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releasing  attachments and from the aura.  Helps to link with the angels and other forms of higher guidance and consciousness. Selenite’s strength comes from healing at higher levels.
Mental Attributes: brings clarity of mind, by clearing confusion and enabling detachment from drama thus the ability to see the bigger picture. Assists a discerning rather than judgemental attitude, with it’s softening approach. Brings insight.
Emotional Attributes: Peaceful vibration, creating a protective space from lower vibrations.
Physical Attributes: aligns the spinal column, helps with flexibility physically and therefore mentally. Neutralises mercury poisoning from dental amalgam. Works as an anti-oxidant, reversing free-radicals. Gentle enough in vibration for nursing mothers and their babies. Helpful for epilepsy.
Sapphire: Blue
Related Chakra: throat
Spiritual Attributes: Aligns physical, mental and spiritual planes, on throat chakra helps release frustration and helps self expression.
Mental Attributes: Calms the mind and releases unwanted thoughts and mental tension.
Emotional Attributes: Lifts depression, stimulates concentration.
Physical   Attributes:  Calms   over   activity   in   body,
impurities  and stress. Helps blood disorders, helps with excess bleeding, strengthens veins by improving their elasticity. Helps the heart and stomach, stimulates the pituitary gland and therefore the endocrine system. Stimulates throat chakra, assists in communication. Releases blockages which stop spiritual path. Assists astral travel. Protects and centres, gives confidence in intuition, heightens employment opportunities.
Serephinite
Related Chakras: heart, crown
Spiritual Attributes: During meditation facilitates a clearer connection with the angels. Used at the crown chakra it helps with centering and aligning all chakras. At the heart chakra it has a clearing effect, providing protection whilst maintaining the openness of love. Archangel Azrael specifically works with users of the stone, during strenuous times of transition such as the  the ‘death’ of  the  ego  during  the  cycle  of  death  and
re-birth.
Mental and Emotional Attributes: helps the user to understand their life stages, providing the insight to apply the changes required to bring about peace and happiness.
Physical Attributes: stimulates blood circulation so helps those who feel the cold, and energy circulation for those who feel stuck. Assists weight loss. Antihistamine properties.
Serpentine
Related chakras : base, heart, third eye, crown
Spiritual Attributes:  the kundalini stone, it helps to clear blockages to aid the rise of kundalini energy. Aids meditation by stimulating the crown chakra, opening us up to the remembrance of higher truths. Stimulates clairvoyance, dream recall and smoothes the transition, and brings balance to the opening of new psychic abilities
Mental and Emotional Attributes: helps the user to
regain control of their life, bringing balance to mental and emotional processing.
Physical Attributes: cleanses and detoxifies the blood, eliminates parasites. Aids absorption of calcium and magnesium, and diabetes.
Serpentine: Infinite Stone
Related Chakras: sacral, heart, throat, crown
Spiritual Attributes: helps to link with angelic guidance. Integrates past, present and future. A stone for past-life work and past life healing.
Mental Attributes: when placed on the throat chakra it aids the user to speak about the past and to release those issues which are carried through to the present.
Emotional Attributes: A soothing stone for clearing emotional baggage.
Physical Attributes: menstrual pain,  muscular aches  and
Shiva Lingham
Related Chakras: sacral
Spiritual Attributes: another stone which facilitates the rise of the kundalini. Said to have the highest vibration of all stones. Helps to balance masculine and feminine aspects, the feminine aspect brings wisdom, the masculine aspect, knowledge. A visionary stone for the seeker of enlightenment. A grounding stone that takes us back to the roots and core of who we really are and what we really want.
Mental and Emotional Attributes: therapeutic for those whose childhood was less than nurturing, the stone for those from single parent families and from those families where for one reason or other a parent was ‘absent’ from the rearing.
Physical Attributes: fertility problems, impotence, endometriosis
Sodalite
Related Chakra: Throat
Spiritual Attributes: Encourages freedom of expression and creativity to flow through the higher self. Enhances communication and insight.
Mental Attributes: Helps to clear confusion and calms the mind. Encourages rational though and objective truth. Increases self esteem, self trust and
trust in others.
Emotional Attributes: Alleviates fear.
Healing Attributes: Balances and strengthens the metabolism. Works well with the lymphatic system. Calms Panic attacks. Treats the throat, vocal cords and larynx, digestive disorders, dispels insomnia. Helps in areas that a lack in calcium is the problem. Helps the body to absorb fluid into the body. Cools fevers, lowers blood pressure.
Sunstone
Related Chakras: all
Spiritual Attributes: clears all the chakras, brings in light and energy, breaking up old deeply instilled blockages. Helps inspire the state of innocence .
awe. Removes chords of attachment from the aura
Mental Attributes: this great stone for the long dark night of the soul
Emotional Attributes: an excellent anti-depressant,  
instilling the user with a sense of optimism and cheerfulness and brings relief from Seasonal Affective Disorder. Empowers and liberates the user from co-dependancy, feeling of abandonment and rejection and strengthens the martyr who has difficulty saying ‘no’.  Urges action where procrastination and fearfulness is an issue. Increases spontaneity by encouraging confidence and optimism.  When placed on the solar plexus it draws out heavy, stuck, repressed emotions and transmutes them.
Physical Attributes: cartilage problems, rheumatism, general aches and pains, M.E and chronic fatigue, irritable bowel, ulcers (stomach and throat), sore throats, harmonises all organs
Tigers Eye
Tigers eye should not be worn as a stone for more than a week at a time as it slows down the flow of energy in the body
Related Chakra: base, solar plexus, third eye
Spiritual Attributes: Imbues with clarity of perception and insight. Has a grounding effect. Bring this stone to the third eye and it will help you to see the best in everyone, enhancing psychic abilities of earthy people. Helps people to tune in to their partner in a telepathic
Tektite
Related chakras: throat, third eye, crown. Placed on the chakras Tektite balances the energy flow and may reverse a Chakra that is spinning in the wrong direction.
Spiritual Attributes: opens up communication with other dimensions, and encourages spiritual growth through absorption of higher knowledge. Tektite strengthens the Aura, balances male – female energies within    the    personality.     Enhances    telepathy   and
clairvoyance and can be used for psychic surgery
Mental Attributes: helps to work through and release undesirable experiences. For issues of competitiveness.
Healing Attributes: reduces fevers, aids the capillaries and circulation it prevents the transmission of diseases. It can also be helpful in the amelioration of chronic dilation of capillaries and small blood vessels. Good for brain and nervous disorders.
Selenite
Related Chakra: crown, higher crown
Spiritual Attributes: Links with the lightbody, good for meditation, channelling, excellent for clearing the   aura   after  energy  work,  and
whilst inspiring action during times of change and new beginnings. Helps with creativity and inherent talents, also any associated creative and artistic blocks.
Emotional Attributes: Helps to combat the fears that cause instability. For those who are exhausted at a physical, mental or emotional level due to burn-out or stress it provides energising regeneration, helping the user to build good solid foundations of endurance, strength, courage and vitality.
Physical Attributes: A good stone for cleansing and oxygenating the blood and for general detoxification, it also aids in the production of steroids. It helps heal the hips, lower limbs and the feet. Aids the assimilation of B vitamins.
Tiger’s Iron
keep in contact with the skin
A combination of jasper, hematite, and tigers eye
Related Chakras: chakras of the feet, base, sacral
Spiritual Attributes: a good stone to aid grounding and the unblocking the chakras on the feet. Builds firmer spiritual foundations, strengthening faith, trust and flexibility in the simple path.
Mental Attributes: a supportive stone  to  bring  security
Mental Attributes: Helps to release negative energy for transmutation to positive without releasing it to the atmosphere.
Emotional Attributes: a good stone to use when working on forgiveness of the self and others.
Physical Attributes: as green requires no adjustment by the eyes is the most restful colour for the eyes, green tourmaline can help with eye related problems.
Tourmaline: Green ~ elbaite
Related Chakras: heart, third eye
Spiritual Attributes: green tourmaline teaches us to see with the heart, so can help the user to overcome judgement and prejudice, bringing acceptance. In this it can help us to overcome this judgemental imbalance in the third eye, helping to connect this chakra with the heart. It promotes compassion. Promotes a connection with the nature and the environment, a good stone for herbalists to use.
Tourmaline: Black ~ schorl
Related Chakra: Base
Spiritual: works with the chakras, and etheric and astral bodies. A grounding stone. Balances yin and yang. Offers protection. Good for excessive empathy. Tourmaline helps to cleanse, purify and transform denser energies into a lighter vibration. Clears the aura and balances all the chakras. Tourmaline wands rebalance the meridians and also the yin-yang energies within the body. Good for protecting against psychic attack.
Mental Attributes: Promotes balance between left and right sides of the brain enhancing creativity and healing. It stimulates clear, logical, rational thoughts thereby allowing for the identification of mistakes. Black tourmaline can be used wherever energies are scattered and confused, it can take a person deep into themselves. It will very quickly bring awareness back to the present moment. Used anciently as a 'teller' stone to point to what or who was causing problems, it is also able to point to that which is 'good' . This stone gives very strong protection against negativity of all sorts. A negative influence is anything that superimposes itself and overrides the individual’s own energy field to create imbalance. Tourmaline deflects negativity back to the earth rather than absorbing the energy itself. It can assist in all creative and healing endeavours in a balanced and co-operative way and removes the feeling of being a 'victim' and promotes understanding of the Self and therefore of others.
Emotional Attributes: Tourmaline diminishes fear and promotes understanding thus encourages self-confidence. Good for emotional sponges, those who tend to pick up, absorb and hold others negative energy. Emotional stress and muscular / skeletal problems often go together and tourmaline helps to dislodge this physical tension.
Physical Attributes: Tinnitus. Can help the bones realign themselves by relaxing bones and muscles so that physical balance improves and in this way helps with dyslexia and hand-eye co-ordination. Helps with stiffness and pain and spinal adjustments. Balances and regulates hormonal levels. Protects against background radiation, from computers, mobile phones and electrical devices. Increases physical vitality. Strengthens the immune system. Good for pain relief and arthritis. It can be used to stimulate the formation of scar tissue so good for wounds.
When tourmaline is heated it produces a positive electrical charge at one end and a negative charge at the other, making it a useful switching device in a lot of heat sensitive equipment.
Tourmaline: Violet ~ rubellite
Related Chakras: heart, third eye, crown
Spiritual Attributes: Connects base and heart chakra, Unblocks third eye., heals problems which could be occurring due to problems in past lives.
Mental Attributes: Stimulates pineal gland, reduces depression and releases obsessional thoughts. Treats sensitivity to pollutants, Alzheimer’s, epilepsy and CFS.
Emotional Attributes: Helps to heal the heart, increases love and devotion.
way. This is a great protection stone, and clears negative energy from the solar plexus area while returning negative energy to it’s sender. It stimulates the rise of kundalini energy. Energises the emotional body of the aura. Helps to preserve the spark of trust in God that can facilitate movement through the dark night of the soul.
Mental Attributes: Deepens perception and clarity of self via inner knowledge. A stone of change and transformation. Can be used for manifesting ideas and placing visualizations into reality, it helps us to obtain goals by taking direct action and by knowing when to act or wait. Strengthens and energizes our sense of purpose, stimulating the power within. It brings awareness of ones own needs, as well as the needs of others, distinguishing between 'wishing' and 'having', and determining what we really do 'need'. For disorders brought about by pride or willfulness it can help resolve these dilemmas and internal conflicts. Good for personality disorders. Helps with blocked creativity, issues of self-esteem and self-criticism.
Emotional Attributes: Brings courage, softens stubborn pride. Good for stage fright, strength and endurance. Soothes worry and apprehension and lifts the mood. A stone for those experiencing anxiety in relationships, and tension relating to sex and love.  Soothing, bringing peace to unresolved turmoil, removing artificial barriers and inhibitions. Brings in brightness and light, allowing appreciation of beauty and increasing passion for life. Again it brings about balance by working on both hemispheres of the brain, and help deal with fear issues. It can help those who are spaced out and uncommitted, centering the energies, then focusing them where appropriate.
hysical Attributes: disorders of the eye particularly aiding night vision, throat, and reproductive system, and to assist in mending broken bones. Good for reproductive organs and the digestive system, pancreas, liver, stomach, spleen and colon. Helps to overcome physical addictions by supporting the individual whilst they make the necessary transition.  Tiger’s Eye slows down the energy flow within the body and helps to tame down overstimulation of the adrenal glands and over excitation of the nerves, thus being a stone that works well for those who are highly sensitive.
Mental Attributes: stimulates intellect and wisdom, providing mental clarity and focus, helping us to use the wisdom that we have for the highest good. Helps with cycles, opening the mind to new possibilities and allowing the user to commit until the end of cycles so that completion can be reached. A stone for business, activating creativity and new initiatives. Encourages a sense of community and social commitment.
Physical Attributes: works with the stomach, irritable bowel syndrome, spleen, liver, gallbladder, urinary tract and kidneys.
Tourmaline: Yellow  ~ peridot of Ceylon, Tsilasite and Dravite
Related chakras: sacral, solar plexus, heart
Spiritual Attributes: stimulates the solar plexus, helping to release the need to control outcomes and resultant expectations, enhancing personal power. Opens up the spiritual pathway. Helps to focus on gut feelings and female intuition, useful for the empath and for those who are nervous in groups.
Turquoise
Related Chakras: Thymus, throat
Spiritual Attributes: Balances, strengthens and aligns all chakras, meridians and subtle bodies. Activates all chakras. Brings energy to a higher level. Balances ying-yang. Adds protection during meditation and astral travel.
Mental Attributes: Calms the nerves when speaking in public.  Purifies    energy     and     disperses  negativity.
Releases old arguments and inhibitions. Enhances creativity. Encourages communication and promotes loyalty and friendship.
Emotional Attributes: Brings peace of mind and emotional balance. Clears electromagnetic smog. Healing Attributes ~ Master healer, strengthens entire anatomy. Helps to rid disease and disorders. Enhances physical immune system. Lifts viral infections and regenerates tissue. Heals whole of body especially the eyes, including cataracts. Increases flow to muscular tissue of blood. Treat headaches. Anti inflammatory, detoxifying and alleviates cramps and pain. Reduces acidity and benefits gout, rheumatism and the stomach. Helps with the absorption of nutrients.
Elixir can be used to help with any skin disorders caused by stress.
Tourmaline: Watermelon
Related Chakras: heart
Spiritual Attributes: a very powerful activator of the heart chakra, watermelon tourmaline helps to link with the higher self, promoting self-love. Helps the user to connect with the beauty of nature.
Mental  Attributes: For those who encounter inner resistance and find change difficult upon their path to becoming whole.
Emotional   Attributes:    treats    emotional   imbalance,
depression and fear, helping the user to attain inner security, by releasing old ways of being. Helps with harmonious relationships and to find joy in life.
Physical Attributes: paralysis, multiple sclerosis, stress, conditions of the heart and lungs.
Healing Attributes: Provides physical energy. Treats digestive system, heart, lungs, pancreas and reproductive system, provides balance of the blood vessels and veins.
Unakite ~ Epidote or Flower Jasper
Related chakras : solar plexus,  heart, third eye
Spiritual Attributes: unakite takes us back to the soul, helping us to re-member who we are, removing the exterior mask that we may wear. Centering and balancing.
Mental Attributes: good for those with strong inner critics when placed on the solar plexus it encourages us to be kinder, more loving and realistic with ourselves and other.
Physical Attributes: cleanses and oxygenates the blood, working well with toxic conditions. Eases disorders of the heart. Due to it’s grounding nature it helps to balance vertigo and dizziness. Treats genital disease.
Emotional Attributes: Lifts depression and anxiety, grounds us to what is achievable rather than what ‘might’ or ‘should’ be yet allows us to see our weaknesses with acceptance, rather than dissatisfaction. Dissolves sadness and grief and helps us to overcome frustration by instilling patience.
Physical Attributes:  a stone of recuperation after illness, by stimulating the immune stystem, and strengthening and fortifying the body. Stimulates the liver, good for the gallbladder and gallstones. Improves digestion.
Verdite
Related Chakras : base, sacral, solar plexus, heart
Spiritual Attributes : very grounding,  it helps to clear energy blockages and pathways for the kundalini to rise. Helps the user to access ancient knowledge.
Mental Attributes: Used by the ears it helps the user to begin the process of listening to the self.
Emotional Attributes: stabilising, good for mood swings and emotional outbursts, manic depression.
Please note - the crystals & their properties below may or may not work for you. Crystal healing can a slow process, and does not necessarily happen overnight. It is important to be realistic and patient - and above all they are not a substitute for conventional medical care. Do not eat the crystals!
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Please note - the crystals & their properties above may or may not work for you. Crystal healing can a slow process, and does not necessarily happen overnight. It is important to be realistic and patient - and above all they are not a substitute for conventional medical care. Do not eat the crystals!

Bibliography and Further Reading
The Crystal Bible by Judy Hall
The Crystal Healer by Sue and Simon Lilly
Crystal Power, Crystal Healing by Michael Gieger
Love is in the Earth by Melody
Crystal Properties compiled with thanks to Sheila Johnson
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