Healing Crystals & Chakras

CRYSTALS: THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE SPIRITUAL

You know those little cards at the crystal shop that tell you the meaning/benefits of each crystal? Do you ever wonder how they come up with these meanings? And how the crystals actually work? Keep reading to find out:

• The science behind crystals – how they affect us
• Crystals and your chakras
• Our Shop “Onyx Obsidian Boutique” – which provide crystals to align with each chakra or whatever vibration that you need.

THE SCIENCE: HOW CRYSTALS AFFECT US

Science has proven that matter is 99.999999999999% empty space. And what makes up this empty space: energy. Energy is everything, and everything is energy. You, the chair you’re sitting on, the phone you’re holding, and the crystals you know and love – all of it is vibrating energy.

“Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. This is not philosophy. This is physics.”

-Albert Einstein

Just like everything else in the universe, we each have our own unique vibrational frequency. People with higher vibrations radiate kindness, love, peace, and compassion, whereas people with lower vibrations experience more low-vibe emotions like jealousy, anxiety, anger, or fear.

Whatever frequency you’re at, as a human, your vibration is very unstable and very easily influenced. It changes constantly as we’re exposed to other people, social media, the news, traffic, the weather, good news, bad news, our own memories, etc.

Crystals, on the other hand, have a super stable energy frequency that doesn’t change. Why? They’re made up of a fixed, regularly repeating, perfect geometric pattern of molecules. And they maintain their perfect stability with no effort. Exactly the opposite of our constantly changing, non-stable human nature.

So why does the stability of a crystal matter? Well, more stable energy = more powerful energy. And powerful energy can influence the energies around it. This is why crystals can so profoundly influence our unstable (less powerful) energy.

CRYSTALS AND YOUR CHAKRAS

Every crystal, just like every human, has a different energetic frequency. It depends on a few different factors like the size, the composition, and most helpfully, the color. 

Why does crystal color matter? The colors we see are specific light frequencies. Red, for example, has a much lower frequency than purple. The same goes for our own bodies. If you look at a chakra diagram, the lowest chakra (the root chakra) is shown in red, which aligns with the low vibrational frequency of that chakra. Your crown chakra, on the other hand, is shown in purple, as it’s the highest vibration chakra, and the highest vibration color.

CHOOSING CRYSTALS FOR YOU 

Because of this vibrational match between like colors, you can usually choose your crystal to match the chakra you want to balance. For example, blue sapphires are good for your throat chakra – which is shown in blue. Just as amber and yellow topaz crystals align with your yellow solar plexus chakra. There are a few exceptions, like rose quartz, which is connected to the green heart chakra, but in general, this is a good place to start.

If you’re not sure which chakra to focus on, just pick the crystal that your intuition guides you to – the one that you just love. Your own body and intuition know what it needs.

WHICH CRYSTALS ALIGN WITH EACH CHAKRA 

Chakras are the seven energetic centers in the body. They’re each connected with different organs and functions in our mind, body, and spirit. The lowest chakra (the root chakra), has the lowest vibrational frequency – and its qualities mirror this. It’s concerned with the basic elements of existence – primarily with your safety and physical survival. As you move up the chakra system, you move from the more fundamental emotions to the deeper, higher vibration feelings of joy, love, and creativity.

Your chakras can become imbalanced based on influences/experiences in our lives. These imbalances may show up as a physical symptom, emotional disruption, or mental ailment.

This is where crystals come in – they can help rebalance any misalignment – returning your energetic centers to the frequencies they’re meant to vibrate at. Keep reading for our ethically sourced crystal recommendations for each chakra.

Root Chakra (red) – connection with the earth, your physical survival, and safety.

Root Chakra Crystals: Smokey Quartz and Tourmaline helps us feel grounded in our physical body and connected to the earth. Its helps release and neutralize negative energy. Tourmaline helps you feel safe, grounded, and secure in your place on this earth.

Sacral Chakra (orange) – the creative life force energy that makes you human.

Sacral Chakra Crystal:Citrine magnifies our manifestations and helps reconnect us with our divine feminine energy – the center of our emotions, sexual energy, and sacred creativity.

Solar Plexus Chakra (yellow) – the seat of your personal power – the internal wisdom and confidence within you.

Solar Plexus Chakra Crystal:Citrine is known as the Success Stone for good reason – it clears out self-doubt and brings forth feelings of confidence and personal power.

Heart Chakra (green) – love and compassion for yourself and others.

Heart Chakra Crystals: Rose Quartz and Fluorite. Rose quartz helps awaken love and compassion for ourselves and for others. Green Fluorite is energetically matched to the heart chakra and helps to clear any blockages or imbalances.

Throat Chakra (blue) – this chakra allows us to speak our truth with clarity, love, and kindness.

Throat Chakra Crystal: Opalite brings ease to your interactions and helps enhance your self-expression.

Third Eye Chakra (indigo) – your connection to your intuition and information beyond the material world.

Third Eye Crystal – Herkimer and Lepidolite. The Herkimer Diamond is an incredibly high-vibe stone that helps open our awareness to the wisdom of consciousness. When our Third Eye is open, we see clearly and understand easily. Known as The Peace Stone, Lepidolite helps stabilize internal strife and connect us to our calm, all-knowing intuition.

Crown Chakra (violet) – connection to consciousness, all that is.

Crown Chakra Crystals: Amethyst and Clear Quartz. Amethyst helps connect us with infinite consciousness – the pure white light and all-knowing wisdom that’s always available to us. Clear Quartz helps open the Crown Chakra and align you with your highest self.

More Crystal Descriptions Below

Amazonite

It’s known as the “gambler’s stone,” encouraging good luck and fortune. Amazonite is said to have a soothing effect on the nervous system. Since the nervous system controls our emotions a great deal, this stone is said to soothe tense and aggravated situations and to enhance love.

Amethyst

Amethyst is a powerful and protective stone. It guards against psychic attack, transmuting the energy into love and protecting the wearer from all types of harm, including geopathic or electromagnetic stress and ill wishes from others. Amethyst is a natural tranquilizer, it relieves stress and strain, soothes irritability, balances mood swings, dispels anger, rage, fear and anxiety. Alleviates sadness and grief, and dissolves negativity. Amethyst activates spiritual awareness, opens intuition and enhances psychic abilities. It has strong healing and cleansing powers. Amethyst encourages sobriety, having a sobering effect on overindulgence of alcohol, drugs or other addictions. It calms and stimulates the mind, helping you become more focused, enhancing memory and improving motivation. Amethyst assists in remembering and understanding dreams. It relieves insomnia. Encourages selflessness and spiritual wisdom.

Amethyst boosts hormone production tunes the endocrine system and metabolism. It strengthens the immune system, reduces pain and strengthens the body to fight against cancer. It destroys malignant tumors and aids in tissue regeneration. Cleanses the blood. Relieves physical, emotional and psychological pain or stress. Amethyst eases headaches and releases tension. It reduces bruising, swellings, injuries, and treats hearing disorders. Amethyst heals diseases of the lungs and respiratory tract, skin conditions, cellular disorders and diseases of the digestive tract.

Angelite

Angelite raises the state of conscious awareness. It represents peace and brotherhood. Angelite facilitates contact with your angels and spirit guides and helps to connect with your higher self. It enhances psychic healing and telepathic communication and enables astral travel and spirit journeys.

Because of its ability to deepen attunement and heighten perception, Angelite is a powerful stone for healers. It also provides protection for the environment or the body.

Psychologically, Angelite helps you to speak your truth. It promotes communication and self-expression. Dispels fear, anger and anxiety, converting them into faith and tranquility. Angelite encourages forgiveness. It alleviates psychological pain and counteracts cruelty. Mentally, Angelite enhances astrological understanding and brings deeper understanding of mathematics. It also facilitates telepathic contact between minds.

Spiritually, Angelite is filled with compassion. It transmutes pain and disorder into wholeness and healing, opening the way for spiritual inspiration. It creates a deep feeling of peace and tranquility. It helps connect to universal knowledge and raises awareness. Angelite facilitates the rebirthing process, stimulates healing, and opens psychic channeling.

Angelite supports the throat, alleviating inflammation and balancing the thyroid and the parathyroids. It repairs tissue and corrects blood deficiencies and helps to renew blood vessels. Angelite balances the fluids within the physical body and can act as a diuretic. It is useful in weight control and relates particularly to the lungs and arms. Angelite can be used for headaches, heart function, the circulatory system and infectious diseases. At a subtle level, Angelite balances the physical body with the etheric realms.

Black Labradorite

This stone may look just like a beautiful stone, but it can also strengthen your willpower and spiritual focus. Labradorite attracts luck, which is why it’s also called the Good Luck Stone. If you wish for more abundance, good fortune, and success in your life, this is a stone that you should never be without!

Black Obsidian

Obsidian is truth-enhancing. A strongly protective stone, it forms a shield against negativity. It blocks psychic attack and absorbs negative energies from the environment. Obsidian draws out mental stress and tension. It stimulates growth on all levels, urging exploration of the unknown and opening new horizons. Brings clarity to the mind and clears confusion. Helps you to know who you truly are. Obsidian dissolves emotional blockages and ancient traumas. Promotes qualities of compassion and strength.

Obsidian aids the digestion and detoxifies. It reduces arthritis pain, joint problems and cramps. Warms the extremities.

Blossom Agate

Cherry Blossom Agate is extremely useful for those carrying out energy clearing or energy realignment work as it helps to transmute negative energies into positive energies. It is also said to work with energy issues surrounding love, self-love, manifestation and abundance.

Blue Agate

“Blue Agate is a soothing, nurturing stone that can bring you a sense of calmness and boost your ability to communicate, especially the thoughts and feelings that you receive from your inner self. It is an excellent emotional healing stone, with strong metaphysical properties

Blue Goldstone

Blue goldstone is believed to transmit healing energy, increase self-acceptance, aid in learning and soothe hypersensitivity. Blue goldstone is thought to be the ideal stone for empaths. Blue goldstone is associated with the heart and crown chakras and the zodiac sign of Sagittarius.

Blue Lace Agate

Blue lace agate is said to be a stone of communication, making it easier for people to become confident and articulate. For this reason, it’s considered a good idea to wear jewelry with blue lace agate or carry a stone in your pocket when required to speak in public.

Blue Opalite

Opalite improves communication on all levels, especially the spiritual. It removes energy blockages of the chakras and meridians. Emotionally, Opalite helps by assisting during transitions of all kinds. It engenders persistence and gives us strength in verbalizing our hidden feelings.

Blue Sodalite

Sodalite brings order and calmness to the mind. It encourages rational thought, objectivity, truth and intuition, along with verbalization of feelings. Sodalite brings emotional balance and calms panic attacks. It enhances self-esteem, self-acceptance and self-trust.

Cherry Quartz

Cherry Quartz is a recharging gemstone that will help you reclaim your reality’s vitality and flow. It will refresh your wholeness and reestablish the disrupted equilibrium. This gemstone will also encourage you to take the initiative and be more motivated in your existence.

Chrysocolla

Chrysocolla has the ability to bring harmony, increase wisdom and guide you toward discretion. It promotes level headedness, encouraging clarity of thought and a neutral, calm attitude during turbulence by purifying the home, environment and the mind. Use it to decrease nervousness and irritability.

Citrine

Citrine energizes every level of life. It cleanses the chakras and opens the intuition. Citrine attracts wealth, prosperity and success. It imparts joy, wonder, delight and enthusiasm. Raises self-esteem and self-confidence. Stimulates the brain, strengthening the intellect. Citrine promotes motivation, activates creativity and encourages self-expression. Enhances concentration and revitalizes the mind. It releases negative traits, depression, fears and phobias. Emotionally balancing.

Energizing and recharging, Citrine also reverses degenerative disease and helps balance chemical imbalances in the body. Beneficial in the treatment of diabetes, it stimulates digestion, the spleen and pancreas. Negates kidney and bladder infections. Citrine helps eye problems, increases blood circulation, detoxifies the blood, activates the thymus and balances the thyroid. Relieves

Crazy Agate

Crazy lace agate is commonly referred to as the “laughter stone,” or “happy lace.” It’s a balancing and protecting stone, believed to ward off the “evil eye,” bringing joy and absorbing emotional pain.

Evil Eye Agate

Eye Agates are known to ward off malice in the form of evil eyes, curses, hexes, and psychic attacks. It diminishes negative feelings and helps you to retain a strong aura of confidence and resilience.

Fossil Elephant Skin Jasper

Elephant Skin Jasper is also known as Calligraphy Stone or Miriam Stone. This stone is found in the Himalayan mountains in India and is comprised of a hematite and iron shell fossil. The crystal meanings of the stone are it’s valuable action to aid meditation and it is also an excellent protection stone. It has a strong vibration at both the third eye chakra and the sacral chakra and is also very protective.

Green Aventurine

This stone is known to be a positive stone of prosperity, diffusing negative emotions, reinforcing leadership, promoting compassion and encouraging perseverance.

Green Florite

Green Fluorite adds growth and nature energies to the properties of Fluorite. It clears negative energy from any environment and brings cleansing, renewal, and a spring-like freshness to the chakras. It inspires new ideas, originality and quick thinking. Particularly healing to the Heart Chakra, this mineral permits information to rise from the subconscious, and helps the emotional body understand issues of the heart, both current and of the past. It enables release of emotional trauma and outworn conditioning, frees one from the slavery of addictions and things that are harmful, and allows one to serve purposes of a higher good. Harmonizing the mind with the heart, Green Fluorite helps make certain one’s thoughts, words and actions are aligned with their true purpose

Green Moss Agate

Moss agate is said to encourage tranquility and emotional balance. Moss agate is the perfect stone for those who experience strong aggression or overly nurturing emotions, helping to balance male and female energies whenever they become too extreme.

Iron Pyrite

Pyrite has long been valued as a strong protection stone that shields the wearer from negative energy as well as environmental pollutants. Thus, this stone helps promote physical well-being as well. Stimulating the second and third chakras, pyrite enhances strength of mind and willpower.

Lapis Lazuli

A stone of protection that may be worn to guard against psychic attacks, Lapis Lazuli quickly releases stress, bringing deep peace. It brings harmony and deep inner self-knowledge. Encourages self-awareness, allows self-expression and reveals inner truth, providing qualities of honesty, compassion and morality to the personality. Stimulates objectivity, clarity and encourages creativity. Lapis Lazuli assists to confront and speak one’s truth and inspires confidence. It bonds relationships, aiding in expression of feelings and emotions.

Lapis Lazuli boosts the immune system, purifies blood, lowers blood pressure, cooling and soothing areas of inflammation. It alleviates insomnia and vertigo and overcomes depression. Lapis Lazuli benefits the respiratory and nervous systems and the throat, vocal cords, and thyroid, cleanses organs, bone marrow and thymus.

Lilac Lepidolite

Lepidolite (Lilac Stone) – Lilac Stone is as calming as its dreamy color implies. Lepidolite soothes anxiety, calms stress, and brings emotional healing.

Malachite

Malachite is the essence of joy and is known as the “stone of transformation” because it helps reveal and heal emotional pain by absorbing the pain into itself. It is especially helpful in bringing ease during times of change and gives the insight needed for personal growth.

Nuummite

Within this dark stone is a strong element of the magical and mystical vibration of the earth. Nuummite works towards bridging the spiritual and physical realms together, providing a channel for higher knowledge and transformative energy to grow and prosper.

Opalite

Opalite improves communication on all levels, especially the spiritual. It removes energy blockages of the chakras and meridians. Emotionally, Opalite helps by assisting during transitions of all kinds. It engenders persistence and gives us strength in verbalizing our hidden feelings.

Pink Black Rhodonite

Encourages love & Cooperation

Rhodonite is heavily associated with love, as well as the heart chakra. Leavy tells that it encourages love of all kinds, including love towards yourself, in relationships, and even in terms of group cooperation.

Red Mahogany Obsidian

Red Sheen Obsidian is often used by metaphysical healers to help relieve pain and to treat disorders associated with our blood or the circulatory system. It is a wonderful stone for yogis to work with, as well as anyone who wants to improve physical flexibility and balance.

Rhyolite

It is stone that is thought to facilitate change, variety and progress while helping to deal calmly with challenges. Rhyolite is believed to assist in fulfilling one’s goals and making one’s dreams come true, while strengthening the soul, body and mind.

Rose Quartz

Rose Quartz is the stone of universal love. It restores trust and harmony in relationships, encouraging unconditional love. Rose Quartz purifies and opens the heart at all levels to promote love, self-love, friendship, deep inner healing and feelings of peace. Calming and reassuring, it helps to comfort in times of grief. Rose Quartz dispels negativity and protects against environmental pollution, replacing it with loving vibes. It encourages self-forgiveness and acceptance invoking self-trust and self-worth.

Rose Quartz strengthens and balances the physical heart and circulatory system, and releases impurities from body fluids. It hastens recovery, reduces high blood pressure, aids chest and lung problems, heals the kidneys and adrenals, and alleviates vertigo. A good energetic support for those with leukemia. Rose Quartz has the power to increase fertility and to protect both mother and unborn fetus from miscarriage.

Serpeggiante

Serpeggiante ~ A highly grounding form of Wood Jasper that increases courage and confidence. It stabilizes the aura, balances yin and yang, and aligns all the chakras. A stone of happiness, it induces tranquility and dream recall.

Silver Leaf Jasper

With its balance of colors, silver leaf jasper is a stone that promotes balance. It provides strength of purpose, promotes stability and–like all jaspers–is a grounding stone. During meditation, it is believed to awaken its holders to a sense of joy.

Snowflake Obsidian

In addition to the generic healing properties of Obsidian, Snowflake Obsidian is calming and soothing. It teaches you to value mistakes as well as successes. A stone of purity, Snowflake Obsidian provides balance for body, mind and spirit. It helps you recognize and release “wrong thinking” and stressful mental patterns. Promotes dispassion and inner centering. Snowflake Obsidian empowers isolation and loneliness, aiding surrender in meditation.

Snowflake Obsidian aids in disorders of the veins and the skeletal structure. It improves circulation and alleviates muscular aches and spasms. Treats joint pain (arthritis)

Strawberry Quartz

Strawberry quartz is said to be helpful for people who are trying to find their soulmate, attract abundance, heal their wounds, and move forward in life. This stone is also thought to be helpful for people who suffer from anxiety or depression.

Tigers Eye

Tiger eye is said to combine earth energy with light or sun energy, creating an intense stone that’s also well-grounded. Tigers eye is said to enhance psychic and empathic energies, while protecting its wearer with an unblinking eye.

Turquoise

Turquoise is a purification stone. It dispels negative energy and can be worn to protect against outside influences or pollutants in the atmosphere. Turquoise balances and aligns all the chakras, stabilizing mood swings and instilling inner calm. It is excellent for depression and exhaustion; it also has the power to prevent panic attacks. Turquoise promotes self-realization and assists creative problem solving. It is a symbol of friendship and stimulates romantic love.

Turquoise aids in the absorption of nutrients, enhances the immune system, stimulates the regeneration of tissue, and heals the whole body. It contains anti-inflammatory and detoxifying effects and alleviates cramps and pain. Turquoise purifies lungs, soothes and clears sore throats, and heals the eyes, including cataracts. It neutralizes over-acidity, benefits rheumatism, gout, stomach problems and viral infections.

Unakite

Unakite is a stone of vision. It balances emotions with spirituality. Unakite provides grounding when needed. It facilitates rebirthing, gently releasing conditions that inhibit spiritual and psychological growth. Unakite supports convalescence and recovery from major illness. It treats the reproductive system and stimulates healthy pregnancies while facilitating the health of the unborn child. Unakite enhances weight gain, where required

and aids the growth of skin tissue and hair.