Emerald

PROPERTIES: Unconditional Love, opening heart chakra, bringing loyalty, opening clairvoyance, regenerating

Emerald, promotes unconditional love and joyful relationships and brings domestic bliss and loyalty It opens the heart chakra, calms emotions and enhances the ability to enjoy life to the full. A stone of inspiration and infinite patience, it brings mental clarity, helping you to focus your intention, strengthens memory and inspires a deep inner knowing and broader vision. Strengthening the ability to cope with change, it eliminates negativity and encourages taking positive action.

Emerald is a wisdom stone, promoting discernment, truth and aiding eloquent expression. It enhances psychic abilities and was said to protect from enchantment and to foretell the future. It is a life affirming stone with great integrity and ensures physical, emotional and mental equilibrium. This is a stone of regeneration and recovery that can heal negative emotions and is helpful in cases of claustrophobia. It helps bring to the surface what is unconsciously known. Emerald is extremely beneficial to mutual understanding within a group, stimulating cooperation.

Caution: This stone/crystal contains toxic material and is best used tumbled. Wash hands after use and make essence by the indirect method only.

COLOURS: Green

SOURCE: Heart

METHOD OF CLEANING: Return to the Earth, Rice, Salt, Smudging, Visualising light, Essences, Sound. Crystal Recharging

METHOD OF RECHARGING: Sunlight, Moonlight, Earth, Essences, Sound, Crystal Cluster

CHAKRAS: Heart

HEALING: Emerald aids recovery after infectious illness. It has been used as an antidote to poisons. Worn around the neck, Emerald was believed to ward off epilepsy. Its green ray may assist malignant conditions. It treats sinuses, lungs, heart, spine and muscles, and soothes the eyes, improves vision and has a detoxifying effect on the liver. Emerald alleviates rheumatism and diabetes.

Content very kindly written by Judy Hall, Judy Hall is a successful Mind Body Spirit author with over 40 books to her credit including the million selling Crystal Bible (volumes 1, 2 and 3).