accept what it teacher. It aids in expressing your own opinions and harmonises conflict.  

It teaches the value of active listening. Lapis Lazuli bonds relationships in love and friendship and aids expressing feelings and emotions. It dissolves martyrdom, cruelty, and suffering. As a gem essence, is dissolves emotional bondage.  

HEALING Lapis Lazuli alleviates pain, especially that of migraine headaches. It overcomes depression, benefits the respiratory and nervous systems and the throat, larynx, and thyroid, and cleanses organs, bone marrow, thymus, and the immune system.  

Lapis Lazuli overcomes hearing loss, purifies blood, and boosts the immune system. It alleviates insomnia and vertigo and lowers blood pressure. POSITION - Wear or place at the throat or third eye. Lapis Lazuli should be positioned above the diaphragm, anywhere between the sternum and the top of the head. 

Atacamite - Insight & Intuition 

Atacamite is a newly discovered crystal and its properties have not yet been fully explored. If you meditate with Atacamite it will tell you how it wants to work for you. It is sometimes confused with gem Chrysocolla and may share some properties with this crystal. What is known is that Atacamite forcefully opens the third eye, creating powerful visual images and a strong spiritual connection. Despite its forcefulness, it is a very safe crystal to use to stimulate spiritual vision and aid visualisation. It is a stone of great clarity.  

Used in meditation, it takes the Soul safely to the highest possible levels. Atacamite restores lost spiritual trust and promotes a connection to higher guidance. It is a useful stone to hold when journeying out of the body, especially to higher spiritual spheres. Atacamite works willingly to open the higher heart chakra, more unconditional love into your life, and to stimulate the thymus gland and immune system, functioning.  

HEALING Atacamite purifies the kidneys, removing fear, and promotes elimination at all levels. It is a powerful cleanser for the etheric body and the brow chakra. It can be used to heal the genitals and is said to improve resistance to herpes and venereal disease. Placed on the throat, Atacamite heals the thyroid gland, opening the throat chakra and removing the blockages to self-expression that can lie behind hypothyroidism. With its calming green colour, it is also beneficial for the nervous system, overcoming stress and frayed nerves at a subtle level.  

POSITION - Place on the third eye to stimulate visualisation or over organs as appropriate. Hold in hands for meditation or journeying.  

Citrine - Self Love & Confidence 

Citrine is a powerful cleaner and regenerator. Carrying the power of the sun, this is an exceedingly beneficial stone It is warming, energising, and highly creative. This is one of the crystals that never needs cleansing. It absorbs, transmutes, dissipates, and grounds negative energy and is therefore extremely protective for the environment.

Citrine energises every level of life. As an aura protector it acts as an early waning system so action can be taken protect oneself. It has the ability to cleanse the chakras, especially the solar plexus and navel chakras. It activates the crown chakra and open the intuition. Citrine cleanses and balances the subtle bodies, aligning them with the physical.  

Citrine is one of the stones of abundance. This dynamic stone teaches how to manifest and attracts wealth and prosperity, success, and all good things. Citrine is a happy, generous stone, and encourages sharing what you have and yet helps you hold on to your wealth. It has the power to impart joy to all who behold it. Gloom and negativity have no place around Citrine. It is a useful stone for smoothing group or family discord. Psychologically, Citrine raises self-esteem and self-confidence, and removes destructive tendencies.  

It enhances individuality, improves motivation, activates creative, and encourages self-expression. It makes you less sensitive, especially to criticism, and encourages acting on constructive criticism. It helps you develop a positive attitude and to look forward optimistically, going with the flow instead of hanging on to the past. This stone promotes the enjoyment of new experiences and encourages exploring every possible avenue until you find the best solution. Mentally, Citrine enhances concentration and revitalises the mind. It is excellent for overcoming depression, fears, and phobias. Citrine promotes inner calm so that wisdom can emerge. It helps in digesting information, analysing situations and steering them into a positive direction.  

This stone awakens the higher mind. Wearing a citrine pendant overcomes the difficulty in verbalising thoughts and feelings .Emotionally, Citrine promotes joy in life. It releases negative traits, fears, and feelings at the deepest levels. It overcomes the fear of responsibility and stops anger. This stone helps you move into the flow of feelings and become emotionally balanced. Physically, Citrine imparts energy and invigoration to the physical body. It is useful for people who are particularly sensitive to environmental and outside influences.  

HEALING Citrine is an excellent stone for energising and recharging. It is highly beneficial for CFS and reverses degenerative diseases. Citrine stimulates digestion, the spleen, and the pancreas. It negates infections in the kidney and bladder, helps eye problems, increases blood circulation, detoxifies the blood, activates the thymus, and balances the thyroid. It has a warming effect and fortifies the nerves. Citrine is an eliminator – it relieves constipation and removes cellulite. As an elixir, it is helpful for menstrual problems and menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes, balancing the hormones, and alleviating fatigue.  

POSTION Wear on fingers or throat in contact with the skin. Wearing a Citrine point down brings the golden ray of spirit into the physical realm. Position as appropriate for healing. Use a sphere for meditation. Place in the wealth corner of your home or business, or in your cash box. Citrine fades in sunlight. (The wealth corner is the farthest back left point from your front door, or the door into an individual room). 

Peridot - Wealth 

In ancient times, Peridot was believed to keep away evil spirits. It is still a protective stone for the aura. This stone is a powerful cleaner. Releasing and neutralising toxins on all levels, it purifies the subtle and physical bodies, and the mind. It opens, cleanses and activates the heart and solar plexus chakras and releases “old baggage”. Burdens, guilt, or obsessions are cleared. Peridot teaches that holding on to people, or the past, is counterproductive.  

Peridot shows you how to detach yourself from your outside influences and to look to your own higher energies for guidance. This stone releases negative patterns and old vibrations so that a new frequency can be accessed. If you have done the psychological work, Peridot assists you to move forward rapidly. This visionary crystal helps you to understand your destiny and your spiritual purpose. It is particularly helpful to healer. Psychologically, Peridot alleviates jealousy, resentment, spit and anger, and reduces stress. It enhances confidence and assertion without aggression. Motivating growth, Peridot helps to bring about necessary change.  

It assist in looking back to the past to find the gift in your experiences, and shows how to forgive yourself. This stone promotes psychological clarity and well-being. It is attuned to the attainment of spiritual truth, and regulates the cycles of life. Mentally, Peridot sharpens the mind and opens it to new levels of awareness. It banishes lethargy, bringing to your attention all the things you have neglected consciously or unconsciously. With Peridot’s aid, you can admit mistakes and move on. It helps you to take responsibility for your own life, especially when you believe it is all “someone else’s fault.” The influence of Peridot can greatly improve difficult relationships.  

HEALING Peridot has a tonic effect. It heals and regenerates the tissues. It strengthens the metabolic, and benefits the skin. Peridot aids the heart, thymus, lungs, gallbladder, spleen, intestinal tract, and ulcers, and strengthens eyes. Placed on the abdomen, it aids giving birth by strengthening the muscle contractions but lessening pain. Its energy balances bipolar disorders and overcomes hypochondria.  

POSITION Wear at the throat. Place as appropriate, especially over the liver in contact with the skin. 

Red Jasper - Negative, Positive & Neutral Minds 

Jasper is known as the supreme nurturer. It sustains and supports during times of stress, and brings tranquillity and wholeness. Used in healing, it unites all aspects of your life. Jasper reminds people to help each other. Jasper aligns the chakras and can be used in chakra layouts. Each colour is appropriate to a specific chakra.  

This stone facilities shamanic gourmets and dream recall. It provides protection and grounds energies and the body. It absorbs negative energy and cleanses and aligns the chakras and the aura. Jasper balances yin and yang and aligns the physical, emotional, and mental bodies with the enteric realm. It clears electromagnetic pollution, including radiation, and aids dowsing. Psychologically, Jasper imparts determination to all pursuits. It brings the courage to get to grips with problems assertively, and encourages honesty with yourself.  

It supports during necessary conflict. Mentally, Jasper aids quick thinking, and promotes organisational abilities and seeing projects through. It stimulates the imagination and transforms ideas into action. Physically, Jasper prolongs sexual pleasure. It supports during prolonged illness or hospitalisation and reenergises the body.  

HEALING Jasper supports the circulatory, digestive, and sexual organs. It balances the mineral content of the body.  

POSITION As appropriate in contact with the skin. Specific placements are shown under each colour. Use for long periods of time as Jasper works slowly. Place a large piece of decorative Brown Jasper in a room to absorb negative energy.  

SPECIFIC COLOURS AND FORMS: In addition to the generic attributes, the following colours have additional properties: Blue Jasper connects you to the spiritual world. It stimulates the throat chakra, balances yin-yang energy, and stabilises the aura.

This stone sustains energy during a fast, heals degenerative diseases, and balances mineral deficiency. Position: Naval and heart chakras for astral travel. Brown Jasper is connected to the earth and encourages ecological awareness. 

As a result, it brings stability and balance. It is particularly useful for alleviating geopathic and environmental stress. It facilitates deep meditation, centring, and regression to past lives, revealing karmic causes. This stone improves night vision, encourages astral travel, and stimulates the earth chakra. It boosts the immune system, clears pollutants and toxins from the body, and stimulates the cleansing organs. It heals the skin. Brown Jasper strengthens the resolve to give up smoking. Position: Forehead or as appropriate. Green Jasper heals and releases dis-ease and obsession. It balances out parts of your life that have become all-important to the detriment of others. This stone stimulates the heart chakra. Green Jasper treats skin disorders and dispels bloating. It heals the ailments of the upper torso, the digestive tract, and the purifying organs. It reduces toxicity and inflammation. Purple Jasper stimulates the crown chakra. It eliminates contradictions.  

Position: Crown. Red Jasper (for Gemini Season) is gently stimulating. It grounds energy and rectifies unjust situations. Red Jasper brings problems to light before they become too big and provides insights into the most difficult situations. It makes an excellent “worry bead”, calming the emotions when played with. Placed under pillow, it helps dream recall. Red Jasper stimulates the base chakras and assists re-birthing.  

It cleans and stabilises the aura, and strengthens your boundaries. This is a stone of health, strengthening and detoxifying the circulatory system, the blood, and the liver. It dissolves blockages in the liver or bile ducts.

Position: Base chakra or as appropriate. Yellow Jasper protects during spiritual work and physical travel. It channels positive energy, making you feel physical better, and energises the endocrine system. Yellow Jasper stimulates the solar plexus chakra. It releases toxins and heals digestion and the stomach. Position: Forehead, chest, throat, or place over pain until it eases. 

Black Jasper (Basanite) is a useful scrying stone. It takes you deep into an altered state of consciousness and brings prophetic dreams and visions. 

Mookaite (Australian Jasper) provides a useful balance between inner and outer experiences. It imparts both a desire for new experiences and a deep calm with which to face them. Flexible Mookaite encourages versatility. It points out all possibilities and assists in choosing the right one. Mookaite is a physically stabbing stone that fortifes the immune system, heals wounds, and purifies the blood. Picture Jasper (Brown Jasper) is said to be the Earth Mother speaking to her children. It contains a message from the past within its pictures for those who can read it. It brings to the surface hidden feelings to guilt, envy, hatred, and love, and thoughts that are normally pushes aside, whether from the present or past lives.

Once the press ion is released, they are seen as lessons along the way. This stone instills a sense of proportion and harmony. Picture Jasper brings comfort and alleviates fear. It stimulates the immune system and cleanses the kidneys. Orbicular Jasper supports service, assist in accepting responsibility and instilling patience. Its circular markings resonate with circular breathing, which it facilitates. It eliminates the toxins that cause unpleasant body odour.

Royal Plume Jasper opens the crown chakra and aligns the spiritual energies to personal purpose, bringing status and power. This stone eliminates contradictions and support preserving one’s dignity. It brings emotional and mental stability. Brecciated Jasper (Jasper veined with Hematite) is an excellent aid to keeping your feet on the ground and attaining emotional stability. It draws excess energy away from the head, promoting mental clarity.