Crystals for Love

In honor of Valentine’s day we thought we would share our top five favorite crystals for love!Rose Quartz for Love

1. Rose Quartz is used for love, happiness, balancing, confidence, and compassion.  It emits a calming energy, promoting self-love and bringing peace to relationships.  It is an excellent stone for healing emotional wounds and helps diffuse negative stimuli and uncomfortable memories.  Helps heal loneliness, ease fear and soothe grief.  It is said to help in disorders of the kidneys and adrenal glands. Chakras: Heart.

Chrysocolla Druzy Specimen

2. Chrysocolla is a stone that is used for peace, relaxation, balance, wisdom, and love. It clears away blockages in the emotions, and belief systems. It eases emotional heartache giving renewed inner strength and balance. Held in the hand it is said to drive off unreasonable fear and illusions and soothe emotions. When worn the stone grants the power of discretion and increased wisdom. It strengthens expression, communication and increases one’s capacity to love. Chakras: Third Eye, Throat, Heart.

Pink Tibetan Quartz

3. Tibetan Pink Quartz is a rare stone used for unconditional love, self love, inner peace, spiritual protection, overcoming betrayal or abandonment and healing emotional wounds. It is believed to support heart health and is useful for those suffering from auto-immune diseases such as lupus. It can also be used to enhance fertility and prevent miscarriage. Like Tibetan Quartz it is an excellent stone for healing work on mental, emotional, and spiritual levels. Chakra: Heart.

Green Tourmaline Needles from Brazil

4. Green Tourmaline is used for love, creativity, calming, strength, compassion, healing, clearing emotional thoughts, and transforming negative energy into positive. Has also been known to attract success, abundance, and prosperity. It is said to help with weight loss and treats disorders of the heart, eyes, thymus, immune system, and ductless glands. Chakra: Heart.

Charoite

5. Charoite is used for love, and cleansing of the self. It helps ease subconscious fears, and clears thought patterns that cause conscious feelings of guilt, sin and fear. It facilitates acceptance of others and enhances ones giving nature. It strengthens the body while releasing negative energy. This stone is known to treat disorders of the eye and heart (it stimulates and regulates blood pressure and the pulse rate). It is also known to treat headaches and aches and pains. (Chakras: Crown, Third Eye, Heart)

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Chakras

The Chakras are the spinning wheels of energy that lie in the pranic energy body. Printable PDF version here.

ROOT CHAKRA (Muladhara)
Endocrine Correspondence: 
gonads
Physical Organs: 
reproductive organs
Function: 
Survival issues, seat of Kundalini, abundance issues
Element: 
earth
Color: 
red
Sound: 
La
Stones: 
garnet, obsidian, smokey quartz
Patterns of Balance: 
centered, grounded, lots of vital energy, manifests abundance
Patterns of Imbalance: 
egotistic, greedy, obsessed with material possessions, OR no trust in life, unable to meet goals
Suggested Affirmation: 
The Universe looks after my needs. I trust life.


NAVAL CHAKRA (Svadhisthana)
Endocrine Correspondence: spleen
Physical Organs: kidneys and spleen
Function: emotions, sexual energy
Element: water
Color: orange
Sound: Ba
Stones: tiger eye, carnelian
Patterns of Balance: friendly, outgoing, concerned for other, loves a belly-laugh
Patterns of Imbalance: emotionally explosive, overindugent, and self serving, OR overly senseitive and self-negating
Suggested Affirmation: My emotions are great teachers; I listen to their lessons and respond to them in loving ways.


SOLAR PLEXUS CHAKRA (Manipura)
Endocrine Correspondence: adrenals
Physical Organs: stomach, liver, galbladder, spine
Function: power and creativity
Element: fire
Color: yellow
Sound: Ra
Stones: citrine, rutile, malachite, topaz
Patterns of Balance: sense of personal worth, respects boundaries, expressive, likes to take on challenges, intelligent
Patterns of Imbalance: judgemental, workaholic, perfectionist, lacking confidenc, and victimised
Suggested Affirmation: I claim my personal power and accept responsibility for all areas of my life.


HEART CHAKRA (Anahata)
Endocrine Correspondence: thymus
Physical Organs: heart, lungs
Function: love, compassion
Element: air
Color: pink/green
Sound: Ym
Stones: rose quartz, kunzite, rhodocrosite, green jade
Patterns of Balance: balanced, compassionate, empathic, friendly, and outgoing
Patterns of Imbalance: possessive, moody, and melodramatic, OR paranoid, indecisive, afraid of intimacy.
Suggested Affirmation: I am open to give and receive love, freely and effortlessly, releasing the pains of my past.


THROAT CHAKRA (Vishudda)
Endocrine Correspondence: thyroid
Physical Organs: throat, lungs
Function: communication, self expression
Element: ether
Color: blue
Sound: Ha
Stones: azurite, sodalite, crysocolla
Patterns of Balance: content, centered, creative and exprssive, lives in present
Patterns of Imbalance: arrogant and self-righteous OR scard, quiet and inconsistent
Suggested Affirmation: I express my deepest truth gracefully, respectfully, and confidently.


THIRD EYE CHAKRA (Ajna)
Endocrine Correspondence: pituitary gland
Physical Organs: hypothalamus, autonomic nervous system
Function: intuition
Element: telepathic energy
Color: indigo
Sound: Ah
Stones: lapis, sugilite, fluorite
Patterns of Balance: access to guidance, intuition, past lives, astral travel, charisma
Patterns of Imbalance: dogmatic, egotistic, and manipulative, OR unassertive, undisciplined
Suggested Affirmation: I always receive and perceive the guidance I need.


CROWN CHAKRA (Sahasrara)
Endocrine Correspondence: pineal gland
Physical Organs: upper brain, right eye
Function: connects us to our higher self and to god
Element: cosmic energy
Color: violet
Sound: Om
Stones: amethyst, clear quartz
Patterns of Balance: open to divine, access to conscious and unconscious, able to see the patterns in existence
Patterns of Imbalance: fear of spirituality, little joy, fearful of the things we can’t understand with our physical sneses, migraines, schizophrenia
Suggested Affirmation: I acknowledge and rejoice in my spirituality.