Healing the heart, whether from heartbreak or painful memories, is one of the top reasons for using crystal therapy. Green and pink stones are often used for this purpose. The reason for this is given below as well as examples of popular heart chakra stones.
Fourth Chakra Meaning and Associations
Chakras are spheres of energy that govern functions of the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual bodies. This concept is taken from Eastern religious traditions and combined with Western spiritual systems. The fourth chakra, also called the heart chakra, is located in the middle of the breastbone. Green and pink are the colors most often associated with this chakra. It governs physical heart function as well as matters pertaining to love and grief.
Green Stones for Heart Healing
The following crystals range in color from pale green to dark forest green.
- Aventurine: This stone is used as a heart protector. It helps keep away undesired influences, especially from others who are trying to "play on the heart strings" of the user. Aventurine has a gentle healing effect on the heart.
- Jade: Jade is a stone of harmony. It creates balance between the mundane and spiritual worlds as well as promotes a peaceful environment. It encourages fidelity in relationships and steadfastness to ideals.
- Malachite: Malachite draws out negativity and painful emotions and aids in their release. It helps the user recognize thought and behavior patterns that are creating imbalance.
Pink Stones for Heart Opening
The stones below come in shades of pink or pink intermixed with other colors. These crystals are used to attract love along with the other attributes listed.
- Pink tourmaline: This stone brings a more loving character to the user. It opens the heart chakra to allow healing and love where it has been consciously or unconsciously blocked in the past.
- Rhodochrosite: Rhodochrosite encourages harmony with various aspects of the personality and calms emotions. It balances masculine and feminine energy in the user and environment.
- Rhodonite: Rhodonite is a stone of unconditional love and helps to draw negativity out of the heart chakra. It helps the user to reach their highest aspirations.
- Rose quartz: Rose quartz is known as the all-purpose love stone including romantic love, family, friendship and self love. It has a gentle character, and healers will often use this in conjunction with aventurine since their energies complement each other. This stone has a mothering quality and is useful in healing past physical and emotional trauma perpetrated by people in positions of trust.
- Strawberry quartz: This stone stimulates the heart chakra, increasing the feeling of love. It helps bring focus to living in the present instead of holding onto the idea of past love relationships that turned toxic.
How to Use Heart Crystals
Meditating with crystals placed directly on the area of the heart chakra in order to attract their properties is one of the most common uses of heart stones. Crystal pendants can be worn to carry the property of the stone throughout the day. Rose quartz is often placed in the corners of a room to increase harmony and loving expression in the environment. Gem elixirs can be made with the crystals which are then taken internally for emotional issues related to the heart.
Related articles:
- How to Make a Gem Elixir: Crystal Therapy for Health and Wellness
- Ten Top Healing Crystals: The Properties of Stones Used for Health, Wellness and Meditation
- Crystals Used for Grounding: Correspondences of First Chakra Stones
References:
- Dolfyn. Crystal Wisdom: Spiritual Properties of Crystals and Gemstones. Earth Spirit, Inc. 1989.
- Melody. Love is in the Earth: A Kaleidoscope of Crystals. Earth-Love Publishing House, 1995.
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