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What Can I Do with My Gemstones and Crystals?

18 uses for your gemstones and crystals

You may have just bought your very first stones, and now you are wondering what you can do with them. Or, perhaps you would like to purchase some stones, but are unsure of which ones might be the most helpful to you. Or maybe you are planning to start a collection of stones, and need some ideas on which ones you would like for your collection. Below are some common and simple uses for your stones and crystals.

1. Put gemstones and crystals around your home

Place a protective

stone, such as black onyx, hematite, or black obsidian, outside by your front door to prevent negative energies, including burglars, from entering your home.

Place a love

stone such as rose quartz on a table or shelf in a frequently used room, such as a living room, family room, or den, to fill your home with

love and harmony.

Create a personal altar to display your stones and crystals.

2. Keep gemstones in your car

Placing a golden tiger-eye in your car will help to protect you and your car against accidents. Place the stone in a secure place where it will not roll around or get lost. I suggest wrapping it in wire, attaching it to a cord or chain, and then hanging it from the rearview mirror.

3. Use gemstones at work

Place a quartz cluster or fluorite cluster next to your computer to help protect you from its electromagnetic field.

Place smoky quartz on your desk or in your work space to protect yourself against the stress and frustration of your coworkers or clients.

Keep a rose

quartz or amethyst

with you. When work is stressful, hold it in your hand or rub it with your fingers.

4. Bring them with you on your next vacation or business trip

Carry an aquamarine,

malachite or moonstone with you for

protection while traveling.

5. Clear the air of negative energy

To disperse negative energy, use a black gemstone or any dark

stone, such as onyx, obsidian, tourmaline, jet, apache tear, smoky quartz, or hematite. These stones, when placed about a room, home, or other area, work as environmental cleansers that purify the area and protect it from negative energies.

6. Fight painLapis Lazuli,

malachite, and bloodstone are good pain relievers. Place them on the affected body part or area of the body until the pain lessens. In the case of a migraine, lapis has been used since the time of the ancient Egyptians, if not longer.

Tape a carnelian

to your lower abdomen to relieve the pain of menstrual cramps.

For a headache, place an amethyst, amber, or turquoise stone on your forehead, or, if you have multiple stones, place them around your head.

7. Get a good night's sleepUse these sweet dreams stones to promote lucid dreaming, assist in a restful sleep, alleviate nightmares, etc.

Place an azurite, amethyst, or sugilite on your forehead

or under your pillow to increase your dreams.

A garnet or amethyst under your pillow will help you to remember your dreams.

A black tourmaline, smoky quartz, or amethyst will chase

away any nightmares.

Can't sleep? Place a rose quartz or amethyst by your bed or under your pillow to combat insomnia.

8. Manage your emotionsMoonstone,

chrysocolla, aventurine, rose quartz, and blue lace agate are all stones that help to balance emotions. You can wear them in jewelry, keep them on your person, or take a bath with them.

Use the Heart Chakra stones

for emotional healing.

Aquamarine,

aventurine, moonstone, rhodonite, and rose quartz are calming stones. Lie down and place one over your heart, or bathe with them, or massage yourself with them.

To relieve stress, worry, fear, and anxiety, use one of the following: aventurine, black tourmaline, black onyx, lapis, sodalite, chrysocolla, rose quartz, citrine, or snowflake obsidian. Use

one as a " worry stone " . A worry stone is a stone that you keep with you, and whenever you feel worried, stressed, or anxious, you take it out and rub it with your fingers. You can also wear it in jewelry, bathe with it, or massage with it. For depression, use amber, smoky quartz or citrine in any of the aforementioned ways.

To help control anger, keep a red garnet, amethyst, snowflake obsidian, or sodalite

with you. Take it out, hold it, and rub it whenever you feel the need.

9. Increase your brain power

Wear any of these " thinking " stones as earrings, necklace, bracelet or a pendant; or place a gemstone sphere or gemstone

egg on your desk or workspace.

Use citrine, fluorite, lapis, pyrite, or sodalite to stimulate the intellect.

For focusing thoughts and concentration, use citrine, hematite, lapis, black tourmaline, or fluorite.

To bring mental clarity, use sapphire, peridot, or gold (Imperial) topaz.

To increase memory, use citrine, amber, black tourmaline, hematite, or fluorite. Use amethyst, bloodstone, hematite, or lapis to relieve mental stress.

For help with problem-solving, use green tourmaline, or citrine.

To help with decision-making, use azurite, fluorite, or sodalite.

10. Spark your creativityCarry or wear one of these creativity stones.

Writers...place a sodalite ball

on your desk

11. Improve your communication skills

The Throat

Chakra stones can help you to express yourself more effectively...

Sodalite, sapphire, aquamarine, blue topaz, and chrysocolla are all great stones for communication. Use them to bring self-confidence when public speaking, to help you to speak up for yourself, to be able to explain things in an easy to understand way, to overcome shyness, to be able to speak more clearly and freely , to be able to express yourself better emotionally, and to improve your relationships by keeping communication lines open. These stones work best when worn as a pendant

that hangs close to the throat, but they can also be worn as earrings, or held, or carried in your pocket.

12. Strengthen your intuition

Use Third

Eye Chakra stones can help you to improve your vision and insight.

Hold a moonstone,

chrysocolla, or amazonite to your third eye (brow).

13. Meditate...for a healthy body and mind

Meditation crystals can be held, placed on the third eye, or placed before you as a visual focal point. These crystals include: clear quartz, amethyst, celestite, apophyllite, charoite, sugilite, azurite, labradorite, and yellow calcite.

To get in touch with your spirituality, use amethyst

or charoite.

To gain wisdom, use amethyst, charoite, lapis, sodalite,

or sugilite.

To ground yourself (bring yourself back to Earth) after meditating, hold a grounding stone such as, smoky quartz,

black obsidian,

snowflake

obsidian, black onyx, hematite, or jet.

Create a meditation altar for a safe place to keep your meditation stones. Find out How to Build a Meditation Altar here....

Note: There are many ways to meditate. Meditation is defined as a self-directed practice for relaxing the body and calming the mind. Although the prime reason for meditation is usually spiritual, its health benefits have long been recognized, as it is seen to reduce stress on both mind and body. Find a method of meditation that is most appealing and comfortable for you.

14. Feel better about yourself

All of these stones can be held, worn, or carried.

To increase your self-confidence and feelings of self-worth, use azurite, chrysocolla, aquamarine, ruby, moonstone, or rose quartz.

To raise your self-esteem, use hematite or rose quartz.

To improve your self-image, use moonstone, rose quartz, or pink kunzite.

To learn to love yourself, use rose quartz, rhodochrosite, or pink kunzite.

15. Spread the Love

Rose quartz

is THE love stone. Use it to attract love; to increase romance; to strengthen love between friends, lovers, and family members; to make a friendship blossom; to mend a broken heart; and to keep any relationship

balanced, peaceful, and loving. No matter what the situation, if it has to do with love, rose quartz is the stone that does it all. But there are, of course, other stones of love. Here are just a few examples:

To attract love, use magnetite or a tantric twin. A tantric twin (also called a soulmate stone) is a stone in which two crystals, such as clear quartz, amethyst, or citrine, of about the same size have grown together side by side.

To heal the heart, place pink agate, pink kunzite, or pink tourmaline over the heart, or wear as a pendant that hangs close to the heart.

To balance relationships, use peridot or rhodonite.

To increase or enhance loving feelings, use emerald, ruby, garnet, or diamond.

Love stones can

be worn, carried, held, or bathed with. Place them throughout a room or home to create a more loving atmosphere. Place a rose quartz sphere or rose quartz egg next to your bed to increase romance and intimacy.

16. Add some spice to your sex life!

Place these stones next to, on, or around the bed, or wear them as jewelry.

Use carnelian,

garnet, or red tiger-eye to increase passion, sensuality, and eroticism.

To increase sexual energy and stamina, use carnelian, bloodstone, ruby, red garnet, or pink tourmaline.

Use carnelian to stimulate sexuality.

Use red

jasper to prolong sexual pleasure.

Pink tourmaline will release inhibitions.

For lack of libido, use fluorite or red garnet.

Increase your personal power of attraction with sunstone.

17. Bring abundance, prosperity, wealth, and success into your life

For prosperity, place a citrine in the " wealth corner " of your home. This is the corner to the left of and furthest away from the front door. If this is where your bathroom is, do not put the stone in there, otherwise any wealth that you acquire will go right down the toilet!

Wealth comes in many forms other than money and material

things. Being surrounded by a loving family can make someone feel wealthy. To bring wealth of any kind, wear or carry a green stone such as aventurine, moss agate, peridot, bloodstone, emerald, jade, or pyrite (fool's gold).

Keep a green

aventurine in your wallet or purse to make your money multiply.

Place Prosperity Symbols

around your home or workplace. Program

and charge these with your specific intent.

Make a prosperity

grid using gemstones and crystals.

Place money

stones around the house or workplace.

18. Bring Good Luck to your doorstep

Wear or carry a green aventurine or golden tiger-eye with you.

Bring a green aventurine with

you to the casino. Wear it in a pouch around your neck, keep it in your pocket, or hold it while you are playing.

Carry or display gemstone good luck symbols. Wear lucky black tourmaline or tourmalated quartz.

These are only a few of the things you can do with your gemstones and crystals. Share them with friends, play with them, display them, decorate your home and office. Most importantly, use them to bring joy, love and light into your life!