Colour and Crystals - Chakras

RUBY

Fires enthusiasm, courage, drives away sadness and melancholy. Useful for adrenals and circulation and for protection.

HEMATITE

Restores strength, regulates blood flow, strengthens will, vitality. Can aid pain relief.

GARNET

Fortifies inner flame, strength of character, stimulates metabolism.

JASPER

"Grounding", Stimulates determination and courage and stimulates the circulation.

APATITE

Aids motivation and drive, enlivens, helps dispel apathy and lack of incentive.

DIAMOND

Encourages spiritual freedom. Helps develop clear insight, integrity and justice. Enhances our qualities and fortifies control in the body.

SODALITE

Also for throat chakra.

LAPIS LAZULI

For wisdom, honesty, reveals own inner truth. Helps to open higher awareness, thus aiding understanding of ancient wisdom.

SMOKEY QAURTZ

Increases stress tolerance. Relaxing, encourages sobriety, pragmatism and realistic consideration. Can help pain relief.

ANGELITE

Sometimes known as the awareness stone. Can enhance telepathic communication, aids attunement.

AMETHYST

Aids spiritual wakefulness, quietens the mind. Links to reverence for all life and high ideals.

AMETRINE

Yellow/violet for inner well-being. Enhances autonomic nervous system.

APOPHYLLITE

Aids conscious connection between physical and spiritual. Calming, helps overcome uncertainty. Helps rid negative thought.

PREHNITE

Helps overcome fears, nightmares and phobias. Encourages serenity, dignity and service to others. Encourages contact with higher self.

EMERALD

Encourages harmony and justice, friendship and unconditional love. Can help to strengthen the respiratory tract and immune system.

JADE

Balancing, calming for irritability. Can be helpful for encouraging tranquility, kindness and nurturing.

ROSE QUARTZ

Gentle but firm helpfulness for openness, sensitivity and empathy. Encourages proper self-love and ability to love others unconditionally. Aids calming of stress.

AVENTURINE

For relaxation, patience, tolerance. Regenerates heart energies.

AGATE

Good overall healing stone - all chakras. Acts as a bridge between the physical and etheric/spiritual.

DIOPTASE

Links solar plexus and heart energies. transmutes negative energies to positive.

BLOODSTONE

A member of the Jasper family, it improves sense of creativity and intuition.

CHRYSOPRASE

Enhances feelings of trust, security and independence and our sense of contentment with ourselves. Can help sexual problems, fertility and de-tox. Can help us to 'let go' and 'move on'.

ORANGE CALCITE

Fortifies the body, balances emotions, and aids feelings of stability. Gall bladder and reproductive organs. (Lower three chakras.)

CARNELIAN

Encourages a spirit of community, lifts emotions, dispels apathy. Can be helpful for rheumatism, arthritis, neuralgia, infertility and depression.

AMBER

Encourages a sunny nature, self confidence. Can help problems with the stomach and spleen, liver and gallbladder.

CITRINE

Encourages self confidence and self realization free from oppressive influences. Can help to stimulate digestion.

MALACHITE

Can be helpful for the liver, travel sickness, dispelling inhibitions, encouraging quick thinking and de-tox.

TOPAZ

Can help to strengthen the solar plexus chakra.

RHODONITE

Restores energy depleted by trauma or shock. Helps heals wounds both emotional and physical and aids forgiveness. Heart/solar plexus chakras.

RHODOCHROSITE

Symbolic of re-birthing. Helps to bring painful events to the front so they can be cleared and we can move on. Can also aid emotional stress and the circulatory system. Helpful in heart and solar plexus chakras.

SODALITE

Brow and throat chakras. Helps us find our 'own truth'. Calming. Helps dispel rigid thought patterns, phobias.

MOONSTONE

Helps composure and emotions. Calming.

AQUAMARINE

Harmonizes thyroid. Helps hayfever, immune system, allergies. Enhances relaxed disposition. Encourages foresight.

SAPPHIRE

Throat and brow chakras - aids communication with higher self. Helps to expel fears, bringing peace. Enhances ability to listen and understand as well as communication.

TURQUOISE

Bestows inner calm. Helps with control of viral infections, anti-inflammatory, relaxes cramps. Powerful healer strengthening entire anatomy and in absorption of nutrients.

KAYANITE

Strengthens the throat and larynx, but can actually helpful for all chakras, especially the throat, brow and crown as it aids connections with Universal energy.